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Hot pink and bright yellow means you're in jail in Cleveland County

Cleveland County prisoners wear jail-issue uniforms of hot pink shirts and yellow-and-white striped pants, which some say make them look more like clowns than criminals. Sheriff's officials say the outfits make them easily identifiable in case of an escape.

NORMAN — Cleveland County prisoners wear jail-issue uniforms of hot pink shirts and yellow-and-white striped pants, which some say make them look more like clowns than criminals.

Cleveland County inmates wear jail-issue uniforms. PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

Oklahoma County attire Sheriff John Whetsel said Oklahoma County inmates wear different colors depending on their status. All of them wear matching shirts and pants with rubber sandals called jelly shoes. The general population wears orange; Corrections Department inmates wear green; jail trusties wear white, or blue and white if they work outdoors; and juveniles wear red.

Sheriff's officials say the outfits were chosen for security reasons.

"We want our inmates to be identifiable. If one of them slips over the wall, we want to know about it right away,” Undersheriff Rhett Burnett said.

Burnett said the county switched to the colorful new uniforms about 16 months ago.

The old orange uniforms were too similar to outfits anyone could buy at a uniform store and wear on the street, he said.

Attorney Fred Shaeffer said he thinks the outfits were selected to embarrass the people who wear them.

"There's no doubt in my mind that the intent was to humiliate them.

"A lot of innocent people get arrested and go through that jail, and everyone is supposed to be presumed innocent until they are found guilty. It's bad enough to be arrested, but to then be humiliated by having to wear a costume like that is wrong,” he said.

The fact that they're garish is what Sheriff Joe Lester likes about them, Burnett said.

"He wanted something identifiable that couldn't be duplicated,” the undersheriff said.

Medical "scrub” uniforms are similar to the orange outfits inmates used to wear, Burnett said.

"It's become popular to wear those green or blue medical uniforms, and you can also buy similar orange ones. Particularly, in Norman, orange is a popular color because it's one of Norman High School's colors,” Burnett said.

The uniforms were not selected to humiliate anyone, Burnett said.

"They're pretty awful, but then the whole experience of getting arrested is pretty awful,” said Connie Albritton of Big Red Bail Bonds.

Attorney Dave Stockwell said he doesn't mind the outfits. "Hey, you're in jail. That's humiliating in itself. And from what I've been told, there were a couple of false sightings of prisoners on the street when we had the old uniforms. With these, you better be wearing handcuffs if you're walking down the street dressed like that,” Stockwell said. 

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Job Outlook for Teenagers Worsens

MICKEY MEECE

May 31, 2010

This year is shaping up to be even worse than last for the millions of high school and college students looking for summer jobs.

Jim Davis/The Boston Globe

Young people in Massachusetts marched to the State House in Boston to protest cuts in financing for jobs.

Another Dismal Summer for Teenagers

Jessica Ebelhar for The New York Times

Some state governments are cash poor. Kentucky has pulled back on mowing lawns at some facilities to save money.

State and local governments, traditionally among the biggest seasonal employers, are knee-deep in budget woes, and the stimulus money that helped cushion some government job programs last summer is running out. Private employers are also reluctant to hire until the economy shows more solid signs of recovery.

So expect fewer lifeguards on duty at public beaches this summer in California, fewer workers at some Massachusetts state parks and camping grounds and taller grass outside state buildings in Kentucky.

Students seeking summer jobs, generally 16 to 24 years old, are at the end of the job line, behind the jobless baby boomers who are competing with new college graduates who, in turn, are trying to elbow out undergraduates and high school students.

With so many people competing for so few jobs, unemployed youth “are the silent victims of the economy,” said Adele McKeon, a career specialist with the Boston Private Industry Council who counsels students on matters like workplace etiquette, professionalism and résumé writing. 

Getting that first job “is an accomplishment, and it’s independence,” Ms. McKeon said. “If you don’t have it, where are you going to learn that stuff?”

The unemployment rate for the 16-to-24 age group reached a record 19.6 percent in April, double the national average. For those job seekers, said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, “This is the worst year, definitely since the early ’80s recession and very likely since the Great Depression.”

Or as researchers at Northeastern University, who issued a report in April on youth unemployment, put it, “The summer job outlook does not appear to be very bright in the absence of a massive new summer jobs intervention.”

Still, the poor numbers this year are not solely a symptom of the continued weak economy. For generations, government data shows, at least half of all teenagers were in the labor force in June, July and August. Starting this decade, though, the number of employed teenagers began to drop, and by 2009, less than a third of teenagers had jobs. This year, the number could fall below 30 percent.

That is a stark contrast to the job market for recent college graduates seeking full-time employment — a market where this is actually a slight increase from this time last year.

There is no simple explanation for the large drop-off in summer jobs this decade, though experts say that more high school students are choosing to volunteer and do internships to burnish their college applications. But the Northeastern researchers said a large number of youths had been left out of the work force and wanted to get back in.

The forecast for this summer is so dire that high school students took to the streets this year in Washington, Boston and New York to push lawmakers to come up with money for summer youth jobs programs as Congress did last year, allocating $1.2 billion for a program for low-income youths.

On Friday, the House passed a measure that included the summer jobs provision, though its future in the Senate this week is uncertain.

The Northeastern researchers estimated that an additional $1 billion federal infusion would create some 300,000 job slots this summer, barely putting a dent in the demand for jobs.

Still, those types of positions are desperately needed, said Neil Sullivan, executive director of the Boston Private Industry Council, which works with private and public employers to place students.

For students like Anthony Roberts, 18, and Deandre Briber, 18, at the Prologue Early College High School in Chicago, the federal money offers some hope. Both are applying to the alternative school’s summer jobs program.

Last summer, with the aid of stimulus money, the school hired dozens of students, according to its principal, Pa Joof. This summer, without the money, the school can afford just 10.

“It was great last summer,” he said. “We had 80 to 90 kids kept off of the street seven or eight weeks. They were able to come right back to school without any problem” in the fall, he added. “What’s happening right now in Chicago, you let these kids out there for four or five weeks, we are going to lose some of them. That’s just the nature of the streets.”

Mr. Briber, who graduates next January, said he had applied at T.J. Maxx, Target, Kmart, and at a local docking company, with no luck. Having an income will help ease the burden on his mother, he said. Also, he said, “I feel like I do need to get a job because I’m kind of a handful. I want things, clothes, and to take care of myself. I just want to be on my own, to help out with bills.”

Mr. Roberts, who graduates in June and plans to attend college, said he had been searching for a job for a year and a half. Everywhere he goes, Mr. Roberts says, there are other teenagers ahead of him. “It bothers me, but at the same time,” he said, “I try not to let it bother me.”

In Boston, at the Charlestown High School, Jamila Hussein, 19, said she had been running into the same problem in looking for a part-time job in retail or restaurants. “It’s harder than it sounds,” said Ms. Hussein, who has a summer internship lined up in July to clerk for a judge. “Right now, some of the things, even if they are available, you have adults looking.”

Last week, Ms. Hussein was at the office of Ms. McKeon, the career specialist with the Boston Private Industry Council. The partnership with the private industry council and public schools is well entrenched, about 30 years old, Ms. McKeon said. Even so, she said, “we’ve never seen it like it is now.”

Jada Bonner, 15, another student at Charlestown High, was at Ms. McKeon’s office applying for a summer job through a community program. “I just want a job, independence. I don’t want to ask my mom 24/7 for pocket money, and she might not even have it,” she said.

While cities like Boston and New York have had to cut summer youth jobs programs, Cincinnati has maintained a $1 million budget for its youth initiative the last few years because of the mayor’s commitment to the program, according to Jason Barron of the mayor’s office.

About 700 high school and college-age youths will be hired to create murals, landscape, work in the parks department, serve as junior counselors and intern at neighborhood recreation centers, he said.

Elsewhere, the Interior Department has committed to hiring at least 12,000 youth in 2010 — a 50 percent increase over the 8,000 in 2009 as part of its Youth in the Great Outdoors initiative.

But for the second consecutive year, CareerBuilder.com found in its summer hiring forecast that a vast majority of employers did not intend to hire seasonal help. “Summer hiring plans clearly show that they are still waiting to see what the future brings before they move forward with recruitment,” said Rosemary Haefner, vice president for human resources.

Still, Ms. Haefner said, there have been some positive signs, like an increase in job postings.

Retailers like American Eagle Outfitters are hiring at various locations, including its flagship stores in New York City, where it plans job fairs in June. In tourist spots like Atlantic City, businesses are expecting a rebound in seasonal hires, according to the Convention and Visitors Authority.

Indeed, career specialists say job seekers who persevere can find work. “It’s still going to be a tough summer for teens,” said Renée Ward, who runs the job help site.

To which Mr. Sullivan of the Boston Private Industry Council, said, “Everyone has fond memories of their summer jobs as they grew up.”

“For almost half of this generation,” he said, “that has been lost.”

June 1, 2010

Jackson's kids get $33M each

Despite reports that their father died broke nearly a year ago, Michael Jackson's three children won't have money issues to worry about. 

The late King of Pop left $33 million to each of his kids -- Prince, 13, Paris, 12, and Blanket, 8 -- according to a will published by Britain's News of the World.

The legal docs state that the MJ 3 will eventually have access to 40% of their father's estate via trust funds. They'll be able to make partial withdrawals when they reach age 21 and will have full control of their fortunes when they hit 40.

And that's just where it stands today: The Jackson estate is expected to explode thanks to interest and future earnings that include record and merchandise sales.

MJ, who died last June at the age of 50, also listed his mother (and legal guardian to his kids) Katherine Jackson in the will, giving her a 40% share of his estate. The remaining 20% is designated for charities, according to the document published by News of the World.

Cut out of the will? Papa Joe Jackson, MJ's famous sibs and ex-wives Debbie Rowe and Lisa Marie Presley.

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Study: 10 minutes of exercise, hour-long effects

 LAURAN NEERGAARD

AP Medical Writer

May 31, 2010

WASHINGTON – Ten minutes of brisk exercise triggers metabolic changes that last at least an hour. The unfair news for panting newbies: The more fit you are, the more benefits you just might be getting.

We all know that exercise and a good diet are important for health, protecting against heart disease and diabetes, among other conditions. But what exactly causes the health improvement from working up a sweat or from eating, say, more olive oil than saturated fat? And are some people biologically predisposed to get more benefit than others?

They're among questions that metabolic profiling, a new field called metabolomics, aims to answer in hopes of one day optimizing those benefits — or finding patterns that may signal risk for disease and new ways to treat it.

"We're only beginning to catalog the metabolic variability between people," says Dr. Robert Gerszten of Massachusetts General Hospital, whose team just took a step toward that goal.

The researchers measured biochemical changes in the blood of a variety of people: the healthy middle-aged, some who became short of breath with exertion, and marathon runners.

First, in 70 healthy people put on a treadmill, the team found more than 20 metabolites that change during exercise, naturally produced compounds involved in burning calories and fat and improving blood-sugar control. Some weren't known until now to be involved with exercise. Some revved up during exercise, like those involved in processing fat. Others involved with cellular stress decreased with exercise.

Those are pretty wonky findings, a first step in a complex field. But they back today's health advice that even brief bouts of activity are good.

"Ten minutes of exercise has at least an hour of effects on your body," says Gerszten, who found some of the metabolic changes that began after 10 minutes on the treadmill still were measurable 60 minutes after people cooled down.

Your heart rate rapidly drops back to normal when you quit moving, usually in 10 minutes or so. So finding lingering biochemical changes offers what Gerszten calls "tantalizing evidence" of how exercise may be building up longer-term benefits.

Back to the blood. Thinner people had greater increases in a metabolite named niacinamide, a nutrient byproduct that's involved in blood-sugar control, the team from Mass General and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard reported last week in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Checking a metabolite of fat breakdown, the team found people who were more fit — as measured by oxygen intake during exercise — appeared to be burning more fat than the less fit, or than people with shortness of breath, a possible symptom of heart disease.

The extremely fit — 25 Boston Marathon runners — had ten-fold increases in that metabolite after the race. Still other differences in metabolites allowed the researchers to tell which runners had finished in under four hours and which weren't as speedy.

"We have a chemical snapshot of what the more fit person looks like. Now we have to see if making someone's metabolism look like that snapshot, whether or not that's going to improve their performance," says Gerszten, whose ultimate goal is better cardiac care.

Don't expect a pill ever to substitute for a workout — the new work shows how complicated the body's response to exercise is, says metabolomics researcher Dr. Debbie Muoio of Duke University Medical Center.

But scientists are hunting nutritional compounds that might help tweak metabolic processes in specific ways. For example, Muoio discovered the muscles of diabetic animals lack enough of a metabolite named carnitine, and that feeding them more improved their control of blood sugar. Now, Muoio is beginning a pilot study in 25 older adults with pre-diabetes to see if carnitine supplements might work similarly in people who lack enough.

Next up: With University of Vermont researchers, she's testing how metabolic changes correlate with health measures in a study of people who alternate between a carefully controlled Mediterranean diet and higher-fat diets.

"The longterm hope is you could use this in making our way toward personalized medicine," Muoio says.

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EDITOR's NOTE — Lauran Neergaard covers health and medical issues for The Associated Press in Washington.

Long Beach woman who lived frugal lifestyle leaves behind $4.5M

When Verna Oller died at age 98 in Long Beach earlier this month, no one had a clue the wealth she'd accumulated through her lifetime: $4.5 million.

Susan Gilmore

Seattle Times staff reporter

May 29, 2010 at 8:28 PM

When Verna Oller was living at the Circle of Life retirement home in Long Beach, friends told her her coat was looking pretty ragged.

So she took a bus to a thrift shop and bought a new coat, for $2. It was so cheap because the lining had ripped out. Oller detached the zipper from the lining and used it to lace her shoes.

Why spend $2 for laces, she told her friends, when the zipper worked just fine.

She told Andrea Noonan, who heads Circle of Life, that she'd never been to a hairdresser in her life because it was cheaper to cut her own hair, or to buy a wig, as she did in her later years. She would clip coupons, and dig up flower bulbs from neighboring gardens and plant them at Circle of Life.

So when she died May 10, at age 98, no one had any idea of the legacy she would leave behind. Oller, through her careful investments and frugal lifestyle, left behind $4.5 million.

She donated $500,000 to a public-school endowment and another $500,000 to a foundation to be used for student scholarships and grants to teachers. The rest she left to the city of Long Beach to build an indoor swimming pool.

Oller made her money by saving and investing what she and her husband earned and from a sizable inheritance from her sister and a bequest from an uncle.

"She was a very interesting person. Her whole culture didn't involve spending money, it was more about being extremely cautious with her money," said Oller's attorney Guy Glenn, one of the few in Long Beach who knew of her wealth.

"Her story is really unique; I've been along for the ride for a long time. (Her money) was a deep, dark secret. She didn't want anyone coming looking for money."

Glenn said Oller was a student of finance. He would take her The Wall Street Journal after he'd finish reading it, and she'd pore over the financial information. "She did a lot of research," Glenn said, "and was a total equity investor."

Before she moved into Circle of Life, she lived alone in a house with a woodstove, where she would haul the wood in a wheelbarrow into her 90s. She didn't want to pay to heat her house, Glenn said.

When deciding where to leave her wealth, she first thought she'd pay for a new library in Long Beach. But then she decided she wanted something that would benefit everybody, from infants to the elderly, so she settled on a swimming pool. She took a bus to Astoria, Ore., and asked a lot of questions about how much its pool cost.

Maserati owner arrested in welfare fraud sweep

Richard Winton

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

May 28, 2010 | 12:20 p.m.

BP's new plan risks worsening oil spill

A maneuver that includes severing a leaking pipe from the well may increase the flow as much as 20%. Officials also say there is no immediate remedy to plug the well until August.

Margot Roosevelt and Tina Susman

Los Angeles Times

May 31, 2010

BP's plan to sever a leaking pipe as part of an effort to cap its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico could increase flow by as much as 20%, and the oil giant has no remedy to stop up the well until August, Obama administration and company officials said Sunday.

The risky maneuver, part of an attempt to contain the gusher and divert the oil through a pipe to the surface, could begin Monday or Tuesday.

Administration and BP officials on Sunday sought to shift attention from last week's failed attempt to choke the well by focusing on expectations that a new cap could divert much of the leaking oil from the fragile ecosystem of the gulf.
 
But behind those assurances was the frank admission that the disaster response has fallen back to containment and surface cleanup, not closure, until a relief well reaches the gushing well bore in August and enables engineers to install cement plugs.

"We're now going to move into a situation where they're going to attempt to control the oil that's coming out, move it to a vessel, take it onshore," White House energy advisor Carol Browner told NBC's "Meet the Press." "Obviously that's not the preferred scenario. We always knew that the relief well was the permanent way to close this.… Now we move to the third option, which is to contain it."

Browner and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley said a tighter fit and use of warm fluids could prevent a repeat of the first containment effort, which was clogged when methane hydrates congealed inside a containment dome, blocking the flow to the surface and making the dome buoyant.

"If it's a snug fit, then there could be very, very little oil. If they're not able to get as snug a fit, then there could be more," Browner said of the new cap. "We're going to hope for the best and prepare for the worst."

Dudley, in his round of appearances on Sunday's talk shows, expressed greater confidence in the new cap.

"We feel like the percentages are better that we'll be able to contain the oil," he told Fox News. "The question is how much of the oil will we be able to contain and the objective is to try to collect the majority through this vessel."

At the administration's insistence, Browner said, BP is drilling a second relief well in case the first fails to reach the well. The drilling could have the same challenges that the blown-out well faced — loose formations that caused a loss of drilling fluid, and at least one case of a pipe segment getting stuck, along with expensive instruments inside it, that had to be abandoned, according to BP documents.

In BP's new effort, robots would use a diamond saw to cut the leaking and crumbled riser pipe cleanly from atop the failed blowout preventer and then install a cap to allow much of the oil to be pumped up to a ship on the surface.

Dudley told Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union" that the pipe was not restricting much flow, so severing it should not greatly increase the volume of oil spouting from the well.

"There may be a small increase," he said. "But we should not expect to see a large increase, if any, by cutting this off and making a clean surface for us to be able to put this containment vessel over it."

Dudley said on ABC's "This Week" that BP "learned a lot" from the earlier containment failure, and this time it plans to pump warm seawater and methanol down the pipe to prevent the gases from freezing.

Browner said on CBS that Energy Secretary Steven Chu and a team of scientists on Saturday essentially put a halt to BP's attempt to cap the spewing well with a process known as "top kill," which injected drilling mud and other materials to try to counter the upward pressure of the oil. The administration team worried the increasing pressure from injecting heavy drilling mud could worsen the leak.

Drilling experts have warned that high-pressure injections could cause a catastrophic collapse of well pipes and leave an open crater that would be impossible to cap.

Asked whether U.S. officials told BP to stop the three-day-long top kill attempt, Browner said, "We told them of our very, very grave concerns" that it was dangerous to continue building up pressure in the well.

Meanwhile, BP chief Tony Hayward, on a tour of a company staging area in Venice, La., sought to refute multiple reports from scientists that vast plumes of oil from the spill are spreading underwater.

Hayward said BP's sampling showed "no evidence" that oil was massing and spreading across the gulf water column. "The oil is on the surface," he said. "Oil has a specific gravity that's about half that of water. It wants to get to the surface because of the difference in specific gravity."

Scientists from the University of South Florida, University of Georgia, University of Southern Mississippi and other institutions have detected what they believe are vast swaths of underwater hydrocarbons, including an area about 50 miles from the spill site and as deep as 400 feet.
Samples they collected are being analyzed to see whether the hydrocarbons they detected come from BP's well.

Hayward said the company was focusing its cleanup efforts on skimming and burning the surface oil, dispersing it and setting up booms along the coast to absorb and block the scum. He said the company was narrowing its response to the oil spill to the Louisiana coast and bulking up cleanup forces there for a fight that could last months.

Despite fears, little oil has washed up on the shores of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, although scientists have indicated plumes could approach Mobile Bay, Ala.

With more than half a million gallons of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico daily, Sunday's messages were hardly reassuring to Louisianans who are bearing the brunt of the spill.

In New Orleans, some 200 protesters, summoned by Internet social-networking, gathered across the street from St. Louis Cathedral to express frustration over BP's cleanup efforts.

In the rain, clutching homemade signs that read "BP oil pigs" and "Kill the well now," they applauded speakers demanding the ouster of BP and other oil giants from the gulf region and more vigorous efforts to save turtles, dolphins, birds and other wildlife.

Patrick Brower, 32, wearing a beige shirt that read "Make Wetlands, not oil," voiced the concern of many Hurricane Katrina veterans, saying he feared the advent of a new tropical storm season, which starts June 1. "We could have oil in the city," he said.

Librarian Danielle Brutsche, 37, whose shirt read "Our addiction to oil is killing us," also raised the Katrina parallel. "It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from," she said.

Actor Tim Robbins, who has been filming a movie in New Orleans, did not speak to the crowd, but he said on the sidelines that a flight he had taken over the spill area about 10 days ago had convinced him that the problem was far worse than most people imagined. "We got down below 3,000 feet and saw huge, huge globs of oil about to hit Raccoon Island," he said.

But this being New Orleans, and Memorial Day weekend, the crowd was smaller than the one up the street crammed into Cafe du Monde to eat beignets.

Metro Atlanta / State News

11:41 p.m. Saturday, May 29, 2010

Man tells police he was ‘too drunk' to report crime

An Athens man told police someone punched him and took his belongings as he walked home early Friday morning. But he waited several hours to tell police.

Nicholas Ludley said he was hit on the side of the face and had a tooth knocked out at 2 a.m., according to Sgt. Jay Butt with Athens-Clarke County police.

He didn't report the crime for several hours because "he was probably too drunk at the time to tell what happened," he told police.

Ludley, 22, told police his cell phone, credit cards and keys were stolen, Butt said. The incident happened near Parkview homes, according to police.

Students at New Design High School in Manhattan earn gym credits by serving concessions - like popcorn and hot dogs - at the Rooftop Films festival.

Exercise-starved students from a lower Manhattan school are getting gym credits for working concessions at the Rooftop Films festival, the Daily News has learned.

"Selling drinks and popcorn at a movie is not physical education. It's just not right," said Palmer Taylor, a gym teacher at New Design High School. "The kids aren't getting enough phys-ed."

Every Friday and Saturday starting in May, students can earn seven hours toward their gym requirements by staffing the screenings at the school, one of 10 venues for the popular film series, students and Taylor said.

Roughly 20 students, a handful of them packing a few extra pounds, were performing tasks that required little more exertion than flipping burgers, lifting coolers and setting tables. 

Ironically, the film fest is held on the school's rooftop basketball court that doubles as a skate park.

"It's not so much a workout as it is work," said Ryan Pacheco, a 17-year-old senior looking to earn 125 hours toward his gym requirements.

"Every senior knows this is a shortcut to graduation. This is how you get around the problem" of required gym classes they've avoided, said Ryan.

The practice of allowing students to sell snacks for credit flies in the face of the Department of Education's efforts to make schools healthier for city kids, one in five of whom is obese.

The city's tactics for tackling obesity have included restricting bake sales at schools, reasoning the homemade goodies are too unhealthy.

Several students, though, defended the credits they were receiving.

"We're actually learning something here," said Ryan's classmate Olukemi Wallace, 18, who grilled burgers and hot dogs for most of Friday's movie screening. "A lot of kids go to the gym but aren't dedicated to what they're doing. We're dedicated to this."

Another senior, who didn't want to be named, said the school wants the kids to focus on their studies.

"We have to study. We have projects. We can't get all these hours of phys-ed in during the school day," said the senior.

"The school knows that so this is how they deal with it. We stay in shape in other ways."

Department of Education spokesman Danny Kanner slammed the practice Saturday.

"Obviously, students should not get physical education credits for volunteering at a film festival, but we'll wait until the conclusion of any investigation to pass judgment," he said. 

Principal Scott Conti declined to comment.

Having kids miss gym is troubling, Taylor said, because "in our school there are a good number of students who are out of shape and some are overweight."

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