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IBRA ~ The air can be cleared easily.

Admit your need for help. Seek understanding. You’ll help another by seeking help from them. Communication problems will smooth themselves out. Soul Affirmation: Moving slowly might be the fastest way.

CORPIO ~ This week should bring an opportunity to further your education, don’t pass it up.

Pay special attention to details at work. A friend needs your support. Find joy in giving it. Soul Affirmation: All things work together for good.

AGITTARIUS ~ You and your mate should increase your saving for the future this week. Future plans should be spotlighted.

A relationship is likely to take a serious turn.

Be open to making an unusual purchase. Soul Affirmation: I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. There are no obstacles in my way.

APRICORN ~ You and your partner are on the same wavelength. If you are presented with a contract this week, it’s an ideal week to reach an agreement. Make the important phone call to set things up. Soul Affirmation: What I’ve been waiting for has been here all along.

QUARIUS ~ Beware of financial pitfalls that you’ve set for yourself. Strengthen all your relationships by understanding motivations of others. Spend time at home. Enjoy what you already have. Soul Affirmation: Often it’s not what I say but the way I say it that gets the message across.

ISCES ~ Don’t expect to win every battle, especially with your lover. This week winning is losing. Backing down is winning.

Shyness produces a bold result. It’s easy to collect that long-standing debt. Soul Affirmation: I keep money on my mind this week.

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She championed the Downtown Women’s Center project, which has led to safe housing, support services and job development to help women reclaim their lives. I am proud to endorse Jan Perry for mayor of Los Angeles,” Burke added.

“Supervisor Burke has been a pioneer for women and has dedicated her life to serving the people of California and Los Angeles,” said Perry. “It is an honor to have the support of a leader who has opened the doors for me and so many other women.”

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Former County Supervisor Yvonne Burke endorses Jan Perry for mayor of Los Angeles Jan Perry today received the endorsement of former County Supervisor Yvonne Burke (2nd District) in Perry’s campaign to be mayor of Los Angeles.

In her statement, Burke spoke about Perry’s record as a champion for women and families: “I am supporting Jan Perry because she is a true leader for the women of Los Angeles. If elected, she will make history by breaking through one more glass ceiling by becoming the first woman to serve as mayor of Los Angeles.”

“Jan has a long record of fighting

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RIES ~ You can expect a message from a distance to arrive this week and you’ll be happy to hear it. The spirit is easily lifted if you remember that you only have to imagine your world the way you want it to be. Create a happy reality tonight! Soul Affirmation: I let worry fly away.

AURUS ~ You’re likely to be efficient and productive this week. Even if you work hard, you’ll get satisfaction from a job well done! Use your talents to create some free time for yourself. Soul Affirmation: With spirit I co-create my week.

EMINI ~ Educate those around you in the area of personal growth. Their improvement will bring benefits to you.

Humor in communication is the key.

Humor in introspection is a must. Soul Affirmation: Success that has been following me is trying to catch up.

ANCER ~ This week romance begins to percolate. Enjoy your feelings and let your brain relax. Suspend all judgments of others. Being stern won’t work for you this week.

Soul Affirmation: I go along to get along.

EO ~ Romance will find you this week.

Don’t be looking the other way. Your “rap” is especially strong. Make as many of those important phone calls as possible. Soul Affirmation: Friendships are shock absorbers on the bumpy roads of life.

IRGO ~ Don’t take any big gambles this week; the time is not right for a flight into the unknown. A newfound harmony is in store for you and your mate.

Your mate will understand your fears. Soul Affirmation: New insights create new directions and a new cast of characters.

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October 6, 1921 The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery was born in Huntsville, Alabama October 7, 1931 Birthday of Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu.

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Jury selection resumes for underwear bomb trial

BY ED WHITE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — A man charged with a failed Christmas 2009 terrorist attack on a plane near Detroit made no outbursts Wednesday during the second day of jury selection.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab called the U.S. a “cancer” Tuesday and said a radical Muslim cleric still was alive, despite a fatal strike last week by the U.S. military in Yemen.

But he was silent as he entered court Wednesday, wearing a black skull cap and a suit coat over a tunic.

Abdulmutallab, 24, is charged with trying to destroy an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight with a bomb in his underwear. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds wants three dozen people or more for the final selection Thursday. Opening statements are planned for next Tuesday.

Lawyers did not object to keeping a woman from Nigeria, Abdulmutallab’s home country, in the jury pool. On her questionnaire, she said she was “embarrassed” when the incident occurred. In court, she said, “We all feel it as a community.”

Prospective jurors were being questioned one-by-one in court, but their names and most personal details were not divulged. A man said he had some fear of retaliation, no matter who wins the case.

“I do hear of car bombings. ... I know those things happen in other countries all the time. It’s a possibil-

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FILE - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ity that’s out there,” the man said.

Abdulmutallab is acting as his own lawyer but questioned only one potential juror Tuesday. He has primarily left the task to his courtappointed standby attorney, Anthony Chambers.

The government says Abdulmutallab attacked Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on behalf of alQaida and with direction from Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Muslim cleric who was killed Friday.

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Courtroom drawing of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Long-term care workers mourn the loss of union matriarch, Verdia Daniels On Saturday, Oct. 1, SEIU United Long-term Care Workers (ULTCW) lost its founding matriarch, Mrs. Verdia Daniels. She passed away at the age of 80.

Mrs. Daniels was a trailblazer in homecare as she dedicated her life to the noble fight of unionizing some of California’s hardest-working people who, every day, provide lifeline care for the well-being and health of our most vulnerable citizens. Her efforts led to the organizing of 80,000 homecare providers in Los Angeles in 1999, the largest union organizing victory in the United States since the heyday of auto worker organizing in the 1930s and the first of homecare providers.

Today, nearly 700,000 homecare providers have union representation.

Laphonza Butler, president of SEIU ULTCW, noted: “My heart is heavy but I take solace in the fact that her last days were filled with love, warm wishes, phone calls and visits from homecare members who

always valued her sacrifice and courage to demand that homecare providers be recognized for the care they provide and be treated with the dignity they deserve. I know we will honor her legacy by exhibiting the same courage and sacrifice it will take to win justice for the180,000 homecare providers and their families who she spent the better part of 25 years fighting for selflessly.”

Mrs. Daniel’s commitment to working people and social justice is detailed in the book, “Women’s Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement,” which tells the extraordinary stories of women of color standing together to demand fair wages, benefits and the right to be “invisible no more.”

The movement she started well

Verdia Daniels over two decades ago has grown to be one of the most powerful in the state and in the nation.

Mrs. Daniels’ is survived by her daughter, Deidre, and her grandchildren. Details pertaining to funeral services and other tributes have not yet been released but are being planned by her family and her union family. All pertinent information will be on the ULTCW website www.ultcw.org SEIU United Long-term Care Workers is the largest union of longterm care workers in California, and the second largest local in the nation, representing 180,000 homecare workers in ten counties.

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Multiculturalism in America: The struggle for acceptance continues

BY TARICE L.S. GRAY SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THEDEFENDERSONLINE.COM In 1966 boxing legend Muhammad Ali, just 24 years old, took a memorable stand against the Vietnam War. He’d been drafted by the government, but refused the call, famously saying, “I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong…No

Viet Cong ever called me nigger.”

At the time, this nation’s Black citizens were struggling to gain the respect and acceptance promised by the land of opportunity. At just 24 years old, Ali’s act of “defiance” was an electric rallying cry for at least one minority group to overcome.

Decades later, minority groups are still struggling to find a multicultural embrace in America. Shortly after the

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Crenshaw Rail Line Gets Go Ahead The Metro Board of Directors approved the environmental report on the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor project to construct a light rail line in the Crenshaw District. The 8.5-mile line will connect the Metro Green Line and the Expo Line currently under construction. For more information, go to metro.net/crenshaw.

K-12 Student Passes Now On TAP All Metro reduced-fare student paper passes have been converted to TAP, the electronic fare card that is now in use throughout the Metro system. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade need special TAP cards to be eligible for reduced fares. Look for instructions and applications aboard Metro buses and trains or go to metro.net for details.

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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali poses for a photo after an interview in New York, Tuesday Feb. 2, 1999. Ali feels that his life, colorful and controversial, has something to offer future generations. That is the purpose of the Muhammad Ali Center, scheduled to open in January 2001 in Ali’s hometown of Louisville, Ky. diverse than older Americans and who are much more accepting of diversity, past hurts can continue to haunt the progression of minority groups as a whole.

“You can have a seat at the table,” Appollon said. “But if your community wasn’t able to develop wealth because of past racist policies and continued potential racist effects of housing policies or banking or lending practices, ultimately you

don’t have real fundamental change”.

As it stands now, the two largest American groups of color, African Americans and Latino Americans, are also the poorest: the U.S. Census Bureau’s report on poverty shows roughly 27 percent of African Americans live in poverty, and approximately 26 percent of Latino Americans live below the poverty line.

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Mayor Villaraigosa issues statement on new community partnership

Construction Begins On Metro ExpressLanes Nighttime construction and overnight closures of bus stations on the Harbor and San Bernardino freeways have begun as part of the ExpressLanes project. The Metro and Caltrans project is converting carpool lanes along both freeways to High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes. For more information, visit metro.net/expresslanes.

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The first segment of the Expo Line now under construction runs between 7th Street/Metro Center in Downtown LA and Venice/Robertson boulevards in Culver City.

If you’d like to know more, visit metro.net.

horrific attacks on September 11, 2001, Muslims quickly became a visible target of intolerance. As the most adored Muslim-American, Ali participated in a 9/11 celebrity telethon weeks after the attack, designed to foster understanding and tolerance of Islam and Muslims among other Americans.

Since that tragic day now 10 years ago, Muslims in this country have struggled with anti-Islamic rhetoric, threats, and exclusionary tactics that make the ideals of multiculturalism — namely, acceptance and appreciation of another’s culture — seem unrealistic.

But the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky., is working toward improving the future of multiculturalism.

Barry Alberts, its interim director, said that the center was built to honor Ali by advancing the principles by which he lives. He said that they aim to help those who visit to “find their own greatness within and understand each other in a more compassionate and respectful way.”

That goal of the Muhammad Ali Center and, of course, numerous others becomes more and more critical as American society becomes more and more diverse. For example, census data show that since 2000, Americans of African descent grew from 12.9 percent of the total population to 13.6 percent of the total population.

During that same time, Americans of Hispanic origin grew four times as fast as the total population of Americans: they now make up 16.6 percent of the overall population. Among religious orders, the number of Muslims jumped from 2.6 million to 6.2 million in 2010.

But the inexorable movement continues to provoke resistance to inclusion, acceptance, and change. Dominique Appollon, director of research for the Applied Research Center, in Oakland, Calif., believes that, for younger Americans, who themselves are more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Villaraigosa issued the following statement on a new community partnership between the Los Angeles Urban League and Starbucks: “I want to congratulate Howard Schultz and Blair Taylor for this very exciting announcement and partnership. I was one of the very first supporters of the LA Urban League’s Neighborhoods@Work™ initiative and the efforts in and around Crenshaw High School as a way to improve that school and the surrounding community.

As the Mayor of Los Angeles, I applaud this new level of collaboration between Starbucks and the League focused on innovative revenue-generating opportunities that will infuse more vital resources into our urban communities. I hope this model will attract the imagination and ingenuity of other corporations in Los Angeles and across the nation, and I strongly encourage other leaders to look for new ways to invigorate communities and transform lives.

I join my colleague, Mayor Bloomberg [of New York City] in

promoting the bi-coastal success of these profit-sharing models — and let’s get a little healthy competition going between our L.A. Starbucks on Crenshaw and Coliseum and the store in Harlem. We love L.A., and he’s

going to find that we are very hard to beat!

Congratulations, Starbucks, L.A. Urban League, Abyssinian Development Corporation and everyone involved in this wonderful initiative!”

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Wall Street protest expected to widen

BY MEGHAN BARR AND VERENA DOBNIK ASSOCIATED PRESS

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People protesting Wall Street greed, corporate corruption and related issues continue their campout on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn in concert with demonstrations in other cities. way. Sam Schmidt, a criminal defense attorney who walks by the park every day, said the protests took him back to when he was a college student in 1970 and went to Washington, D.C., to oppose the war in Vietnam.

“I’m 60 years old. I lived through the ’60s and the ’70s, and this is nothing.

I think it is well-behaved. We’ve got a few crazies, but we have a few crazies here (in New York) anyway,” he said.

“It’s just reminiscent of my youth.”

AP National Writer Adam Geller contributed to this report.

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Gov. Jerry Brown says he’s optimistic that lawmakers will agree this week to end a corporate tax loophole for companies based outside the state. of Michael Jackson. Legal experts said he would serve his maximum four-year sentence in a Los Angeles County jail instead of state prison.

The length of sentences won’t necessarily change, but the realignment law does offer significant differences for inmates.

Parole will disappear for offenders who serve their terms in county jails, including Murray, if he is convicted.

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of the new law.

A list of 500 criminal code sections to be covered by the law was compiled by the California District Attorneys Association and posted late last month to its website. In response to a request by the AP, the state attorney general's office confirmed the association's review was accurate but said defendants with a previous felony conviction or those charged with enhancements would still be sent to state prison.

Among those who could be affected by the new law if convicted is Dr. Conrad Murray, who is on trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown and others who supported the dramatic shift in California's sentencing law that took effect this week have said it will send only those convicted of nonviolent or non-serious crimes to county jails instead of state prison, a change designed to save the state money and reduce inmate crowding.

Yet a review by The Associated Press of crimes that qualify for local sentences shows at least two dozen offenses shifting to local control that can be considered serious or violent.

Among them: Involuntary manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, killing or injuring a police officer while resisting arrest, participating in a lynching, possession of weapons of mass destruction, possessing explosives, threatening a witness or juror, and using arson or explosives to terrorize a health facility or church. Assault, battery, statutory rape and sexual exploitation by doctors or psychotherapists are also covered by the prison realignment law and carry sentences that will be served in a county jail instead of state prison.

“These crimes include a variety of offenses that would strike many civilians as far from trivial,” Public Policy Institute of California researcher Dean Misczynski wrote in a recent analysis

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NEW YORK (AP) — The protests on Wall Street, the fabled center of American commerce, are expected to swell with reinforcements as more groups head toward lower Manhattan, widening the scope of the ongoing demonstrations.

Among those planning to join the clamor on Wednesday are the liberal group MoveOn.org and community organizations like the Working Families Party and United NY. The growing crowd will also include members of the Chinatown Tenants Union and the Transit Workers Union, signaling that a protest that started out small is showing no signs of losing steam. Meanwhile, organizers have called for students at college campuses across the nation to walk out of class in protest at 2 p.m.

“I think they’re capturing a feel of disempowerment, feeling like nobody is listening to them,” said Camille Rivera, executive director of United NY. “What do you do when no one is listening to you? You speak up, you take action.”

The groups will embark on yet another march, this one from city hall to Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the unofficial headquarters where protesters have been camped out in sleeping bags. It’s unclear how many people will be joining the march on Wednesday, but

some organizers say thousands could show up.

MoveOn.org is planning a “virtual march” on its website by encouraging people to post photos of themselves with the caption: “I’m the 99 percent” — a reference to those people not among the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans and the debate over whether they should be taxed more. The group's executive director, Justin Ruben, called the protesters “brave young people” who have successfully inspired others to join them.

“From our perspective, we’re protesting kind of the greed that led to the collapse of our economy” Ruben said, “… the fact that these banks aren’t paying their fair share.”

Many of those who work on Wall Street say they don’t take the protests personally. Indeed, some even sympathize.

“It’s really incredible to me, the passion and conviction these people have,” said Lou Crossin, who works for a company that sells corporate governance research to large investors. “I don’t think these are violent people. They’re just standing up for their beliefs.”

Crossin said the protesters — with their chanting in unison, leafleting and drum circles — reminded him of the lyrics of a song from his youth by Jefferson Airplane: “Look what’s happening out in the streets. Got a revolution.”

He wasn’t the only one to feel that

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Rep. Bobby Rush hosts CBC panel on lack of Blacks among TV newsroom managers WATTS NEWS SERVICE One of the few media-focused brain trust sessions at last week’s Congressional Black Caucus’ Legislative Weekend was hosted by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), and it offered an in-depth look at the growing lack of African American senior managers in TV station newsrooms. The trend, said Rush and the panelists, threatens news coverage of issues concerning the Black community, which might result in gains made by African Americans being wiped out.

The panel, entitled “The Deciders … Who Calls the Shots in Broadcast News?,” featured the results of the 4th Annual Television Newsroom Management Diversity Census from the National Association of Black Journalists. It also offered a discussion with former ABC News anchor, Carole Simpson; Camille Edwards, vice president for news at WRC in Washington,

D.C.; David Honig, executive director of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council; and Gregory Lee, president of NABJ. Bob Butler, NABJ broadcast vice president, compiled and presented the results of the newsroom survey.

“This panel evolved out of the shooting of three teenagers in my home district,” said Rep Rush. “It had been a violent summer night, with one young man killed and two others shot in two different locations. The reporting of the second shooting included an interview with precocious child whose on-camera comments were edited by the CBS station [WBBM] in a way that completely distorted what the child said.”

“Today we focus on broadcast news because it is licensed to operate in the public interest by the FCC,” Rush continued. “This disinformation and distorted imagery must stop. It is tantamount to racial profiling by the news media, and it cannot go unchallenged. It

is dangerous and damaging, irresponsible and just plain wrong.”

The NABJ report counts those people with the title of general manager, news director, assistant news director, managing editor, assignment manager or executive producer. These are the people who make personnel decisions, set the news agenda and make coverage decisions.

The report reveals that 228 television stations owned by some of the largest media companies in the United States mostly fall short of matching the demographics of their metropolitan areas.

According to the 2010 Census, non-Whites comprise nearly 35 percent of the U.S. population but the study finds that people of color fill only 12 percent of the newsroom manager positions at stations owned by ABC, Belo Corporation, CBS, Cox, Fox, Gannett, Hearst, Lin Media, Media General, Meredith, NBC, Nexstar Broadcasting, E.W. Scripps Company, Post-

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Out of a total of 1,157 managers, 1,017 are White, 81 are Black, 42 are Hispanic, 16 are Asian and 1 is Native American.

“These numbers are disappointing,” said NABJ president Lee. “If the media doesn’t reflect America, the stories and issues of those who are underrepresented will not be told.”

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MULITCULTURALISM Continued from page 4 Appollon said one challenge with trying to reduce such concentrations of poverty among people of color is that many whites will mention overcoming such odds by saying, “There’s always a Barack Obama … always an Oprah Winfrey. There’s always these exceptional individuals who the majority White population can point to and say, ‘They made it … Why can’t the rest of you?’

But those assertions you know ultimately ignore structural [barriers] that prevent truly equitable outcomes.”

In other words, multiculturalism is not just a matter of tolerance but of expanding access to the resources of society.

The evolution of multiculturalism has not just been about acceptance, but about leveling the playing field. Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, agreed and added, “People do not necessarily welcome change. I think right now the combination of the tremendous demographic change in the last decade, combined with the tremendous economic hardship, [has been] is a recipe for fear and for scapegoating.”

But Costello believes money is only part of the obstacle. Politics has also been a thorny opponent in many ways to accepting multiculturalism. Popular conservative host Bill O’Reilly famously caused a media frenzy when he said, “Muslims killed us on 9/11.” Also Connecticutbased conservative Rick Torres boldly announced during his congressional campaign, “We are at war with Islam.”

Costello says the trickle-down effect of anti-Muslim rhetoric feeds into the

schools of our youngest, most diverse Americans. She said that within the last year a school district in Texas, which was about to adopt both Chinese and Arabic as language electives, surrendered to political pressure to get rid of the latter.

She added the pushback against multicultural policies is fueled by a chosen but powerful few.”

“Government is responsive to voters,” she explained. “Who votes in larger numbers than anyone else? The older you are, the more likely you are to vote.

So in a sense the government is responsive to the least multicultural and least tolerant of its citizens, if we also accept that the youngest generation is the most tolerant; they unfortunately are not the most active politically.”

That’s why organizations like the Muhammad Ali Center, and publications like Colorlines and Teaching Tolerance, are imperative to the evolution of multiculturalism in this country, according to Costello. America has a storied past with multiple cultures. But the road to acceptance for European immigrants and Asian immigrants, as well as Latin American immigrants, African Americans, Jews and Muslims has been more like an embattled journey than a paved way.

Still Costello believes those groups must continue to push for a more tolerant and accepting society.

In the end, she says it will be worth.

“That long arc of history — it’s long but it does bend towards justice. The trend is that we’re going to get there.”

Tarice L.S. Gray is a freelance writer and blogger for GrayCurrent.com.

Obama signs bill to keep government running WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed legislation to keep the federal government running for another six weeks. Congress must now finish work on agency budgets for the new fiscal year.

The measure was part of an agreement reached by congressional Democrats and Republicans late last month that averted a government shutdown at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

The law provides funding for government operations through Nov. 18. It gives lawmakers time to combine individual spending bills into one and incorporate spending limits agreed to earlier this year. Those negotiations could still go astray if tea party-backed Republicans push for further cuts.

Obama had been expected to sign the bill into law later Wednesday, but signed it when he returned to Washington after appearances Tuesday in Texas.

Black Facts October 8, 1941 Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville, SC. (minister, civil rights leader, political activist) Source: blackfacts.com

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BY SANDRA VARNER Special to the LA Watts Times I recently spent 20 minutes in the company of former boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard --by comparison-- a longer time than most with a fighter, given the length of boxing matches these days.

During our conversation at The Four Seasons Hotel, we discussed his involvement in the new action picture, REAL STEEL starring Hugh Jackman (X-Men franchise) and Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker, Notorious), directed by Shawn Levy (Date Night, Night at Museum franchise). Leonard served as boxing consultant.

REAL STEEL, an action drama from Dreamworks/Disney, packs plenty of punches between fighting robots, the best aspect of the film, certain to attract male audiences from young to mature.

Leonard, reportedly the first professional boxer to earn over $100 million in purses, totally surprised me. I didn’t know what to expect from a man named “Boxer of the Decade” in the 1980s. In person, he is engaging, unpretentious, full of charm, and somewhat selfdeprecating in a most amusing manner. In retrospect, I guess when you have the ability to knock anybody out one can be a peace.

Contrary to my interpretation, Ray describes himself as having always been without controversy. Just by

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looking at him, he is without any obvious physical residual from a record of 40 fights and 36 wins, 25 by knockout. I couldn’t refrain stating, “You look amazing.” His reply, “Thank you, it’s makeup too.” Refusing to accept makeup as the reason, I continued, “You don’t look like a fighter who has been in the ring…” and before I could finish, he inserted, “you wanted to say, ‘beat up, didn’t you?’” He read my mind. Truth be told, I did.

Laughter erupted.

Dressed casually, sipping a small can of Red Bull, the guy doesn’t look a day past 40, begging the question, ‘Is there any enticement, especially in light of your recent work with this film, to reenter the world of boxing?’ Again, he intercepted my wonderment and replied, “I’m 55; I get asked that question all the time. My wife is still not convinced that I was a fighter because she said, ‘you know, you’re such a wimp.’ I am a non-confrontational guy but, in the ring, I could hit a switch and I was tough.”

He continued, “I saw boxing from a diơerent point of view than most fighters. First, I didn’t have to create aggression to knock you out. I also saw boxing as an art. The night before a bout, I choreographed the fight in my head and nine times out of 10, it would come to fruition. It would happen because [in the ring] I have

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the ability to make you go a certain way, do a certain thing, or just piss you oơ. People ask me if I miss boxing. I don’t miss getting hit necessarily, but I miss the camaraderie, I miss the tactics, I miss the strategies because I was really good at that.”

Author of the revealing biography, “The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring,” Viking, ISBN: 978-0670022724, Leonard appeared quite comfortable as he glided through the remaining conversation -Talk2SV: Hugh Jackman had previous boxing experience before working with you. I understand his father was a boxer. Did that make your work together easier?

Leonard: Well, he’s a little taller than me but Hugh really wanted to look the part and it was my objective not to really go through the punches and hits because that [aspect] takes time. I wanted him to know what it feels like and looks like to be a fighter or a trainer.

The key was to show him that when he did throw the punches or do shadow boxing or work with the robots, he had to exhibit --in his face-- that power, that speed, that punch. He had to surrender being Hugh Jackman, that guy on the Broadway stage.

I felt that was the only way it [his role] would resonate and come across on the screen.

In working with him on the aspects of being a trainer to the robots, that too is a special relationship because they have to trust each other. There is also an intimacy there, whereas at some point, you don’t always have to talk to your fighter, you can look at him and know what he’s talking about, what he’s thinking. I had that same relationship with Angelo Dundee when I was training back in the day. Once he [Hugh] pulled that oơ, I knew the rest would be easy.

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LEGENDARY BOXER LENDS HIS HANDS TO THE BIG SCREEN.

Talk2SV: Fighting is as much about “heart” as it is physicality. You’ve been around many fighters. How soon can you tell whether they have the heart of a fighter?

Leonard: Once a fighter hits that kind of defining moment, when there is a point in a fight, whether he goes down, suơers a cut, he’s hurt… that’s when you see that intestinal fortitude. You see that ability to reach down inside and grab that thing we call energy.

A certain energy, that resource that I talk about when giving motivational speeches. Often, I use boxing or fighting as a metaphor and say [that] the diơerence among people who make it and those who don’t is very little. It’s the person that feels and wants it that much more who is willing to go through the pain: not just physical pain, but here (pointing to his head) and here (pointing to his stomach), that allows him or her to reach down and continue. That was another point I tried to convey to Hugh.

Talk2SV: Did you design the fight choreography as well?

Leonard: Not at all, in fact, I gave a couple of the robots a real signature move. One robot would hit another really south, below the belt, low, real low. I said, ‘that’s a good shot, a good punch.’ We left it in because in reality, you feel it. And, because Atom (the underdog robot in the film) reminds me so much of myself because he’s small and a simple, quiet guy, I put a Bolo punch in there (he winds his forearm around) to add my little spice to it.

Talk2SV: So, in your actual fights, did you study your opponents beforehand?

Leonard: Yes, big time! I would come up to you [a fighter] and say, ‘how are you doing?’ I would touch your shoulder, but I was really checking to see if there was muscle there, and I loved that. I would study tapes of your fights and I would look at your strong points, your weak ones; I’d look at the pros and cons, it was a wonderful thing. I would send guys to your training camp to watch you; to spy on you to see what you were doing right, what you were doing wrong. It was a process.

Talk2SV: You are an important part in the making of this film. Over the years, what boxing movies have struck a chord with you?

Leonard: There a are few boxing movies that really hit home with me: The Champ, I cry every time I see that movie; Raging Bull with DeNiro; The Hurricane, I thought Denzel Washington did a superb job in that movie. The Rocky movies with Sly (Sylvester Stone), I saw Rocky the night before my first professional fight

and although I was not the underdog, it was about the heart, courage.

Talk2SV: Would you consider producing a film with animated boxers and bring something diơerent to the screen?

Leonard: Would you finance it? Laughter. You know, I don’t know… I’m at such a great place in my life right now. I’ve enjoyed this part of my journey, if you will.

This is going to look good on my resume laughter. The people that I have contact with, the cast, the crew, it’s been awesome, truly awesome.

Talk2SV: There are several robot fighters in this film, each with a unique look and style. How would you describe them?

Leonard: Zeus, without question is George Foreman with the grill… laughter. Yeah, I just put a little piece of (Marvin) Hagler here, a little piece of (Roberto) Durán there, a little piece of Tommy Hearns…you know, and it was really a lot of fun.

Talk2SV: I’m curious, do you have an active friendship with any of the current boxers?

Leonard: I do, I do. I’m friends with Tommy Hearns; he calls me periodically, on my cell phone, “yeah, Ray, how much do you weigh?” I say, ‘Tommy, why? Laughter’ He’s always been a good guy. I see Durán periodically, at the Hall of Fame and we’re very cordial, we love each other. Hagler does not come around that much, he never sends me a Christmas card, birthday card… laughter, but I love and respect all my contemporaries, my rivalries, my guys who I fought and who I grew up with. It’s a great group of guys.

ANTHONY MACKIE COSTARS IN “REAL STEEL” Anthony Mackie (Notorious, American Violet, The Adjustment Bureau), cast as “Finn” is an underground boxing promoter whose methods are a bit unortho-

dox, but, he is fair and willing to give a down-on-hisluck friend, Charlie Kenton (Jackman), a chance at redemption in REAL STEEL. The 32-year-old New Orleans native had this to say about the massive robots in the movie, “When I first saw them, I was completely flabbergasted. To the point that I couldn’t remember my lines. I’d be talking to Hugh on the set and blurt out, ‘that is a ----ing robot!

And, it’s looking around!’ That happened a few times; I’ve never had the opportunity to work on a film at this scale, this magnitude and I’m fortunate that Shawn gave me the opportunity to do it. When you stepped on this set, it was a completely diơerent world than Half Nelson or Brother Brother or even Hurt Locker (several of Mackie’s other acclaimed films). I had to get my bearings about me because I’m always afraid when something in the room is not quite right-- that’s it’s going to snap and kill everybody. If I come to your house and you have a chimpanzee sitting on a couch, I’m going to spend the whole time in that room looking around at every move…just in case because that’s not normal.”

Asked if he had the chance to have fun with Sugar Ray and throw any punches with him, Mackie replied, “This is what’s funny, no, because I didn’t want him to slip and hit me for real (laughter). I’ve idolized Sugar Ray for a long time; growing up, he was ‘Sugar Ray Leonard’ and getting to meet him and work on this movie with him is kind of amazing, in a way. He’s such a down-to-earth, cool cat and he’s realized at this point in his life, the humility that comes along with age, you don’t have to put that persona out there. Boxers have that thing, I could beat anybody up, I’ll hit you…you know, what I mean? He’s never really had that; he just went out and beat people up, he didn’t talk about it.

Meeting him now is timely in my life and kind of amazing as an artist.”

Read the full interview at www.Talk2SV.com.

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SPORTS BEAT

NEW LAW Continued from page 5

BY BRAD PYE JR Notes, quotes and things picked up on the run from coast to coast and all the stops in between and beyond.

The USC record-setting duo of QB Matt Barkley (USC single game record of 468-yards) and wide receiver Robert Woods take their show on the road Oct. 13 against California in San Francisco.

Woods posted 14 catches for a career high of 225 yards in USC’s 48-41 struggle against Arizona at the Coliseum.

Like USC, the UCLA Bruins had their problems against mighty Stanford, 45-19. UCLA’s next test comes against Washington State at the Rose Bowl Saturday night at 7:30 p.m.

Three NFL African American head coaches came up winners in the fourth week of play. They are Cincinnati Bengals’ Marvin Lewis, Tampa Bay Bucs’ Raheem Morris and the Chicago Bears’ Lovie Smith. Only one of the three was quarterbacked by a QB of color — Tampa’s Josh Freeman.

Sparklers in the fourth week of play included the following: The Bears’ running back, Matt Forte, ripped off 205 yards to parade as the No.1 rusher of the day. No player has had more allpurpose yards (8,966) than Darren Sproles. Sproles is currently among the NFL leaders in the same department.

And the beat continues.

Two of the most explosive QBs in the NFL will be on display Sunday.

They are Michael Vick and his Philadelphia Eagles, who tee off against rookie sensation Cam Newton

AP Photo/M. Spencer Green

Going back to his roots: Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose hangs out with elementary school students from his alma mater, Randolph Elementary School, at the unveiling of the newly restored basketball court at Murray Park Playground, where Rose honed his hoops skills growing up on the South Side. and his Carolina Panthers.

Coach Lovie Smith’s record-setting punt and kickoff returner Devin Hester dashed 69 yards Sunday against the Carolina Panthers to establish a new TD standard on his 11th punt for a new NFL mark. The record was previously held by the St. Louis Cardinals’ Eric Metcalf. Hester’s punt and kickoff returns set a record of 15. The Panthers’ rookie QB, Cam Newton, hit on 27 of 46 passes for 374-yards and one TD in a 34-29 loss to the Bears.

The way Ozzie Guillen made his exit as manager of the Chicago White Sox didn’t set well with some members of the media. The Chicago Tribune’s David Haugh says: “Greed made Guillen a great capalist and a lousy leader.” Guillen surfaced as the manager of the Miami Marlins for the money.

Guillen managed the Chicago White Sox to the 2005 World Series title. Ken Williams, the White Sox’s GM of color, is being blamed for Guillen’s exit. According to the Chicago SunTimes, a whole lot of fans hated to see Guillen go. He led the team to the 2005 World Series title. Guillen, with an eight-year record of 678-617, was the best manager in White Sox history.

For the record, White Sox’s chairman, Jerry Reinsdorf has signed backto-back managers of color, Jerry Manuel (1998-2003) and Ozzie Guillen (2004-11). Reinsdorf had to choose between Guillen and Williams.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed says Reinsdorf was asked to pick sides, and he picked Williams. The following headline appeared on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times on the day Guillen “switched reels” to Miami: “How Do You Replace This Guy?” With the exit of Guillen after eight years, the Chicago Bears’ Lovie Smith, in his eighth season, is the dean of Chicago’s professional teams. Phil Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls, featuring Michael Jordan, for nine seasons.

He’s back! Tiger Woods teed off today at the Frys.com Open at CordeValle in Northern California.

Bulletin: If Pittsburgh Steelers starting QB Ben Roethlisberger (sore

foot) isn’t able to go Sunday against the Tennessee Titans, he will be replaced by 36-year old veteran of color, Charlie Batch. Ex-Oregon star Dennis Dixon (another man of color) will be on deck.

During the NBA lockout, Chicago Bulls’ MVP All-Star Derrick Rose returned to Englewood Murray Park, where he practiced for 16 hours a day to make his dream of becoming the Windy City’s next Michael Jordan.

Rose’s sponsors — Powder Ade, Wilson Goods and other — spent $20,000 for the renovation of the park for support of the Derrick Rose Renovation Project. Police blocked off the streets, extra security in bulletproof vests patrolled the park for the dedication. Rose said he didn’t need any security, the people made him what he is today and he’s still “Pooh of the Neighborhood to them.”

Three of Derrick’s older brothers were outstanding playground and high school stars. Duane was the greatest and most versatile of them all until little brother Derrick became the most celebrated of them all. The Chicago Sun-Times described the Rose brothers this way: “Reggie, who’s next, was the shooter. Allan was just a slick athlete who could jump to the moon. And it’s all wrapped up in Derrick.” Derrick’s middle brother, Reggie, is his business manager. Derrick offered to move his pal, Arsenio Williams, a 6-4 South Carolina State University graduate, to the Northside near his home. Williams says he’s staying on the home turf, because there is a lot of work to be done in the Englewood community.

Sports writer Jeff Pearlman’s book on the failing of Walter “Sweetness” Payton should call for compassion, according to an editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times. The editorial continued: “Anybody who ever believed the NFL-approved portrait of Payton — marvelous in every way — had not lived long enough anyway.

Everybody has feet of clay, even if some of us can run the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds.”

And the beat ends.

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with conditions such as substance abuse treatment.

Judges also have the discretion to impose “hybrid” or “split sentences” in which offenders serve part of their sentence in county jail and the rest on what is being called “mandatory supervision,” overseen by probation officers.

Offenders convicted of more significant crimes still are likely to get lengthier sentences, even if they are served in jail instead of prison, said Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the state district attorneys association. But sentencing more serious offenders to jail rather than state prison will likely force counties that already have crowded jails to release less serious offenders who are serving time for crimes such as auto theft, burglary, grand theft, forgery, counterfeiting and drug crimes.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is among those complaining that counties will be forced to release lower-level offenders by the thousands before they have served their full terms.

“Many serious criminals sentenced to lengthy state prison sentences will still be required to be housed locally. Such sentenced prisoners will take up beds for longer periods of time and, cumulatively, will substantially decrease available bed space,” Cooley wrote in a letter made public last month.

“Realignment casts too wide a net in defining ‘low level offenses,’ ” he added.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said he plans to remove 150 officers from patrol and other assignments to deal with the state’s prison realignment plan. He and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday warned that the new law threatens to reverse the falling crime rates Los Angeles has seen over the last decade.

Deputy state Attorney General Darren K. Indermill said defendants would still go to state prison, no matter the nature of their conviction, if they have serious or violent criminal records, if they must register as sex offenders, or if they are convicted of certain aggravating circumstances in white collar crimes.

Lawmakers and Brown had to move some serious crime categories to county jurisdiction to get the financial savings needed to help the state’s budget, said Thorpe, of the district attorneys’ association.

They also needed to include more crimes to reduce crowding in state prisons under a federal court order to improve inmate medical care, recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court has given the state two years to remove about 33,000 inmates from its 33 adult prisons.

When he signed the realignment bill in April, Brown said California “will continue to incarcerate offenders who commit serious, violent, or sexual crimes; but counties will supervise, imprison and rehabilitate lower-level offenders.”

Last week, Brown said the alternative to the realignment law would be early releases for state inmates to meet the federal deadline.

“The most serious we lock up in prison,” he said on the eve of the law taking effect. “The less serious, although quite troublesome, we handle at the local level.”

Republican lawmakers who have

been critical of the realignment law reacted harshly to the list of more serious crimes that will be handled locally rather than by state prisons.

Assemblyman Jim Nielsen called it “an alarming list of folks who are low-level offenders.... The penal code obviously needs to be changed.”

Nielsen, a former California parole board chairman, predicted that lawmakers will move some of the crimes off the list of lower-level offenses only after problems arise from the realignment law.

“I think the time will be right, unfortunately and despicably, after a few more victims,” he said. “Then the public will be mad.”

State Sen. Sharon Runner called the new law a social experiment with potentially dangerous consequences.

“Crimes like killing a person while driving drunk and felony child abuse are not minor crimes,” she said in a statement responding to the AP’s story.

Many law enforcement officials have defended the new law, saying it is important to look at the underlying facts of a case before passing judgment on its seriousness.

Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin, president of the California State Sheriffs’ Association, said involuntary manslaughter is among the crimes that should be punished at the local level.

The death could have occurred in a crime of passion or heat of the moment, he said, as opposed to someone charged in serial killing or gang killings.

“Then you go back to vehicular manslaughter: Was it a crime in which there was an unfortunate incident with a DUI? The person made a one-time mistake?” Pazin said. “Does that mean we incarcerate that person forever?”

Pazin and others also argue that counties will offer better drug, alcohol, counseling and rehabilitation programs.

While involuntary manslaughter is on the list of crimes with sentences to be served in county jails, Murray’s attorneys and Los Angeles County district attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons would not comment on where Michael Jackson’s doctor would serve his time if he is convicted. They cited orders from the presiding judge that they not discuss the case.

However, several independent legal experts said the new law is clear.

“Well as I read the statute, pure involuntary manslaughter if it doesn’t involve a weapon or direct physical infliction of bodily harm on the victim is non-serious and nonviolent and isn’t part of the special excluded list. So if that’s what he’s convicted of, yes he goes to county jail,” wrote Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg in an email response to the AP. Murray is charged with giving Jackson a fatal dose of the powerful surgical anesthetic propofol and other sedatives to help the singer sleep.

Murray’s attorneys say Jackson gave himself the fatal dose after his doctor left the room in June 2009.

Several other experts, including William Portanova, a former state and federal prosecutor in Sacramento, also said Murray would serve his time in county jail if he is found guilty.

“You can accidentally kill somebody by making an unsafe lane change,” said Portanova, now a defense attorney. “There’s a big difference between that and intentionally trying to hurt somebody.”

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NBA talks break down over money, games in jeopardy

AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

Derek Fisher, center, president of the National Basketball Player's Association, and Billy Hunter, right, the Executive Director of the National Basketball Player's Association, hold a press conference following labor talks between NBA players and owners on Tuesday in New York.

BY BRIAN MAHONEY AP BASKETBALL WRITER NEW YORK (AP) — Unable to reach a deal, NBA owners and players walked away from the table and don’t know when they will meet again.

If it’s not in the next few days, they can forget about playing 82 games.

Without an agreement by Monday, the beginning of the regular season will be canceled, and both sides will lose millions of dollars — and perhaps countless fans.

“We’re ready to meet and discuss any subject anyone wants to talk about,” Commissioner David Stern said. “We’d like not to lose the first two weeks of the season, but it doesn’t look good.”

Though the financial gap closed slightly, once the players’ association said it wouldn’t entertain the idea of a 50-50 revenue split, the league canceled the remainder of the preseason Tuesday and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement by Monday.

“We were not able to make the progress that we hoped we could make and we were not able to continue the negotiations,” Stern said after nearly four hours of talks between owners and players ended without gaining ground on a new deal.

No further meetings are scheduled — union executive director Billy Hunter said it could be a month or two until the next one — making it even more likely the league will lose games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1998-99, when the season was reduced to 50 games.

Stern and Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said owners offered players a 50-50 split of basketball-related income. That’s still well below the 57 percent that players were guaranteed under the previous collective bargaining agreement, but more than the 47 percent union officials said was formally pro-

posed to them.

The only numbers that matter now, however, are the millions that stand to be lost when arenas go dark.

“The damage will be enormous,” Silver said.

Players had offered to reduce their BRI guarantee to 53 percent, which they said would have given owners back more than $1 billion over six years. They say they won't cut it further, at least for now.

And they insist the 50-50 concept wasn’t an even split, because it would have come after the league had already deducted $350 million off the top.

“Today was not the day for us to get this done,” players’ association president Derek Fisher said. “We were not able to get close enough to close the gap.”

With superstars like Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett standing behind him, Hunter said the players' proposal would have made up at least $200 million per season — a sizable chunk of the $300 million owners said they lost last season.

“Our guys have indicated a willingness to lose games,” Hunter said.

The sides are also still divided on the salary-cap structure.

Training camps were postponed, and 43 preseason games scheduled for Oct. 9-15 were canceled on Sept. 24.

Both sides said they felt pressure to work toward a deal with deadlines looming before more cancellations would be necessary.

Stern said the owners had removed their demand for a hard salary cap, were no longer insisting on salary rollbacks and would have given players the right to opt out of a 10-year agreement after seven years. But the money split was always going to be the biggest hurdle in these negotiations, with owners insistent on the ability to turn a profit after the league said 22 of its 30 teams lost money last season.

See NBA TALKS, page 14

Woods signs his first major endorsement deal in 2 years

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP GOLF WRITER SAN MARTIN, Calif. (AP) — Tiger Woods has his first major endorsement since his downfall two years ago, announcing a deal Wednesday with Rolex to be one of its ambassadors.

Woods has lost five major endorsements in the two years since he was exposed for serial adultery and eventually divorced. He previously had a watch deal with Tag Heuer, which dropped him two months ago.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although it is believed to be longer than five years.

Woods earlier this year announced a deal in Japan to endorse a heat rub product for Kowa Company Ltd., although that was geared exclusively for Japanese markets.

The Rolex deal is far more significant, and it was announced the day Woods returned to the PGA Tour at the Frys.com Open. His agent at Excel Sports Management, Mark Steinberg, promised more deals to come.

“This makes a big statement,” Steinberg said at CordeValle, where he was watching Woods tee off in the proam. “I think this shows me where people

U.S. golfer Tiger Woods demonstrates his skill to young admirers during a golf clinic as part of his Asian tour this past April.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

are with Tiger Woods.”

Woods has lost endorsement deals with AT&T, Accenture, Tag Heuer, Gatorade and Gillette since his downfall.

Steinberg said Rolex would be the first of a “couple of announcements” related to endorsements, including a

deal for Woods’ golf bag. He has had his foundation logo on the bag since AT&T dropped him a month after Woods’ sex scandal unfolded in November 2009.

He said a bag deal was likely to be announced as early as six weeks. Woods See WOODS, page 15

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Keeping up with the Mandelas Tyrese ejected from radio station SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE AFROAMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

Speaks out against inner-city liquor stores SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

said he thought the singer’s tone sounded condescending and had him removed off the show during a R&B singer Tyrese Gibson commercial break.

“These liquor stores got zoning recently got the boot from a Delaware radio station after voicing from somebody and a liquor his opinion about liquor stores in the license,” Quartarone told Delaware Online. “If these liquor stores have inner city. been there for years and parents haven’t done anything about it, I don’t expect him to be a politician and talk down to my audience that it’s up to them to stop this from happening.”

Quartarone added that the singer was trying to rile everyone up before he mentioned his book deal and appearance at a local university, which was not approved before the show.

Shortly after Gibson was removed from the show, the singer Tweeted about the incident, which later spawned a string of national news Mr. T: Tyrese Gibson, raising his voice for a cause. stories.

Quartarone said According to Delaware Online, Gibson’s music will not receive any Gibson appeared on Wilmington's airplay until he receives an apology.

WJKS (KISS) 101.7 FM to promote But the singer told gossip site TMZ his new album. He explained that that he didn’t care if his music was he had just visited East Side Charter taken out of rotation.

Yourblackworld.com commenSchool in the city and was displeased that there were liquor stores tator Dr. Boyce Watkins sided with Gibson on a recent post and called close to the institution.

“Get them cats out of here sell- for the station’s closure.

“Unfortunately, too many ing alcohol right across from your kid’ school,” Gibson said on-air. famous Black men are enslaved by “Y’all know how to put pressure on the corporate machine and made to believe that ignorance is the key to cats selling in your hood.”

The station’s manager Tony success,” Watkins wrote. “Let’s go Quartarone was out of the office, but shut down these liquor stores, and was listening to the broadcast. He I’d love to see an end to WJKS.”

T.I. released from incarceration…again SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS Grammy award-winning rapper Clifford “T.I.” Harris was released from a halfway house on Sept. 29, ending his federal prison sentence for violating probation.

“He’s out, he’s good,” Jason Geter, who co-founded Grand Hustle Records with T.I., told The Associated Press.

T.I. has found himself in trouble consistently throughout his career. In 2009, he was convicted on federal weapons charges and served seven months in prison.

While on probation, he was arrested in Los Angeles for possession of drugs, a violation of probation. He served 11 months in a federal prison in Arkansas before being released to a halfway house.

His release to the halfway house didn’t go as planned. The rapper traveled to the halfway house on a luxury bus with a camera crew for a reality show.

According to the AP, federal authorities claimed that was a violation of prison rules and T.I. was sent to a federal prison in Georgia. He was released on Sept. 15.

A video posted by TMZ shows the rapper leaving federal prison with no cameras aside from the one through which he was taped, producers or tour buses.

He simply got into a SUV and left.

In 2004, the rapper also spent time in a Cobb County, Ga., prison for a probation violation. He was sentenced to three years but allowed out on a work release program.

Nelson Mandela’s three grandchildren will join the reality show bandwagon, the family announced Sept. 29. The show, which will air in 2012, will show Africa’s “new middle class of intellectuals,” according to one granddaughter.

“The show will be about our lives as young, Black women ... We're not wearing, `I'm a Mandela’ T-shirts," said Swati Dlamini, granddaughter of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

The show is supposed to expose the role of the new generation as career women and mothers, Mail and Guardian The lady Mandelas: “We’re definitely not the African Kardashians.” reports.

Dlamini, Dorothy Amuah, 27, is into the luxury mother with a two kids and one on Adjoa Amuah and Zaziwe Dlamini- brands market and received a law the way. She plans to launch a Manaway said they grew up in the degree and MBA from Monaco. clothing line and is involved with United States, but returned to South Dlamini-Manaway, 34, is a Mandela Dlamini Associates.

Africa for personal and business matters.

“We’re definitely not the African Kardashians,” Amuah said.

In case people are wondering whether the reality show may expose the family in a negative light or disrespect the legacy of NEW YORK (AP) — South Africa’s former president, Not content simply to folproducer Rick Leed promised good low Jay-Z and Will Smith things. into the world of Broadway “They clearly have a great love producers, Alicia Keys will [for each other]. This may be part also compose original storytelling, part reality, except the music for the upcoming story we are telling is real ... it's not production of “Stick Fly” going to detract from the dignity of on the Great White Way. Nelson Mandela,” he told reporters Producers said Tuesday in Johannesburg. that the musician and The grandchildren said they singer, whose hits include would not feature their parents or “Fallin’” and “A Woman’s grandparents.

Worth,” will offer her songDlamini, 32, is a single mother writing to the play by Lydia who would like to set up a founda- R. Diamond. Performances tion. begin Nov. 18 at the Cort Theatre.

The work is a contemporary comedy of manners revolving around an affluent Black family whose insecurities gradually unravel during a vacation. The cast includes Dule Hill (“Psych,” “The West Wing”) and Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

Keys already had AP Photo/Evan Agostini signed on to help produce the work. Previously, Jay-Z, Director Alicia Keys attends the Lifetime and Will Smith and wife Jada Sony Pictures Television premiere screening of Pinkett Smith helped pro- “Five” at Skylight SoHo on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, in New York. duce the musical “Fela!”

Alicia Keys will write music for Broadway show

Black Facts October 10, 1917 Jazz pianist Theolonius Monk is born in Rocky Mount, NC. He was only one of 3 jazz musicians ever featured on the cover of Time magazine.

October 10, 1935 Porgy and Bess premieres in NYC

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October 11, 1991 Comedian John Elroy Sanford, “Redd Foxx,” dies at age 68.

Source: blackfact.com

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Investigators next up in Jackson manslaughter case

AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool, File

FILE - Dr. Conrad Murray, left, seated near his attorney, listens intently to testimony during the trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson.

BY ANTHONY MCCARTNEY AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER LOS ANGELES (AP) — The involuntary manslaughter trial of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death is moving into its “CSI” phase, with jurors set to hear next from investigators and detectives.

The panel also will hear from Dr. Conrad Murray, himself, though it will be through a more than twohour interview that police conducted with the Houston-based cardiologist two days after Jackson’s June 2009 death.

The exact order of the witnesses is unclear, but court transcripts of discussions between the judge and lawyers from both sides Tuesday

show that prosecutors are entering the next stage of the trial — furthering their case against Murray through the recollections of people who investigated him.

Murray has pleaded not guilty in the case. He faces up to four years behind bars and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Authorities contend he gave the singer a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol and other sedatives in Jackson’s bedroom.

Murray’s attorneys say that Jackson gave himself the fatal dose.

The prosecution had been prepared Tuesday afternoon to call a police detective who would introduce the interview with Murray, which is expected to be played in its

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A generous benefactor: Alumnus Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington donates $2.25 million to Fordham NEW YORK (AP) — Denzel Washington has donated $2.25 million to Fordham University, his alma mater.

The university said Monday that Washington has given $2 million to endow the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre, and another $250,000 to establish a scholarship for a minority undergraduate student studying theater at Fordham.

Phylicia Rashad, who played Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has joined the school's faculty as the first Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre.

Washington cited the late Bob Stone, who was a theater professor at Fordham, for inspiring him.

AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool

AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool

AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool

Prosecution witness Michelle Bela testifies during Dr. Conrad Murray’s trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson on Tuesday.

Prosecution witness Sade Anding testifies during Dr. Conrad Murray’s trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson on Tuesday.

Prosecution witness Nicole Alvarez, who is the current girlfriend of Dr. Conrad Murray, testifies at his trial Tuesday.

entirety for jurors. Defense attorneys said they needed more time to prepare for the witness, prompting the judge to send the trial into recess early and instruct prosecutors to call other witnesses to give Murray’s lawyers opportunity to get ready.

Lead defense attorney Ed Chernoff hinted at a sidebar conference that the next witness may now be Stephen Marx, a forensic computer examiner for the Drug Enforcement Agency who analyzed Murray’s iPhone. At a preliminary hearing earlier this year, Marx talked about emails he was able to retrieve from the phone, but in upcoming testimony he is likely to talk about a much more dramatic find.

Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said in opening statements that investigators were able to extract a recording of Jackson talking to Murray from the physician’s

iPhone. The audio of Jackson speaking slowly and slurring his speech was one of the previously unknown pieces of evidence prosecutors are using against the doctor.

Statements and items shown to jurors during opening remarks are not evidence until someone testifies about them.

Other investigators from the coroner’s office will be called during the remainder of the trial to talk about Jackson’s autopsy and toxicology findings that led to the determination that the singer died from acute propofol intoxication and the effects of the sedatives.

Prosecutors plan to call their main expert on propofol Tuesday, according to the transcripts.

The investigators come seven days into the government’s case against Murray, which has featured dramatic testimony about the frantic efforts to revive Jackson. In the past

two days, jurors have heard in rapidfire succession from witnesses who called or texted Murray in the hours before Jackson’s death.

The witnesses included several of the doctor’s mistresses and his current girlfriend, Nicole Alvarez, who received shipments of propofol at her apartment on Murray’s behalf but said she never knew what he was being sent.

Another woman, Sade Anding, told jurors that Murray called her at 11:51 a.m. on the day Jackson died, but stopped paying attention to her during the call. Murray’s phone sounded like it had been shoved in a pocket.

“I pressed the phone to my ear and I heard mumbling and voices … like the phone was in his pocket. I heard coughing,” she said.

AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this report.

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

California’s attorney general leads efforts to resolve the housing crisis

BY KAMALA HARRIS If you scan a list of the 10 American cities hardest hit by mortgage defaults and foreclosures, you will find that eight are in California.

Last year alone, more than 570,000 California homes fell into foreclosure, and the rate of foreclosures has recently begun to surge again. As a result, tens of thousands of families across the state — including nearly one million children — have been displaced as this crisis has unfolded.

Communities of color have been especially devastated by the housing crisis.

African American and Latino homeowners account for more than 55 percent of foreclosures in our state, even though they hold just 36 percent of mortgages.

I have long been concerned that unscrupulous conduct by lenders and mortgage servicers has exacerbated this crisis. As San Francisco District Attorney, I established the state’s first standalone mortgage fraud unit. Then, within months of being sworn in as California Attorney General, I created the Mortgage Fraud Strike Force. The Strike Force is a team tasked to investigate and, as necessary, prosecute misconduct at every step of the mortgage process.

In August, for example, we filed a lawsuit against a group of law firms that preyed on thousands of desperate homeowners facing foreclosure.

While we have been conducting these independent investigations, my office has also spent the past 11 months in national settlement talks with the banking industry. Because California homeowners have suffered so tremendously, it has been my sincere desire to reach a limited resolution with the banks that would begin to provide real relief to Californians.

Two weeks ago, I went to Washington, D.C., and met with the banks and our state partners in an effort to move that discussion forward. But it has recently become clear to me that the banks are seeking to be excused from liability for conduct that has not been fully investigated and, in exchange, are offering relief that

Kamala Harris

would allow too few Californians to stay in their homes.

Simply put, the banks are demanding too much and offering too little. After much consideration, I have concluded that this is not the deal that California homeowners have been waiting for.

Now I am moving forward on an independent path. This new approach begins with devoting all of my office’s relevant resources to thoroughly investigate the mortgage practices that have contributed to the housing crisis here in the Golden State. I have given the 30 investigators and attorneys on the Mortgage Fraud Strike Force a broad mandate to investigate all forms of the fraud that has harmed so many Californians.

At the same time, I will push for new legislation to reform mortgage servicing and foreclosure practices and, in particular, to increase transparency and eliminate incentives to disregard borrowers’ rights. And I will work with community leaders to ensure that California homeowners know their rights under state and federal law.

I believe any fair deal for California must provide accountability for what happened, and provide meaningful consequences for misconduct at all stages of the mortgage process. I look forward to working with California legislators, mortgage lenders and members of the public to strike a fair deal for California homeowners.

Black Facts October 6, 1847 National Black convention met in Troy, N.Y., with more than sixty delegates from nine states. Nathan Johnson of Massachusetts was elected president.

October 12, 1932 Richard (“Dick”) Gregory was born on this day.

Source: blackfacts.com

Herman Cain is Brainwashed and Brain-Dead

BY GEORGE E. CURRY NNPA COLUMNIST Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain professes to know why most African Americans don’t vote for Republicans – they are brainwashed.

Cain’s decision to insult people he hopes will vote for him proves that he is both brainwashed and brain-dead.

“African Americans have been brainwashed into not being openminded, not even considering a conservative point of view,” Cain said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.” He added, “I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open- minded, pure and simple.”

Merriam-Webster defines “brainwashing” as (1) a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas, and as (2) persuasion by propaganda or salesmanship.

Herman Cain fits that description better than Black America.

Anyone with a scintilla of a brain knows that African Americans have not always favored Democrats. Blacks voted overwhelmingly for Republicans, the party of Abraham Lincoln, until Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, a package of programs that helped lift America out of the Great Depression. By 1936, 75 percent of African Americans had switched their support from Republicans to Democrats.

Still, the GOP continued to receive a respectable share of the Black vote for the next two decades. Even with a Democratic presidential candidate as attractive as John F. Kennedy, Republican Richard M. Nixon managed in 1960 to capture 32 percent of the Black vote. However, the GOP took a sharp right turn in 1964 with the nomination of ultra-conservative Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Black GOP support plummeted to 6 percent that year and has never risen above 15 percent since that debacle.

African Americans knew what they were doing in the 1930s when they switched allegiance. And instead of being brainwashed today, they have wisely decided to extend solid political support to the party that supports them.

When you examine how differently Democrats and Republicans vote in the House and Senate, it should not be surprising that African Americans shun the party that shuns them.

With only a couple of exceptions, the record of GOP lawmakers shows that they don’t want to merely turn back the clock on Black progress, they want to turn back the calendar.

This is from a column I wrote in 2008: “The NAACP has been issuing a civil rights report card since 1914. When it comes out, there are often efforts to discredit it, as though the NAACP doesn’t know what’s good for Black people.

If you read the last report card for the complete session of Congress (the 109th), you might learn why Republicans have such a difficult time attracting African Americans.

In the 109th Congress, 25 Democrats in the Senate received an ‘A’ from the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, 15 earned a ‘B,’ and two

George E. Curry got ‘C’s’. None was graded ‘D’ or ‘F.’ By contrast, no Republican senator earned an ‘A’ or ‘B.’ One, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, earned a ‘C,’ and another, Mike DeWine of Ohio, was given a ‘D.’ The other 54 Republicans who served the full session earned F’s.

There was a similar pattern in the House, where 133 Democrats earned A’s, 41 got B’s, 15 received C’s, and 19 brought up the rear with D’s.

Among Republicans, none earned as high as a C. Three received the highest grade of D and 211 got F’s.

At the end of this session of Congress, the Republican record will certainly be worse.

Any African American supporting a party with such an anti-Black record must be, in Cain’s words, brainwashed.

The only reason Cain gets away with making such outlandish charges is because he is Black.

Pollster Cornell Belcher made that point on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

In a face-off with former George W. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, he said: “You know, if I came on your show, Anderson, and I said, ‘All Jewish people are brainwashed,’ I probably wouldn't be invited back to CNN — and I assure you the con-

demnation would be swift and it'd be powerful and be strong. What Herman Cain said was a racist, bigoted statement and [he] should be treated like a racist and bigoted person who makes those racist and bigoted statements.”

Instead of acknowledging that he can’t speak for all Blacks, Cain likes to frame criticism of him in racial terms.

In a speech in Pella, Iowa, Cain said he would not sign a bill longer than three pages. (He later claimed that he was exaggerating.)

Jon Stewart had fun with Cain’s ridiculous proposal, joking that if Cain were elected president, “Treaties will have to fit on the back of a cereal box …

The state of the union address will be delivered in the form of a fortune cookie.”

Speaking at the Iowa Falls Fire Department, Cain asserted that Stewart was criticizing him “because I’m Black.”

No, Cain was targeted because he makes ridiculously laughable comments.

Cain could have avoided the brainwashing controversy by asking Republican rival Mitt Romney about his father’s failed 1968 presidential campaign. George W. Romney, the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and ex-governor of Michigan, was considered a serious candidate for president until he gave a radio interview in 1967 in which he said, “When I came back from Vietnam [in 1965], I’d just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get.”

Instead of defeating Richard Nixon for the Republican nomination, Romney’s poll numbers tanked and he never recovered. I don’t know why Herman Cain never asked the younger Romney about his father’s failed campaign. Perhaps Cain had been already brainwashed by then.

George E. Curry, former editor in chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator and media coach.

He can be reached through his website, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.

NBA TALKS Continued from page 11 “We want to and have been willing to negotiate, but we find ourselves at a point today where we in some ways anticipated or expected to be, faced with a lockout that may jeopardize portions if not all of our season,” Fisher said.

After hardly budging off their original proposal for 11/2 years, owners finally increased their offer to players from 46 to 47 percent of BRI. It was then that the top negotiators discussed the 50-50 concept and, while Stern sounded disappointed that it didn't work, Silver was more frustrated.

“I am not going to get a good night sleep,” he said. “After this afternoon’s session, I would say I’m personally very disappointed. I thought that we should have continued negotiating today, and I thought that there was potentially common ground on a 50-50 deal. I think it makes sense, it sounds like a partnership.

There still would have been a lot of negotiating to do on the system elements, but I’m personally very disappointed.”

On what both sides stressed was an important day, the owners’ entire 11-

man labor relations committee came to New York to meet with 11 players.

They could still work something out before Monday’s deadline, but neither side sounded optimistic.

“Right now, we had our committees, we gave it a really good run and it didn’t work,” Stern said.

Hunter said the union would hold regional meetings with its players, set up workout centers and help in other ways. And many players — including Bryant, who has been in talks with an Italian team — will have to decide if they want to explore playing overseas.

And without a deal, the battle could go to the courts. Hunter said the union would have to consider decertification, and on Tuesday a federal court judge scheduled a hearing for Nov. 2 to hear arguments in the league’s lawsuit against the players seeking a declaration that the lockout doesn’t violate antitrust laws.

All things both sides hoped to avoid Tuesday.

“It wasn’t to be, and we don’t have any plans right now,” Stern said.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

HUD Ln# 1973458823 TS#11-11978-21 NOTICE OF DEFAULTAND FORECLOSURE SALE WHEREAS, on 08/23/2004, a certain (Deed of Trust) was executed by Maggie Mae Jackson, as Trustor, in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as beneficiary, and Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, as Trustee and was recorded on Recorded on 08/31/2004 as Instrument No.04-2235882, in the office of the Los Angeles County, California Recorder, and WHEREAS, the Deed of Trust was insured by the UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, (the Secretary) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family housing; and WHEREAS, the beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an assignment recorded on 2/18/2011, as Instrument #20110270914 in the office of the Los Angeles County, California Recorder, and WHEREAS, a default has been made by reason of failure to pay all sums due under the Deed of Trust, pursuant to Paragraph 9 Subsection (i) of said deed of Trust and WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust to be immediately due and payable, NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to power vesting in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary's designation of us as Foreclosure Commissioner" notice is hereby given that on 11/03/2011 at 1:00pm local time, all real and personal property at or used in connection with following described premises ("Property") will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder: Commonly known as: 1533 East 82nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90001 More thoroughly described as: Lot 115 of Tract 8559, in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, California a per Map Recorded in Book 101, Pages 47 and 48, of Maps in the Office of the County Recorder of said County The sale will be held at the following location: At the front entrance to the Pomona Superior Courts Building, 350 West Mission Blvd., Pomona, CA Per The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development the estimated opening bid will be $264,113.08 There will be no pro-ration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before the closing, his prorate share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale. When making a bid, all bidders except the Secretary must submit a deposit totaling ten percent (10%) of the Secretary's estimated bid amount, in the form of a cashier's check made payable to the Foreclosure Commissioner Cimarron Trustee Services. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is an oral, a deposit of $26,411.30 must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a cashier's or certified check.

If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyancing fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them. The Secretary may grant an extension of time with which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be fore 9-day increments for a fee of $600.00 paid in advance. The extension fee shall be in the form of certified or cashier's check made payable to the commissioner. If the high bidder closed the sale prior to the expiration period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due. If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit or, at the election of the Foreclosure Commissioner after consultation with the HUD Field Office representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commissioner may, at the direction of HUD Field Office Representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder to an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder. There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as proved herein HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant. The amount that must be paid by the Mortgagor, to stop the sale prior to the scheduled sale date is $26,396.30 as of10/19/2011, PLUS all other amounts that are due under the mortgage agreement.

Plus advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner's attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents. Plus a commission for the Foreclosure commissioner and all other costs incurred in the connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.

Date: August 1, 2011 FORECLOSURE COMMISSIONER: CIMARRON SERVICE CORP, of NEVADA 719 14TH STREET MODESTO, CA 95354 Telephone No. (209) 544-9658 Facsimile No. (209) 544-6119 CATHEY E. LATNER, Vice President Ad #14601 2011-10-06 2011-10-13 2011-10-20 2011-10-27 Loan No. 291272 / RYNVELD Title Order No. 55019429 Trustee Sale No. 11-06-005 TRA No. APN 2718-019-010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 08/27/2009. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 10/27/2011 at 1 :00PM, at AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE POMONA SUPERIOR COURTS BUILDING, 350 WEST MISSION BLVD, POMONA, CA, AZTEC T.D. SERVICE CO. as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 09/02/2009 as Instrument No. 20091347391 in Book N/A Page N/A of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed by: ALISON RYNVELD, as Trustor, AZTEC FINANCIAL, as Beneficiary, pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder Recorded on 06/14/2011, as Instrument # 2011-0810436 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County, California describing the land therein: LOT 274 OF TRACT 28184, IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 715, PAGE(S) 9 TO 19, INCLUSIVE OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY. APN: 2718-019-010 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 10826 SYLVIA AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 91326. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is - where is". Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, if any, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Sale, reasonably estimated to be: $115,629.12. Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The beneficiary may elect to bid less than the full credit bid. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. In the event tender other than cash is accepted,

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the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee's Deed until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right.

If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the successful bidder at the sale shall be exclusively entitled to a return of the monies paid. The successful bidder shall have no further recourse against the Trustee or Beneficiary. We are attempting to collect a debt and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose whether received orally or in writing.

DATE: October 4, 2011 AZTEC T.D. SERVICE CORP. 2624 W. MAGNOLIA BLVD. BURBANK, CA 91505 (818) 848-8960 By: Lynda L. Massey Vice President of Foreclosure Resources, inc., As agent for Aztec T. D. Service Co. Ad #15840 2011-10-06 2011-10-13 2011-10-20

GOVERNMENT LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (METRO) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Metro will receive proposals for RFP No. PS20102804 per specifications on file at the LACMTA Office of Procurement & Material Mgmt, One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012 (9th Floor).

All proposals must be received on or before October 24, 2011,Pacific Timeat the address listed above, sent to the attention of Mayumi Lyon.Proposals received later than the above date and time will be rejected and returned to the proposer unopened.

A Pre-Proposal conference will be held on Thursday, September 29, 2011, at 10:00 a.m., in the Huntington Conference Room (3rd floor) at the address above.

You may obtain a copy of the RFP, or further information, at www.metro.net (“About Us”, “Solicitations”) or by contract Mayumi Lyon at lyonm@metro.net, 213-922-4020.

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CDL-A, 2yrs Exp. 888-880-5921 Fictitious Business Name Statement File No. 2011049999 The following person (s) is (are) doing business as:(1) LEGAL PROBATE LITIGATION ATTORNEY, 4515 AUGUST STREET, #2. LOS ANGELES, CA. 90008. County of Los Angeles. Registered Owner (S): JOSEPH GENTRY, 4515 AUGUST ST. #2 LOS ANGELES, CA. 90008. This business is conducted by: an individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on JUNE 8-11 . I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) S/ JOSEPH GENTRY, OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on JUNE 20, 2011 . NOTICE-in accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920 A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920. Where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal state or common law (see section 14411 et seq. Business and Professions code).

Original 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6/2011.

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BURBANK-GLENDALE-PASADENA AIRPORT AUTHORITY ENGINEERING GROUP NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS, VENDORS AND SUPPLIERS The Bob Hope Airport invites all interested contractors, vendors and suppliers including those from the Tri-Cities (Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena) to attend a non-mandatory informational meeting on the upcoming procurements of a Regional Intermodal Transportation Center (RITC) and an Elevated Walkway (EW).

The RITC Project (E10-35) was competitively bid on May 25, 2011 to twelve prequalified and eligible general contractors. All bids exceeded available funding and were rejected. The project is undergoing a redesign to fit within budgetary constraints and is targeted for re-bid in Nov/Dec 2011. As of now the following twelve prequalified general contractors remain eligible to compete in the rebid: PREQUALIFIED & ELIGIBLE GENERAL CONTRACTORS Austin Commercial S. J. Amoroso Construction Bayley Construction Suffolk Construction Bernards Brothers Taisei Construction KCS West, Inc. Corporation McCarthy Building W.E. O’Neil Construction Companies Walsh Group PCL Construction Webcor Builders All interested contractors, vendors & suppliers are invited to attend this informational meeting regarding these procurements. Again, this meeting is not mandatory.

The Authority is committed to opportunities for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE), Small Business Enterprises (SBE), Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE), and In-Service Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (IS-DVBE).

Original Project E10-35; Revised to RITC Project E10-35-(I) and EW Project E10-35-(II): Regional Intermodal Transportation Center (RITC) (Federally funded; hence federal guidelines apply) Project Type & Description:

New Construction – Intermodal Transportation Center, & Elevated Walkway, Off-Site Work Meeting Date & Time:

10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M., OCTOBER 10, 2011 Location:

Bob Hope Airport, Main Terminal, Skyroom 2627 Hollywood Way Burbank, CA 91505 (parking is available in the parking structure next to the main terminal, on the roof level only) Visit Website:

www.bobhopeairport.com Hyperlink: Business Opportunities

BURBANK-GLENDALE-PASADENA AIRPORT AUTHORITY ENGINEERING GROUP NOTICE TO DESIGN-BUILDERS & ALL INTERESTED The Bob Hope Airport invites all interested including those from the TriCities (Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena) to attend an informational meeting on the upcoming design-build procurement of a new Parking Structure and the prequalification process for this procurement. This meeting is not mandatory.

The Authority is committed to opportunities for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE), Small Business Enterprises (SBE), Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE), and In-Service Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (IS-DVBE).

Original Project E10-35; Revised to Project E10-35-(III)

Replacement Parking Structure (RPS) (approx. 1,000 parking spaces) (Federally funded; hence federal guidelines apply)

WOODS Continued from page 11 has been in negotiations with Fry’s Electronics, sponsor of this week’s tournament, although those discussions have been going on for most of the year.

This is a return to Rolex of sorts for Woods. He had an endorsement deal with Tudor, a Rolex brand, when he first turned pro.

Swiss-based Rolex said it was paying tribute “to the exceptional stature of Tiger Woods and the leading role he plays in forging sport’s global appeal.”

“Rolex is convinced that Tiger Woods still has a long career ahead of him, and that he has all the qualities required to continue to mark the history

of golf,” the company said in a statement.

Woods has 14 majors and 82 wins worldwide, although none since he won the Australian Masters on Nov. 15, 2009.

He fell out of the top 50 in the world ranking for the first time in 15 years.

He missed most of this summer recovering from injuries to his left leg.

Woods is playing four more times this year, starting with the Frys.com Open, followed by the Australian Open, Presidents Cup and the Chevron World Challenge.

Typical of his previous endorsements, Steinberg said the Rolex logo would not be visible as Woods plays golf. He had a watch in his bag during the pro-am, Steinberg said. Woods doesn’t wear a watch when he plays golf.

Project Type & Description:

New Construction Meeting Date & Time:

1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M., OCTOBER 10, 2011 Location:

Bob Hope Airport, Main Terminal, Skyroom 2627 Hollywood Way Burbank, CA 91505 (parking is available in the parking structure next to the main terminal, on the roof level only) Visit Website:

www.bobhopeairport.com Hyperlink: Business Opportunities

To place a Classified Ad Call (323) 299-3800

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