Bishop Wesley Wiley Presents Girl Get Out That Box Women's Conference

(e3media)-- Bishop Dr. Wesley Wiley presents Girl Get Out That Box Women's Conference this September 19, 2009. This coneference is for all women- Daughters, Granddaugters, Sisters, First Ladies, Aunts, Business Women, Mothers, Godmothers, Wives. The ticket price is $40.00 and will be held at the Brooklyn Marriot located at 333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Bishop Wesley Wiley is the Senior Pastor at The Resurrection Temple Of Our Lord located at:
784-786 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11226


For information please contact the Resurrection Temple at 718-287-7450

Chris Brown's sentence for beating up Rihanna delayed by judge

(e3media)--A Los Angeles judge postponed sentencing singer Chris Brown on Wednesday, saying she wants documents guaranteeing he'll do roadside cleanup or other hard labor for beating up Rihanna.

Judge Patricia Schnegg told the R&B star that she doesn't want him doing easy community service but rather 1,400 hours of "community labor" for smacking around his ex-girlfriend.

"I do not favor community service," said Schnegg, explaining that she wants to see Brown, 20, outdoors picking up trash or cleaning up graffiti.

Brown pleaded guilty June 22 to assaulting Rihanna, 21, after they left a pre-Grammy gala in Los Angeles on Feb. 8.

Instead of jail time, Brown plea bargained for five years' probation, 180 days of community labor and 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling.

Schnegg agreed to allow the "Forever" and "Kiss Kiss" recording artist to do his community labor in Virginia, where he lives.

The judge told Brown she was delaying his sentencing to Aug. 27 because she had yet to receive documents from the State of Virginia specifying the type of community labor he'll be assigned.

Dressed in a pink shirt and a charcoal-colored suit, Brown answered "Yeah" when asked if he agreed to the postponement.

Rihanna's lawyer, Donald Etra, appeared at the hearing to ask the court to ditch an order of protection barring Brown from coming within 50 yards of Rihanna. Etra did not get a chance to make the request Wednesday.

"We were obviously hoping that all proceedings would be concluded today. We're just going to have to wait until Aug. 27," said Etra, adding that Rihanna "is doing great."

Mayor Bloomberg, other pols hoping campaign commercials are spot on

(e3media)--Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg's long been flooding the airwaves with his pitches for a third term.

Starting Thursday, the mayor's got some company: The first of the down-ballot candidates - Eric Gioia of Queens - is out of the starting gate with his own ad.

Gioia, a Democratic city councilman running for public advocate, is hitting the airwaves with "Been There," an introductory spot that seeks to convince viewers that he can understand and solve their problems because his own life experiences mirror theirs.

"For every New Yorker who's gone to public schools, who's worked the late shift or worried about making the rent, there's one Democrat for public advocate who's been there, too. Eric Gioia," a narrator says.

Gioia is competing for the Democratic nomination against former Public Advocate Mark Green, Brooklyn City Councilman Bill de Blasio and civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel.

As of his last campaign finance filing, Gioia - who attended elementary and secondary public schools and Catholic high school - had raised more than $2 million, far more than any of his foes.

A Gioia aide said "Been There" will debut with "hundreds" of airings on a variety of cable shows.

"Eric [has] a story that [is] really going to resonate with people, and has done an amazing job raising money that [is] going to give him a chance to tell that story," the aide said.

Gioia needs that chance to build up name recognition: The poll-leading Green has held the job twice, run for many other offices, written books and held down a regular TV pundit gig.

While Gioia may be among the first to go on the small screen, expect plenty more TV, print, radio and Web advertising in the weeks before the Sept. 15 primary.

For some - Democratic mayoral hopeful William Thompson, controller candidate David Yassky and Manhattan district attorney contender Leslie Crocker Snyder - filming's already underway. Controller candidate John Liu goes to air in a matter of weeks.

For the average candidate, "You want to maximize the punch" by waiting until voters are focused on the race - usually right before the election, one politico said.

"None of us quite have the resources that Mike Bloomberg does," he added dryly.

'American Idol' fans jittery as Paula Abdul's future could include 'So You Think You Can Dance'

(e3media)--Paula Abdul's shocking decision to leave "American Idol" left fans reeling Wednesday - and she may already be on her way to a new gig.

Former "American Idol" producer Nigel Lythgoe told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that he's talked with Abdul about coming to Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance."

"With Paula's background as a dancer, choreographer and reality judge now, I don't know anyone more qualified than Paula Abdul," he said, adding they would meet in Las Vegas this weekend.

The Lythgoe-Abdul discussion added a new twist to the quickly moving story, which began Tuesday night when she revealed she wasn't returning to "Idol" after failing to reach a new contract deal with producers.

"I am a huge Idol fan and I think the producers made a mistake here," wrote a fan at DailyNews.com. "Paula brought a certain amount of intrigue to the show because she was so unpredictable and sweet."

Abdul had been on the show since its launch in 2002, and often provided the comedic and occasionally bizarre moments on the hit singing competition.

"I can't believe it," "Idol" judge Randy Jackson told TV's "Extra."

Abdul used the Twitter.com social networking site to tell fans she was leaving.

"With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return to Idol," Abdul "tweeted" Tuesday night.

Abdul's deal expired at the end of last season. She was reportedly seeking $12 million a year, up from the $4 million she had been making.

While it appeared she would return, the process turned sour recently, and her new manager David Sonenberg told the Los Angeles Times that "very sadly, it does not appear that she's going to be back on "Idol."

She told the world she was leaving just a day after Fox announced Kara DioGuardi would be back this season.

Show producers recently signed host Ryan Seacrest to a three-year, $45 million deal to host and produce other shows.

E! News staffer Guiliana Rancic Wednesday was urging people to tweet "Save Paula!"

They're not alone in being shaken by the news. A whopping 65% of the Daily News readers who voted online Wednesday said the show wouldn't be the same without Abdul.

A Fox spokeswoman had nothing new to say Wednesday beyond Tuesday night's comment that execs were "saddened that she has decided not to return to the show."

There was no hint of whether show producers will replace her on the judges panel, now occupied by Simon Cowell, Jackson and DioGuardi- or leave it at three. There was some criticism this past season that four was one too many judges.

Abdul's spokesman did return request for comment.

While Abdul is out at "Idol," it's unlikely she's going to go hungry.

NBC officials also said on Wednesday Abdul would be welcome there: "Paula is an exceptional piece of talent," NBC executive vice president of alternative programming Paul Telegdy said at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena.

"We have no specific plans for her but I wouldn't rule anything out. As a viewer, I'll miss her on the show," he said.

Scott Sternberg, who produced Abdul's reality show "Hey Paula," said he was surprised by her decision not to renew.

"As a big fan of the show I am sad to see her leave," Sternberg said, "but Paula's a great talent and I am excited to see what's next for her."

Gunman in Pittsburgh gym massacre, George Sodini, planned shooting for months, his journal reveals

(e3media)--They are the musings of a monster.

The frustrated loner who murdered three women at a suburban Pittsburgh gym before killing himself wrote a vile journal that revealed he planned the massacre for months - and "chickened out" on his first try.

Suicidal suspect George Sodini complained he'd had "no sex since July 1990" and blamed his parents, his siblings - even his preacher - for the fact that "girls and women don't even give me a second look ANYWHERE."

He placed a date of death - Aug. 4 - atop his Web site. He made it clear he didn't care who read his words.

"I will not be embarased [sic], because, well, I will be dead," he wrote in his final entry Friday. "Death lives!"

On Tuesday, Sodini strolled into an LA Fitness gym with four guns in a duffle bag and headed for a room where an aerobics class was underway.

Sodini pulled out two guns, both bought legally. Then he flipped off the lights and started shooting, police said.

Cops said he fired 35 times before turning a .45-caliber revolver on himself.

When it was over, three women were dead, nine others were injured and yet another disturbed gunman had etched his name in blood in the annals of American crime.

"He had no relationship with anyone at the club that we know of," local police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said. "He was hell bent on doing what he did."

Sodini's words confirm that. "Why do this? To young girls?" began his 4,610-word journal. "Just read below."

Sodini's first entry on Nov. 5, 2008, was a racist rant about President Obama and black men. The seeds of slaughter were sown in subsequent entries, where he complained about not having had a girlfriend "since 1984."

"Who knows why," he wrote. "I am not too ugly or too weird."

Sodini dismissed his dad as a "useless sperm donor." He raged against his "useless bully" brother. He called his mother "The Central Boss." He blasted his former pastor.

"This guy teaches (and convinced me) you can commit mass murder then still go to heaven," Sodini wrote.

A software developer for a Pittsburgh law firm, Sodini also ripped a colleague, writing that the "worst people by far are the religious types."

Sodini first tried to commit mass murder at the gym on Jan. 6 but lost his nerve. He wrote about trying to calm himself by drinking or getting high.

"I just need to use common sense, can't drink and drive etc.," he wrote.

Then, on May 18, Sodini wrote that he "actually had a date today" with a woman he met on the bus. And yet, in the same entry, Sodini wrote he was "TOTALLY ALONE."

In his final hours, Sodini added to his site the name of a woman who "had my baby in early 1991." She appears to have died five years ago.

Addressing his readers, Sodini concluded, "Maybe all this will shed insight on why some people just cannot make things happen in their life."

Dr. Bishop Wesley Wiley Presents Girl Get Out That Box

(e3media)-- Bishop Dr. Wesley Wiley presents Girl Get Out That Box Women's Conference this September 19, 2009. This coneference is for all women- Daughters, Granddaugters, Sisters, First Ladies, Aunts, Business Women, Mothers, Godmothers, Wives. The ticket price is $40.00 and will be held at the Brooklyn Marriot located at 333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Bishop Wesley Wiley is the Senior Pastor at The Resurrection Temple Of Our Lord located at:
784-786 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11226


For information please contact the Resurrection Temple at 718-287-7450

Giants make Eli Manning richest quarterback in NFL; Super Bowl MVP agrees to 7-year, $107M contract

ALBANY (e3media) - Eli Manning is about to become the highest-paid player in the NFL.

The Giants quarterback and former Super Bowl MVP has agreed to a new seven-year, $106.9 million contract that he is expected to sign later Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Though it's not the largest deal in NFL history, the average of $15.27 million per year is a new NFL high.

That deal has been in the works since last year, as the Daily News first reported in January. Though it didn't quite hit the $120 million mark that NFL sources expected, it still makes Manning the eighth member of the $100 million Quarterback Club.

The deal is actually a six-year, $97.5 million extension which will keep him with the Giants through the 2015 season. It tops the $100 million barrier when you add in the $9.4 million he was due this season, which will apparently be included in the new deal.

According to one report, the deal will include $35 million in guaranteed money.

Tom Condon, Manning's agent, did not return an e-mail seeking comment. A Giants spokesman had no comment on the impending deal either.

Manning's new deal also makes him the highest-paid member of his family, trumping the $14 million-per-year average Peyton Manning has with his seven-year, $98 million deal with the Indianapolis Colts. That was the highest average for an NFL quarterback, and it was the highest in the NFL until the Oakland Raiders signed cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha to a deal this spring worth an average of $15 million per season.

Manning's new deal would eclipse that, too.

The Giants have known they were going to have to open the vault for Manning since Feb. 3, 2008, when he led them on that miraculous run to Super Bowl XLII. Add in four playoff appearances in five seasons - and all four seasons as a full-time starter - and the consensus in the organization was that he was easily worth the price.

The negotiations, however, got off to a rocky start.

According to one source, Manning's a initial asking price was around $20 million per year, which the Giants obviously balked at. The source said Condon made it clear he wanted his client to be the NFL's highest-paid player, even though Manning later told the Daily News "I don't have an ego about that."

There was no rush to get a deal done either. Manning's original six-year contract was worth $45-54 million and wasn't scheduled to run out until after the 2009 season, when he was due to earn a salary of $9.4 million. The Giants also had the option of placing the "franchise player" tag on him, if necessary, so there was no risk of him ever hitting free agency.

One way or another, the Giants were committed to making Manning their franchise quarterback for the rest of his career, and nothing the 28-year-old Manning has done since Super Bowl XLII has changed that. Despite some struggles at the end of last year, Manning still made the Pro Bowl for the first time after completing 60.3 percent of his passes (289 for 479) for 3,238 yards with 21 touchdowns and only 10 interceptions.

That's good enough for the Giants to put him in the elite company of $100 million quarterbacks. The list includes:

Brett Favre (10 years, $101 million from Green Bay in 2001), Drew Bledsoe (10 years, $103 million from New England in 2001), Donovan McNabb (12 years, $115 million from Philadelphia in 2002), Daunte Culpepper (10 years, $102 million from Minnesota in 2003), Michael Vick (10 years, $130 million from Atlanta in 2004), Carson Palmer (nine-years, $118.75 million from Cincinnati in 2005), and Ben Roethlisberger (eight years, $102 million from Pittsburgh in 2008).

Poll indicates generational split over health care

WASHINGTON (e3media) -- Americans appear split over President Barack Obama's health care proposals, according to a new national poll.

Fifty percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday morning say they support the president's plans, with 45 percent opposed.

The results indicate a generational divide.

"Obama's plan is most popular among younger Americans and least popular among senior citizens," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "A majority of Americans over the age of 50 oppose Obama's plan; a majority of those under 50 support it." Read full transcript of poll

The poll's release comes as lawmakers go back to their home districts and states for summer recess. The House of Representatives is already on break and the Senate heads home at the end of the week.

Some lawmakers are holding town hall meetings or other public forums on health care reform over the next few weeks, where voters will get a chance to speak out about the various proposals for change. The poll indicates that seven in 10 Americans say they're very or somewhat likely to attend such events.

"Nearly half of those who oppose the Obama plan say they are more likely to attend town hall meetings to express their views on health care; only 37 percent of those who support Obama's plan are very likely to attend a public forum on that issue," Holland said.

The poll indicates that only three in 10 of all Americans think the president's health care proposals will help their families. Another 44 percent feel they won't benefit but that other families will be helped by the president's plans, and one in five say no one will be helped.

"Less than a quarter of Americans with private health insurance think that Obama's proposals would help them personally. Most people on Medicare and Medicaid also don't think that the Obama plan will help them," Holland said.

The survey suggests that around seven out of 10 Americans think that major structural changes are necessary to reduce health care costs or provide insurance coverage to all Americans. At the same time, more than eight out of 10 people are satisfied with their own health care and nearly three out of four are happy with their own insurance.

In any health care system, tough decisions that affect individual patients -- such as which people get certain treatments and which treatments are too expensive or ineffective -- must be made. The poll suggests that Americans are split on whom they prefer to make such choices, with 40 percent saying it should be the insurance companies and an equal amount believing that the government should make the call.

The battle over health care is registering with people across the country. According to the survey, more than half of all Americans have strong feelings regarding the health care debate, with about a third saying they strongly oppose Obama's plans and 23 percent strongly in favor.

"On issues like this, intensity of opinion matters as much as numbers. Opponents of the president's health care reform seem to feel more intensely about it than Obama's supporters," said CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted Friday through Monday, with 1,136 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.

Four dead, including gunman, in gym shooting

(e3media)-- A gunman walked into an LA Fitness gym outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, turned off the lights and fired off 50 rounds, killing three women before killing himself Tuesday evening, police said.

The man didn't speak but was carrying a gym bag with a note inside it. He was found dead in the gym lying on top of one of his guns near a victim, said Charles Moffatt, Allegheny County police superintendent.

At least 10 other people were injured in the barrage of bullets that sent people in the gym ducking for cover, Moffatt said.

A law enforcement source identified the gunman as George Sodini, a 48-year-old gym member.

Moffatt would not release the name of the victims during a Wednesday news conference.

Sodini was a systems analyst in the finance department of K&L Gates, a law firm with an office in Pittsburgh, said Mike Rick, a spokesman for the firm. Sodini had worked for the firm since 1999, Rick said.

Neighbors described Sodini as a bit of a recluse. They said he had stopped talking to neighbors.

The gunman apparently was on a mission, Moffatt said.

"He did what he set out to do, and I think nobody could have stopped him, " he said. Watch whom the shooter may have been targeting »

Moffatt would not confirm a newspaper report that Sodini's ex-girlfriend was one of the women killed in the shooting.

He also did not say what was written on the note that was found in Sodini's gym bag.

Sodini entered the fitness center around 8 p.m. Tuesday and went straight to an aerobics classroom, where he opened fire with multiple handguns, Moffatt said.

The shooting victims arrived at three major hospitals in the area.

A spokeswoman for UPMC Mercy Hospital confirmed five female shooting victims arrived at the facility with multiple gunshot wounds. "All arrived in critical condition," hospital spokeswoman Linda Ross said. "Three of them were upgraded to serious condition overnight."

Allegheny General Hospital received two wounded patients at its trauma center, a spokesman said. Both victims are women and were listed in fair condition early Wednesday.

A St. Clair Hospital spokesman said three shooting victims arrived there Tuesday night; two were in stable condition and one, who was shot in the chest, died at about 8:55 p.m.

Perry Calabro of nearby Bridgeville told CNN he was between racquetball games at the gym when he suddenly heard screaming and multiple gunshots. He said he ran out but didn't see the gunman or others.

Other witnesses told CNN affiliate WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh that the lights went out before they saw flashes in dark, later realizing it was gunfire.

Freed journalist: 'We are so happy to be home'

BURBANK, California (e3media) -- Laura Ling on Wednesday expressed the shock she and Euna Lee felt when former President Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea, to help secure the two journalists' release.

"We feared at any moment that we could be sent to a hard labor camp and then suddenly we were told we were going to a meeting," a tearful and emotional Ling said at a news conference in California shortly after arriving by plane with Lee and Clinton.

She spoke minutes after the two women were reunited with their families at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank outside Los Angeles. They had been detained in North Korea since March.

North Korea pardoned Ling, 32, and Lee, 36, after Clinton's brief trip Tuesday to Pyongyang.

"We were taken to a location, and when we walked through the doors, we saw standing before us President Bill Clinton," Ling said with Lee standing beside her.

"We were shocked, but we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end."

She expressed her and Lee's "deepest gratitude" to Clinton and his "wonderful, amazing" team. Watch as Ling says, "We could feel your love" »

"The past 140 days have been the most difficult, heart-wrenching time of our lives," Ling said. "We are very grateful that we were granted amnesty by the government of North Korea, and we are so happy to be home."

She said that she and Lee are looking forward to spending "some quiet, private time" with their families.

Former Vice President Al Gore also spoke to the throngs of journalists at the news conference. He expressed his gratitude to Clinton and President Obama and his administration who "have been deeply involved in this humanitarian effort." iReport.com: Share reaction to the freed journalists

Lee and Ling are employed by Gore's California-based media company, Current TV. The women were arrested in March while reporting from the border between North Korea and China. In June, they were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor on charges of entering the country illegally to conduct a smear campaign.

On Wednesday morning, Lee bowed as she walked down the steps of the plane into a private hangar, and Ling raised her fists into the air. The women hugged their families, who were waiting at the bottom of the stairs. Lee's 4-year-old daughter, Hannah clung tightly to her tearful mother. Watch as the women reunite with their families »

Clinton walked off the plane minutes later but did not address the crowd.

Through a statement released by his office, Clinton said, "I am very happy that after this long ordeal, Laura Ling and Euna Lee are now home and reunited with their loved ones."

"When their families, Vice President Gore and the White House asked that I undertake this humanitarian mission, I agreed. I share a deep sense of relief with Laura and Euna and their families that they are safely home."

At the White House, Obama applauded the release of the two journalists, saying, "We are very pleased with the outcome."

Their release is a "source of happiness not only for the families but for the entire country," he said. Watch as Obama says, "We are relieved" »

Obama also thanked the former president and Gore for their roles in winning the women's release.

"I think that not only is this White House ... extraordinarily happy, but all Americans should be grateful to both former President Clinton and Vice President Gore for their extraordinary work," he said.

Clinton made the trip to North Korea after the women's families asked him to travel there, a senior administration official said.

Doug Ling, Ling's father, earlier reacted to the news of his daughter's release outside his home in Carmichael, California, saying it was "one of the best days in my life."

"I figured, sooner or later, they'd be back," he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also expressed her relief that the two women were released. She spoke from Nairobi, Kenya, where she is taking part in a multination visit to Africa.

"I spoke to my husband on the airplane, and everything went well ...," she said. "It is just a good day to be able to see this happen."

In July, Ling and Lee spoke to their families and told them the North Koreans were willing to grant them amnesty if a high-level envoy, such as former President Clinton, were willing to travel to Pyongyang, the administration official said, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity.

North Korea said that Clinton "expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il" for the journalists' actions, but the administration official said he knew nothing about an apology.

He said Clinton met for three hours and 15 minutes with the North Korean leader but said he did not know what issues were discussed. But he said that Clinton's views on a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are well-known.

North Korea's state-run Korea Central News Agency said Clinton conveyed a message from Obama "expressing profound thanks for this and reflecting views on ways of improving the relations between the two countries."

But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters before the announced agreement that Clinton was not carrying any message from Obama.

Gibbs added the former president last spoke with Obama during a White House visit in March. He described Clinton's trip as a "solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans."

Clinton's mission came as the United States and its allies in the region are seeking to persuade North Korea to return to the stalled nuclear disarmament talks.

North Korea conducted its second nuclear bomb test in May and has held several missile tests since then. The United Nations has responded by increasing sanctions on the nation.

North Korea and the United States had no regular contacts before a 1994 crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear program. North Korea agreed then to halt the development of nuclear weapons but abandoned that accord and withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003.

Clinton had considered visiting North Korea in 2000, near the end of his second term as president. His secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, had gone to Pyongyang in 2000 to meet with Kim. She was the last high-ranking American official to do so before this week.