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NEWS BRIEFS Human teeth found in serial killer search in New York MANY CITY PUBLIC BUILDINGS HAVE OPEN CODE VIOLATIONS Despite an ongoing crackdown on building violations, the city may not be walking the walk when it comes to its own property.

Records show a number of city buildings heavily used by the public, including the headquarters for the Department of Buildings, the headquarters for the New York City Police Department and Gracie Mansion, have open building code violations.

The violations range from a partial ceiling collapse, to failure to connect exit signs to an emergency power source.

The Manhattan Criminal Court building has 109 open violations and Manhattan Civil Court has 61.

Crews were even forced to suspend work in at least one courtroom because they did not have the proper permit.

One Police Plaza has 98 open violations, including the lack of a boiler.

Since the building gets steam heat directly from Con Edison, officials say a boiler is not needed.

They are also challenging violations for elevators, exterior walls and emergency exits.

TLC CRACKS DOWN ON ILLEGAL STREET HAILS The Taxi and Limousine Commission is cracking down on livery cab drivers who pick up illegal street hails.

More than 1,100 summonses for illegal hails were issued by the TLC in March alone — four times as many as were handed out in February.

In all of last year only about 2,500 tickets were issued.

Residents in many parts of the city rely heavily on liveries because, the TLC says, 97 percent of yellow taxicab pickups are in Manhattan or at airports.

The ticket blitz comes as the agency and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are considering legalizing street pickups.

Under the city’s plan, liveries would have to pay a steep licensing fee, adhere to a uniform fare and install meters and GPS devices.

DOT INSTALLS SPEED BOARD ON ACCIDENT-PRONE BRONX BOULEVARD Officials hope a new speed board will convince drivers to take their foot off the gas on an accident-prone Bronx road.

The sign is along a winding section of Bruckner Boulevard between Kearney and Waterbury Avenues in the Country Club section of the Bronx.

A Department of Transportation survey show 96 percent of the vehicles in that area exceed the 25 mph speed limit, with an average speed of 37 mph.

The speed board will be at the location for several weeks before being moved elsewhere in the city.

By AMAN ALI Police in Long Island turned up two human teeth while scouring the suspected dumping grounds of a serial killer on Friday, while authorities said a missing prostitute’s body found in Maine was not connected to the case.

Hacking through thick brush with machetes and chainsaws, police searched the area where they recently discovered the ninth and tenth set of human remains in their effort to catch a suspected serial killer who preyed on prostitutes advertising on Craigslist.

In December 2010, the first four bodies were found and identified as Craigslist escorts, including Megan Waterman, who lived in Maine.

This week authorities reported finding the skeletal remains of Elena Lozada, 24, of Portland, Maine, a missing Craigslist escort, in a remote wooded area of Maine. Police investigated possible links between the deaths of Lozada and Waterman but determined they were not connected.

“We were well aware of the cases

in New York but we investigated it and there doesn’t appear to be any connection,” said Portland Police Lieutenant Gary Rogers. “Megan Waterman’s remains were found in New York and Elena Lozada’s were found here in Maine.”

On Long Island, police returned for another day to the area subjected to land, water and air searches by the FBI and New York authorities from Suffolk and Nassau Counties. Their most recent discovery earlier this month was two sets of human remains, including a skull.

Nassau Detective Vincent Garcia said police hacked through brush with machetes and chainsaws and used shovels to dig through sand to look for clues.

“When we found the skull, we were hoping if we went back in we’d find a little bit more,” Garcia said.

Nassau officer James Imperiale said police found two human teeth about a foot from the skull. It appears the teeth are related to the skull but authorities will run tests to confirm that, he said.

Imperiale said police also found a shoe but were unsure if it was rele-

vant to their search.

“We’re not sure if it has anything to do with the investigation but we did take it away as well,” he said.

In Maine, Lozada’s mother Carrie Cronkite told Reuters that finding her remains “brings me closure but not the type of closure I was looking for” after Lozada went missing in July.

“Elena had a good heart,” Cronkite said. “She had to fight the demons with drugs, unfortunately. But she loved to laugh and she loved to smile.

She always told me ‘Mommy, I’m going to get my life back together.’”

Cronkite said her daughter battled with depression and often turned to drugs to cope. But Cronkite said Lozada always kept in touch with her and would always promise to clean her life up. It wasn’t until after Lozada went missing that Cronkite learned her daughter was using Craigslist to work as a prostitute.

“I was totally shocked when I found that out,” she said. “She used to tell me a lot of the things she did but she never told me that because she probably knew I would have a hard time dealing with that.”

Poll: Americans hold dim view of U.S. economic outlook WASHINGTON – Americans are more pessimistic about the U.S. economic outlook than they have been since the start of the Obama administration and most believe the United States is on the wrong track, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.

The number of Americans who think the economy is getting worse jumped 13 percentage points in just one month, to 39 percent, the poll suggested.

Just 23 percent said they thought the economy was improving, down 3 percentage points from the previous month.

Seventy percent of respondents said the country was heading in the wrong direction and most think neither President Barack Obama nor Congressional Republicans share their priorities

for the country, the poll showed.

The dour mood is dragging down performance ratings for President Barack Obama and both parties in Congress with the 2012 election season already underway, the poll found.

Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy, while 75 percent said they disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.

While Washington is consumed with debate over deficit-reduction proposals, Americans seemed uncertain about the impact of cutting the deficit on the U.S. economy.

Some 29 percent of those polled said cutting the deficit would create more jobs, while 29 percent said deficit-cutting would cost jobs and 27 percent said it would have no effect on the employment outlook.

The poll found considerable support for Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy — 72 percent of respondents approved of that idea as a way to address the deficit.

Obama’s job approval stood at 46 percent, while 45 percent did not approve of his performance in office.

More than half of poll respondents, 56 percent, said they did not have a favorable view of Republicans in Congress, as opposed to 37 percent who said they did.

The Democratic Party fared somewhat better, with a 49 percent approval rating versus 44 percent disapproval.

The telephone survey of 1,224 adults was conducted Friday through Wednesday and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

U.S. warns on travel to five more Mexican states WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department on Friday broadened its travel warning on Mexico to include parts of five additional states, including a highway where suspected drug gangs shot two U.S. customs officials in February.

The warning advises U.S. government personnel and American citizens to defer nonessential travel in certain parts of Jalisco, Nayarit, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Zacatecas.

It outright bans U.S. employees from traveling to Colotlan and Yahualica, two cities in the central-west state of Jalisco near the Zacatecas border due to increasing drug gang violence.

“Concerns include roadblocks placed by individuals posing as police or military personnel and recent gun battles between rival transnational criminal organizations involving automatic weapons,” the State Department warning said.

The restrictions were added to a previous warning against travel

Forensic experts inspect bullet holes in the window of a police car, in Tlaquepaque in the state of Jalisco. throughout the states of Tamaulipas and Michoacan and to parts of the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango and Sinaloa.

Gunmen shot dead an unarmed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and wounded another on February 15 on a highway in San Luis Potosi in a daylight attack that outraged U.S. officials and put a strain on join U.S.-Mexican efforts to battle drug cartels.

The State Department advised against travel on that road, Highway 57D, a major north south route toward Monterrey, Mexico’s commercial capital.

The latest warning also provides more specific information on travel in northern Mexico where drug gang wars have been most violent, naming cities and towns that require particular caution. For example, it says U.S. government officials are required to travel only in armored vehicles and in daylight hours in Sinaloa parts of the city of Nogales.

The warning can be seen at: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/ tw/tw_5440.html More than 36,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched a military-led crackdown on drug gangs in 2006. Mexico last month revealed that it is allowing unmanned U.S. drone aircraft into its airspace to hunt for drug traffickers.

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Obama sees no magic bullet to push down gas prices

By STEVE HOLLAND WASHINGTON — Barack Obama told Americans on Saturday there is no “magic bullet” to bring down high gasoline prices and said he wants to end what he called $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies.

Obama is feeling the heat from gasoline prices that are about $4 a gallon and may surge higher. A New York Times-CBS News poll found that 70 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track and analysts believe gas prices are a main reason.

The president devoted his weekly radio and Internet address to outlining his views on the U.S. energy predicament, saying clean energy is ultimately the way forward for a country long addicted to gas-guzzling vehicles.

“Now, whenever gas prices shoot up, like clockwork, you see politicians racing to the cameras, waving three-point plans for $2 gas. You see people trying to grab headlines or score a few points. The truth is, there’s no silver bullet that can bring down gas prices right away,” he said.

Obama, in the early stages of his 2012 re-election campaign, has been seeing steady improvement in the U.S. economy. But rising gasoline prices are forcing Americans to pay more out of their income, which some fear could harm the fragile economic recovery.

Obama said it is time to eliminate what he called $4 billion in annual “taxpayer subsidies” to oil and gas companies.

“That’s $4 billion of your money going to these companies when they’re making record profits and you’re paying near record prices at the pump. It has to stop,” he said.

The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a working group of federal agencies to probe potential fraud in the energy markets that affects pump prices, including actions by speculators.

Obama accused Republicans of

seeking to cut 70 percent in government spending to encourage development of clean energy projects.

“Instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy sources, we need to invest in tomorrow’s. We need to invest in clean, renewable energy,” he said.

“Yes, we have to get rid of wasteful spending — and make no mistake, we’re going through every line of the budget scouring for savings.

But we can do that without sacrificing our future,” he added.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in response to the president that the Obama administration over the past two years has “declared what can only be described as a war on American energy.”

“It’s canceled dozens of drilling leases, imposed a moratorium on drilling off the Gulf Coast and increased permit fees. It’s done just about everything it can to keep our own energy sector from growing,” McConnell said.

McConnell said more must be done to increase domestic oil production.

The comments by Obama and McConnell came three days after the anniversary of the giant BP Plc oil spill off the coast of Louisiana that caused economic and environmental harm to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

After 67 years, lawmakers apologize to rape victim

By BOB JOHNSON MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Legislature has officially apologized to an elderly Black woman who was raped nearly seven decades ago by a gang of white men as she walked home from church.

The Senate gave final approval Thursday on a voice vote to a resolution that expresses “deepest sympathy and deepest regrets” to Recy Taylor, now 91 and living in Florida. She told The Associated Press last year that she believes the men who attacked her in 1944 are dead but that she still wanted an apology from the state of Alabama.

The House approved the resolution last month. It now goes to Gov. Robert Bentley, who said Thursday he’s not personally familiar with details of the case, but sees no reason why he wouldn’t sign it.

Reached by phone Thursday by the AP, Taylor said she welcomed the Legislature’s action.

“I think that’s nice,” she said. “It’s been a long time. I’m satisfied.”

The resolution by Democratic state Rep. Dexter Grimsley of Newville says the failure to prosecute the men was “morally abhorrent and repugnant.”

He has said police bungled the investigation and harassed Taylor, and local leaders recently acknowledged that her attackers escaped prosecution in part because of racism.

The AP does not typically identify victims of sexual assault but is using her name because she has publicly identified herself.

Taylor was 24 when she was confronted by seven men who forced her into their car at knife- and gun- point and drove her to a deserted grove of trees where six of the men raped her in Abbeville in southeastern Alabama.

She was then left on the side of the road in an isolated area.

Two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the suspects after the attack. Recy Taylor’s brother, 74-yearold Robert Corbitt, said law enforcement authorities tried to blame the

attack on his sister. He said his family was threatened after the attack, his sister’s house was firebombed and his father had to guard the house.

“I’m so glad they (the Legislature) decided to do the right thing,” Corbitt said.

Corbitt said Taylor is in poor health, but he hopes she will come back to Abbeville by Mother’s Day in May. Grimsley said he hopes to present her with a copy of the resolution at that time.

Taylor said officials in Abbeville expressed regret that she was not present earlier this year when her hometown issued an apology in the case.

“Since I wasn’t there, they said they should’ve had somebody on the phone to let me know that they were sorry about the length of time that it’s been,” she said. “I don’t even know what they said. They said they did the wrong thing.”

Taylor has returned to Abbeville frequently since moving to Florida more than 30 years ago and said she expects to visit her brother there next

Suspect in MLK Day bomb plot charged with hate crimes

By LAURA MYERS SEATTLE — A reputed neo-Nazi accused of planting a backpack bomb along the parade route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration was newly charged on Thursday with committing federal hate crimes.

The latest charges against Kevin Harpham, 36, were added to a federal indictment originally returned last month in an alleged bombing attempt in Spokane, Washington, on January 17, a national holiday celebrating the birth of the slain civil

rights leader.

The three-page superseding indictment charges that Harpham tried to use the backpack bomb to injure individuals attending the parade because of their “actual or perceived race, color and national origin.”

It also accuses him of seeking to use a destructive device in the furtherance of a hate crime.

Harpham faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

He was arrested at his home in Colville, Washington, on March 9, about seven weeks after the bomb was discovered along the parade route. The device was neutralized by bomb technicians after it was found, and no one was hurt.

About 1,500 people attended the parade, which was rerouted when the bomb was discovered.

Harpham pleaded not guilty in March to charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and possessing an improvised explosive device.

month. She is not sure she will feel differently now that the town has apologized.

“A lot of people have gone on,” she said. “There’s nobody to fear there now.”

There was no opposition to the resolution in the Legislature and no debate in the Senate before Thursday’s vote.

“The family deserves someone to say that was a tragedy and the lady was done wrong,” said Republican Sen. Scott Beason of Gardendale, chairman of the Rules Committee that asked the Senate to approve the resolution.

Democratic Sen. Billy Beasley, whose district includes Abbeville, said Taylor wanted an apology and the Senate wanted to provide one.

“The state of Alabama apologizes for the incident that occurred to Mrs. Taylor many years ago, and we wish God’s speed for her and continued best wishes,” Beasley said.

Grimsley said the apology shows Alabama officials were able to do the right thing on a racial matter.

“I think it’s going to take things like this for the state to move forward” from the racial turmoil of the past, he said.

Grimsley said he pushed the apology through the Legislature for Taylor.

“I just knew I had to do something for her while she’s still here,” he said.

Taylor’s story, along with those of other Black women attacked by white men during the civil rights era, is told in “At the Dark End of the Street,” a book by Danielle McGuire, a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Activists including Rosa Parks took up the causes of Taylor and others, but their efforts were later overshadowed by other civil rights battles.

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Goal of recycling Black spending bill still a distant dream

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What would be the state of the Black economy, if most of these dollars were recycled within the Black business sector? Did you know that if the annual income of Black America was recycled only twice within the Black community it would surge Black buying power to more than $2 trillion?

Every April Black Business Month is celebrated to strongly encourage the community to do business within itself to empower Black America and eliminate the Black economic crisis, which is a mission of the Los Angeles-based nonprofit community empowerment group Recycling Black Dollars (RBD).

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“The major collector of revenues and incomes in the African American community is the Black church. With such an influence, the Black church should be a major financial pillar and supporter of Black entrepreneurship and economic development, yet they go unchallenged.”

Many Black Americans who refuse to buy at Black businesses claim prices are too high, the service is inferior, or the products are below par.

However, the only way Black American businesses can improve is if they attract more consumers. The only way to provide more jobs for the community is if they patronize local businesses. The wealth of a community depends upon how many times money circulates or recycles within the community.

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Nasserdeen urged Black consumers to support Black-owned businesses in Los Angeles County, particularly during the month of April by focusing collectively on recycling earnings within the community.

Refusing to recycle the dollar is a choice that continues to quietly sabotage the improvement of the Black community, its economic power, and future.

Black Americans spend more for consumer products than any other ethnic group; hence, the reason non-Black ethnic groups start businesses and ultimately succeed in the Black community.

These non-Black business owners know they will find loyalty, fewer competitors, if any, and a steady source of revenue from Black consumers.

Although the Black community has less discretionary income to fund long-term investments, own fewer homes, as well as businesses, and have the least amount saved in retirement accounts, the Black community manages to spend more with other ethnic groups than their own.

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The long haul for the long-term unemployed

By TARICE L.S. GRAY Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com The beginning of the month may have felt like April Fool’s Day to a significant segment of America’s labor population. That’s when reports started pouring in about the new jobless rate and rise in job creation.

According to the Bureau of Labor, last month the unemployment rate dropped to 8.8% and the job market added 216,000 positions.

But for who?

Many unemployed or underemployed people fall into a swelling pool of would-be workers called the 99ers.

These are the jobless Americans who’ve exhausted their eligibility for not only the normal 26 weeks of unemployment benefits, but also for all of the emergency extensions of benefits for the unemployed – adding up to a total of 99 weeks, or nearly two years – Congress approved as the Great Recession deepened.

More than six million of the nation’s 14 million jobless have been out of work longer than 26 weeks; and nearly two million of that group has unsuccessfully searched for work for at least a year. But, there are no definitive figures on how many have been jobless for two years or longer because since World War II ended the Great Depression that’s always been a minuscule figure – until now.

But now, it includes jobless individuals like Kim Johnson, who ran out of her unemployment benefits a couple of months ago. A few years back, that would have sounded improbable to many people in Cleveland – because Johnson was one of the golden voices of the city’s airwaves.

For more than two decades she was one of the premiere radio hosts on WZAK 93.1FM in Cleveland, which for a time, was the number one radio station in the city. In 2008, the great recession declared war on cities like Cleveland. Johnson became a casualty the following year. “[My GM] called me to his office,” she explained, “and he said, ‘We’re not going to re-new your contract.’ And I

said, ‘What!’ He said, nothing lasts forever, so I said thank you and I’ll be fine. I didn’t cuss and cry and break down and act foolish. I didn’t do all of that. I just got my purse and walked out the door. I left everything I had accumulated, mementos, I just left everything, I just left.”

Johnson closed the door on her 24year career and was fine for awhile. A rainy day fund she had accumulated has sustained her this far, and an investment she had made in a telecommunications company has long-term earnings potential, but virtually no short-term payoff. So, now, after nearly two years without fulltime employment, her reserves are low and she gets by as a substitute teacher earning $80 a day when called. That part-time work means that, despite her increasingly tough circumstances, she doesn’t meet the federal government’s definition of being unemployed.

“My salary was around $120,000 a year,” she says, referring to her radio days. “You go from making $120,000 a year to nothing.”

Dee Ann Donner is another of the 8.4 million Americans who want a full-time job but have been forced to work limited hours. She recently exhausted her jobless benefits, too.

Donner worked for Ford Motor Company, where, she says, the recession in the auto industry started early. “I went to work for Ford Motor Company in 2001 after graduating [from college]. My second year there I was offered a [buyout] package and I didn’t take it. It was my second year, and I’m like I’m not going to take it.”

But, the Ford offer was a sign of things to come for Donner. After being laid off, she found work at General Electric in the labor relations department, but lasted just two years before being downsized again. S he moved from Cleveland to Pensacola, Florida a few months ago hoping for a better job market and has taken part-time jobs in radio and a retail store trying to make ends meet. The 35-year-old says it’s hard to find the motivation to look for a decent job but knows her situation needs to change.

“It’s disgusting, let me just say that –

Spending bill a distant dream Continued from page 4 research group, surveyed how many times income circulates within a community before leaving and has found that in the Black community, income circulates zero to one time. In the White community, income circulates unlimited times, in the Jewish community, income circulates at least 12 times; Asians recycle at least nine times, and Latinos recycle their dollars at least six times.

The formula for recycling community dollars has seemingly been mastered in every ethnic community except the Black community. Other ethnic groups set up their communi-

ty and encourage recycling through various means of communication such as signs, billboards, cultural symbols or language just as the Black community does. Secondly, they set up small businesses to serve each other, just as the Black community does. Thirdly, they spend with each other first before spending with other ethnic groups. This is where the differences lies.

Founded in 1988, RBD’s overall mission is to aid in the economic development of the Black American community by teaming with consumers, organizations, churches, and Fortune 500 corporations to foster consumer purchasing, vending

the [little] pay, how people treat you” She said bitterly. “Your peers come in and you’re fitting them for a bra, you know what I mean? It’s heartwrenching. The only thing that’s keeping me going is prayer.”

Hopes and prayers seem to be fading among many of the long term unemployed, however, according to a series of studies of those whom the current economic crisis has trapped in long-term joblessness by The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

Their research found that as the crisis took hold, once jobless workers passed the six-month threshold of joblessness, their prospects for finding any work at all diminished sharply and, as their rejected applications for work piled up and their resources dwindled, their spirits and sense of being connected to the larger society.

One manifestation of that low psychological state was both listlessness and sleeplessness. The study also determined that 88% of those unemployed long term and looking for work, as of March 2010, are stressed because of their situation and 60% have experienced changed sleeping patterns or loss of sleep. Both Johnson and Donner admit they don’t sleep like they used to because they don’t know what tomorrow will bring. Adding to the shared burden is the fact that both women are African American.

That means they’re more likely to be among the long-term unemployed and underemployed.

The National Employment Law Project, which advocates for the employment rights of lower-wage workers, is looking into this situation because the organization sees it as an unfortunate consequence.

Judy Conti, NELP’s Federal Advocacy Coordinator, explained that people who are unemployed for more than six months are disproportionately people of color and older workers. She said, “and when you start weeding out the people who are the long-term unemployed, you are disproportionately weeding out those two groups of workers and that could be considered disparate impact violation of the civil and contract opportunities. RBD collaborates with local and national banks as well as other funding organizations to provide capital for the development and expansion of the Black business community.

America’s largest Black bank, OneUnited Bank, is an RBD corporate sponsor and encourages Black consumers to bank with Blackowned funding institutions.

“In the past 10 years, we have financed over $1 billion in loans, including churches, affordable housing, office buildings and retail stores, most in low to moderate income communities such as South Central and Compton,” says Kevin Cohee, OneUnited chairman and CEO. Other services include assistance with business plans, marketing,

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rights laws.”

Conti added, “you’re not being weeded out because you are Black.

For example, their not saying ‘this person is Black oh I won’t hire them’ but they have a policy in place that weeds out more Black workers than White workers, for example, so it could have a disparate impact on that population.” Conti revealed NELP is already probing whether some companies utilize the discriminatory practices some companies have against those long-term unemployed workers. But, for the present, little is being done to stop companies from keeping jobs out of the reach of the long term unemployed.

New Jersey stands alone as the only state that has enacted a law that prohibits at least some form of labor discrimination against the long-term unemployed. Democratic State Senator James Beach, of Camden County, co-sponsored the bill that recently was signed into law, which makes it illegal for companies to place ads for jobs that read “unemployed need not apply.” State Senator Beach, who is a member of the Senate Labor Committee, said the legislation is a small step in getting people back to work.

“What I hope to accomplish is the fact that New Jersey businesses will not be able to advertise and exclude someone just because they happen to be unemployed.” He added, “of course, you can’t control what’s inside someone’s heart. And, if they wanted continue to discriminate against people that are unemployed you can’t legislate morality or ethics.”

The State Senator went on to say he believes the federal government is doing all it can to help the jobless, and he trusts President Barack Obama will lead the nation out of this troubled time.

In the meantime, Donner hopes the focus will return to persuading companies to reconsider hiring biases and somehow, 99ers will once again be considered labor assets. “We need a chance,” she says. “We need an opportunity. A foot in the door is awesome, but a company that will mentor, and nurture you in a role, is like somewhere from heaven.”

— Tarice L.S. Gray is a freelance writer and blogger with GrayCurrent.com. accounting, advertising, promotions, and resources. Mentoring, training seminars, and educational programs, such as “How to Start and Operate a Business in the 21st Century,” “Learn to Prepare Income Taxes,” “Writing a Successful Business Plan” and “Getting Financial Aid for College” are just a few resources that RBD offers. The organization also publishes a monthly electronic newsletter named aptly “The Black Dollar.” “The Black Business Directory,” a community phone book published by the organization, creates a useful network for local Black businesses to recycle their dollars with each other.

To learn more about unleashing the wealth in your community visit www.rbdmedia.net.

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Body pulled from Maryland river identified as missing teen BALTIMORE — A body pulled from the Susquehanna River in Maryland has been identified as that of a North Carolina teenager who has been missing since December, Maryland State Police confirmed on Friday.

Phylicia Barnes (left), a high school senior whose 17th birthday was on January 12, disappeared during a visit to an older half-sister in Baltimore on December 28.

Two state troopers crossing the river’s Conowingo Dam on Wednesday were

flagged down by dam workers and alerted to a body floating in the water.

The superintendent of Maryland State Police, Colonel Terrence Sheridan, said at a press conference on Thursday night that medical examiners were able to use dental records to positively identify the body as that of Barnes.

No cause of death has yet been specified, but Sheridan said there were no obvious signs of injury or sexual assault.

Because of the cold temper-

ature of the Susquehanna’s waters, police were not able to immediately tell how long the body had been in the river, But they said it was possible the body had been submerged since December.

“Our goal simply is to bring closure to Phylicia Barnes’ family and figure out what happened, and hold those responsible accountable,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld said. “We’re now at stage one of a new phase of the investigation.”

Barnes was in her final year at Union Academy in Monroe, North Carolina, when she vanished. Desperate to find her, her family posted a $35,000 reward for information.

During the investigation, a second body, that of an unidentified Black man approximately in his 40’s, was discovered in the river some 3.5 miles from that of Barnes.

Police said that there is no evidence that the two bodies were in any way connected.

State AGs urge Pabst to dilute controversial drink Sixteen state attorneys general are urging the Pabst Brewing Company to reduce the alcohol content of a controversial fruit-flavored drink that is getting high-profile promotion from rapper Snoop Dogg.

The request came in a letter from Maryland Attorney General F. Gansler and was signed by attorneys general from Arizona, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, Tennessee, Washington, Utah, California, Idaho and Connecticut.

Guam’s attorney general and the city attorney general of San Francisco also signed.

The drink, Blast by Colt 45, is sold in 23.5- and sevenounce containers and has a 12 percent alcohol content, more than twice that of most

beers and comparable to wine.

Flavors include grape, raspberry watermelon, strawberry lemonade and blueberry pomegranate flavors.

“We believe the manufacture and marketing of this flavored ‘binge in a can’ poses a grave public safety threat and is irresponsible,” said the letter, which was dated April 21.

“We are also concerned that the target market for all size containers of Blast ... will also include persons under the legal drinking age, in violation of state law.”

The letter asked the manufacturer, Illinois-based Pabst Brewing Co., to take “immediate steps to significantly reduce the number of servings of alcohol presented to consumers in a single-serving container so as to elimi-

nate the serious public safety risks.”

In a separate statement Gansler noted Blast spokesman Snoop Dogg’s wide popularity with young people under the legal drinking age and said the drink’s promotional videos featuring the rapper can be viewed by anyone on web sites like YouTube.

Pabst issued a statement denying that Blast is being marketed to underage drinkers, saying the beverage was “only meant to be consumed by those above the legal drinking age.”

“As with all Pabst products, our marketing efforts ... are focused on conveying the message of drinking responsibly,” the company said.

The statement, which echoed one Pabst issued in

March amid criticism about the controversial new product, added that “the alcohol content of Blast is clearly marked on its packaging.”

Representatives for Pabst and Snoop Dogg did not immediately return calls seeking comment on Friday.

John Challis, Senior Vice

President of Daytop Treatment Services which deals with substance abuse, said on Friday that while Pabst denies it, Blast is “clearly being packaged and marketed to a younger audience.”

“The fundamental issue is strong liquor masquerading as beer,” Challis said.

First lady’s jet got wrong info on other plane WASHINGTON — Air traffic controllers mistakenly told the pilot of a plane carrying U.S. first lady Michelle Obama this week he was further away from a nearby military cargo jet than he actually was, according to a report issued on Friday.

The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report provided new details on Monday’s incident near Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.

The incident led to more criticism of U.S. air traffic controllers following disclosures in recent weeks that several had fallen asleep on the job.

Air traffic controllers at the Maryland base told the pilot of the government Boeing 737 carrying the first lady that he was 4 miles from a giant Air Force C-17

cargo when he was in fact 3 miles away, the NTSB report found.

The report said the controllers then instructed the pilot of the first lady’s plane

to do a maneuver that actually brought the Boeing 737 closer to the C-17, not further away from it. The report said the first lady’s plane came as close as 2.94 miles to the cargo plane, slightly closer than the 3 miles previously acknowledged by officials.

Michelle Obama’s plane also was carrying Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, on a trip from New York.

The plane was forced to abandon a landing approach outside Washington to avoid the C-17, one of the largest planes in the skies. The C-17 was also heading to Andrews. Both planes landed safely without incident.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which oversees the nation’s 15,000 controllers handling flights in and out of more

than 400 airports, had no comment on the NTSB report.

In another development, the union representing air traffic controllers issued a statement on the controversy involving sleeping controllers.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said the FAA has ignored “common sense solutions” developed in consultation with the military and NASA for reducing fatigue. It also called on Congress to approve fatigue management provisions in pending aviation legislation.

“Air traffic controllers are committed to doing their part to ensure safety and fix the problem,” the union said.

The FAA has already adjusted scheduling practices and added staff on late shifts to reduce fatigue.

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COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

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D. Haze & the Ancestors

Queen Ayaba (a.k.a. Myra Hunter) performed at the intergenerational space “For My Sweet” on Monday April 18th, 2011.

Queen Ayaba, an educator, spiritualist and professional singer gave the new venue an outstanding display of her excitement and talent on Jazzy Monday. She was in the songbook of

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Announcement: Tree Giveaway This Weekend in Bed-Stuy TL C C ra c k s D o w n O n B e d f o r d Stuyvesant’s tree stock has been devastated over the last year by tornadoes and extreme winter weather. To help restore the neigh-

borhood back to a more greener, plusher and more environmentally sound state, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation will

support of celebrate Earth Day ous with a free tree B l o o m b e r g Philanthropies and giveaway!

The event is in partnership with the New York Restoration P r o j e c t , MillionTreesNYC and also through the gener-

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Together, these organizations will gladly distribute 130 trees to residents of Central Brooklyn and beyond.

First-come/first-served.

Illegal Str ee t Hails

Jury Deadlocked In Bronx Road Rage Trial; Judge Orders More Deliberations Jurors in the case of two transit police officers accused of beating a man in August 2008 while off-duty are at a stalemate.

While deliberating the fate of Koleen

Robinson and Michelle Anglin Friday, jurors passed a note to the judge saying they were hung.

However, the judge told them to go back and keep deliberating.

The officers are accused of beating

Marlon Smith after getting in an argument with him over his open car door blocking traffic in the Bronx.

Smith needed 25 staples to close a gash in his head.

The prosecution says the officers were overly

aggressive, but defense says Smith was the aggressor and the officers did nothing wrong.

If convicted, the officers could lose their jobs and face up to seven years in prison.

Mayor Says Ticket Scandal ‘Fix’ Already In Place Mayor Michael Bloomberg is again speaking out on the alleged NYPD scandal involving fixed traffic tickets, saying the problem has already been taken care of.

In his weekly radio show, the mayor said fixing tickets got a lot harder to do last year when the city police department began using computer sys-

tems that track each ticket from the day it’s handed out.

“Once it gets into the system it would be very hard to fix it, get rid of it, because it’s just too easy to track, so if that practice that’s alleged to have taken place did take place, then at least we’re convinced it won’t in the future,” Bloomberg said.

The issue came to

light after the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau found evidence of widespread fixing in a Bronx precinct.

Dozens of officers could face official misconduct and criminal charges.

The Taxi and Limousine Commission is cracking down on livery cab drivers who pick up illegal street hails.

More than 1,100 summonses for illegal hails were issued by the TLC in March alone — four times as many as were handed out in February.

In all of last year only about 2,500 tickets were issued.

Residents in many parts of the city rely heavily on liveries because, the TLC says, 97 percent of yellow taxicab pickups are in Manhattan or at airports.

The ticket blitz comes as the agency and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are considering legalizing street pickups.

Under the city’s plan, liveries would have to pay a steep licensing fee, adhere to a uniform fare and install meters and GPS devices.

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U.S. warns of Libya “stalemate” as Misrata battle

By MICHAEL GEORGY MISRATA, Libya - The top U.S. military officer said air strikes had hobbled Libyan forces but the conflict was moving into “stalemate” as Muammar Gaddafi’s troops pressed on with their punishing siege of rebel Misrata.

Morocco said it was seeking a political solution to the crisis, after Moroccan officials met representatives of Muammar Gaddafi and rebels this week.

Rebels welcomed U.S. plans to deploy unmanned aircraft, typically operated remotely from the United States. But it emerged that bad weather had forced the first two drones sent to Libya to turn back.

“It’s certainly moving toward a stalemate,” said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military’s joint chiefs of staff, in Baghdad.

“At the same time we’ve attrited somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of his main ground forces, his ground force capabilities. Those will continue to go away over time.”

In Misrata, the only rebel-held major city in western Libya, rebels wrested control of a downtown office building which had been a base for Gaddafi’s snipers and other troops, after a furious two-week-long battle.

Shattered masonry, wrecked tanks and the incinerated corpse of a government soldier lay near the former insurance offices on Friday amid buildings pockmarked by gunfire.

“They shot anything that moved,” one fighter said of the Gaddafi men driven out.

Rebels said they had captured several other central buildings from government forces and the state of the battle did not appear to match claims by government officials in Tripoli to control 80 percent of Misrata.

Rebel fighters are

fighting a block-byblock war of attrition with an enemy sometimes only yards (meters) away.

“Gaddafi’s fighters taunt us. If they are in a nearby building they yell at us at night to scare us. They call us rats,” one rebel said.

Ambulance drivers on the rebel side accuse government forces of deliberately shooting at their vehicles.

Government officials deny attacking civilians.

FRUSTRATION Hundreds of fighters and civilians have died in Misrata during the siege. Rebel fighters voice frustration with an international military operation they see as too cautious.

Food and medicine are running out and there are queues for petrol.

Residents depend on generators for power and thousands of stranded foreign workers await rescue in the port area.

General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the first two Predator

drones were sent to Libya on Thursday but had to turn back because of bad weather.

The United States planned to maintain two patrols of armed Predators above Libya at any given time, Cartwright said.

The drones have proven a potent but controversial weapon in Pakistan and other areas where U.S. forces have no troops on the ground. They can fly without being noticed from the ground and hit targets with missiles with no risk to crew. However, they have killed many civilians by mistake in Pakistan.

“There’s no doubt that will help protect civilians and we welcome that step from the American administration,” rebel spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said on Al Jazeera television.

The Obama administration has been anxious not to spearhead NATO’s Libya campaign. It has instead let British and French planes do the bombing and has not deployed low-flying ground

attack aircraft, unique to U.S. forces, which military analysts say would be most effective against Gaddafi’s troops.

Analysts said the drones were a way of appeasing French and British calls for more U.S. help but were far from being a “silver bullet” to tilt the conflict against Gaddafi.

Libyan state television said nine people had been killed overnight by NATO bombardment of the city of Sirte, Gaddafi’s home town, including employees of the state water utility.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Gaddafi’s forces were carrying out “vicious attacks” on Misrata and might have used cluster bombs against civilians. The United States, like Libya, has not joined a convention banning such weapons.

Republican U.S. Senator John McCain went to the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Friday for talks with rebel leaders.

He said they needed more help to overthrow Libyan Gaddafi and “get this thing over with.

McCain says U.S. should recognize Libyan rebels BENGHAZI, Libya - Senator John McCain on Friday called on the United States to recognize Libyan rebels’ transitional council as the true voice of the Libyan people and transfer frozen assets to them.

McCain, speaking to reporters while visiting the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya, also called for NATO to step up its air campaign and said Western allies should provide rebels with training, weapons and command-and-control activities to help overthrow leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Burkina Faso pres. names Moroccan police disperse himself defense minister rampaging W. Sahara students OUAGADOUGOU , Burkina Faso Burkina Faso’s president has named himself defense minister after a mutiny that threatened his 24-year rule in the impoverished country.

President Blaise Compaore announced late Thursday he will remain president but is now also a member of his 29-member cabinet.

Compaore tried to stem last week’s unrest by dissolving the government and removing the country’s security chiefs.

The mutiny began when members of the presidential guard began firing into the air, demanding unpaid housing allowances. By Monday, soldiers in several cities north, south, east and west of Ouagadougou joined in and students followed suit.

Gambia expels pro-Gadhafi Libyan ambassador B A N J U L , Gambia - The government of tiny Gambia says it wants the Libyan ambassador loyal to Moammar Gadhafi to leave and is declaring its support for the Benghazi-based rebel council.

A government statement Friday gave the Libyan ambassador and embassy staff 72 hours to leave Gambia. The government also says it’s freezing or closing all assets held in Gambia by Gadhafi’s government.

Those include two five-star hotels and an amusement park, and represent a large

investment in the West African nation that is surrounded by Senegal.

Gambia says its decision was prompted by “the heinous atrocities that are being carried out by the Gadhafi regime against innocent citizens.”

Libya’s embassy in Banjul declined comment.

RABAT - Dozens of students from Western Sahara were dispersed by Moroccan security forces Friday in a Rabat campus violent protest after the murder of a comrade the night before, witnesses told AFP. Students went on the rampage at the Rabat-Souissi university campus in the morning and “burnt several buildings, including the administration,” a student said.

“The security forces intervened around 11:00 am (1100 GMT), and dispersed the Western Saharan students, who had also attacked small busi-

ness near the campus,” he said.

The action followed the stabbing death of a Western Saharan student overnight, allegedly after he harassed a female student out with her boyfriend.

An interior ministry official said the victim, a 25-year-old, “was inebriated when he harassed the girl, who complained to other students, one of whom stabbed him.”

Other witnesses said the victim, Abbad Hammad, had an argument Thursday evening with a workman who had tried to prevent him from crossing a tramline in Rabat, and identified the workman as the killer.

“The police have opened an investigation to identify the perpetrator of this crime and bring him to justice,” a security source said.

Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, in 1975.

Polisario Front guerrillas took up arms against Morocco after the annexation and the United Nations brokered a ceasefire in 1991 with a promise of a self-determination vote for the 500,000 people in the phosphate-rich territory.

Morocco has proposed allowing greater autonomy, but no independence, and no vote has been held.

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Anger simmers in Sudan’s farming heartland

By DEEPA BABINGTON WAD MEDANI, Sudan Farmer Abdelbagi Abdallah says his tiny plot of land in Sudan’s agricultural heartland bore him a bumper sorghum crop year after year, until pests and patchy irrigation ravaged his harvest.

Barely able to make ends meet on the three sacks of the staple cereal his plot produced this year — compared to more than 40 sacks in good times — Abdallah says he was forced to pull his two sons and a daughter out of university.

Bitter and frustrated, he accuses the government of neglecting Sudan’s massive staterun Gezira irrigated farming scheme that includes his four feddans (4.1 acres) of land.

“The administration provided no help,” said the 55-year-old, dressed in traditional white robes and turban.

“I’m very angry.

Now I’m living with the bare minimum. Even my sons now have to stay at home.”

Abdallah is on the frontline of a growing

wave of anger in Sudan’s farming heartland, where the rising cost of living is bringing long-simmering over tensions Khartoum’s neglect of the agricultural sector to the fore. Gezira farmers held a protest this week, prompting the government to promise immediate help.

There is little to suggest that anti-government protests that toppled leaders in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia will take off in Sudan but, if they ever do, activists say the spark will come from long-suffering rural areas like those near Wad Medani.

Farmers in Gezira made available by activists complain of everything from a lack of promised state funds, to a spotty irrigation system and fears that their land will be seized by the government — accusations that the Gezira project’s managers strongly deny and say are politically motivated.

“The government wants farmers to own their land,” Gezira chief Osman Samsaa told Reuters, dismissing the allegations as false and

spurred by “anti-government people.” The government has spent money to rehabilitate the Gezira program and given farmers the freedom to grow crops of their choice, he said.

DIVIDED SOCIETY The Gezira project, which includes over 2 million feddans of land by the Blue and White Nile rivers and employs 130,000 farmers, traces its origins to British colonial times. It initially developed land for cotton through a system of canals.

Khartoum last year said it would offer parts of the scheme to private firms to boost efficiency as it tries to prioritize agriculture after its oilproducing south secedes this year.

The general-secretary of the Gezira project’s board, Mohammed Abdelmajid Kuku, acknowledges the project has struggled since the 1990s due to financing problems, but denies the state wants to seize any land — it is doing the opposite, he says.

He pinned recent tensions on the amount of compensation for more than 800,000 feddans that will be

returned to landowners.

Without doubt, Khartoum has its supporters in the area.

“The government is not neglecting the scheme but is looking at improving it,” said Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, a member of the local farmers’ union who backs the government policies.

The head of a farmers’ union in a separate farming project in central Sudan that has been privatized, Abdel Aziz Al-Bashir, also said he remained optimistic that farmers could strike a deal with the government over lingering land issues.

Still, in rural areas where mistrust of the government is high and the difference between fact and fiction is often far from clear, tensions have been bubbling up. Several hundred farmers this month blocked a main road to Khartoum in protest at what they said was a government plan to confiscate their land, before police teargassed the demonstrators, a witness said.

“We will not give up our land,” said Mohammed Mustafa,

Nigeria town suggests scale of violence much worse

By JON GAMBRELL Z O N K W A , Nigeria - Soldiers wore surgical masks against the smell as workers loaded corpses onto a truck, with hundreds reported killed in postelection violence in this town alone.

Fearful of stoking more violence, authorities have been reluctant to release a nationwide death toll after the victory of the incumbent president, a Christian, in Saturday’s election caused a wave of killings and arson attacks across the country’s mostly Muslim north.

An Associated Press

tour of rural Kaduna state with military leaders Thursday showed a level of bloodshed beyond what federal authorities have acknowledged.

A local imam and a soldier in Zonkwa estimated hundreds had been killed in the town alone since Monday.

Bodies were left to rot in the sweltering heat.

Residents fled the town, their belongings piled on wheelbarrows.

In a town near Zonkwa, children raised their hands above their heads as a military convoy carrying soldiers passed, fearful of being fired at by machine guns mounted on the back.

One broken cinderblock wall in the area bore a single word in white paint: War.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday recalled a civil war that ended in 1970 and left more than 1 million people dead as he condemned this week’s violence and reprisal attacks.

“These acts of mayhem are sad reminders of the events which plunged our country into 30 months of an unfortunate civil war,” he said. “As a nation we are yet to come to terms with the level of human suffering, destruction and displacement, including that of our children to faraway countries, occasioned by those dark days.”

Mohammed SaniSidi, head of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, said more than 65,000

people had been displaced across the country.

“We have since set up camps mostly in military formations and police barracks,” he said. “ ... From the assessment and reports from UNICEF, we want to say that most of the victims are women and children.”

Many northerners wanted the country’s ruling party to nominate a Muslim candidate this year because Jonathan - a Christian from the south - had taken power only because the Muslim elected leader died before finishing his term.

However Jonathan prevailed in the ruling party’s primary and became its candidate for president.

who said he feared the government would seize the 40 feddans he has farmed for more than 30 years as part of its privatization drive.

“We will fight. It is better to die than lose our land.”

In January, a previously unknown group representing farmers in the central state of Sennar said it burned 5,000 feddans of sugarcane in protest at the government’s “corrupt” policies. The stateowned Sudanese Sugar Company said only a small area was lost in the fire and the culprits were arrested.

Wad Medani, the capital of the Gezira state that is home to its namesake farming scheme, has also seen other protests this year by students seeking to emulate uprisings in the Arab world.

“NOT ENOUGH” Overall, efforts to stage anti-government protests in Sudan have failed to gather mass support and fizzled quickly in the face of beatings, arrests and teargassing by security forces.

A divided society that has lived through wars in Darfur and the south, which secedes in July, appears also appears more keen on stability than the

prospect of conflict if President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s 22-year grip on power is loosened.

But Sudan is struggling with double-digit food inflation, high youth unemployment and widespread corruption, and activists are hoping the protest movement will gather momentum in areas like Wad Medani that are well outside the capital Khartoum.

“Any uprising in Sudan will have to start from areas like Medani ... before it reaches Khartoum,” said Magdi Okasha, an activist leading the Youth for Change Movement that has organized shortlived anti-government protests via Facebook.

“The security (apparatus) in Khartoum is huge. There are too many of them, and sometimes you can’t even differentiate between the protesters and security in plains clothes.”

A heavy deployment of security forces and preemptive arrests meant Facebookinspired protests on March 21 failed in Khartoum. In Wad Medani, however, about 250 protesters managed to rally in the main market before police broke up the demonstration.

Post-revolution, Egypt tourism remains in disarray SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) Hotel worker Meena George rejoiced when a popular revolt ousted Egypt’s autocratic president, but since the tourists have stopped coming, his joy has given way to fear and desperation.

George was made redundant by his employers at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, and has resorted to borrowing more and more money from his friends to survive.

“The revolution is good, but painful,” said George, 33. “Many of my friends have fallen on hard times as we get laid off, because business is slow.”

From the Pyramids of Giza to the Red Sea resorts, tourist numbers have plummeted to just a trickle, dealing a devastating blow to the millions of Egyptians whose livelihoods depend on the 14 million or so visitors who once thronged to the country.

At the height of the 18-day uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak, embassies issued travel warnings and many tour groups canceled their trips, throwing an industry that is a major source of foreign currency into crisis.

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CARIBBEAN BRIEFS ONE FAMILY.

Whether West Indian, African or African American.

One God, One Aim, One Destiny.

Race rears its head in Guyana’s presidential election

Trinidad minister says administration has better ethnic balance PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The People’s Partnership coalition government in Trinidad and Tobago has achieved better ethnic balance in the appointments of government boards, Works Minister Jack Warner stated on Wednesday.

He was speaking in the House of Representatives on a motion brought by opposition leader Keith Rowley, asking the House to reaffirm its collective commitment to the principles of fairness and meritocracy in public affairs in the light of the “reckless and divisive statements” made by the former Police Service Commission chairman Nizam Mohammed.

The debate on the private motion saw Warner and the People’s National Movement (PNM) political leader facing off on the contentious issue of race.

The Trinidad Express reported that Warner said, under the PNM regime, board members appointed were 508 non-Indians and 138 were Indians, representing 79 percent non Indians, while 21 per cent were Indians.

“Shame! Shame!” his colleagues chorused.

Warner said, by contrast, in the People’s Partnership era, 508 of the appointments were non-Indian, while 579 were Indian, a ratio of 47 percent non Indian and 53 percent Indian.

Warner then pointed to the PNM’s team in Parliament, which reflected a lack of ethnic balance.

Financial awareness conference for women held in St Lucia CASTRIES, St Lucia — First Citizens Investment Services St Lucia (formerly CMMB) hosted a one day conference for women entitled “Financial Awareness for Today’s Woman” on Saturday 16 April 2011 in St Lucia.

Over 120 women availed themselves of the opportunity to become more financially successful, savvy and independent.

Local entrepreneur Michael Chastanet kicked off the day’s proceeding with the topic “Success” and urged women to live within their means and be proactive in building a nest egg for their financial security.

Sharon Christopher, Deputy CEO of First Citizens Bank, focused on the barriers that women face along the road to financial independence and urged women to join support groups where financial advice and guidance can be sought and to set goals and stick to them.

The participants were also informed of the various investment options available to aid in building their financial wealth, including First Citizens Retirement Advantage Plan (RAP), First Citizens Home Ownership Made Easy plan (HOME), Fixed Income Paper (FIP) and First Citizens Brokerage Services, where stocks and bonds can be traded.

The conference closed with discussions on financial pitfalls to avoid and a look at the intricate relationship that is needed with lawyers, financial advisors and brokers

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The presidential candidate of Guyana’s ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), Donald Ramotar, has chided the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) for its latest threat and unambiguous call for racial insurrection in Guyana.

Ramotar told the Guyana

Donald Ramotar Chronicle that the call did not come as a surprise and added that the proclivity by the opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) to ramp up the crime wave is an attempt to derail successive PPPC governments, as well as ACDA’s threat to take to the streets to enforce shared governance on a PPPC administration after the 2011 elections.

“From since the 2002 jailbreak and even before that, also taking into consideration

Blackie’s funeral, when the entire PNC apparatus was used in that funeral arrangement, and making him a hero, suggested to me a very close link with the PNC and the criminal gangs,” Ramotar told the Chronicle.

Ramotar said that the opposition PNCR targets the police when they confront criminal gangs.

Elections are constitutionally due in Guyana by year end.

Jamaican extradition Enquiry to deliver report by mid-May KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Commission of Enquiry into the Jamaican government’s handling of the extradition of alleged drug kingpin, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, will deliver its report by May 16.

On Wednesday, lawyers representing all the parties submitted closing arguments in which they made strong submissions on behalf of their respective clients, which included the Solicitor General, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Jamaica Defence Force, former Commissioner of Police,

Chairman, Commissioner of Enquiry into the extradition of Christopher Coke, Queen’s Counsel Emil George (centre), coCommissioners, Anthony Irons (left) and Donald Scharschmidt. and former Chief of who represented the Defence Force. opposition People’s They urged the National Party, asked Commission to find the commissioners not that there was no act of to put any weight on misconduct on their the evidence of Justice part.

Minister, Dorothy Attorney Oliver Lightbourne, claiming Smith and Queen’s that her credibility has Counsel, K.D. Knight, been damaged by the

email evidence, which they said that she had not communicated with attorney Harold Brady in relation to the extradition request.

At the same time, Knight and Patrick Atkinson, the lawyer who represented opposition MP Peter Phillips, urged the commissioners to find that Lightbourne and Prime Minister Bruce Golding had not acted properly in the handling of the request.

On the other hand, attorneys for the prime minister, Hugh Small and Adolph Edwards, as well attorney Frank Phipps, argued to the contrary, stating that there was no intent to prevent Coke from being extradited.

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At least 70 dead in Syria’s bloodiest day of unrest

By KHALED YACOUB OWEIS AMMAN - Syrian security forces killed at least 70 protesters on Friday, rights activists said, the bloodiest day in a month of escalating pro-democracy demonstrations against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian rights organization Sawasiah said 70 civilians had been killed across the country, in the biggest demonstrations to sweep Syria so far. Wissam Tarif, director of human rights group Insan, gave a similar death toll.

“At least 72 people have been killed so far.

The number of injured exceeds 80 people in Homs and its villages and the villages (near the southern city) of Deraa,” he told Reuters.

It was not possible to independently confirm the figures.

Tens of thousands of people had taken to the streets of cities across

Syria and called for the of the “overthrow regime,” reflecting the hardening of demands which initially focused on reforms and greater freedoms.

The protests went ahead despite Assad’s lifting of the state of emergency the day before. Ending the hated emergency rule, in place since the Baath Party seized power 48 years ago, was a central demand of demonstrators, who also seek the release of political prisoners and dismantling of the security services.

Washington urged Syria to stop the violence against protesters and British Foreign Secretary William Hague said emergency law should be “lifted in practice not just in word.”

“This was the first test of the seriousness of authorities (toward reform) and they have failed,” Qurabi said.

Friday’s violence brings the death toll to about 300, according to rights activists, since the unrest which broke out on March 18 in the southern city of Deraa.

Activists cited the highest toll in the near-

by village of Izra’a where protesters had been trying to head for Deraa. Residents said 14 people were killed.

“Izra’a is in the dark.

No mobile phones or landlines working.

People have been talking from villages near to Izraa but not in the town,” said Wissam Tarif of human rights Insan, organization, who had 12 confirmed killed in Izra’a.

Syrian television said eight people were killed 28 wounded, and including army personnel, in attacks by armed groups in the village. It added an armed group had attacked a military base in the Damascus suburb of Muadhamiya.

As in the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, citizens are rebelling against both a lack of freedom and opportunity and security forces’ impunity and corruption that has enriched the elite while one-third of Syrians live below the poverty line.

In the first joint statement since the protests broke out, activists coordinating the demonstrations on Friday demanded the abolition of the Baath

Party monopoly on power and the establishment of a democratic political system.

Aided by his family and a pervasive security apparatus, Assad, 45, has absolute power in Syria.

PROTESTS ACROSS COUNTRY Protests swept the country of 20 million from the people, Mediterranean city of Banias to the eastern towns of Deir al-Zor and Qamishli. In Damascus, security forces fired teargas to disperse 2,000 protesters in the district of Midan.

In Hama, where Assad’s father crushed an armed Islamist revolt in 1982, a witness said security forces opened fire to prevent protesters reaching the Baath Party headquarters.

“We saw two snipers on the building. None of us had weapons. There are casualties, possibly two dead,” said the witness.

Syria’s third city Homs, where security forces had killed 21 protesters this week when demonstrators tried to gather at a main square, was not spared

on Friday either.

“I was in the center of Homs and in front of me I heard a security commander telling his armed men: ‘Don’t spare them (protesters),’” rights campaigner Najati Tayara told Reuters.

Witnesses said security forces also shot at protesters in the Damascus district of Barzeh and the suburb of Douma.

Al Jazeera showed footage of three corpses, wrapped in white burial shrouds, which it said were from the eastern Damascus suburb of Zamalka.

Ahead of the main weekly prayers on Friday, which have often turned out to be launch pads for major demonstrations, the army deployed in Homs and police put up checkpoints across Damascus, apparently trying to prevent protests sweeping in from suburbs.

After prayers finished in Deraa, several thousand protesters gathered chanting antiAssad slogans. “The Syrian people will not be subjugated. Go away doctor (Assad). We will

trample on you and your slaughterous regime,” they shouted.

Assad’s conciliatory move to lift the state of emergency followed a familiar pattern since the unrest began a month ago: pledges of reform are made before Friday when demonstrations are the strongest, usually followed by an intense crackdown.

Activists said some funerals for those killed on Friday took place in Damascus suburbs in the evening. Funerals have been another platform for protesters in recent weeks and security forces have opened fire when mourners started demonstrating.

The authorities have blamed armed groups, infiltrators and Sunni Muslim militant organizations for provoking violence at demonstrations by firing on civilians and security forces.

Western and other Arab countries have mostly muted their criticism of the killings in Syria for fear of destabilizing the country, which plays a strategic role in many of the conflicts in the Middle East.

Cr owds rally in Yemen for and against Saleh

By MOHAMED SUDAM & MOHAMMED GHOBARI SANAA (Reuters) Yemenis flooded the streets of Sanaa and Taiz on Friday in rival demonstrations for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who gave a guarded welcome to a Gulf Arab plan for a three-month transition of power.

He told supporters in Sanaa any arrangements had to be “within the framework of the Yemen constitution” — language which could mask objections to the plan — and also vowed to “confront challenge with challenge,” but without bloodshed.

“Guns can be used today but you cannot use them to rule tomor-

row. We reject war,” Saleh declared.

Ten soldiers were killed in three attacks by tribesmen and al Qaeda militants in several provinces, officials said.

In the southern city of Taiz, riot police fired in the air to keep vast, unruly crowds of pro and anti-Saleh demonstrators apart, but there were no serious injuries, witnesses said.

A sea of anti-Saleh protesters, perhaps in the hundreds of thousands, inundated the streets of Taiz, Yemen’s third city and an epicenter of opposition to the 69-year-old president.

But in Yemen’s northwestern city of Hajja, a 12-year-old boy was shot dead when security forces opened fire to prevent a crowd

of anti-government protesters entering the city, witnesses told Reuters by telephone.

Tens of thousands of Saleh loyalists turned out in Sanaa, the capital, for what they called a “Friday of Reconciliation,” waving Yemeni flags and pictures of the president.

Their numbers were matched by protesters demanding Saleh’s immediate departure, spilling out of their usual protest area around Sanaa University to mark a “Last Chance Friday” in nearby Siteen street, where there was a heavy security presence.

That raised concern that Saleh’s security forces and republican guards might clash with troops loyal to renegade general Ali

Mohsen, protecting the protesters in Sanaa.

Demonstrators voiced skepticism about the latest Gulf plan aimed at halting Yemen’s descent into more violence and chaos.

The proposal of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) calls for Saleh to hand power to his vice president one month after signing an agreement. He would appoint an opposition leader to lead an interim cabinet tasked with preparing for presidential elections two months later, a Yemeni official said.

IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION The plan, presented on Thursday, also gives immunity from prosecution to Saleh, his family and aides — anathema to his foes,

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh looks at his watch during a rally in Sanaa. who would also have to tion of those who killed end protests under the our comrades.” proposal.

Saleh’s long-time “We won’t depend on Gulf and Western allies, any initiative that does- concerned that chaos in n’t demand that this Yemen will open more man leaves right opportunities for ambiaway,” said protester tious al Qaeda miliManea Abdullah. “We tants, are trying to broare sticking to the ker an orderly transidemands of the revolu- tion after three months tion for an immediate of protests against departure and prosecu- Saleh’s 32-year rule.

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One Thought - One Humanity

For the conclusions of these stories check out the April 21st - April 27th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Carol’s Daughter tapped Cassie, Solange Knowles and Selita Ebanks for a new multicultural ad campaign aimed at redefining what it means to be beautiful. The 3 ladies represent multiple ethnicities—Cassie as African-American and Filipina, Selita as Jamaican, Irish, Indian and African and Solange as AfricanAmerican and French Creole. Also, their hair textures range from sleek tresses to waves to natural curls; their skin tones from olive to brown. The company’s goal is to appeal to a “millennial generation, which is basically a colorless society,” said Steve Stoute. “They don’t see color anymore. They’ll say, ‘my father’s black, my mother’s white’…What we’re doing now is moving into a polyethnic space – women who are made up of several ethnicities. If you ask them what they are, they’re going to use a lot of different words to describe themselves.

That’s in line with the Census data coming out — people are checking much more than two boxes.”

Bobby Brown and his fiancee/manager Alicia Etheridge are expecting another baby. This will be child number 6 for Brown.

DAMN!!.Bobby and Alicia’s first child is named Cassius and Bobby is happy to be a dad again. “I try to keep my kids close,” Bobby said. The new baby will join siblings Landon (b.1986) with Melika Williams; LaPrincia (b.1990) and Bobby Brown Jr. (b.1991) with Kim Ward; Bobbi Kristina (b.1993) with his exwife Whitney Houston; and Cassius Brown (b.2009) with Alicia.

Word on the street is that Paula Patton & Robin Thicke’s mar-

riage may be in trouble.

Apparently the couple have been growing apart due to their busy work schedules which means that they hardly see each other, and, Paula is worried about Robin’s wandering eye and jumpoffs! The couple welcomed their first child, Julian Fuego a year ago. We hope this is just a bad rumor, they are one of my favorite couples!

Eric Benet’s camp is denying a New York Post Page Six item that claims the self-professed former sex addict was at Cheetah’s Gentleman’s Club in Times Square last week and gave lots of attention to a stripper who looked exactly like his ex-wife Halle Berry.

The dancer, “Jordan,” said that Benet initially said his name was “Edgar,” but soon after revealed his true identity: “I said, ‘You’re Halle Berry’s ex-husband,’ and he said, ‘Once upon a time,’ and smiled.” A rep for the R&B singer dismissed the story, shouting, “This is cheap gossip! We’re not going to answer these questions.” As previously reported, Benet announced his engagement to Prince’s exwife, Manuela Testolini, earlier this year.

Keke Wyatt plans on increasing her musical catalog by releasing a new album this summer. The set will be her third release since her debut album ‘Soul Sista’ in 2001. Wyatt, known for her duet with Avant on “My First Love” and “Nothing In This World,” has hopes of continuing her duet success formula by working with American Idol winner Ruben Studdard. She and Studdard have completed a rendition of Alexander O’Neal & Cherelle’s classic hit song “Saturday Love” as the first single for the album. The untitled

album will be Wyatt’s second release in the past year after her sophomore album was delayed for almost ten years due to record label conflicts. In related news, Wyatt tells UrbanBridgez.com that she and Avant are in works for their longawaited duets album.

Lil Wayne’s name became linked to a rape allegation last month after a woman accused producer Noel “Detail” Fisher of sexually assaulting her during a studio session where Weezy was present. But a month after the unnamed woman claimed that she was held against her will and sexually abused, the beatsmith is speaking out against her allegations. According to TMZ, Detail, who resides in Canyon Country, Calif., is shooting down her claims, labeling her lawsuit “baseless” and deeming her actions as acts of extortion. The producer’s lawyer, Josh Glotzer, says the woman is “unfortunately abusing the legal process to extort money from Mr. Fisher,” and that he plans to file a malicious prosecution claim after the civil suit is dismissed.

Mya says goodbye to the problems of yesterday on “Rear View Mirror” featuring Sean Paul, one of the tracks included on her new album K.I.S.S. (Keeping It Sexy & Simple), released in Japan on April 20. On the empowering record, the “Dancing With the Stars” alum looks toward the future by hopping in her whip and driving away from her past life. “In my rear view mirror I don’t see nothing but smoke/ Everything’s much clearer when I push that metal into the floor/ I’ve got to go,” she sings on the chorus.

Kimora Lee Simmons slams reports that she’s starving herself Model-turned-designer Kimora Lee Simmons has fired back at reports she’s starving herself to stay thin.

The former wife of rap mogul Russell Simmons is outraged by rumors she’s drastic dieting and insists she’d never take dangerous steps to look good because she’d be setting a bad example for her kids.

“I’m not one of those ‘superstar moms’ who lost all their baby weight in a week. So, yes, I’m upset about the innuendo because I just can’t win. In the past year there have been numerous rumors about my weight - first I was attacked for being a size 10, now I’m anorexic?

“I’m a real woman and I represent real women. I believe that people are beautiful at any size, color or weight. The way this article was promoted is unfortunate - what a silly way to sensationalize a story, especially when you know young people will be reading it. There must be more accountability in reporting, especially considering the far reaching impact on girls and young women who are exposed to this kind of misleading information on a daily basis.

What kind of example is that setting for them?”

In a statement, she writes, “I just wanted to take a moment to address a story about my recent weight loss that began circulating today. This story led people to believe that I shed 25 lbs by not eating, which is completely ridiculous.

“I am a mother of three young children, two of whom are girls and I’m trying to raise them with a healthy body image. It’s taken me almost a year to lose close to 25 lbs and I did it through healthy diet and exercise. So yes, I’m a bit smaller, but s t i l l c u r v y and 100% healthy and proud of my body and the time it has taken me to undergo this personal journey for myself.

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CDC study links bullying with family violence

By LAUREN KEIPER BOSTON — While bullies and their victims traffic in threats, taunts and fights in the schoolyard, a report on Thursday showed those on both sides are also more likely to live with violence at home.

Violent family encounters were most common among youth who identified as someone who has both bullied and been victimized, the report said.

The association was among findings from a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which along with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health analyzed data from middle and high school students across the state.

Massachusetts has been at the forefront of the bullying debate since the widely reported suicides of 15-yearold Phoebe Prince of South Hadley last year and 11-yearold Carl Joseph WalkerHoover of Springfield in 2009.

The state passed anti-bullying legislation in May 2010 which prohibits bullying in school and online, and mandates school-developed bullying prevention and intervention plans.

The CDC analysis, published online in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for April 22, confirmed some well-documented associations with bullying — an increased likelihood of suicide, substance abuse or poor grades.

But using the Massachusetts data, the CDC also found

bullies and their victims reported being physically hurt by a family member or witnessing violence at home significantly more often than people who said they had not been bullied.

CDC’s report established a link between bullying and events outside school.

“A comprehensive approach that encompasses school officials, students and their families is needed to prevent bullying among middle school and high school students,” the CDC researchers said.

The report, which CDC said was the first state-specific analysis of risk factors and bullying, also noted that significant numbers of bullies and bully-victims said they had recently used alcohol or drugs.

An anti-bullying billboard hangs on a building in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

No evidence coffee ups risk of high blood pressure

By GENEVRA PITTMAN Despite earlier concerns, downing lots of coffee doesn’t seem to increase the risk of high blood pressure, according to a new report — but the evidence isn’t conclusive.

High blood pressure has been linked to heart disease, stroke, and a shorter life expectancy, and some scientists have suggested that coffee might fuel the problem.

The new report pools data from six previous studies that included more than 170,000 people in total. For each study, scientists surveyed the participants to find out how many cups of coffee they drank each day — from less than one to more than five — and then followed them for up to 33 years.

Just more than one in five participants eventually developed high blood pressure, according to the findings, which appear in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

But the chance of being diagnosed with the condition was no different between people who said they chugged more than five cups of coffee per day and those who drank very little.

Still, the report “is not saying there’s no risk” to drinking lots of java, Dr. Liwei Chen, who worked on the study, told Reuters Health.

Chen, from the Louisiana State University School of

Public Health in New Orleans, said more data would be needed to draw a firm conclusion.

What’s more, people who drank between one and three cups per day had a slightly higher risk of high blood pressure than those who drank less — a result the researchers couldn’t explain.

Dr. Lawrence Krakoff, who studies high blood pressure at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, said that the question about coffee’s effects “keeps popping

up” among both his patients and fellow doctors.

But it has yet to be answered completely, said Krakoff, who was not involved in the new work.

“I don’t think of coffee as a risk factor for” high blood pressure, he told Reuters Health. However, “If people are drinking 12 cups a day and aren’t sleeping, I assume that that’s an important issue.”

Dr. Gary Curhan, who worked on one of the studies Chen and her colleagues

looked at, agreed.

“There may be other adverse effects to (drinking) large amounts of caffeine,” Curhan, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told Reuters Health.

But based on the existing data, he said there is no reason to believe that drinking coffee would lead to high blood pressure.

Chen’s team could not compare the effect of drinking caffeinated versus decaffeinated coffee, as some of the studies they analyzed

had participants report both together or only asked about caffeinated coffee.

And the relationship between coffee drinking and blood pressure is further complicated by the possibility that it doesn’t work the same way in everyone, she said.

“People with a different genetic background may react to coffee differently,” Chen said. “For some people maybe it’s safe to drink a lot of coffee, but not for other people.”

Half of men feel worse after prostate removal

By KERRY GRENS A new study shows nearly half of men feel worse after having their prostate gland removed due to cancer, although three-quarters would do it again given the same circumstances.

Tens of thousands of men each year undergo the surgery, called prostatectomy, and may suffer longterm consequences to their quality of life, in particular sexual function.

In the current study, published in the Journal of Urology, researchers asked 236 men how they were doing up to 1 year after surgery.

Three out of four had regained their physical and mental well-being and had no more problems with incontinence than before the operation. But just one out of four

had recovered his ability to have intercourse.

The research team, led by Dr. Adrian Treiyer at St. Antonius Hospital in Eschweiler, Germany, also teased out the circumstances that were tied to better recovery.

Men were more likely to get their quality of life back if they had a type of surgery that leaves the nerves controlling erection intact, for instance, and if they participated in a rehabilitation program.

While the study doesn’t prove that rehab is helpful — men who did better might be likely to join such a program, for example — the possibility is worth noting, said Dr. Mark Litwin, a urologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

Rehab programs, which are relatively new in prostate cancer care, can include talk therapy or a drug regimen to treat erectile dysfunction.

“It’s not just about recovery of the penis and its ability to become erect, but helping men come to terms with being a cancer survivor,” Litwin told Reuters Health.

Both physical well-being, such as experiencing less pain, and mental health, including feeling good and functioning well socially, were tied to remaining continent and not encountering any complications after surgery.

“Some of these things, no one can control, such as baseline PSA,” Litwin said. “But some they can. Patients can doctor-shop and find the best care.”

In the type of surgery the

patients had, surgeons make a cut between the belly button and the pubic bone to get to the prostate, which is then removed entirely — so-called radical prostatectomy.

About one in six American men get prostate cancer at some point in their life, according to the American Cancer Society.

Some may get radiation treatment instead, or they may have their tumor destroyed by a kind of surgery that uses freezing liquids. Others may choose just to be monitored — socalled watchful waiting — to see if the cancer grows slowly enough to be safely ignored.

All of these strategies have problems of their own, and the right option depends on both the cancer and the patient’s values.

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Trenton drive-by shooting of mother, 3 year old prompts police crackdown, anti-loitering campaign

By ALEX ZDAN TRENTON - City and police officials vowed a crackdown in the West Ward Thursday after a young mother and her daughter 3-year-old were wounded in a drive-by shooting.

The mother and child were innocent heading bystanders home from a neighborhood corner store Wednesday night when the gunfire began, police said.

“When young people cannot go into stores with babies in their arms, there’s something wrong,” Mayor Tony Mack said at a city hall news conference Thursday afternoon.

Mack said he is considering aggressive crime measures such as stopping pedestrians on the street to ask them where they are going, and an anti-loitering campaign to combat growing violence in the area as the calendar moves toward summer.

“I guarantee you that our criminal incidents will be going up in warmer weather as school gets out,” said police Capt.

Fred Reister.

Wednesday night, Brandy Riggins, 21, of Trenton, was shot once in the buttocks, while her daughter, Aziyah Shrieves, was hit once in the right arm. Aziyah sustained additional injuries around her mouth, police said.

“More than likely, the baby was injured when she was dropped or fell to the ground,” Reister

A Trenton Police officer stands watch at a Passaic Street house, which has a bullet hole in the window, at the scene of an apparent drive-by shooting the previous night that left a mother and her child wounded. said. rated the area searching Reister and acting for evidence and witCapt. Steve Varn, who nesses, police said. heads the detective Riggins’ sister bureau, said police have declined to comment on few leads on the shoot- the shooting outside the ers and are unsure of family’s home on the motive for the crime. Passaic Street Thursday “Right now, we don’t morning. know who was the But others in the intended target,” Varn neighborhood were said. shocked at the violence.

According to police, Luciana Vargas, who Riggins and Aziyah works at the Peralta grostepped into the line of cery and served the fire after leaving a store mother and child secaround 8:45 p.m. onds before they were Wednesday. The shooter shot, said the victims or shooters fired numer- were “good people” who ous rounds from the car had no problem with traveling on Passaic anyone.

Street near its intersecRob Peralta, manager tion with Calhoun of the store, was not Street, then took off. working Wednesday “Right now, we night. He heard from his believe the shots all employees Thursday came from one vehicle,” morning that the mothVarn said. “We don’t er and child had stepped have any information out of the store, were that it was a gunbattle.” struck, and started Mack said he visited screaming. the victims’ anguished “It’s my first time lisfamily. tening to things like “I spoke to them at that,” he said. length, I let them know Alejandro Rodriguez, how concerned I was who works at the liquor this took place,” the store across the street mayor said. from the shooting, Detectives have satu- described gunfire fol-

Aziyha Shrieves and her mother Brandy Riggins lowed by commotion and of the shooting, Varn that they are about to a heavy police presence. said. A police camera commit a crime.”

“In a second, it was one block away from the The shooting is one of like 10 cars over there, shooting was not func- several reported in the police cars,” he said. tioning at the time, but city’s West Ward since Yet up and down the one at Calhoun and March. Police have said Passaic Street, many Passaic was. some of the shootings residents remained “The camera pans, so are related to a feud tight-lipped. Even those it didn’t capture the inci- within the Sex Money seated on the stoop out- dent,” Varn said.

Murder set of the Bloods side Riggins’ home had Mack and acting street gang, but are no interest in talking police director Joseph unsure if the drive-by is about the shooting or its Juniak have discussed connected. Patrols in the aftermath. “all possible options” to West Ward have been The same seemed true reduce violence, Mack stepped up as police for police. Detectives said. This included ask- focused more attention canvassed the area ing the New Jersey State on the area. searching for witnesses Police to assist with “We’ve identified Thursday afternoon, patrols, a frequent Mack some hot spots in the hoping citizens who saw campaign pledge since city, and that’s definitely the shooting would his first run for mayor one of them,” Mack said come forward. in 2006. of the West Ward.

“There were a large Some of the options “There’s a lot of connumber of people out at suggested, such as flict going on out there, that scene,” Reister said. detaining people walk- unfortunately, and “However, we were ing through certain that’s largely due to the unable to obtain any neighborhoods or clos- drug trade,” Reister information from wit- ing liquor stores, could said. nesses.” be legally problematic.

Reister mentioned a Video from several “You just can’t stop home invasion two cameras in the area is and frisk people,” hours after the shooting under review, but appar- Reister said. “We have to that was thwarted by an ently all that was cap- believe and have some anonymous tipster and tured was the aftermath reasonable suspicion led to two arrests.

N.J. considers bids to operate Turnpike, Parkway tolls as privatization vote nears

By MIKE FRASSINELLI TRENTON - Toll collectors on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway are overpaid, unskilled laborers who get cushy bonuses and extra money even if they phone in sick or take a

vacation day.

Toll collectors are the backbone of New Jersey’s two major toll roads, and deal with impatient customers, inhale fumes and risk their lives every time they step into the booth.

These two diametrically different descriptions of the job were

given to the Assembly State Government Committee today as the state next week considers privatizing toll collection.

State Transportation Commissioner Jim Simpson, who chairs the authority that oversees the Turnpike and Parkway, told the committee that even

though 70 percent of travelers pay their tolls electronically, it costs the authority almost double the amount to collect remaining tolls manually.

“In a nutshell, manual toll collection is simply way too expensive,” Simpson said in Trenton.

He said the authori-

ty is hamstrung by high salaries and “arcane” work rules, such as a provision requiring two collectors be at a booth at all times.

Toll collectors with six years experience make around $65,000 a year, and about 90 percent of toll takers are at that upper

range, Simpson said.

A new private company would pay the toll collectors about $25,000 a year.

“While we feel a responsibility to our work force, we recognize a higher commitment to our toll-paying customers, investors and the public at large,” Simpson said.

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Movie review: ‘Madea’s Big Happy Family’

By FRANK SCHECK LOS ANGELES — In this era of tough love, it’s no wonder that audiences eat up Tyler Perry’s Madea character. In the prolific multihyphenate filmmaker’s latest opus featuring his signature figure, the tough old broad manages to set every dysfunctional character straight through sheer force of will and a mouth that just won’t stop.

“Madea’s Big Happy Family,” based on one of Perry’s successful touring stage plays, is a return to the broad comedy that marked many of his early features.

While it marks an artistic regression from his recent, more multi-dimensional efforts, particularly the dramatically ambitious “For Colored Girls,” there’s little doubt that it will satisfy his target audience.

The story begins on a dra-

matic note, with matriarch Shirley (Loretta Devine) being informed of a dire cancer diagnosis. But that’s immediately followed by a raucously funny scene featuring the familiar character Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis) enjoying a toke in a hospital restroom.

That’s emblematic of the film’s rude, vulgar humor, which relies heavily on nasty insults. The one most frequently evoked is “ghetto,” used as an epithet to describe any sort of low-class behavior.

The dying Shirley wishes to inform her grown children of her condition at a group dinner, but the relentless quarreling among the siblings and their assorted spouses and lovers keeps getting in the way.

Son Byron (Shad “Bow Wow” Moss), recently released from jail, is considering a return to drug dealing to satisfy his new girlfriend’s (Lauren London)

Loretta Devine, left, and Tyler Perry are shown in a scene from ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family.’ demand to be “kept” and to support the baby he had with his endlessly demanding ex (Teyana Taylor).

Daughter Tammy (Natalie Desselle Reid) endlessly harangues her henpecked husband (Rodney Perry) and is unable to discipline her two bratty sons. And upscale real-estate broker Kimberly (Shannon Kane) continually rails against her loving hus-

band (played by Old Spice pitchman Isaiah Mustafa who, much to the probable disappoint of his female fans, keeps his shirt on throughout.)

Indeed, with the exception of the devoutly religious Shirley and, of course, Madea, nearly all of the female characters on display are depicted as ungrateful harridans who constantly

abuse the men in their lives.

That, combined with the filmmaker’s relish for dressing in drag, would seem to indicate some personal issues that need to be worked out.

It all leads to a dramatic revelation of a long-buried family secret, with several of the characters airing their dirty laundry on, where else, “The Maury Povich Show.”

And, as is common in Perry’s films, there’s a climactic church service featuring a stirring gospel number.

The film is best appreciated as a showcase for the hugely popular titular character, with Perry tearing into the role with hugely entertaining comic gusto.

From driving a car through the window of a fast-food restaurant after being denied service to slapping an insolent adolescent boy silly, the oversized, take-no-prisoners grandma’s actions were met with roaring approval by the audience.

Jury to see Jackson autopsy photos at doctor trial Eddie Murphy’s ‘A Thousand Words’ due in January LOS ANGELES — The jury in the upcoming trial of Michael Jackson’s personal doctor will be allowed to see autopsy photos of the “King of Pop,” a Los Angeles judge ruled on Thursday.

Jackson, 50, is fully clothed in one of photos and nude in the other one. Prosecutors in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray want to show the pictures to demonstrate the singer was healthy at the time of his death.

Murray’s defense team had objected to jurors seeing the autopsy pictures, which they called “gruesome” and bound to produce emotional reactions.

“They’re not gruesome.

They’re not graphic. They’re not inflammatory,” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said of the autopsy photographs.

The ruling came two weeks before opening statements due on May 9 in the trial of Murray, the personal physician for Jackson who was with the “Thriller” singer when he died.

Murray has denied he caused Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009, by giving him the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid combined with a number of sedatives.

Pastor also ruled in favor of a prosecution request to play video clips from the last two days of Jackson’s stage rehearsals. The clips show Jackson rehearsing the songs “The Way You Make Me Feel” and “Earth Song”.

Some of the rehearsal footage was turned into the posthumous hit film “This Is It.” The judge said the footage of Jackson was “relevant as to his demeanor.” Murray’s attorneys had argued that the rehearsal footage was edited and misleading.

Deputy district attorney David Walgren said he wanted the jurors to see the clips because they show Jackson as an “energetic” man who “fully intends in participating in this tour (and) fully intends on living out his

life.”

Jackson at the time was days away from beginning a series of comeback concerts in London.

Pastor said he will also allow testimony from women with whom prosecutors say Murray, who was married at the time, had a “personal and social relationship.” But the judge did not want jurors to hear about Murray meeting two of the women at strip clubs.

The judge also ruled against a defense request to delve into Jackson’s troubled finances and numerous lawsuits against him. Pastor said he did not want the trial to become a “salacious analysis of personal financial issues.”

Murray faces up to four years in prison if convicted.

A release date has finally been set for Eddie Murphy’s long-delayed family fantasy comedy “A Thousand Words,” which stars the actor as a man who discovers he only has 1,000 words left to speak before he dies.

Murphy shot the film three years ago with director Brian Robbins, whom he previously worked with in “Norbit” and “Meet Dave.”

But when DreamWorks split from Paramount, “Words” was one of the two films the company couldn’t afford to take with them (the other being “The Lovely Bones”), according to Dark Horizons.

On top of that, the film had disastrous test screenings which led to repeated delays, while the sheer cost of the project (and reshoots on it earlier this year) meant that it couldn’t be dumped directto-disc, the website continues.

The film, therefore, will be released in theaters – on January 13th 2012.

Dark Horizons adds: “A mid-January slot, though not as dismissible as it used to be, is still considered something of a dumping ground. Should the studio stick to that date, one hopes (but doubts) there’ll be something salvageable in it to make it worth watching.”

DAILY CHALLENGE MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2011

Jesse L. Martin less optimistic about his Marvin Gaye biopic Jesse L. Martin fears his plans to produce and star in a biopic about music icon Marvin Gaye are not meant to be – because it’s proving “impossible” to bring to fruition.

The former “Law & Order” star has been attached to the film “Sexual Healing” since 2008, when he signed on to help The Sopranos’ James Gandolfini bring the singer’s life story, adapted from Steven Turner’s book Trouble

Man, to the big screen.

Director Julien Temple took charge of the movie in February, following previous filmmakers Cameron Crowe and F. Gary Gray, but the project has been hit by a series of problems and delays due to difficulties clearing the rights to Gaye’s music.

And Martin admits he’s no longer holding out for the role.

He tells WENN, “(Making

the film is) impossible. It’s just not… I don’t know (if it’ll happen). I mean, I just sort of threw that one up to the universe and said, ‘If it’s meant to be, it’ll be’, but it seems impossible to put together, it really does. It just hasn’t happened.”

“Sexual Healing” is just one of several Gaye biopics in the pipeline, but Martin insists all of the films have faced the same licensing

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issues and he’s now contemplating other ways to tell the story.

He says, “There’s five or six (other Gaye projects) in the works. I actually feel less pressure. There’s so many stories out there trying to happen that it just seems like it might be impossible.

Nobody’s done it yet. We haven’t done it, nobody else has either, so there seems to be a reason you haven’t seen that story on the big screen yet. I don’t know what it is, but we’re gonna have to change tactics and do it on stage, or something like that.

That would actually be a great idea! So we’ll see, we’ll see.”

Viral video star Antoine ‘hide your wife’ Dodson arrested CHICAGO — Kevin Antoine Dodson, star of a viral Internet song warning neighbors to watch out for a sexual predator, was arrested and charged with marijuana possession after being stopped for speeding, police said on Saturday.

Dodson was charged with second degree marijuana possession, speeding, failure to have liability insurance and other minor charges after

police stopped him early Saturday in Huntsville, Huntsville Police spokesman Dr. Harry Hobbs told Reuters.

He was released later on Saturday after posting a $1,340 cash bond, Hobbs said.

“Let me be the first to tell it!!” Dodson tweeted to his 33,000 Twitter followers after his release. “So just got out of jail off a weak charge

... Got pulled over in my Benz and they got me ... I never been in jail except that time in grade school. You remember!!!”

Dodson, who lives in Huntsville, which is about 80 miles north of Birmingham, came to prominence after millions of people watched his response to an NBC television affiliate in summer 2010 after his sister was attacked in their home.

The interview was turned into a song “Bed Intruder” by New York musicians Evan and Michael Gregory that has sold thousands of copies on iTunes and earned Dodson royalties.

“Obviously we have a rapist in Lincoln Park,” Dodson told the television station.

“He’s climbing in your windows. He’s snatching your people up trying to rape them, so you all need to hide

your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband because they are raping everybody out here.”

Dodson chastised the sexual predator who attacked his sister in her bed — an attack he reportedly thwarted.

“You don’t have to come and confess that you did it,” Dodson told the NBC affiliate.

“We are looking for you. We are going to find you. I’m letting you know now.”

Oprah flooded with requests to Jennifer Hudson: ‘I won’t do put cancelled ABC soaps on OWN Playboy, that’s just not for me’ Oprah Winfrey had to take to her YouTube page yesterday to tell folks she cannot be Captain Save-aSoap.

Once ABC announced that its long-running soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” would be cancelled, fans of the shows began bombarding the talk show queen with requests for her to air them on OWN. Winfrey made a video explaining why she just can’t.

“I understand what it feels like to have a show you love off the air, I appreciate that you all think I could save the soaps,” says Oprah. “But here is the bone marrow truth. The soaps have been an institution in broadcast history and television because they had the support of the audience.”

Winfrey then lays out the unfortunate ratings statistics.

“Believe me, if there was a dime left to be made from

them on broadcast television it would still be happening,” she continued. “I will not be taking on the responsibility of trying to revive an institution that for all intent and all purpose indicates that that time has come for it to be over. So thank you for believing I could save them. But I really can’t.”

“All My Children” has been on the air since 1970, and “One Life to Live” debuted in 1968. Both were given the ax last week.

Beyonce fights obesity with Michelle Obama Beyonce is touching lives once again and for a positive reason. The Grammy Award winning artist is featured on the first lady’s workout video targeting youth in junior high across the nation.

“Let’s Move! Flash Workout” video is part of the National Middle School Association and the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation. As a part

of the campaign, students at participating schools will join to perform Beyonce’s prechoreographed dance routine on May 3.

“I am excited to become part of this effort that addresses a public health crisis,” Beyonce said in a statement. “First Lady Michelle Obama deserves credit for tackling this issue directly, and I applaud the NAB Edu-

cation Foundation for trying to make a positive difference in the lives of our schoolchildren.”

Jennifer Hudson was asked if she’d ever pose for Playboy now that she’s slimmed down. Her answer: “That’s just not me.”

The singer dropped 80 pounds within months of giving birth to her son David Jr. in 2009. She decided to lose weight and get healthy after feeling ashamed when friends didn’t notice she was pregnant with the baby.

She tells Britain’s Daily Mirror, “I love my new figure. All the fabulous clothes I can wear and get sent, I joke that I’m like a walking billboard now.

“But I won’t be taking my clothes off – no way at all.

Beyonce and Rihanna can have that. I like to cover up more. I won’t do Playboy.

Playboy can call, and wait.

That’s just not me.”

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Amazon, eBay wage costly battle for shoppers

By PHIL WAHBA When Amazon.com and eBay report quarterly results next week, investors will try to determine how well the e-commerce rivals’ expensive fight for shoppers is paying off.

They will want to see if revenue is growing fast enough to justify the costs.

Amazon has been moving further from its traditional business selling physical goods online to take on tech rivals like Apple Inc and Google Inc in areas such as selling digital entertainment and storing data.

EBay is best known for its online auction website and PayPal, a payment system, but it has been making deals to compete more directly with Amazon, such

as its $2 billion purchase in May of e-commerce services firm GSI Commerce. That deal is aimed at getting more retailers to sell to their customers using eBay. Amazon’s growth — its sales nearly doubled between 2008 and 2010 — has come at a cost: shrinking operating margin. Amazon has made no bones about it, warning investors to expect pressure on its profitability for some time yet.

The question for investors will be how much pressure.

“They (Amazon) are investing for the future and it’s just a matter of how long this investment process will take,” said Michael Koskuba, a senior portfolio manager at Victory Capital Management, which has owned Amazon stock since March 2009.

shares Amazon plunged 9 percent on January 27 when it reported a lower operating margin over the holiday quarter.

Amazon has been challenging rivals from Apple to Barnes & Noble Inc and many others with low prices on e-books, cheap shipping and offering customers the ability to store music on its servers in a “music locker.”

A stellar sales performance by Amazon would mollify investors worried about the impact on profits, but a so-so performance could send shares down.

“If Amazon has a strong revenue quarter, people will be more willing to overlook margins,” said Cowen & Co analyst Jim Friedland. “If they come in close to expectations

(on sales) but margins are weaker, that would absolutely provoke a sell-off.”

Ultimately, revenue will be the barometer of how well Amazon is doing at fending off a resurgent eBay. “Revenue reflects how much market share they still have to gain,” said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis.

On average, Wall Street analysts expect Amazon to report a first-quarter profit of 61 cents per share on $9.52 billion in sales, down from 66 cents a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. They expect eBay’s profit to come to 46 cents per share on revenue of $2.48 billion, compared to 42 cents per share a year earlier.

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eBay’s revenue growth, Investors will most likely be swayed by how much merchandise is sold on eBay’s auction site as well as the number of new PayPal accounts.

But one analyst said eBay would probably only get punished for weakness, rather than rewarded for strength.

“If eBay falls short, it’s more about stronger than expected competition from Amazon, but if it rises more than expected, it’s more about the (better) overall economy,” Cowen’s Friedland said.

Friedland is expecting gross merchandise volume, a closely watched measure of the total value of goods sold on eBay’s marketplaces, to be up 6 percent increase, excluding vehicles.

PayPal has led the company’s revenue

growth for years, while its marketplaces unit has matured. PayPal accounted for just over one third of sales last year but its revenues rose 23 percent, while the marketplaces business sales were up only 8 percent.

Amazon shares trade at a 2011-earnings-toprice multiple of 55, far above most store chains as well as eBay, Apple and Google, suggesting the stock has downside.

EBay shares trade a future earnings to price ration of 16.4 and analysts say that means it may have more upside than Amazon’s if its results impress investors. They have slipped 10 percent since hitting a yearly high in February.

“EBay is coming back. If you want ecommerce exposure, buy eBay.” BCG’s Gillis said.

Touchscreens drive profit at chipmakers as PC sales slow BANGALORE — Rising sales of smartphones and tablets boosted profit at touchscreen chipmakers Cypress Semiconductor and Synaptics Inc even as their traditionally strong PC market continued to slow down.

Cypress Semiconductor gave a blowout forecast for the current quarter as it expects its touchscreen business to double in 2011.

What began as a niche market 15 years ago — when Silicon Valley-based Synaptics put a credit card-sized touchpad on the Apple Mac Book — is expected to be worth $9 billion in the next couple of years as touchscreens graduate from handsets and tablets to cameras, GPS devices and car dashboards.

Non-PC revenue — which consists of mainly touchscreen

chips — grew over 87 percent for Synaptics in the third quarter, contributing 57 percent to its revenue, up from less than 35 percent a year ago.

Revenue from the company’s PC division fell 15 percent in the quarter, while overall revenue rose 23 percent to $142.2 million.

Global PC shipments declined 3.2 percent during the first quarter of 2011, according

to research firm IDC, hurt by tablets cannibalizing netbooks coupled with waning consumer enthusiasm and disruptions from the Japan earthquake.

Cypress expects the touchscreen chip segment, which became its largest business in the first quarter, to more than double in size by the end of the year.

“This is an emerging market with very little competition. So

there is hardly any pricing pressures on the company’s Truetouch line of products, which is driving the growth,” Wedbush analyst Betsy Van Hees told Reuters.

Cypress and Synaptics along with Atmel Corp control over 90 percent of the market for touchscreen chips, according to analysts.

IDC said tablet shipments grew 45.1 percent in the third-quar-

ter of 2010 — 90 percent of which was Apple Inc’s iPad. Apple sold almost 15 million iPads in 2010; RIM is expected to move 3 million PlayBooks in a similar window in 2011, according to 18 analysts polled by Reuters, even as HTC Corp, Motorola Inc, Samsung Electronics and LG electronics flood the market with tablets running Google Inc’s Android.

Samsung countersues Apple over iPhone, iPad

iPhone and iPad translate into more revenue for Samsung. Apple was Samsung’s secondbiggest client after Japan’s Sony Corp last year, bringing in around 6.2 trillion Korean won ($5.7 billion) of sales, and is widely expected to become Samsung’s top client this year.

The battle comes ahead of Samsung launching a new version of its successful Galaxy S smartphone next week in Korea, a key product for the world’s No.2 handset maker to meet its target of 60 million units of smartphone sales this year.

By MIYOUNG KIM SEOUL — Samsung Electronics Co. has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm’s iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung’s smartphones and tablets “slavishly” copied its products.

Apple filed a lawsuit last Friday alleging Samsung violated patents and trademarks of its iPhone and iPad, as the popular gadgets are being threatened by

the fast rise of rival devices based on Google’s free Android operating system.

The legal battle between Apple and Samsung could jeopardize business ties between the two technology companies, as the Cupertino, California-based company depends heavily on Samsung for components such as chips and LCD displays.

Operating systems have emerged as the key battlefield for dominance of the world’s smartphone market.

Android became the most popular smartphone software in the United States in the three months ending in February, ahead of Apple and Research in Motion, according to a recent survey by research firm comScore.

Samsung is one of the fastest growing smartphone makers on the back of the Android boom and has emerged as Apple’s strongest competitor in the tablet market, with models in three sizes.

Samsung said in a

statement Friday that Apple’s iPhone and iPad infringe Samsung’s 10 mobile technology patents and it called for Apple to stop infringing its technology and compensate the company.

Samsung said the suits, filed in South Korea, Japan and Germany, involved 10 alleged infringements of patents mainly involving power reduction during data transmission, 3G technology for reducing errors during data transmission, and wireless data

communication technology.

“Samsung is responding actively to the legal action taken against us in order to protect our intellectual property and to ensure our continued innovation and growth in the mobile communications business,” the statement said.

Global technology companies are locked in a web of litigation as they try to defend their shares of the booming tablet and smartphone market.

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Mattel handed stunning reversal in Bratz case

By NICHOLA GROOM SANTA ANA, California — Mattel Inc., after waging a sevenyear legal war against a tiny California company, suffered a surprise defeat on Thursday after a U.S. jury decided that MGA Entertainment Inc is the rightful owner of the once-billion dollar line of pouty-lipped Bratz dolls.

The astonishing loss for the world’s largest toy maker is the latest development in a case that began in 2004, when MGA’s line of dolls was all the rage among young girls.

Mattel accused Van Nuys, California-based MGA of stealing its designs by hiring away a key employee.

Mattel CEO Robert

Eckert sat stone-faced, staring straight ahead as the verdict was read on Thursday in a Santa Ana, California, federal courtroom. He said afterward that he was disappointed.

“We remain committed to protecting the intellectual property that is at the heart of business success,” Eckert said in an email.

Mattel will soon file a motion for a new trial, said Susan Estrich, a lawyer for the company.

MGA Chief Executive Isaac Larian, meanwhile, said the case has been a prolonged battle for his family. Larian, who left Iran alone at the age of 17, named two of the Bratz dolls after his children.

“It very well shows that in America, even huge corporations are

not above the law,” Larian told Reuters afterward.

A federal jury in 2008 ordered MGA and Larian to pay Mattel $100 million, but a federal appeals court threw out that verdict last year.

MGA then accused Mattel of gaining entry to toy fairs with false credentials to steal trade secrets and concealed evidence of these activities.

Jack Lerner, a professor at USC Gould School of Law who has followed the case, said this new evidence allowed MGA to present a “large canvas” to the jury on retrial, whereas the first trial was more circumscribed.

The jury found Mattel misappropriated trade secrets from MGA and awarded MGA $88.5 million in damages. The jury found that Mattel acted will-

fully, and after the verdict MGA attorneys said they would seek to triple the damages award.

The jury also decided MGA had interfered with Mattel’s contract with designer Carter Bryant, but awarded only $10,000 in damages to Mattel.

BMO Capital Markets analyst Gerrick Johnson said the failure to settle will go down as a “tremendously bad decision” by Mattel management.

“It means they wasted $400 million or so of shareholder money to get zero return,” Johnson said.

At the height of its popularity, in 2005 and 2006, the urban-chic Bratz dolls — sporting short skirts and flirty, midriff-baring tops — ate into Mattel’s market share and were viewed

as a threat to Mattel’s key Barbie franchise.

The craze died down, however. MGA has accused Mattel of costing the company hundreds of millions in litigation.

U.S. District Judge David Carter said the trade secrets damages could be lowered to $88.4 million due to a calculation mistake by the jury.

Mattel’s shares fell as much as 2.8 percent to a low of $26.17 after the verdict was announced, before bouncing back slightly to close one percent lower at $26.67. The stock had been roughly flat throughout the morning session.

The next court hearing has been set for May 24.

“This is not the final word in this case,” Estrich said.

AT&T touts benefits of T-Mobile deal to FCC

By JASMIN MELVIN WASHINGTON — AT&T Inc. told communications regulators its $39-billion bid to buy Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA would let it build high-speed wireless services reaching more than 97 percent of U.S. users.

In a filing seeking the Federal Communications Commission’s approval of the deal, AT&T, the No. 2 U.S. mobile carrier, argued that the merger would spur innovation and economic growth by allowing it to improve the quality of its services.

AT&T has already filed papers with the Justice Department seeking antitrust clearance for the deal that would make the combined operations the largest U.S. mobile service.

The promised network reach of 97.3 percent was slightly higher than the 95 percent promised when the deal was announced last month.

Fewer dropped calls, fewer failed call attempts and better data

throughput are among the benefits customers would experience from the merger, Joan Marsh, AT&T’s vice president of federal regulatory affairs, told reporters.

“It will address capacity constraints facing both companies that will enable the combined company to provide higher quality services in many urban, suburban and rural markets,” she said.

No. 3 mobile operator Sprint Nextel opposes the deal on the grounds that it would stifle innovation and competition.

Verizon Wireless, the current market leader, would become the second biggest mobile provider if the deal goes through. Verizon Wireless is a venture of Veri-

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Sprint argues that around 80 percent of U.S. mobile customers would be served by just two operators if the deal is approved.

“This kind of leverage could strangle competition and give AT&T the power to increase prices, threaten innovation critical to this industry and eliminate American jobs,” Vonya McCann, senior vice president of government affairs at Sprint, said in a state-

ment.

AT&T told reporters on Thursday that the transaction would promote, not diminish, competition.

“It’s absolutely inaccurate to say this is a duopoly,” said AT&T’s Marsh. “The market is fiercely competitive today and will remain fiercely competitive.”

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NFL: No cancellation deadline for games The NFL hasn’t set a deadline for when games would be canceled without a collective bargaining agreement.

“We don’t have a date by which the season is lost, or a date by which we have to move from 16 games to some other [number],” Eric Grubman, the league’s executive vice president for business operations, said Friday at a meeting with Associated Press Sports Editors. “Our intentions are to play a full season, and we will pull every lever that we can within the flexibility we have or can identify to make that happen.”

Even during the lockout, Grubman said, the NFL and teams are working so they will be ready to start the season quickly once a deal is reached.

“We have to be able to figure out: When you turn the key, is the gas going to flow?” he said. “Is everything going to work?”

The 2011 schedule released Tuesday has games beginning Sept. 8, but includes some room to maneuver. The NFL could still squeeze in 16 games with a delayed start by eliminating bye weeks and the week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. The league also has a deal with host Indianapolis to potentially hold the Super Bowl a week later, stemming

from the earlier possibility of playing an 18-game regular season.

But a delayed opening would remove a meaningful date from the schedule. For now, the first Sunday of the season falls on the 10-year anniversary of the Sept.

11 attacks, and part of the NFL’s business-asusual planning includes deciding how to commemorate that moment.

“Its national significance is profound,” Grubman said. “And the significance of competitive sports in America is also very profound.”

Predicting a deadline for when the schedule would have to be revised is difficult because it’s impossible to know how negotiations will play out. If at some point it becomes clear a deal is near, the NFL can begin setting plans for the upcoming season. If an agreement is reached unexpectedly and rapidly, there might be more lag time before the games start.

In that regard, the NFL also took safeguards to ensure the season would play out as fairly as possible.

According to Elias Sports Bureau, there never has been a week without a divisional game since the AFL-NFL merger. Yet there are two

scheduled this season, in Week 2 and Week 4.

Plus, every team that plays at home in Week 2 is on the road for Week 4, and every team on the road for Week 2 is at home in Week 4.

Thus, the NFL conceivably

could lose those games to a labor dispute and not lose the divisional battles they covet.

The league and teams have mostly turned to pay cuts to reduce expenses during the lockout. It costs about $40 million a week to run the business of the NFL, Grubman said.

Commissioner Roger Goodell, whose salary was slashed to $1 during the lockout, recently received a pay stub for 4 cents.

“There’s no possible way we could have a state of readiness and achieve the season quickly if we cut staff and the clubs cut staff,” Grubman said.

Executive vice president for

football operations Ray Anderson said it was feasible to play fewer than the normal four preseason games, but general managers and coaches would prefer at least two.

The two sides took a break from mediation earlier this week after four sessions and aren’t scheduled to reconvene until May 16.

Before then, U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson is expected to decide on the players’ request to immediately lift the lockout.

Goodell said he didn’t believe the labor impasse would be resolved through the courts.

“I recognize people try to get leverage in negotiations, but at the end of the day it’s going to come down to the negotiations,” said Goodell, who unexpectedly attended the final 10 minutes of the 90minute meeting. “The sooner we get to that negotiation, the better. I think the litigation has delayed those negotiations.”

The NFL has also filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union with the National Labor Relations Board. The board could announce in the next four to six weeks whether it will hear the complaint. NFL officials contend that alone would be significant: If the board start-

ed the process, Grubman said, that would indicate it believed the decertified NFL Players Association was still acting as a union, as the NFL has alleged.

In other news: • NFL officials said Goodell’s chat with Chad Ochocinco, which the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver tweeted about Thursday, was OK under guidelines restricting communication between the league and players because the conversation was purely social. Goodell said he had chatted with other players during the lockout and would continue to do so. But officials acknowledged the guidelines of what’s acceptable behavior by teams included some gray area. “The easy thing to do is say, ‘You can’t call,’” Grubman said.

• Adolpho Birch, the NFL’s senior vice president of labor policy and player development, emphasized that players would still be held accountable under the league’s personal conduct policy for infractions committed during the lockout.

• Grubman said season ticket sales were strong until CBA negotiations broke off in March and have slowed since, but teams have been particularly hurt by an inability to sign sponsorship deals during the lockout.

NBA executives say Kings to stay put for now It looks like the Sacramento Kings won’t become the Anaheim Royals after all — at least not next season.

Despite speculation that the Kings had all but packed their bags for Southern California, the NBA now believes the team will remain in Sacramento next season, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, citing league executives.

However, the Kings’ longterm future in Sacramento remains uncertain beyond 2011-12, the Times reported, citing league executives.

NBA spokesman Tim Frank told the Sacramento Bee he had no comment on the Los Angeles Times’ report.

Meanwhile, Kings coowner Joe Maloof says his family is still deciding

whether to move the franchise to Anaheim or stay in California’s capital city.

Maloof told The Associated Press on Friday that no decision has been made and he’s “as anxious as anybody” to find out if Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson can deliver on his promise for more sponsorship support and finally finance a plan for a new arena.

Johnson was wrapping up two days of meetings with NBA relocation committee chairman and Oklahoma City Thunder owner Clay Bennett and other league officials in Sacramento.

“We await the results of the fact-finding visit that the NBA made to Sacramento the past two days,” the Kings said Friday night in a statement. “We have not made a

decision with regards to relocation filing, and will not make that decision until we have more information from the NBA.” Anaheim’s mayor, Tom Tait, released a statement: “The NBA looks favorably on our city, our arena, and our fans. We are not going to comment on unconfirmed reports.”

At the NBA Board of Governors meetings last week in New York, the NBA granted the Kings an extension until May 2 to file paperwork requesting a relocation to Anaheim.

Johnson attended the April 14-15 meetings in New York, as well, to make a desperate pitch to keep the Kings in Sacramento, and he persuaded the league to dispatch a fact-finding team to

Sacramento.

Johnson believes he made another splash when they arrived. He presented $9.2 million — up from the $7 million he initially cited last week — in commitments for new advertising, ticket purchases and other financial support from regional businesses and other backers to prevent the team from moving to Anaheim.

Johnson, during a news conference Friday night in Sacramento, said, “We actually have a shot to win this game.”

But he also cautioned: “I don’t think we’re at a point where we can declare victory at all. I think our job is to keep fighting.”

The Kings likely won’t make a long-term commitment to staying in Sacramen-

to without a new arena.

After years of failed efforts to replace outdated Power Balance Pavilion, formerly called Arco Arena, Sacramento officials are using the extra time before the Maloof’s relocation application deadline to show the NBA that they can finally agree on a plan to finance a new facility.

A new arena feasibility plan — the major sticking point in past efforts — won’t be completed until a few weeks after the relocation deadline. A majority approval by owners would be needed to approve the move, and political leaders in Sacramento believe there’s still time to convince the NBA the Kings shouldn’t leave.

“I don’t think they have made up their minds,” city councilman Rob Fong said.

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Pacquiao primed for boxing title fight against Mosley

By GREG HEAKES HOLLYWOOD, California — Filipino pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will need find his killer instinct again if he is to become the first boxer to knock out former four-time world champion Shane Mosley.

The eight-division world champion Pacquiao, whose last fight was a 12-round unanimous decision over Antonio Margarito, will fight Mosley for the World Boxing Organization welterweight title May 7 at the MGM Grand hotel and casino.

“I want Manny to knock him out and I think we can,” said trainer Freddie Roach on Wednesday. “But Manny is a compassionate person at times. Like he wouldn’t hurt Margarito.

“He took it easy on him in the last two rounds and let him last the fight. Asked him if he is OK couple of times.

Manny doesn’t want anyone get hurt.”

Despite giving away 17pounds, Pacquiao bloodied and bruised the bigger Margarito’s face and then carried him through the late rounds.

Margarito had to have surgery to repair a broken eye socket but it could have been a lot worse if Pacquiao hadn’t let up.

“Boxing isn’t about killing each other,” Pacquiao said Wednesday at the Wild Card Boxing Club. “Boxing is entertainment. Entertaining people and making people happy.”

But Pacquiao says he also can’t afford to underestimate the 39-year-old Mosley who has gone 53 fights in his 18year career without being knocked out.

“He (Mosley) is determined to shock the world,” Pacquiao said. “He is a good fighter. I don’t underestimate him. I never say it is going to be an easy opponent.”

His camp says Pacquiao is in the midst of one of his best training sessions. Roach says Pacquiao is working as hard as ever for a title fight.

“His focus is great. There are less distractions this time. He is very motivated and has continued to push himself from day one,” Roach said.

Roach said their game plan is a simple one — box with Mosley early then wait for him to tire and make a mistake.

“Part of the game plan is to out box him and when we do break him down get him to the point where we can take him out,” Roach said.

“He can’t move like he used to for 12 rounds. I don’t think his legs are what they used to be. Somewhere in the fight he is going to have to stand flatfooted and fight with us. I think that is when we can catch him.”

Mosley has 46 wins and 39 knockouts but has lost twice and struggled to a draw in his past five fights. He fell to Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto in 2007 and unbeaten Floyd Mayweather in May before a draw against American Sergio Mora in September.

“He has a good chin,” Roach said of Mosley. “It (knockout) has never been done. He has fought every fighter in the world and some great fighters.

“He is a tough guy and I am sure he is going to come into the ring in the best shape he can.”

Pacquiao has won 13

fights in a row and the southpaw has not lost in nearly six years. In that span he has dispatched such stars as Oscar de la Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez.

“I have to be careful of his (Mosley) size and speed,” Pacquiao said. “I have to focus on his speed and counterpunch.

“When we get in the ring I can read what he is doing, his style and then adjust.

“He can still fight. He is not as slow as Margarito. He is fast and he moves fast. He is trying hard and he can do a lot of things.”

Pacquiao has also claimed world titles in eight weight classes. He always divides his time training for a fight between the Philippines and America but for this fight they decided to change things up a bit.

The biggest change was to spend five weeks, instead of three, training in Los Angeles. For the Margarito fight they spent five weeks training in the Philippines and three in Los Angeles.

“We started early for this training camp,” Pacquiao said.

Haye banks on power and speed to beat ‘boring’ Klitschko

By KIERAN MULVANEY WASHINGTON — Helped

by Muhammad Ali’s former trainer, Britain’s heavyweight WBA champion David Haye believes his speed and power will bring him victory in his unification bout with Wladimir Klitschko on July 2.

Haye will take on Ukrainian Klitschko, the WBO, IBO and IBF champion, in Hamburg’s football arena in a long-awaited showdown.

“I’ve got very quick feet, quick head movement and my punches are very rapid,” the 30-year-old Englishman, nicknamed ‘The Hayemaker’, told Reuters on Friday.

“I’ve got the type of speed he will not have had to encounter as a professional.

I’ve been working on my speed. I feel light and my punches are freakishly hard.

“I’ve always been able to knock people out with either hand, so if I catch him at any

time, he’s going to sleep.”

The London fighter has been training in Miami’s famed Fifth Street Gym, where Angelo Dundee trained Muhammad Ali, and he said the veteran cornerman has given him welcome words of wisdom.

“He came by yesterday and we had a good chat. He still knows his stuff,” Haye said.

“He was giving me some good advice, some tactics to implement when I get in the ring. I had a great game plan before, but Angelo’s tweaked it.”

Haye, who has a career record of 25-1 with 23 knockouts, predicted that Klitschko (55-3, 49 KOs) would try to make their mega-fight in Hamburg ugly and boring.

“He’s someone who can jab you to death for 12 rounds and is happy to do that,” the Londoner said. “He doesn’t let his right hand go, he doesn’t really pull the trigger.

“I think he’s going to come unstuck with that tactic when he fights me. I’m going to have to force him to fight.”

A Haye-Vladimir Klitschko clash has been on the cards for two years but twice the two sides failed to finalize a deal after disagreeing on how to split revenues.

Haye and Klitschko appeared to have struck a deal for the July 2 fight in early January, only for talks to fall apart when Klitschko

insisted on taking an interim bout with Britain’s Dereck Chisora on April 30.

When Klitschko canceled that fight, citing an injury, the meeting with Haye was swiftly re-arranged.

Haye was confident the difficulties in putting the fight together will be long forgotten once the bell rings.

“As long as I knock Wladimir out, nobody’s going to care how long the fight took to put together, who got what percentage, what the ticket sales were,” he said.

“That’s all irrelevant. The only thing that matters is when we’re both in that ring and the first bell rings and we go to war.”

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Police: Wife stabbed Brandon Marshall Dolphins Pro Bowl receiver Brandon Marshall was released from the hospital Saturday after what police said was a domestic-violence incident in which he was stabbed by his wife with a kitchen knife Friday in the Miami area.

Marshall’s wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, 26, was arrested Friday by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on a domestic-violence charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Nogami-Marshall was released from jail on a $7,500 bond Saturday afternoon.

Marshall underwent emergency surgery Saturday morning, league sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter. Marshall was discharged later in the day and “expected to make a full recovery,” according to his publicist, Denise White.

According to the police report, Nogami-Marshall told police she stabbed Marshall in self-defense.

Brandon Marshall initially told police he slipped and fell onto a broken glass vase, but according to the report, police found no blood or evidence to substantiate that statement and said both Marshall and his wife provided little information.

Marshall, 27, was taken to Broward General Hospital in Fort Lauderdale by car and underwent surgery late Friday night for a stab wound to the stomach, sources told

Schefter.

No vital organs were pierced in the incident, and doctors have told him that Marshall will be OK in two to three weeks, sources said.

“This is a very difficult time for Brandon and family, thankfully he will make a full recovery,” Marshall’s agents, Kennard McGuire and Harvey Steinberg, said in a statement. “We simply ask that his privacy is respected.”

Dolphins officials say they were told by the league their team doctor is allowed to see Marshall and consult with Marshall’s other doctors, despite the NFL lockout.

The Dolphins issued a statement saying: “We are aware of the report, and our thoughts are with Brandon at this time. We will look into the matter, but because we are not allowed to have any contact with any of our players we will refrain from making any further comment.”

Marshall became engaged to Nogami-Marshall while in Hawaii for the 2009 Pro Bowl.

Weeks after the engagement, according to police, the couple was seen hitting and kicking each other outside Marshall’s Atlanta condominium.

Charges of disorderly conduct against Marshall and Nogami-Marshall were dismissed the same day when both refused to testify.

They met while both were

students at Central Florida.

They live in Southwest Ranches, which is near the Dolphins’ complex in Davie.

On Friday, emergency services were called via 911 after Marshall was stabbed but were turned away when the dispatcher offered a ride to the hospital. Instead, Marshall was taken to the hospital in a car.

According to Broward County Sheriff’s public information officer Veda Coleman-Wright, Nogami-Marshall was arrested at the couple’s home. Nogami-Marshall did not drive Marshall to the hospital, according to police, but it was not clear who did or who called 911.

Coleman-Wright said no news conferences or further updates are scheduled for Saturday.

The NFL and the NFL Players’ Association said through their respective spokesmen that they couldn’t confirm any details of the situation.

“Sorry. Don’t have any info on it,” NFL executive Greg Aiello said in an email to ESPN. Marshall, acquired from the Broncos last April to become Miami’s biggest offensive threat, led the Dolphins in receiving yards in 2010 with 1,014 despite missing two games with a hamstring injury.

Marshall signed a fouryear deal worth $47.5 million, with $24 million guar-

anteed, when he joined the Dolphins.

But the offseason headlines didn’t stop at his trade and big contract for Marshall last year.

With the NFL’s lockout looming even then, Marshall said in August he would attempt to play in the NBA if games were canceled.

“Not pursuing — I’m going to be on an NBA team,” Marshall said. “Seriously.”

The NFL lockout entered its 43rd day on Saturday.

“There’s not going to be any football,” Marshall predicted in August. “If there’s a lockout, I have to find a job. I figure the Nuggets will be a better choice because of the welcome home cheer I’ll get — a couple of boos at first.

I’m gonna get with a basketball coach and get to work, prepare for the lockout.”

A fourth-round draft pick

by Denver out of Central Florida in 2006, Marshall was named to the Pro Bowl with the Broncos in 2008 and 2009.

But his top-flight performance was often overshadowed by turbulence in Denver.

Marshall was suspended by the team for the entire 2009 preseason after a series of behaviors detrimental to the team. The final straw came when a Denver television station filmed Marshall walking when his teammates were running, punt-

ing a football in protest and swatting away balls during a training-camp passing drill.

Marshall was also one of the instigators of the fight that led to teammate Darrent Williams’ shooting death on New Year’s Eve in 2006.

And Marshall’s history of arrests includes disorderly conduct, drunken driving, and a number of incidents of alleged domestic violence.

said Jackson, looking ahead to the World Championships in August. “I’m coming off being number one in the world, so I’m definitely the guy to beat this year, and

I’m excited.”

American Ivory Williams won the men’s 100 crown in 10.05 seconds, .08 ahead of runner-up Martial Mbanjock of France.

Campbell-Brown claims Kansas crown LAWRENCE, Kansas — Reigning Olympic women’s 200-meter champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica has won the 200m crown at the Kansas Relays, where Lauryn Williams and Bershawn Jackson also took titles.

Campbell-Brown, who won Olympic 200 gold at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics, captured the Kansas title three weeks shy of her 29th birthday in 22.95 seconds with a 2.0m/sec tailwind. Porscha Lucas was second in 23.06.

Campbell-Brown is already thinking about the 2012 London Games, where she will be looking to become the first woman to win the 200 in three

straight Olympics.

“It’s a long season still ahead,” she said. “I’m patient, and I’m just going to keep training hard and I’m sure the next race will be better than this one.”

Williams, the 2005 world champion and a 2004 Olympic runner-up in the 100, won the women’s 100 in a wind-aided 11.10 seconds with fellow American Miki Barber second in 11.17.

Williams, who took a break from competition for most of last season, was racing in Kansas for the first time.

“I really feel refreshed,” she said. “I feel like this might extend the life that I can compete in track and

field for a few years. Who knows?”

U.S. star Jackson, the reigning Diamond League 400 hurdles champion, took his specialty in 48.98, beating runner-up Justin Gaymon by 1.30 seconds.

For Jackson, it was a sixth Kansas Relays 400m hurdles title.

“This was the first meet that put me on the radar,” Jackson said. “I’m just excited to come back every year and be successful. I never took a loss here, and I want to keep it that way until I retire.”

He also hopes the meeting will be a springboard to a successful World Championships season.

“I definitely want a gold,”

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2011

PACQUIAO PRIMED FOR FIGHT AGAINST MOSLEY

Filipino pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will the first boxer to knock out former four-time world need find his killer instinct again if he is to become champion Shane Mosley.

SEE PAGE 22.

HAYE BANKS ON POWER AND SPEED TO BEAT ‘BORING’ KLITSCHKO Helped by Muhammad Ali’s former trainer, Britain’s heavyweight WBA champion David Haye believes his speed and power will bring

him victory in his unification bout with Wladimir Klitschko on July 2.

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