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The banks “are healing,” says Trea-sury Secretary Tim Geithner. And the soaring profits reported by

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan suggests that at least some of the big banks are planning a return to the days of million-dollar bonuses. Main Street isn’t faring as well. Unemployment is headed to 10 percent. One in six workers is unemployed or un-deremployed. Wages are down. Families are still losing their homes. Credit card defaults are rising. Malls are hurting big time. The auto industry is still reeling. States and localities are laying off work-ers and raising taxes to bridge forbid-ding budget deficits. And manufacturing

jobs are collapsing, many moving abroad not to return. As the president pointed out in his speech to the NAACP, minor-ities take the biggest hit. Low-wage urban workers have been particularly impacted by the col-lapse of construction. Unemploy-ment is higher among blacks and Latinos, reaching 50 percent of young black men in cities. This shouldn’t be surprising. Led by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, the govern-ment devoted literally trillions to backstopping the banks. The Fed offered credit guarantees, special

borrowing authority, swapped dollars for toxic securities. Treasury put together the TARP that gave banks money directly and indirectly by taking over the liabili-ties of AIG, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The banks are basically able to bor-row money at zero percent interest and make money investing in safe securities. They may be “healing,” but they haven’t been required to begin lending again -- and see little reason to do so. Main Street hasn’t received as much help. The president’s recov-ery plan was a down payment, but it was weakened by conservatives in the Senate. They added tax cuts (which are likely to be saved or used to pay down debt) and slashed infrastructure invest-

ments. A decent portion of the recovery plan helped those most in distress -- with extended unemployment benefits, higher food stamps and refundable tax credits. States and localities got billions -- but not enough to bridge the gap between revenues and expenses. Treasury’s mortgage plan -- de-signed to encourage brokers to renego-tiate mortgages -- is a bust. Thousands have been helped while millions are los-ing their homes. We need a much bigger program with greater authority to require mortgages be re-negotiated so people can stay in their homes. And Congress should give bankruptcy courts the power to rewrite mortgages. Every homeowner has a stake in stemming the tide of fore-closures. And that measure will give banks the incentive to renegotiate rather than delay until foreclosure. The administration watered the leaves and a few show a little green. (Al-though too much is being made of these big bank profits: The number of banks in crisis keeps rising. The big banks never got rid of the toxic paper in their base-ments; they just persuaded the account-ing board to let them avoid pricing those securities to market.) But the roots have been left largely dry, particularly in ur-ban and rural areas. Moreover the banks won’t get healthy until the citizens do. Credit card defaults are rising. Bankrupt-cies and commercial property defaults are still going up. We need to start watering the roots. A targeted jobs program designed to put people to work is vital. We need to enlist workers in everything from planting trees to training to weatherize

schools. We need paid citizen corps that can do everything from clean up public parks to work in seniors centers. Obama’s plan, before it was weakened, was designed to create 3.5 million jobs. But the U.S. has already lost 6.5 million jobs, and the number is rising at nearly 500,000 a month. The Obama plan hasn’t failed -- it just wasn’t big enough. We need a targeted jobs plan right now. Conservatives in both parties are railing about record deficits. The public increasingly is wary about more spend-ing. But taking on debt to put people to work is vital in this economy. Consum-ers are paying down debts and tightening their belts. With demand down, business won’t invest. Global trade has collapsed -- and the U.S. was losing $2 billion a day even when it was purring. States and localities are cutting back. Interest rates can’t go lower. The only hope is that the federal government does the lifting. The deficits mean we must get the best bang for the buck. That means focusing on putting people to work in areas with the highest unemployment on work that needs to be done. Legislators -- particularly Re-publicans in opposition -- still seem wed-ded to politics as usual rather than rising to meet the crisis. But high unemploy-ment isn’t a statistic; it is a grim reaper, destroying families, hopes, talent, and growth. We need action to put people to work. You can write to the Rev. Jesse Jackson care of this newspaper or by e-mail at [email protected].

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What started out as a “Fam-ily Oriented Event” at Texas Southern University, turned

into a life and death struggle among the thousands in attendance fleeing for cover from an onslaught of gunfire from un-known assailants around 8:45 P.M., July 22, 2009 on the campus of the University. Six people were wounded ages 14 to 21 and were transported to the local hospi-tal, and according to sources, the gun-men, I prefer the word “urban terrorist” fired into the crowd of parents, children, and babies who were attending a concert headlined by rapper “Trae the Truth” just as the concert had ended and the people were leaving. School supplies and medi-cal service were offered at the program for the upcoming school year. There’s no doubt in my mind, the cowardly attackers were not mem-bers of the KKK or any hate groups mo-tivated by racial persuasions, these were sick young punks who obviously had no problem firing into a crowd of unarmed people to make them feel like brave men. I hope these high school dropouts don’t have children to pass weak genes on to innocent babies, because we have enough idiots among us already. Elected officials were in atten-dance, which included Congresswoman

Shelia Jackson Lee. I pray the Congress-woman by law change the word “gang” to “urban terrorist”, and make such at-

tacks on any school campus punishable by life in prison, and in case of death, the ter-rorist receive death by firing squad. Citi-zens are sick and tired of being victims of violent crime and the criminals when appre-hended receive mercy and consideration from the courts. Citizens de-mand extreme justice, for extreme violence resulting in death. Where’s the dignity in dying at the hands of murderers, who don’t mind going to prison. That’s home to them

until bleeding hearts release them again out of mercy for them to continue to do what they do, kill. Our way of life is in jeopardy from those who look like us. Out of here. EDITOR’S NOTE: H.B.(Rickey) Spivey, Jr.,LCC has received a “Cer-tificate of Congressional Recognition” for service to his community, a certifi-cate from the “State of Texas House of Representative” for devotion to our community through State representa-tive Garnet F. Coleman, Proclamations from the Senate of the State of Texas, Harris County, and the City of Houston. He also received a “Commendation for Meritorious Service” from H.I.S.D., and is the only recipient of the “Constable A.B. Chambers living Legend Award” . Former Captain Spivey who served un-der Constable A.B. Chambers is a law enforcement instructor, crime prevention inspector, grant writer, private investiga-tor, and concealed handgun instructor. He is a former member of “Crime Stop-pers of Houston”, and former candidate for Harris County Constable, Precinct 7. You can contact him at [email protected].

LEGAL While Contributingto the Community, War was Declared on the Grounds of Texas Southern University by Urban TerroristsBy H. B. (Rickey) Spivey, Jr., LCCCriminal Justice Editor


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COMMENTARY President Obama: Education ShouldBe Top Priority for Black America

AIR FORCE ONE -- Ask African-Americans what the most press-ing issues for the black commu-

nity are and you likely will hear all kinds of comments: health disparities, crime, eco-nomic development, ending institutional racism, the destruction of the family, etc. But for President Barack Obama, there is no more fundamental issue than education and closing the achievement gap in the 21st century. “If we close the achievement gap, then a big chunk of the economic inequal-ity in this society is diminished. We’ve got to get our kids up to speed,” the president said Thursday during a round table with members of the Black Press aboard Air Force One as he traveled to New York to speak to the NAACP. The president said the keys to improving the state of education among African-Americans are focusing on putting better teachers in the classroom, having greater accountability in school systems, increasing resources, and expanding the use of charter schools nationwide. “(Secretary of Education) Arne Duncan is pushing for more aggressive re-forms than we’ve seen under any previous president, and we’re putting more money into education than any previous adminis-tration,” he said. That is great, yet one subject the president and I disagree on is the idea of

vouchers. I always have believed that there is no one way to educate a child. We should embrace public schools, private schools, charter schools, Internet-based classrooms, home schooling and, yes, allowing parents who are in poorly performing school dis-tricts to be provided vouchers to send their children to private schools. Vouchers have been supported historically by Republicans and fought vigorously by Democrats, who tend to rely on major support from the various teach-ers unions, which are also dead set against vouchers. “When it comes to vouchers, my concern has always been that, given the ex-isting funding problems that we have with public schools ... a move towards vouchers would start unraveling, in many communi-ties, a viable public-school option or would leave the public school only for those par-ents who weren’t organized enough to take advantage of private-school options. “I have not been a supporter of vouchers. I understand the arguments for vouchers, and I know that there are some great private schools out there that are do-ing some great work with poor kids, and so I admire them and I want to encourage them, but ultimately I think that we have to fix a public-school system where the over-whelmingly majority of children attend.” Yet for all children, especially black children, the education achievement gap isn’t solely about the educational in-stitutions. It’s also about parents assuming greater responsibility for the welfare of their kids and raising the expectations we have for them. “All these innovative programs and expanded opportunities will not, in and of themselves, make a difference if each of

us, as parents and as community leaders, fail to do our part by encouraging excel-lence in our children,” President Obama said in his address to the NAACP later that night. “Government programs alone won’t get our children to the promised land. We need a new mindset, a new set of attitudes, because one of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we’ve internalized a sense of limitation -- how so many in our commu-nity have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves. “We’ve got to say to our children: ‘Yes, if you’re African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighbor-hood, you will face challenges that some-body in a wealthy suburb does not have to face. But that’s not a reason to get bad grades; that’s not a reason to cut class; that’s not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school.’” He added: “To par-ents, we can’t tell our kids to do well in school and then fail to support them when they get home. You can’t just contract out parenting. For our kids to excel, we have to accept our re-sponsibility to help them learn. That means putting away the Xbox, putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. It means attending those parent-teacher conferences and reading to our children and helping them with their homework.” What President Obama said is not new. We

have heard it every day and week from pastors, community leaders, educators and, yes, parents. Now it’s not about rhetoric. It’s time for action. There was a time when black parents who picked cotton on plan-tations couldn’t read, but they made sure their children could. Black history -- and, yes, American history -- is littered with parents demanding excellence from their children. It’s time we return to a 20th-cen-tury mindset in the 21st century. Roland S. Martin is an award-winning CNN contributor and the author of “Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Per-spectives on Faith.” Please visit his Web site at www.RolandSMartin.com. To find out more about Roland S. Martin and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndi-cate Web page at www.creators.com.

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● HONORING A HOUSTONREVOLUTIONARY SLAINBLACK PANTHER LEADERCARL B. HAMPTONOn Sunday, July 26, 2009 two activities will be held to commemorate the life and death of Carl Bernard Hampton. The Gravesite Remembrance will take place at 3:00pm at Golden Gate Cemetery 8400 Hirsch Road Houston , Texas The Com-munity Memorial will kick off at 5:00pm at 3212 Dowling Street Houston , Texas next to the PABA. The memorial will in-clude a tour of the actual spot were Carl was gunned down by Houston police. The memorial on Dowling Street will also feature: a limited free food give-away, survival program speakers, poets and edutainment. For more information call Carl Hampton Memorial Committee at 713-529-4254, [email protected] or visit www.carllives.weebly.com/index.html

● THE GREAT CREATEWONDERWEEKChildren’s Museum of Houston chal-lenges you to make something out of anything!Thursday, July 30: All Day• Electro-Mechanical Folk Art (EMFA): Daily Special. Let your mind run wild with possibilities in this invention event! Take apart broken appliances, like VCRs, radios, computers, and more, and explore their inner workings.Friday, July 31: 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. in the Inventors’ Workshop • The Brazilian Arts Foundation: Spot-light Performance. Watch this great

● OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY FOR VISION FAITH MEDIA GROUP (VFMG)Vision Faith Media Group (VFMG), a Houston-based Public Relations, Mar-keting & Media Firm, will host its of-ficial launch party at R&B recording artist LeToya Luckett’s Lady Elle Gal-leria store on Thursday, July 30, 2009, from 5pm to 8:30pm. VFMG is geared to small business, corporate, individuals and celebrities. Refreshments, entertainment and door prizes will be offered throughout the night. Gift bags will be distributed to the first 250 guests. To RSVP or for more infor-mation, contact Mike at 281 839-3020 or visit the website: www.visionfaith-media.com

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● KIDSMART – A BACK TO SCHOOL SALES EVENTYou can’t afford to miss the KidsMart – A Back To School Sales Event at the Living Word Church of the Nazarene Gym, 16607 Clay Road. KidsMart of-fers only quality, gently used clothes, toys and furniture for children at a frac-tion of the price of department stores or boutiques. Log on to www.kidsmart-houston.com or call 361-290-3999 for details.

● 19TH ANNUAL HOUSTONINTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVALSaturday, August 1 and Sunday,August 24:00 – 10:00 p.m.Anheuser-Busch StageJazz will fill the air in downtown Hous-ton Saturday and Sunday, August 1st and 2nd as the 19th Annual Houston Int’l Jazz Festival kicks off August Jazz Month. The event will be held at Discov-ery Green, 4:00 to 10:00 PM each day. An all-star lineup is scheduled including: “Rachelle Ferrell,” “Grupo Niche,” “Hi-roshima,” “Texas Brass Band,” “Summer Jazz Workshop All-Stars,” and many more. “The Houston Int’l Jazz Festival represents a rich tradition of excellence through musical expression. For more information call 713.400.7336 or visit www.discovery-green.com

● TEE IT UP FOR LITERACY CE-LEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT The First Annual Tee It Up For Literacy Celebrity Golf Tournament at Southw-yck Golf Course in Pearland. Help raise funds to provide services for needy chil-dren in the greater Houston and San An-tonio areas. Featuring a shot gun start, raffles for autographed memorabilia, a Tiger Dive on par 5 and closest to the pin on a par 3. Space is limited! Call 281- 997-1242 for more information.

● CONCERT AT ST. AGNESGAMMA CENTERMusical guests: Tye Tribbett, Kierra Sheard, Da Truth Special guest host: Canton Jones and more...Location: St. Agnes Gamma Center10800 Scott St., Houston, TX 77047Time: 7:00 pmAdmission: $10.00 presale/$15.00 door For more information call (713) 733-0146 or visit www. marchof-faith.com.

● “ALEXANDERMIKAL SPON-SORS BRIDAL OPEN HOUSE AND TRUNK SHOW”It’s never too early to start preparing for your dream wedding. AlexanderMikal is sponsoring the Bridal Open House and Trunk Show on Saturday August 8, 2009 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Downtown Houston Public Library located on 500 McKinney. A fashion show will take place at 2 p.m. featuring AlexanderMikal’s 2009 bridal collection. For more information call 713-391-9389 or visit www.Alexander-mikal.com/Bridal

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● HOUSTON HBCU ALUMNIANNUAL MIXERHouston HBCU Alumni Annual MixerFriday, August 7th, 2009 5-9pmInferno Grill & Lounge 7637 FM 1960 (next to Willow Brook Mall)You are cordially invited to attend our 5th Annual Scholarship & Membership Alumni Mixer. We will host this great event on Friday, August 7, 2009, at In-ferno Grill. In the past four years, as many as 2,000 HBCU alumni have sup-ported this fun-filled event. For more information, please visit our website at www.HBCUweb.com

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● COMMUNITY SCIENCEEXPOSE 2009The Community Science Expose as designed by the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Educational (DREME) Science Literacy Foundation was created to present sci-ence, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) information in an innovative and exciting atmosphere. Event is free!Fri., July 31, 2009. 3:00 until 7:00 PM. Texas Southern University, 3100 Cle-burne – in the New Science Building, located at 4200 Ennis St., between Cleburne and Blodgett in Houston, TX 77004. For more information call (281) 961- 4353 or visit dremefounda-tion.org

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The surprises in life are what make it interesting. I thought I was well ac-quainted with

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If Neil Armstrong’s walking on the moon was “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind” then the appointment

of the first African American to lead the Na-tional Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in its 51-year history has to be one colossal jump for the African American male. The outlook for the African American male is changing with the elevation of prominent male figures in leadership roles. The President of the United States is African American and he appointed an African American male as the attorney general. The governors of New York and Massachusetts are also African American as well as the head of a major political party and the head of NASA. On July 17, 2009, Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. began his second term working for NASA. This go-round, he is the twelfth admin-istrator. “It is an honor to have been nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate to lead this great NASA team,” Bolden, who previously worked for NASA for four-teen years as a member of the Astronaut Of-fice while serving in the Marine Corps, said. As an astronaut from 1986 to 1994, he trav-eled to space four times. On two of those trips he was the commander. During his missions, Bolden was a part of the crew that launched the Hubble Space Telescope into Earth orbit and the first U.S.-Russian shuttle mission. He was also the first human to ride in the Launch Complex 39 slidewire baskets. These baskets

helped with escaping from the shuttle on the launch pad. In May 2006, Bolden was induct-ed into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Bolden told senators, “Today, we have to choose. Either we can invest in build-ing on our hard-earned world technological leadership or we can abandon this commit-ment, ceding it to other nations who are work-ing diligently to push the frontiers of space.” Clearly Bolden wants to build on the leader-ship of NASA. No novice to the position of administrator, Bolden is the former deputy administrator at NASA Headquarters. He also was tapped to be the number two guy at NASA when the only other former astronaut to have been an administrator (Richard H. Truly) was in office, appointed by then Presi-dent George W. Bush. That appointment was blocked by the Pentagon who wanted to keep him in his post as Major General in the Marine Corps. Problems that Bolden must tackle now that he is the head man in charge is to find the most cost efficient and safe way to send astronauts back to the moon, replace the retiring space shuttle fleet, and inspire the next generation to be interested in the areas of math and sciences so that one day they can explore careers in space exploration, tasks that Bolden was already thinking about before he was con-firmed. During his confirmation hearing Bold-en said, “We must build on our investment in the International Space Station, accelerate de-

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On Monday, July 13, 2009, Houston Style Magazine was on hand at the Ground-breaking of Metro’s North and Southeast Light Rail Corridors. Traveling from the nation’s capital to the Bayou City to participate in the festivities were

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Congressman Gene Green, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Congressman Al Green. Joining the delegation were Mayor Bill White and Houston City Council members Ed Gonzalez and Wanda Adams, as well as METRO Board Chairman David S. Wolff and METRO Board member Gerald Smith. The day of celebration kicked off with two separate ceremonies at the North and Southeast corridors, as well as a reception at the East End corridor. Participants from each corridor event were then transported via METRO buses to the grand finale at Union Station at Minute Maid Park. All three lines – the North, Southeast and East End - are slated to be completed by 2012, and will add approximately 14 miles of light rail to METRO’s existing Main Street Red Line. METRO’s light-rail expansion project will better connect communities and residents to jobs, health care centers, universities and more.

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Rank/Celebrity Twitter user name

1. Ashton Kutcher aplusk2. Britney Spears britneyspears3. Oprah Winfrey Oprah4. Twitter twitter5. Barack Obama BarackObama6. John Mayer johncmayer7. Ryan Seacrest RyanSeacrest8. Shaquille O’Neal THE_REAL_SHAQ9. Kim Kardashian KimKardashian10. Demi Moore mrskutcher

A guide to the social networking/microblogging service Twitter

BY DAGNY LEONARD AND DERBY COX

McClatchy-Tribune

ince its creation in 2006, Twitter, the social networking service,has taken the cyber world by storm.

At first glance it might seem like a glorified Facebook status,but Twitter is in a league of its own, connecting people with fast-paced updates. It has become more than just an outlet for statusupdates — it is a place for closet comedians, activists, celebrities,

businesses and everyday people to let others know about videos, opinions, inter-esting news, advertisements — and, yes, what they are eating for lunch.

The phenomenon includes a host of new vocabulary terms and concepts thatevery self-respecting Twitter-er should know. Here’s a crash course on every-thing Twitter, from basic terms to its impact on the news.

In the wake of the Iranianpresidential election June 12,some technophiles turned to aseemingly unlikely source forinformation and analysis: Twitter.

Although the microbloggingsite is perhaps best known for theshort updates celebrities provideabout their daily lives, Twitter isfast becoming a reporting servicethat cuts out the middle man — adirect line between sources andthe public.

The Iranian election hasappeared among Twitter’s toptweet topics continuously duringthe past few weeks as users haveused it to report information, dis-cuss the event and organizeprotests.

The United States Departmentof State, apparently recognizingthe use of Twitter by protesters,asked the site to delay scheduledmaintenance after the election,and Twitter complied.

Twitterers like persiankiwi,apparently an Iranian protester,have amassed thousands of fol-lowers by providing heartrend-ing, first-hand accounts of themovement from the streets.

“all shops was closed —nowhere to go — they followppls with helicopters — smokeand fire is everywhere” per-siankiwi tweeted June 24.

By tagging their tweets“Neda,” Twitterers helped to ele-vate Neda Agha-Soltan, anIranian woman killed during aprotest, to martyr status after avideo of her death surfaced onthe Internet.

Users also have used the siteto thumb their noses at traditionalmedia. As the Iranian protests

geared up, Twitterers frustratedwith CNN’s lack of early cover-age started tagging their tweets“CNNfail.”

The complaints didn’t fall ondeaf ears. Tony Maddox, manag-ing director of CNN Internation-al, said in an interview withLondon’s Telegraph newspaperthat the Twitter reaction made itclear there was an “appetite formore sustained coverage of whatwas going on in Iran, and thatwas what we did.”

But Twitter didn’t just burstonto the news scene.

One of the first widely distrib-uted pictures of the US Airwaysflight that crashed into theHudson River in January wasposted to Twitter by a New Yorknative aboard a ferry that assistedthe victims.

And in November, Indian

Twitterers used the site to spreadinformation about the terroristattacks in Mumbai.

It can be hard to separate thewheat from the chaff, however.During a one-hour period June24, there were at least 4,876tweets tagged as being about theIranian election — more than oneper second — and many wereretweets or regurgitations ofreports from mainstream newssources.

Thanks to the anonymity ofthe Internet, it is difficult todetermine who is an Iranian pro-tester, who is an outside support-er of the movement and who is agovernment plant.

Still, for the patient user will-ing to sift through extraneoustweets, Twitter can provide akind of on-the-scene immediacythat is hard to find elsewhere.

■ Twitter: n. a free social networkingservice that connects users throughfast-paced status updates.

■ Twitter-er: n. one who uses Twitter.

■ Tweet: n. short updates or mes-sages, of 140 characters or less,which are posted on your profile andsent to your followers.

■ Retweet (RT): n. unofficial Twitterfeature that indicates a re-posting of atweet from another user. Often usesthe text “RT @username” (of the origi-nal source) before the post.

■ Follower: n. one who receives an-other user’s updates on his or her Twit-ter profile.■ @: n. a public message from oneuser to another by using the “@user-name” prefix before a tweet.■ Direct message: n. a private mes-sage sent from one Twitter-er to anoth-er.■ #hashtags: n. a convention thatadds context to tweets by putting “#” infront of a keyword to link other usersusing the same keywords. Example:#obama.

So you’ve finally been swept up by the techno-tide and gotten a Twitteraccount. But what to write? Who knew 140 characters could be so overwhelm-ing?

Darren Rowse of the TwiTip blog (www.twitip.com) recommends a two-steptweeting process: Figure out what your followers want, and then give it to them.Some combination of cool links, conversation-starting quotes or questions,retweets and photos works well, Rowse writes.

Keep in mind that Twitter doesn’t directly offer photo hosting. You’ll need touse a third-party site like TwitPic (www.twitpic.com) to upload your photos.Other sites, like TwitVid (www.twitvid.io) can be used to post videos.

If you’re frustrated by the Spartan design of the Twitter Web site, try a Twitterclient — Tweetdeck (tweetdeck.com/beta) and the Mac-only Tweetie(www.atebits.com) are the most popular, and both also are available as iPhoneapps.

Even without an iPhone, you can update your Twitter on the go. After addingyour phone number to your Twitter account, you can text updates to 40404(check Twitter’s Web site for numbers to use outside the United States).

But no matter how you tweet, remember that people can see what you post,and Twitter might not be the best place to vent about your boss. Even if you makeyour Twitter private, your followers may not share your sense of discretion.

Twitter is teeming with celebrityaccounts. The famous, who onceshunned the media in their privatelives, are posting everything onTwitter for all the cyber world to see,amassing followers in the millions.Who’s leading the celebrity pack?TwitterCounter (www.twittercounter.com), a site that tracks the most pop-ular Twitter users, lists AshtonKutcher (username: aplusk) as themost popular Twitter-er with, as ofour publication date, 2,691,112 fol-lowers.

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Iranian supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi take part in a rally in Tehran, Iran, on June 18.

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SOURCE: TWITTERCOUNTER.COM

CELEB TWEETSSure, their celebrity status is what got them followers, but it’s their tweets that

really make them popular. Here are a few celebrity tweets we found to be funny,interesting, silly, or all of the above.

Tweets range from the funny,

…to the mundane,

…to the inspirational.

Need a bigger celebrity Twitter fix? E! Online (www.eonline.com) has aconstantly running “celebri-Tweet” feed to keep you up to date on the lives ofthe rich and famous.

“Obama admitted to smoking. while we are admitting things I have a confession to make. I don’t drink enough water.”Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) 4:28 p.m. June 23

“20 min treadmill. 7.5 speed. 1 incline. 3, two minute cool down walks. I’m sore today. Ate a Skor bar yesterday. #treadtweets”Jimmy Fallon (jimmyfallon) 7:26 a.m. June 25

“ONCE WE HAVE LEARNED TO LOVE, THEN WE WILL HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE! and LAUGH”Shaquille O’Neal (THE_REAL_SHAQ) 2:26 p.m. June 22

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Style Book Reviewhim to meetings. It’s no use. The superstar is a super slacker. Is he inept? Perhaps, or he might be the victim of incivility and that could be very expensive for your business. In the new book “The Cost of Bad Behavior” by Christine Pearson and Christine Porath, you’ll see how attitude and old-fashioned rudeness can sink a business from inside and outside. Sure, you’ve been publicly repri-manded or ignored at work. You didn’t like it and you’re not alone: in a 2005 survey, nine-ty-five percent of U.S. employees reported being the victim of incivility at work. Ninety-nine percent of Canadian workers said they’d witnessed incivility on the job. Incivility, it seems, is epidemic. And like a nasty virus, it spreads through your or-ganization quickly and can affect the bottom line. When an employee is repeatedly treated uncivilly, it costs in productivity. Nearly 100% of respondents in a study said that when they were victims of incivility, they wasted considerable work-hours re-hashing the event. Some took the issue home with them, which led to stress, which led to absen-teeism. Nearly half decreased their time spent at work or decreased their effort. Over three-quarters admitted that their commitment to

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The Houston Independent School District located in the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center at 4400 West 18th Street Houston, Texas 77092 will accept proposals, until the stated date and time deadlines, in the Board Services Office, Level C1 between the hours of 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. for the following projects:

• Project # 09-08-02 – Bulk - Oil - Lubricants - Transmission Fluid- with a proposal deadline of 10 A.M. Wednesday, August 5, 2009. The pre-pro-posal conference for this project will be held in the second floor conference room HISD Central Warehouse (Bldg # 2) 228 McCarty Drive, Houston, TX 77029 on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 10 P.M

Proposals are available on the HISD web-site at www.houstonisd.org.The District reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, or, to accept

the proposal that is most advantageous to the District.Scwyana Smith



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Bid or Proposal Notice forReplacement of Robert Frost Elementary School at a New Site Location

Houston Independent School District

Cadence McShane Construction Company, LLC (Cadence McShane) as Construction Manager-at-Risk for HISD, in accordance with HB 447, Section 2264.251 of the Texas Government Code, will receive bids or proposals from subcontractors for replacement of Robert Frost Elementary School at a new site location. The work includes construction of a new 1-story school, and related site work. Bids or proposals are due no later than 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at the offices of Cadence McShane Construction Company, LLC, 7701 W. Little York, Houston, TX, 77040, phone 713-681-8500, fax 713-681-9990, attention Ian Farmer.

The plans and specifications will be available beginning Tuesday, July 21, 2009, and may be obtained from A&E The Graphics Complex – 4235 Richmond Ave. Houston, TX 77027 or aecomplex.com, upon refundable deposit of $250.00 for each set of printed plans and specifications. Documents in pdf format are also available from A&E The Graph-ics Complex on disk for a deposit of $50.00. Deposit checks should be made payable to HISD. Requests for access to on-line documents and any questions regarding documents are to be addressed to Cadence McShane, phone 713-681-8500, and fax 713 681-9990, Attn: Ian Farmer.

M/WBE documents as described below will be received until 2:00 p.m. on the proposal due date. There will be no public opening of bids or proposals. All bids or proposals shall be available after award of contract or the 7th day after final selection of bids or proposals, whichever is later. After receipt of bids or proposals, Cadence McShane will conduct its evaluation of the subcontractor bids or proposals in relation to the project requirements and will select the bid(s) or proposal(s) that offers the best value to HISD.

Cadence McShane Construction Company, LLC, is committed to meeting the M/WBE goals set for this project. M/WBE forms, schedules and statements, as required by the package documents, shall accompany each bid or proposal that is submitted. BIDS OR PROPOSALS SUBMITTED WITHOUT ALL REQUIRED INFORMATION AND IN THE MANNER SPECIFIED WILL BE CONSIDERED NON-RESPONSIVE.

A pre-bid/proposal conference will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at Robert Frost Elementary School, 5650 Selinsky, Houston, TX 77048

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