Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) dead At 58

Kris Alingod - AHN News Writer

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A press conference from doctors at a hospital in Cleveland has cleared up earlier reports that Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) died Wednesday. Tubbs, 58, is in fact in critical condition after police found her unconscious behind the wheel of her car. She had veered off a road in Cleveland Heights.

A statement from her office early Wednesday said that her condition had stabilized. “Tuesday’s condition followed a full day of activity, including planning for an upcoming forum on electoral reform, scheduled for September 4, 2008 at Cleveland State University,” the statement said.

Tubbs Jones was Ohio’s first black woman representative. She served as a Cuyahoga County judge before winning the first of her five terms as representative of Ohio’s 11th congressional district in 1998. She was chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee

She was planning to attend next week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver as a superdelegate. She supported Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) during the primary race but endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) in June.

Case:Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was a trailblazer and did not take no for an answer. She was an in your face kind of person, who got the job done . The people in Ohio respected her  which is why she was elected to serve 5 terms. The House Ethics Committe admired her for her strength and determination. She will be missed.

 

Sherri Shepard Is Headed For The Hills

or as the saying goes getting the boot from The View, so says mediatakeout.com

August 19, 2008. Sherri Shepherd may have talked her way out of her job. MediaTakeOut.com spoke to one of the staffers on The View who claims that Sherri may have just a few more weeks left on the daytime talk show.According to the insider, Sherri’s contract has an opt-out clause which allows the network to fire her in the beginning of September. The insider explains, “Everyone is really sad because we all know that Sherri’s leaving … even Sherri knows she’s out of here.”

Sherri officially signed on as a co-host of the view in September 2007.

 

Case: Geeze, Sherri lasted just one year as the new shows begin in September. She was too rauncy in a sexual way and she should have toned down some of her actions and comments. Even”I” know when to shut up. All may not be lost. Perhaps Sherri and Star Jones can get a show together ripping Barbara Walters. When one door closes a window opens up, so, let’s see if Sherri gets a window opened, or she’s thrown out a window.

Shame On The Star Ledger

Shame on the Star Ledger for not reporting on the athletes participating in the Oympics representing Essex County College. Phelps has done a remarkable job in winning 8 Gold medals, but he isn’t the only person competing and winning in the Opympics.

Here you will find  a list of Essex County College  graduate Olympic participants.

http://www.essex.edu/wolverines/olympics

Let’s congratulate  ALL participants in the Olypmics espcially those from New Jersey.

Life Saving Methods

EATING FRUIT

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It’s not as easy as you think. It’s important to know how and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?
IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! * FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.
Let’s say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of  fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.

In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.

So please eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining - every time I eat water-melon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet etc - actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will not happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.

There is no such thing as some fruits, like ora nge and lemon are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the Secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weigh t.

When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans. Don’t even drink juice that has been heated up. Don’t eat cooked fruits because you don’t get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.

But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.
You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!

KIWI:  Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E
& fiber. Its  vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE:  An apple a day keeps the doctor away?  Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY:  Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.

ORANGE :  Sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON:  Coolest thirst quencher.  Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation.  Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.

Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! Can u believe this??
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this ’sludge’ reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks
HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE’: (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!)
Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack . Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.  Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.  Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive…

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we’ll save at least one life. Read this…It could save your life!!

Let’s say it’s 6.15 pm and you’re driving home. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yo urself.

‘HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE’:

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person
whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and vigorously.  A deep breath should be taken before each cough, deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.  This allows the heart attack victim to get to a hospital.

 Case:Wow, too bad my friend didn’t know the heart attack methods before she had a heart attack. But she is alive and regaining her health.

How Safe Are Prescription Drugs?

Several of my family members and friends always took good care of themselves by eating the right foods, exercising and maintaining a healthy spirit by keeping their levels of stress in check. Low and behold ,they go to the doctor for one thing and were diagnosed with another health issue; prescribed medication for their said health issues and soon after being on the prescribed medications, they suffered heart attacks and strokes. How can this be? The medications were suppose to prevent hearth attacks and strokes, not cause them. My family members and friends who were on the medications stopped taking them and now are affraid at any minute they will have another heart attack or stroke and they will die which is preventing them from living the lives they once lived. Their lives were filled with sport participation, traveling and having fun. Now, they are afraid if they resume their previous lives, they will expire. How sad is this to happen to a once lively and vibrant people?

What good are prescription drugs if they do the opposite of what they were meant to do?

Shaq And Shaunie Decide To Stay Together

Nearly one year after Shaquille O’Neal filed for divorce, his wife Shaunie says the proceedings will be halted in the coming days and the couple will continue to try and work things out.

 

       “Neither one of us could probably answer why we were getting one in the first place,” Shaunie O’Neal told the Associated Press Thursday at the launch of her new video-sharing Web site.

 

      “Things have been going so great, that someone actually had to remind us that ‘Hey, you do remember those papers are still there.’ Literally, it was days ago,” said Shaunie. “So, we’ve agreed that before we leave Florida in a few days we’ll make sure that that’s gone away.”

 

      Shaquille O’Neal filed for divorce in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on Sept. 4, 2007, after nearly five years of marriage. The petition stated: “The marriage between the parties is irretrievably broken” and Shaunie was “secretive about her assets … particularly with respect to certain properties owned or titled in either [her] name alone or in other entities.” He requested that the court require Shaunie to give a “correct accounting of all money, funds, stocks, bonds, and other securities (including bearer securities).”

 

       Shaunie told the AP: “The kids and I kind of learned about the divorce at the same time. So that was hard. That was probably the worst part of the whole thing, was being able to deal with how hurt the whole kids were.”

 

       Shaq’s divorce attorney, Ira Elegant, did not return a call to Reuters before press time.

 

       Meanwhile, Shaunie’s new video-sharing Web site, launching Sept. 1, is geared to showcase children and their talents in a kid-friendly, safe arena. The entrepreneur said she developed the idea because she wanted to be able to share her own children’s activities with her family members.

 

       “I get the complaint of ‘Oh, I wish I could see that,’” she said. “There was nowhere I could find that was just safe, where maybe a slip of the finger would take us somewhere where I don’t want the kids to see or hear.”

 

Case: This is wonderful news. I hate to seek couples with children break up. The kids blame themselves for the breakup which leads to a lot of confusion and acting out oftentimes by the kids. They grow up thinking they don’t want to get married because they use their parents’ marriage as a guide and if the marriage wasn’t a good one they nix marriage, so,it is best to try to make your marriages work for the sake of your children instead of yourselves. Back in the day couples stayed together and worked things out. They didn’t run away at the first sign of trouble. Today couples don’t stay together and the results can be seen in the way the children react to the split up of the family. Single parent households headed mainly by women can not be a good situation. It is  more of an issue than staying with a partner and working out issues if he or she isn’t abusive and even then, counselling can help the abuser change. Abuser are made during their childhoods, so there are issues from their childhoods which haven’t been addressed and resolved. In any event Good luck to Shaq and Shaunie. Now the money stays in the joint bank accounts and the kids will be happy.

 

Thirty Years Later And Still No Evidence In The Case Of The Missing Newark Boys

NEW YORK — Thirty years ago, five teenage boys vanished after playing basketball in Newark, N.J. They were never heard from again.

 

Their remains were never found, Social Security numbers never used — and no arrests have ever been made. But the community has never forgotten its tragic loss.

 

Melvin Pittman, 17, Randy Johnson, 16, Ernest Taylor, 17, Alvin Turner, 16, and Michael McDowell, 16, who have become known as “The Clinton Avenue Five,” vanished Aug. 20, 1978. Wednesday marks the 30th anniversary of their disapperance.

The case, which is New Jersey’s oldest cold case, remains open. But after 30 years without any solid leads, it’s unclear what, if anything, is left to find.

 

And although most of the boys’ family members are dead, the community remembers.

 

An annual memorial service is held at Clinton Avenue Presbyterian Church. On Sunday, the Rev. Alfred Johnson led an 11 a.m. service at the church on 16th Street.

 

News 4 New York talked to family members of Michael McDowell, one of the missing boys.

 

“You can’t make five people disappear by yourself,” said Michael’s aunt Helen Simmons. “So there are other people involved and when there are other people involved … somebody would talk …but nobody has.”

 



Facts Of The Case

 


 

The teens were last seen entering the pickup truck of a man who reportedly offered them summer part-time work — and they were never seen again. Police questioned the contractor, Lee Anthony Evans, and cleared him of suspicion after he passed polygraph tests.

 

“He had a conversation with my mom, and I came back outside and saw my brother get in a truck with Lee Evans — a green pick up truck — and drive off,” said Terry Lawson, Michael’s sister. “We never saw him again.”

 

Several days after the boys disappeared, one of their mothers got a phone call from a man who said he would tell her where the boys were for $750. Police traced the call to a payphone at Union Station in Washington, D.C., but by the time they arrived, whoever had made the call apparently had fled.

 

The investigation has taken detectives all over the country.

 

Detectives checked military records, religious cults, the bodies from Jim Jones’ 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, according to Reuters, and the victims of Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and men — to no avail.

 

In 1996, police followed a lead from a psychic who had previously helped detectives find the body of a missing boy in a drainpipe. The psychic had a vision the boys’ burned remains were buried in a five-acre field near Newark International Airport. Searchers came up empty-handed.

 

The boys’ Social Security numbers were never used. Only one of the five had dental records; none had fingerprints, Reuters reported.

 

“You have to wonder what transpired,” Sgt. Derek Glenn, a spokesman for the Newark Police Department, told Reuters on the week of the 20th anniversary of the disappearance. “Even one of them alive, having made contact in some fashion or form, even through a third person, hasn’t happened.”

 

Police initially believed the boys had run away, but the family said they weren’t the type to do that. Just one of the boys, McDowell, of East Orange, got into trouble once for a fistfight, but the others — sophomores and juniors at Weequahic High School — never got into trouble at all, according to The New York Times.

 

“For sure we know they haven’t run away,” said Lawson. “Something happened to them, and 30 years later we know it’s not good … else we would know something.”

 

But despite the disturbing, painful facts of their disappearance, there was precious little media coverage at the time. It was 1978 — a decade after the Newark riots — and many speculated that the reason local papers — even The Star-Ledger — and media outlets failed to cover the story at the time was because it was about five black boys.

 

On the 25th anniversary of the disappearance, a New York Times article read, “The five black youths never entered the public consciousness the way some white, middle-class missing children do.”

 

The advent of the Internet might have made it a different story today, but there was no World Wide Web when the boys disappeared. Today, Web surfers would be hard-pressed to find any information apart from one or two articles marking the 20th and 25th anniversaries of the boys’ disappearance.

 

“They just weren’t considered important enough to go after,” said Simmons. “I just want to know what happened.”

 

Only two of the original detectives who worked on the missing persons case remain involved. One died and one retired to Florida. A new detective, Rasheed Sabur, is involved.

 

No arrests have ever been made in the decades-old case, which some investigators call one of the most baffling missing persons cases in history.

 

Case: Somebody knows exactly what happened to those five young men. Clinton Ave and Fayban Place were busy areas back in that time period, so someone saw something and if that or those someones are alive, they need to come forward with what they know. Two mothers have died without knowing what happened to their sons and the other mothers still alive, need answers because their lives will always be in limbo until they know what happened to their sons.

Thousands Mourn Bernie Mac

Thousands pay respects to comedy king Bernie Mac


Associated Press Writer

As Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more than 6,000 gathered on Chicago’s South Side to remember Bernie Mac on Saturday, he cracked that the comedy king was “still the hottest ticket in town.”

Fans, friends and fellow celebrities descended on the House of Hope megachurch to bid their farewells to a man who never forgot his humble Chicago roots. Hundreds of mourners had never even met Mac — or had met him only long enough to shake his hand, get an autograph or thank him for representing his neighborhood.

People attending a memorial celebrating the life of comedian Bernie Mac sing during the service on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008 in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)


Mayor Richard Daley recalled that Mac was in his office recently, asking how he could help fight violent crime in the city.

“He wanted to help get children away from a life of crime and violence,” Daley said during the service. “That’s why he’s the king of comedy. He never lost his soul in Chicago.”

Mac died Aug. 9 at age 50 of what his publicist said were complications from pneumonia. He had been at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital since the middle of July.

Samuel L. Jackson, who co-stars with Mac in the upcoming movie “Soul Men,” spoke at the church, saying he knew Mac “was having some health issues, but he always said to me every morning that he was always good.”

Isaac Hayes, who died Sunday, also stars in the movie, and Hayes’ music was played during the service.

Jackson observed that Mac didn’t mind the loss of privacy that comes with fame.

“He never turned that kid down for an autograph,” Jackson said. “He always had time to shake a hand. He was always that kid from Chicago who wanted to make everybody happy and everybody laugh.”

The service included the reading of condolence letters from children; from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an Illinois senator; and from Mac’s beloved White Sox baseball team. Mac’s comedy routines were played on large video screens with off-color words bleeped out.

Outside, traffic was tied up for blocks, vendors sold memorial T-shirts for $10, and Chicago waiter Timothy Strickland manned a makeshift shrine featuring photos, including Mac’s 1971 eighth-grade basketball team picture. A sign read: “Thank you, Bernie, for showing that good people do come from Englewood.”

Mac grew up on the South Side in the Woodlawn and Englewood neighborhoods.

His co-stars from the documentary “The Original Kings of Comedy” — Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer — took the stage together at the church.

Hughley recalled that he and the others eagerly awaited Mac’s stage attire each night. He said: “Bernie would wear colors that crayons hadn’t even thought of yet.”

He said he met Mac in Detroit, but that Mac always wanted to talk about Chicago.

“All he talked about was his family and this city,” Hughley said. “He loved this city.”

August 16, 2008 - 7:34 p.m. EDT

Case:Bernie Mac, Rest In Peace. You will be missed, but because of your television show, your movies and comedy routines, you will be seen.

Because Of The John Edward’s Affair Do Other Doners Want Their Money Back?

John Edwards’ affair disappoints Georgia backers
State representative wants her campaign contribution back
By JIM THARPE

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Some former Georgia supporters of one-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards are furious about his confessed affair with aide Rielle Hunter, and at least one wants her campaign donation back.

“That’s money I could have put in my children’s college fund,” state Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield (D-Atlanta) said of her contributions to Edwards.

Once a rising star in party circles, Edwards’ political fortunes have spiraled downward since he admitted on national TV last week that he had an affair with Hunter, who shot video footage for his campaign. The mea culpa came after Edwards initially denied reports of the relationship.

Stuckey said she donated a total of $750 to Edwards and has contacted former Edwards backer Stephen Leeds trying to find out how to get a refund.

Leeds, an Atlanta attorney, has been an Edwards supporter since 2002 and was considered Edwards’ point man in metro Atlanta. Leeds said he now backs presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama and has no idea if there is any money in Edwards’ campaign coffers to return to disgruntled former supporters. He said he has not talked with Edwards since the scandal broke.

“John ended up dishonoring an awful lot of people in this process, from his family to a lot of his supporters,” said Leeds, who gave Edwards $2,300 for his primary run and $2,300 for the general election.

Edwards dropped out of the race before Georgia’s February presidential primary, though his name remained on the ballot. Any general fund campaign contributions will be returned to donors because he is not running in November, Leeds said.

State Rep. Rob Teilhet (D-Smyrna), minority whip in the state House of Representatives, was one of Edwards’ earliest supporters in the state. He called Edwards’ affair a “profound disappointment” and said he has not talked with Edwards since news of it broke.

Teilhet gave the Edwards campaign $2,300 for this year’s primary and $1,000 for the general election. He said the $1,000 has been returned.

Teilhet said he will not ask for his primary election contribution back.

“His campaign, even in light of all this, served a purpose,” Teilhet said. “It forced the other Democratic candidates to talk about things they otherwise would not have talked about. Poverty has not been an issue for a long time. It is now because John Edwards forced the other Democrats to talk about it.”

Benfield said she was shocked by Edwards’ admissions, and especially troubled by revelations that he paid Hunter $114,000 for video Hunter shot for his campaign.

“I could think of better ways to spend that money than on his girlfriend’s videos,” Benfield said of her contribution.

Edwards’ presidential run became a controversy in Georgia’s U.S. Senate campaign even before the Hunter scandal broke in the mainstream media. DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones blasted Democratic opponent Jim Martin, a donor to Edwards’ campaign, for voting for Edwards in the presidential primary, even though Edwards had dropped out. Martin went on to beat Jones in the Democratic runoff.

Martin’s campaign declined comment when asked if Martin would be asking for a refund.

“We have moved on to other things,” said Martin spokesman Ellery Gould.

Case:Wow, if politicans cheat and they were given campaign funds by the people, yes, the doners should get their money back. They worked hard for their money. Asking for a refund in the case of cheating should keep the pants of politicians up.

The Donald Saves The Day

or rather the house of Ed McMahon.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump appears to be riding to the rescue of television personality Ed McMahon.

Trump told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday that he will buy McMahon’s six-bedroom home in Beverly Hills and allow McMahon to live in it. Trump did not disclose how much he would be paying.

McMahon, best known as the sidekick to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, was facing foreclosure by mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. In February, ReconTrust, a subsidiary of Countrywide, filed a notice of default on a $4.8 million Countrywide loan that was backed by McMahon’s home, as The Wall Street Journal reported in June. At the time, McMahon owed the lender about $644,000.–Sushil Cheema

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