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The Caribbean Jamaica police: 3 British nationals, Swiss woman tried to smuggle cocaine on flights to Europe

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Music collective obtains, posts photo of Obama's 16 year old daughter on Instagram WASHINGTON _ An unauthorized photo of President Barack Obama's 16-yearold daughter Malia is drawing attention on the Internet.

The photograph appears on the Instagram page for Pro Era, a hip-hop music collective based in Brooklyn, New York.

Malia sports a white T-shirt with the group's red and green logo across the front. She also has her hands raised behind her head as if adjusting her ponytail.

KINGSTON, Jamaica _ Jamaican police have charged a Swiss citizen and three British nationals with attempting to smuggle cocaine on flights in recent days.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force alleges 28-yearold Katerina Ana Schofield of Zurich attempted to smuggle 2 pounds (1 kilogram) of cocaine on a flight to Frankfurt, Germany last week. She was arrested at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. At the same airport, 29-year-old Ferron Ford of Birmingham, England, was charged with attempting to smuggle about 3 pounds (1 1/2 kilograms) of cocaine as he tried to board a U.K. flight.

Two other British men whose identities were not disclosed have been arrested at the airport in Kingston as they were trying to get to London.

Some 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) of cocaine was allegedly found in their bags.

The Associated Press

The White House disapproves of photographs being published or posted of Malia and her 13-year-old sister, Sasha, when they are not with Obama andor first lady Michelle Obama, or other unauthorized use of their names or images.

The White House declined comment Tuesday, an apparent sign of its unhappiness over the photo's distribution.

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said Sunday that local boaters rescued three migrants when their boat overturned off Sand Quay Island.

The fourth migrant was found floating and could not be revived.

Police say the Cubans were trying to get to Honduras when they encountered rough seas. They sought safe harbour by the Cayman Islands, but a wave capsized their boat.

The Cayman Islands and Cuba have an agreement under which Cuban migrants who set foot on the territory’s shores are detained and sent home. But the territory usually allows those who do not come ashore to continue their journey

In 2009, just weeks after Obama became president, Ty Inc., a company based in Obama's home state of Illinois that had named a pair of its popular Beanie Babies toys after the presidential sisters, renamed them following complaints from Mrs. Obama about the inappropriateness of using her daughters' names.

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UN Security Council heading to Haiti later this month to press for urgent elections will rule by decree.

During the Security Council's Jan. 23-25 visit, Barros Melet said the unanimous message from the 15 members will be that “the priority of the president of Haiti should be to develop a credible electoral timetable _ a timetable that is also feasible and can be implemented.''

The U.N. Security Council is heading to Haiti later this month with a message for President Michel Martelly: It's past time to urgently organize credible elections.

Chile's U.N. Ambassador Cristian Barros Melet, the current council president, told reporters Monday that elections must take place “in order to normalize the legislative process and the presidential process.''

Haiti faces an uncertain political future in upcoming months, with Senatorial seats expiring on Jan. 12, exactly five years after a devastating earthquake struck the nation of 10 million people. If the election isn't held in the next week _ which is virtually impossible _ Martelly

Martelly's administration was supposed to call elections in 2011 for 20 seats in the 30-member Senate, all 99 seats in the lower Chamber of Deputies and 140 municipal positions. He has blamed legislators for blocking a vote that would lead to approval of an electoral law.

Martelly, who is to leave office in 2016, could sign a decree allowing Haiti to hold elections in the first half of the year.

Barros Melet said the council will also be visiting the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, which is being reduced from its current strength, which at the start of November stood at nearly 5,000 troops and 2,300 police.

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Bledsoe also said no one from Pro Era had been contacted by the White House.

Bradley Bledsoe, a spokesman for Pro Era, did comment, saying by email that

Police: Migrant boat with 4 Cubans capsizes off Cayman Islands, 1 dead

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands _ Cayman authorities say a small boat with four Cuban migrants aboard has capsized off the coast of the British Caribbean territory and one man has died.

“the group received the photo from a mutual friend of Pro Era and Malia, and the photo is real.''

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MIAMI _ The Coast Guard worries that the migrant flow between the U.S. and the Caribbean will continue increasing as news spreads about recent changes to the U.S. immigration system.

The number of Cubans attempting to reach the U.S. by boat or raft has spiked, and the numbers of Haitians and other Caribbean islanders making similar journeys are up even more.

According to the Coast Guard, in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, U.S. authorities intercepted 5,585 Haitians, 3,940 Cubans, and hundreds from the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries attempting to sneak into this country.

That’s at least 3,000 more migrants intercepted than in the previous fiscal year. It’s also the highest number of Haitian migrants documented in five years, and the highest number of Cubans recorded in six.

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Buckingham Palace strengthens defence for Prince Andrew against under age sex claims

LONDON _ Buckingham Palace has stepped up efforts to defend Prince Andrew after the British royal was embroiled in claims of sexual impropriety with an underage woman.

In a second statement since the claims surfaced, officials “emphatically denied’’ that the 54-yearold Andrew had “any form of sexual contact or relationship’’ with a woman who claimed that she was forced to have sex with the royal in London, in New York and on a private Caribbean island when she was under the age of 18.

Buckingham Palace on Sunday dismissed the claims as “false and without any foundation.’’

The claims, made in a filing to a Florida court last week, were submitted as part of a lengthy lawsuit against American financier Jeffrey Epstein. The woman wasn’t identified by name.

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Edward Brooke, liberal Republican and 1st black popularly elected to US Senate, dies at 95 “It was just a divorce case. It was never about my work in the Senate.

There was never a charge that I committed a crime, or even nearly committed a crime,'' Brooke said.

In 2008, pioneering newswoman Barbara Walters said she had an affair with the then-married Brooke in the 1970s, but it ended before he lost the 1978 election. She called him “exciting'' and “brilliant.''

Brooke received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony in 2004. Five years later, when Brooke received the congressional honour in Washington, he cited the issues facing Congress _ health care, the economy and the wars overseas _ and called on lawmakers to put their partisan differences aside.

This Oct. 28, 2009, file photo shows former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke speaking in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a ceremony where he received the Congressional Gold Medal. Brooke, the first black to win popular election to the Senate, has died. He was 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015, of natural causes at his Coral Gables, Fla, home. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

BOSTON _ Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was 95.

Brooke died of natural causes at his Florida home, said Ralph Neas, Brooke's former chief counsel.

Brooke was surrounded by his family.

Brooke was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1966, becoming the first black to sit in that chamber from any state since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and one of nine blacks who have ever served there, including Barack Obama.

Brooke told The Associated Press he was “thankful to God'' that he lived to see Obama's election as the first black U.S. president. And the president was on hand in October 2009 when Brooke was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award Congress has to honour civilians.

“Senator Brooke led an extraordinary life of public service,'' Obama

said in a statement Saturday. “As the first African-American elected as a state's Attorney General and first African-American U.S. Senator elected after Reconstruction, Ed Brooke stood at the forefront of the battle for civil rights and economic fairness.''

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell recalled his first impression of the newly elected senator when McConnell was a Senate staffer and described Brooke as “a model of courage and honesty in office.''

“You could sense that this was a Senator of historic importance,'' McConnell said in a statement Saturday. “Indeed, he was.''

A Republican in a largely Democratic state, Brooke was one of Massachusetts' most popular political figures during most of his 12 years in the Senate.

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, the state's first black governor, remembered Brooke for his unselfish public service.

“He carried the added honour and burden of being 'the first' and did so with distinction and grace,'' Patrick said. “I have lost a friend and mentor. America has lost a superb example of selfless service.''

Brooke earned his reputation as a Senate liberal in part by becoming the first Republican senator to publicly urge President Richard Nixon to resign. He helped lead the forces in favour of the women's Equal Rights Amendment and was a defender of school busing to achieve racial integration, a bitterly divisive issue in Boston.

However, late in his second term, Brooke divorced his wife of 31 years, Remigia, in a stormy proceeding that attracted national attention.

Repercussions from the case spurred an investigation into his personal finances by the Senate Ethics Committee and a probe by the state welfare department and ultimately cost him the 1978 election.

In a Boston Globe interview in 2000, Brooke recalled the pain of losing his bid for a third term.

As Brooke sought the Senate seat in 1966, profiles in the national media reminded readers that he had won office handily in a state where blacks made up just 2 per cent of the population _ the state that had also given the nation its only Roman Catholic president, John F. Kennedy.

Somewhat aloof from the civil rights movement of the 1960s, especially the militant wing, Brooke said blacks had to win allies, not fight adversaries. But he also said of civil rights leaders: “Thank God we have them.

But everyone has to do it in the best way he can.''

The son of a Veterans Administration lawyer, Brooke was raised in a middle-class black section of Washington, attending segregated schools through his graduation from Howard University in 1941. He served in an all-black combat unit in World War II, and later settled in Boston after graduating from Boston University Law School.

By Sylvia Wingfield And Mark Pratt THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Brooke is survived by his second wife, Anne Fleming Brooke; their son Edward Brooke IV; his daughters from his first marriage, Remi Goldstone and Edwina Petit; stepdaughter Melanie Laflamme, and four grandchildren.

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King Louies audience grows From Toronto to Conneticut, UK to Jamaica, Conneticutt based, reggae radio presenter King Louie has alot to be thankful for this new year. His radio show which is in its 9th year is going strong as ever and King Louie is ready to take it to the next level.

In 2015 King Louie plans to bring back popular UK based radio personality Catman for his popular “Music News” segment.

The “Music News” segment is a 15 minute reggae entertainment news, gossip, charts and more segment.

Based out of London, England with the scoop on everything reggae in the UK.

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Gage upbeat about new track week ago, it a di hottest ting a road. It a get crazy airplay already, mi know it a go be a big hit," said Gage.

The track has also been doing the Internet rounds since its release.

"Mi phone nuh stop ring since Come Closer release. Mi Facebook and mi Twitter page a blow up. Di hits dem crazy pon YouTube."

Daley, a member of the artiste's management team, said the feedback has been positive.

FAST-RISING dancehall artiste Gage is confident his latest single, Come Closer, will be one of the biggest for 2015.

Produced by Dutty Fridaze Production (a company

owned by West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle) and Cornelius Daley, the up-tempo dancehall track was released last week.

"Come Closer just drop a

Gage (given name Ryan Douglas) has been gaining ground in the dancehall over the last year. He was scheduled for a clash with artiste Tommy Lee Sparta at the Boxing Day show Sting, which did not materialise.

"Last year was a great year for Gage. Everywhere mi go, mi get a lot of love from di fans. Performing at Sting with Tommy Lee never hurt my career. This year a my year again, the fans can expect a lot more hits from me," he said.

"Although the year just began, Gage's other tracks include In I'm confident that this song is Deh, Burning Son, Kitty Kat, going to be one of the biggest Hey Mama, and Candy Man. songs for the year. People are www.jamaicaobserver.com calling from all over the Caribbean, the States and the UK about it," said Daley.

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Jah Vinci Releases New Single “Fi Di Poor” Featuring Mr. G, Produced By Street Block Records

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Eddie Murphy to release new reggae song ACTOR Eddie Murphy is taking another crack at reggae with the song Oh Jah Jah which is scheduled to be released January 27 by VPAL Classic, the digital arm of VP Records. In the summer of 2013, he teamed with rapper Snoop Dogg on the song Red Light. In 1993, Murphy collaborated with Grammy-winning deejay Shabba Ranks for the single, I Was A King. A video for that song was filmed in Portland.

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PEOPLE'S CHOICE DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVINE SUED Drake to perform AWARDS at Governors Ball OVER BEATS SALE

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Iggy Azalea says winning a People's Choice Award is a great way to start the new year. She takes the trophy for favourite hip-hop artist. Lady Antebellum takes the honour for favourite country group, while Hunter Hayes wins as favourite male country artist. They all attended last night's ceremony in Los Angeles. Azalea, Lady A and Fall Out Boy also performed.

maker H-T-C in 2011 that led to the termination of the alliance between Beats and Monster in 2011. Lee say the deal prompted him to drop his stake in Beats to 1.25 per cent before selling the rest of his holdings for $5.5 million in the fall of 2013. He says he was told there were no plans to sell Beats for at least several years. Apple bought Beats in May for $3 billion. Had Lee SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Dr. Dre held onto his 1.25 per cent and music producer Jimmy stake, he would have gotten Iovine (eye-VEEN’) are being more than 30-million-dollar in accused of double-crossing a the Apple deal, and his origformer partner in their Beats inal 5 per cent stake would Electronics company. Noel have been worth roughly Lee of video and audio cable 150-million-dollar. Dre’s attormaker Monster LLC is suing ney and a Beats publicist did Dre and Iovine, saying he not return calls for comment. once held a 5 per cent stake in Beats. His lawsuit says Dre (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File) and Iovine orchestrated a sham deal with smartphone

NEW YORK _ Rapper Drake is on the festival circuit: He’s headlining Coachella in April and will also perform at New York’s Governors Ball in June. He will be joined by the Black Keys, “Weird Al’’ Yankovic and Lana Del Rey in the Big Apple from June 5 to June 7 on Randall’s Island.

Tickets for the fifth annual three-day Governors Ball Music Festival go on sale Wednesday.

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KEVIN HART - SONY HACKING BEANIE SIGEL IS HOME FROM HOSPITAL

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ What if you found out that your boss called you a “whore’’ for asking to being paid for something you thought was part of your job? That’s what one

of Kevin Hart’s bosses at Sony Pictures called the comedian when he asked to be paid for tweets he was asked to post promoting one of his movies. Hart says that doesn’t bother him _ nor does anything else that has come out in the wake of the huge hack attack on Sony’s computer servers. In one email, a Sony honcho suggested President Barack Obama would only like movies that featured black actors like Hart. Hart says all of that is “not that serious’’ to him and is “a bump in their road’’ _ not something he worries himself about.

(Photo by Arnold Turner/Invision/ AP, File)

PLEASANTVILLE, N.J.. (AP) _ Beanie Sigel is recovering at home now. Police in Pleasantville, New Jersey, say Sigel was released over the weekend

from an Atlantic City hospital after spending about a month there for a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Sigel was shot outside his brother-in-law’s house on December 5th after he had dropped off his kids at school. Sigel been staying there after being released from a federal prison for tax evasion. Authorities say Sigel gave a statement about the shooting before he left the hospital, but details were not disclosed.

No arrests have been made (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Album Review

SremmLife Rae Sremmurd

Redemption of the Beast DMX

The Documentary 2

Game

Tetsuo & Youth Lupe Fiasco

Rae Sremmurd has been one of many new acts to take the hip-hop world by storm in 2014, riding— as these acts often do—a wave of momentum due to a major single that often goes viral first before snagging all-important radio play.

DMX is about to release his seventh studio album called “Redemption of the Beast,”. On facebook he spoke about the album.

“Swizz [Beatz] did the single. I got Sean Kingston on the Scott Storch record. Of course I got a little LOX on there. Drag, you know. Keep it family tight. It’s going be a few features, but nothing crazy. I got Tyrese on a couple of joints.”

The album is scheduled for release on January 13th.

Game will commemorate a decade since The Documentary dropped by unleashing its follow-up on the same date. The Documentary 2, his 10th solo album, is slated for release Jan. 18, 2015, exactly 10 years after his debut. Ahead of The Documentary 2 was Year of the Wolf, Games’s new compilation featuring artists from his Blood Money record label. That album dropped in October. The Documentary 2 is Game’s first solo studio album since 2012’s Jesus Piece.

Tetsuo & Youth is the upcoming fifth studio album by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, set to be released on January 20, 2015, by Atlantic Records and 1st & 15th Entertainment. The album was promoted by the Tetsuo & Youth preview tour, which took place November 2, 2013 to December 15, 2013. Lupe’s label-mate Stalley was a supporting act on the tour, while The Boy Illinois took role as an opening act.

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Raptors open six game homestand with a couple more chips on shoulders of the month for December, but he remains fourth in voting for next month's all-star game behind Washington's John Wall, Miami's Dwyane Wade, and Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

“Very surprised. I hope our fans get out and vote, don't put it in the hands of the coaches,'' said Casey _ fans vote for the starters, while coaches vote for the reserves. “And if the coaches don't do it, I'm probably going Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry reacts after hitting a 3-point basket against the Denver Nuggets early in the fourth quarter to get physical of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014, in Denver. and fight with those guys.''

The Raptors won 116-102. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) TORONTO _ If the Toronto Raptors are fuelled by the chips on their shoulders, Dwane Casey firmly planted a couple more there Tuesday.

And it's good timing for a team off a disappointing 2-4 road trip that cost them the Eastern Conference lead.

Casey was angry Tuesday, first, by the fact Kyle Lowry is ranked a lowly fourth among Eastern Conference guards in all-star voting. And second, the coach was cranky over post-game comments levelled at Toronto by Phoenix Suns coach Jeff Hornacek.

The one positive out of his post-practice chat with reporters: DeMar DeRozan is still on pace to return this week, despite missing practice to undergo more diagnostic tests.

Lowry was named the East player

Casey isn't a big believer in fan voting.

“Sometimes fans have their favourites, and it's nothing to do with basketball,'' the coach said. “It's not fair, but it's the system we have right now, and the only thing Kyle can do is go out and continue to compete and play with that chip on his shoulder, and show the league, to embarrass the fans and let them know that they made a mistake, or are making a mistake in their voting.''

Hornacek got under Casey's skin after the Raptors' 125-109 loss to Phoenix on Sunday. The Suns coach was quoted as saying, “We could have won by 40 if we left our starters in.''

“The last time I checked, we beat them here at our place,'' Casey said, in reference to the Raptors' 104100 win over the Suns on Nov. 24 at

the Air Canada Centre. “Those types of things put a chip on our shoulder.

Kyle being fourth in voting, that should put a chip on our shoulder.

(Hornacek) saying they should have beat us, how weak the Eastern Conference is, that should put a chip on our shoulder.

“Because the last time I checked, we beat them at our place, and they beat us at their place, no matter what the score was. Karma is something in this league. We've got to play with that edge, and that type of edginess to make sure that we prove that we're for real.''

The Raptors (24-10) were happy to be back at the ACC on Tuesday, where they'll play their next six games, beginning Thursday against the Charlotte Hornets.

Their road trip began with a loss to Chicago and solid wins over the Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets, but began to unravel with an overtime loss in Portland. Mental and emotional fatigue set in at that point, Casey said. The Raptors ended the trips with blowout losses to Golden State and Phoenix, resulting in Toronto's first three-game losing skid in more than a year.

“But any of that is no excuse for this league, because this is a non-forgiving league, emotional, physical, whatever fatigue you have, the league doesn't feel sorry for you,'' the coach said. “We got our butts whooped, now we've got to come back here and regroup, refocus, especially on the defensive end, and get our act together.''

No surprise, defence was the focus of what Lowry called a short, “crisp'' practice. Casey reached way back to his defensive teachings at training camp, he said, to reinforce his principles on that end of the floor.

And having DeRozan back in the lineup should help tremendously.

The Raptors were in top-10 in the league defensively when the team's all-star and leading scorer tore a tendon in his groin on Nov. 28.

Since his injury, they've dropped to 22nd in points allowed.

In DeRozan's absence, the Raptors have morphed into a faster, running team.

“I think that affected our defence,'' Casey said. “DeMar coming back will give us more of a slow-down, semi-postup game, which will slow us down a little bit, which will in turn help our defence.''

DeRozan rejoined practices last week, although it remains to be seen how quickly he'll be back at full speed.

“He's getting there. He's getting better,'' Lowry said of his teammate.

“I think he's going to come back aggressive. . . we can't force feed him, we've got to be patient with him.''

Lowry joined Chris Bosh as the only Raptors players ever to receive player of the month honours (Bosh won it in January of 2007). Lowry, who posted averages of 22.3 points, 8.9 assists and 4.2 rebounds to lead the team to an 11-4 record in December, said the honour was “cool'' and an incentive to work even harder.

Teammate Patrick Patterson weighed in about the honour, saying an all-star nomination would be a better way to reward Lowry.

“Of course, he'll get player-ofthe-weeks, he'll get player-of the months, but the only recognition I care about with Kyle is that he gets all-star,'' Patterson said. “We all know he's an all-star on this team and we want the rest of the world to know that, so hopefully before all is said and done, he will be an all-star and get the recognition he deserves.''

By Lori Ewing THE CANADIAN PRESS

Note: Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged Canadian basketball fans to vote Lowry into the all-star game. ``Canadian basketball fans should get behind (at)Klow7, who deserves to be an NBA All Star,'' he posted on Twitter account Tuesday.

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Exceptional skill, over the top personality have P.K. Subban emerging as transcendent NHL star cannon-like shot and overthe-top personality have turned him one of the league's transcendent stars. The 2013 Norris Trophy winner is as recognized on the ice as the red carpet, where he recently befriended movie director Spike Lee. Subban's talent is occasionally overshadowed by his extraordinarily playful demeanour _ and colorful goal celebrations _ that some call brash.

By John Wawrow THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Karl Subban kept a hockey stick in his car, just in case.

That way, once finishing his night school teaching job, Subban could call home to see if his son P.K. was up for a moonlight skate at the rink outside Toronto's City Hall.

Though many 4-year-olds are in bed before 9 p.m., Karl made this exception for an enthusiastic boy already displaying a passion for hockey.

Skip a night and the youngster was upset.

And once he was on the ice, P.K. Subban didn't want to leave, even for the pizza slice that usually followed.

“We would be out there until midnight, and many nights after midnight,'' the father said.

“I didn't plan to stay late, but the hockey players would come out once the public skate ended. And P.K., he was so hungry for it. He would say, 'Daddy, I want to stay and play.'''

Pernell Karl Subban is still hungry.

At 25, the Toronto-born son of parents with Caribbean roots has taken the NHL by storm entering his fifth full season playing defence for the Montreal Canadiens.

Subban's exceptional puck-handling skills,

“I don't know why people would think that,'' he said. “Just because you're outgoing, doesn't mean you're selfish.''

The topic of selfishness was brought up by Subban while discussing the expectations that come with his new eight-year, $72 million contract.

“For a team to be successful, the best players have to understand that they're not going to be the stars every night,'' Subban said. “I think the selfish guys want to be stars every night. There's nothing wrong with that. But you have to do your job and be the greatest player in your role, whatever that is.''

For Subban, that role includes a commitment to playing defence because of an unbridled playing style that led to him being called a threat _ as a scorer but also as a defensive liability.

“If you want to win, then really it shouldn't change how you feel. And it hasn't for me,'' he said. “At the end of the night we get two points, I'm a happy camper.''

By that measure, Subban is succeeding on a team that hasn't won the Stanley Cup since 1993. The Canadiens have been near the top of the Eastern Conference standings all season.

Subban is still contributing on offence. Tied for second on the team with 27 points (eight

goals, 19 assists) through 39 games, he is on pace to match the career-best 53 points (10 goals, 43 assists) he established last season.

And he's become more responsible on defence. Subban's plus-minus rating is a healthy plus-10, and he's part of the NHL's fifth-ranked penalty-killing unit.

Coach Michel Therrien's objective is harnessing Subban's talents to make him an elite two-way player. The challenge is tweaking Subban's game _ not the person.

“We go step by step. But one thing for sure is we don't want him to lose his personality off the ice,'' Therrien said. “He's a fun guy to work with because we know where the potential is.''

Subban relishes the challenges that come with being the NHL's top-paid defenceman and playing under the microscope in the dual-language hockey mecca of Montreal. He's as comfortable discussing his new role as a first-time assistant captain as he is revealing on TV how his pregame diet gives him gas to gain an edge while near opposing goalies.

At his stall in the visitors' locker room in Buffalo in late November, Subban is engaged in what appears to be a heated exchange with defensive partner Andrei Markov over a post-practice stretching exercise. As Markov shakes his head and leaves, Subban's mood brightens. He looks up and greets a visitor with a smile.

It is this light-hearted approach that makes Subban a fan favourite in Montreal, where he is heavily involved in numerous charitable causes. His Twitter account ((at)PKSubban1) has more than 500,000 followers and features references to hockey and Hollywood, and a picture of him posing with Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel.

In recent months, he made the cover of a Sports Illustrated issue distributed in Canada; was featured in The New Yorker; and followed around by “60 Minutes'' for a profile.

Issues of race _ Subban is black _ don't seem to affect him.

After Subban scored in double-overtime in the first game of a second-round playoff series at Boston in May, several Bruins fans posted racists comments on Twitter. Subban defused the controversy by saying he didn't consider the comments to represent the Bruins or their fans.

“We're so far past that,'' Subban said. “What I said is exactly what I felt, that the game of hockey and the people in it are great.''

And yet, there have been detractors.

In 2010, former Philadelphia Flyers captain Mike Richards questioned Subban's character as a rookie.

“He's a guy that comes in the league and hasn't earned respect,'' Richards told a Montreal radio station. “It's just frustrating to see a young guy like that come in here and so much think that he's better than a lot of people.''

Now with the Los Angeles Kings, Richards wasn't interested in revisiting those comments following a recent loss at Buffalo.

“It's so far gone,'' Richards told The Associated Press. “Honestly, my impressions, I don't have anything either way. I'm not going to discuss that.''

Former teammate Daniel Briere called Subban genuine and “a perfect fit'' to handle the pressures of playing in Montreal.

“A lot of guys sometimes crumble,'' said Briere, now with Colorado. “He wants it. I think he feeds off that. ... He's very charismatic.''

Karl Subban has seen that in his son all along, and watched P.K.'s confidence sprout because of his ability to excel at hockey.

“The one thing I know is that the younger a child can become good at something, the better they feel, the better their self-esteem is,'' Subban said, addressing his son's critics.

“They can say whatever they want, but they can't change how he plays on the ice. When it's all said and done, is P.K. able to get the job done on the ice? ... The bigger the game, the better he plays.''

The elder Subban is particularly proud by how P.K. has handled himself when faced with adversity.

“The minute you take your eyes off your destination, you will never get to where you want to go in life,'' he said. “We have seen how he's handled himself from stuff around race or his contract and playing in Montreal when the team's not playing well. He embraces all of that.'' ___ AP Sports Writer Teresa Walker, in Nashville, Tennessee, and freelance writer Matt Carlson in Chicago contributed to this report.

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CES 'entrepretainers' Neil Young, Shaq, Ryan Seacrest, 50 Cent lend celebrity to gadget show “We started it as a way to solve our problem,'' he said in one of many back-to-back interviews held to pitch the product.

J.T. Ippolito, from Newport Beach, California, works for a company that manages businesses' Online media presence. He also stood in line Wednesday to get a photo with 50 Cent to post on his websites. He says he appreciates the rapper's backstory and how he has parlayed his career into brand endorsements and businesses like SMS Audio.

“There's some you just know get paid to endorse it,'' he says of celebrities, but some, like 50 Cent, are personally invested and likely wouldn't want to ruin their own brand by being attached to a middling product.

Melissa Zimmerman, 33, joined her husband Josh at CES for a single reason, to have rapper 50 Cent sign her green SMS Audio headphones and get a photo with the musician. “I've seen all his movies,'' she says. Her favourite 50 Cent song: “Candy Shop.'' Josh, a “moderate fan'' of the rapper, says a celebrity endorsement can make a difference when weighing whether to buy something, especially if the famous person is personally related to the company. “When they put their name to something, it's really part of them.''

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson appears at the SMS Audio booth during the International CES Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) LAS VEGAS _ Driverless cars of the future.

Every imaginable (and unimaginable) kind of smartphone case. The latest laundry technology, even. Acres of Las Vegas convention centre floor packed with gadget demos and exhibitor booths. And 160,000 people milling about. So how can a company get noticed among all the noise?

“It doesn't hurt to have a Neil Young,'' said Pedram Abrari, executive vice-president of technology for the rock legend's Pono Music startup, which aims to save music or at least what's become of it.

The celebrity touch. It's been a staple at the annual consumer electronics show known as International CES and this year is no different.

“I call myself an entrepretainer,'' quipped Nick Cannon, comedian and host of America's Got Talent and this year's “entertainment ambassador'' for the gadget show.

Cannon and retired NBA star and prolific product endorser Shaquille O' Neal appeared at a press conference for Monster, a company that primarily makes headphones and high-definition cables.

The 7-foot-1-inch O'Neal appeared briefly to pitch Monster's new waterproof floating speaker and engaged in some onstage hijinks: rubbing the head of the much shorter Monster executive who introduced him and then goading the executive to dance as he made up a beat _ reminding the crowd that the speaker might be an ideal Spring Break party accessory.

Richard Ngo-Tran, Monster's marketing director, said O'Neal was first a friend of the company's leader, Noel Lee, and later lent his celebrity.

competition show The Voice, to entertain journalists at a press conference where the auto maker offered a peek at its latest Chevy Volt.

“He's a tech head,'' said Ngo-Tran. O'Neal offers ideas and wants to be involved in the products he pitches, even down to colour swatches, and when the company asks, he willingly meets one-on-one with fans that double as retailers who might carry the product, Ngo-Tran said. “That's the thing that we love about him.''

“We told him he can't play 'Mustang Sally','' joked Stuart Fowle, assistant communications manager for Chevrolet.

Elsewhere at CES, fans wrapped around the SMS Audio booth to get an autograph from rapper Curtis `”50 Cent'' Jackson who also is majority owner of the headphone company. Those in front all held smartphones and video cameras aloft to capture a glimpse.

DJ Tiesto held court over at Audiofly's event space and athletes added shine to booths of companies selling wearable fitness devices. Veteran Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman says fees paid to celebrities for promotional purposes at CES are generally in the mid-six figures and up, depending on the gadget, company and celebrity status.

It isn't always magic. Last year, Samsung debuted its curved televisions at CES on a giant stage with action filmmaker Michael Bay. Blaming the teleprompter after an awkward first few seconds on stage, Bay ultimately walked off without explanation after a Samsung executive asked him about the TVs. The onstage “meltdown'' made headlines.

This year Chevrolet hired Roem Baur, a San Francisco-based one-man blues band who auditioned on the latest season of music

Baur seemed like an apt fit. His San Francisco home base has made him “friendly with all of the nerds,'' he said, referencing the CES crowd. And even before he was hired, Baur had rigged an old Corvette license plate from a 1970's era Stingray into a wooden box that he stomps on to mimic a kick-drum sound.

A celebrity endorsement can be “that little extra something,'' said Ashley Esqueda, a senior editor with technology review site CNET.com. Often they can be an enthusiastic voice to talk on the company's behalf, or at least fake the enthusiasm, and many are truly interested or invested in the technology, she said.

Take American Idol and radio personality Ryan Seacrest. He said he wasn't aiming to start a company with longtime friend and businessman Laurence Hallier but linked up when the two realized they had too many phones and wanted to combine the best of both _ the iPhone's touchscreen and an attachable keyboard mounted to the bottom. If it sounds like a Blackberry fused with an iPhone, Blackberry thought so too, and sued, winning an injunction on the first design. That case is still in court. Seacrest and Hallier were back at CES with a second version, though, the Typo2.

Neil Young certainly isn't just a famous face shilling for a company. It's his company, his mission.

“I want music to make you feel. I want you to get goosebumps,'' he said as he slowly paced on a small stage in front of a crowd of reporters and fans Tuesday at a press conference to talk about the music player he promises will return a high-quality sound to songs.

“We have no money, so we have no marketing, only word of mouth,'' Young said. That's not entirely true, Young is the company's one-man marketing plan. Granted, he needed a little prompting to reveal some of the key points, that Pono Music's portable music player will go on sale Monday for $399 in Fry's Electronics stores and independent record and audio stores.

Abrari, the company's vice-president, credits Young's involvement with Pono Music's Online Kickstarter campaign raising more than $6 million when it originally sought just $800,000.

“I'm not concerned with having to hype it,'' Young said of the player. What matters is that music lovers hear it and notice the difference, he said. You may be able to recognize a song when you hear it Online, “but can your soul recognize it?''

“I think we have a chance,'' he said.

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'Selma' director and star say the film is touching on a cultural movement pletely embedded'' in his raising her.

“There's a pride but there's also a real tragic sense of dreams deferred in that place and yet a triumph of folks who've just overcome state-sanctioned terrorism in Alabama for many, many decades,'' she said.

“So the strength of that and the dignity of that is all something that I tried to weave into every single scene, every single line, every single frame of 'Selma.'''

DuVernay shot much of the film in Alabama at landmarks that were part of the movement, including the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Some civil rights leaders from that time, including congressman John Lewis and Ambassador Andrew Young, were on set.

“As an actor, to have John Lewis approach me the first time I met him _ I had the weight on, I looked as much like Dr. King as I could _ and he came up to me and he said, 'Dr. King, it is so nice to see you,''' recalled Oyelowo.

TORONTO _ It may seem surprising, but up until the creation of the new film “Selma,'' there had been no major motion picture that focused on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., or his involvement in the civil rights marches that led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Director Ava DuVernay said she finds that fact “incredible'' but she also feels that “the time is right'' for such a feature.

“With all the unrest and all of the toxicity around race relations that's going on around America right now, maybe it was on hold for a reason,'' she said. “We really feel like our piece is meeting this cultural movement in a really dynamic way. It's nothing we could have planned but I think the film and the times that we're in are speaking to each other.''

In theatres Friday, “Selma'' sees David Oyelowo playing King in 1965 as he teams up with activists in Selma, Ala., where only two per cent of black citizens were registered to vote. Hundreds join their voting rights demonstrations, which begin peacefully but turn violent when state troopers begin attacking marchers, forcing King to appeal to President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson).

Written by Paul Webb, the star-studded cast also includes Carmen Ejogo as King's wife Coretta, Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X and Oprah Winfrey (who is also a producer) as Annie Lee Cooper.

Oyelowo said he finds it “unsettling'' that the film is coming out at a time when civil rights protests are raging in the U.S. amid recent killings of unarmed African Americans by police.

“Unsettling because 'Selma' the film now typifies just how little has changed,'' said the British star, who is nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the role.

“A lot has changed but nowhere near enough, and to be perfectly honest, I have been disturbed by the fact that since President Obama came into power, this phrase 'post-racial America' has crept into the psyche. I think anyone, regardless of your opinions about what's going on, can see that we do not live in a post-racial America and I guess that's a good byproduct of all of this.

“Another good byproduct is the fact that young people are being galvanized to protest peacefully as well, but it's an undeniable movement that is now building, and our prayer and our hope is that that won't peter out and that 'Selma' will further accentuate the reasons why we need leadership, we need strategy

and we need this conversation to keep evolving.''

Oyelowo said he followed the development of “Selma'' for years, always with the hope of playing King. He pushed for DuVernay to be the director because they worked well together on 2012's “Middle of Nowhere'' and he felt she was “someone who really had a hold on character, on emotion, on emotional drive.''

“If you're going to play Dr. King, that is what you need,'' he said. “What you don't need is to further accentuate the speeches or further accentuate the canonization or the deification of the man. You need someone who's going to help you get under that to the human essence of him.''

DuVernay wanted to show “the full array of what went into creating a change in the world.''

“It was a band of brothers and sisters who did the work,'' she said. “There was a leader, it was King, but it felt disingenuous to only kind of lift him up and not really tell the story of these warriors who fought alongside him.''

DuVernay's father hails from Alabama and she said the stories he told her about the events in Selma “were com-

“To have that on a day in which you're going to go in and do scenes, you just can't put a price on it, really. So it was hugely valuable. And then tough things as well. Shooting on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that is named after someone who was the leader of the Ku Klux Klan decades and decades ago, and it's still called that in a place where black bodies were broken, it's just something that hangs in the air.''

Rapper Common plays activist James Bevel in the film and also co-wrote the song “Glory'' for the soundtrack. The tune mentions not only the events in Selma but also Ferguson, Miss., where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death by a policeman in August.

“I think that Ferguson is a cultural moment that's going to be resonating for a long, long time in the same way that Selma is now,'' said DuVernay. “Some day some filmmaker will make a film about Ferguson and the question will be: where will we be at that point?

“If a film is made about Ferguson 50 years from now, will we be saying, 'Wow, it's the same thing repeated?' Or will we be able to say there's been progression in terms of the issues of the day?''

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