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BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT ATDEPRESSION-ERA LEVELS

While unemployment among the general population is about9.1 percent, it’s at 16.2 percent for African Americans, and abit higher still for African American males. Historically, the

unemployment rate for African Americans has always beenhigher than the national average. However, now it’s atDepression-era levels. SEE PAGE 3.

DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 20112 � � � � �

CITY STUDENTS GET EXTRA DAY OFF THIS SUMMER

City school kids have one moreday of summer vacation to look for-ward to.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Wal-cott informed principals that thenext school year will begin onThursday September 8th.

That’s one day later than previ-ously announced.

The extra day will be used byteachers to prepare for the schoolyear.

Principals told the Department ofEducation they needed the timebecause of the new tougher studentstandards being put in place.

A letter is being sent to parents toinform them of the change.

The last day of school is June28th.

DATED SUBWAY CARS MAYSOON GET DIGITAL UPGRADESubway riders know when it

comes to high tech cars, not all linesare created equal.

The Metropolitan TransportationAuthority says it’s consideringupgrading some of its older subwaycars to give them some of the fea-tures found in the newer cars.

If the upgrade is possible it couldmean more than 1,700 cars, includ-ing the entire fleet on the B, D, 1, 3and 7 lines, would be outfitted withdigital displays and automatedannouncements.

Those features made their debutwhen new trains were introduced onthe Lexington and Seventh Avenuelines nearly a decade ago.

The MTA says estimated cost andtimelines for the project have notbeen established.

F, G SUBWAY STATION CLOSES FOR MONTHS

OF REPAIRSRiders of the F and G subway

lines in Brooklyn are going to haveto change their routines.

The Smith and 9th Street stationis closed for a $32 million renova-tion lasting through March 2012.

F and G trains will bypass the sta-tion in both directions and no shut-tle service will be provided.

As an alternative, southboundriders can take the B61 bus to the4th Avenue and 9th Street station,and Downtown Brooklyn-boundrides can take the B57 bus to theCarroll Street station.

These buses run every 20 min-utes.

Metropolitan TransportationAuthority officials say the Smithand 9th Street station will receivenew canopies, platforms and light-ing.

Locals knew about the repairs, asMTA workers handed out pam-phlets on the upcoming servicechanges for the last few weeks.

Nevertheless, riders said that thebuses are not as reliable as the sub-way.

“I’m ticked off because it’s earlymorning, I have to get to the Bronx,and I have to take the bus halfwaythere,” said a resident.

“[I’m] happy that they’re fixing itup, finally,” said another.

NNEEWWSS BBRRIIEEFFSSBy JORDAN FLAHERTY

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — FiveNew Orleans police officers accusedof indiscriminately shooting peoplein the chaos unleashed by HurricaneKatrina face a high-profile trial in thecoming week.

The deadly 2005 shooting on theDanziger Bridge and resulting cover-up came to epitomize the city’s failureto protect its citizens and exposeddeep-rooted corruption in the policedepartment which many say remainsunaddressed.

“This trial is going to show thecountry and the world that we have aserious problem with our policedepartment,” said Eddie Jordan, thecity’s former District Attorney.

“This department is engaged inhorrendous acts against its citizens.”

Fear soon followed the deadlyfloodwaters which swallowed 80 per-cent of New Orleans and left thou-sands stranded on their rooftops afterKatrina smashed through the city’spoorly maintained levees on August29, 2005.

Reports of widespread looting andarmed gangs roaming the city shiftedthe government’s already botchedresponse from humanitarian aid to amilitary operation.

Then-Governor Kathleen Blancosent in National Guard troops,announcing “These troops know howto shoot and kill and I expect theywill.”

Warren Riley, then-second incharge of the New Orleans policedepartment (NOPD) reportedlyinstructed officers to “take the cityback and shoot looters.”

In the following days, six people —almost all of them African American— were killed under suspicious cir-cumstances in incidents involvingpolice. Scores more were injured.

“We had more incidents of policemisconduct than civilian miscon-duct,” Jordan, the former districtattorney said. “All these stories oflooting, it pales next to what thepolice did.”

The Danziger Bridge case is themost notorious of at least nine inci-dents being investigated by federalagents.

A group of officers, who hadapparently heard a misleading radioreport about shootings in the area,began firing on two families whowere simply trying to escape thefloodwaters.

Ronald Madison, a mentally chal-

lenged man, was shot in the back atleast six times, then stomped andkicked by an officer until he wasdead, officers who pleaded guilty inexchange for a lighter sentence havetestified.

James Brissette, a high school stu-dent, died after he was shot seventimes.

Four others were badly wounded,including Susan Bartholomew, 38,whose arm was shot off her body.

For years, family members andadvocates called for official investiga-tions and were rebuffed.

That changed when PresidentBarack Obama’s newly appointedattorney general took over in 2009and the U.S. Justice Departmentdecided to look into the accusations.

It has been one of the most wide-ranging investigations of a policedepartment in recent U.S. history.Dozens of officers are facing lengthyprison terms, and corruption chargeshave reached to the very top of thedepartment.

In a scathing 158-page reportreleased in March, the Justice Depart-ment declared that the New Orleanspolice department has deep structur-al problems beyond what has beenrevealed by the Danziger incident.

“Basic elements of effective polic-ing — clear policies, training,accountability, and confidence of thecitizenry-have been absent for years,”the report concluded.

Assistant District AttorneyChristopher Bowman said public dis-trust in the police department is real.

“We see the effects of that on adaily basis in criminal court. Whenwe question jurors, there are jurors

that say they don’t trust the police.”But positive changes have already

taken hold, Bowman said.“You have to look at an entire

criminal justice system that isreforming itself,” he said.

Criminal justice reformers dis-agree, saying that the problems aresystemic and that even the JusticeDepartment investigations, whichhave focused mostly on the NOPD,don’t go far enough.

They complain of judges who aretoo close to prosecutors, a coronerwho sides with the police version ofevents, and a city jail that is thelargest per capita jail in the UnitedStates.

“Danziger is not something thathappened in isolation,” said RosanaCruz, the associate director ofV.O.T.E., an organization that seeksto build civic engagement for former-ly incarcerated people.

“Everyone’s job in the criminal jus-tice system depends on there being alot of crime in the city. As long asthat’s the case, we’re not going tohave safety.”

Jury selection in the DanzigerBridge trial begins tomorrow andopening arguments are expected thefollowing week.

Sergeants Kenneth Bowen andRobert Gisevius and Officers Antho-ny Villavaso and Robert Faulcon areaccused in both the shooting and thecover-up and face life sentences ifconvicted.

Sergeant Arthur Kaufman, whowas not present at the shooting, isaccused only in the cover-up, andfaces a maximum penalty of 120years in prison.

New Orleans police face trial in post-Katrina killings

WASHINGTON — The U.S.Supreme Court refused withoutcomment to review the case of com-munity group ACORN, which U.S.law banned from getting federalfunds.

The Association of CommunityOrganizations for Reform Now,now defunct, said the provisions inseveral pieces of appropriations leg-islation constituted an unconstitu-tional “bill of attainder” — punish-ment by the Legislature withouttrial.

Founded in Arkansas, the orga-

nization’s downfall began in 2009,when undercover video taken bytwo conservative activists appearedto show ACORN employees givingadvice on how to hide prostitution.Republican officials also accusedthe group of vote fraud.

A federal appeals court threw outa judge’s permanent injunctionagainst the law banning federalfunding. ACORN had been gettingabout 10 percent of its money fromthe federal government.

Nevertheless, the federal appealscourt in New York said in its 2009

ruling, “ACORN has helped over 2million people register to vote, advo-cated for increasing the minimumwage, worked against predatorylending, prevented foreclosures,assisted over 150,000 people filetheir tax returns and ‘worked onthousands of issues that arise fromthe predicaments and problems ofthe poor, the homeless, the under-paid, the hungry and the sick.”

The organization had 500,000members in 75 cities across theUnited States, with national officesin Brooklyn.

Court refuses ACORN challenge

Cars pass over the Danziger Bridge in 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011 3� � � � �

By MICHELLE MILLER

The economy and jobs will be bigissues in Washington again thiscoming week.

While unemployment among thegeneral population is about 9.1 per-cent, it’s at 16.2 percent AfricanAmericans, and a bit higher still forAfrican American males.

Historically, the unemploymentrate for African Americans hasalways been higher than the nation-al average. However, now it’s atDepression-era levels. The mostrecent figures show African Ameri-can joblessness at 16.2 percent. Forblack males, it’s at 17.5 percent; Andfor black teens, it’s nearly 41 per-cent.

For some, it’s crunch time atSTRIVE, a job training program inEast Harlem, where instructors usedrill sergeant-like techniques. Theyteach job-seekers to correct theirmistakes by fining them a quartereach time they make them.

For young men of color, especiallyBlack males in New York City,things are especially bad. Accordingto the think tank, the CommunityService Society, 34 percent of NewYork’s young black men age 19 to 24are not working.

“If you haven’t connected with theworld of work by the age of 25, it’s apermanent problem for the rest ofyour career,” says David Johns withthe Community Service Society.

Christopher Scott, 20 and a highschool drop-out, got a GED last year,but he hasn’t been able to find a jobever since.

“It makes me feel degraded in away cause at 20, I should be moreindependent,” Scott says.

For those with less than a college

education, finding a job alone isn’tthe answer. Even if they secureemployment, it’s often below mini-mum wage, and in places like NewYork City, it’s barely enough to sur-vive.

Jermaine Christian, currentlyworking as a restaurant busboy,graduated from one of the top highschools in the city in 2010. He can’tafford college, so after searching fora year now, he works for $5.50 perhour.

“I became more or less desperateand took anything I could find,”Christian says.

Job counselors say part of theproblem is that high schools aren’tteaching marketable skills.

“Unless you have a skill comingout of high school, in this society, inthis economy, you will not be able tofind a job,” Johns says.

Even so, in this climate, wherejobs are scarce, even having a realskill is still no guarantee of a job.

African American unemployment at 16 percent

By MICHAEL GORMLEY

ALBANY — Hundreds of protest-ers for and against gay marriage inNew York chanted, sang and soughtout TV cameras Monday while thestate Senate again came to no resolu-tion on the issue in a closed-door ses-sion that barely touched on thenationally divisive topic.

Two Republican senators said thegay marriage issue that has sharplyfocused the efforts of opponents andadvocates was only briefly discussedin the caucus. Instead, Senate Repub-lican leader Dean Skelos is negotiat-ing with Democratic Gov. AndrewCuomo on religious exemptions thatcould be enough for Republican sena-tors — most of whom oppose gay mar-riage — to send the issue to a floorwhere a bipartisan effort could pass it.

Democratic Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., aBronx minister who has led the oppo-sition, said he now considers thelegalization of same-sex marriageinevitable at some point in New York.He said, however, he’s unsure how theSenate will vote, noting Cuomo isexerting unprecedented pressure toget Republicans to approve his bill.

On Monday, groups led by clergyopposed to same-sex marriage sanghymns such as “Victory is Mine” andprayed in small circles while pro-same-sex marriage advocates coun-tered with “God Bless America” and“This Little Light of Mine” and linedthe halls and parlor outside the Senatechamber.

State troopers were called to theSenate chamber floor as the twogroups started to merge and talk witheach other, but there was no escala-

tion in the jammed marble hallwaysthat turned stifling hot from the peo-ple and TV cameras. Most wererespectful of each other and kept totheir own groups.

“This is not about religion, this isabout civil rights,” Sharon Baum ofNew York City said.

She was soon confronted by awoman opposed to gay marriage.

“If this passes, we will becomeSodom and Gomorrah,” said 80-year-old Ginny Winn, of Delmar in AlbanyCounty.

“God says `No’!” chanted one side,as pro-gay marriage advocates, led bytheir clergy, intoned, “God is love!”

When Winn, a great-grandmother,interrupted Baum and said she’s beenmarried for decades. Baum offered asincere “Mazel tov!” which is Hebrewfor congratulations.

The gay marriage bill is now partof the usual horse-trading of issuesbehind closed doors that is common atthe close of session for the New YorkLegislature. That means the emotion-al issue is tied to such common, butimportant measures as continuingNew York City’s rent control law anda statewide property tax cap, said thesenators who spoke on the conditionof anonymity because there was noofficial statement from the Republicanmajority.

Susan Lerner of the good-govern-ment group Common Cause said thelevel of professional and grass rootslobbying appears unmatched in NewYork since the abortion and reproduc-tive rights battles of the 1970s.

New York’s vote is pivotal in thenational question over same-sex mar-riage, an effort that largely stalled inthe same room two years ago when

the Senate voted it down. Since then,efforts have failed in New Jersey,Rhode Island and Maryland. Advo-cates hope a “yes” vote in the nation’sthird-most populous state jumpstartsthe effort.

The Rev. William Mayhew ofMillerton said children aren’t giventhe support they need in a gay house-hold.

“They are creating another catego-ry of civil rights,” Mayhew said.“American will suffer!”

Former New York Giants playerDavid Tyree was among the celebri-

ties on both sides of the issue. He saidin Albany on Monday that God mayhave given him the ability to make hisstunning, one-handed catch to helpthe Giants win the Super Bowl in2007 so he would have a platform tooppose gay marriage today.

“I am not a political person, but gaymarriage isn’t a political issue,” hesaid. “This not about right and left,but about right and wrong.”

He said he opposes gay measure asa threat to children and families.

The Assembly has already passedthe measure.

Senate stuck on gay marriage as rallies grow

By KIM DIXON

WASHINGTON — PresidentBarack Obama and fellow Democ-rats beat Republicans in the race forcampaign dollars during May, asthe president stepped up fundrais-ing ahead of the 2012 contest for theWhite House.

The Democratic National Commit-tee pulled in $10.5 million, com-pared with $6.2 million raised by theRepublican National Committee,according to monthly filings withthe Federal Election Commission onMonday.

The 2012 election may be thepriciest ever, with Obama potential-ly topping $1 billion in campaigncontributions, up from $750 millionraised for his successful 2008 bid.

Recent court decisions are likely tounleash billions more in cash fromoutside interest groups.

Democratic figures include a $6.5million transfer from the ObamaVictory Fund.

The figures provide a benchmarkfor future fundraising, though mostof the national committee funds for2012 will likely be raised next year,according to Michael Malbin, execu-tive director of George WashingtonUniversity’s Campaign FinanceInstitute.

Republicans are shoring up theirfinances after former RepublicanNational Committee ChairmanMichael Steele spent little time rais-ing money and alienated somedonors with a series of gaffes. Heleft the job in January after losing aparty election.

Obama helps Democrats outpace Republican fundraising

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Ellie Zuehlke and her hus-band had expected the birth oftheir long-awaited first child tobe one of the happiest momentsof their lives—until, somehow, itwasn’t. Instead, Ellie experi-enced severe postpartum depres-sion that left her unable to carefor their newborn son. To thou-sands of mothers, Ellie Zuehlke’sstory will sound sadly familiar.Ellie, a health care industry pro-fessional, was ultimately lucky.Though some mothers losehealth care coverage shortlyafter giving birth, Ellie hadhealth insurance and access to aqualified mental health providerand was able to get help quickly.As she explains, “Because Ireceived prompt, appropriatetreatment after the birth of myfirst son, we were able to greatlyreduce the negative impact of my

depression on my son. In addi-tion, I was able to get the care Ineeded to prevent depressionafter the birth of my secondchild.”

Today, Ellie is enjoying herfamily life and two sons, nowseven and two years old, who arehealthy and happy. Ellie sharedher story with the Children’sDefense Fund-Minnesota (CDF-MN) staff, who were studyingthe effects of depression in fami-lies like hers for their new report“Maternal Depression in EarlyChildhood.” CDF-MN found thatundiagnosed and untreatedmaternal depression is not onlydangerous for a mother but canhave long-term harmful effectson her children.

As the report explains,“Infants and toddlers are veryvulnerable to the effects ofparental depression because oftheir total reliance on their care-givers. A growing body ofresearch is documenting that the

foundation for future braindevelopment is laid down duringthe earliest years of life. Adversechildhood experiences can dis-rupt that process with lifelongconsequences if untreated.‘Unaddressed depression canseriously impair a parent’s abili-ty to respond to her newborn in anurturing way,’ says TerrieRose, founder and ExecutiveDirector of Baby’s Space, an earlylearning center in Minneapolis.This can harm a child’s cogni-tive, physical, social, and emo-tional development, beginningearly in his or her life. ‘As aresult, lower responsiveness,sleep problems, and more nega-tive emotions can be seen ininfants as young as sixmonths.’”

These risks continue to accu-mulate. By toddlerhood, childrenare at elevated risk of behaviorand emotional problems anddelayed language development;

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By LEE A. DANIELS

Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com

The gloomy federal jobs report forMay has brought to the forefrontagain all the questions – and fears –about the economy and the jobs crisisthat six months ago were pushedinto the deep background by thecompromise on unemployment bene-fits between President Obama andthe Republicans in Congress.

The legislation ensured that for allof this year all jobless workers whoreach the normal six-month cutoffpoint for unemployment benefits –estimated at about four million –would automatically have their pay-ments renewed. The measure alsoincluded another two million whosebenefits were lapsing during lastDecember as well.

In exchange, the president agreedto extend for another two years theBush-era provisions governingestate taxes and tax cuts for thehighest-income earners.

The administration was clearlyhoping that during this year, theeconomic recovery would have gath-ered enough steam to forge the kindof job growth that would jump-starta sustained paring of the joblessrolls.

That hasn’t happened. Instead, theslowing of the momentum of eco-nomic recovery has produced a keen-ly-felt disconnect between the factthat the Great Recession officiallyended nearly two years ago and thefact of the hardship many Americansare still enduring.

The official unemployment ratefor May inched up to 9.1 percent anda just-barely-positive 54,000 newjobs were tallied. That underscoredthe fact that the labor market stillhas seven million fewer jobs than atthe start of the crisis in December2007—and that some 14 millionAmericans remain out of work.Which, in turn, raised the point thatmany labor-market analysts expectit will take years of sustained signif-icant job growth to push the unem-ployment rate down to its pre-reces-sion level between five and six per-cent.

The recovery’s tepid pace has alsoemphasized the many worrisomequestions about the recession’s long-term effects. Millions of youngerworkers among the jobless face afuture in which their lifetime earn-ings are likely to be permanentlydiminished by this period of sus-tained joblessness. And, many job-less workers who are 55 and olderare likely – if they can find workagain – to never again approach the

status or wages of their previousjobs. In addition, the number oflong-term unemployed workers –those jobless for six months or more– after declining somewhat late lastyear is on the rise again. The 6.2 mil-lion workers in this category nowcomprise 45.1 percent of the totaljobless, from 43.4 percent in April.

Numerous analysts haveexpressed concern that many of thelong-term unemployed will neveragain find consistent employment.

If not mitigated, these possibilitieswill in the years ahead diminish theamount of payments into the fundsfor Social Security and Medicare,just as the largest waves of BabyBoomers are likely to be drawingheavily on those two federal pro-grams.

Further, the May jobs report, inwhich Black unemployment tickedupward from April’s 16.1 to 16.2 per-cent, again underlined the intensify-ing racially-skewed dynamic withinthe broader economic crisis.

This month’s report on Blackemployment and unemploymentfrom the Center for Labor Researchand Education of the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley (PDF) notedthat the Black unemployment fig-ures stand in stark contrast to thoseof whites, which plateaued at 8.0 per-cent for both months. Furthermore,

the composite figures for Blacksmask the separately alarmingpredicaments of Black male andfemale workers. Unemployment forthe former climbed from 18.1 to 18.6percent, while that of Black femalesstood in May at 14,1 percent, downslightly from April’s 14.4 percent(compared to 7.5 and 7.6 percent,respectively, for white females work-ers).

That was just one of numerousstatistics – including homeowner-ship rates, the incidence of foreclo-sures, funds saved for retirement ,household income, access to healthcare, and poverty rates — that show,amid the difficult present and worri-some prospects for several segmentsof American workers in general,Black Americans’ predicament con-tinues to be the worst of all.

But, of all of this data, the Blackunemployment rate, seeming now tobe slowly spiraling upward on acurve of its own, presents the great-est danger. The reason is simple: Iffewer and fewer Blacks have jobs, allof the other indices of their econom-ic status will get worse.

— Lee A. Daniels is Director ofCommunications for the NAACPLegal Defense & Educational Fund,Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of TheDe-fendersOnline.

The insistent question: Where are the jobs?

by early childhood they are at ele-vated risk of learning difficulties andconduct disorders and are alreadymore vulnerable to depression them-selves. By adolescence they are athigher risk of depression, learningand anxiety disorders, and substanceabuse. CDF-MN cites a finding by theNational Center for Children in Pover-ty that “maternal depression and anx-iety is a stronger risk factor for childbehavior problems than smoking,binge drinking, and emotional orphysical domestic violence.” CDF-MNestimates that in Minnesota one in 10babies is born to a mother experienc-ing serious depression during his orher first year of life—nearly 14,000Minnesota mothers and infants in2009—and every untreated case ofmaternal depression in the state costsa minimum of $23,000 a year primar-ily from lost productivity and higherhealth care costs for mother and child.

The good news, as Ellie Zuehlkeknows first-hand, is that maternaldepression is treatable. “Fortunately,we know a great deal about how tohelp mothers and families strugglingwith depression before or after ababy’s birth,” Helen Kim, a psychia-trist and director of a women’s mentalhealth program at a Minnesota med-ical center, told CDF-MN. “We canalso identify mothers who are at high-er risk of experiencing depressionthan others and offer assistance before

they get pregnant or give birth.” CDF-MN found that Minnesota has somegood policies, effective programs andpractices, and innovative providersthat help prevent or reduce the inci-dence of depression and its negativeeffects. But many of the policies arenot fully implemented and several pro-grams operate on a small scale. Toooften the mothers most at risk—poormothers, young mothers, and moth-ers of color—are the ones least likelyto receive help. Much more must bedone to raise awareness about mater-nal depression and the importance ofaddressing it.

In Minnesota, as in many otherstates, the difficult economic times aremaking maternal depression anddepression in other caregivers worse.“Unfortunately, some of the state’sbudget cutting actions have increasedthe risk factors associated withdepression, especially for low-incomeparents,” says Marcie Jefferys, CDF-MN’s Policy Development Director.Reduced access to postnatal healthcare, public assistance policies thatpush families with newborns deeperinto poverty, lack of child care assis-tance for low income working parents,and cuts in county mental health pro-grams are all among recent budgetcuts that increase family stress, whichis tied to higher rates of depression. Ihope this important new report willsound the alarm for policymakersacross the nation that cutting crucialprograms and services has devastat-

ing impacts on our most vulnerablemothers and children and causes life-long harm. States should be investingtoday in effective programs that iden-tify at-risk mothers and help them getthe treatment they need. Everyone—mothers, children, and the state’s bot-tom line—will benefit tomorrow.

— Marian Wright Edelman is

President of the Children’s DefenseFund whose Leave No ChildBehind® mission is to ensure everychild a Healthy Start, a Head Start,a Fair Start, a Safe Start and aMoral Start in life and successfulpassage to adulthood with the helpof caring families and communities.For more information gotowww.childrensdefense.org.

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would focus on possible further steps to boost hiringin the short term.

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By ERIC JOHNSON

CHICAGO — A campaignadviser to Barack Obamadefended the Democratic’spresident’s record as a prag-matic leader and champion ofthe middle class on Sundayand derided RepublicanWhite House hopefuls as longon rhetoric and short onideas.

David Axelrod, senior advi-sor to Obama’s 2012 re-elec-tion campaign, said on CNN’s“State of the Union” programthat he “heard a lot of pat par-tisan platitudes” during thefirst Republican debate lastweek in New Hampshire.

Axelrod said savvy U.S.voters will sniff out inconsis-

tencies in the campaign mes-sages of Republican MittRomney and Tim Pawlenty,who are among the candi-dates seeking the Republicanpresidential nomination.

“If you are Governor Rom-ney and you say, ‘I am goingto turn this economy around.I’ve got the answers,’ ... peoplehave a right to say, ‘Why is itthat your state was 47th inthe country in job creationwhen you were governor?’”Axelrod said.

Romney, the former gover-nor of Massachusetts whosought the Republican nomi-nation unsuccessfully in2008, leads many pollsamong his party’s rivals. Hehas pushed his businessexperience as a way to attack

Obama’s handling of the U.S.economy.

“If you are Governor Paw-lenty and you say, ‘We’ve gotto clean up this fiscal mess,’people have a right to ask,‘Then why did you leave yourstate with $6.2 billion dollardeficit?’” Axelrod said.

Pawlenty, a former gover-nor of Minnesota, has high-lighted his work balancinghis state’s budget. Pawlentyblamed Obama for stiflingeconomic growth with “biggovernment and heavy-hand-ed regulations” when heunveiled an economic planthis month that called fordeep cuts in taxes and gov-ernment spending.

Axelrod said Obama’s for-mer U.S. ambassador to

China Jon Huntsman, who ispoised to seek the Republicannomination to challenge hisformer boss, had been sup-portive of Obama’s record in2009 on a “whole range ofissues,” including healthcarereform, which Republicansare eager to repeal.

Republican presidentialhopefuls have sharply criti-cized Obama’s stewardship ofthe U.S. economy, failure tofoster job growth and hishandling of military opera-tions in Libya.

Axelrod said one thing towatch in the campaign iswhether Republican candi-dates yield to the forces hesaid are driving the Republi-can Party “further to theright.”

“What independent voterswant is for us to work togeth-er — both parties — to solvethe problems facing the coun-try. They don’t want harshpartisanship. They don’t wantunremitting ideology. Andthe president is a pragmaticleader who is willing to workwith whomever is willing towork with him to try andsolve the problems of thiscountry,” Axelrod said.

Axelrod cited Obama’s“fundamental identificationwith middle-class people andpeople who are struggling tobecome middle class, and topush for the kind of opportu-nities that have characterizedour country in the past andwe want to characterize ourcountry in the future.”

Obama adviser blasts Republican ‘partisan platitudes’

The Obama impersonatorwho stole the show at theRepublican Leadership Con-ference in New Orleans thispast weekend is speaking outagainst reports that he wasyanked from the stagebecause of his controversialperformance.

Comedian Reggie Browntold CNN’s Kyra Phillips thatit was the length of his per-formance - not its content -that led organizers to escorthim off of the stage, butacknowledged some of hisjokes may have touched anerve with the Republicancrowd.

“I do believe that I was overmy time by a few minutes,”Brown said. “And I alsobelieve that the material wasstarting to get to a point towhere maybe they started to,you know, feel uncomfortablewith where it was going. ButI was just doing my thing.”

The Obama look-alikebegan his performance with aseries of often racially tingedjokes about the president, butit wasn’t until he began goingafter some big-name Republi-cans, including several presi-dential candidates, that hewas told his time was up.

Brown said organizers toldhim he would have 15 to 20minutes to perform. But after17 minutes and mid-waythrough a joke about newlydeclared presidential candi-date Minnesota Rep. MicheleBachmann, his mic was cutand he was led off the stage.

RLC President and CEOCharlie Davis said the perfor-mance had gone too far andwas getting inappropriate.

“Had I been in the room I

would have pulled him soon-er. We have zero tolerance forracially insensitive jokes. Assoon as I realized what wasgoing on I rushed backstageand had him pulled,” Davistold CNN.

But Brown insists he wastold that his performance wascut short due to timerestraints, and said severalother speakers, includingTexas Rep. Ron Paul, werealso “kindly escorted off thestage.”

Though Paul delivered oneof the lengthier speeches, andended his remarks quiteabruptly, he was not escortedfrom the stage by organizers.

Brown also rebuffed thenotion that the crowd wasoffended by his racial jokesabout the president, andinsisted organizers knewwhat to expect when theybooked him.

“I didn’t hear any boos onany of the racial jokes. Thepresident, like myself, sharesa mixed background, youknow. My mother’s white. Myfather’s Black. I feel very safedelivering content like that,”Brown said.

“I wouldn’t touch anythingthat I don’t think the presi-dent would feel comfortablewith or hasn’t done himself.He is someone I respect. Iwant to make him happy,appreciate what I’m doing,”Brown said.

And though his jokes mayhave fallen flat in NewOrleans, Brown might just bethe one with the last laugh.The comedian and imperson-ator said his phone has beenringing off the hook since hisnow-infamous performance.

Booted Obama impersonator defendsperformance at GOP gathering

By GREG STOHR

The U.S. Supreme Court,in a ruling likely to meannew limits on class-actionsuits, rejected an effort tosue Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fordiscrimination on behalf ofpotentially a million femaleworkers.

The justices said thelawyers pressing the casefailed to point to a commoncorporate policy that led togender discriminationagainst workers at thou-sands of Wal-Mart and Sam’sClub stores across the coun-try.

The workers “provide noconvincing proof of a compa-nywide discriminatory payand promotion policy,” Jus-tice Antonin Scalia wrote forthe court.

The court ruled unani-

mously on some aspects ofthe case and divided on oth-ers. Four justices — RuthBader Ginsburg, StephenBreyer, Sonia Sotomayor andElena Kagan — said theywould have returned the caseto a lower court and let theworkers try to press aheadwith a class action under adifferent legal theory.

“The court, however, dis-qualifies the class from thestarting gate,” Ginsburgwrote.

Wal-Mart, based in Ben-tonville, Arkansas, rose afterthe Supreme Court issued itsopinion. The companygained 47 cents to $53.29 at10:37 a.m. in trading on theNew York Stock Exchange.

The case was one of themost closely watchedSupreme Court business dis-putes in years, in partbecause the justices hadn’t

looked at the standards forcertifying a class-action suitin 12 years. Billions of dol-lars were at stake for Wal-Mart, the world’s largest pri-vate employer.

Filed in 2001, the suitaimed to cover every womanwho worked at the retailer’sWal-Mart and Sam’s Club’sstores at any point sinceDecember 1998, includingthose not hired until yearsafter the suit was filed.

The women pressing thesuit claim they and col-leagues across the countrywere victimized by Wal-Mart’s practice of lettinglocal managers make subjec-tive decisions about pay andpromotions.

A federal appeals courthad let the suit go forwardon behalf of women whowere working at Wal-Mart atthe time the suit was filed.

Wal-Mart wins Supreme Court gender-bias case

California plaintiffs in the Wal-Mart job discrimination case take part in a news con-ference in March. From left, Betty Dukes of Pittsburg; Deborah Gunter of Palm Springs;Christine Kwapnoski of Bay Point; and Edith Arena of Duarte.

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B r o o k d a l eUniversity Hospitaland Medical Centerstaged its annualCommunity Healthand Street Fair lastweekend, offering awide range ofhealth-related testsas well as live enter-tainment.

The event took placeon Rockaway Parkway,right outside the hospi-tal in Brownsvillewhere people were ableto get the free tests inbooths that were along-side those of communi-ty vendors.

- Photos By LemPeterkin

Brookdale Annual Community Health and Street fair

Getting a tattoo at a street fair was great.The Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation Community OutreachUnit for Better Eyes.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity did some outreach in the community.

The Magic Pans group

The Batman gym

A mother shows her young son how to be likeTiger Woods

The vendors


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By DANIEL WOOLLS

MADRID - Spain has frozen euro33million ($47 million) in accounts held bya detained Egyptian associate of oustedpresident Hosni Mubarak and relatives ofthe detainee, who is also wanted backhome, officials said Friday.

Hussein Salem, 77, his son and an associatedescribed as a frontman were arrested in awealthy Madrid suburb. The money was alleged-ly obtained illegally in Egypt and sent toaccounts in Spain held by Salem, his family andhis business empire, the National Police said.Police also seized homes worth euro10 million($14 million).

Salem appeared Friday before two judges: onehandling the Spanish money laundering probeand another dealing with the international war-rant under which Salem was arrested at therequest of Egypt.

Salem also holds a Spanish passport, a courtofficial said on condition of anonymity in linewith court policy.

One of the most secretive businessmen inEgypt, Salem is wanted in his country on chargesof bribing Mubarak and his family and squan-dering public funds, Egyptian officials say.

His detention was seen in Egypt as a majorstep toward unraveling secrets of corruptionthroughout the reign of Mubarak; and possibly akey to locate and retrieve much of Mubarak’sriches, believed to be stashed abroad at a timewhen the country’s economy is depressed,months after the uprising. Some estimateMubarak’s holdings at tens of billions of dollars.

Salem left Egypt a week before Mubarak wasforced to resign on February 11 after 18 days ofprotests. After Mubarak’s ouster, the protesterscontinued to press for the prosecution ofMubarak and his cronies for what they say wereyears of abuse and corruption.

Salem was charged last month along withMubarak and the ex-president’s two sons. Theirtrial is scheduled for August 3.

Salem is said to have won lucrative land andother deals, including exporting gas to Israel,because of his connections to Mubarak. The natu-ral gas deal has come under severe public criti-cism.

Salem, an ex-army and intelligence officer, wasa close associate of Mubarak from his early daysin office three decades ago.

Lawyers for Salem standing outside theSpanish courtroom where he was being ques-tioned Friday declined to comment or give theirnames.

A National Police statement says the moneyfrozen by Spain was funneled into Salem familyand business accounts through a series of com-panies created by the detained frontman. It didnot name the latter, but said he was Turkish andgave his initials as A.E.

It was not immediately clear which case wouldbe given priority by the Spanish court, theSpanish money laundering probe or Egypt’scharges against Salem.

Complicating things further is Salem’sSpanish passport, which might help his lawyersargue against extraditing him to Egypt.

Spain freezesassets of detainedMubarak associate

By OMAR BROUKSY

RABAT - Morocco’s KingMohammed VI addressesthe nation Friday when hewill unveil reform propos-als likely to include curbson his wide-ranging pow-ers after weeks of demon-strations to demandchange.

The king’s speech will bebroadcast on television andradio from 9:00 pm (2000 GMT),the palace announced Thursday,without referring to his topic.

The address will be a weekafter he was handed proposalsfrom a commission he appointedin March to draw up constitu-tional reforms after the nation-wide demonstrations, inspiredby other popular uprisingssweeping the Arab world.

An official said on conditionof anonymity that MohammedVI would use his speech to out-line the proposed amendments,which are expected to be put to anational referendum early nextmonth.

“The king is going to presentthe broad lines of the constitu-tional revision which has beensubmitted to political parties andwill be made public after thespeech,” he said.

He “will also call for a ‘yes’vote for the plan to revise thecurrent constitution,” the source

told AFP.The 47-year-old monarch,

who took over in 1999, holds vir-tually all power in the Islamicnorth African country, and isalso its top religious authorityas the holy Commander of theFaithful.

The keenly awaited reformsare intended to transform thekingdom’s political system intoa constitutional monarchy, asdemanded by the February 20Movement named after the dateof its first nationwide pro-reform protests.

The youth-led group hasbrought thousands of peopleonto the streets in unprecedent-ed calls for change, on the backof uprisings that toppled theautocratic rulers of Tunisia and

Egypt in January and February.A member of the panel that

worked on the reform proposalstold AFP they include a majortransfer of powers fromMohammed VI to the prime min-ister, who would be able toappoint key ministers, and theindependence of the judiciary.

The reforms also foreseeindigenous Berber becoming anofficial language alongsideArabic, the commission membersaid last week. This would be afirst in the Maghreb region ofnorth Africa.

The proposals also say Islamwould remain the state religionbut freedom of belief would beguaranteed while the king’s sta-tus as “holy” would be dropped,sources said.

Morocco's king to unveilreforms in address

By SADIBOUMARONE

DAKAR, Senegal- Senegal’s Cabinethas proposedchanging the coun-try’s constitution tocreate the post ofvice president intime for next year’selection, makingway for an automat-ic succession in theevent of the presi-dent’s death.

Senegal’s oppositioncriticized the proposalissued late Thursday,saying it is a way forPresident AbdoulayeWade to bring his con-troversial son into

power without having tobe elected by the people.Wade, who is 85, createda stir in 2009 when heannounced plans to runfor a third, extraconsti-tutional term.

Because of his age,many fear Wade will notlive to the end of a newfive-year term and hisdeath in office coulddestabilize one of the fewlong-standing democra-cies in the region. Alocal court recently fineda doctor who publiclysaid that Wade is too illto run for a third term,charging her with dis-rupting public order.

Although Wade hassaid that he has theenergy to serve into his90s, the president hasdelegated more and

more power to his eldestchild, Karim Wade, whois minister of state andwho was recently alsoappointed minister ofenergy.

The younger Wade isdeeply unpopular and isfrequently criticized inopposition newspapers,where he has beenaccused of embezzlingstate funds. In 2009, heheaded a slate of candi-dates in Dakar’s munici-pal election which wastrounced by the opposi-tion.

“This initiative ofWade’s is a new way todeform the constitutionof our country,” opposi-tion leader MoustaphaNiasse said. “This pro-posal conceals a processof succession, since

what Wade wants is tocreate a mechanism thatwill allow him to stay inpower by designating asuccessor.”

The proposal needs tobe voted on by theNational Assembly. Ifadopted, it would meanthat in the event of thepresident’s death, thevice president wouldassume the functions ofpresident, just like inthe United States.

In the current systemmodeled after France,the country’s colonialruler, if the presidentdies in office, the head ofthe Senegalese senatebecomes president for abrief period until thecountry can organizenew elections.

Senegal may create VP post in 2012 election

Moroccan police use truncheons to break up a new pro-reformdemonstration in Casablanca, May 2011. Morocco's KingMohammed VI addresses the nation when he will unveil reformproposals likely to include curbs on his wide-ranging powersafter weeks of demonstrations to demand change.(AFP/File/Chafik)


AFRICAN SCENED

By JOE BROCK

ABUJA - AnIslamist sectclaimed responsibil-ity on Friday for abomb attack onNigeria’s policeh e a d q u a r t e r s ,according to astatement sent to alocal newspaper.

Police said theybelieved a suicidebomber detonated theexplosives which torethrough a car park out-side the headquartersin the capital Abuja onThursday, killing sev-eral people. Theyblamed Islamist sectBoko Haram for whatwould be the first sui-cide bombing inNigeria’s history if con-firmed.

The Daily Trust, anewspaper with a largereadership in the most-ly-Muslim north, onFriday published whatit said was a statementsigned by Abu Zaid, aspokesman for BokoHaram.

“We would speak onthe details of theMujahid (bomber) atthe appropriate timebut the fact is that he isa martyr who sacrificedhis life for the sake ofAllah,” the statement

said.It did not make clear

if the bomber had killedhimself intentionally.Security analysts say itis unclear whether thebomber meant to blowhimself up or whetherthe explosives detonat-ed accidentally while hewas still in the vehicle.

Boko Haram has anill-defined structureand chain of commandand it was not possibleto verify the statement

independently.At least two people

were confirmed killedin the blast: the driverof the vehicle whichexploded and a policeofficer who got into thecar at a security check-point.

Five body bags weretaken from the scenecontaining body partsand the Red Cross saidit was too soon to give atoll.

The blast comes less

than three weeks afterPresident GoodluckJonathan was sworn infor his first full term inoffice and follows threecoordinated bombs, oneinside a military bar-racks, in the hours fol-lowing his inaugura-tion.

The violence has cat-apulted national securi-ty to the top of his agen-da before he has evenformed a new govern-ment.

POSSIBLE MILITANTLINKS

Attacks by BokoHaram, which wants awider application ofstrict sharia Islamiclaw, had largely beenconfined to the areaaround the northeast-ern city of Maiduguriuntil recently.

Its former leader,self-proclaimed Islamicscholar MohammedYusuf, was shot dead inpolice custody during a2009 uprising in whichhundreds were killed.His mosque wasdestroyed with tanks inwhat the security forcesclaimed as a decisivevictory.

But low-level guerril-la attacks on police sta-tions and targetedkillings, including oftraditional leaders andmoderate Islamic cler-ics, intensified in thesecond half of last year.

The group claimedresponsibility forChristmas Eve bomb-ings in the central cityof Jos and for the bombattacks which killed atleast 16 people whenJonathan was inaugu-rated on May 29.

The vehicle whichexploded on Thursdayappeared to have tailedthe convoy of PoliceInsepctor-General HafizRingim, who had

entered the buildingmoments before theblast, suggesting itmay have been anassassination attempt,officials said.

Ringim provoked anangry response fromBoko Haram memberslast week when he saidtheir days were “num-bered”. A letter, claim-ing to be from BokoHaram, was delivered toa newspaper inMaiduguri the next daywarning of moreattacks.

“Very soon we shallembark on jihad on theenemies of God and hisprophet,” said the let-ter, written in Hausa,the main language innorthern Nigeria.

It said some of itsfighters had trained inSomalia, where alQaeda-linked al-Shabaab rebels controlswathes of the countryand are fighting theWestern-backed gov-ernment.

Intelligence sourcessay there is evidencethat some members ofBoko Haram trainedover the border in Nigerwhere Al Qaeda in theIslamic Maghreb(AQIM) is known tohave a presence, but noevidence of links toSomali militants hasever been made public.

Nigerian Islamist sect claims bomb attack: report

Members of emergency services work at the scene of an explosion at apolice station after a suspected suicide bomber was killed and manyvehicles were destroyed in Abuja.

Photo/Afolabi Sotunde

By RODMcGUIRK

C A N B E R R A ,Australia - Policehave increased secu-rity around PapuaNew Guinea’s actingprime minister forfear of a traditionalrevenge attack afterhis 21-year-old sonwas accused of mur-dering a woman atthe family home, anofficial said Friday.

A cordon was thrownaround Acting PrimeMinister Sam Abal’shouse in the capital,Port Moresby, wherepolice allege his son,Theo Abal, slashed thethroat of a 29-year-oldhostess he met in a barMonday, police

spokesman DominicKakas said.

The cultural practiceof payback has a longtradition in the SouthPacific’s most populousisland nation, with amurder victim’s clanoften taking outrevenge on the killer orhis family.

“It does happen, andwe’re not saying it won’thappen, so we’ve takenall precautions to pro-tect the acting primeminister,” Kakas said.

“It usually is an eyefor an eye and a toothfor a tooth, but we try tomake peace betweentribes, and in a lot ofinstances, commonsense prevails,” he said.

Kakas said theyoungest of Sam Abal’stwo sons, who wasadopted, will be chargedwith willful murder.

But first, relatives of thewoman, who came froma province more than 60miles (100 kilometers)northwest of PortMoresby, must formallyidentify her body, hesaid. The woman wentby the name Theresa,but her full name hasnot been released.

According to Kakas,“the suspect confessedin his statement to hav-ing killed the lady.”

Kakas declined tocomment on the motive.

Theo Abal, who isunemployed and wasliving with his father inthe house, was arrestedat a Port Moresby hotelTuesday and remainedin police custodyFriday. He could facethe death penalty if con-victed.

A guard at the housetold police he saw Abal

and the woman arrivehome in the early hoursof Monday and head fora garden on the premis-es. Police said that theguard later heard thewoman scream and thatAbal confessed to killingher.

Kakas said a kitchenknife found near herbody was the suspectedweapon.

Sam Abal said he per-sonally reported the“alleged murder” toPolice CommissionerTony Wagambie onMonday.

He made no commenton his son’s alleged con-fession, but pledged tocooperate fully. He saidin a statement Tuesdaythat if any of his rela-tives were involved,

“they will face the fullbrunt of the law and willnot be treated different-ly from anyone else.”

Papua New Guineahas had the death penal-ty for only a few yearsand has yet to carry outan execution, though ahandful of convictedkillers have been sen-tenced to death, Kakassaid.

Police fear payback for Papua New Guinea leader

Gaddafi government talking to rebels:Russia envoy in LibyaTUNIS - Representatives of Muammar Gaddafi’s government are in con-

tact across Europe with members of the Libyan rebellion trying to break his41-year rule, Russia’s envoy to Libya said, citing Tripoli’s prime minister.

Mikhail Margelov, President Dmitry Medvedev’s special representative forAfrica, met Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi in the Libyan capital onThursday as part of Moscow’s efforts to help end the conflict, which enteredits fourth month on Friday.

Speaking to reporters in Tunis on Friday Margelov said the prime minis-ter had told him that representatives from his government were in contactwith officials from Benghazi in several European capitals, including France,Germany and Norway.

“The prime minister wanted to tell me that they have a sort of communi-cation channel with the Transitional National Council,” Margelov said.


CARIBBEAN NEWS1

OCHO RIOS,Jamaica — JamaicaPromotions Corporation(JAMPRO) and theJamaica BusinessD e v e l o p m e n tCorporation (JBDC)have teamed up to dis-play the best ofJamaican products andinvestment opportuni-ties at this year’s stag-ing of the JamaicanDiaspora Convention2011, which is beingheld in Ocho Rios fromJune 15 to 17. Thisyear’s conference isbeing held under thetheme: “One Nation:Jamaica and itsDiaspora in partner-ship”.

During the course ofthe convention, JAM-PRO will be engagingmembers of theDiaspora in discussionon the many trade andinvestment opportuni-ties that currently existin the island. The keysectors being promotedby the agency includeagriculture/agro-pro-

cessing, knowledgeservices/informationand communicationtechnology (ICT),tourism, creative indus-tries, and manufactur-ing.

For its part, JBDCwill be using the oppor-tunity to gain insightinto the buying pat-terns and information

gathering sources ofthe members of theDiaspora. Under thebanner of its ThingsJamaican retail arm,the JBDC will be usingthe event as a platformto showcase the creativ-ity and ingenuity of thelocal manufacturingsector.

Things Jamaican

currently marketsauthentic Jamaicanproducts on behalf oflocal suppliers acrossthe island, and will beseeking attract greaterinterest from theDiaspora in the manygift and craft items thatare available for sale.Among the productsholding pride of place

in the exhibit are theworld renowned BlueMountain coffee, artand craft pieces includ-ing ceramics and papi-er-mâché. Also includedare condiments, saucesand confections such astamarind balls and mintsweets.

JAMPRO is alsoactively promoting theMeet Jamaica initiative,which has been receiv-ing positive responsesfrom the delegates atthe convention. MeetJamaica is a private-public sector collabora-tive effort between thePrivate SectorOrganisation ofJamaica (PSOJ) andJAMPRO, designed toincrease the trade ofgoods and servicesbetween Jamaica andthe United Kingdom bycapitalising on the glob-al brand platformafforded by the 2012London Olympics.

During a visit to theJAMPRO/JBDC exhibi-tion booth, Minister of

State in the Ministry ofForeign Affairs andForeign Trade, SenatorMarlene Malahoo Forte,and chairman of theJamaican DiasporaFoundation, EarlJarrett, commendedboth entities on theirefforts in promotingBrand Jamaica.

Senator MalahooForte underscored theimportance of increas-ing the awareness ofmembers of theDiaspora as it relates toavailable investmentand trade opportunities,as Jamaicans residingoverseas represent astrong base of potentialinvestors and importersof Jamaican productsand services.

The fourth biennialJamaica DiasporaConvention is expectedto attract approximate-ly 300 Jamaicans cur-rently residing in theUnited Kingdom,United States ofAmerica, Canada andother parts of the world.

Brand Jamaica showcased at Diaspora convention

From left: Earl Jarrett, chairman of the Jamaican Diaspora Foundationand Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, Minister of State in the Ministry ofForeign Affairs and Foreign Trade, engage in discussion with DawnelleGilzean, inventory officer at the Jamaica Business DevelopmentCorporation (JBDC) and Margaret Walker, consulting officer at JAM-PRO, during their visit to the JAMPRO/JBDC booth at the JamaicanDiaspora Convention in Ocho Rios.

By ALPHEASAUNDERS

K I N G S T O N ,Jamaica (JIS) —J a m a i c a ’ sDepartment ofLocal Governmentis to sign a memo-randum of under-standing (MoU)with Americancompany, GreenE n e r g yManagement, totest a new set of

solar energy tech-nologies.

The partnershipforms part of theDepartment’s thrust toestablish a number ofalternative energy proj-ects.

Minister of State inthe Office of the PrimeMinister with responsi-bility for LocalGovernment Reform,Robert Montague madethe announcement at amedia roundtable,organised by theDepartment of Local

Government onTuesday.

He explained that theDepartment hadembarked on a numberof alternative energyprojects at the commu-nity level, including awindmill and solarpanel, which is nowbeing installed at theTrelawny Infirmary,and solar street lights.

Meanwhile, he notedthat, in 2009, theDepartment embarkedon “an ambitious andcost-saving experiment

in the form of usingbio-diesel for our solidwaste trucks”. Thisinvolved 20 trucks at aninitial investment out-lay of $273,000, using3,650 litres of biodiesel,in partnership withJamaica Biofuels.

“We used to collect allthe used oil from hotelsand restaurants andthen truck them toMontego Bay. We hand-ed that oil to JamaicaBiofuels, and they had a96 percent conversionrate of oil to biodiesel,”

Montague explained.He said the experi-

ment proved successful,saving the NationalSolid WasteManagement Authority(NSWMA) 20 percent infuel and operationalcosts.

“There is every inten-tion to broaden theapplication of this toother fleets in the localgovernment system,”Montague said.

Montague alsoupdated the media onother areas of his port-

folio, such as: propertytax collection; innova-tion in the operations ofthe NSWMA; improve-ments in the JamaicaFire Brigade; energysaving initiatives;income generatingactivities for parishcouncils; increased effi-ciencies in the develop-ment approval process;the Ananda Alert sys-tem; disaster prepared-ness; infirmaries; andthe financial manage-ment system for parishcouncils.

Jamaica to sign solar energy MoU with US company

GEORGETOWN,Guyana — Theprime minister of StKitts and Nevis, DrDenzil Douglas, onMonday made astrong call for inter-national develop-ment partners tothrow their supportbehind the newCaribbean RegionalPublic HealthAgency (CARPHA)

which theC a r i b b e a nCommunity (CARI-COM) will legallyestablish by July ofthis year.

Douglas, who haslead responsibility forHuman ResourcesDevelopment, Healthand HIV and AIDS inCARICOM’s quasi-Cabinet of theConference of Heads ofGovernment, was deliv-

ering the featureaddress to an audienceof international develop-ment partners andother key stakeholdersat CARPHA’s secondannual partners’ confer-ence held inWashington under thetheme: Charting theFuture in Health andDevelopment in theCaribbean.

The one-day confer-ence, which was held atthe headquarters of the

Pan American HealthOrganization (PAHO),sought to update stake-holders on the progresstowards the regionalpublic health agencyand to cement furthersupport for the agency.

In acknowledgingthe support of key part-ners, including the Pan-American HealthOrganisation (PAHO),the United States,Canada, the UnitedKingdom and France,

Douglas pointed to thepivotal role that theregional public healthagency would play inpooling much neededresources to bolster thefight against both HIVand AIDS and chronicnon-communicable dis-eases in the Caribbean.

He explained that therole of public health inreducing the impact ofthe communicable andnon-communicable dis-eases is being identified

as “a critical componentof sustaining economicdevelopment” and point-ed out that the costs ofresponding adequatelyto both HIV and NCDswere enormous.

CARPHA, he stated,would be the bridge for“channeling scarceresources and fosteringshared responsibilityand institutionalizingeffective managementwithin the Community’spublic health sector.”

St Kitts-Nevis PM urges international support for regional public health agency


INTERNATIONALD

By TAREKAMARA

TUNIS - Tunisia’sousted presidentZine al-Abidine BenAli said Monday hewas tricked intoleaving the countrysix months ago, set-ting the stage for arevolution whichinspired the “ArabSpring” ripplingacross the region.

Ben Ali fled to SaudiArabia on January 14,after mass protestsagainst 23 years of rulein which he, his wifeand their family builtstakes in the country’sbiggest businesses andaccumulated vast for-tunes at whatTunisians say was theirexpense.

A Tunisian courtbegan trying Ben Aliand his wife in absentiaon charges of theft, andillegally possessingarms, jewelry, cash,drugs and weapons.

Hundreds of protest-ers stood outside thecourtroom demandingthat Ben Ali, 74, bebrought back toTunisia.

Tunisia’s revolt elec-trified millions acrossthe Arab world who suf-fer similarly from highunemployment, risingprices and repressivegovernments. Ben Ali’strial will be watchedclosely in Egypt, whereformer president HosniMubarak is due to standtrial over the killing ofprotesters.

In a statement issuedby his lawyers, Ben Aligave his first detailedaccount of the eventsleading to his depar-ture.

At the time, thou-sands of protesters hadgathered in the centerof the capital Tunis todemand that he stepdown, the culminationof three weeks ofdemonstrations whichpolice tried to disperseby firing on the crowds.

The statement saidthat the head of presi-

dential security hadcome to Ben Ali in hisoffice and told him“friendly” foreign intel-ligence services hadpassed on informationabout a plot to assassi-nate the president.

He was persuaded toget on a plane that wastaking his wife andchildren to safety inJeddah, Saudi Arabia,but with the intentionof returning immedi-ately, the statementsaid.

“He boarded theplane with his familyafter ordering the crewto wait for him inJeddah. But after hisarrival in Jeddah, theplane returned toTunisia, without wait-ing for him, contrary tohis orders.

“He did not leave hispost as president of therepublic and hasn’t fledTunisia as he was false-ly accused of doing,”the statement said.

MORE FREEDOMBen Ali’s version of

events is unlikely toelicit sympathy from

the majority ofTunisians. They arenow enjoying relativefreedom after decadeswhen most peoplewould not speak openlyfor fear of arrest by thesecret police.

The trial which gotunder way Monday islikely to shed light onthe belief widely held inTunisia that Ben Ali,his wife Leila Trabelsi,and members of theirfamily had enrichedthemselves by embez-zling state assets.

Before Ben Ali’souster, diplomats spokeof Tunisia’s first ladyspending hundreds ofthousands of dollars onshopping trips abroad,while her relativesacquired yachts andbeachside villas andused their influence tomuscle in on lucrativebusinesses.

Judge TouhamiHafian detailed howinvestigators who wentto the presidentialpalace and Ben Ali’s pri-vate residence after hefled found 1.8 kg of ille-

gal drugs and 43 mil-lion Tunisian dinars($31 million) in cash.

He said they had alsocome across jewelry,archeological artifacts,and arms, all of whichhe said Ben Ali hadobtained illegally.

The prosecutor askedthe judge to hand down“the most severe pun-ishments for those whobetrayed the trust andstole the money of thepeople for their person-al gain .... They did notstop stealing for 23years.”

In his statementreleased Monday, BenAli said the chargesagainst him were a fab-rication designed toblacken his name.

He said the weaponswere gifts from otherheads of state and thejewelry had been givenas gifts to his wife byforeign dignitaries.

The money anddrugs had been plantedin his home and thepresidential palace afterhis departure as part ofa plot against him, he

said in the statement.He also denied hav-

ing any bank accountsin Switzerland or anyother foreign country,and said that he did notown any property over-seas.

Outside the court-room, several hundredprotesters chanted“How long will he beallowed to flee?” Somedemanded that Ben Alibe sentenced to death.

“Why did they startwith the trial over thedrugs and weapons andstolen money?” said awoman protester. “Whydon’t they start with atrial for killing hun-dreds of people?”

Ben Ali is also due toface a separate trial, ina Tunisian militarycourt, on charges thatinclude conspiringagainst the state andmanslaughter.

In the statementreleased through hislawyers, Ben Ali deniedgiving the order to fireon protesters.

Tunisia’s Ben Ali says he was tricked into leaving

By STANLEYWHITE

TOKYO - Japan’sgovernment onMonday delayedendorsing tax andsocial securityreforms aimed atcurbing huge publicdebt amid reportsthat unpopularPrime MinisterNaoto Kan wouldnot keep his pledgeto quit until keylegislation wasenacted.

The latest politicaldithering comes asJapan struggles to con-tain a nuclear disasterat Tokyo Electric PowerCo’s Fukushima plantand rebuild from themassive March 11earthquake and tsuna-mi that devastated itsnortheast region.

The rulingDemocratic Party ofJapan’s (DPJ) panel ontax and social securityreforms failed to signoff on a governmentproposal to raise the

sales tax in stages to 10percent by the fiscalyear starting in April2015 after several law-makers sought assur-ances that taxes wouldnot be raised until theeconomy was strongenough to cope with theimpact.

“We can’t decide onthis today. What weshould do is to give ourproposals to the govern-ment and debate thematter further,” HiroshiOgushi, a member ofthe party panel, toldreporters.

“Looking at theatmosphere in thisroom, I don’t think thegovernment can hold itsmeeting on taxes today.We have to work morewith the government,”said Sakihito Ozawa,the panel’s No. 2 offi-cial.

A meeting of govern-ment ministers andparty that had beenscheduled to endorsethe plan was subse-quently postponed.

A delay on the finerdetails of the plan woulddo little to soothe wor-ries of credit ratings

agencies about Japan’slarge public debt andpersistent politicaldeadlock.

Authorities havevowed to decide on thetax and welfare reformby June 20, fearing thatfailing it could under-mine credibility ofJapan’s fiscal disciplinein financial markets.

Raising the sales taxin stages to 10 percentby 2015/15 could gener-ate around 12.8 trillionyen ($160 billion) inextra revenue for thecentral government andregional governments.

Kan plans to ear-mark most sales taxrevenue for welfare.

Even if the unpopu-lar premier could winintraparty backing forthe tax and welfarereforms, the govern-ment still needs opposi-tion votes to pass bills ina divided parliament.

But opposition par-ties are refusing tocooperate while Kanstays in his post.TO QUIT, OR NOT TO

QUITKan, already Japan’s

fifth premier in as

many years, survived ano-confidence vote earli-er this month afterpromising critics in hisown party he wouldquit over his handlingof the March 11 earth-quake, but declined tosay when.

Kan wants to overseepassage of three laws —one enabling bondissuance to help fundthe $1 trillion budgetfor the year from April,a second extra budget todeal with the aftermathof the tsunami, and abill introducing a feed-in-tariff system to pro-mote renewable energysources, Kyodo newsagency quoted the DPJ’s

No. 2 as telling opposi-tion counterparts.

Party Secretary-General Katsuya Okadaalso proposed extend-ing the current sessionof parliament, set to endon Wednesday, for fourmonths and said thegovernment wanted tosubmit a third and big-ger extra budget tofund rebuilding fromthe disasters by earlySeptember, Kyodo said.

Concerned aboutJapan’s huge debt andpolitical deadlock, rat-ings agencies arethreatening to down-grade the country’s sov-ereign debt.

Social security spend-

ing accounts for almosta third of the statebudget, which totals92.4 trillion yen for thefiscal year that startedin April and growssteadily due to an agingpopulation.

But even a credibleplan to raise taxes andcut healthcare spendingprobably will not pre-vent a downgrade aslong-term growthprospects are weak,Moody’s InvestorsService said last monthwhen it decided toreview Japan’s rating.Standard & Poor’s andFitch also have a nega-tive outlook on Japan.

Japan defers tax hike plan as PM sets conditions to quit

Pakistan militants force girl to wear suicide vestISLAMABAD - An eight-year-old Pakistani girl was kidnapped by Islamist

militants who forced her to wear a suicide vest to attack security forces, policesaid on Monday.

Police produced the girl, identified as Sohana Javaid, before a news con-ference broadcast on Pakistani television channels.

The girl recalled how she was kidnapped from her hometown of Peshawarand brought to the Lower Dir district in the northwest.

“There were two men and two women sitting in a car. They kidnapped me,”she told reporters in Dir.

Forced to wear a suicide vest, she was transported to a security check post.“They put one suicide vest on me, but it did not fit. Then they put on a sec-

ond one,” Sohana said. “I threw away the vest and started shouting (for help)as I came close to the checkpost and they (security forces) took me into cus-tody.”

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Lewis has taken aim atcritics of her personali-ty, insisting she “could-n’t care less” if theythink she’s dull. Thestar shot to fame as ashy and retiringwannabe on SimonCowell’s British showThe X Factor in 2006,and went on to super-stardom in the U.K.and the U.S. after win-ning the competition.However, Lewis isangry music fans pre-sume she’s boring justbecause she’s not asoutlandish as the likesof Lady Gaga, and she’sadamant her strengthslie in good qualitysongs. She says, “Idon’t care what anyonesays. I’m not boring.Unless you know me, Idon’t really care aboutyour opinions. I could-n’t care less. Lady Gagadoes her crazy thingand she is great. I defi-nitely have somethingdifferent to offer. I’mall about the music andsongs.”

Cee Lo Green hasconfirmed speculationGnarls Barkley’s fanfavorite tune Who’sGonna Save My Soul isall about the passing ofJames Brown. TheCrazy singer made thebig reveal during arecent taping of VH1show Storytellers,explaining the song issupposed to empoweranyone grieving theloss of a loved one - andhe wrote it as he wasdealing with the 2006death of the Godfatherof Soul. He says, “Thesong is actually aboutthe passing of JamesBrown... It has to dowith everyone; heart-break, loss, regret,helplessness, hopeless-ness, and I felt all of theabove when we lostJames Brown - becausehe embodied every-thing. “James Brown ismy father... I got whatI needed from him - Igot guidance, I gotstyle... integrity, I gotconsistency... Hetaught me how todance too. When he

passed we lost somuch. It was just like,‘Who else...?’ ‘How can Ishow him that all of hiswork was not in vain?The song hurts me(because) there’s somuch genuine pain.”

In a recent inter-view, Lauren Londonrevealed that Lil Waynealmost wifed her. Shealso explained that sheand Wayne were notsome one-night stand.Lauren London: “I metDwayne when I was 15years old. I’ve knownhim a very long time,and we were in a rela-tionship that didn’tmake it. We tried morethan once to revive it,and we were engagedbriefly years ago, butwe eventually partedways. People see the“Lil’ Wayne” personaand think they knowwho he really is. Myson’s father is an intel-ligent, loving and lov-able person who willalways be a dear friend.That is all.”

New dad Nick Can-non struggles to fit allhis projects in to hisbusy schedule, surviv-ing on just four hoursof broken sleep everyday. The star and hiswife Mariah Carey wel-comed twins lastmonth, but Cannon hasrefused to cut back hisworking commitments,still broadcasting hisNew York radio showand hosting realityseries America’s GotTalent, which pre-miered its sixth seasonin the U.S. on Tuesdaynight. But Cannonpays a hefty price forhis busy schedule as hecan only fit in just afew hours of sleeparound work and hisduties as a dad.

Rihanna stopped byThe Today Show to talkabout her hair, pre-per-formance rituals, andwhat she would’vebecome if she wasn’t anentertainer. Not sure ofthe exact name of thecolor of her hair, shesaid it’s a mixture of

different reds. She said,“ It’s like copper-ish,red-ish.” If she wasn’tan entertainer, Rihan-na said she would’vestudied psychology.“Something I was alsointerested in. I reallyenjoy observing, read-ing, and analyzing sit-uations for what theyreally are,” she said.Before hitting up thestage, Rihanna warmsup, drinks tea, praysand then gets dressedas a ritual. Lastly, shewould love to collabo-rate with DepecheMode because she real-ly likes them.

Queensbridge, NewYork rap star Nas hasannounced the title ofhis new upcoming soloalbum. The rapper tookto Twitter early thismorning (May 28th), toreveal the name of thealbum, which is titledLife is Good. In pub-lished reports, the 37-year-old rapper saidLife is Good will fea-ture production from avariety of new produc-ers, as well as veteranSalaam Remi and othernotable producers. Nas’last official studioalbum was 2008’s Unti-tled release.

Cadbury recentlyreleased advertise-ments for their Blisschocolate bars, a“dreamy chocolate truf-fle.” On one of the ads,the British confec-tionary companyincluded the tagline‘Move over Naomi,there’s a new diva intown.” Upon seeingthis, Naomi Campbell,41 year old supermod-el, was not pleased. Theway Campbell sees it,Cadbury is placing herin the same league aschocolate. In a state-ment sent to CNN,Campbell complainsthat the ad is “insult-ing and hurtful.” Thiskind of reaction isn’tsurprising, as Camp-bell is known for her,well, diva-like antics.She’s been accused sev-eral times for violenceand abuse against

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By LJ Knight

The Queen is back. Well, thequeen to some. I am referring toBeyonce Knowles. While it can beargued that she is a queen to someand a toad to others, there is nodoubt that the chick is bad. Badmeaning good. So bad that everytime she drops an album or a single,we expect for it to be hotter thanchicken grease on a June morning.For her not to deliver said hotnesswould be an atrocity to some. Soafter months of blogs hyping us upwith news of her being in the studioworking with hot producers, andfinally a release date for a single, weexpect that s**t to be hot. Someexpect it to be life changing. Yes,there are some people who really feelthis strongly towards Beyonce.

Unfortunately for her, the firstsingle to be released from Beyoncetitled “Girls Who Run The World”has been receiving mixed reviews.Some of them luke warm. Whilemany of her devoted drones, whowould cherish a Beyonce turdstraight from her rectum, are quick-

ly falling in love with the single,there are others who are lessinclined to simply accept anythingthat the queen gives us. Myselfincluded. I have to be honest, thesong sucks. Big time.

I am a Beyonce fan. Not herbiggest fan. But I dig much of hermusic. I also am a part of the gener-ation that grew up with Beyonce. Iremember the first time I saw thevideo for Destiny’s Child’s single“No No No”. I remember when theyblew up into super stardom. I wasthere to see the ugly break up of thegroup and all of the nasty rumorsabout Beyonce. I was also therewhen “Crazy In Love” blew andmade her an official super star; outshining her time in Destiny’s Child.I was also there to see her grow andmature with the content of hermusic. Sure she has her make yourbooty roll ladies singles but she alsohas singles that touch women on adeeper level. Deep as one can getfrom a Beyonce single. For instancetouching on women giving toomuch in love and never being recip-rocated from the man that they love.

Can Beyonce still please all ofher fans with new album?

- Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -


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One in 12 kids in the Unit-ed States may have a foodallergy, according to newfindings based on an onlinesurvey.

The study, published June20th in Pediatrics, alsoshowed that more than onethird of those kids hadsevere allergies, and thatallergies were more commonin minority kids.

Allergies are a particular-ly difficult chronic conditionbecause kids can’t escapefood in any part of theirdaily lives, said lead authorDr. Ruchi Gupta, from theNorthwestern UniversityFeinberg School of Medicinein Chicago.

“What I hope this paperwill do is open this aware-ness to how common (foodallergy) is and how severe itcan be, and develop policiesfor schools and sportingevents and any activities thatkids participate in to make itclear that everybody is look-ing out for these kids,” shetold Reuters Health.

Previous studies have esti-mated that anywhere

between 2 and 8 of every 100kids in the U.S. has a foodallergy.

But most of those reportsare based on studies thatasked participants many dif-ferent health questions,including only a few relatedto allergies, Gupta said.Other studies have alsolooked at emergency roomtrips for allergic reactions,or evaluated doctors’ diag-noses in medical records.

Gupta and her colleaguesinstead wanted to design astudy focused solely on therate and severity of foodallergies. They surveyed a

nationally representativesample of almost 40,000 U.S.adults who lived with a childunder 18.

Those adults filled out anonline questionnaire aboutallergies based on a singlekid in their household,reporting whether or not thechild had any signs andsymptoms of a food allergy,had ever been diagnosedwith an allergy by a doctor,and had ever had a severeallergic reaction to food.

The results, publishedtoday in Pediatrics, showedthat 8 percent of kids had adiagnosed food allergy or

convincing symptoms thatindicated an allergy - almost6 million U.S. kids, theresearchers said. Kids weremost commonly allergic topeanuts, milk, and shellfish.

What was interesting wasnot just how many kids hadallergies, Gupta said, buthow many of those allergieswere severe - cutting off akid’s airway or causingblood pressure to drop.

“One of our big findingswas that 2 in 5 kids who hadallergies had a severe reac-tion or a life-threateningreaction,” Gupta said.

“There are a lot of miscon-ceptions of what allergiesare,” she added. “When youthink of allergies, you don’tthink of life-threatening.”

Severe reactions weremore common in older kids,possibly because young kidswith allergies are more like-ly to be monitored by parentsto make sure they stay awayfrom potential allergy trig-gers, Gupta explained.

She and her colleaguesalso found that black andAsian kids had higherchances of having a foodallergy than white kids - butthat they were less likely tohave that allergy diagnosed

by a doctor.That disparity “needs to be

addressed,” Dr. Scott Sicher-er, an allergy researcher atthe Mount Sinai School ofMedicine in New York, toldReuters Health.

“The family is saying thattheir child had convincingreactions and yet theyweren’t really evaluated toconfirm that with a doctor,”said Sicherer, who was notinvolved in the study.

“Is that because they’renot getting the health carethey need? Is that becausethere’s not an appropriateamount of concern? I wouldbe worried that the nextreaction could be severe andthey’re not prepared for it.”

While the findings can’tshow whether or not foodallergies are on the rise,Gupta thinks that’s the case.

“As a clinician, I see it a lotmore,” Gupta said. Sichereragreed that he thinks foodallergies are becoming morefrequent, but said thatresearchers aren’t sure whythat is.

The next question, Guptasaid, is whether there issomething going on in theenvironment that is drivingthat increase.

Study: Food allergies affect 1 in 12 kids

By STEVENREINBERG

Portable swimming pools,including the increasinglypopular, inflatable models,pose serious risks to youngchildren, experts warn.

In a new study, investiga-tors at Nationwide Children’sHospital in Columbus, Ohio,detail the drowning deathsof more than 200 childrenunder 12 years old linked toa variety of above-groundpools, some large and deep,others small and shallow.

“About every five days achild drowns in a portablepool in the U.S.,” said leadresearcher Dr. Gary A.Smith, director of the hospi-tal’s Center for InjuryResearch and Policy.

Because these pools areinexpensive and easy toassemble, many parents maynot consider them as big arisk as in-ground pools, hesaid. The greatest risks arefor children younger than 5years, the researchers found.

The report, published inthe June 20 online edition ofPediatrics, highlights theneed for safety precautions

around all pools, safety advo-cates said.

“Safe Kids has been con-cerned about the increasinguse of backyard pools thatare too small for consumersto consider investing in fenc-ing but too large to makethem easy to empty andsecure safely after each use,”said Meri-K Appy, presidentof Safe Kids USA in a state-ment Friday. “This impor-tant study confirms ourspeculation that portablepools in backyards acrossAmerica pose special risks toyoung children.”

For the study, Smith’steam used 2001-2009 datafrom the U.S. ConsumerProduct Safety Commission.During this period, theresearchers identified 209drowning deaths and 35near-drownings in childrenunder 12.

They found that 94 per-cent of the children wereunder 5 and most (56 per-cent) were boys. In addition,about three-quarters of thedeaths took place in thechild’s own yard, usuallyduring the summer.

More than 40 percent ofthe drownings occurred

when the child was beingsupervised; 39 percent hap-pened with no adult supervi-sion; and 18 percent wereblamed on a lapse of supervi-sion.

About 40 percent of thedrownings happened in ashallow wading pool, Smithsaid.

“That’s in 18 inches or lessof water,” Smith said. “Chil-dren can drown in verysmall amounts of water.Very young children candrown in a five-gallon bucketwith water in the bottom. Itonly takes a couple of inchesand a few minutes.”

“Close supervision ofyoung children aroundwater is really important,but supervision alone isn’tenough,” he continued.

While a variety of safetymeasures such as alarmsand fencing are available forin-ground pools, Smith said,this is not the case forportable pools. Theresearchers call for industrydevelopment of affordablefencing and reliable poolalarms and covers forportable pools.

Many techniques used todeny access to in-ground

pools, such as fencing, costmore than a portable poolitself, he said. “We have tocome up with other strate-gies that are affordable andeffective for portable pools.”

Experts said the studyalso raises concerns aboutpool ladders. “Most of thekids got into the pool using aladder that was providedwith the pool,” Smith said.

He suggested removingthe pool ladder when no oneis bathing and storing itwhere children can’t get to it.

Dr. Barbara Gaines, direc-tor of trauma and injury pre-vention at Children’s Hospi-tal of Pittsburgh, said that“this reminds us that whilewater is very inviting forchildren, it is also extremelyhazardous.”

Parents need to be verywatchful when their childrenare in and around water,including pools, ponds andbathtubs, Gaines said.“Never underestimatewater.”

Gaines advises parentswho have wading pools toempty it out when the pool isnot in use. “That’s the safestthing,” she said.

Also, parents must active-

ly supervise their children,Gaines said. “Someone has tobe on pool duty.”

Safe Kids promotes a pool-safety concept called “Lock,Look and Learn”:

LOCK: Erect fencing atleast 4 feet high with a self-latching gate and keep itlocked at all times unless anadult is present.

LOOK: Parents and care-givers should watch childrenin or near the water at alltimes, and not socialize, reador sleep.

LEARN: “Adults shouldlearn to swim themselvesand provide swimminglessons to their childrenfrom an early age,” Appysaid. They should also knowhow to respond to an emer-gency — “use rescue equip-ment, call 911 and performCPR,” she added.

Portable pools pose drowning risk for young children


NEW JERSEY

By CHRISMEGERIAN

TRENTON -Trenton’s streetswere darkWednesday night asunion leader HettyRosenstein headedback to theStatehouse for yetanother meetingwith AssemblySpeaker SheilaOliver.

With the door shut,they went toe-to-toe onelast time over a plan tocut public worker bene-fits. Even though Gov.Chris Christie hadalready announced adeal with lawmakers,Oliver (D-Essex) wasstill holding out hope fora compromise with theunion.

But the talks stalled.Rosenstein, state direc-tor for theC o m m u n i c a t i o n sWorkers of America,wanted details of a low-cost health plan writteninto the final bill insteadof leaving it up to a newstate panel composed ofunion workers and statemanagers, according tosources with knowledgeof the negotiations.

There was no deal,and Oliver was donetalking. WhenRosenstein left her

office, Oliver was readyto push forward on themost controversial issuein Trenton - without thesupport of any union orthe majority of her cau-cus.

State Workers RallyAgainst Pension Bill 6-16-11

Today that behind-the-scenes drama willplay out in full publicview as the 124-pagepension and benefits billis vetted by theAssembly BudgetCommittee. It will alsoput Oliver to the test asshe confronts disgrun-tled members of her ownparty and the publicemployee unions thathave helped keepDemocrats in power.

Assembly MajorityLeader Joseph Cryan (D-Union) blasted the bill asa betrayal of party prin-ciples, and unions havethreatened to rememberat the ballot box whocrossed them.

Oliver said she’sunconcerned with anybacklash and is focusedon what she calls the bigpicture - the pleas ofmayors grappling withbursting budgets andthe widening hole in thestate’s pension system.

“Leadership is havingthe courage to swimupstream when the cur-rent is going the otherway,” she said. “I knowit’s the right thing to

do.”The bill, which will

also be voted on by thefull Senate today, wouldforce public workers topay more of theirsalaries toward theirpensions, which wouldno longer include cost-of-living adjustments.Retirement ages for newemployees would beincreased, and all publicemployees would paymore for their healthbenefits.

In response, unionssay the bill restricts theircollective bargainingrights, and they accusepoliticians of unfairlyblaming them for thestate’s budget problems.

Overhauling pensionand health benefits forpublic workers has beena signature issue forChristie. But in recentweeks the crucial play-ers have been Oliver andSenate PresidentStephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), the iron-worker labor leader whohas sought to curtailpublic employee benefitsfor years. With the nor-mally bullish governorlargely watching fromthe sidelines, Oliver andSweeney went to workbuilding support withintheir own party and try-ing to win over waryunion leaders.

On June 13, Sweeney,the bill’s architect, head-ed to Atlantic City to

meet with internationaland state union leadersat the Borgata hotel andcasino. Democraticsources described thetalks as initially produc-tive but ultimately invain. Sweeney lateraccused labor leaders ofdishonesty in rejectingcompromises.

“What they did totheir membership is des-picable,” he said. “Theylied to their members.”

Oliver, who said shewas able to win keychanges to improve thebill for workers, keptnegotiating throughWednesday.

At that point, Oliversaid, the governor’spress release Wednesdaynight left enoughbreathing room for law-makers to introduceSweeney’s bill or anotherproposal in the SenateBudget Committee thenext day.

Democrats were stillhoping to stave offprotests scheduled forThursday, but theunions didn’t bite.

“I started out at 5o’clock that morningand got home at 11o’clock at night,” Oliversaid. “I was tired andwent to bed.”

Rosenstein later saidDemocrats never pre-sented a deal worthaccepting, and Thursdaymorning the Statehousewas flooded with thou-

sands of union protest-ers denouncing Oliverand Sweeney.

Inside the Statehouse,Sweeney testified on thebill as public workers inthe audience hissed.When he finished, hetook a seat at the com-mittee table and listenedfor hours as union lead-ers blasted him and theproposal.

“I knew they weren’tgoing to say nicethings,” Sweeney saidlater. “But I still owedthem the respect of lis-tening to them.”

With the help of fourDemocrats, the commit-tee passed the bill 9-4.

“He’s put his neck onthe line,” Sen. JosephPennacchio (R-Morris)said of Sweeney. “It’shard to tell people you

have to take bad medi-cine.”

Meanwhile, unionmembers unloaded onDemocrats, as well asChristie. GeorgiannaGonzer of Stanhope, a44-year worker atGreystone ParkPsychiatric Hospital,said Democrats “stabbedus in the back.”

“Labor helped themget where they are,” shesaid. “And instead theyvote against us.”

Despite union opposi-tion, the bill is poised topass the Assembly com-mittee today. SomeDemocrats said theyhope to reopen negotia-tions.

“It’s not over yet,”Assemblyman TomGiblin (D-Essex) said.“It’s a work in progress.”

Looming vote over public worker benefitshighlights rift between N.J. Democrats

N.J. Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex),left, speaks with Assembly Majority LeaderJoseph Cryan (D-Union) in this 2010 file photo.The recent deal struck to cut public worker ben-efits has fractured long-standing coalitionswithin the state Democratic Party.

By RHEAMAHBUBANI

The Jersey City schooldistrict’s application fora $6 million federal edu-cation grant has raisedthe hackles of the teach-ers union.

“My issue is with themanner in which theproposal was made with-out the cooperation ofthe union, school facul-ty, or parents,” JerseyCity EducationAssociation PresidentThomas Favia saidrecently of the competi-tive School ImprovementGrant.

If approved, thisthree-year grant wouldgive Lincoln HighSchool $2 million a yearthrough 2014. Thegrant, however, has stip-ulations that call forlonger school hours and50 percent of teachersbeing removed fromLincoln.

At the May 25 Boardof Education meeting,Ron Greco, a crisis inter-vention teacher, saidthat faculty signatureswere collected underfalse pretenses.

“The teachers signedan attendance sheet at ameeting (in March)

where this grant wasannounced,” said Favia,adding the attendancesheet was then attachedto the application thatwas submitted to theNew Jersey Departmentof Education.

“The documentimplies that (the district)conferred and discussedthis program with theunion and received inputfrom us. That’s just nottrue.”

School districtspokeswoman PaulaChristen said the teach-ers’ signatures wererequired to complete theapplication that was sub-

mitted on April 26.The signatures, she

said, were collected attwo meetings withteachers first on March7 as part of a facultymeeting; and then thenext day when teachersfilled out a needs- assess-ment survey.

But she stressed, theroughly 130 signaturescollected only indicatethat faculty membershad the opportunity togive input. “It wasn’t anendorsement” of theapplication, she said.

The sheets that thefaculty and staff mem-bers signed has a state-

ment printed at the bot-tom that clearly states:“The signature does notassume full approval ofthe needs assessmentand application develop-ment. Rather, the signa-ture denotes participa-tion.”

Under the federal NoChild Left Behind Act,Lincoln High is consid-ered a Tier 1 school inneed of improvementbecause of low testscores, Christen said.

“The TurnaroundModel was chosen,which requires rehiringno more than 50 percentof the staff and the

school year must beextended by 300 hours,”she said. “The focus forthe grant is for Lincolnto become a LeadershipAcademy.”

Favia argues thatadding hours to theclassroom schedulerequires approval fromthe union. If the districtattempts to take unilat-eral action, Favia saidhis union will file agrievance and take thematter to court.

“If you want to go out-side the teachers’ con-tract, bring in the unionthey need to negotiatewith us,” he said.

Teachers blast Jersey City schools for not consulting them when applying for $6M grant


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By SABRINAFORD

R&B singer Ledisi, a mul-tiple Grammy nominee withthe seal of approval fromfirst lady Michelle Obama, isfinally baring her soul onher fourth album in fiveyears.

The New Orleans nativehas just released the aptlytitled “Pieces of Me,” a follow-up to her genre-defying out-ing on 2009’s “Turn MeLoose.”

That album — boastingblues, rock, hip-hop andfunk elements — yielded apair of Grammy nomina-tions, as did her 2007 break-through “Lost & Found.”

“‘Turn Me Loose’ was anexpression of just wanting toexpress that I loved allmusic. I wanted to show thatsoul music is in everything,”said Ledisi, who countsChaka Khan and hip-hopgroup A Tribe Called Questamong her influences.

After several months try-ing to decide on the musicaldirection of “Pieces,” Ledisidecided to focus more on

what she was going to sayrather than how she wasgoing to say it.

“My executive producerRex Rideout kept saying,‘Don’t think about writing a

hit song. What do you wantto say on this album?,’” sherecalled.

On the new track “HateMe,” Ledisi taunts a frustrat-ed lover, singing, “I know

you hate me but you can’tstop loving me.” Anothertrack, “Shut Up,” is directedat “all the people thatthought I’d never be any-thing,” says Ledisi.

Not surprisingly, Ledisifound the creative process tobe therapeutic. “I have a newlevel of confidence I didn’tknow I could. Now I have myown walk and my own jour-ney. I’m not worried aboutbeing something that I’m notor competing with others.I’m competing with the lastalbum that I did.”

Ledisi, born Ledisi Young,had been making waves onthe independent music scenefor years before gainingmainstream recognitionwith “Lost and Found.” Shesecured a dark-horse Gram-my nomination for best newartist, losing to the decidedlyless-prolific Amy Winehouse.

Her distinctive musicalstylings and dreadlockedhair set her apart from theformulaic R&B scene, butshe feels — until now — thatshe’s held back.

“I feel like people know Ican sing, they know myimage but they need to know

more about who I really am,”said Ledisi, who refuses toreveal her age.

Turns out who she reallyhas taken some aback.

“Some people have said,‘Wow! Did you really saythat?’ Yes! Women say that,”she explains of her mosthonest moments on disc.“Some things we don’t sayenough.”

It was that self-assured-ness that caught the atten-tion of Michelle Obama, whocounts Ledisi among herfavorite artists.

When Ledisi was invited toattend a White House dinnerearlier this year, the firstlady lauded her resilienceagainst music industry pres-sures to become a stick-thincarbon copy of current popacts.

“She said, ‘I listen to youevery morning,’” recalledLedisi. “She really inspiredme. I said, ‘I have to workharder. I have to do more.’”And she has, by becomingmore involved in philan-thropy.

But her favorite thingabout her most famous fan?“She gives the best hugs!”

R&B singer Ledisi gets introspective on new album

For his next literaryendeavor, 50 Cent is turninghis attention to the issue ofbullying.

The Penguin YoungReader Group will releasethe rapper’s forthcomingyoung adult novel “Play-ground,” described as asemi-autobiographical workabout bullying that will

come out in January 2012.The 34-year-old, whose

real name is Curtis Jackson,has acknowledged a violentchildhood and dealing drugsat an early age.

He’s also released a mem-oir, “From Pieces to Weight,”and a self-help guide co-authored by Robert Greenecalled “The 50th Law.”

50 Cent to deliveranti-bullying message

in new novelThe makers of the Rush-

Card, a company owned byDef Jam co-founder and hiphop mogul Russell Simmons,were one of five prepaid debitcard companies subpoenaedby the Florida Attorney Gen-eral’s Office over claims theymay be forcing consumers topay hidden fees each timethey make a purchase.

The investigation, which isbeing overseen by FloridaAttorney General Pam Bondithrough the Economic CrimesDivision, will determine ifsome of these companies mis-represented their products bypromising to improve creditscores, reports mybanktrack-er.com.

First Data Corporation,Green Dot Corporation,Account Now, Inc., NetspendCorporation and Simmons’company, Unirush FinancialServices, LLC were all namedin a press release issued bythe Florida Attorney General’soffice in May.

Also at that time, Simmons’company released a statementin response to the subpoena

defending the transparency ofthe RushCard and welcomingall debate and questions.

“RushCard is the solutionfor people who want afford-able financial services thatthey can customize to suittheir needs,” Simmons stated.“As I look at the paymentslandscape, I see the banks asthe large record chains andmy RushCard is looking a lotmore like iTunes. I welcomethe public debate because themore educated the consumers

are the more successful webecome.”

More than 60 millionAmericans currently use theRushCard, which can be usedanywhere Visa debit cards areaccepted. Its website boastedthat RushCard holders wouldpay no more than $15.90using its prepaid debit card incomparison to the $40.67 and$41.88 they’d pay on check-ing account and check cash-ing store services, respective-ly.

Russell Simmons defends RushCardagainst hidden fee allegations

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When Jill Scott came onthe music scene a little morethan a decade ago, she want-ed to let the world know whoshe was — so much so thatshe named her debut album“Who Is Jill Scott?” Sincethen, the Philadelphia nativehas won three Grammys,sold five million recordsworldwide, and starred in anumber of movies and TVshows — from the TylerPerry film “Why Did I GetMarried?” to the HBO series“The No. 1 Ladies’ DetectiveAgency.”

Now Scott is back in themusic mix with a new album,out today, called “The Lightof the Sun.” She tells Week-

end All Things Consideredguest host Laura Sullivanthat while some moments onthe record are mysteriousand others deeply personal,her decisions about what toreveal in a song are rarelypremeditated.

“Not everything is up forconversation; not everythingis up for art. But do I reallydiscern what is and what’snot? That’s the question,” shesays. “Particularly with thisrecord, I’ve really just beenstanding in front of themicrophone and blacking outmusically. I come back a cou-ple hours later and there’ssix songs from beginning toend.”

Scott’s character in “WhyDid I Get Married?” is awoman who endures a lot ofemotional abuse at the handsof a philandering husband.She says that singing songsabout heartbreak, like theLight of the Sun track “HearMy Call,” is a bit like actingin that it requires gettinginside a character.

“I know I’m not the onlyone who’s ever felt lost andconfused by a broken heart,”she says. “[That song is]actually very difficult for meto sing live, because I have toembody those things in orderto give permission to every-one in the audience to feelsomething.”

Scott doesn’t play aninstrument herself, so sherelies on a trusted team ofmusicians to help bring thesongs into being. She saysthe process is more about cre-ating a mood than followingany specific structure.

“I give them the beat withmy mouth, I give them thenotes, and then I describe thetextures,” says Scott. “I tellthem, ‘It’s in the South. It’shot. There’s mosquitoeseverywhere and you’re drink-ing corn liquor to keep themaway. And your favoritewoman — not your onlywoman — has decided thatshe’s going to marry some-body else. Now play.’”

Jill Scott and ‘The Light of the Sun’

Oprah Winfrey was not atthe Daytime Emmy Awardslast night at the Las VegasHilton, but it didn’t stopGladys Knight, Celine Dionand Ellen DeGeneres fromjoining a number of stars tohonor the talk show host ina special musical tribute.

Oprah was given a Crys-tal Pillar Award at the cere-mony in recognition of theway she has changed theface of daytime television.She accepted her accolade ina video, surrounded by herstaff at Chicago’s Harpostudios.

“We are sorry we couldn’tbe there to celebrate,” shesaid in the clip. “On behalfof the entire team, we thankyou for honoring our show,

we thank you for 25 years.This show has served as aplatform to enlighten andentertain our millions ofviewers … it has been a phe-nomenon that none of uscould have imagined in ourwildest dreams. None ofthis would have been possi-ble without the support ofthe best team in television.Thank you!”

Gladys Knight performed“That’s What Friends AreFor” as a montage of thestar’s shows played behindher, while Celine gave a ren-dition of “Because YouLoved Me” from the stage atLas Vegas’ Caesar’s Palacein Oprah’s honor.

In a video message, Ellensaid: “For the past 25 years,

the world has been lucky tocall you a friend. I will missyou and I love you.”

Barbara Walters of “TheView” said of the star:“Oprah, we are always get-ting asked to present eachother with awards … now,you are getting the CrystalPillar Award because ofyour enormous contribu-tion to daytime television.In this, you are unique andunsurpassed.”

Meanwhile, soap opera“The Bold and the Beauti-ful” was the biggest winnerat the ceremony – whichwas hosted by game showhost Wayne Brady – takinghome four awards includ-ing accolades for dramaseries, supporting actressin a drama series for

Heather Tom and youngeractor in a drama series forScott Clifton, while thedirecting team were jointlyhonored along with the“Young and the Restless.”

The lead acting awardswent to Michael Park for“As the World Turns” andLaura Wright for “GeneralHospital.”

The other acting prizeswent to Jonathan Jacksonfor his supporting role in“General Hospital” and toBrittany Allen as youngeractress in “All My Chil-dren.”

“The Ellen DeGeneresShow” won the prize forentertainment best talkshow for a second year, and“Dr. Oz” best informativetalk show for the first time.

Ben Bailey of “Cash Cab”was named best game showhost for a second year. Hewas late taking the stage atthe Las Vegas Hilton,admitting that he was inthe bathroom when hisname was called.

The best talk show hostprize was a tie betweenMehmet Oz of “Dr. Oz” andRegis Philbin and KellyRipa of “The Regis andKelly Show.”

Quiz mainstays “Jeop-ardy!” and “Wheel of For-tune” shared the DaytimeEmmy for best game show.

In addition to Winfrey,the ceremony also includedpresentation of careerachievement awards togame-show hosts Alex Tre-bek and Pat Sajak.

Stars honor absent Oprah at Daytime Emmy Awards

DETROIT — Actress Cice-ly Tyson told an audience inher home town of Detroitthat her strict childhood setthe stage for her actingcareer.

Tyson was honored Satur-day at fundraising luncheonfor the Braylon EdwardsFoundation and said shewasn’t even allowed to go tothe movies as a kid.

The lack of exposure tomovies, however, didn’t coolher ardor for stage andscreen.

“I knew deep down insidethere was something burn-ing I knew nothing about,”Tyson said.

The Detroit News saidTyson was one of four hon-orees at the luncheon alongwith oncologist Dr. Michael

Hicks and non-profit leadersEleanor Josaitis and GailPerry-Mason.

Unlike many artists whoare afraid of the words “rolemodel,” Beyonce says it’s herduty because she has alwaysbeen in that position. The“Run The World” singer,who has had a positivecareer to date, says her posi-tion first started when shebecame a big sister and thatshe takes the role very seri-ously.

“Being a role model issomething that I’ve alwaysbeen. It’s not something thatI became, it’s something Iwas already because I had ayounger sister,” Beyoncetells Entertainment Tonight.

Strip away all the notori-ety and fame, the 29-year-oldadds: “I believe that being arole model is something thatevery woman is, even if youdon’t realize it there is some-one always watching you,there is someone thatadmires you. I believe wehelp each other so much,”she explained. “I don’t takebeing a role model lightly.”

Beyonce will release herfourth solo album “4,” laterthis month. Even though theset leaked online three weeksbefore its release, it is stillscheduled to drop on June27th.

Cicely Tyson salutes strict mom Beyonce: I don’t takebeing a role model lightly


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By TIMHEPHER and

KYLEPETERSON

LE BOURGET,France — Airbusbagged billions of dol-lars in orders for itsrevamped A320 planeon day one of a rain-sod-den Paris Air Show,where it is vying withrival Boeing and tryingto recover from pre-show mishaps.

Airbus said yesterdayit had won an order for60 narrow-bodyA320neo planes worth$5.1 billion at list pricesfrom the commercialaircraft leasing andfinancing arm of Gener-al Electric.

Analysts expect nar-row-body planes, thebackbone of fast-grow-ing budget airlines, tobe a key battlegroundfor orders betweenEurope’s Airbus andU.S. rival Boeing at thebiennial air show.

Airbus believes it hasthe upper hand with theA320neo, whose moreefficient engines saveairlines 15 percent infuel costs, according tothe company.

Engine maker Pratt& Whitney boss DavidHess said yesterday heexpected an “astound-ing” amount of demandfor the A320neo.Sources close to thematter said Airbus wasalso likely to report an

order yesterday for 30A320neos worth about$2.4 billion at list pricesfrom Scandinavian air-line SAS.

Qatar Airways said ithoped to conclude a dealthis week to buyA320neo planes as well.

Boeing conceded itmight lose some cus-tomers while it makes adecision about whetherto re-engine or redesignits competing 737 nar-row-body plane,although it was confi-dent of winning outover the longer term.

It also upstaged Air-bus with successes inother plane sizes andbooked the first bigorder of the show for six777-300ER wide-bodyjets worth $1.7 billion atlist prices from Gulf car-rier Qatar Airways.

Analysts expect Mid-dle Eastern and Asianairlines to dominate thebuying as they seek toboost transport links fortheir boomingeconomies.

The Boeing deal camea day after Airbusunveiled plans to boostthe range of its futurecompeting A350, ofwhich Qatar is thebiggest customer.

Airbus was left red-faced following a seriesof mishaps on the eve ofthe show, including ataxiway collision involv-ing an A380 superjum-bo.

The right-hand wing-tip of a test plane for theworld’s largest jetliner,with a wingspan ofalmost 80 meters(yards), scraped a build-ing at Le Bourget air-

port on Sunday and waswithdrawn from the airshow’s traditional fly-ing displays.

The aircraft was hid-den out of sight yester-day as President NicolasSarkozy inauguratedthe show, and was asource of embarrass-ment for Airbus onlyhours after the arrivalof its new competitor —Boeing’s elongated 747-8 superjumbo, which isshowing its distinctivesilhouette abroad for thefirst time.

The latest version ofthe legendary 747jumbo touched down inorange and red “sun-rise” livery symbolizingthe economic impor-tance of Asia.

Boeing said yester-day it had taken ordersand commitments for

17 747-8 Intercontinen-tal aircraft from twoundisclosed carriers indeals worth a combined$5.4 billion at list prices.

A second Airbus air-craft, the delayed Euro-pean A400 airlifter, wasalso initially withdrawnfrom air display after agearbox problem.

Despite its setbacks,Airbus is confident ofracking up orders forthe A320neo in particu-lar and the air showcould bring two recorddeals on successive if itsplans come to fruition.

A $16 billion provi-sional deal from IndiGoto buy 180 A320neopassenger jets, firstannounced in January,could be finalized,although talks may alsodrag beyond the airshow.

If sealed, that wouldset a record for thenumber of planes in onetransaction.

Sources close to thematter said that dealcould be rapidly eclipsedby a 200-plane orderbeing fine-tunedbetween Airbus andMalaysia’s AirAsia.

Demand for aircraftis on a sharp rebounddriven by demand fromAsia’s rapidly growingairports and the MiddleEast.

“Those two marketswill enjoy at least onethird if not more of thedemand increase forglobal air traffic in thenext decade,” said Philip

Toy, a managing direc-tor at Alix Partners.

Airbus sales chiefJohn Leahy said yester-day he expected to sellmore planes this yearthan in 2010, though hedeclined to give an esti-mated figure

The Airbus A320neohas also benefited fromairlines’ concerns aboutfuel costs. Boeing saidon Sunday it woulddecide by end-yearwhether to upgrade its737 with new enginesfrom about 2016, as Air-bus has done, or buildan all-new jet in 2019.

“They will sell hun-dreds but it is hard totell what is gross andwhat is net, what is aconversion from an ear-lier order. There aremyriad complications,”said Teal Group analystRichard Aboulafia of theA320neo.

Orders are likely toinclude a confirmationof an $8 billion 100-plane order from leas-ing giant ILFC.

Russia and Chinawill flex their musclesas potential rivals toAirbus and Boeing,especially during aTuesday visit by Russ-ian Prime MinisterVladimir Putin andsome analysts expectsurprise sales. ButWestern planemakerssay it will be some timebefore newcomersmount a serious chal-lenge in civil aerospace.

Brazilian groupEmbraer also made itspresence felt, saying ithad won orders for 39190 regional jets, worth$1.7 billion at list prices.

Big order helps Airbus glide over glitches

AMSTERDAM —Dutch financial servicesgroup ING said yester-day it has put its carleasing business up forsale, in a deal Dutchmedia reported may beworth 4 billion euros($5.7 billion).

ING is in the throesof a huge restructur-ing, forced on it as acondition of its 10-bil-lion-euros state bailoutin the 2008 financialcrisis.

It has sold severalassets already to raisemoney to repay thestate, but the car leas-ing unit had not beenearmarked previouslyas a possible divest-ment.

Just last week, ING

agreed to sell its U.S.online bank to CapitalOne Financial Corp. for$9 billion in cash andstock. It also plans tolist its insurance opera-tions in two separateinitial public offerings.

“ING today con-firmed that it is cur-rently reviewing strate-gic alternatives for INGCar Lease, includingdiscussions with thirdparties interested in apotential acquisition,”ING said in a statement,confirming a report in aDutch newspaper.

ING declined to givefinancial details, onlysaying that the unitoperated in eight Euro-pean countries, has240,000 cars and

employs 1,200 people.Dutch newspaper Het

Financieele Dagbladhad on Monday report-ed that ING’s car leas-ing unit has about360,000 vehicles, andput a value of 4 billioneuros on the operations.

“We are positivelysurprised that ING CarLease is put up for sale.This is because thedivestment of this unitwas not part of the ...strategy,” said SNS ana-lyst Lemer Salah.

The newspaper said

car leasing peersincluding BNP Paribas’Arval, Rabobank sub-sidiary Athlon, BMW-Alphabet, Volkswagon’sLeaseplan and GE FleetServices have beenapproached by ING’sadvisory banks to dis-

cuss a potential deal.Salah, who said it is

positive that ING is“fine tuning” its busi-ness, added that he con-siders Athlon, Lease-plan and Arval are themain bidders for the carleasing business.

ING eyes sale of car leasing unit, worth $5.7 billion

A federal appealscourt handed a majordefeat to Wall Streetbanks in ruling that afinancial news servicedid not misappropriatetheir analyst researchfor its website.

The 2nd U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals saidTheflyonthewall.comInc. did not violate

copyright law throughthe alleged republica-tion of “hot news” andheadlines for its name-sake site.

The ruling is adefeat for Bank ofAmerica Corp’s MerrillLynch unit, BarclaysPlc and Morgan Stan-ley, which argued thatTheflyonthewall.com

was getting a “freeride” by systematicallym i s a p p r o p r i a t i n gresearch, includingupgrades and down-grades on stocks.

The appeals courtordered the lower courtto dismiss the banks’m i s a p p r o p r i a t i o nclaim.

“A firm’s ability to

make news — by issu-ing a recommendationthat is likely to affectthe market price of asecurity — does notgive rise to a right forit to control whobreaks that news andhow,” Judge RobertSack wrote for a three-judge appeals courtpanel.

Wall Street loses appeal on ‘hot news’ lawsuit

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LONDON — Brandowners will soon beable to operate theirown parts of the Web —such as .apple, .coke or.marlboro — if thebiggest shake-up yet inhow Internet domainsare awarded isapproved.

After years of prepa-ration and wrangling,ICANN, the body thatcoordinates Internetnames, was expected toapprove the move at aspecial board meetingin Singapore yester-day.

Today, just 22 gener-ic top-level domains(gTLDs) exist — .com,.org and .info are a fewexamples — plus about250 country-leveldomains like .uk or .cn.After the change, sev-eral hundred newgTLDs are expected tocome into existence.

The move is seen as abig opportunity forbrands to gain morecontrol over theironline presence andsend visitors moredirectly to parts oftheir sites — and a dan-ger for those who failto take advantage.

It will also changethe way search engines

like Google findresults, and the wayorganisations usesearch-engine opti-mization to improve thevisibility of their web-sites in search results.

“As a big brand, youignore it at your peril,”says Theo Hnarakis,chief executive of Aus-tralian domain name-registration firm Mel-bourne IT DBS, whichadvises companies andother organisationsworldwide about howto do business online.

“We’re advising peo-ple to buy their brands,park them and redirectvisitors to their exist-ing site, at the very

least,” says Hnarakis,whose more than 3,500customers includeVolvo, Lego and Glaxo-SmithKline.

If the change isapproved, applicationsare likely to open inJanuary for a 90-dayperiod before closingagain, potentially foryears.

It will cost $185,000to apply, and individu-als or organisationswill have to show alegitimate claim to thename they are buying.ICANN is taking onhundreds of consul-tants to whom it willoutsource the job ofadjudicating claims.

“The commercialparticipants are themost active, aggressiveand articulate membersof our society,” ICANNCEO Rod Beckstromtold Reuters in a recentinterview, sayingtrademark owners inparticular were anx-ious about how the newregime would work.

As well as bigbrands, organisationssuch as cities or othercommunities areexpected to apply.

GTLDs such as .nyc,.london or .food couldprovide opportunitiesfor many smaller busi-nesses to grab namesno longer available at

the .com level — likebicycles.london or indi-an.food.

The new domainswill also change howICANN works, as it willhave a role in policinghow gTLDs are operat-ed, bought and sold.Until now, it has over-seen names and per-formed some othertasks but has been littleinvolved in the Inter-net’s thornier issues.

To prevent so-calledcyber-squatting, gTLDowners will be expectedto maintain operationalsites. ICANN will haveto approve transfers tonew owners at the toplevel.

‘.brands’ approach with Internet name shake-up

By ISABELREYNOLDS

TOKYO — Japan’sPanasonic Corp fore-cast on Monday its full-year operating profitwould drop 11 percentto 270 billion yen ($3.4billion) in the year toMarch 2012, after theearthquake and tsuna-mi in northern Japanhit production andsales.

Like many of itsrivals, Panasonicdelayed its profit fore-cast due to lack of clar-ity about the effects ofthe quake.

Market consensuswas for a profit of 262.6billion yen, based onthe average of 21 esti-mates by analysts

polled by ThomsonReuters I/B/E/S.

The maker of Vieratelevisions and Lumixcameras posted a 305billion yen profit lastyear, and said in Aprilit would have raisedthat to 310 billion yenin the current year, if itwere not for the effectsof the March disaster,which damaged facto-ries and crimpeddomestic demand.

Profit is set to slumpto 10 billion yen for thefirst half of the currentfinancial year andrebound strongly in thesecond half, the compa-ny said.

Demand for televi-sions, car-related prod-ucts and mobile phoneshas fallen since thequake, Panasonic said

in a statement, whilesales of low-energy con-sumption LED light-ing, batteries, solarcells and housing-relat-ed products are expect-ed to be healthy asreconstruction getsunder way.

Panasonic is theworld’s fourth-largestmaker of flat-screentelevisions by revenueafter Samsung Elec-tronics, LG Electronicsand Sony, according toresearch firm Display-Search.

But domestic televi-sion sales are set toslump this year after agovernment incentivescheme and the switchto digital terrestrialbroadcasting front-loaded demand lastyear, and Panasonic’s

TV business is set tolanguish in the red.

“Like rivals Sony andSharp, they have struc-tural disadvantages,”said Makoto Kikuchi,CEO of Myojo Assetmanagement. “The lowend is now all aboutprice competition, andChinese and SouthKorean makers have anadvantage there. In thehigh end, for example3D televisions, therewere expectations, butthings haven’t pro-gressed as hoped,” headded.

Panasonic also saidin April it planned toshed another 17,000jobs and might close upto 70 factories aroundthe world over the nexttwo years, as it seeks topare costs and rid itself

of overlapping busi-nesses following itsbuyouts of Sanyo Elec-tric and PanasonicElectric Works.

The takeovers wereaimed at refocusing thebusiness from con-sumer electronics toe n v i r o n m e n t a l l yfriendly energy prod-ucts like rechargeablebatteries and solar pan-els, in which Sanyo hastechnological advan-tages.

“There is potential,but at this point it isnothing more thanpotential,” said Kikuchiof the new direction.“We can’t yet see how,when and how much itis going to contribute toprofits.”

Panasonic’s chieffinancial officer agreed

that the company’schange of direction wasone factor behind thepoor performance of itsshares. Panasonic’sshare price has fallenabout 14 percent sinceMarch 10, the daybefore the quake.

“I think one reason isthat the company is inthe process of trans-forming itself from aconsumer electronicsmaker to an environ-mental business,”Makoto Uenoyama toldreporters and analysts.“Although people aregetting the concept...itis not yet making upmuch of our earnings.Another is the problem-atic television business.We have not been ableto show everyone asolution.”

Panasonic sees annual profit down 11 percent after quake

LONDON — Up to 60percent of mobile datatraffic is generated byconsumers watchingvideo, with owners ofApple’s iPhone drivingthe demand, accordingto a company that spe-cializes in traffic man-agement.

Bytemobile, whichhelps operators manageand condense traffic,said the overall datademand was also likelyto intensify as 90 per-cent of the total datatraffic was currentlygenerated by just 10percent of mobile data

users.The company said

video watched oniPhones generated 58percent of data traffic,with phones on theGoogle operating sys-tem Android on slightlyless at 52 percent, assmartphones now

copied the usage pat-terns of laptops

Mobile operators havebeen taken by surprisein recent years by theintense demand for dataservices, as consumersopt to access the Inter-net and video on the go.

Some analysts and

investors have alsodoubted whether theoperators can fully prof-it from the change, asthey have to invest intheir networks to sup-port the demand.

“Continued aggres-sive growth in mobiledata — fueled by video

and application usageover faster networksand more powerful,user-friendly devices —has created a formidabletraffic managementchallenge for carriers,”said Ronny Haraldsvik,vice president of GlobalMarketing at Bytemo-bile.

Bytemobile, whichproduces a report on thechanging trends in datatraffic, said demandstayed strong from mid-day to midnight andthose users with accessto better networkswatched videos forlonger.

Report: Demand for video driving mobile data traffic

Ford Motor Co. isspending $1 billion inan effort to develop anew generation of vehi-cles for its strugglingLincoln brand, the WallStreet Journal report-

ed.Ford is working on

seven all-new or signif-icantly upgraded vehi-cles that Lincoln willroll out over the nextfour years.

During a presenta-tion to dealers twoweeks ago, Ford Amer-icas President MarkFields said the automaker sees the effort asthe “last chance” for

Lincoln to re-establishitself as a leading com-petitor in the luxury-car segment, accordingto the report. The Jour-nal cited three dealerswho attended the invi-

tation-only event.At the meeting, Ford

executives said theyexpect Lincoln sales tofall to 78,000 vehiclesthis year, and thenclimb to 162,000 in2015, with the sevennew models providing alift, the report said.

Ford spending $1 billion on Lincoln revamp

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Raheem Brock arrested in PhiladelphiaPHILADELPHIA — Longtime NFL defensive

end Raheem Brock was arrested in his hometownof Philadelphia after a dispute at a restaurant.

Police Lt. Raymond Evers says Brock ran outon a $27 bar tab at Copabanana on Thursday.

Bartender Rob Harris tells WTXF-TV thatBrock’s party was asked to leave after one of thembrought in food from another eatery. Harris saysthey told the waitress they weren’t going to paythe bar tab.

Harris didn’t immediately return a telephonemessage left by The Associated Press at therestaurant Friday night.

Court documents indicate Brock is chargedwith theft and resisting arrest. It was not imme-diately clear if he had a lawyer.

Brock played for the Seattle Seahawks lastyear after several seasons with the IndianapolisColts.

Lawyer: Mayweather didn’t show up for deposition

LAS VEGAS - A lawyer for boxer MannyPacquiao says rival prizefighter FloydMayweather Jr. failed to appear for a court-ordered deposition in Las Vegas in a federal civillawsuit alleging that Mayweather defamedPacquiao.

Attorney Daniel Petrocelli says Mayweatherdidn’t show Friday to provide sworn testimonydespite federal Magistrate Judge RobertJohnston’s ruling Thursday that he must appear.

Mayweather’s lawyers didn’t immediatelyrespond to messages.

They argued Thursday that Mayweather need-ed to concentrate on training for a Sept. 17 fightagainst Victor Ortiz.

Petrocelli tells The Associated Press he’ll seek adefault finding that Mayweather defamedPacquiao with statements accusing Pacquiao oftaking performance-enhancing drugs.

The two are considered the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world. They’ve failed toagree to meet for what could be the richest boutin boxing history.

Producer: Shaquille O’Neal tape ‘gone’LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles music pro-

ducer confirmed last week in a preliminary crim-inal hearing that at one point he had a tape fromhis home security system of Shaquille O’Nealhaving sex with a woman, but that it had beenrecorded over.

Asked by a prosecutor if he really had such avideo at the time of an alleged attack and kidnap-ping, Robert Ross replied: “It was over. It wasgone.”

As previously reported in a sheriff’s report,Ross testified that gang members kidnapped himin 2008 and told him the reason was an “issue”with O’Neal and his business partner.

O’Neal O’Neal and business partner MarkStevens have denied involvement in statements toinvestigators. Neither O’Neal nor Stevens hasbeen charged or named in the criminal complaint.

Excerpts from the Monday preliminary hear-ing for seven gang members accused of kidnap-ping, robbery, assault and conspiracy in theattack on Ross appeared early Sunday on the LosAngeles Times’ website.

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The rivalry between theNew York Giants andPhiladelphia Eagles hasmanaged to grow duringthe lockout as OsiUmenyiora and LeSeanMcCoy trade verbal barbs.

Umenyiora referred theEagles running back as “LadyGaga” and “she” one day afterMcCoy tweeted that the Giantsdefensive end is “soft” and “over-rated” and the third best defen-sive lineman on the Giants.

“I refer to him as she becausethat is something that a womanwould do,” Umenyiora toldESPNNewYork.com by tele-phone on Friday. “You can sit

over there and be a Twittergangster all you want to but onthe football field is where youare supposed to address thesetypes of things.”

Umenyiora certainly did nothave his poker face on whentalking about why he refers toMcCoy as “Lady Gaga.”

“I have always referred to himas that because he is woman,”Umenyiora explained. “We havea lot of animosity toward eachother personally and on the foot-ball field is where I thought itwas left. But he has decided totake it off the football field and

say some things that I just haveno respect for.”

“Whenever a guy like anAndy Reid or a Michael Vick ora Jason Peters, whenever theycome out and say some thingslike that, that might hurt me,”Umenyiora added. “But a guylike LeSean McCoy, he’s anobody. He just needs to bequiet.”

The Eagles swept the Giantslast year in two very hard-fought divisional games. TheNFC East rivalry only figures toget spicier with help fromUmenyiora and McCoy.

Osi Umenyiora responds to barbs

LeSean McCoy

Osi Umenyiora

By GRAHAMDUNBAR

GENEVA - JackWarner quit as aFIFA vice presidentMonday, and soc-cer’s governingbody dropped abribery investiga-tion of him.

Warner and Asiansoccer chief Mohamedbin Hammam were sus-pended by FIFA lastmonth after they wereaccused of offering$40,000 cash paymentsto Caribbean voters dur-ing bin Hammam’s pres-idential campaign tounseat Sepp Blatter.

Warner spent 28years on FIFA’s execu-tive committee butstepped down days aftersome of his Caribbean

Football Union followerswere interviewed by for-mer FBI agents enlistedby FIFA to investigate.

FIFA said it acceptedhis resignation and“regrets the turn ofevents” that led to thedecision.

“Mr. Warner is leav-ing FIFA by his ownvolition after nearly 30years of service,” theruling body said in astatement. “As a conse-quence of Mr. Warner’sself-determined resigna-tion, all ethics commit-tee procedures againsthim have been closedand the presumption ofinnocence is main-tained.”

Warner also quit ashead of the soccer grouprepresenting theCaribbean and theregional body in whichthe United States com-

petes.Warner’s decision to

leave could help pre-serve his political careerin his native Trinidadand Tobago, where he isa government minister.Police on the Caribbeanisland had said theywould ask FIFA for anyevidence of wrongdo-ing.

Warner and BinHammam were accusedof allegedly arrangingthe payments in a Portof Spain hotel duringthe Qatari official’s cam-paign visit May 10.

Warner had “chosento focus on his impor-tant work on behalf ofthe people and govern-ment of Trinidad andTobago as a cabinet min-ister and as the chair-man of the UnitedNational Congress, themajor party in his coun-

try’s coalition govern-ment,” the statementsaid.

Warner joined FIFA’sinner circle in 1983 andseven years later waselected president of theconfederation whichcovers North andCentral America and theCaribbean. The 68-year-old official was givenanother four-year termunopposed at the CON-CACAF congress May 3in Miami.

Bin Hammam did notattend in Miami, con-tending he had visaproblems to enter theU.S. even though heholds a diplomatic pass-port.

Caribbean membersof CONCACAF werethen summoned to atwo-day conference inTrinidad to meetBlatter’s election rival.

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EAST RUTHER-FORD, N.J. - TikiBarber says failuresoff the field afterhis retirement fromfootball in 2006 ledto a yearlong boutwith depression.

The 36-year-oldBarber, the New YorkGiants’ career leadingrusher, acknowledgedin an HBO report to beaired Tuesday that henow needs footballmore than it needs him.

Barber has spent the

past four months work-ing out in an attempt tomake a comeback,although his chancesrest on the league andits players reaching anew collective bargain-ing agreement.

Barber said footballrepresents a necessaryanchor in a life turnedupside down by thedepressive aftermath ofscandalous divorce anddisintegration of his tel-evision career.

“The game neverneeds you becausethere’s always someoneelse to come and takeyour place,” he said.“But right now, I needthe game.”

The Associated Pressattempted to telephoneBarber, but his old cellphone number nowleaves a message say-ing the person who hasthe number is not avail-able.

“I need to prove tomyself that I can be suc-cessful at something,”told HBO. “I know I’mgoing to be successfulas a football player. Idon’t know why. Theodds say ‘No.’ I’m 36and I haven’t played infour years. But I justknow.”

The report recountsthe downward spiralBarber’s life took short-ly after his retirement.What started as a prom-ising career as an NBCfootball analyst endedin his firing. His mar-riage to his collegesweetheart collapsed.And his relationshipwith a 23-year-old NBCintern which continuestoday soiled a well-honed, family manimage.

Barber said he wasunable to deal with los-ing his $2 million peryear job, which startedas a football analyst forFootball Night inAmerica and pro-gressed to a featuredrole on the Today Show.But his demotion to on-field duties and, eventu-ally, to unemployment,led to depression.

“I crafted this career,right?” he said. “And Ihad gotten to the pointwhere I was rightwhere I wanted to beand then I failed. It’shard to deal with.”

Barber said after hisjob at NBC ended, hedidn’t do anything for asolid year.

“I remember therewere days where I

would literally wakeup, have coffee, getsomething to eat and siton the couch and donothing for 10 hours,”he said. “I started toshrivel. I didn’t havethat confidence. I didn’thave the, that aura any-more.”

Barber said his mar-riage actually started tocrack six months afterhe ended his 10-yearplaying career.

His well-honedimage as all-aroundgood guy would take ahuge hit when movedin with Tracy LynnJohnson while his wifewas pregnant withtwins.

The story that hit thetabloids painted him asan adulterer, thoughBarber said he and hiswife had separatedbefore he acceleratedhis relationship withTracy.

“I was in a bad mar-riage,” Barber said inthe interview “It was introuble for a long time.And we decided to getseparated. But Ginnygot pregnant in themiddle of it. And a lot ofpeople think childrensave marriages; some-times it makes it worse.

And we split soon aftershe was pregnant.

“And I was on myown for a few days, andthen I moved in withTracy. And then, fivemonths later, herecomes the New YorkPost stalking me.”

Barber said he neversecond-guesses his rela-tionship with his girl-friend.

“NBC, marriage. Imean, the only thingthat felt right wasTracy,” Barber said. “Itwas the only thing thatmade me not really feeldepressed.”

The cycle brokearound the time of theSuper Bowl in Dallas inFebruary, when friendsand former coachesencouraged him to try acomeback.

Now, as he tries torebuild his imagethrough football, heendures daily workoutsat New Jersey strong-man Joe Carini’s gym.

“There’s a lot ofcoaches who I both haveplayed against andplayed for who I thinkknow what I’m about,”Barber said. “And thatgives me the belief thatthis opportunity is forreal. And not only am I

Barber battled depression, says he needs football

By GORDON EDES

BOSTON — Red Sox left fielder Carl Crawfordmade his first trip to the disabled list since 2008on Saturday, when he was placed on the DL witha strained left hamstring, an injury he incurredFriday night while beating out an infield hit inthe first inning.

Crawford’s place on the roster was taken byoutfielder Josh Reddick, his second callup thisseason. Reddick hit .385 (5-for-13) with a doubleand 4 RBIs when he was recalled May 26 to takeDarnell McDonald’s place when McDonald wenton the DL. Last season, he hit .194 in 29 gamesfor the Sox. He is batting .236 with 14 home runsand 36 RBIs for the Pawtucket Red Sox.

Red Sox manager Terry Francona said he willuse a combination of McDonald, Mike Cameron,Reddick and Drew Sutton in Crawford’s absence.

“Just kind of piece it together a little bit,’’Francona said.

McDonald was in left and Cameron in rightagainst Brewers left-hander Randy WolfSaturday night.

“I think the medical people thought at best itwas going to be 10 to 14 days (recovery time),’’Francona said of Crawford, who was diagnosedwith a Grade 1 strain, the least severe. “I calledhim and talked to him this morning, he gets it.”

McDonald is 1 for 8 with two RBIs in twostarts since his recall from Pawtucket. He sin-gled in a run and scored another in Boston’s 4-2win in Wednesday night’s rubber match againstthe Rays, and made a terrific running catch incenter field while starting in place of JacobyEllsbury.

McDonald made the most of his rehab stint inPawtucket, batting .345 (10-for-29) in 9 gameswhile posting a .457 on-base percentage and .655slugging percentage. Francona said the regularplaying time was useful for McDonald, who hadplayed sparingly for the Red Sox in the season’sfirst two months.

“He got banged up a little bit, he went down to(Triple-A), and we tried to use that to our advan-tage,’’ Francona said. “He got consistent at-bats.... Now, if he gets a chance to play, which heprobably will, he’s got a better chance to help usbe the type of player that (he was) last year. Hitan occasional ball out of the ballpark, steal a base,give us good at-bats, play good defense, andthat’s what he’s doing.”

Crawford last went on the DL in 2008, whenhe missed most of August and September with asubluxation of a tendon in the middle finger ofhis right hand. That was the only time in hiscareer he was on the DL, although he missed thelast 12 games of the 2007 with a left groin strain.

Carl Crawford (hamstring)put on DL

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.— Calbert Cheaney isreturning to Indiana torelearn the college game.

The Big Ten’s career scoringleader was hired Saturday bycoach Tom Crean as theHoosiers’ new director of bas-ketball operations. Crean madethe announcement during hisfather/son basketball camp,ending several days of specula-tion that one of the best playersin school history would be backon campus.

“Calbert knows the standardthat it takes to be successfulacademically as a high-levelstudent athlete, and he knowswhat is expected to play at theNBA level,” Crean said in astatement. “He is excited tolearn the business of collegebasketball.”

Cheaney replaces DrewAdams, who was hired for thesame position by New Mexico

coach Steve Alford — also a for-mer Indiana star.

For Crean, it’s anotheropportunity to reach into theHoosiers’ rich past. TheIndiana coach has spent threeseasons trying to heal thewounds left by the firing of BobKnight and later by KelvinSampson’s NCAA recruitinginfractions.

The fallout from the NCAAcase gutted the roster andforced Crean to start his tenurewith only two returning play-ers — both walk-ons. Creanstill has not posted a winningrecord in three seasons.

But he and others have beentrying to fix the tattered pro-gram. Photos of Knight nowhang in Assembly Hall and thecoach who won three nationalchampionships and more than600 games in Bloomington hasbeen inducted into the school’shall of fame.

Crean also has reached out to

Knight’s former players in anattempt to make them a biggerpart of the program. HiringCheaney is the latest move.

“My family and I believe thatthis was the right time to begina career in college basketballand I am especially looking for-ward to playing a role in thegrowth of the players atIndiana,” Cheaney said. “I’mvery grateful to Coach Creanfor this opportunity to returnto IU and I look forward to con-tributing immediately in anyway possible.”

Cheaney finished his collegecareer with 2,613 points — stillthe Big Ten record — and wasnamed the league and nationalplayer of the year in 1993. Infour seasons, Cheaney led theHoosiers to a 105-27 record andthe 1992 Final Four and madethe All-America team threetimes. The Evansville, Ind.,native averaged 22.4 pointsand 6.2 rebounds as a senior.

Calbert Cheaney to join Indiana staff

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CHALLENGE

By HANKKURZ Jr.

C H A R -LOTTESVILLE, Va. -NBA players who justfinished a seasoncapped by the highestrated championshipseries in more than adecade are concernedabout how their labordispute and a potentialwork stoppage beforenext season will affecttheir surging fan base.

Luke Walton said thepacked road arenas theLos Angeles Lakersplayed in this seasonsuggest the league’spopularity is at a highpoint, and he’s mostconcerned about howfans would respond ifthe labor issues aren’tresolved and cause adelay to the start of thenext season.

“The idea of the lock-out and losing fans isprobably the scariest

thing of all,” the eight-year veteran said.“Even moreso thanmissing games or los-ing out on your salaryfor however long youlose those games, it’slosing the fan supportbecause it’s at an all-time high right now.”

The numbers bear itout.

All three networksthat televise NBAgames reported a hugeincrease in viewers, ledby a 42 percent increasefor TNT. ABC had 38percent more viewers,and ESPN had 28 per-cent more.

Arena capacity was90.3 percent, its sev-enth straight year of 90or better, and the17,306 average was up1 percent from last yearand is the fifth highestin the league’s history.

With the emergenceof Derrick Rose as theleague MVP, young

teams in OklahomaCity and Memphis ris-ing up to challenge tra-ditional powers such asthe Lakers and NBAchampion DallasMavericks, and eventhe New York Knickson the rise with theaddition of CarmeloAnthony, the leagueseems to have as manyviable contenders as inrecent memory, whichadds to its allure.

To stop the momen-tum with a lockout thatfans might perceive asa selfish battle betweenalready rich greedyowners and greedyplayers, Walton said,would be taking a hugerisk.

“We know how dan-gerous it can be. We’veseen it happen before.We’ve seen it happen inour sport with the lastlockout. We saw it hap-pen in baseball, hockey,and it’s damaging,” he

said at the NBPA’sannual Top 100 campfor elite high schoolplayers. Walton wastaking part in a coachprogram for players atthe camp, which wrapsup Sunday at theUniversity of Virginia.

“The popularity is atthe top,” he said. “It’shigh, and the ratingswere record-breakingthe last few years, andfrom the fans’ perspec-tive, the owners make aton of money and arevery wealthy, and theplayers make a ton ofmoney and are verywealthy, so its kind ofhard for them to sym-pathize with either sidewhen these guys arehard-working peopletrying to make it andthey’re spending theirhard-earned money ontickets and merchan-dise and all that stuff.”

Walton isn’t the onlyone.

“We would probablylose fans if we have awork stoppage,” saidRoyal Ivey of theOklahoma CityThunder, who said hecame to the camp “toget my feet wet” in thecoaching program.

The Grizzlies’ TonyAllen also was takingpart in the coachingprogram, and while hesaid a work stoppagewould “put a needle inthe balloon” of momen-tum, he sees a rathersimple solution.

Financial restraintby management.

“If you’re a GM,you’ve got to be smarterwith your money,” hesaid, echoing a thoughtcareer scoring leaderKareem Abdul-Jabbarvoiced Friday. “If you

don’t want to give a guy$197 million and youbelieve he’s only worth60 percent of that, signhim for just 60 percentof it.”

Abdul-Jabbar, whohighlighted the impor-tance of education inhis chat with thecampers, said he under-stands why fans won’tbe sympathetic to argu-ments over enormousamounts of money.

“There’s a lot of guysthat are overpaid, andthat’s another issuethat the owners need todeal with because cer-tain people are overpaidand that’s ballooningthe salaries to the pointwhere the owners can’trecoup their invest-ment,” the Lakers’assistant coach said.

NBA players worry how fans would react to lockout

CHICAGO — Puta big X throughBig Z as a possibili-ty for the NewYork Yankees’starting rotation.

A baseball sourcewith knowledge of theYankees’ intentionssaid Saturday that theteam has “zero inter-est” in making a tradefor Carlos Zambrano,the Chicago Cubs’ tal-ented but volatile right-hander.

In an interview withF o x S p o r t s . c o m ,Zambrano indicatedFriday that he is will-ing to waive the no-trade clause in his con-tract if the Cubsapproach the three-time All-Star aboutbeing moved.

And there have beenrecent reports of theYankees scoutingZambrano’s recentstarts. With theYankees’ starting staffdecimated by injuriesto Phil Hughes andBartolo Colon, itseemed like a natural

fit.Not so, said the

source, who toldESPNNewYork.com,“It’s all (B.S.) There’sno seriousness to it atall.”

The official citedZambrano’s decliningability — the velocityon his fastball hasdropped in recentyears from an averageof 92 mph in 2009 to89.8 mph this year,according toFanGraphs.com — andprohibitive contract.

“He’s just not worththe money,” the officialsaid. “The Cubs wouldhave to pick up most ifnot all of the contract. Ijust don’t see it hap-pening.”

Zambrano, 30, hasplayed all of his 10 sea-sons with the Cubs. Heis in the midst of a five-year, $91.5 millioncontract which runsthrough 2012, with a$19.25 million vestingoption for 2013.

Zambrano is owedthe remainder of his$17.875 million salary

for this season, $18million for next seasonand the lucrativeoption which vests if heis healthy at the end ofthe 2012 season. Thisseason, Zambrano is 5-4 with a 4.59 ERA in15 starts.

Zambrano pitchedWednesday in a loss tothe Milwaukee Brewersso the Yankees will notsee him on this trip.

Yankees generalmanager BrianCashman did notreturn a call seekingcomment on Saturday,and manager JoeGirardi refused to dis-cuss a player who wasstill the property ofanother team.

“I just don’t want towalk that line abouttampering,” Girardisaid. “I don’t want toget a call. I get finedenough.”

However, pitchingcoach LarryRothschild, who heldthe same role with theCubs for nine seasons,gave Zambrano a highrecommendation.

“He’s a good per-son,” Rothschild said.“Off the field, he’s agreat family man, hewas a good guy tocoach, he’ll listen (to)all the things youwould expect from aprofessional player.The stuff you see onthe field is a result ofjust the passion hetakes to the mound.”

Rothschild was onthe field in 2009 whenZambrano, having justbeen ejected for argu-ing balls and strikeswith the home plateumpire, fired a baseballinto the left-fieldstands.

“That just came at afrustrating time in thegame for him and hecouldn’t take it,”Rothschild said. “I wastrying to talk him outof it but he did it any-way. Then he broke afew bats over his kneeand took out a watercooler.”

Still, Rothschild saidZambrano’s fire is anessential element to hispitching style.

Source: No Yanks for Carlos Zambrano

YPSILANTI, Mich. — Former Arkansas for-ward Glenn Bryant has transferred to EasternMichigan.

Eastern Michigan coach Rob Murphyannounced the move this week. Bryant says hewanted to play closer to home after 61 games intwo seasons at Arkansas, where he averaged 3.4points and 2.7 rebounds. Bryant is from Detroit,about 40 miles from the Ypsilanti campus.

The 6-foot-7 forward must sit out the comingseason and will have two years of eligibilityremaining.

Bryant was one of three Arkansas playersaccused of an alleged rape two years ago. A spe-cial prosecutor decided against filing charges,citing insufficient evidence.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jeremy Lambof national champion Connecticut and KhyleMarshall of runner-up Butler are among thefinalists for USA Basketball’s Under 19 worldchampionship team.

Thirteen players were selected Sunday after athree-day training session. The United States willdefend the gold medal in the FIBA U19 WorldChampionship in Latvia from June 30-July 10.

Others selected were Keith Appling, MichiganState; James Bell, Villanova; Anthony Brown,Stanford; Tim Hardaway Jr., Michigan; JoeJackson, Memphis; Meyers Leonard, Illinois;Javon McCrea, Buffalo; Doug McDermott,Creighton; Tony Mitchell, North Texas; andPatric Young, Florida.

Glenn Bryant transfers toE. Michigan

Jeremy Lamb finalist forU.S. U19 team

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The consensus amongNBA teams is thatCleveland will selectDuke freshman guardKyrie Irving with theNo. 1 pick in Thursday’sdraft.But the Cavaliers aren’t

acting as if they’ve made adecision, and according tomultiple sources, theyare actively discussing anumber of possibilities. Theylikely will go with Irving, butthere are scenarios in whichthey might not.The Cavaliers haven’t told

Irving that he is the No. 1pick, and Arizona’s DerrickWilliams is a legitimate con-

tender for the top spot.Cleveland, which also

holds the No. 4 overall pick,will bring in Kentucky pointguard Brandon Knight for avisit early this week.Former Kentuckystudent EnesKanter ofT u r k e y ,who was

ruled by

the NCAA to be permanentlyineligible with the school,will return for a second visit.Should the Cavaliers

decide to pick Williams, a for-ward, and Kanter, a center, it

would put pressure onthe team to find

another pointguard,p o s s i -bly int h i sd r a f t ,even withB a r o n

Davis stillu nd e rc o n -tract.

The Minnesota

Timberwolves, meanwhile,won’t let Williams or Irvingslip beyond No. 2. Sourceswith knowledge of the situa-tion say that if the Cavalierspick Irving at No. 1, theTimberwolves will takeWilliams at No. 2, and don’tplan on trading MichaelBeasley or AnthonyRandolph.If the Cavs were to select

Williams, the Timberwolveswould take Irving at No. 2,even with the impendingarrival of Spanish pointguard Ricky Rubio. TheTimberwolves would holdonto the Irving asset andlikely command a number of

suitors. Reserve point guardJonny Flynn then would beon the trade block.With Irving and Williams

going 1-2 in some order, thatleaves Utah at No. 3, with adecision between Knight andKanter. The Jazz worked outKnight solo on Thursdayand were impressed with hiseffort, even without competi-tion.Knight passed on working

out Wednesday withConnecticut’s Kemba Walkerand BYU’s Jimmer Fredette.Fredette is in play for theJazz at No. 12 if they were toselect Kanter at No. 3.

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