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RIES ~ Where are you going in such a hurry? What you want you already have. Stop looking around yourself trying to find out what’s missing. Nothing is missing. The best kind of discovery this week is self-discovery.

AURUS ~ Knowing and accepting your love nature is extremely important. Don’t try to claim that it is as society says it should be. Acknowledge the fact that your love and friendship are often inseparable. You’d like to be in an adventure with your lover just as you would a partner or a friend. Create this situation by holding the truth of your nature in consciousness.

EMINI ~ Dive into it! Don’t be intimated by the unknown. Your adventurous spirit can take you to a new place of celebration this week. If you can, bring someone along who can celebrate in the same manner with you. Harmony and peace is the motto that you should chant when you accomplish what you want to do!

ANCER ~ This week would be good for getting your house in order so you can spend the extra time outdoors and enjoy the company of others. With an orderly habitat waiting for you, you’ll have a head start for the task you have to accomplish.

EO ~ Don’t spread yourself too thin.

But if you’ll need to move around in many different circles this week, your spirit should be high and your vibes are strong for meeting new people. You will be receiving a piece or two of great news.

Expect the unexpected. You’ll be pleasantly surprised!

IRGO ~ Strong vibrations make for a series of dramatic interactions with

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SEPT. 1 - 7 others this week. Practice your art with your heart, and let your energy carry you upwards to your best, highest self. Keep emotions calm.

IBRA ~ You’ll be energizing others this week as you speak what’s on your mind regarding spiritual matters and masters. The quality of your thoughts is very pure; write yourself a love letter.

CORPIO ~ Surprises are in order this week, and you can roll with everything that comes at you unexpectedly. Healing can happen in a relationship if you just show up. That’s power! Use it for the good of others.

AGITTARIUS ~ You want a comrade who doesn’t place inordinate expectations or demands on you and who is creative, intelligent, a good conversationalist and highly spiritual. Perhaps you should be out looking this week with eyes wide open!

APRICORN ~ Work calls and you are not completely happy with current divisions of labor. Do your part as a member of the team and you’ll be glad that you did. Others will notice that you are a committed team player.

QUARIUS ~ Business looks good this week as you discover a new way of increasing exposure to your product. Let hope and optimism lead you into new beginnings and fresh starts. All vibes are good. Go! ISCES ~ You seem preoccupied this week and it’s because your mind is filled with a vision of love for the entire planet. Use your gifts to assist others in seeing the world as you do, in glorious color. Check the details on paperwork that you have to do, dreamer.

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King Memorial Marches Cancelled in D.C. SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE WASHINGTON INFORMER WASHINGTON — Hurricane Irene has caused the cancellations of two major marches that were to take place Sat., Aug. 27 in D.C. Just prior to calling a state of emergency for the city, Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s office announced cancellation of both the D.C. statehood rally and a march for jobs that was to be led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network.

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A dream deferred: Many who traveled to D.C. for the King Memorial dedication were sent packing by Hurricane Irene.

Harry Johnson, president of the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation, announced that because of the hurricane, the dedication of the King Memorial would be postponed until September or October.

The hurricane was expected to bring severe storms to the D.C. area.

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King fraternity holds own dedication of memorial

BY SUZANNE GAMBOA ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Martin Luther King III speaks during a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church honoring the 25th federal observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this year.

One on One with Martin Luther King III SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE WASHINGTON INFORMER On the eve of what was supposed to be the landmark dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, The Washington Informer spoke with the preeminent civil rights leader’s son, Martin Luther King III. He shared his thoughts about his father, the monument and the momentous occasion.

The dedication ceremony was postponed due to Hurricane Irene.

How does it feel to have a memorial on the National Mall honoring your father?

I am gratified and overjoyed by the coming unveiling of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in the nation’s capital. More importantly, it is a great gift to America.

Of course, it’s an historic accomplishment for an African American leader to be honored on the National Mall, adjacent to the Lincoln, Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt memorials. But it is even more gratifying that, for the first time, a nonviolent leader, a man of peace, will now be represented alongside the greatest presidents of American history. It will provide a symbolic affirmation that nonviolent leadership can make history and transform America. This memorial will have powerful symbolic resonance, and it will certainly increase requests for information from The King Center

in Atlanta, which remains the primary resource for information and education about the life, work and teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Does the design of the memorial and the inscriptions that speak of love, peace, justice and freedom give an accurate representation of your father and his legacy?

Yes. I like the design, particularly the imagery associated with my father’s challenge to “hew a stone of hope out of the mountain of despair.” I think the other quotations in the memorial are excellent and very relevant to our times.

‘Love, peace and justice’ are cornerstones of my father’s teachings and they never go out of style.

What can young people gain from visiting the King monument at the National Mall?

They can gain inspiration and hope and a sense of the unique power of nonviolence as a transformative historical force, and perhaps they can also gain an understanding of the redemptive power of nonviolence as the hope of humanity for a more just and peaceful world. They can learn something as well from the quotations. My hope is that they will also make a point of visiting or contacting The King Center in Atlanta (www.thekingcenter.org), which is the official institution charged with educating people of all races, religions and nations about my father’s teachings.

WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a quarter of a century of work to get a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers celebrated the results of their perseverance Friday even as Hurricane Irene churned up the East Coast.

Irene forced the postponement of a grand dedication ceremony planned for Sunday. But the fraternity brothers, clad in either black suits or gold blazers, went ahead with their own preplanned dedication on a smaller stage at the same site.

Large TV screens beamed the speeches, prayers and entertainment to an audience of hundreds — and to thousands of empty chairs. Crews worked nearby dismantling scaffolding and other equipment.

Martin Luther King III officially accepted the memorial to his father, who was gunned down in 1968.

Also on hand were King Jr.’s youngest daughter, Bernice, and his sister, Christine King Farris.

King was a member of the fraternity, along with many prominent African-Americans. Alpha Phi Alpha members worked to get the memorial approved and to raise money for the $120 million monument.

“God has been good to us, in spite of this city experiencing ... an earthquake and then hearing word that a Category 4 hurricane was coming,” said Harry Johnson, a former Alpha Phi Alpha president and president of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation. “We have built something that has never been built before.”

The monument to King sits between memorials to Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln — a spot where the Rev. Al Sharpton said King belongs.

AP Photo/Cliff Owen

The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., addresses an impromptu gathering at her father’s memorial in Washington last Friday. The memorial’s dedication was postponed due to Hurricane Irene’s impending arrival.

“Welcome to the neighborhood, Martin ... Get ready Mr. Lincoln, there’s a new neighbor ... Guess who’s coming to dinner!” Sharpton said.

Led by a corps bearing black and gold flags, the fraternity brothers marched quietly to the memorial.

Some wore gold ties, and brown fedoras favored by King.

John Carter, 62, of Atlanta, who spent four years in charge of the memorial project as a volunteer during the 1980s, got his first look at the monument Friday.

“It’s chilling,” he said.

Alpha Phi Alpha brothers ended the event by serenading King’s granite likeness with the fraternity’s hymn.

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Hunt for Gadhafi: Saddam all over again?

Force pounced, backed by the 101st Airborne Division. The combined forces ultimately killed the sons in a protracted firefight in northern Iraq.

A Libyan businessman reportedly has offered a $2 million reward for Gadhafi.

But the key to capturing Saddam turned out to be gumshoe detective work mainly by U.S. special operations forces, with information gathered largely from captured suspects.

Through the interrogations, the U.S. was able to map the tribal network protecting the deposed Iraqi leader.

That effort was backed by nearly 200,000 conventional troops who helped secure a country stretching over nearly 170,000 square miles.

By KIMBERLY DOZIER AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is on the run, his capital all but fallen to rebels, his hometown under siege.

Now comes another difficult task for the rebels and the civilian government they are trying to install: capturing Gadhafi before the fugitive dictator is able to mount a revenge assault from hiding or inspire an insurgency that could drag on for years.

Gadhafi’s wife and three of his children fled Libya to neighboring Algeria on Monday. But the Obama administration said it has no indication Gadhafi has left the country.

As U.S. forces learned in the massive, months-long manhunt for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, intelligence will be key to finding him.

Thanks to NATO and its small cadre of military advisers on the ground in Libya, the rebels will be able to draw on electronic clues known as signals intelligence, ranging from images from drones, spy planes and satellites to stolen transmissions from radio and phones — an advantage U.S. troops did not have in 2003 in Iraq when the use of such equipment was in its infancy, and the intelligence not well-shared with those on the ground.

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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Greed also helps. Multimilliondollar rewards led to the capture or killing of many of what the military calls “high value targets” in Iraq,

including Saddam’s sons Odai and Qusai in 2003. A tipster in search of a reward revealed their whereabouts to the CIA, and the Army’s Delta

The Libyan rebels are being aided by small CIA teams, including former U.S. special operators on contract to the intelligence agency, as well as a small number of advisers from British and French special operations teams, according to three former U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.

But that’s far smaller than the U.S. effort to find Saddam. And though Gadhafi’s army is dissolving in the face of the NATO-backed onslaught, the rebels have roughly 680,000 square miles to cover, an area several times greater than Iraq.

CIA officers on the ground will

See GADHAFI, page 7

Libyan leader’s departure raises new concerns SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE GLOBAL INFORMATION NETWORK As rebel fighters tightened their grip on Tripoli, many African leaders were largely silent over the prospect of the demise of Libya’s Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

South African broadcaster SABC reported that Angola offered him asylum but it was unclear how he would get out of Tripoli with U.S. officials declining to rule out targeting Gaddafi in a drone attack.

Ugandan opposition leader Nandala Mafabi said Col. Gaddafi’s likely overthrow would be inspirational. “It shows that people can rise against dictatorship and succeed if there is discontent because of a leader overstaying in power or suppressing citizens.”

President Yoweri Museveni, however, gave qualified support to his one-time backer. “I have had a lot of problems with Gaddafi but when it comes to foreigners interfering in the affairs of Africa without the permission of the African Union, I cannot support it. The position of Africa is ‘leave Libya to the Libyans to solve’.”

Friends of Gaddafi, now anxiously observing his defeat, include Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe, Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso, South Africa and Mali. As of this week, African recognition of the Libyan rebels was only four countries: Senegal, Gambia, Egypt and Tunisia.

Concerns are growing as to who or what will replace the ousted African “King of Kings” as Gaddafi once called himself.

In a piece titled “No one doubts that Gaddafi has lost. The question is: who has won?” columnist Patrick Cockburn observed: “In Iraq, the Americans dissolved the Iraqi army and excluded former members of the Baath party from jobs and power…

Most Iraqis were glad to see the end of Saddam Hussein, but the struggle to replace him almost destroyed the country.

“In Tripoli, as in most oil states, the government provides most jobs and many Libyans did well under the old regime. How will they now pay for being on the losing side? Cockburn warned: “Long-term opponents of the regime will find it difficult to share the spoils of victory with those who turned their coats at the last minute.”

AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini

People demonstrate against Moammar Gadhafi at the Green Square in Tripoli, Libya, late Monday.

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College student anxiety, depression levels show sharp rise More students are working, and more are working longer hours

BY CHRIS LEVISTER SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE BLACKVOICENEWS.COM

MSNBC finally gets it right It’s Al Sharpton in the evenings; with Morning Joe in the mornings Though some label him controversial, over the years Rev. Al Sharpton has moved skillfully into the mainstream of public discourse: on radio, public debates, rallies, the pulpit — and now as the host of his own show on MSNBC. According to news reports from the cable news network, Rev. Sharpton now has an hour-long program on the MSNBC cable news network, airing five days a week at 6 p.m. EDT. That choice has raised eyebrows for a number of reasons … and like vintage Sharpton, it is controversial.

But Rev. Sharpton is certainly not the first controversial individual to get his own TV show. New York’s former governor came out of the shadows from an embarrassing ordeal (which caused him to relinquish the governorship) to be a prime time commentator on CNN. And no eyebrows seemed to have been raised.

However, the NAACP is applauding the Rev. Al Sharpton for being named as the host of MSNBC’s new show “Politics Nation.” In a statement from the president of the NAACP, Benjamin Jealous congratulated Sharpton and characterized the move as “a positive step toward addressing the dearth of African American voices in primetime news.”

Furthermore, Rev. Sharpton’s

appointment came on the heels of the NAACP issuing a statement in June denouncing the lack of African American journalists in prime-time news, both on cable and national network news shows.

Vic Bulluck, executive director of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP stated: “The addition of Al Sharpton to the prime-time lineup adds a much-needed, unique perspective and is an important step toward diversity in news programming.”

However, some say that the NAACP declined to address the fact that Rev. Sharpton is a well- known civil rights activist and not a journalist. They also declined to address speculation in various media circles that his appointment appears to be a reward for supporting the merger between NBC and cable giant Comcast, which was vehemently opposed by many of his colleagues – many in the Black community – due to NBC’s historically poor record in including African Americans in front of and behind the camera.

In recent years, Rev. Sharpton has been making positive strides in bridging the gap between diverse factions within and outside of the Black community. In addition, he seems to have access to the Obama White House and indeed, to President Obama — and that in itself is quite an accomplishment.

Once upon a time University of California students spent four years at school, and they were charged little or nothing for their education.

They would attend class, participate in activities on campus, hang out with friends, go to parties and spend lots of time studying. Many lived in dorms or at home with their families — and most did not work. If they did, it was part-time and often on campus.

Nowadays more students are working, and more are working longer hours says longtime UC Riverside Professor of Psychology Dr. Carolyn B. Murray.

“Years ago students worked 10 hours a week to make extra spending money,” said Dr. Murray. “Today the typical college student lives off-campus and pays rent. Many of them struggle with societal and family problems such as, racism, poverty, foreclosure, job loss, bankruptcy, substance abuse and divorce.

Increasingly they are saddled with debt and forced to juggle a full course load and a full-time job.”

Plugging on: UC Riverside junior Taylor Booker is able to cope with rising college costs by keeping her eyes on the prize: becoming a doctor.

University administrators say over 60 percent of college students report that their parents now expect them to work during the school year to help cover expenses.

The toll, says Dr. Murray, is sometimes students can barely make

it to class on time or turn in assignments on time. Professors are dealing with an increase in cheating, shoddy research, slipping GPA’s and a subject that isn’t often discussed: the mental health of college students.

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Obama uncle held in US by immigration officials

BY DENISE LAVOIE AP LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER

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FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (AP) — President Barack Obama’s uncle was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving, told police he planned to arrange bail through the White House and was being held without bail on an immigration detainer, authorities said Monday.

Onyango Obama was arrested last week in Framingham, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Boston, after police said he made a rolling stop through a stop sign and nearly caused a cruiser to strike his sport utility vehicle.

Police said that after being booked at the police station, Obama was asked whether he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail.

“I think I will call the White House,” he stated, according to a police report filed in Framingham

District Court.

Police said Obama, who’s originally from Kenya and is the halfbrother of the president’s late father, pleaded not guilty Friday and was being held without bail on a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a court document, ICE said he had an earlier deportation or removal order.

His immigration status couldn’t immediately be confirmed, but such orders are generally reserved for people living in the country illegally.

An immigration detainer, used by ICE to identify people in jail or prison who could be deported, is a request to another law enforcement agency to notify ICE before releasing the person from custody so ICE can arrange to take over custody.

A spokesman for ICE declined to comment on Obama’s immigration case, and the White House had no comment.

The president refers in his mem-

oir, “Dreams from My Father,” about retracing his roots and his 1988 trip to Kenya to an Uncle Omar, who matches Obama’s background and has the same date of birth.

Obama, 67, was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failure to yield the right of way.

Michael Rogers, a spokesman for Cleveland immigration attorney Margaret Wong, said Wong will represent Obama. He confirmed that Obama is the half-brother of the president’s father and the brother of another relative, the president’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, of Boston.

Onyango made headlines last year when she won the right to stay in the United States after an earlier deportation order. She came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 and was denied asylum by an immigration judge in 2004.

She stayed in the country illegally and was granted asylum last year by a judge who found she could be a target in Kenya not only for those who oppose the U.S. and the president but also for members of the Kenyan government.

In “Dreams from My Father,” the president mentions photographs of his Uncle Omar, “the uncle who had left for America 25 years ago and had never come back.” He also discusses

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a Kenyan expression about getting lost, meaning to not see someone in a while or to move away and stop communicating with relatives — “like our Uncle Omar in Boston.”

Framingham police said Obama was arrested Wednesday after he failed to stop completely at a stop sign and a police officer had to quickly apply his brakes to avoid hitting Obama’s sport utility vehicle.

Officer Val Krishtal said in a written report that Obama slurred his speech and became argumentative after he was told that he was being stopped because he had failed to fully stop AP Photo/Framingham Police Department and yield to traffic.

Uncle Onyango: President Obama’s uncle was arrest“I explained to him that I narrowly ed in Framingham, Mass., for several infractions. avoided striking his vehicle, and he told me that he did breath test, which is above the state’s not hear my tires screeching so I was legal driving limit of 0.08 percent.

The president’s administration not being accurate,” Krishtal said in announced this month that it would the report.

Obama originally told Krishtal allow many illegal immigrants facing he had nothing to drink but later said deportation the chance to stay in the he had had two beers, Krishtal wrote U.S. and apply for work permits and would focus on removing convicted in the report.

Krishtal said Obama failed sever- criminals and people who might be al sobriety tests and blew a reading of national security or public safety 0.14 percent on a blood-alcohol threats.

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GADHAFI Continued from page 4 touch base with sources who have kept them informed throughout the battle to oust Gadhafi, one of the former U.S. officials said. But the agency does not have officers in sufficient numbers nor the human intelligence network built on the ground yet to help the rebels conduct an effective manhunt, the official added.

One key to tracking Gadhafi will be to study what he did in the past, a U.S. official said. In 1986, when the U.S. bombed the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, he went to the city of Sabha, in a mountainous region of southern Libya. “He was shocked and surprised,” with his arm in a sling, the official said.

Two of Gadhafi’s sons reportedly are leading two loyalist Libyan army units in the south as well, which could provide him support.

But Gadhafi no doubt knows that’s what’s expected of him.

And from watching the hunt for Saddam and, more recently, al-

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Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, he knows that staying off phones or other modern forms of communication and altering his “pattern of life” are key.

That’s how Saddam evaded capture for so long.

The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began March 20, 2003. Baghdad, the capital, fell on April 9. Saddam allegedly was spotted that very day in the city, before vanishing and taunting U.S. forces from hiding spots across the country.

Special operations forces that helped chase Saddam say he’d done everything right. He stayed off cell or satellite phones. He changed his behavior patterns to avoid detection.

He traveled in taxis and wore traditional tribal clothing.

Most of all, he took shelter in a place that no one would have expected from a dictator who once occupied multiple palaces — and he stayed in one place, when they thought he’d move locations every night.

A special operations team finally captured Saddam in a “spider

hole,” dug under an outbuilding at a farm near his hometown of Tikrit, on Dec. 13, 2003.

The area where he was captured had been scoured by up to 4,000 troops.

“It was a whole brigade, multiple special operations teams, a huge reconnaissance and grass-roots intelligence effort,” said retired Col. James Hickey, who oversaw the conventional forces who provided security and some key intelligence links that led to Saddam’s capture.

Special operations teams worked closely with all conventional troops across Iraq, sharing information from hundreds of raids and arrests aimed at all the top officials listed in the famous deck of cards of Iraq’s most wanted, according to three special operations officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe the still-classified operation.

Special operations and regular troops alike specifically targeted the young men from the mafia-like families who were key in Saddam’s preinvasion security apparatus.

“There were five families in Tikrit that were intimates with Saddam’s family that he trusted. A lot of those members were recruited into his inner circle of security,” Hickey said.

Information gained from questioning the fighting-age men captured in the Sunni Triangle helped build a database showing the hierarchy and relationships of Saddam’s security structure.

Breaks came in roundabout ways.

A special operations raid in Samarra led to another raid of three sites in Baghdad. That led to the capture of a man who U.S. forces thought knew where Saddam was.

His interrogation and others produced tips that led searchers to the general area where Saddam was hiding.

Hickey’s 4th Infantry Division forces secured the outer perimeter, while special operations teams swept through it.

“We hit it at 8 p.m.,” Hickey said.

A Delta Force assault team took

the detainee to the site, according to the three special operations officials.

The detainee guided the special operations unit to a lean-to on a concrete pad, in the middle of the small farm, two of the officials said. “You want to know where Saddam is?

He’s there,” the detainee said, pointing at a spot in front of the shed with his flex-cuffed hands.

One of the special operators picked up a shovel and scraped away the dirt, and found two rope handles attached to a piece of Styrofoam that was hiding the opening to Saddam’s subterranean dugout.

Saddam was huddled inside, armed with two AK-47s and a pistol.

He never moved toward the weapons. The nine-month manhunt ended without a shot fired.

But in those nine months, a Sunni insurgency inspired by Saddam took hold and plagued the country for the next five years.

Remnants of it threaten security still.

The Libyan hunt for Gadhafi has just begun.

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F E AT U R E

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by Jennifer Bihm | Contributing Writer

Thousands were expected. Thousands came. Congressional Black Caucus CBC) Chairman, Emanuel Cleaver, said that people showed up as early as 3:00 am Wednesday August 31, to line up at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles, hoping to land a job.

By 10:00 am, the click-clack sound of dress shoes hitting the pavement was striking as Black Angelenos marched toward the registration area in droves, dutifully dressed in skirts, slacks and blazers, despite the mid-morning heat. This was the CBC’s last stop on its five- city “For the People Jobs Initiative” tour, which also included Cleveland, Atlanta, Detroit and Miami.

These are the cities that members said where most of the country’s unemployed African Americans live.

“So many people in our communities are finding themselves in a state of crisis,” said Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who along with Representatives Karen Bass and Laura Richardson hosted the event.

The tour was created to address the crisis, Waters said, and a crisis it is. The most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate for Blacks to be 15.9 percent compared to 11.3 percent for Hispanics and 8.1 percent for Whites. CBC members said they are “committed to helping people get back to work.”

About 150 employer tents dotted the parking lot outside the world famous Faith Dome, where Pastor Fred Price Jr. usually holds Sunday church services.

Among them were Best Buy, Target, Starbucks and McDonalds. Employers from the health, finance and edu-

cation sectors were also in attendance.

Meanwhile, inside the sanctuary, CBC members addressed an audience comprised of the thousands of prospective job applicants. Words like “faith,” “hope” and “renewed spirit” were shouted from the podium eliciting motivated “Amens” from the crowd. But some were not as hopeful.

In between the “Amens” and applause, groans and sighs could also be heard. “ W e don’t need no motivational speeches,” declared a young woman sitting behind this reporter in the audience.

“I didn’t come up here for this bullsh**t, can’t they just let us go look for a job?”

“I didn’t even get to go to the [job booths],” said Dejon Jones of Los Angeles, who was leaving with two other attendees at about 11:30 am.

“I got my registration card, came in here and sat down. I’ve been here for two hours.”

Attendees were separated into groups indentified

So many people in our communities are finding themselves in a state of crisis.

by letters of the alphabet and ushered out in order.

Those who pre-registered got first priority. Jones and his friends were in the ‘F’ group.

“Have faith in God and yourself,” Representative Hansen Clarke told the crowd.

“You can and will get the job you deserve.”

Said Congresswoman Barbara Lee, “Your experience and your spirit is needed in today’s workforce. We are making sure every opportunity is provided for you to get a job. We know we can’t sit in Washington. We know this is a national emergency.”

The CBC introduced the initiative, dubbed H.R. 348, blaming the Republican leadership for “critically failing the American people by not following through on their promise to create jobs.”

“However, the Congressional Black Caucus is committed to that right and will not rest until there is parity in access to economic opportunity,” they wrote of the plan on their website.

“The Caucus is implementing a three-pronged strategy to address the economic crisis in vulnerable communities,” they said, listing them as follows: 1.hosting town hall meetings and job fairs in hardest hit, economically distressed areas to provide opportunities for people to be connected to real employment opportunities, as well as provide community members to offer feedback on upcoming CBC proposals; 2.introducing legislation that will create tangible, legitimate job opportunities; and 3.drafting a report that includes the outcome from

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Community Townhall held at the Crenshaw Christian Center on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 for the CBCs 5-city Jobs Initiative Tour.

each community visited and solutions for long-term job creation and economic growth.

The US Bureau of Labor statistics are stark reality. But it seems no one can pinpoint the exact reason for them. In 2009, the National Institutes of Health released a study by Devah Pager and Diana Karafin, (Department of Sociology, Princeton University,) examining attitudes toward and perceptions of Black men among potential employers. Their report entitled, “Bayesian Bigot? Statistical Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Employer Decision Making,” indicated that race plays a part in judging characteristics not able to be discerned right away, like productivity and ability.

The researchers gathered most of their data from 55 in-depth interviews of White male employers in Manhattan. The interviewees represented various industries, including restaurant and retail. The report included the following statement by an employer from a courier company: “Well, there are of course, the obvious problems of

racial profiling where people don’t want to hire them.

They won’t tell you that and you don’t really think it happens as much in society. People think all of that segregation has ended, but it really hasn’t…. Another problem, as a good example in terms of hiring people that have criminal backgrounds, a lot of people are not looking to take the chance, and unfortunately, the number of African American men that have been incarcerated has just, in the past few years, been phenomenal. And so people don’t stop to think that, let’s say someone wasn’t really involved in something. Maybe they just got caught up, so to speak. Some people may just think that, well you have been in trouble and so I

don’t want to hire you. So that is another aspect that keeps people from hiring Black men.”

The report also cites the employers as generally attributing characteristics like poor presentation, intimidating demeanor, lack of motivation and laziness to Black men. The researchers quoted one retail employer as saying, “I will tell you the truth. African Americans don’t want to work.” They quoted another from a large national retail store, which they did not name: “I have heard people say that it is easier to deal with a White person more than a Black person. I guess because they feel Black people are always loud and hyper – which is true. White people may know how to carry themselves a little better than Black people. Black people always want to make a scene and always want to be heard…”

The thousands of Blacks who showed up at each city’s job fair, dressed, armed with resumes and willing to wait hours just for a chance to meet with potential employers however, say otherwise. In addition, it flies in the face of the so-called post-racial era.

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Motown figure Esther Gordy Edwards dies at age 91

BY JEFF KAROUB ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — Esther Gordy Edwards, who helped build Motown Records alongside her brother Berry Gordy Jr. and led efforts to turn its original Detroit headquarters into a museum, has died. She was 91.

Edwards died Wednesday surrounded by family and friends in Detroit, the Motown Historical Museum said in a statement.

Edwards was a Motown executive for nearly three decades, AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Steven R. Nickerson holding numerous leadership positions Member of Motown royalty: Esther Gordy Edwards died last Wednesday in Detroit surwithin the music com- rounded by family and friends. She was 91. pany whose artists “She believed in me — when I started — the Motown museum,” included Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The was 14 years old and many other Berry Gordy said in a statement Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The people didn’t or could only see what Thursday.

“She nurtured it and held it Temptations and The Four Tops. they could at the time, she champiMotown Records, which Berry oned me being in Motown,” Wonder together, all through the years, to Gordy started with a family loan in said in a statement. “I shared with protect the Motown legacy for gen1959, churned out scores of global her many of my songs first before erations to come — which is only one of the reasons people all over hits from the building it dubbed anyone else.”

When Motown and most of her the world will remember and cele“Hitsville, U.S.A.” in Detroit. The company moved to Los Angeles in family moved to California, brate Esther Gordy Edwards,” he Edwards stayed behind. She said.

1972.

Gordy also said Edwards gave Edwards served as senior vice amassed what would become president, corporate secretary and Motown memorabilia and set to him “the hardest time” when he director of Motown International work on preserving the old head- sought to get the family loan to start Operations, where she was charged quarters, including the label’s famed what would become Motown with exposing the famed “Motown Studio A. The large stately former Records. She became, he said, “one house on West Grand Boulevard of my biggest assets at Motown.” sound” to international audiences.

According to an official biograWonder has praised Edwards for opened as a museum in 1985.

“I always thought I was the phy released by the museum, being like a mother to him when he joined the label as a child. She is visionary in the family but I missed Edwards was born in 1920 in credited with helping Wonder enroll the biggest thing of all when Esther Oconee, Ga., and moved to Detroit in the Michigan School for the turned the so-called trash left behind as a toddler. She was the eldest Blind, as well as managing and after I sold the company in 1988 into daughter in a family of eight chilguiding the careers of Robinson, a phenomenal world-class monu- dren.

She first married Robert ment at the spot where Hitsville Gaye, Diana Ross and others.

Bullock, with whom she had a son, Robert Berry Bullock. She later married state Rep. George Edwards and became a step-mother to his son, Harry.

One of her sisters, Anna Gordy Gaye, was Marvin Gaye’s first wife.

In a statement, Robinson said Edwards was “one of the most important people to come into my life both personally and professionally.” He said it’s because of Edwards’ “wisdom and foresight” that the museum exists, allowing “people now and for generations to come to have a firsthand look at our legacy.”

“Thank you, Esther, and I know you are in the hands of God,” he said.

A public viewing and AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Steven R. Nickerson Members of Motown royalty: Esther Gordy Edwards died last Wednesday in Detroit funeral service were held this week. surrounded by family and friends. She was 91.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Rapper T.I. released from prison one month early AT L A N TA (AP) — Atlantabased rapper T.I. has been released one month early from a federal prison, where he was serving a weapons violation sentence.

Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke said the artist, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was released at 7:29 a.m. Central time from the Forrest City low-security prison in Arkansas.

The rapper was sentenced to 11 months in prison in October for breaking his federal proAP Photo/John Amis bation after he was arrested in Los Rapper T.I., born Clifford Harris Jr., was sentenced Angeles on drug to one year and one day on federal weapons charges charges. He was set at the Federal Courthouse in Atlanta. to be released at the end of September, but prison authorities released him a month early.

His attorney, Jonathan Leonard, confirmed T.I. was released but did not immediately say where his client is going.

Idris Elba moving on to Season 3 of ‘Luther’ on BBC One EURWEB.COM Although the states have not indulged in season 2 of Idris Elba’s “Luther,” BBC One controller Danny Cohen says the fan favorite will have a season 3.

UK watchers have just finished season 2, while it will start airing on BBC America later next month. Good news: The latest episodes won over 5 million viewers and the next is sure to bring on a few million more.

As of yet, there is little known about the third season, but there is talk that it may air next year.

The actor is bent on possibly getting “Luther” to the big screen, saying the story is worthy of a bigger audience.

“The ultimate ‘Luther’ story will unfold on the big screen,” he said in an interview a couple of months ago.

A l s o , Idris’ next project with “Pacific Rim” is scheduled to begin in October.

Third time is a charm: Idris Elba

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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“Honeyboy”: Blues singer David Edwards performs at a Dallas high school.

AP Photo/Donna McWilliam

Bluesman David ‘Honey Boy’ Edwards dead at 96

BY CARYN ROUSSEAU ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — Grammywinning blues musician David “Honey Boy” Edwards, believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman and whose roots stretched back to blues legend Robert Johnson, died early Monday in his Chicago home, his manager said. He was 96.

Edwards had a weak heart and his health seriously declined in May, when the guitarist had to cancel concerts scheduled through November, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank of Earwig Music Company.

Born in 1915 in Shaw, Miss., Edwards learned the guitar growing up and started playing professionally at age 17 in Memphis.

He came to Chicago in the 1940s and played on Maxwell Street, small

clubs and street corners. By the 1950s, Edwards had played with almost every bluesman of note — including Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Charlie Patton and Muddy Waters. Among Edwards’ hit songs were “Long Tall Woman Blues,” ‘‘Gamblin Man” and “Just Like Jesse James.”

Edwards played his last shows in April at the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Miss., Frank said.

“Blues ain’t never going anywhere,” Edwards told The Associated Press in 2008. “It can get slow, but it ain’t going nowhere. You play a lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain’t dead but I’m just supposed to be blues. You can take that same blues, make it up tempo, a shuffle blues … that’s what rock ‘n’ roll did with it. So blues ain’t

Artest, Bono among “Dancing With the Stars” cast LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new cast of “Dancing With the Stars” has been revealed.

ABC says the 13th season of the hit show will feature a mix of actors, athletes and TV personalities. Set to tango and quick step with professional dance partners will be basketball star Ron Artest; World Cup soccer player Hope Solo; reality stars Robert Kardashian, Kristin Cavallari and Chaz Bono; TV personalities Nancy Grace, Carson Kressley and Ricki Lake; singeractress Chynna Phillips; actors David Arquette and J.R. Martinez; and Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, who may be better known in the United States for being George Clooney’s ex-girlfriend.

The new cast members will perform their first dance routines on Laker dancer: Ron Artest the season premiere on Sept. 19.

The first celebrity contestant will be eliminated on Sept. 20.

going nowhere. Ain’t goin’ nowhere.”

Edwards won a 2008 Grammy for traditional blues album and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2010. His death represents the loss of the last direct link to the first generation of Mississippi blues musicians, Frank said.

“That piece of the history from that generation, people have to read about it from now on,” Frank said.

“They won’t be able to experience the way the early guys played it, except from somebody who’s learned it off of a record.”

Edwards was known for being an oral historian of the music genre and would tell biographical stories between songs at his shows, Frank said. He was recorded for the Library of Congress in Clarksdale, Miss., in 1942.

“He had photographic memory of every fine detail of his entire life,” Frank said. “All the way up until he died. He had so much history that so many other musicians didn’t have and he was able to tell it.”

Edwards gathered those stories in the 1997 book “The World Don’t

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Members of the Jackson family, left to right, Blanket Jackson, Prince Jackson, Paris Jackson, Katherine Jackson and La Toya Jackson present 13 pieces of original artwork by Michael Jackson to Children’s Hospital in L.A.

Michael Jackson’s children visit his Indiana boyhood home GARY, Ind. (AP) — Michael Jackson’s children and father visited the late pop star’s boyhood home in Gary, Ind., as the town celebrated what would have been his 53rd birthday.

Hundreds of fans took part in activities outside the house in Jackson Street over the weekend ahead of Jackson’s birthday on Monday.

Thirteen-year-old Paris Jackson told WLS-TV that she enjoyed seeing so many fans at the house when she and her brothers, 14-year-old Prince and 9-year-old Blanket, visited on Saturday.

The Post-Tribune of Merrillville reports that Jackson’s father Joe attended activities at the home on Sunday.

The Jackson family moved from Indiana to California in 1969 after the Jackson 5 struck it big. Jackson died in June 2009.

Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards.” He wrote in the book that his father bought a guitar for $8 from a sharecropper and Edwards learned to play in 1929.

“I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it,” Edwards wrote.

Edwards was known for his farranging travels and played internationally. In his 90s, he was still playing about 70 shows a year. Edwards would visit with the audience after

every show, taking pictures, signing autographs and talking with fans, Frank said.

Edwards earned his nickname “Honey Boy” from his sister, who told his mother to “look at honey boy” when Edwards stumbled as he learned to walk as a toddler. He is survived by his daughter Betty Washington and stepdaughter Dolly McGinister.

“He had his own unique style,” Frank said. “But it was a 75-year-old style and it was a synthesis of the people before him and in his time.”

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Jewelry robbery linked Recharged and now rich, QB Vick ready for pressure to ex-NBA player, shooting

Once a Laker, now a murder suspect: Javaris Crittenton, 23, is wanted by the Atlanta Police Department on murder charges stemming from the August 19, 2011fatal shooting of a 22-year-old woman, Jullian Jones.

BY GREG BLUESTEIN ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) — A former NBA player who is accused of shooting an Atlanta woman to death appeared to be retaliating for being robbed of $55,000 worth of jewelry, police said.

Javaris Crittenton, who was suspended from the NBA along with his ex-teammate Gilbert Arenas for having guns in a locker room, was arrested late Monday at a Southern California airport. He has been charged with murder in the Aug. 19 shooting death of Jullian Jones outside her house in Atlanta, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.

Crittenton’s attorneys have said he will be exonerated.

Crittenton told police he and a friend were leaving a barbershop around 10:50 p.m. April 21 when two teenagers surprised them as they returned to their car, according to police report released to The Associated Press.

One teenager held Crittenton at gunpoint and ordered him to “give me what you got,” he told police. He said he handed over a $25,000 black diamond necklace, a $30,000 black diamond watch, an iPhone and $25 in cash, according to the report.

[At press time, Jane Robison of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said prosecutors expected to charge Crittenton Wednesday with being a fugitive from justice and he may be arraigned later that day.]

An Atlanta Police spokeswoman said the timetable for Crittenton’s return depends on whether he waives extradition.

Jones, a 23-year-old mother of four, was outside her house with 18year-old Trontavious Stephens when a black Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid pulled up and opened fire.

Authorities have said they don’t believe Jones was the intended target, but they haven’t said who they think the gunman was after.

Stephens told The Associated

Press he had never met Crittenton and wasn’t involved in the robbery.

“I didn’t know him at all,” said Stephens. “I didn’t know he existed and he didn’t know I existed. I hadn’t seen him a day in my life when he pulled up and started shooting.”

Crittenton’s defense attorney Eldridge Suggs said his client wasn’t in the vehicle and was eager to clear his name. Brian Steel, another attorney who says he represents Crittenton, didn’t return several phone calls and emails Tuesday, but said earlier that his client would be exonerated.

Family and friends of Jones set up a makeshift memorial for her on the side of the road where she was gunned down. June Woods, her adoptive mother, said Jones was a hardworking mother of four who spent her days working at a fast food restaurant and nights caring for her four children, she said.

“She wasn’t involved in any trouble. She tried to keep herself away from trouble,” said Woods. “I don’t understand why it happened. I don’t know why. Her kids could have been outside. They could have been shot. I’m still looking for that one answer to that one question: Why?” Crittenton was with the Washington Wizards in December 2009 when he and Arenas had a dispute over a card game. Two days later, Arenas brought four guns to the locker room and set them in front of Crittenton’s locker with a sign telling him to “PICK 1.” Crittenton then took out his own gun.

Crittenton pleaded guilty in January 2010 to a misdemeanor gun charge and received a year of unsupervised probation. Arenas entered his guilty plea on Jan. 15, 2010. He served a short time in a halfway house.

Crittenton is on the roster of the NBA developmental league’s Dakota Wizards.

Associated Press writers Daisy Nguyen and Denise Petski in Los Angeles and Kate Brumback said in Atlanta contributed to the report.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Vick shared some laughs, and offered up an occasional smile. But for the most part, his Tuesday news conference announcing his new contract was handled the same way he’s handled everything since he landed in Philadelphia two years ago.

All business.

“The common goal is to bring that ring back to the city of Philadelphia.

That’s why we play,” Vick said. “That’s what we’re all working for. As a competitor, I don’t feel my career will be complete without that.”

And so begins the next phase in one of the league’s more remarkable comeback stories. With the business of his new, six-year, $100 million contract out of the way, it’s time for Vick and the rest of the star-laden Eagles to shoot for that elusive Super Bowl title.

The Eagles won the 1960 NFL championship, but have been to just two Super Bowls since, losing both.

Not that there’s any pressure or anything.

“It’s a lot of money, however you look at it,” Vick said. “Obviously, it’s going to create a lot of demands. I know what comes along with it, and I know how to handle it.”

Vick’s deal makes him the thirdhighest-paid player in the NFL, behind only New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning. And the former No. 1 overall pick who served 19 months in a federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., on felony dogfight-

COLLEGE Continued from page 5 “Mentally and physically I see more students suffering from depression and anxiety. The economy has only added to the stress.”

In fact, a recent national survey of college psychologists conducted by the American College of Counseling Association (ACCA) showed that the number of students seeking help for emotional stress has significantly increased in recent years. Researchers indicate nearly one in every 10 students is now utilizing campus therapists to deal with chronic anxiety.

The ACCA also found that 93 percent of therapists are seeing more students coming to college already on psychiatric medications. In recent years there has been an onslaught of anti-depression and anti-anxiety medications that have made their way into millions of medicine cabinets across the country — and college students are no exception. Between 1994 and 2008, the number of college students on psychiatric medication rose from nine percent to 26 percent.

Dr. Murray said students that load on the work during summer vacation also often find themselves focusing on simply meeting requirements getting through the workday and class material rather than focusing on doing a good job.

“Even if the students are silently walking to class, their mental stability is at risk and their stress barometer is pushing past extreme levels, screaming on the inside for a break,” explained Dr. Murray.

ACCA says 55 percent of those students working 35 or more hours per

ing charges before joining the Eagles, is now the first player in NFL history to sign more than one $100 million contract in his career.

Vick, 31, became the Eagles’ backup quarterback when they traded Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins after the 2009 season, and he became the starter last September after replacing an injured Kevin Kolb.

He was named NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 2010 after winning eight of 11 starts, throwing a career-high 21 touchdown passes and rushing for nine more. But despite engineering a memorable 38-31 comeback win over the New York Giants that ultimateAP Photo/Alex Brandon ly led to the NFC East title They’re happy, he’s happy: Philadelphia Eagles in December, Vick and the quarterback Michael Vick’s got a new six-year Eagles were dumped at $100 million contract to live up to. home a month later in the “This is a great story all the way playoffs by the Green Bay Packers, 21through,” Reid said. “This is really what 16, in the wild-card round.

But this year, knowing he’ll open America’s all about. Second chance and the season as the starter, and knowing Mike took full advantage of that. And he has perhaps the most name-heavy then when he was given a second roster in the league on his side, it chance to start in the National Football League, he took full advantage of that appears like it’s Super Bowl or bust.

Which is why coach Andy Reid and and turned it into this.”

And the next stop — after a detour Co. are more than happy to see the See MICHAEL VICK, page 14 quarterback happy. week report that work has a negative effect on their ability to focus. Forty percent report that work limits their class schedule; 36 percent report it reduces their class choices; 30 percent report it limits the number of classes they take; and 26 percent report it limits access to the library.

Students who work full-time are also more likely to drop out of school.

For example, the available evidence is consistent with a roughly 10 percentage point differential in graduation rates between full-time and part-time workers. In 2008, nearly 910,000 fulltime college students worked fulltime. Because of the adverse effects of such full-time work, tens of thousands of these college students are likely to drop out of school and fail to receive a college degree.

Meet Taylor Booker. Six hundred miles from her home in Hercules, CA, the UCR junior has spent 90 percent of the summer on campus bulking up her resume and becoming more competitive in accessing graduate and medical schools.

On a recent morning Booker, who plans on attending medical school, is juggling a full load of summer classes and a job as an administrative assistant for the J.W. Vines Medical Society in Riverside.

“I took a week off to go home.

Sure, I miss my family, but I need to stay on track and I need the job. My goal is to become a physician, so I have to make the sacrifice. Summer vacation isn’t a vacation anymore.”

This fall, undergraduate tuition for California residents will rise to $12,192; that’s 18.3 percent higher than last year’s $10,302. It’s a level that prompted violent student protests.

With a mandatory campus fee that averages $1,026, a year at UC now costs $13,218 — and that’s before room and board.

That’s more than twice what it cost in 2005.

Some students think freshmen may have an even harder time graduating within four years. Deep budget cuts are forcing colleges to lay off instructors and eliminate core-entry level course offerings.

“With fewer available classes, I think more people will take 5 and even 6 years to graduate or want to drop out if tuition goes too high,” said Booker.

Going into her freshman year she attended UCR on financial aid, personal savings and money from her mother, grandparents and other members of her family. That was before she was hit with back-to-back tuition increases coupled with spiraling living costs, health and wellness, and administrative and activity fees.

“I never envisioned I would be paying over $13,000 a year in tuition plus room and board. Unfortunately to pay the higher tuition costs, I have to take out a loan. I don’t want to put more pressure on my family. So what choice do I have?”

The trick, says Booker, is to stay focused and have the right attitude.

“Instead of thinking about how much college is costing me or how tired I am after working 10-hour days, I try to focus on the career waiting for me on the other side,” says Booker.

“When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for what you want. The best motto for a long race is: Don’t grumble. Plug on!”

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Frank Gore agrees on 3-year extension with 49ers

BY JANIE MCCAULEY AP SPORTS WRITER SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Frank Gore has his new deal from the San Francisco 49ers, 13 days before the season opener. Just as he wished it.

Agent Jason Rosenhaus told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Gore had agreed to terms on a new threeyear contract extension that keeps him with the team through 2014.

Gore is set to make $21 million, with $13.5 million in guaranteed money.

The team hadn’t made a formal announcement. That likely will come Wednesday ahead of the Niners’ exhibition finale Thursday night at San Diego.

Gore said earlier Tuesday that his primary agent, Drew Rosenhaus, had a

Richardson, Jeter strike gold on odd day at worlds

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San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore: The $21 million man. productive, all-day meeting with team brass Monday. Gore said he instructed Rosenhaus to contact him when there was what he considered a “fair” offer on the table.

“Positive that they met face to face,” Gore said. “Drew felt good about everything, (about) the talk.”

The 28-year-old Gore, third on San Francisco’s career rushing list heading into his seventh NFL season, had repeatedly said he wanted a new longterm deal before the Sept. 11 season opener against Seattle.

Both sides had been throwing around plenty of praise for the other party. 49ers team President Jed York and general manager Trent Baalke said they wanted Gore to be a “49er for life.”

Gore said he even spoke to Baalke about working for the organization when he’s done playing.

“I told Drew, man, just call me when he feels right, when he feels what’s fair for both sides,” Gore said.

“Hopefully I can be a Niner. I want to be here for my whole career. Our GM said he wanted me here for my whole career. Hopefully my side, their side can get it done.”

They did.

New coach Jim Harbaugh wouldn’t address Gore’s unsettled contract situation during his afternoon media availability.

“Frank is a true 49er. I’ve said that from when I first got here,” Harbaugh said. “That’s how I thought I would feel about Frank Gore. Now, I know how I feel about Frank Gore. The guy is awesome. Somebody should do a movie. Somebody should do the Frank Gore story, because it’s an awesome story.”

Gore sought a contract comparable to the $43 million, five-year deal running back DeAngelo Williams — 20 days older than San Francisco’s star — recently received from the Carolina Panthers. That includes $21 million guaranteed. Williams missed the final 10 games last year with a sprained right foot.

Gore needs 931 yards to become the franchise’s all-time leading rusher.

While that is a goal, he also wants to have a big year to help turn the 49ers around after eight straight seasons without a playoff berth or winning record.

He ran for 853 yards and three touchdowns last year before getting hurt in his sixth NFL season. Gore also caught 46 passes for 452 yards and two TDs. His 24 100-yard rushing games are the most in 49ers history.

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And the winner is … :USA’s Carmelita Jeter wins gold in the Women’s 100m final at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea on Monday.

BY PAT GRAHAM AP SPORTS WRITER DAEGU, South Korea (AP) — In a fenced-off area below the stadium, American training partners Carmelita Jeter and Jason Richardson crossed paths, exchanging a quick embrace before going separate ways.

They were two unlikely gold medalists at the world championships Monday. Jeter because, well, nobody beats the Jamaicans at 100 meters at major meets these days; and Richardson, because he was an afterthought in the highly anticipated 110 hurdles matchup in what could prove to be the race of these championships.

He originally won the silver but was stunningly bumped up to champion when Cuban world-record holder Dayron Robles was disqualified for smacking hands not once but twice with Liu Xiang of China over the final few hurdles.

“I can beat Robles’ world record,” said Richardson, who runs with his long, braided hair tied back in a ponytail. “My next objective is to repeat the same thing in the Olympics.”

The race featured the three fastest hurdlers in history — Robles, Liu and David Oliver of the U.S. Yet it was the unknown Richardson who crashed the party, jumping out fast and beating all but Robles.

A silver medal? Richardson was more than pleased.

Traded up to a gold? Almost too good to imagine.

Liu appealed after Robles appeared to bang Liu’s hand several times, slowing the 2004 Olympic gold medalist.

“I am really sorry about the situation. You know competition,” Liu said. “Besides, we are good friends.”

There were other strange doings on the track.

It was supposed to be Allyson Felix’s stage as she finished off the first leg of her difficult double, an accomplishment that would have

established her as America’s biggest track star for next year’s London Olympics. But Felix couldn’t catch Amantle Montsho of Botswana in the 400 final, nudged out at the line.

There went the shot at the double. An exhausted Felix now turns her attention toward winning a fourth straight 200 title later in the week.

Jeter’s chances at a 100-200 sweep have never looked better, even though she’s competing in Felix’s signature event and has riled the Jamaicans.

“We’ll see her again,” said Jamaican Olympic gold medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who finished fourth to end her run as 100 champion.

Long known as the sprinter who couldn’t win on the big stage, the 31-year-old Jeter ended that perception by winning in 10.90 seconds, 0.07 faster than Veronica CampbellBrown.

After crossing the line, Jeter gazed around the stadium, looking for tangible proof of what her heart was telling her — that she did indeed win her first world title.

Then her image appeared on the big screen. Her name popped up — first. “I did it!” she screamed, falling to the track and bursting into tears.

“It’s good not to have that jinx, that I can only win bronze medals,” said Jeter, who finished third at the worlds in 2007 and ‘09. “I was just ready. This was just a different night.”

This also was a night when the run of Oscar Pistorius, the doubleamputee sprinter known as the “Blade Runner,” ended with the semifinals of the 400. The South African finished last in his heat, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

“These guys are unbelievable.

They’re in a league of their own,” Pistorius said. “It’s an honor to compete against them.”

Jillian Camarena-Williams won the first medal for the U.S. in the women’s shot put, capturing the bronze in an event won by defending champion Valerie Adams of

New Zealand.

In other finals, Pawel Wojciechowski of Poland won the pole vault and Koji Murofushi of Japan took the hammer throw title, winning his first world championship at 36.

Jeter and Richardson train together under coach John Smith.

And soon after making her rounds for interviews, Jeter was told Richardson had moved up.

“Jason, you got the gold?” Jeter screamed across a nearly empty room. “You didn’t tell me that!”

That’s when they hugged, with Smith close by.

Smith said he felt that Jeter was on the brink of a breakthrough. She had the world’s best time this season but lacked confidence in big races.

Smith told her she had worked too hard to throw it all away.

“It was her time,” he said.

This appeared to be Felix’s time as well. Hardly known as a 400 specialist, she got only better as the race went along and was closing fast on Montsho before simply running out of track.

Felix wished she had kicked into a higher gear a little sooner, even though she finished in a personalbest 49.59 seconds. That was simply inexperience.

“I still don’t feel as confident as I do in the 200. I know that race, when to move,” Felix said. “I’m definitely disappointed. Anytime I lose, I’m disappointed. I have to keep moving forward.”

Her teammate, defending champion Sanya Richards-Ross, finished seventh. It’s been a rough season for Richards-Ross following an injuryplagued 2010.

But for Felix, this is all part of deciding whether it might be too ambitious to run both the 200 and 400 at the Olympics. She desperately wants an Olympic gold medal in the 200, the main thing missing from her storied career.

“What I hope to take away is how my body bounces back from the 200,” Felix said, “to decide if I want to do this again.”

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Stones of Hope for the next generation

BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX NNPA COLUMNIST Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast with a vengeance, causing inconvenience, interruption and postponements. Perhaps the most notable postponement was that of the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, which was to take place on August 28, 48 years after Dr. King gave his historic “I Have A Dream” speech.

Thus, activities that were to span the week were, instead, concluded with an interfaith prayer service that drew more than a thousand people.

If one adheres to the scripture (Romans 8:28)— that “all things work together for good”, it is possible to ruminate about any greater meaning in the postponement of the King celebration. It is interesting that one Julianne Malveaux definition of postpone is “to put off something until a later time, to defer”. Similarly, the definition of interruption is “to stop or hinder by breaking in.” Hurricane Irene just busted in to stop, to hinder, to defer. And while the beloved Rev. Joseph Lowery said, “With all the things Black folk have been through, no little hurricane can come to stop us,” the fact is that Irene did exactly that, if only in the short run.

To postpone is to defer. Isn’t that exactly what has happened to Dr. King’s dream? In so many ways it has been deferred, especially for the poorest of Americans, those who would have watched the celebration on television because they had no means to travel to Washington. Maybe they’d watch on television. With a rise in the number of people who are homeless, there might be no television to watch. While Dr. King chose to identify with the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, many of the African Americans involved in public policy have chosen to ignore them.

Former Congressman and Ambassador Andrew Young spoke at the interfaith service and invoked Dr. King’s line that “out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” Indeed, the memorial is being described as “a stone of hope.”

“You and I must become stones of hope in this world of despair,” said Ambassador Young. In the face of an economic downturn and the marginalization of the poor, stones of hope would organize, mobilize and lobby for laws that promote economic fairness. Instead, we have meekly accepted the extension of Bush tax cuts, meekly accepted rising poverty and high unemployment. I am perplexed that those who are affected by this economy, and those who claim to advocate for them, have not been more effective in protest.

Our failures may have the most impact on the next generation, as increased child poverty has a negative impact on a young person’s later life chances. If we claim to be stones of hope for the next generation, then it is incumbent on us to make greater investments in children and their parents. Child poverty is a function of adult poverty and unemployment.

Eleven percent of all children live in a household with an unemployed parent; a significant number live in homes where no parent has full-time, fullyear employment.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation released this data and more in their annual Kids Count report on August 17. Their most stunning finding – 31 million children live in poverty. Using 10 indicators of child well-being, they found improvement in areas like infant mortality, the child death rate, the teen death rate and the teen birth rate. But economic indicators showed erosion in the well being of young people.

The Casey Foundation advocates a two-generation strategy to both help parents achieve economic stability and to enhance the “social, economic, cognitive and physical” development of children, and has developed a set of strategies that include both maintaining existing programs (which are likely to be cut because of the deals cut with the debt ceiling), and new programs, including asset protection, and programs to promote reading proficiency. Yet the likelihood of any of these programs being implemented hinges on our collective will to be stones of hope for young people.

A celebration has been postponed, deferred, much like the hopes and dreams of the 31 million children who live in poverty. While the celebration will almost certainly be rescheduled, action to improve the lives of these young people has yet to be scheduled.

The King Memorial is a riveting Stone of Hope, but who among us will be Stones of Hope for the next generation?

Julianne Malveaux is President of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Back-to-School call to action for Black parents

BY DR. BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS, JR. NNPA COLUMNIST As parents, families and communities are preparing for “back-to-school” sales and special programs, it is critically urgent once again to raise the question about the quality of the education of Black children in America as well as the quality of education for all children.

No disrespect is intended to anyone, but the sheer reality that Black children have the highest school dropout rates and the lowest scores on various national and regional standardized academic achievement tests demands that Black parents and others speak out, mobilize and take a stronger stance concerning establishing more effective educational options that will provide the highest quality education for Black children.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s classic book, “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” first published in 1933 has particular relevance for more than 45 million Black Americans across the United States today in 2011. Dr. Woodson was very critical of the educational system in the United States because it systematically denied Black children a quality education, including a truthful and accurate history of Black people in America and throughout the world. If Dr. Woodson were alive today, he would be even more angry and disgusted with the severe punitive magnitude and gross disservice that the current traditional school system has done to Black students and families. Black parents especially today have to move to the forefront to demand more options and alternatives to the many failed school systems across the nation.

Black people have not failed the school systems of today. But it is an irrefutable fact that the majority of the current traditional school systems have failed Black Americans. Black parental responsibility first and foremost is to establish and secure the highest quality education for Black children. Without apology Black parents cannot afford to permit the education interests of our children to be triage by those who have become complacent and implicated in

this massive education crisis. This is the civil rights issue that should be at the top of the agenda of all our national, regional and local organizations. Simply put, there is nothing more important than the education of our children.

The following are two organizations that are providing a clear delineation of viable options for Black parents and others concerning how to establish, fund and maintain a more effective educational experience for school children.

The mission of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) is to increase access to high-quality educational options for Black children by actively supporting parental choice policies and programs that empower lowincome and working-class Black families.

The mission of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) to lead public education to unprecedented levels of academic achievement for all students by fostering a strong charter sector.

Both the BAEO and the NAPCS are committed to advance the public and legislative awareness and support for pro-

viding real opportunities for parents who want the best educational experience for their children.

The good news is that African American awareness that charter schools are in fact “public” schools is on the increase nationwide, thanks to the efforts of BAEO and NAPCS. A recent poll by Gallup revealed that seven out of 10 Americans now support public charter schools. Not all charter schools are equal. The important here is that there are some high-achieving public charter schools in the nation that are doing an excellent job in educating Black children. Those are the types of public charter schools that need to be replicated and established across the nation. The Black community needs success models that provide accountable solutions to the educational crisis concerning Black and other underserved communities.

Black legislators in numerous states are now proposing public charter school laws in response to this civil rights education issue. We need remedies and solutions that have a proven track record of academic success and progress. It is encouraging to witness a growing movement that is gaining momentum for parental choice. The effectiveness of the civil rights movement going forward will continue to be contingent on a strong grassroots base.

Black parents are increasingly taking the lead in renewing this movement for educational change.

The call to action is to ignite a massive grass oots effort and movement to demand the highest quality education for all children, but in particular for Black children who have suffered the most from the failures of the traditional school systems. Let’s decide that we all will become involved. Let’s put the interests of our children’s education first. Now is the time to rise up and make a difference.

Let’s act together and work harder because our children deserve the best education.

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is a senior advisor to the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) and President of Educational Online Services Corporation.

back and the effort that he’s put forth.”

Eagles president Joe Banner concurs.

“When you give a player a contract, you’re betting on the future, and you’re using the evidence of what he’s done to that point to evaluate your future projection,” he said. “And if we didn’t think Michael was somebody capable of leading this team to a Super Bowl, we never would have given him that contract.

“Now, our judgment has to be right, and he has to get on the field and prove that. But we wouldn’t be making this type of investment if we didn’t view him that way.”

On Dec. 23, 2004, with the Falcons on their way to the NFC Championship game, where they lost to the Eagles, Vick signed a 10-year deal worth $130 million. But he played only 32 games under that deal before legal problems derailed his career.

“I’ve learned ... don’t take anything

for granted,” Vick said. “I did that at one point when I had the big contract in Atlanta. And I think that will definitely help me now in understanding what’s most important and how to move forward in my life.”

Whether that life includes a Super Bowl title remains to be seen. But one thing’s for sure. As much talent as this roster has, and as much hype as it’s caused, the Eagles will be prepared for anything — win, lose or draw.

“You don’t give out contracts this size and have no fear. There are too many things in life,” Banner said. “You can have a car accident. There is always fear when you have contracts of this magnitude because the impact of being wrong is so huge.

“But as far as Michael being who he is today, we’re very confident. He is what he is 24 hours a day when we’re with him, and we’re confident in the person he is now.”

And there’s a contract to prove it.

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

MICHAEL VICK Continued from page 12 vs. the New York Jets in the preseason finale on Thursday — will be a week from Sunday in St. Louis, where Vick will make his first opening-day start in five years vs. the Rams. “(I) go back in time and think about how hard it’s been over the last two years,” he said. “But (despite) the sacrifices I had to make and what I had to give up, it’s been all worth it.”

But in the end, will he be worth the money? The Eagles retained his rights by signing him to a one-year, $16 million franchise tag in the off-season, but his new contract now runs through 2016. It’s a bold statement for a franchise that has had its share of big-name quarterbacks in the past, only to walk away empty- handed.

It’s clear, though, they see something different this time around.

“I think it’s really a tribute to him more than us,” Reid said, “and how he’s come

Thursday, September 1, 2011 T.S. No.: AF11-112 Loan No.: 10-CB-10969 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/20/2010. 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 PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: Berdichev, Inc., a California Corporation Duly Appointed Trustee: Cal Vista Home Loans, Inc., A California Corporation Recorded 11/9/2010 as Instrument No. 20101611792 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of Sale: 9/7/2011 at 10:30 AM Place of Sale: AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE NORTHRIDGE BRANCH OF THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY, 9051 DARBY AVENUE, NORTHRIDGE, CA 91325 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $169,617.18 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 10969 South Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90061 A.P.N.: 6074-013-020 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Date: 8/10/2011 SECTION 1692(E): THIS COMMUNICATION IS WITH A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE American Foreclosure Services, as agent to the Trustee 9016 White Oak Avenue #AFS Northridge, CA 91325 (818) 781-9800 Kim Kaufman, Trustee Sales Officer Ad #14627 2011-08-18 2011-08-25 2011-09-01 T.S. No.: AF11-113 Loan No.: 10-CB10000 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/11/2010. 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 PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: Berdichev, Inc., a California Corporation Duly Appointed Trustee: Cal Vista Home Loans, Inc., A California Corporation Recorded 10/1/2010 as Instrument No. 20101402760 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of Sale: 9/7/2011 at 10:30 AM Place of Sale: AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE NORTHRIDGE BRANCH OF THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY, 9051 DARBY AVENUE, NORTHRIDGE, CA 91325 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $203,498.08 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 11000 South Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90061 A.P.N.: 6074-018-019 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Date: 8/10/2011 SECTION 1692(E): THIS COMMUNICATION IS WITH A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE American Trust Deed Services Corp. as agent to the Trustee 9016 White Oak Avenue #AFS Northridge, CA 91325 (818) 781-9800 Kim Kaufman, Trustee Sales Officer Ad #14655 2011-08-18 2011-08-25 2011-09-01 T.S. No.: 10-10546 Loan No.: 1067 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 10/23/2009. 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 PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: VIRGIL EVERAGE, AS TRUSTEE OF JUDY B. MCGEE TRUST UTD SEPTEMBER 15, 2008 Duly Appointed Trustee: American Trust Deed Services Corp. Recorded 10/30/2009 as Instrument No. 20091641080 in book , page and rerecorded on --- as --- of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of Sale: 9/14/2011 at 10:30 AM Place of Sale: AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE MID VALLEY LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY REGIONAL BRANCH, 16244 NORDHOFF STREET, NORTH HILLS, CA 91343 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $159,121.79 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 1531,1531 1/2, AND 1533 EAST 81ST STREET, 1604 E. 81ST ST., 1617 E. 81ST ST., AND 1617 EAST 81ST ST. #B (GARAGE), 1507 EAST 24TH ST. LOS ANGELES, California 90001 A.P.N.: 6028-007-016;6027-003-002;6027-002-016;5118-020014 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. Date: 8/17/2011 SECTION 1692(E): THIS COMMUNICATION IS WITH A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE American Trust Deed Services Corp. 9016 White Oak Avenue Northridge, California 91435 (818) 781-9800 Kim Kaufman, Trustee Sales Officer Ad #14803 2011-08-25 2011-09-01 2011-09-08

15 NOTICE INVITING BIDS FOR FURNISHING DIVING SERVICES AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES AT LONG BEACH HARBOR LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S2442 All bids must be submitted before 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Any Bids received at or after 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, October 4, 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, October 4, 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, October 4, 2011 shall 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 October 31, 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) calendar days after conditional award by the Board.

Copies of said specifications may be obtained, at no cost, in the Plans and Specifications office, 4th floor, Harbor Department Administration Building beginning September 1, 2011 during the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. To receive a specification by courier, at the expense of the Bidder, call the office at (562) 590-4146.

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 mandatory pre-bid meeting at 10:00 a.m., on September 13, 2011, in the 5th floor Conference Room, of the Harbor Department Administration Building. Attendance is mandatory. Each bidder must attend the mandatory pre-bid meeting. Failure to attend shall disqualify your bid, and your bid will be returned, unopened.

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 zero percent (0%) 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 in Specification HD S2442 Special Provisions 37 (S.P.37). The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide & Material Mgmt, One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012 (9th Floor).

CITY OF LOS ANGELES $50,000 REWARD NOTICE The City of Los Angeles offers a reward payable at the discretion of the City Council to one or more persons in the sum or sums up to an aggregate maximum total sum of $50,000 for information leading to the identification and apprehension of the person or persons responsible for the act of murder against, JASON PERVIS RANDLE, in the City of Los Angeles. On Saturday, August 7, 2010, at approximately 10:30 p.m., 21-year old Jason Pervis Randle was confronted by unknown suspects as he entered the parking lot of his apartment complex at 7000-7014 South Hoover Street, in Los Angeles. One of the suspects produced a firearm, fatally shot Randle, and then fled the scene. LAPD is still searching for the suspect(s) and encourages witnesses to come forward, even anonymously, to assist them in their investigation. The person or persons responsible for this crime represent an ongoing threat to the safety of the people of Los Angeles. Unless withdrawn or paid by City Council action, this offer of reward shall terminate on, and have no effect after, FEBRUARY 27, 2012.

The provisions of payment and all other considerations shall be governed by Chapter 12 of Division 19 of the LAAC Code, as amended by Ordinance Nos. 158157 and 166666. This offer shall be given upon the condition that all claimants provide continued cooperation within the criminal justice system relative to this case and is not available to public officers or employees of the City, their families, persons in law enforcement or persons whose misconduct prompted this reward. If you have any information regarding this case, please call the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877-LAWFULL, 24 hours.

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GOVERNMENT LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (METRO) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Metro will receive proposals for EN078 for Environmental Compliance Services per specifications on file at the LACMTA Office of Procurement

All proposals must be received on or before 2: 00 pm on Friday, September 30th, 2011 Pacific Timeat the address listed above, sent to the attention of Eva Rodriguez.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 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 9:00 am in the Gateway Plaza Conference Room located at the address above.

The RFP documents are available on CD for purchase for a non-refundable price of $5.00 when picked up or $10.00 if CD is to be mailed. Requests must be accompanied by payment to Metro in the form of a money order, company check, cashier’s check, or certified check. Personal checks are not acceptable forms of payment.

For further information, please email your request to Eva Rodriguez at rodrigueze@metro.net 9/1/11 CNS-2164332# WATTS TIMES LOS ANGELES COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (METRO) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Metro will receive proposals for RFP No. PS71702775 for a Metro Call Center Telephone System Replacement per specifications on file at the LACMTA Office of Procurement & Material Mgmt, One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012 (9th Floor). Proposer must be a “Cisco Gold Certified Partner” in order to be considered for this project.

Prevailing wages and a 5% SBE participation goal will also apply.

All proposals must be received on or before 3:00 p.m. on 09/23/11 Pacific Timeat the address listed above, sent to the attention of Robert Vasquez .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 09/08/11 at 9:00 a.m. in the Sierra Madre Conference Room, 16th floor, located at the address above.

You may obtain a copy of the RFP, or further information, by calling Robert Vasquez at 213-922-1044 or via e-mail at vasquezr@metro.net.

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INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) NO. 1712 ENVIRONMENTAL ABATEMENT SERVICES The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) invites vendors to submit bids for

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 perform tidal zone and underwater maintenance, cleaning, minor repairs of Cathodic Protection system (CP), vessels and docks, inspection and survey of seabed conditions, and specialty work of installation and repairs of marine structure, infrastructure, fender systems, safety ladders, piles, and steel bulkheads, salvage and removal of objects and debris, complete, as directed by the Engineer at various locations in Long Beach Harbor. Duration of the services will be for three (3) years.

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.

Work shall be completed within the time frame specified in one or more written Annual Contract Task Order(s) (ACTO) issued by the City. Failure of the Contractor to commence, continue, or complete the work within the time frame specified in each ACTO issued by the City will result in liquidated damages (LDs) in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500) per calendar day of delay in commencing, continuing, or completing the work that is in excess of the time specified in the ACTO, plus any authorized time extensions. Concurrent LDs may be assessed for each ACTO that is being performed at the same time.

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 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) calendar 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 1st day of August, 2011.

Richard D. Steinke Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California ( ) Environmental Abatement Services. Copies of the IFB may be downloaded from the internet at www.hacla.org under “Doing Business with HACLA”, then click on “Procurement Opportunities” and click “Construction Goods and Services”. Bids will be accepted at 2600 Wilshire Blvd, #3100, Los Angeles, CA 90057 until 10:00 a.m. (local time), September 16, 2011.

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Qualified “B” licensed General Building Contractors are invited to submit a sealed bid on Project E11-14, Module 12.11 to the Burbank-GlendalePasadena Airport Authority by 2:05 PM, October 6, 2011.

The Work includes, but is not limited to, the following: Installation of new doors, new windows, air conditioning, insulation and correction of some code deficiencies for: Thirty (31) Single Family Residences.

Bidders may obtain construction documents from the Bob Hope Airport’s Web Site at bobhopeairport.com under Business Opportunities and are encouraged to do so prior to the mandatory prebid conference. All Bidders shall register with the Airport Engineering Department via web site or in person at the Home Sound Office. Bids submitted by firms who have not registered with Airport via website or in person will be considered non-responsive. A mandatory Pre-bid conference has been scheduled for September 15, 2011, at 10:00 A.M. at the Bob Hope Airport’s Home Sound Office, 4540 W. Chermak Ave, Burbank, California.

Qualified “A”, licensed Contractors are invited to submit sealed bids by 2:05 PM, September 28, 2011 to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority for Project Number E11-15, Fiber Optic and Service Equipment project. The Work in general consists of, but is not limited to, continuation of fiber optic path from Building 36 along the AOA and terminating at Hangar 1A. Includes all conduit, environmental enclosures, electrical components (including conduit and conductors) to energize enclosures, concrete pads and bollards for a fully complete system as described in the plans and specifications.

Fiber optic cable installation is included as an additive alternate. Plans and specifications can be obtained directly from the Bob Hope Airport Web site at bobhopeairport.com under Business Opportunities. All bidders shall register with the Airport Engineering Department either via website or in person. Bids submitted by firms that have not registered with Airport Engineering will be deemed nonresponsive and will not be considered.

Call Bobbi Greenspahn at (818) 5651305 for more information. A pre-bid conference (although not mandatory, we strongly encourage bidders to attend due to the difficult nature of the existing site conditions), will be conducted on September 14, 2011, at 10:00 A.M. at the Bob Hope Airport Engineering Office, 2800 Clybourn, Burbank, California, 91505. Located at the corner of Sherman Way and Clybourn.

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

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