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FACT CHECK:

Are 82 percent of schools ‘failing’?

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President Barack Obama declared this week that four of five public schools could be labeled as “failing” this year under the No Child Left Behind Act if Congress does not take action to rewrite the law.

“That’s an astonishing number,” he said Monday at a Virginia middle school. “We know that four out of five schools in this country aren’t failing.”

Obama’s terminology wasn’t quite AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster right, though. There is In this photo taken Feb., 14, 2011, President Barack Obama, left, with U.S. Education no “failing” label in Secretary Arne Duncan, right, talks to students in Susan Yoder’s, center, science class at the No Child Left Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology, in Parkville, Md. In his weekly radio B e h i n d A c t . A n d address Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, Obama said better education in math and science is critischools that do not cal to pushing the U.S. forward in the global competition for innovation and jobs, and he meet growth targets — wants the private sector to get involved in making it happen. aimed at getting 100 percent of students proficient in math, reading and science by 2014 — for one year are not subject to any intervention.

Those unable to do so for two or more consecutive years are considered “in need of improvement.” The consequences then become stiffer fetus is at risk for Down syndrome. For each year, starting with offering stu- BY MALCOLM RITTER AP S CIENCE WRITER a firm diagnosis, doctors take a sample dents an opportunity to attend another of amniotic fluid or the placenta. school, and escalating if the targets NEW YORK — Scientists in Those sampling procedures remain unmet.

Europe report they were able to diaginvolve a small risk of miscarriage. A For those schools, there’s at least the implication of failure, and that’s nose Down syndrome prenatally by reliable diagnostic blood test also one reason Obama says the 2001 law giving a simple blood test to pregnant could give an answer earlier than the needs to be changed. There are many women, an approach that might one standard tests.

Several research teams have pubways for a school to fall short of its day help them avoid the more extensive procedure used now to detect the lished studies suggesting that analyzrequirements, even if most of its stuing the mother’s blood can detect dents are improving and succeeding. condition.

The preliminary report published Down syndrome in a fetus. There’s no A school where all but one group of online March 6 in the journal Nature commercial test available yet, but at students are considered proficient in reading, science and math would be Medicine is the latest of several recent least one company hopes to introduce lumped into the same category as studies that suggest scientists can spot one in the U.S. within about a year.

In the latest report, scientists in schools where no students are profi- Down syndrome through fetal DNA that has been shed into the mother's Cyprus, Greece and England said that cient in those subjects. in a blind test, they correctly identiThe Department of Education bloodstream.

Down syndrome, which results in fied 14 Down syndrome cases and 26 says the number of schools that fail to meet the annual proficiency goals cognitive delays, is caused by having an normal fetuses.

They said a bigger study is needcould jump from 37 to 82 percent this extra copy of a particular chromosome.

Currently, pregnant women get blood ed to confirm the usefulness of their See FACT CHECK, page 10 tests and ultrasound to find out if the approach.

Study: Mom’s blood test can reveal Down syndrome

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Obama defends nuclear energy

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended the use of nuclear energy despite the calamity in Japan where a nuclear power plant leaked radiation in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The president told Pittsburgh television station KDKAthat all energy sources have their downsides but that the U.S. — which gets 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear power — needs to look at the full array of them.

The president said facilities in the U.S. are closely monitored and built to withstand earthquakes, even though nothing’s failsafe. Proponents of nuclear power fear their efforts to win over the public to the safety of their industry have been dealt a tremendous blow by the disaster in Japan.

“I think it is very important to make sure that we are doing everything we can to insure the safety and effectiveness of the nuclear facilities that we have,” the president said in a second TV interview Tuesday, with KOAT in Albuquerque, N.M. “We’ve got to budget for it. I’ve already instructed our nuclear regulatory agency to make sure that we take lessons learned from what’s happening in Japan and that we are constantly upgrading how we approach our nuclear safety in this country,” he said.

The president said he’s been assured that any radiation release from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant along

Japan’s northeastern coast would dissipate before reaching the U.S. In Japan the crisis was spiraling as a fire broke out at a reactor a day after the plant emitted a burst of radiation. The government ordered people living within 20 miles of the plant to seal themselves indoors to avoid exposure.

At the White House Tuesday, spokesman Jay Carney said that unlike some other countries the U.S. was not recommending that American citizens leave Tokyo over radiation concerns. Carney said that U.S. officials have determined Americans in Japan should follow the same guidance Japan is giving to its own citizens.

Nonetheless, Austria said it is moving its embassy from Tokyo to Osaka and France recommended that its citizens leave the Japanese capital.

The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo has told Americans to avoid traveling to Japan.

Meanwhile more U.S. military crews were exposed to radiation Tuesday as the Pentagon ramped up relief flights over the reeling country.

The Defense Department said the Navy started giving anti-radiation pills to some of those exposed, and Americans on two military bases south of Tokyo were advised to stay indoors as much as possible. With more aid for victims on the way, the U.S. Navy said it was redirecting three ships to work in the Sea of Japan on the country’s west coast rather than risk the hazards of radiation and the debris field in the waters off the east coast.

Sensitive air monitoring equipment on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington detected low levels of radioactivity from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as the carrier sat pier-side at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Cmdr. Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. 7th Fleet, said Tuesday.

Davis said that while there was no danger to the public from the radiation levels, the commander recommended as a precaution that military personnel and their families at the two bases, Yokosuka and Naval Air Facility Atsugi, limit their outdoor activities and seal ventilation systems.

The Navy said Monday that radiation was detected by another carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, and that 17 helicopter crew members had to be decontaminated after returning from search and rescue duty. The Navy said more crews were exposed to very low levels of radiation Tuesday and had to be decontaminated.

Potassium iodide pills were given to a small number of those crew members as a precaution, said Col. Dave Lapan, a Defense Department spokesman. A threeship amphibious group, including the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Essex, was directed to position itself in the Sea of Japan and was to arrive Thursday for other relief duties.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu said his department has assembled a team of 34 people and sent 7,200 pounds of equipment to Japan to help monitor and assess the situation with the nuclear reactors.

Health risks of radiation depend on dose, duration

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Concern is mounting about potential health risks of radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors in Japan. How much radiation you get depends on the dose, duration and method of exposure. Some types of radioactive particles are more dangerous or longer lasting than others.

Some basics: Q. How are people exposed to radiation?

A. Radioactive particles in fallout can be inhaled into the lungs, fall on the skin or be

ingested through contaminated food or water.

The level can vary greatly even between short distances, said Dr. Fred Mettler, a University of New Mexico radiologist who led an international study of health effects after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

“You can come around a corner and the dose rate can be very high, and you get back behind a column and the dose rate is much lower,” depending on what type of particles are in the fallout, whether you’re standing under a roof where they’ve accumulated or

See RADIATION RISK, page 10

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In this March 1, 2010, file photo, the San Onofre nuclear power plant, seen here in north San Diego County, Calif. In an effort to ease local concerns about a possible nuclear disaster on the West Coast, operators of Southern California’s San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear plants say their plants can withstand a higher magnitude earthquake than scientists predict could ever strike the region. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also say harmful levels of radioactivity from Japan are unlikely to reach the United States.

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An undated file photo of the Three Mile Island nuclear power station near Harrisburg, Pa., circa 1979. An accident caused a radiation leak at the plant in March 1979.

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Oakland Raiders SPORTS BEAT B B star to host fifth annual fundraiser

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Former FAME Senior Pastor and civil rights advocate Cecil “Chip� Murray to be presented with Lifetime Achievement Award.

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This is a July 31, 2008, file photo showing Oakland Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha during football training camp in Napa, Calif.

BY MICHAEL BROWN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Former Narbonne High School star and current NFL Pro bowler Nnamdi Asomugha is accustomed to taking away from opponents on the gridiron, but this Saturday, he’ll be giving back to the community at his Foundation’s fifth annual gala.

Guests will be able to bid during a live and silent auction on authentic West African artwork and autographed memorabilia by NBA and NFL players, with all proceeds benefiting the Los Angeles-based Asomugha Foundation. “Everyone is invited to attend,�

Foundation President Dr. Lillian Asomugha said about the March 19 event. “We hold this event every year, not just for people to see what we’re doing, but because we want them to feel the need to get involved and help too.�

Along with auctioning items, dinner and entertainment, the Rev. Cecil “Chip� Murray, formerly the senior pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. “We honored Rev. Andy Bales (CEO of Union Rescue Mission) last year, and we decided to do the same for Cecil Murray during this event,� Lillian said.

“There are so many people doing great things in Los Angeles’ Black community. Cecil, not only has he done great things, but he’s still active and through this recognition we hope to encourage others,� she continued.

Also to be lauded with honors are 2014 Olympic hopeful Seun Adebiyi, who will receive the Emerging Humanitarian Award; and Oral Lee Brown, founder of the Oral Lee Brown Foundation in Oakland, which helps students go to college with financial and educational aid. Brown will receive the Visionary Service Award.

The Asomugha Foundation is a nonprofit comprised of two programs, including Asomugha College Tour for Scholars (ACTS), which exposes minority students to college campuses through tours; and Orphans and Widows in Need (OWIN), a program that helps African children and women.

The gala is scheduled to be held at the Renaissance Hotel at LAX, 9620 Airport Blvd., in Los Angeles.

Tickets cost $125 and will still be sold the day of the event. The reception and silent auction will begin at 7 p.m., followed by the dinner and program at 8.

Information: (310) 325-0009, www.asomughafoundation.org.

Notes, quotes and things picked up on the run and all the stops in between and beyond.

The UCLA men and women basketball teams are headed for the NCAA tournaments.

The male Bruins will battle it out with Michigan State tonight in Tampa, Fla. USC’s men made it into the tournament and played Virginia Commonwealth yesterday. However, the Trojan women were passed over by the NCAA and had to settle for the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

Other California teams headed for the NCAA’s big dance are San Diego State (which AP Photo/Gus Ruelas will play against Los Angeles Lakers forward Matt Barnes, left and forward Lamar Odom, right, double Northern Colorado team Orlando Magic guard Jason Richardson (23) in the second half of an NBA baskettoday), and UC Santa ball game, Monday, March 14, 2011, in Los Angeles. The Lakers 97-84.

Barbara (which will Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul- the gold in the men’s speedskating take on Florida today).

Coach Lorenzo Romar’s Wash- Jabbar and Shaquille O’Neal. championship in Inzell, Germany.

And the beat ends. ington Huskies won the Pac-10 Where are those dummies who Brad Pye Jr. can be contacted Tournament for the second consecu- wanted the Lakers to trade Bynum at switchreel@aol.com. tive year by upsetting Arizona, 77- earlier in the season?

Blake Griffin’s L.A. Clippers 75, Saturday night at the Staples teammate Chris Kaman says that, Center.

In case you missed it, Isaiah one on one, Griffin is a nightmare.

Thomas hit the game-winning shot Griffin had his 54th double-double in the Clippers 92-87 win over the at the buzzer.

For the record, a number of Charlotte Bobcats on March 7.

L.A. will play against New other Black head coaches besides Washington’s Romar will lead their York in The People’s Games, which, peoplesgames.com states, teams into the NCAA Tournament.

Included are Georgetown’s allows everyday folks to play basJohn Thompson III, Alabama ketball and represent their cities.

Cuts will take place March 27, State University’s Lewis Jackson, and the initial game will be held and several others.

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Singer Ne-Yo creates show for Cartoon Network

BY MESFIN FEKADU ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Ne-Yo has written many hit songs — and now he’s taking writing to a new level.

The Grammy winner told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that he closed a deal with Cartoon Network to produce his own show.

The cartoon is called “I Heart Tuesdays” and Ne-Yo said production starts soon.

He said the show is about “a 16-year-old girl that inherits the curse of her bloodline and she’s forced to save the world from the unknown evil every Tuesday for the rest of her life.”

A message seeking comment from the network was not immediately returned.

Ne-Yo said he created the show “for his sister.”

The platinum-selling singersongwriter also says he’s putting together a line of hats.

Ne-Yo stars in the new film “Battle: LA.” He had his first child in November. His latest CD, “Libra Scale,” was also released in November.

Nate Dogg, whose hooks boosted rap hits, dies

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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LOS ANGELES — Singer Nate Dogg, whose near monotone crooning anchored some of rap’s most seminal songs and helped define the sound of West coast hip-hop, has died at age 41.

Attorney Mark Geragos said Nate Dogg, whose real name was Nathaniel D. Hale, died Tuesday of complications from multiple strokes.

Nate Dogg wasn’t a rapper, but he was an integral figure in the genre: His deep voice wasn’t particularly melodic, but its tone — at times menacing, at times playful, yet always charming — provided just the right touch on hits including Warren G’s “Regulate,” 50 Cent’s “21 Questions,” Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” and countless others.

While Nate Dogg provided hooks for rappers from coast to coast, the Long Beach, Calif., native is best known for his contributions to the West Coast soundtrack provided by the

likes of Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tha Dogg Pound and more.

Nate Dogg was even part of a “supergroup” featuring Snoop Dogg and Warren G, called 213.

Nate Dogg, who had suffered strokes in recent years, also put out his own solo projects but was best known for his collaborations with others.

Last year, Warren G said Nate Dogg was in therapy but needed help.

“Everybody just gotta keep him in their prayers, cause he had two strokes and that’s real dangerous. And a lot of people don’t come back from that,” he said in an interview to HipHollywood. “Cause the game needs him, I need him.”

After word of his death spread, tributes poured in on Twitter.

“We lost a true legend n hip hop n rnb. One of my best friends n a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at poly high where we met,” Snoop Dogg tweeted Tuesday night.

AP Photo/Ann Johansson

In this Sept. 28, 2004, file photo, Nate Dogg poses for a photograph during arrivals to the BET Comedy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center in Pasadena, Calif. Dogg, whose near monotone crooning anchored some of rap’s most seminal songs and helped define the sound of West coast hip-hop, has died.

Attorney Mark Geragos said Nate Dogg, whose real name was Nathaniel D. Hale, died Tuesday, March 15, 2011, of complications from multiple strokes. He was 41.

‘Wire’ actress shocked by Baltimore drug charges ney had planned to file a writ of habeas corpus and motion for bail review Monday.

Pearson is one of 64 people charged last BALTIMORE — Actress Felicia Thursday in “Operation Usual Suspects,” a “Snoop” Pearson, who played a murderous joint state-federal prosecution of an alleged member of a Baltimore drug gang in the hit east Baltimore drug gang. Of the 38 people HBO series “The Wire,” is shocked to be fac- arrested by Thursday, 22, including Pearson, ing charges of conspiring to sell heroin, her are facing state charges. An indictment charges her with conspiring with two men to attorney said Friday.

“She’s a little bit dismayed at being in distribute heroin and aiding and abetting.

The federal indictment states that since position that she didn’t place herself in,” attor2008, members of the conspiracy bought ney Paul Gardner said.

Pearson, 30, who was ordered held with- heroin from New York and marijuana from out bail Friday, denies the charges. Her attor- California and sold the drugs on the streets of Baltimore neighborhoods.

As part of the conspiracy, the indictment alleges, members discussed how those who failed to perform required tasks were dealt with violently.

Gardner missed Pearson’s hearing Friday afternoon. But on a recording of the proceedings, Gardner said, the judge mentioned that the state has audio of Pearson putting in a large amount of money to fund the drug operation. She told him she doesn’t know what prosecutors are talking about because she doesn’t AP Photo/WBAL-TV 11 sell drugs, he said.

“I’m not sure where In this frame grab from video released by WBAL-TV 11, Drug Enforcement Administration agents escort Felicia “Snoop” this money is supposed to Pearson, who played a killer of the same name on the hit HBO come from,” Gardner said, series “The Wire,” as she was among dozens arrested in an early noting the tough economy.

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By Joy Childs Contributing Writer As readers know, newspaper readership is dwindling because of competition from online media.

Notwithstanding the shrinkage, the Black newspaper has played and continues to play a critical and relevant role in the community for at least one important reason: For their entire history, Black newspapers have addressed and responded to the needs of Blacks.

In light of Black Press Week, the L.A. Watts Times is giving readers a look at the evolution of the Black newspaper and its current state.

THE BIRTH OF THE BLACK NEWSPAPER In a 1982 article in Ebony Jr., Managing Editor Mary C. Lewis wrote about “The Birth of the Black American News,” writing: “Black newspapers were born to be giants; the times demanded it of them. So much needed to be said in those times: about the horrible facts of slavery and its shameful way of chaining human beings’ bodies, minds and lives; about the unequal way free Blacks received (or didn’t receive) education, housing, and jobs; about the brave struggle Blacks made their lives; and about the laws being made that would weigh Blacks’ futures.”

But there was no one to tell those stories — that is, until 1827, when Freedom’s Journal was founded by John B. Russworm, who was the first Black graduate of an American college, and writer Samuel Cornish. Their expressed purposes for the journal were: (1) to publicize from an anti-slavery point of view and (2) to print information of interest to Black folk.

Along with these purposes, another was to encourage migration.

Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender newspaper in 1905, according to the publication’s website, which boasts that by the start of World War I, it was the nation’s most influential Black weekly newspaper.

That, it turns out, is historically significant: During the war, the paper used its considerable influence in support of The Great Migration, its website says.

It continued: The Defender extolled the virtues of life up North, published job listings and featured train schedules — and was distributed by Pullman porters to assist in migrant relocation. These eơorts were celebrated, as May 15, 1917, was even designated Great Northern Drive day.

Defender ed day ay.. Th ay The he De D f nd fend fe nder derr added that iitt was largely due e to its support o off The Great Migraraa tion that Souththh ern readers reloelo located in droves ve es to Chicago, De De-D troit, Cleveland laand n and even N New e ew York.

At about tthe he he same time, m mi-i-igration from tthe he e South to the W West esst e Coast was be being bein ing in g encouraged byy b Jeơerson L. E Eddmonds, a newspawspa sp paa perman.

A publisher herr of he of two Black newspawspa ws paapers — the P Pasaasaaas adena Searchlight chl hlig igh ig h ht and the Liberator era rato to or — Edmonds iss ccredr d re dited with championing the idea that “opportunities for material advancement are greater in California” and that “the kindly feelings existing between the races in this city is nowhere surpassed.” (From The Liberator, April 11, 1913.)

The Liberator’s masthead read, “Devoted to the cause of good government and the advance of the

Afro-American.”

Even shortly after his death in 1914, the Black Press apparently had a significant role in his life, as a topic in his funeral program read “The Negro Press and Its Struggle.”

THEIR PURPOSE, THEN AND NOW While Black newspapers no longer tout pa the advantages of th migration or publicize mi m from an anti-slavery ffr ro point po p oi of view, a common mo m o thread that runs through Black newspath hro pers p pe ers is a rather simple one: on ne:: to print information to Black folk. of iinterest n Black publishers B could cou co uld tell you that they’re u filling fi llllin in ng this void by providing information that interin ng in inf f ests e es ts ttheir h communities.

Forr example, the AriFFo Informant, which has zona zo na IIn n been be en aaround since 1958, is now owned by the family no ow ow o Cloves o C of love lo v C. Campbell, Jr., whose whos wh ose os e ffamily acquired the Phoenix-based publication Phoe Ph oen oe nixxin 11971.

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Campbell contends that, Ca C am mp “dailies don’t want to — can’t “d dai ailililies ess d cover — co cove v r iissues of importance ve Blacks tto B l k … We have our point of view on news that you don’t get from The Arizona Republic or CNN or Fox …”

He adds, “The biggest value (of the paper) is the fact that you record the Black history of Arizona every week.”

And as a Black publisher, Campbell says that he can

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say what he wants to say and “give his writers more latitude than a daily paper to get the perspective of our readers …”

Michael House, the Chicago Defender’s publisher and president, echoes Campbell’s views, saying that what brings him joy in his role is that the Black press is serving the Black community’s needs by conveying information that’s “relevant and that provides them with information on which they can base decisions about business, health, crime — those that impact the quality of life — that they won’t get elsewhere.”

House, who was named to head the paper in 2008, came to the Defender with a vision to “create an integrated platform that includes Web, events marketing and traditional print advertising.” He acknowledges that while the paper’s core audience is still the hardcore reader who typically have not embraced the Internet, the paper does have a digital and online presence to serve the needs of its younger readers.

As he sees it, “We have the best of both worlds.”

A REVITALIZED BLACK NEWSPAPER ENVIRONMENT

Today, nearly 200 Black newspapers across the country comprise the National Newspaper Publishers Association (aka the Black Press of America).

Campbell says, “There’s a revitalized Black press under the leadership of Danny Bakewell, Sr. … Our heyday was in the ’80s and early ’90s, but corporations tried to kill us off … Bakewell has got us focused again on what’s important: unity and the news … Under him, we’ve gotten our swag back, as the young people say!”

Campbell feels that too often, “White publications focus on the bad …” and that “There’s enough coverage from the White press about the bad, it’s the inherent responsibility (of the Black press) to point out the good …”

Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., executive publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Sentinel and L.A. Watts Times, points to the longstanding and supportive role of the Black press in the struggle for civil rights when he

states that, “Whatever stature and appreciation and influence that I have in this country as well as in Los Angeles, I owe to the Black press.

They have always carried what I’ve done as well as what other” civil rights leaders have done. He added that the press has covered any and every other Black person of stature in the African-American community.

Bakewell noted that, “There’s simply no Black civil rights leader, there’s no business leader, there’s no religious leader, there’s no politician that has reached their station in life in the community without coming through the Black press.”

SURVIVING, GROWING On this many can agree: The history of the Black press is an ever-evolving one.

There have always been challenges — shrinking readership, competition from online media, and the drive for ad sales are just a few. But given its purposes — as a voice against slavery, as a call for a better life out West and up North, and as a place to tell African-Americans’ stories their way in their time — the Black press has largely survived and grown. What Cornish and Russwurm declared back in 1827 in the opening editorial of Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in the Western world, could serve as a front-page banner headline today: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.”

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U.S. teens, young adults ‘doing it’ less, study says

BY MIKE STOBBE AND CARLA K. JOHNSON AP MEDICAL WRITERS

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ATLANTA — Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they’re doing it less.

Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predeces-

sors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. Or perhaps emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence.

Or maybe they’re just too busy.

“It’s not even on my radar,” said 17-year-old Abbey King of Hinsdale, Ill., a competitive swimmer who starts her day at 5 a.m. and falls into bed at 10:30 p.m. after swimming,

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school, weight lifting, running, more swimming, homework and a volunteer gig working with service dogs for the disabled.

The study, released March 3, is based on interviews of about 5,300 young people, ages 15 to 24. It shows the proportion in that age group who said they’d never had oral, vaginal or anal sex rose in the past decade from 22 percent to about 28 percent.

The findings are sure to surprise some parents who see skin and lust in the media and worry that sex is rampant.

“Many parents and adults look at teens and sex and see nothing but a blur of bare midriffs. They think things are terrible and getting worse,” said Bill Albert, chief program officer for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

There are other surveys of sexual behavior, but this is considered the largest and most reliable. “It’s the gold standard,” Albert said.

Health scientist Anjani Chandra of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described the decline in sex as small but significant. She declined to speculate on the reasons.

It’s difficult to look for a trend earlier than 2002 because previous surveys did not gather as much detail about various types of sex, she added.

However, data over the years on vaginal intercourse among nevermarried adolescents shows a steady decline since 1988. That seems to be in sync with other CDC studies showing an overall drop in teen pregnancy.

That the trend began in the late 1980s seems to undermine the idea that abstinence-only sex education — heavily emphasized during the 2001-2009 presidency of George W. Bush — is the explanation, Albert said.

But it is possible those messages contributed, he added.

Comprehensive sex education — which includes abstinence but also teaches contraception and safer sex skills — didn’t go away during the Bush years, said Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, a national sex education organization at Rutgers University.

“We have been redoubling efforts and it has made an impact on these statistics,” Schroeder said.

Sam Dercon, a 17-year-old high school junior from Princeton, N.J., said he's learned to worry about the consequences of having sex.

“I do think that sexual education is taking away that idea that you are invincible,” said Dercon, who is also a contributing writer to http://www.sexetc.org, a project of Rutgers-based Answer.

“There’s always that fear of something going wrong with consequences that could screw up your future,” he said.

The leading influence on sexual activity among young adults is what parents teach and what peers are doing, experts said. And for whatever reason, smaller proportions are “doing it” than in the past.

AP Photo/Rogelio V. Sols

Dr. Freda Bush, a Ob/GYN specialist speaks about trying to curb the rising numbers of teen pregnancy before a joint hearing of the House Education and Public Health and Welfare Committees at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011.

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A billboard in downtown Baltimore, is shown Thursday, July 3, 1997, displays a message of abstinence towards teen sex. Researchers are divided about what works best in combating teen pregnancy. Congress is betting on abstinence education as part of new welfare reform law.

King, the busy Illinois teen, said she broke up with a boyfriend because “we didn’t have time to hang out as much as we wanted to. We were both swimmers and the majority of the time we saw each other was at practice.”

She is on the junior board for Robert Crown Center for Health Education, a nonprofit organization that teaches sex ed to students in the Chicago area.

She sees sex, alcohol, smoking and drugs as distractions to her goal of getting a college scholarship in swimming, she said.

“This generation is very focused on their future and not necessarily getting laid,” agreed Washington, D.C.-based sex educator Yvonne Fulbright.

But she also suggested that some young men aren’t making time for relationships.

“Some guys, at the end of the day, they’d rather channel their energy into music, playing their guitar or playing computer games,” Fulbright said. “That’s immediate gratification.

People forget it takes work to woo somebody and keep her happy.”

The study showed that 27 percent of young men and 29 percent of young women reported no sexual contact.

It looked at older adults, too. It was based on in-person interviews of about 13,500 men and women ages 15 to 44, conducted in the years 2006 through 2008. The results were compared with those of a similar survey done in 2002.

Participants were offered $40 for sitting for the interview, which usually lasted an hour and included answering very specific questions on a computer about oral sex, anal sex and other sexual activities.

Among other findings: • More than half of young people who had oral sex said they did that before vaginal intercourse; that pattern was much more common in Whites than Blacks or Hispanics.

• Among young adults, the proportion who had had vaginal or oral sex declined. But the proportion who See U.S. TEENS, page 10

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Planned Parenthood and the Advertisers love rape of American women that we love

BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON Lately, the sound of galloping hooves and rustling white sheets has risen in a deafening squall from the Capitol. Like their Klan ancestors, elite White males in Congress’ political lynch mob are once again savaging communities of color. The House’s vote to gut Planned Parenthood is a criminal act against poor and workingclass women and their families.

In many rural and urban neighborhoods, there are few affordable alternatives to the health care provided by Planned Parenthood and other reproductive rights service providers. These clinics are the frontline of preventive care in poor, working-class White communities and communities of color, providing pregnancy and STD testing, contraception, pap smears, abortions, and counseling for families with little to no health coverage.

Ever since its midterm elections’ sweep, the far right has ramped up its unrelenting drive to theocracy, using reproductive rights as its battleground. Drawing on the sabotage of ACORN, House Speaker John Boehner and a host of other GOP and so-called Blue Dog Democrat fascists are bound and determined to take down Planned Parenthood.

Extending Hyde Amendment restrictions on federal funding for abortions to private providers is central to their agenda.

Too spineless to criminalize women who seek abortions outright, Religious Right politicians instead choose to pillage health care provisions that keep women from falling deeper into poverty, illness and economic dependence. Hiding behind Orwellian claims of being pro-life, far-right politicians exercise draconian control over the bodies of poor women and their families in the name of God, guns and bloody fetuses. Why not just jail ’em all and let

Sikivu Hutchinson God sort ’em out?

It should be no revelation that when poor women are denied access to decent affordable reproductive care — including access to safe abortions — families and communities suffer.

While federal and state governments dismantle education and health care funding, the American military regime goes untouched.

Because Black and Latino communities are on the frontlines of imperialist military recruitment and educational inequity, few people of color would argue that government handouts to the military industrial complex should trump education funding. However, reproductive justice just doesn’t have the same political cache or urgency among progressives of color.

Consequently, conservative reactionary forces within the AfricanAmerican community have successfully allied with the Religious Right

in a revived anti-abortion billboard campaign targeting Black women. This propaganda has cropped up recently in Black and Latino Southern California neighborhoods. By implying that aborting Black babies makes them an “endangered species,” these billboards evoke plantation-era regimes of social control.

In essence, bad “genocidal” Black women don’t know their place, don’t know that they were put here to be God’s sacrificial vessels, and don’t seem to grasp that only evil, promiscuous, misguided Jezebels get knocked up.

They also haven’t gotten Sarah Palin’s “telegram” that women who are forced to have unwanted children will earn more, achieve higher education levels, and have a markedly better quality of life than women who aren’t.

These ignorant bad Black women destroy Black communities with their arrogant self-absorption and unchecked sexual license. After all, Black women who exercise control over their own bodies and destinies commit race betrayal and gender sacrilege.

How do we know these gospel truths? Powerful White, male legislators, Black preachers, and Christian soldiers such as Martin Luther King Jr.’s anti-abortion activist niece Alveda King tell us so.

They tell us that abortion is the greatest civil rights threat of our era.

Like their Islamic fundamentalist comrades in the Middle East, these pro-death marauders know all too well that female sexuality is a dangerous commodity, which only the jackboot of big government can control. Complicit with Black hyperreligiosity and Black nationalist delusions, silent progressives of color give them this license.

Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of “Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars” (Infidel Books).

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Continued from page 5 “She’s not particularly blessed with deep pockets at this point.”

“The Wire,” which ran from 2002 to 2008, was filmed in Baltimore and put a spotlight on the city's struggle with poverty and drug violence through the stories of the city’s police, drug organizations, schools, politicians and media.

Pearson’s character, which shares the nickname “Snoop,” knocks off several people for the fictitious Stanfield drug gang.

Pearson signed with Tillery Music Group and was working on her first album, “Baltimore’s Finest,”

according to Salaam Id-deen of Tillery Music Group, a spokesman and friend. The album is still scheduled for spring release. Pearson was also working on two films, “Shoot First” with director Charles S. Dutton, and the autobiographical “Who are you? The Story of Felicia Pearson” with director Len Daniels, he said.

This is not Pearson’s first brush with the law. She was convicted of second-degree murder in a slaying committed when she was 14. She served five years of an eight-year sentence and was released in 2000.

Pearson was arrested on a minor drug charge in 2008 when police went to her home to pick her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial. She was found not guilty.

Of the dozens of names in court documents Gardner showed her when they spoke in the lockup Friday, Pearson said she recognized only one, he said. He’s concerned that this is a case of “guilty by association.”

“Drugs are bad. We have to get them off the street,” Gardner said.

“But we have to be careful to get the right folks off the street.”

celebrities

BY CHERYL MCNEIL PEARSON SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS I don’t remember exactly when it happened, but it is pretty well documented: We are a society that is almost obsessed with “celebrities.” It doesn’t even matter if they are “crazy as a Betsy bug,” as my Grandma used to say (to this day I don’t know what a Betsy bug is). But, I do know we like to watch “crazy” unfold right under our noses. As of this writing, who has been in the headlines on all the news shows for two weeks now? Does the name Charlie Sheen sound familiar to anyone? (Did he not learn anything from Mel Gibson about how a rant can and will impact your earning potential?)

As you all know by now, this year’s Oscars were relatively lackluster (and, that’s not just my opinion; ratings were down 12 percent this year from last). Beyond the red carpet, celebrities made their mark during the broadcast’s commercials. I know this because I work for The Nielsen Co., the leading market research company in the world, and we track, measure, and analyze trends and consumer behavior around the globe. Even though I am always fascinated by our behavior as consumers in all areas, and the conditions and trends that influence that behavior, I always especially love that which has to do with advertising. Because this is where you — Joe and Josephine Average Consumer — can most effectively wield your power. It is, after all, you who marketers and advertising agencies are trying to reach. It is your choice to purchase a product — or not. And, our love of all things celebrity-driven inspired this year’s prominent trend of celebrity ads.

For advertising, Nielsen surveys a representative sample of TV viewers to obtain a “Recall Score,” which determines which brand of an ad that viewers were exposed to during a particular program can be recalled within 24 hours. According to Nielsen, not only did brand recall for this year’s Oscars jump 9 percent over last year, those celebrity ads stood out. The strongest celebrity ad in terms of brand recall was the Best Buy’s Buy Back Program ad hyping 4G, 5G and 6G phones featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Justin Bieber. (Did you know that the old hippie-looking guy at the end was Bieber in disguise? Don’t feel bad; neither did I!) According to the report, consumers also remembered the Venus razor spot featuring Jennifer Lopez singing, dancing and chasing her children on the beach. (What I remember is how amazing over-40 Jennifer looked! This ad inspired me to refresh my “If-Jennifer-can-do-it-so-can-I”

New Year’s resolution to hit the gym more regularly. The American Cancer Society commercial featuring Celine Dion singing “Happy Birthday” was the sixth recalled spot. In the spirit of full disclosure, the most recalled ad was an M&M’s commercial where a robber threatens to eat the animated M&M during a convenience store holdup (but aren’t those little M&M guys sort of “celebrities,” too?).

Viewers might have actually recognized the Best Buy ad and Stella Artois beer spot (where Adrien Brody’s serenading of a beer moves women to tears) from their debut during this year’s Super Bowl broadcast (which, as you already know, was the most-watched U.S. telecast of all time, according to Nielsen ratings).

Spokesperson Joan Rivers is responsible for GoDaddy.com being singled out as the company enjoying the largest increase in post-Super Bowl traffic of any other site — a 41 percent increase in U.S. visitors during the week following the game compared to the week before. That ad certainly raised awareness. I don’t know about you, but before Super Bowl XLV, I did not even know what GoDaddy was, which is exactly what advertisers hope for when shelling out the millions to produce and broadcast these commercials: awareness. Volkswagen and travel site HomeAway.com also saw double-digit gains (27 percent) in online traffic during the week following the game. Mercedes-Benz saw an increase of 9 percent in online visitors.

Even FOX, which broadcast the Super Bowl, benefited with an 11 percent increase in traffic to its site following the game compared to the week before. So, just when you think your guilty pleasure of tracking celebrities is no big deal … think again. For advertisers counting on celebrity spokespersons to peddle their products, it’s everything. You’re everything because you buy those products. So, more power to you.

Black Facts March 17, 1999 Maurice Ashley, an immigrant from Jamaica, was 14 and living in Brooklyn, N.Y., when he fell in love with the game of chess after reading a book about Paul Morphy, a 19thcentury Louisianian who was America's first great chess player. As a student at Brooklyn Technical High School, he joined the Black Bear School of Chess. From 1991 to 1997, Ashley was the chess director of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, at which he led teams to three national championships. On March 17, 1999, he became the latest of the world’s 470 grandmasters, and the first Black person to reach the game’s highest rank as a result of his play in a tournament sponsored by the Manhattan Chess Club.

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Trustee Sale # CA0928982-1 Loan# 100230861 Order # 080119540 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 04/04/2006. 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 03/24/2011 at 01:00PM, MTC FINANCIAL INC., dba TRUSTEE CORPS as the duly appointed Substituted Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 04/12/2006 as Document No. 06-0799494 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, CALIFORNIA, executed by, ARTURO BRAVO HUERTA,A MARRIED MAN, as Trustor, AMERICAN MORTGAGE NETWORK, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a 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).

AT: At the front entrance of the Pomona Superior Courts Building, 350 West Mission Blvd, Pomona CA The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State describing the land therein: APN # 5172-006-039 AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 138 SOUTH CLARENCE STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90033 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Trustee's Sale is: $377,927.52 (estimated amount). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. 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. The Beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2924f: The Beneficiary or Beneficiary's agent has indicated that the requirements of California Civil Code Section 2924f have been met. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2923.52: 1. Pursuant to California Civil Code 2923.54 the undersigned, on behalf of the beneficiary, loan servicer or authorized agent, declares as follows: X Servicer does hereby state that Servicer has obtained from the commissioner a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to Section 2923.53 that is current and valid on the date of the notice of sale is filed. 2. Timeframe for giving notice of sale specified in subdivision (a) Section 2923.52 Does X Does not apply pursuant to section 2923.52 or 2923.55 Dated: 03/03/2011 MTC FINANCIAL INC., DBA TRUSTEE CORPS, as Successor Trustee By: CLARISA GASTELUM, TRUSTEE SALES OFFICER TRUSTEE CORPS 17100 Gillette Ave, Irvine, CA 92614 FOR SALE INFORMATION CONTACT: (714)786-5351, (949) 252-8300 FOR REINSTATEMENT / PAY OFF REQUESTS CONTACT: (949) 252-8300 RPRequests@trusteecorps.com Ad #10397 2011-03-03 2011-03-10 2011-03-17 Trustee Sale No. CA09002712-10-1 . Title Order No. 4754800 Loan No. 1506882990 APN 6147-023-014 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED January 20, 1999. 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 March 28, 2011, at 01:00 PM, At the front entrance of the Pomona Superior Courts Building,350 West Mission Blvd, Pomona CA, MTC FINANCIAL Inc., dba Trustee Corps, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded on February 8, 1999, as Instrument No. 99 0194822 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, CA , executed by: CATHERINE E. TARPLEY, A WIDOW, as Trustor, in favor of UNION CAPITAL FUNDING, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1832 EAST 123RD STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90059 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest theron, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee`s Sale is estimated to be $87,268.80 (Estimated), provided, however, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale.

Beneficiary`s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier`s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee`s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. 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. DATE: March 3, 2011 MTC FINANCIAL INC dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA09002712-10-1 . 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 949-252-8300 Clarisa Gastelum, Authorized Signature SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.NoticeSolutions.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-786-5351 TRUSTEE CORPS IS A DEBT COLLECTOR. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Ad #10398 2011-03-03 2011-03-10 2011-03-17 Trustee Sale # CA0955220-3 Loan# 167597315 Order # 955216 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A

Thursday, March 17, 2011 DEED OF TRUST DATED 05/03/2007. 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 04/04/2011 at 01:00PM, MTC FINANCIAL INC., dba TRUSTEE CORPS as the duly appointed Substituted Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 05/18/2007 as Document No. 20071214020 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, CALIFORNIA, executed by, HARLEY TOLENTINO, A SINGLE MAN, as Trustor, COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB., as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a 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).

AT: At the front entrance of the Pomona Superior Courts Building, 350 West Mission Blvd, Pomona CA The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State describing the land therein: APN # 6052-004-036 AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 9614-9614 1/2 S. MAIN STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90003 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Trustee's Sale is: $535,457.82 (estimated amount). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. 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. The Beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2924f: The Beneficiary or Beneficiary's agent has indicated that the requirements of California Civil Code Section 2924f have been met. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2923.52: 1.

Pursuant to California Civil Code 2923.54 the undersigned, on behalf of the beneficiary, loan servicer or authorized agent, declares as follows: X Servicer does hereby state that Servicer has obtained from the commissioner a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to Section 2923.53 that is current and valid on the date of the notice of sale is filed. 2. Timeframe for giving notice of sale specified in subdivision (a) Section 2923.52 Does X Does not apply pursuant to section 2923.52 or 2923.55 Dated: 03/03/2011 MTC FINANCIAL INC., DBA TRUSTEE CORPS, as Successor Trustee By: CLARISA GASTELUM, TRUSTEE SALES OFFICER TRUSTEE CORPS 17100 Gillette Ave, Irvine, CA 92614 FOR SALE INFORMATION CONTACT: (714)786-5351, (949) 252-8300 FOR REINSTATEMENT / PAY OFF REQUESTS CONTACT: (949) 252-8300 RPRequests@trusteecorps.com Ad #10537 2011-03-03 2011-03-10 2011-03-17 Trustee Sale # CA0953733-1 Loan# 148224741 Order # 950145 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 01/23/2007. 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 04/19/2011 at 01:00PM, MTC FINANCIAL INC., dba TRUSTEE CORPS as the duly appointed Substituted Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 01/31/2007 as Document No. 20070203358 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, CALIFORNIA, executed by, LISA R. JACKSON, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, as Trustor, HMS CAPITAL, INC., as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a 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).

AT: At the front entrance of the Pomona Superior Courts Building, 350 West Mission Blvd, Pomona CA The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State describing the land therein: APN # 6017-010-002 AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1908 WEST 74TH STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90047 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Trustee's Sale is: $431,595.85 (estimated amount). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. 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. The Beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2924f: The Beneficiary or Beneficiary's agent has indicated that the requirements of California Civil Code Section 2924f have been met. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2923.52: 1.

Pursuant to California Civil Code 2923.54 the undersigned, on behalf of the beneficiary, loan servicer or authorized agent, declares as follows: X Servicer does hereby state that Servicer has obtained from the commissioner a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to Section 2923.53 that is current and valid on the date of the notice of sale is filed. 2. Timeframe for giving notice of sale specified in subdivision (a) Section 2923.52 Does X Does not apply pursuant to section 2923.52 or 2923.55 Dated: 03/03/2011 MTC FINANCIAL INC., DBA TRUSTEE CORPS, as Successor Trustee By: CLARISA GASTELUM, TRUSTEE SALES OFFICER TRUSTEE CORPS 17100 Gillette Ave, Irvine, CA 92614 FOR SALE INFORMATION CONTACT: (714)786-5351, (949) 252-8300 FOR REINSTATEMENT / PAY OFF REQUESTS CONTACT: (949)

252-8300 RPRequests@trusteecorps.com Ad #10538 2011-03-03 2011-03-10 2011-03-17 Trustee Sale # CA0955392-2 Loan# 162791680 Order # 955631 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 06/07/2007. 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 05/16/2011 at 01:00PM, MTC FINANCIAL INC., dba TRUSTEE CORPS as the duly appointed Substituted Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 06/15/2007 as Document No. 20071449081 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, CALIFORNIA, executed by, HENRY HERNANDEZ, JR. AND ANA MARIA HERNANDEZ, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor, SBMC MORTGAGE, as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a 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). AT: At the front entrance of the Pomona Superior Courts Building, 350 West Mission Blvd, Pomona CA The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State describing the land therein: APN # 6060-023-014 AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1054 WEST 102ND STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90044 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Trustee's Sale is: $341,964.24 (estimated amount). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. 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.

The Beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell.

The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2924f: The Beneficiary or Beneficiary's agent has indicated that the requirements of California Civil Code Section 2924f have been met. Compliance with California Civil Code Section 2923.52: 1. Pursuant to California Civil Code 2923.54 the undersigned, on behalf of the beneficiary, loan servicer or authorized agent, declares as follows: X Servicer does hereby state that Servicer has obtained from the commissioner a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to Section 2923.53 that is current and valid on the date of the notice of sale is filed. 2. Timeframe for giving notice of sale specified in subdivision (a) Section 2923.52 Does X Does not apply pursuant to section 2923.52 or 2923.55 Dated: 03/17/2011 MTC FINANCIAL INC., DBA TRUSTEE CORPS, as Successor Trustee By: CLARISA GASTELUM, TRUSTEE SALES OFFICER TRUSTEE CORPS 17100 Gillette Ave, Irvine, CA 92614 FOR SALE INFORMATION CONTACT: (714)786-5351, (949) 252-8300 FOR REINSTATEMENT / PAY OFF REQUESTS CONTACT: (949) 252-8300 RPRequests@trusteecorps.com Ad #10832 2011-03-17 2011-03-24 2011-03-31

GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ# 7547) The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) invites qualified engineering firms to develop and prepare a vested tentative Tract Map for the entire project with a final map for Phase I for the proposed HACLA-owned Jordan Downs Redevelopment Project based upon the Jordan Downs Community-Based Master Plan in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act and applicable City of Los Angeles requirements. Copies of the RFQ may be obtained beginning March 14, 2011 online at http://www.hacla.org/ps. Proposals will be accepted until 2:00 P.M., April 8, 2011.

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shielded you from them, etc., he said.

Q. How does radiation harm?

A. In the short term, radiation damages rapidly dividing cells — hair, the stomach lining, bone marrow.

That can cause nausea, vomiting, fatigue, loss of infection-fighting blood cells and clotting problems.

Children are most at risk because they have so many rapidly dividing cells.

One type of radiation, radioactive iodine, is taken up by the thyroid gland and can lead to thyroid cancer if pills are not taken right away to prevent this uptake. Long term, radiation can damage DNA and raise the risk of many types of cancer years down the road.

Q. How much radiation is unsafe?

A. Most people get around threetenths of a rem (a measurement unit of dose) each year from radiation in the environment, mostly from radon gas in the soil. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says doses of less than 10 rems over a long time period are not a health concern.

Q. When does it threaten health?

A. Symptoms of radiation sick-

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year. That would include schools that have not met the requirements for just one year.

“Everyone knew this day was coming,” Education Department spokesman Justin Hamilton said.

“Now that it is upon us, we need to have an open, honest debate about the consequences of a law that could label four out of five schools as failing.”

Education experts interviewed by The Associated Press said it was reasonable to expect some increase as the 2014 proficiency deadline nears, but that it's misleading for the administration to say the law would label all these schools as “failing.” They also question the magnitude of the projected jump, saying it seems too large.

“That’s a huge difference,” said Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Over the history of NCLB, that percentage has not moved so much. So why would it suddenly more than double?”

Officials say part of the increase is driven by states that waited to raise their student proficiency levels until the final years before 2014. Loveless said there is merit to that claim, but he questioned why the Department of Education doesn’t back up its assertion by releasing a spreadsheet showing, state by state, how often and to what degree that has occurred.

“Even then, they are making

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assumptions about how the kids are going to score this year and they haven’t taken the test,” he said.

Patrick McGuinn, an education professor at Drew University, said it is reasonable to project an increase in schools not making adequate yearly progress, but that it would be difficult to project by how much.

He noted that schools have a safe harbor provision that allows them to be held out of the “needs improvement” category if they are showing progress, and they also could ask for waivers.

Hamilton said that provision was taken into consideration in the department’s calculation.

Granting the waivers, however, would take pressure off Congress to do a full reauthorization this year.

McGuinn suspects there are political purposes behind the administration's dire tone.

“They’re really trying to highlight this and use it as a prod for Congress to get moving,” McGuinn said.

Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, who served under President George W. Bush when the federal law was implemented, said she estimated half of schools would fail to meet federal standards this year, and she suggested all the conjecturing was demoralizing to educators.

“It’s obviously a political tactic,” she said.

ness — nausea, vomiting and hair loss — can occur at exposures of 50 to 100 rems, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Death within two months becomes a possible risk at around 400 rems; within two weeks at 1,000 rems, the EPA says.

Q. What about medical radiation?

A. A chest X-ray delivers about one-tenth of a rem of radiation; a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis is 1.4 rems. A person’s dose accumulates over time, which is why medical experts say we should avoid unnecessary tests that involve radiation.

Q. What’s the antidote once there is radioactive fallout?

A. Potassium iodide pills can block uptake of radioactive iodine and protect the thyroid gland, but they must be used quickly. “Ideally, you’d give it before they’re exposed or at the time” of exposure, Mettler said.

“After 12 hours, it’s hardly useful” unless exposure is continuing.

Q. If fallout is occurring, should people flee or stay?

A. Each situation is different and can change rapidly. Japanese officials urged tens of thousands of people to evacuate from a 12-mile zone, but now have told many more in a broader region, about 20 miles from the troubled plant, to seal themselves indoors.

Q. Is this like Chernobyl?

A. No. That Russian plant had no containment vessel around its reactor, so when an explosion occurred, large chunks of radioactive fuel from the core spewed out. That fuel contained cesium, a longer-lasting and more hazardous radioactive material than the shorter-lived radioactive iodine that has mostly been released in Japan. Still, there have been reports of some cesium release in Japan, prompting worries that a meltdown may be occurring.

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had anal sex held steady, at about 21 percent.

• For all ages in the study, women were more than twice as likely to have had sex with a samegender partner than men were. That was true despite the fact that about the same proportion of male and female survey respondents described themselves as homosexual.

The explanation for that finding seems to be that women are much more willing to describe themselves as bisexual, or to at least See U.S. TEENS, page 11

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

NOTICE INVITING BIDS

Kiewit Power Constructors Co. (Kiewit) is bidding the following project as a prime contractor and is seeking proposals from MBE, WBE, and OBE subcontractors, material contractors and material and/or equipment suppliers.

FOR INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS AT ANAHEIM STREET AND SANTA FE AVENUE LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA

Project: Haynes Generating Station Units 5 & 6 Repowering Project Owner: City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Notice of Interest Due Date: April 1st, 2011 Kiewit is seeking proposals for, but not limited to, the following portions of work: Field Erected Tanks.

Interested subcontractors and material contractors will be required to provide acceptable insurance and provide bonding in the full amount of the subcontract or material contract. Subcontractors performing onsite work must possess a valid California Contractors’ License and all MBE/WBE firms must have a current and valid certification.

Kiewit intends to conduct itself in good faith with all MBE, WBE, and OBE firms regarding participation on this project. If you are interested in bidding the work and would like to submit an Notice of Interest, or for further information, questions regarding the work, requirements of the proposal, licensing, required insurance, assistance in obtaining bonding, or to discuss your firm’s specialty or scope, please contact Alexi Poulos, at (913) 928-7319, before close of business April 1st, 2011.

AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S2350 AND DRAWINGS LISTED ON DRAWING NO. HD 10-02081-1-G-TT-MS-S-001 All bids must be submitted before 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 19th, 2011.

Any Bids received at or after 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 will be deemed non-responsive and will not be opened. Bids will be publicly opened in the 6th Floor Board Room of the Harbor Department Administration Building, 925 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, California, 90802 at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 19th, 2011. Bids shall be sealed in an envelope and the outside of the envelope should clearly state the specification number, title of the project and the bid opening date. Bids received before Tuesday, April 19th, 2011shall be sent to the 4th Floor, Plans and Specifications office, where the bid envelope will be date stamped. If bids are hand-carried or received the day of bid opening, prior to 10:00 a.m., the bids will be clocked in at the Lobby desk of the Harbor Department Administration Building and taken to the 6th Floor Board Room by the Port Contract Administrator. It is anticipated that the Board of Harbor Commissioners will consider a conditional award on Monday, May 2, 2011 with Staff given the authority to execute a Contract provided the lowest responsive bidder submits the required completed insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) days after conditional award by the Board.

Copies of said specifications and drawings in CD format may be obtained, at no cost, in the Plans and Specifications office, 4th floor, Harbor Department Administration Building beginning Thursday, March 17, 2011 during the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. To arrange to receive a CD by courier at the expense of the Bidder call the office at (562) 590-4146. The printing of hard copies from the CD will be the responsibility of the Bidder.

For information on this project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at http://www.polb.com/economics/contractors/out_for_bid.asp.

Copies of all Port insurance forms are available at: http://www.polb.com/economics/contractors/forms_permits/insurance.asp.

The Engineering Staff of the Harbor Department will conduct a pre-bid meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, March 28, 2011 in the Conference Room, 5th floor, of the Harbor Department Administration Building. Attendance is not mandatory, but highly recommended.

This project is subject to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program. The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal for this project is twenty-five percent (25%), of which a minimum of five percent (5%) must be allocated to VSBEs. POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. Award of the Contract will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting an SBE-2C Commitment Plan demonstrating the bidder’s intent to meet the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the combined goal, the Bidder shall demonstrate that it made an adequate good faith effort to do so, as specified herein (S.P. 37).

The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 499-3472 or sbeprogram@polb.com. You may also view the Port’s SBE program requirements at www.polb.com/sbe.

This project consists of furnishing all labor, materials, power, equipment, tools, transportation and supervision necessary to demolish and haul away existing asphalt and road base, construct Portland Cement Concrete pavement intersection and approaches, furnish and install new traffic signal loops, install disabled access ramp and related items, remove and construct sidewalks, signing and striping, and provide traffic control.

Bidders shall, at the time of submitting their bids, in compliance with Section 7028.15 of the California Business and Professions Code, be licensed by the State Contractor’s License Board as a General Engineering Contractor with a "Class A" license.

Whenever any material, product, thing, or service identified in the specifications is described by one or more brand or trade names and is followed by the words “or equal”, the apparent low bidder shall submit data substantiating a request for the substitution of equivalent item(s) within forty-eight (48) hours following bid opening.

All bids shall be submitted upon forms provided by the City accompanied by a satisfactory "Bidder’s Bond" or other acceptable security deposit in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of such bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if conditionally awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) days thereafter, execute and deliver such Contract to the office of the Chief Harbor Engineer along with all required insurance forms and a “Payment Bond” for not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract price, and a “Performance Bond” for not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract price. The “Bidder’s Bond” shall be submitted on forms provided by the City, signed by the bidder and the surety and both signatures shall be notarized.

The work shall be completed within one-hundred-and-fifty (150) calendar days from a date specified in a written "Notice to Proceed" issued by the City.

Failure of the Contractor to complete the work within the specified time frame will result in liquidated damages in the amount of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) per calendar day of delay in completed work. Liquidated damages are cumulative and can run concurrently.

The Board of Harbor Commissioners, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time prior to the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject all bids and to return all deposits accompanying said bids. If the lowest responsive bidder fails to submit the required insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) days after conditional award, the Board reserves the right to rescind the conditional award and conditionally award the Contract to the next lowest responsive bidder. All bids and bid bonds shall be guaranteed for a period of ninety (90) days following the bid opening or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first. The Board also reserves the right at any time to terminate the Contract for its convenience.

Dated at Long Beach, California, this 13th day of December , 2010.

Richard D. Steinke Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California

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Continued from page 10 acknowledge they find others of their gender attractive.

That may have a lot to do with television shows and other pop culture, which at times seems to celebrate woman-on-woman sexual contact, but not the same kind of behavior among men, said Michael Reece, director of Indiana University’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion.

“My guess is women are just more likely to feel that’s OK,” he added.

There is an assumption that sex between females is more common among more educated women, perhaps experimenting with their sexuality during their college years. But the CDC study found that such behavior was more common among less educated women, Chandra said.

Mike Stobbe reported from Atlanta and Carla K. Johnson reported from Chicago.

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