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New York City livery cab drivers, often called to to ignore, are being armed with bulletproof vests, crime-ridden neighborhoods that yellow taxis tend an advocacy group said.

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N EW S BR I EF S BROOKLYN TEEN’S MURDER CAUGHT ON TAPE Police are asking for the public’s help after a deadly Brooklyn shooting was caught on camera.

Detectives say it happened Sunday night at 230 Lott Avenue at the Plaza Residences in Brownsville.

Elevator security video captured Andre Pitts, 18, and his killer standing almost side by side. It then shows Pitts getting out on the fourth floor with the gunman right behind him. Another camera captured the man, arm extended, firing three shots at close range.

Police say yet another camera caught the gunman walking outside.

Pitts died a short time later at the hospital.

Friends at the housing complex say they do not recognize the attacker and were angry with the building’s security.

“It’s depressing. My friend got bodied. Cops can’t help us. We ain’t got no leads. Who else gonna do something? All we gonna do is sit here and cry all day. What are they here for? They ain’t doing nothing.

He walked in, killed him, left out like it not even happen,” said one friend.

“He didn’t deserve it, sweet kid.

Went to the store for people. He never did anything bad to nobody,” said another.

The suspect is described as being in his 20s and about 5’8” tall.

He was last seen wearing a black jacket with a green hood with red, white and green stripes on the sleeves.

Anyone with information about the case is being asked to contact Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800577-TIPS, by texting TIP577 to CRIMES, or by going to NYPDCrimeStoppers.com.

BROWNFIELD CLEANUP PROGRAM EXPANDS TO BROOKLYN Ground was broken at the site of a former gas station in Williamsburg that will be developed into a 50-unit apartment building under the city’s new Brownfield Cleanup Program.

The program helps developers clean up contaminated land and provides them with incentives and environmental liability protection to redevelop the lots.

“This property used to be a gas station, but for the past four years it has been a vacant eyesore dragging down the neighborhood’s image and property values,” Mayor Bloomberg said. “I am happy to say that is about to change.”

The clean-up process will lead to the development of a $15 million project that is expected to create 100 permanent new jobs in addition to construction jobs.

The ground floor of the building will hold a diner and a pharmacy.

There are more than 7,000 acres of brownfields in New York City.

Brownfields are often vacant or under-used patches of property where environmental contamination is a re-development concern.

In most states, job markets show signs of life

By LISA LAMBERT WASHINGTON — Employment steadily improved in most states in March, and jobless rates dipped in states that had posted record highs just a few months ago, according to government data released yesterday.

Unemployment rates fell in 34 states in March from February. Only seven states saw rates rise, while rates in nine states and the District of Columbia were unchanged, a Labor Department report showed.

Compared with a year ago, jobless rates fell in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

Nevada again notched the highest rate, marking at least 10 months in a row when it has registered the worst unemployment conditions. But it continued to back off its record 14.5 percent jobless rate hit in December, dropping to 13.2 percent in March.

California, with an unemployment rate of 12 percent, and Florida, at 11.1 percent, followed, though those March rates also showed declines.

Michigan, which stood out during most of the 2007-2009 recession with the country’s highest jobless rate as the automotive industry

cratered, has started to show signs of a revival.

In March, its jobless rate showed the biggest decline from a year earlier, falling by 1/10th of a percentage point to 10.3 percent. In March 2009, the rate stood at 13.3 percent.

Total employment in Michigan increased by 11,000 in March, while unemployment declined by 7,000, said Rick Waclawek, director of Michigan’s Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives. “Michigan’s labor market indicators have shown steady improvement in the first three months of 2011,” said Waclawek in a statement.

“Compared to this time last year, the state’s jobless rate has fallen significantly while private sector payroll jobs have increased by 98,000 or 3.1 percent.”

The recession only spared a few states, but the recovery has been uneven. Many states that were hardest-hit by the housing collapse have taken the longest to come back.

For Georgia, the March jobs numbers show that economic recovery may have taken root, with the jobless rate in March down to 10 percent.

“The drop in the unemployment rate is encouraging, but I’m more pleased that we’ve now had two con-

secutive months of job growth, coupled with fewer layoffs,” said State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler in a statement. “It appears that employers are growing more confident that our economy is improving.”

Commodities rich states, which were last to enter the recession and first out, remained standouts. North Dakota held the lowest jobless rate in March, at 3.6 percent, followed by Nebraska, at 4.2 percent, and South Dakota, at 4.9 percent.

“North Dakota’s unemployment rate continues to post at less than half the nation,” said Michael Ziesch, research analyst for the state’s job service. “Labor market gains are spread out amongst almost all sectors of the state’s economy, and led by strength in agriculture and energy.”

The U.S. unemployment rate was 8.8 percent in March, and the Labor Department said 22 states “posted jobless rates significantly lower than that.”

The number of jobs also rose in many places. Altogether, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 38 states and decreased in 12 states and the District of Columbia in March.

Texas added the most jobs, 37,000, followed by Missouri with 24,300.

White House to reduce prescription drug abuse

By WENDELL MARSH WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s administration yesterday unveiled a plan to fight what it calls a prescription drug abuse epidemic.

Between 2002 and 2009, the number of Americans aged 12 and older abusing pain relievers increased by 20 percent, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

“Unintentional drug overdose is a growing epidemic in the U.S. and is now the leading cause of injury death in 17 states,” Center for Disease Control Director Dr. Thomas Frieden was quoted as saying in a statement from the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The Obama administration’s plan entails a government-wide public health approach to reduce drug abuse and asks an additional $123 million for drug prevention and an additional $99 million for treatment

programs in the 2012 fiscal year, according to the statement.

“Today we are making an unprecedented commitment to combat the growing problem of prescription drug abuse,” the statement quoted Vice President Joe Biden as saying.

“This plan will save lives, and it will substantially lessen the burden this epidemic takes on our families, communities, and workforce,” he said.

The plan focuses on requiring drug makers to educate the medical community about the safe use of prescription drugs, beefing up prescription drug monitoring programs, recommending responsible disposal methods for unused medications, and reducing the prevalence of pill mills and doctor shopping through enforcement efforts.

The plan aims for a 15 percent reduction over five years in nonmedical use of prescription-type psychotherapeutic drugs among people 12 and older, and a similar decrease

in the number of unintentional overdose deaths.

An outside expert on drug problems told Reuters in a telephone interview that two key demographic elements were among his and his group’s concerns in fighting prescription drug abuse.

John Challis, vice president of treatment for Daytop Village, a family-oriented drug treatment facility in New York City, said one was the rising number of young people who are taking opiates and may seek different, harder drugs after their supply of prescription drugs dries up, he said.

Another, Chalis said, is that the aging members of the baby boomer generation increasingly are becoming dependent on hard pain relievers.

Clear data on prescription drug abuse is difficult to provide, he said, because by the time many people get treatment, their prescription drug problem is compounded with other substance abuse problems.

Police scour FBI photos for suspected serial killer

By AMAN ALI Police yesterday analyzed FBI evidence gathered from an extensive air search of Long Island beaches in a push to catch a suspected serial killer of as many as 10 people.

The FBI and authorities in Suffolk and Nassau counties have combed more than a dozen areas for evidence by land, water and air after two sets of human remains were found in the area last week. Police have found

eight more bodies in the area since December 2010 in cases they think are related.

The FBI sent a Blackhawk helicopter to photograph items of interest in the area Monday and said yesterday the search had concluded.

Police in Suffolk and Nassau counties said they were analyzing evidence in the case including photographs the FBI chopper took of the area.

“We’re not doing anything further until we analyze the data from the

FBI,” said Lieutenant Kevin Smith of Nassau County police. “For now, they’ll be no foot search until we get some additional information.”

Suffolk County police said they plan to send dive teams into Long Island’s waters to look for evidence later this week.

Police say the suspected serial killer preyed on prostitutes advertising on Craigslist. Four of the bodies, identified as Craigslist escorts, were found wrapped in burlap. The other bodies were not.

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Some New York City cab drivers to wear bulletproof vests New York City livery cab drivers, often called to crime-ridden neighborhoods that yellow taxis tend to ignore, are being armed with bulletproof vests, an advocacy group said yesterday.

Citing some deadly attacks on the drivers, the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers distributed the vests on Monday and drivers started using them immediately. Priority was given to drivers working the night shift in areas where statistics showed a high number of attacks — chiefly in outlying parts of boroughs outside Manhattan.

Livery cabs must be hired ahead of time and do not pick up passengers off the street, unlike the more well known yellow taxis that cruise New York City streets looking for fares.

One dozen vests were donated by New York-based security firm Security USA, adding to another 20 or so protective shields that had been previously donated by retired police offi-

cers.

The company said it expects to expand the program to meet a clear need.

“It’s just been amazing, all the calls we’ve been getting from livery

drivers” since the new vests were distributed, Security USA spokesman Clark Pena said yesterday.

“We want to continue this, and will do our best to get as many dri-

vers fitted as we can,” Pena said, adding that he was reaching out to other security firms and had gotten a positive, enthusiastic response.

The company donated the $400 vests after being contacted by federation head Fernando Mateo.

Driving a taxi or livery car can be one of the city’s more dangerous jobs, the group noted, as robberies sometimes turn violent.

Among the livery drivers killed or wounded on the job were Cesar Santos, who was fatally shot in the Bronx last June during a dispute with a fare who refused to pay; Trevor Bell, 53, who died in December when he was shot in the head during a robbery in Queens; and Julio Lora, who was paralyzed after being shot in the Bronx this month.

The vests will not protect drivers from head wounds, but the group said the vast majority of attacks stem from knife attacks or gunshots to the drivers’ lower back or side.

Obama defends deficit plan, sees common ground

By JEFF MASON and ALISTER BULL WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama drew a sharp line yesterday between Republican and Democratic plans to cut the deficit, but said a deal could be reached despite big ideological differences between the two parties.

Democrats and Republicans agree that $4 trillion needs to be slashed over roughly a decade, Obama told a town hall-style event in Virginia. But they disagree on what to cut to get there.

He was promoting his plan for cutting the U.S. deficit a day after Standard & Poor’s threatened to downgrade the United States’ coveted AAA credit rating. The Wall Street

ratings agency said it was concerned that Washington’s polarized politics would make it difficult to reach a debt deal before the 2012 presidential election.

How to cut the deficit remains a major sticking point, and Obama did not indicate any greater flexibility over his demands that taxes go up for the wealthiest Americans while investments continue in education and infrastructure.

Republicans oppose Obama’s efforts to let Bush-era tax cuts on top earners lapse after 2012, and question the president’s readiness to commit to meaningful spending cuts.

Stocks fell on Monday after S&P’s announcement but recovered some of their ground yesterday.

Without directly referring to S&P’s decision to revise its outlook

for the U.S. credit rating to negative, Obama said the two sides agreed on the scope of the problem but not on how to fix it.

“Everybody agrees it’s a problem.

Everybody agrees about how much we have to lower the deficit by over the medium term,” he told students at a community college in Virginia.

“The big question that is going to have to be resolved is: how do we do it?” he said. “I don’t want to lie to you, there is a big philosophical divide right now. I believe that you’ve got to do it in a balanced way.”

Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, lambasted the president for avoiding specifics and focusing on tax increases.

“The president’s plan to increase taxes is a direct assault on job cre-

Motorists hit the road despite steep gas price U.S. gasoline sales rose last week as warmer weather enticed more motorists onto the road, but demand lagged year-ago levels as prices increased to more than $3.80 a gallon, MasterCard data showed yesterday.

Retail gasoline sales climbed 3.3 percent from the previous week and drivers pumped the largest weekly volume since the start of this year, the credit-card company said in a regular report.

Demand, however, fell 1.6 percent from a year earlier.

The weekly rise was highest in the Midwest, Central Atlantic and Northeast regions where temperatures rose on account of spring weather, the report said.

“Historically, we see a rise in demand in the weeks before Easter, which last year was at the beginning of April,” said John Gamel, director of economic analysis for MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, which uses purchase data to determine national demand.

However, Gamel said, retail

prices are rising steeply and approaching cut-off levels after which any additional cents to the gallon could result in significant demand destruction.

“We saw sharp demand declines around $3.50 a gallon before. But because the economy is improving ever so slightly now and because consumers have already experienced those higher levels before, the threshold at which point demand will drop is higher this year. We expect that around $4 a gallon,” Gamel said.

A gallon of gasoline sold for $3.81 on average last week in the world’s biggest oil-consuming country, up 9.00 cents week-on-week and 33.7 percent higher than a year ago, according to MasterCard. It marked the first time prices were higher than $3.80 since September 2008.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) came out with a slightly higher figure on Monday, when it put national average gasoline prices at $3.84 a gallon and

indicated demand rose last week versus a week before.

About 9.181 million barrels per day of finished motor gasoline were supplied to the market, up 328,000 bpd from the previous week, according to EIA data.

Such seasonal aberrations do not trump a larger trend of falling demand. The four-week average demand in MasterCard’s data, for example, fell 2.1 percent from yearago levels.

For now, demand is slowing at weekends as customers cut discretionary driving.

“People still have to drive their kids to school, they have to go to work but we’re seeing cutbacks primarily in shopping trips and as people decide not to take that weekend trip,” Gamel said.

MasterCard Advisors, a unit of MasterCard Inc, estimates retail gasoline demand based on aggregate sales in the MasterCard payments system coupled with estimates for other payment forms including cash and checks.

ation and innovation that could throw our economy in reverse,” he said in a statement.

“I’m disappointed that once again the president did not offer specifics about how to put America on a path to pay down our debt, did not outline a plan to save entitlement programs for future generations, or offer a single proposal to increase jobs,” he said.

Though both parties have claimed ammunition from the S&P warning, members of the conservative Republican Tea Party caucus saw particular vindication for their anti-spending platform, which helped hand Republicans control of the House in last year’s congressional elections.

Obama cited his ability to agree on a recent tax deal with Republicans as evidence that the two sides could work together, while his Treasury secretary tried to make the case that S&P was overly pessimistic about the chances of a deficit-cutting agreement as well.

“Actually, I think things are better than they’ve been if you want to think about the prospects for improving our long-term fiscal position,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC television, adding that there was “no risk” that the United States would lose its AAA credit rating.

“If you’re looking very carefully at what’s happening in Washington you see people on both sides — Democrats and Republicans — agreeing with the president that we have to put in place some reforms now to bring down our long-term deficits.

Vice President Joe Biden will host a meeting with members of the U.S. Congress on May 5 to discuss deficit reduction.

A Washington Post poll yesterday showed Obama’s approval ratings near record lows because of deepening economic pessimism among Americans. The survey showed 47 percent approving of his performance — a seven-point drop since January.

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The passing of the giants of the human spirit: Dr. William Manning Marable

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Part Two Dr. William Manning Marable was a prolific author.

His many books included “Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006”; “African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to the Grenada Revolution”; “Black American Politics: From Washington Marches to Jesse Jackson”; and, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat.” Dr. Marable was a great admirer of Dr. Walter Rodney, a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist. He styled one of his great books, “How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society,” after Dr. Rodney’s monumental work, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.” Dr. Manning called Dr. Rodney as “the personification of praxis, a brilliant intellect, and an uncompromising legacy as the voice of the periphery bound up in world revolution.” Similarly, Dr. Manning had a great admiration of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois as manifested in the abovementioned biography he wrote about him.

Dr. Marable taught and organized at some of the oldest and prestigious universities in the country, including Fisk University, University of Colorado, Purdue, Cornell, Colgate, Ohio State, Tuskegee Institute, and Columbia University. At Columbia, where he remained until his death, he founded and directed the Institute for Research in

African-American Studies (IRAAS). Dr. Marable was not an incarcerated ivory tower scholar; he was very much the political activist. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America. He was a founding member of the Black Radical Congress.

In his article, “Dr. Manning Marable: A Tower of Intellect, Dead at 60,” which was published in the Amsterdam News on April 7-13, 2011, Mr. Herb Boyd quoted Mr. Don Rojas, the Communications Director for the National Black United Front (NBUF) and for the Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada, and the present Executive Director of FreeSpeechTV.org as saying, “Brother Manning Marable was the epitome of the scholar/activist, very much in the tradition of his hero W.E.B. Du Bois. He was one of the few griots still standing who truly both talked the talk and walked the walk. For him, there was no contradiction, no daylight, between principle and practice.”

While many people in the Black community were choosing sides between segregation and integration, and socialism and nationalism, Dr. Marable’s politics and philosophy have been described as transformationalist. He argued that Black Americans should strive to transform existing social structures and work towards a more egalitarian society. He urged coalition building. In an essay collection, “Beyond Black and White: Transforming AfricanAmerican Politics,” he wrote, “By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond ‘black’ and ‘white,’ we

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Dr. Marable’s final work, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” was published by Viking.

It is nearly 600 pages. (As of this writing, I am presently halfway through the book.) I must say that certain portions of the book are disturbing. I think it’s going to generate widespread controversy.

At this point, I rather not discuss my concerns having not finished reading the book. Significantly, the book was published on Monday, April 4, 2011. Dr. Marable died on April 1, 2011. I add my voice to the chorus of admirers. Dr. Cornel West gave voice to my feelings.

He said, “Dr. Marable was our grand radical democratic intellectual. He kept alive the democratic socialist tradition in the black freedom movement, and I had great love and respect for him.”

Dr. Marable was born on May 13, 1950 in Dayton, Ohio. The cause of his death was not announced. It has been said that he suffered from Sarcoidosis, a lung ailment, for many years.

Last summer, he had received a double lung transplant. Surely, we marvel at his fortitude and perseverance to produce the massive book on Malcolm X while he was physically challenged. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Leith Mullings Marable of New York; three children, Mr. Joshua Manning Marable of Boulder, Mrs. Malaika Marable Serrano of Silver

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‘Dr. David French: Pioneering physican’

By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN “This was a man who lived a life of urgency, but never an urgency in the service of self, but rather in the service of the society, of mankind, of others.” So said Howard French at a memorial service for his father, Dr. David French who passed away March 31 at age 86. I was blessed to have him, his wife Carolyn, and their children as friends over many decades. As one of the founders of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Dr. David French helped organize fellow medical professionals during the Civil Rights Movement to provide first aid to marchers and protesters. His civil rights work was a turning point in a lifetime of pioneering professional work, from becoming one of the first Black board-certified surgeons in America to establishing innovative community health clinics in the United States and Africa.

David French was born and raised in Ohio. Although his father had been forced to withdraw from Howard University as a young man because of lack of money, his parents stressed the importance of education for their own children. He was draft-

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ed into the Army during World War II, interrupting his premedical studies to serve in a segregated unit in Texas where he and fellow Black soldiers were assigned to pick cotton for uniforms. He noted that German prisoners of war held in Texas were treated better than Black soldiers seeking to defend our nation. Determined to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor, he enrolled at Howard University School of Medicine through a military program where he was mentored by famed Black surgeon Dr. Charles Drew, who pioneered modern blood banking techniques. David followed in Dr. Drew’s surgical footsteps and went on to establish pediatric cardiovascular surgery departments at Howard, Freedmen’s Hospital, and D.C. General Hospital in Washington, D.C. As the Civil Rights Movement grew he joined the many unsung heroes—doctors, nurses, and other emergency medical professionals— providing frontline first aid to protesters brutally assaulted during marches. In 1964, few realized the essential service the newly formed Medical Committee for Human Rights performed. Many of the doctors and nurses, including him, took time off from jobs in the North to volunteer in the South. In 1965, David French coordinated the medical volunteers for the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. After marchers were savagely beaten by state troopers during their first attempt to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on “Bloody Sunday,” he saved the day and the lives of the protesters by helping bring in the Johnson White House and the federal troops to protect them in the final march. One year later, as Dr. King, Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights activists—including myself— completed James Meredith’s march from Memphis to Jackson, Mississip-

pi after Meredith was injured by a sniper, David and Carolyn French joined in using their Dodge Camper as a makeshift ambulance for his medical team.

The Medical Committee’s focus quickly expanded from protecting civil rights workers to fighting inequalities in health care under the motto “Health Care Is a Human Right.” Driven by his passion for social justice, David French shifted his focus from surgery to public health. As he told the Boston Globe, “I became aware of overwhelming health problems in the marches in the deep South, but later realized that urban health problems with regard to delivery of services are just as difficult.’’ He went back to school and earned a masters’ degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. In 1969 he became the first chairman of Boston University’s Department of Community Medicine and was chosen as the first medical director of Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, meeting the needs of one of Boston’s poorest communities. Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center was one of the earliest community health centers and became a model for providing health services for the poor.

David French then set his sights on the African continent, believing the community health center model could deliver the crucial primary care so many desperately needed. He and his family of eight beautiful children spent a decade living in the Ivory Coast as he oversaw a program coordinated by the World Health Organization, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Boston University that trained health care workers in 20 African countries to set up networks of clinics providing primary and preventive care.

Revolving prison doors

By JUDGE GREG MATHIS If you, like me, believe that prisons should be able to punish offenders while still preparing them for a productive, crime free life once they are released, then you must also believe that prisons are failing. And, they’re not just failing: they are costing the larger society billions of dollars that could be put to much better use.

Annual prison spending has risen from $10 billion to $52 billion during the last 30 years. Recent data from the Pew Center on the States shows that the additional money is clearly not going to prisoner rehabilitation efforts. More than 40 percent of inmates eventually return to prison, most of them within three years. The recidivism rate hasn’t changed much in a decade and is a strong sign that

prisons aren’t doing the best job they can to prepare offenders for life outside of prison.

States around the country are grappling with fiscal uncertainty and are forced to cut programs that serve the poor and elderly in order to balance their budgets. These tactics, however, do not take into consideration the needs of the people, nor do they protect the long-term financial health of the state.

What does? Investing in education.

Many, if not the majority, of prison inmates did not graduate high school. By catching students before they fall through the cracks and reducing the number of dropouts will, over time, reduce the prison population and save the states money.

Sending low-level drug offenders to rehab instead of prison will also help.

It’s less expensive to rehabilitate an addict than it is to incarcerate them.

His groundbreaking work helped set the stage for today’s network of community health centers around the world. According to the National Association of Community Health Centers, the United States now has 1,250 community health centers providing vital primary care to 20 million low-income children and adults.

This crucial lifeline of services saves between $9.9 billion and $17.6 billion a year by helping patients avoid emergency room care. Last week, the majority of funding for community health centers was saved at the last minute by the compromise budget agreement that averted a government shutdown. How shortsighted, uncaring, and fiscally irresponsible are those who would cut life and cost saving programs. I applaud Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who has stood up for this vital health safety network through thick and thin.

But, community health centers are still at risk in the House budget plan that seeks to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid and balance the budget on the backs of poor children and families. Millions of low-income families are in danger of losing the quality health care they desperately need.

Let’s honor the legacy of Dr. David French and the life of urgency he lived and make the right and moral choice to care for America’s poor children and families and preserve—yea expand—the vital network of community health centers.

— Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.

Going this route allows states to help those who need it and reduce their prison costs at the same time.

Critics would say that this approach is soft on crime. No one is saying that criminals should not be punished. It’s just more beneficial to everyone involved, if we punish them smartly.

To be fair, this strategy is not going to save money overnight. The goal is to create a plan that is sustainable, one that will bring huge returns over the long term. Reducing prison costs by reducing incarceration rates saves money so governments don’t have to cut services like Medicaid and Medicare that the most vulnerable in our communities rely upon.

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Prosecutors try to bar expert witnesses for Conrad Murray’s defense Prosecutors filed a motion Monday that could prevent two expert defense witnesses from testifying in the upcoming trial of the doctor accused of fatally drugging pop star Michael Jackson.

Judge Michael Pastor, a California Superior Court judge in Los Angeles County, will now consider the request as it relates to the upcoming trial of Dr. Conrad Murray.

Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter, after authorities allege that he gave Jackson the propofol that the Los Angeles County coroner ruled caused the singer’s death on June 25, 2009.

Prosecutors contend that Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist and expert on the drug propofol, and Dr. Joseph Haraszti, a Pasadenabased psychiatrist, should not be able to testify in the

trial unless and until Murray takes the stand.

The motion claims that White met and spoke with Murray, after which the anesthesiologist penned a

report that included information that the defendant had never given police. Another analysis done by Haraszti also “references new information, apparently obtained

from Conrad Murray,” prosecutors contend.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and his deputies claim that it would be unfair to have these experts present analyses that use information from Murray that investigators never received — unless the primary source of that information, Murray, is first compelled to answer questions.

“This is simply a backdoor attempt to introduce the defendant’s new, self-serving statements without being subject to cross-examination,” the prosecutors write in Monday’s court filing.

“Further, such expert opinions are unreliable and lack foundation, since they are based on untested hearsay.”

Jury selection in Conrad’s trial began last month and will continue into early May. Opening statements and tes-

Arizona governor vetoes birther, campus gun bills

By DAVID SCHWARTZ PHOENIX — Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed two controversial bills, one mandating proof of U.S. citizenship to run for president, the other allowing guns on college campuses, in a clear setback for conservatives who control the state legislature.

Brewer, who grabbed headlines a year ago when she signed a get-tough state law cracking down on illegal immigrants, vetoed the bills in an announcement late on Monday.

The so-called “birther bill,” would have made Arizona the first state in the nation to require presidential candidates prove U.S. citizenship by providing a long form birth certificate, and other forms of proof including baptismal or circumcision certificates, to be placed on the state ballot.

“I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth to submit their ‘early baptism or circumcision certificates’ ... This is a bridge too far,” she said..

A former Arizona secretary of state, Brewer said she did not support designating one person as “gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate,” as it “could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated deci-

sions.”

The Republican-controlled state legislature passed the measure at a time when some foes of President Barack Obama, a Democrat question whether he is a native-born U.S. citizen. Real estate mogul and television reality show host Donald Trump is among those questioning Obama’s birth in Hawaii.

Brewer also vetoed a bill that would have made Arizona the second state in the nation to allow an individual to carry a firearm — either

concealed or not — in the public rights of way on higher education campuses, because it was “so poorly written.”

Brewer said shortcomings in the bill included a failure to define “public rights of way” and the inclusion of state schools, where firearms are prohibited by federal and state laws.

Neighboring Utah allows firearms inside campus buildings.

Last April, Brewer caused a national furor when she

signed the state’s controversial crackdown on immigration, which required police to investigate the immigration status of anyone they detained and suspected of being in the country illegally.

Opponents of the law said it would lead to harassment of Hispanic-Americans, and the Obama administration argued the U.S. Constitution gave the federal government sole authority over immigration matters.

A U.S. federal judge blocked the most controver-

timony are scheduled to begin May 9.

The defense has argued that Jackson self-administered the propofol in a desperate attempt to get sleep before a rehearsal.

Murray told investigators he was trying to wean Jackson off propofol in the last days of his life, but that he used it in combination with other drugs to help the pop star sleep that last morning.

The defense claims that the singer’s dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, injected Jackson with powerful painkillers dozens of times in the last months of his life, unknown to Murray.

The Medical Board of California and Los Angeles County coroner investigated Klein after Jackson’s death, but he was never charged, and no action was taken to revoke his medical license. sial parts of the law shortly before it came into effect last July. Arizona appealed the stay, but it was upheld by a federal appeals court in a ruling last week.

Arizona Sen. Steve Gallardo, an outspoken Democrat, said the governor realized that the bills would be bad for the state’s image and had nothing to do with the challenges it faces.

“She know that these bills are not going to help with Arizona’s image,” Gallardo told Reuters.

“All they do is put us in the national spotlight and make us look silly. She’s saying she doesn’t want that to happen any longer.”

Obamas’ tax return shows big drop in income in 2010

By ALISTER BULL WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and wife Michelle made significantly less money last year than in 2009, with book sales their main source of income, according to their joint tax return released by the White House on Monday.

The first family reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096 and paid federal taxes of $435,770, down from income of $5,505,409 in 2009.

April 18 was the deadline this year for Americans to file their annual tax returns.

Obama’s Democrats are fighting with Republicans over cutting the U.S. deficit through a mixture of spending cuts and tax hikes, with Obama, a best selling author, arguing that wealthier Amer-

icans like him can afford to pay more in tax.

Specifically, he opposes extending Bush-era tax cuts on families making more than $250,000 a year. These tax cuts are due to expire at the end of 2012, when they would revert to 39.6 percent from a 35 percent top income rate at the moment.

Earnings from Obama’s books, “Dreams From My Father,” “The Audacity of Hope” and “Of Thee I Sing” generated $1.568 million last year, according to the couple’s tax return.

After-tax proceeds from the last book, which was the only one written after he became president in January 2009, were donated to the Fisher House Foundation to assist military families, which received $131,075 from the Obamas last year.

Overall, the first family gave $245,075 to charity in 2010, reaching out to 36 different charities of which Fisher House was the largest single beneficiary.

Other donations ranged from $1,000 to the $15,000 given to The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which the two former presidents promoted in a joint appearance for Haiti earthquake aid with Obama

at the White House last year.

Obama reported income from wages, salaries and tips of $395,188 last year. The first family also paid $51,568 in state income tax in Illinois.

Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill reported adjusted gross income of $379,178 in 2010 and paid $86,626 in federal taxes. They donated $5,350 to charity, the White House said.

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Charred corpses line road after Nigeria vote riots

By JON GAMBRELL K A D U N A , Nigeria - Burned corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above this city where rioting broke out again yesterday among Muslim opposition supporters who were angered by the announcement that the Christian incumbent president had won the election.

On the outskirts of Kaduna, burned out minibuses and cars littered the highways, and at least six charred bodies could be seen.

Skull caps and sandals were strewn nearby, left behind by those who frantically fled amid the chaos.

Authorities and aid groups have hesitated to release tolls following the riots across northern Nigeria for fear of inciting reprisal attacks, but the National Emergency Management Agency confirmed there had been fatalities. The Nigerian Red Cross

said yesterday that nearly 400 people had been wounded.

In a televised address to the nation late President Monday, Goodluck Jonathan said that “nobody’s political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.” Hours later, the president suspended his interior minister, citing “a number of lapses in the political leadership of the ministry.”

On Monday, supporters of opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari set fire to homes of ruling party members in several areas across the north. Police said an angry mob also engineered a prison break.

In the northern town of Kano, Rev. Lado Abdu said three churches had been set ablaze by angry demonstrators. An armed mob at a bus station also threatened another evangelical pastor before a Muslim man nearby spirited him to safety.

“What brought together religion and politics?” Rev. Habila Sunday said in the local Hausa language. “I want to know why when politics happen

do they burn churches?”

Thousands have been killed in religious violence in the past decade in Nigeria, which is Africa’s most populous nation. But the roots of the sectarian conflict are often embedded in struggles for political and economic dominance.

While Christians and Muslims have shared the same soil in the nation for centuries, the election result showing the Christian president’s more than 10 million vote lead over Muslim candidate Muhammadu Buhari spread accusations of rigging in a nation long accustomed to ballot box stuffing.

The unrest is unlikely to subside soon as more elections loom next Tuesday, said Sebastian Boe, an analyst with IHS Global Insight.

“Security forces in the north are unlikely to be able to pacify the region in the coming weeks, particularly as the state governorship and local assembly elections are due to go ahead on 26 April and are likely to rekindle animosity between supporters of rival political

People walk past the hotel that was bombed Saturday night in Kabala west in Kaduna, Nigeria. parties, as well as fur- education, and the earlier this month left a ther highlighting and shortest life expectancy hotel ablaze, a politician exacerbating religious of any region of dead and a polling staand ethnic divisions,” Nigeria,” the newspa- tion and a vote-counthe said. per Next said yesterday ing center bombed in Jonathan took office in an editorial. “So the nation’s northeast. last year only after the stark and repulsive is However, observers country’s elected the poverty, and so largely said Saturday’s Muslim president died thoroughly alienated presidential election from a lengthy illness have the people become, appeared to be fair, with before his term ended, that even this contested fewer cases of ballot box and many in the north election can be seen as thefts than previous still believe the ruling little more than an out- polls. party should have put let for the expression of Election chairman up a Muslim candidate deep-seated griev- Attahiru Jega instead in this year’s ances.” announced results election. Monday’s vioNigeria has a long Monday night that lence also was fueled by history of violent and showed Jonathan won the economic despair in rigged polls since it 22.4 million votes, comNigeria’s arid north. abandoned a revolving pared to the 12.2 mil“The region has the door of military rulers lion votes of his nearest worst unemployment, and embraced democra- rival, the former milithe most grinding cy 12 years ago. tary ruler Buhari. poverty, the poorest Legislative elections

Bu rki na Faso : so ldi ers U.N. says 20 children killed in Misrata, wants truce cal l for end to unr est

By BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso’s recently appointed army chief said yesterday that the new government will work to resolve the issues behind the military unrest that has plagued the impoverished West African country since last week.

Gen. Nabere Honore Traore said yesterday during a transfer-of-power ceremony that the government will resolve the crisis through dialogue.

He said President Blaise Compaore “has responded favorably to the complaints of the soldiers,” he said, adding that officials will meet with soldiers.

An elite group of soldiers also announced late Monday that they want their colleagues to stop protesting. They also apologized for the unrest.

“We invite our brothers in arms around the country to stop the protests because we now see the damage that can be caused within the civilian population, which we are well advised to protect and defend,” said a member of the group, Moussa Ag Abdoulaye.

least 20 children had been killed in attacks by besieging government forces B E N G H A Z I , on rebel-held parts Libya - The United of the city.

Libya’s third city, Nations appealed where hundreds are yesterday for a believed to have been ceasefire in the killed by shelling and Libyan city of sniper fire from Misrata, saying at Muammar Gaddafi’s

By ALEXANDER DZIADOSZ

forces, is the main focus of efforts to protect civilians caught up in the Libyan leader’s bid to put down an armed rebellion.

But at the same time Western powers are looking for ways to support the rebels in their efforts to topple Gaddafi.

Britain said it would send military officers to

advise the rebels on organization and communications, but not train or arm fighters.

And Italy said the international Libya Contact Group was seeking ways to allow the rebels to sell oil produced in the rebel-held east despite a U.N. embargo on Libyan oil sales.

Former Egyptian official interrogated over protests CAIRO, Egypt Former Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman is being questioned in connection with violence against protesters during the uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, the general prosecutor’s office said yesterday.

Suleiman, long-time

chief of intelligence, was questioned about “information held by the intelligence services on the events of the January 25 revolution,” the prosecutor’s office said.

He was asked about “the killing of protesters during peaceful (anti-regime) protests and over the wealth of

the former president and his family,” it said, without elaborating.

Mubarak, who ruled Egypt since 1981, named Suleiman his first ever vice president on January 29 in a bid to placate the growing protest movement.

The veteran strongman is currently under arrest in the Red Sea

resort of Sharm elSheikh, and being investigated for violence against protesters and for corruption.

Nationwide protests that erupted on January 25 and toppled Mubarak’s regime, left at least 800 people dead and more than 6,000 injured.

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Queens Who Cook

Posing in front of a picture of the center’s ounder Hatti Carthan are (from L-R) Ava Barnett President of Brownstoners of Bed-Stuy, Edith Gray and Brenda Fryson.

Barbara Williams of the NYU Medical Center, Daisy Ocasio of Daisy Home Cooked Meals, Madeline Rogers Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Brooklyn and Barbara Haynes President Bedford Stuyvesyant Real Estate Board.

Fashion Designer Rill Nice put the final touches on her Chocolate Pastry.

The Magnolia Tree Earth Center in BedfordStuyvesant benefited

when 25 women cooked their favorite dishes to help fund environmental

programs.

The “Queens Who Cook” event was held at

the Lafayette Avenue center last Saturday.

Photos/Lem Peterkin

cut, the library is going in the wrong direction,” said Kerem Beygo. “It’s been proven that if kids like reading they’ll be better students, which means better futures.”

“We have a wonderfully diverse group, the neighborhood is growing and we’ve come to represent a little of everyone,” says Gethers. Her classes

have formed around this idea of global Brooklyn and teaching even the babies how to be a global citizen from the beginning.

“We talk about foods and words and our neighbors close and far.

We play music of all different genres, basically setting the foundation for literacy and lifelong learning.”

Macon Library Gives and Takes

By ELANA PICI For more than three years, families have flocked to the Macon branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on Mondays to attend the free story time and music class.

Drawing children from all over Brooklyn, the classes often reach up to 65 people, leaving the hallways of the library triple parked with strollers and the small room brimming with families and little inquisitive voices dancing in excitement for the activities of the

hour.

Taneya Gethers, the Macon librarian that runs the children’s program, greets each child by name as they stream in a few at a time. She begins by leading a hello song and you can hear the little voices mimicking her singing, “aloha, guten tag, shalom...” they chirp, the sounds of rattles and tapping toes spilling onto the floor.

The kids, ranging in age from 4 months to 6 years old, settle in and immediately begin to wander around the blue carpeted floor with bare feet.

Babies are just learning to walk and

explore, while the older children dance and repeat new songs.

Tables are lined with books and words are posted up on the walls.

Within the small space in the basement of the library, the children are encouraged to speak and bond and learn.

However, beginning May 9, due to changes in scheduling, the library will no longer be open on Mondays. And free story time and music classes will be a thing of the past.

The library is closing on Mondays because the Monday hours will be spread across the remaining week days to make room for different

programming.

According to Jason Carey, director of marketing and communication for the Brooklyn Public Libraries, the Macn branch is preparing to receive more computers and begin a new digital literacy program, something that is greatly needed in the community.

Still, parents who are are active members of the classes are disappointed in the prospect of losing Mondays and possibly even Gether’s unique and interactive story time.

“I understand necessity for the computers and job searching, but if this program gets

The Brooklyn Prom & Scholarship Project is Accepting Donations Now

By C. ZAWADI MORRIS Prom is, perhaps, one of the biggest moments in a teen’s life. But imagine, if you were a teen, and the only thing standing in the way of attending prom was not whether you had a date,

but whether you could afford to buy a dress or tuxedo.

Well, local resident Bernice Foster Malone decided to set up a charitable fund, The Brooklyn Prom & Scholarship Project. The program was established as a small charity to teach her daughter (who was

6 at the time), how to give back to the community and also make sure that all teen girls in Brooklyn who wished to attend their proms, could do so, despite their financial circumstance.

“Along with teaching my young daughter how to be an entrepreneur, I wanted her to

understand the importance of giving back to the community and how important it is to help others,” said Malone.

The Brooklyn Prom Project was founded in spring 2010 as the charitable arm of Dazzle Divaz, a dress-up, glamour and spa party service for girls 4-14

The goal of the Brooklyn Prom & Scholarship Project is to provide financially challenged teens in Brooklyn with attire for Prom. Monetary donations are also welcome for tuxedo and suit rentals for young men.

The Brooklyn Prom & Scholarship Project is

seeking donations of gently used social occasion dresses, shoes, accessories and beauty products to distribute to Brooklyn teen girls for the 2011 prom season.

Financial donations are also welcome for book scholarships for college bound students.

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Former Trinidad PM fighting to save image and political life PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The failure of former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, Patrick Manning, to secure the support of all 12 opposition Members of Parliament regarding a motion to have legal representation in Privileges Committee matters for him and other MPs has done “irreparable damage to what is left to his political legacy,” PNM founding member, Ferdie Ferreira insists.

Newsday reported that Ferreira said, “It is unfortunate that the former prime minister should be sent to such a low level of desperation in an obvious effort to recover his badly depleted political stumps, which he so generously disposed of, without giving any consideration to what has now befallen him.”

During Friday’s debate in the House of Representatives, only four PNM MPs, including Manning, voted in favour of the motion. Five MPs

Former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, Patrick Manning abstained and three others were not in the Parliament Chamber at the time of the vote.

Ferreira told Newsday that Friday’s debate reflected the fact that Manning’s political survival had become more important than the party he led for more than 20 years.

“It is a straight case of individual survival at the expense of our 55-year-old party,” he said.

No record of permission for REDjet to fly into Trinidad and Tobago, says minister PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Minister of Works and Transport Jack Warner is concerned as to how Barbadian airline REDjet is promoting a service to Trinidad and Tobago when there is no record of them seeking permission to do so.

Speaking to reporters following a function at the Charlieville Hindu Mandir in Chaguanas on Sunday, Warner said, “I am not against competition at all of any kind. As I said before, competition keeps everyone on his or her toes. What I am against is that you come in the country and nobody knows how.”

“Caribbean Airlines does not know, Airports Authority does not know, and I don’t want to insult the prime minister by asking her because I am sure that she, too, does not know,” he

Guyana presidential candidates to debate

Presidential candidates (L-R): Khemraj Ramjattan, David Granger and Donald Ramotar G E O R G E T O W N , opment and overall economic some burning issues facing them. Among the problems Guyana — The growth.

The presidential candiare poor health facilities, Guyanese electorate will dates of the People’s problems soon get an opportunity Progressive Party Civic licences for intheirsecuring boats, to hear the plans and (PPPC), Donald Ramotar; delays in getting leases and programmes of each of People’s National Congress titles for their real estate, the three presidential Reform PNCR), David and poor services at schools.

Among the areas the prescandidates who are con- Granger; and Alliance for testing this year’s elec- Change (AFC), Khemraj idential party visited were Ramjattan have accepted Lanaballi, Fort Island, tions. invitations to speak at lunchParika and, on its way back The Guyana Manufacturers and Services eon functions organised by to the city, the party held a meeting at Tuschen, West Association (GMSA) has the (GMSA).

Ramjattan will participate Coast Demerara. organised three separate Jagdeo promised to send a debates of the three candi- in the first debate on April 27, followed by Granger on team to the Essequibo River dates.

The Association’s presi- May 11 and Ramotar on May to listen in greater detail to dent, Clinton Williams, said 25, on the eve of the 45th the problems, with a view of that the membership of his anniversary of Guyana’s assisting residents.

The president told resiassociation comprises small independence.

Meanwhile, Ramotar and dents in the districts he visitand large businesses in the President Bharrat Jagdeo ed that Ramotar is a sound manufacture services and the members are interested moved their campaign to economist, an experienced in plans and programmes of Parika and the Essequibo politician and he would do an each political party contest- River, and took the opportu- excellent job for the country. nity to address some of the Last weekend, Jagdeo and ing the elections. problems affecting residents Ramotar were electioneering They want to know what on the Corentyne and the each party has devised to in the area.

In fact, the residents took week before they were on the promote private sector develthe opportunity of raising Essequibo coast.

Train service could begin in Jamaica within a month

By DOUGLAS MCINTOSH Minister of Works and Transport, Jack Warner said.

Warner added, “Why should it not be good for the U.S. and good for Trinidad and Tobago. So, that too I will check later this week because I don’t know what the details are.”

On the issue of the cost of the airline’s cheap tickets, the minister said, “Not even if you go by bicycle, will it cost so low to go to Barbados.”

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) says the phased resumption of passenger train service could materialise within a month, after being dormant for nearly 20 years.

JRC Chairman, Barry Bonitto, made this disclosure following Saturday’s test run of a reconditioned train between May Pen, Clarendon, and Linstead, St. Catherine.

He said that the rail service is expected to commence along that route, noting that further details of the development will be disclosed shortly.

Led by Transport and Works Minister, Michael Henry, Saturday’s test run saw upwards of 200 government, public and private sector stakeholders, interests and well wishers, making the over 30-mile journey in the fivecoach train, which Bonitto said was reconditioned at a cost of more than $30 million (US$353,000).

It was the first time since rail service ceased in1992 due

to unsustainable costs that a passenger train had been operated in Jamaica.

Bonitto said that resumption of passenger train service for the remainder of the island is expected to be undertaken on a phased basis, details and scheduling of which would be outlined in due course.

The timing of this undertaking, he added, is contingent on the execution of extensive rehabilitation works on the relevant railway infrastructure, which he pointed out had either fallen into disrepair, or had been vandalised.

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Raul Castro named 1st secretary of Communist party

By PAUL HAVEN HAVANA - Raul Castro was named first secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party yesterday, and his aging brother Fidel was formally removed from the leadership for the first time since the party’s creation 46 years ago.

Despite raising hopes during the gathering that a new generation of leaders was poised to take up important positions, the island’s president announced that Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, an 80-year-old longtime confidant, would be his No. 2.

Ramiro Valdes, a 78year-old vice president, was named to the No. 3 spot. Several younger politicians were added to the 15-member leadership group, but in lesser positions.

In his speech to the delegates, Raul said he would never abandon making necessary economic changes, but that he would only do so at a

Fidel Castro makes a surprise appearance at the 6th Communist Party Congress in Havana, Cuba, yesterday April 19, 2011, earning a thunderous applause from the crowd. Raul Castro, right, was named first secretary of Cuba's Communist Party yesterday, with his aging brother Fidel not included in the leadership for the first time since the party's creation 46 years ago.

Photo/Javier Galeano pace the country could handle.

“Modernizing the economic model is not a miracle that can be accomplished overnight like some believe,” Raul told delegates, adding that he would never allow “the return of a capitalist regime.”

Of his brother, Raul said he needed no formal title to continue being the country’s guiding light.

“Fidel is Fidel,” he

said.

The elder Castro made a surprise appearance at the gathering, receiving thunderous applause from the 1,000 delegates assembled in a vast convention center in Havana.

Many could be seen crying as the man who led the 1959 revolution to overthrew Fulgencio Batista was helped to his place on stage by a young aide, then stood at attention next to his

79-year-old brother during the playing of Cuba’s national anthem.

Fidel, 84, has appeared in public many times since improved health allowed him to re-emerge from seclusion last summer, but has rarely been seen alongside his brother.

The revolutionary icon, who wore a blue track suit over a checked shirt, looked unsteady on his feet as he clutched the aide’s

arm, and at times slumped in his chair.

But he became more animated as the proceedings continued, especially when Raul’s name was read out by a party official announcing the members of the party’s Central Committee.

That larger group is tasked with picking the leadership council. For the first time since the party’s founding in 1965, Fidel was not included.

He had revealed in March that he left the party’s top post when he fell gravely ill in 2006, and had never returned despite the fact he continued to be listed as leader.

As their names were called for membership in the Central Committee, each newly elected official stood up, revealing a mix of young and old, including many women and Cubans of African descent. There were also a number of generals and other senior armed forces officials.

Three relatively young people were elected to the more important leadership council, including Marino

Murillo, a 50-year-old former economy minister who was recently promoted to a position that puts him in charge of implementing sweeping economic reforms.

The current economy minister, 65-year-old Adel Izquierdo, was also named to the council, as was Lazara Mercedes Lopez Acea, 46, the Communist Party chief in Havana.

The Congress also approved 300 economic proposals, though details have still not emerged. Apparently included in the measures was a recommendation to legalize the buying and selling of private property, which has been heavily restricted since the revolution.

Also on the table was a proposal to eventually eliminate the monthly ration book, which provides Cubans with a basic basket of heavily subsidized food and other goods. Other measures envision providing seed capital for would-be entrepreneurs and eliminating the island’s unique dualcurrency system.

Japan eyes sales tax rise to Syria gover nment OK’s pay for post-quake r ebuild l ifti ng state of emer gency

By LINDA SIEG & KAZUNORI TAKADA TOKYO Japanese consumers may have to help foot the reconstruction bill after last month’s earthquake and tsunami caused $300 billion of damage, further burdening the hugely indebted economy, a newspaper said yesterday.

It would be the first increase since 1997, though a sales tax hike had been the subject of fierce political debate before the earthquake struck as one way for Japan to dig itself out

of its massive debt.

The government is considering raising the tax by 3 percentage points to 8 percent when the new fiscal year starts next April, the Yomiuri newspaper reported.

“It was clear even before this disaster and the need to secure funds for reconstruction that to ensure a sustainable fiscal situation, some sort of reform of spending and revenues was necessary,” said Internal Affairs Minister Yoshiro Katayama.

“The debate over the fiscal situation is not something that began with this disaster,” he told reporters.

The government hopes to avoid issuing new bonds to fund an

initial emergency budget, expected to be worth about 4 trillion yen ($48 billion), due to be compiled this month.

But bond issuance is likely for subsequent extra budgets which will only make it harder for Japan to rein in its debt, already running at twice the size of the $5 trillion economy.

The mood among consumers about the prospects for jobs and incomes darkened in March after the quake, a Cabinet Office survey showed.

Though the triple disasters of quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis are bad news for the Japanese economy, the damage is not expected to spill over across the region.

The Asian

By KHALED YACOUB OWEIS AMMAN Syria’s government passed a draft law yesterday to lift 48 years of emergency rule, a concession to unprecedented demands for greater freedom in the tightly-controlled Arab country.

But protests continued after the announcement, with demonstrators taking to the streets in the city of Banias and opposition leaders said they would not stop until their other demands, including the release of

political prisoners, freedom of speech, and a multi-party system, were also met.

State news agency SANA said the cabinet ratified draft legislation, which must still be signed by President Bashar al-Assad, “to end the state of emergency in Syria.”

Inspired by uprisings sweeping the Arab world, thousands of Syrians have demonstrated across the country demanding reforms, presenting Assad with the most serious and sustained challenge to his 11year rule.

Rights groups say more than 200 people have been killed in the unrest.

The cabinet, which has little power and

rubber-stamps Assad’s orders, also passed a law to abolish a special security court which human rights lawyers says violates the rule of law and the right to fair trial.

It also passed legislation to “regulate the right of peaceful protest.” Permission from the Interior Ministry will be needed to demonstrate in Syria, the news agency said.

One activist dismissed the cabinet decision, saying Assad himself could have lifted emergency law immediately. “The government doesn’t need to issue anything ... It’s in the hands of the president to lift it,” Ammar Qurabi said.

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One Thought - One Humanity

Cam’ron, Vado talk Gunz ‘n Butta, ‘Hey Muma’ video

For the conclusions of these stories check out the April 14th - April 20th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Janet Jackson is about to make history in Paris. She will be the first female pop artist to perform under the I.M.Pei glass Pyramid at Paris’ famed Louvre Museum. She will be giving a live show during the biannual fundraising event “Liaisons au Louvre.”

The President of the museum said, “Janet Jackson is one of the world’s greatest artistic treasures. Accordingly, we are profoundly honored, and believe it most fitting, that her performance in the Louvre Museum will be yet another masterpiece captured under our glorious glass Pyramid. I believe the evening with Janet Jackson will be a great ‘coup’ for our institution!” Janet herself was just as flattered, saying, “The Louvre and its stunning glass Pyramid are equaled only by the priceless treasures that are housed within its impressive walls. It is an honor to be asked to participate in such an incredible evening at this historic location.

‘Liaisons au Louvre’ will be an unequaled event, raising much needed funds for this institution and the preservation of art that moves the soul.” Oui oui! If anybody’s making a trip to City Of Love on June 14, please report back to us!

The wife of Hot 97 personality Funkmaster Flex has announced that she and her husband have separated. It is unknown whether the separation is related to Flex’s February arrest.

His wife released the following statement to urbanmag-online.com: “After almost 18 years of friendship and marriage it is with great regret that I announce my husband Aston Taylor, also known as Funkmaster Flex, and I are separated. We have

tremendous love and respect for each-other, and will continue to work on our professional projects together. Our top priority has and will always be our children! I personally ask that the press keep in mind Flex is the celebrity, not myself or my children, please respect our privacy!”

The separation falls right on the heels of hard times for another Hot 97 deejay, Mr. Cee, who was embroiled in a highly-publicized arrest for public lewdness.

Rapper Nicki Minaj has been confirmed as the opening act for Britney Spears’ upcoming tour. Nicki Minaj will hit the road with Spears after she finishes her dates with Lil Wayne’s “I Am Music II” tour. The rapper will perform on the Britney’s opening date, which is June 17th in Sacramento, California.

Nicki Minaj, who replaces singer Enrique Iglesias, will hit 26 cities across the United States with Britney.

Despite both being members of the Dr. Dre musical family tree, 50 Cent and Ice Cube have never collaborated either in film or music.

That’s going to change, according to 50, who revealed via his Twitter account that he and Cube have something in the works. It should be noted that in the Tweet, 50 doesn’t specify whether the collaboration will be in a movie or in the studio.

In addition to having recorded with many of the same artists, Cube and 50 are both notable for having taken their talents to the silver screen. Cube has been doing film since 1991 with Boyz n the Hood, and his filmography includes the Friday and Are We There Yet? series, in addition to several others. 50’s film

career began with 2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and will continue with the upcoming film Things Fall Apart.

Singer Keri Hilson bared it all in Alllure magazine’s Annual Nude Issue. The pretty girl rock singer says of her decision to pose nude, We do a lot of things to seek validation: I have to get more expensive handbags or fake lashes or fake boobs. This shoot was about dropping all that. It’s so empowering to embrace my insecurities.

Eddie Murphy’s days as a donkey are OVER ... because last night outside Mastro’s steakhouse, the comic legend told us, “No more Shrek ... I’m Shrek’d out!” Maybe he’ll finally get back into stand-up (fingers crossed)?????

Since her injection into the world of R&B, Young Money songstress Shanell has been in hot pursuit to bend and break genre barriers. With the release of her official lead single “My Button,” it seems she has taken a big step in the right direction. On “My Button,” Shanell takes a humorous route in describing a woman’s frustration during a disappointing moment of passion with a lackluster lover. This message will become more apparent on the accompanying music video, which is being shot later this month by celebrated movie and music video director Sanaa Hamri. Shanell is poised to be the next star to come out the Young Money camp, a crew that includes Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne. She is currently featured on Lil Wayne’s “I’m Still Music” tour plus she is also the artistic director on the trek.

By ALVIN BLANCO

got all the fresh mumas in N.Y. — from Broadway to Brooklyn.”

Gunz ‘n Butta was originally scheduled to arrive in 2010, but once it was delayed, Cam and Vado used the extra time to continue to make tweaks.

“We been ready for a minute,” Cam’ron said. “We keep updating it, making sure the songs are up to date and everything. Me and Vado do so much music that that’s why we throw out a lot of mixtapes. We did like four or five mixtapes [ourselves] but if you go on the street, it’s like 800 of them. People take our songs and make they own mixtapes.

But we definitely, definitely been ready for this to come out. It’s going to be classic.”

Cam also mentioned that Boss of All Bosses 3, the follow up to the DJ Drama-hosted Boss of All Bosses 2.5, is done and will be out sometime after the release of Gunz ‘n Butta. A video for another song from the album, “Stop It 5,” has already been shot in Miami and Harlem.

About that rumored Interscope deal, Cam reiterated that the Diplomats have to take care of prior recording obligations before any contract can be finalized.

Harlem rapper Cam’ron and his protégé Vado are gearing up to dropped their briefly delayed collaborative album, Gunz ‘n Butta, on April 19. Alvin Blanco caught up with the ever-confident rappers at famed New York nightclub Don Hill’s, the set of the video for their single “Hey Muma.”

Vado may have landed a recording deal with Interscope Records but it’s still business as usual for the Diplomats pair when it comes to making music. Cam’ron plans to release his next solo album, Killa Season 2, by the end of the year and Vado expects to release Slime Flu 2, the sequel to his retail mixtape, by the summer. “It’s done, though. It’s definitely sick for y’all,” Vado told us.

For now, the focus is on Gunz ‘n Butta and the Skitzo-produced, dance-floor shaker “Hey Muma.”

“That’s like, ‘What up mami?

What’s poppin’?’ “ Vado said of the song’s title. “Not your ‘mommy’ like your moms, but a ‘mami.’ Shout-out to the Latina females, got it from them. There’s a few mumas in here.

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New Alzheimer’s guidelines view disease in stages

By JULIE STEENHUYSEN CHICAGO — The first new U.S. diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease released in 27 years paint the disorder as a disease that occurs gradually over many years, starting with changes in the brain, then mild memory problems and finally progressing to full-blown dementia.

Released yesterday by the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association, the guidelines officially recognize mild cognitive impairment or MCI — first described more than a decade ago — as a precursor to the disease.

And they add a new research category known as preclinical Alzheimer’s, the earliest stage of the disease when clumps of a protein called amyloid are just beginning to form in the brains of

people who are otherwise healthy.

This preclinical stage about 10 years before dementia sets in is seen as the best place to intervene in the disease. It is why new imaging agents for PET scans, spinal fluid tests and other so-called biomarkers that predict Alzheimer’s are becoming so important to researchers and drug companies.

The notion of different stages of the disease marks a stark contrast from the last set of guidelines published by government researchers in 1984, which only recognized the dementia phase of Alzheimer’s — in which people lose their memories and the ability to care for themselves.

“The biggest difference between then and now is we now think of this process as a continuum that started many years before we make the diagnosis of dementia,” Dr.

Guy McKhann of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who worked on the new guidelines, told a media briefing.

Including earlier phases of the disease is important in advancing Alzheimer’s research, said Dr. Reisa Sperling of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, who led the group that wrote the guidelines for preclinical Alzheimer’s.

“If we are ever really going to move toward prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, we have to include people who don’t yet have symptoms,” Sperling said in a telephone interview.

“I think the real piece of that is not being afraid to say the ‘A’ word (Alzheimer’s),” said Sperling, who acknowledged that the diagnosis is frightening.

“I believe what changed in cancer 10 or 20 years ago is when people became less afraid of using the ‘C’ word

(cancer). I think we have to move to the same thing in Alzheimer’s disease,” she said.

Sperling said being able to diagnose someone with preclinical Alzheimer’s will allow for much earlier treatment and prevention efforts, in much the same way as people with high cholesterol take statin drugs to prevent heart disease.

Both Sperling and Marilyn Albert of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, who worked on the guidelines for mild cognitive impairment, said biomarker tests, while promising, are not ready for prime time.

“The reason we think they should not be used in the doctor’s office now is there is not a lot of standardization. We don’t have a very good sense of what we call a cutoff point — of what is normal and what is not,” Albert said.

In January, advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected an Eli Lilly imaging agent, saying more data is needed before it can be approved for helping doctors rule out the presence of plaque linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. John Ringman, an Alzheimer’s researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in drafting the guidelines, said defining the earlier phases of the disease gives researchers a common vocabulary.

“It’s really a language researchers can use to talk to each other,” he said.

Ringman said this will help companies select patients in earlier stages of the disease for clinical trials.

Many researchers believe most Alzheimer’s drugs have failed because they were tried in people whose disease was too advanced to do any good.

Study: Poor sense of smell not a big loss for most people Most people with a reduced sense of smell — including those who have lost their ability to smell anything at all — adjust and learn to cope, researchers say.

German researchers found that these people usually appear to place less importance on the sense of smell in their daily lives than those with a normal sense of smell.

The study included 470 people, half who either lacked or had a reduced sense of smell and half without the impairment. The participants underwent testing of their sense of smell, or olfactory function, and completed a questionnaire about

the importance of the sense of smell.

Those with reduced or no olfactory function rated the importance of the sense lower than those who had no dysfunction, according to the researchers at the University of Dresden Medical School.

“Although they might not be aware, [they] seem to adjust to their olfactory constraints. Their sense of smell seems to be of less importance to them in daily life when it is reduced. So they report fewer olfactory-triggered emotions and memories, which seems reasonable because patients with olfactory disease experience fewer olfactory triggers,”

wrote Dr. Ilona Croy and colleagues wrote in a journal news release. “In accord, they also report to use their sense of smell less and to rely less on this sense in decision making.”

The researchers suggested that this behavior “might be an example of regaining

psychological health despite acquired and long-lasting impairments.”

The study is published in the April issue of the journal Archives of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery.

Problems with the sense of smell are common, the researchers noted. Between 13 to 18 percent of people have a reduced sense of smell and 4 to 6 percent have no sense of smell. Viral infections, head trauma, nose and sinus diseases, and neurodegenerative conditions are the main causes of reduced or lost sense of smell, and most cases are associated with aging, they added.

Because the disorder often

develops gradually, many people may not seek medical help and simply learn to adjust to the impairment, according to background information in a journal news release. However, “approximately 17 percent to 30 percent of patients with olfactory disorders report a decreased quality of life, including symptoms of depression,” the researchers reported.

In addition, those with poor olfactory function sometimes demonstrate a low interest in eating and a lack of appetite. The inability to detect harmful odors may also increase their risk of not recognizing hazardous events, such as a gas leak.

People with DNR orders more apt to die after any surgery Patients with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are more likely to suffer complications and die after surgery, even after non-emergency procedures, a new study finds.

DNR orders request that no “heroic” cardiovascular measures be used to revive someone who is clinically unresponsive and lacks a pulse.

The study appears online April 18 and in the August print issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.

Researchers analyzed data from 4,128 adult patients with DNR orders and 4,128

patients matched for age and type of procedure who had surgery at 120 U.S. hospitals between 2005 and 2008. Most of the patients were elderly white women, average age 79.

Patients outcomes were evaluated based on the occurrence of one or more postoperative complication, the need for another operation, total time in the operating room, length of hospital stay and death within 30 days of surgery.

The combined death rate for both groups of patients was 15.3 percent.

“Compared with non-DNR patients, more than twice as many DNR patients died within 30 days of surgery (8.4 percent versus 23.1 percent). The DNR patients were more likely to die regardless of the urgency of the surgical procedure” — 35.5 percent versus 17.8 percent and 16.6 percent versus 5.5 percent for emergency and nonemergency procedures, respectively,” wrote Hadiza Kazaure and colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine in a journal news release.

They also found that

patients with do-not-resuscitate orders were more likely to die after every type of procedure included in the study.

The overall complication rate for both groups of patients was 28.6 percent, but the rate was higher in DNR patients (31 percent) than in non-DNR patients (26.4 percent).

The researchers noted that patients with DNRs undergo operations for a variety of reasons, ranging from palliative surgery to attempts to extend life.

“The DNR patients may have surgery to gain ‘addi-

tional time’; nevertheless, our study demonstrates that almost a quarter of DNR patients die within 30 days of surgery,” the study authors noted.

“Informed consent and elicitation of the goals of surgery, especially as they relate to overall goals of care, are essential for guiding surgical decisions involving DNR patients and their families. Issues pertaining to DNR status are complex, and they should be anticipated long before the 30-day period leading to an operation,” the study authors concluded.

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N.J. taxpayers protest corporate ‘dodgers’

By LESLIE KWOH NEWARK - Laurel Cummins grew infuriated when she recently learned that while she was doling out more in taxes every year, some big companies weren’t paying at all.

So Monday, she drove to Newark, where she joined more than 70 protesters in front of Verizon New Jersey’s corporate headquarters.

As cars and buses whizzed by, Cummins waved a makeshift sign: “Honk if you paid more than $0 in taxes.

Verizon paid $0.”

“I’m just outraged that corporations pay nothing,” said Cummins, 53, a French teacher from Montclair.

“It’s very hypocritical.”

For millions of taxpayers Monday, the arrival of Tax Day meant last-minute number-crunching and rushed trips to the post office. In New Jersey and other states, protest groups organized rallies to target so-called “tax dodgers,” a term to describe big corporations and wealthy individuals who use tax

breaks and loopholes to avoid paying their fair share.

In Elizabeth, about 35 gathered protesters Monday in front of a Bank of America branch in the late afternoon as part of a national campaign organized by nonprofit MoveOn.org. The event, which took place at dozens of sites across the country, was called “Make Them Pay” and targeted a dozen corporations including Bank of America, Google, BP, Amazon, Wells Fargo, FedEx and Chase.

The protests underscore public criticism against big companies that take advantage of federal and state incentives and loopholes, even as the job market struggles to recover and states and municipalities continue to trim their budgets.

Just last month, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (IVt.) issued a report spotlighting 10 corporate income “tax avoiders” that received large tax breaks or refunds: Exxon Mobil, Bank of America, General Electric, Chevron, Boeing, Valero, Goldman Sachs, C i t i g r o u p ,

Cynthia Johnson, a Verizon employee, protests outside Verizon's building on Broad Street in Newark.

ConocoPhillips and on, like education, public Carnival Cruise Lines. safety and a clean enviAt the Newark rally, ronment.” which was organized by Verizon acknowlthe New Jersey Working edged yesterday it Families Alliance, pro- received federal and testers accused Verizon state tax deferrals totalof avoiding federal taxes ing $5.3 billion for the in 2009 and 2010 while two years, but emphareceiving $1.3 billion in sized it is still obligated subsidies from the gov- to pay the money at a ernment. later date. In 2010, the “We keep hearing company paid $430 milabout the need for lion in income taxes, shared sacrifices from said Bob Varettoni, a working families, but at spokesman for the the same time hundreds telecommunications of millions of dollars are company. going to big corpora“Verizon fully comtions,” said Bill Holland, plies with all tax laws the group’s executive and pays its fair share of director. “The money taxes,” he said. should be used to pay for He added that Verizon essential services that invested $1.2 billion in working families rely plants and equipment in

Jean Lowrie of Newark protests outside Verizon’s building on Broad Street in Newark.

Photo/John O’Boyle New Jersey in the last based in the state. year alone, in addition to In New Jersey, the paying $14 million in issue of corporate incenproperty taxes, $53 mil- tives has become particulion in personal property larly contentious in taxes, $16 million in recent months as the franchise fees and $14 Christie administration million in traffic safety takes steps to lure and fees. retain big businesses.

As for the more than Panasonic of North $87 million in state America is still deciding grants the company was whether it will take a awarded in recent years, $102.4 million tax break Varettoni said that was to move its headquarters because Verizon brought from Secaucus to more than 3,000 addi- Newark. tional jobs to New Jersey In a study expected to when it opened its be released next week, national operations in New Jersey Policy Basking Ridge in 2005. Perspective will report New York-based Verizon the Christie administraCommunications is the tion has awarded more umbrella company of than $800 million in Verizon New Jersey and subsidies to corporations Verizon Wireless, both in less than 18 months.

N.J. defense contractor pleads guilty to fraud Telephone and cable deregulation bill’s ALPINE - A defense contractor based in Bergen County pleaded guilty today to selling military replacement parts that were not made in the United States and did not comply with manufacturing specifications required by the government, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.

Staff Gasket Manufacturing Corporation of Alpine and the company’s president, Eric Helf, both pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William J. Martini in Newark. Helf, 38, of New York, was charged separately from Staff Gasket, but admitted to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the contractprocurement fraud scheme, authorities said.

From August 2004

through March 2006, Staff Gasket - which was previously located in Englewood - won bids and entered into contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide replacement parts for equipment to be used in military operations, including lock pins for HH-60 helicopters, authorities and documents filed in the case said. Under the contracts, many of the equipment parts had to be manufactured in the U.S., to exact specifications.

But according to a charging document filed in the case, Staff Gasket would “purchase similar and less expensive parts from other manufacturers, including foreign manufacturers located in China, or unauthorized distributors that did not meet the DoD requirements.”

Authorities said manufacturers used by Staff Gasket outside the U.S. would build parts “at a much cheaper price per unit” than they would have cost if built in the U.S. The charging document also accused Staff Gasket of making fraudulent statements in its bids, saying it “was the manufacturer of these parts and that the parts would be manufactured in accordance” with the specifications required.

The company and others operating under its direction would also direct that certain production and packaging of foreign-manufactured parts be disguised so the true manufacturer was hidden, making it look like Staff Gasket had built the parts, the charging document said.

future uncertain in N.J. Senate TRENTON - A controversial bill to deregulate the telephone and cable industries in the state, which once appeared to be on the fast track to passage, is unlikely to move in the state Senate unless Gov. Chris Christie commits to signing it.

And that does not seem to be happening anytime soon.

“I wouldn’t move it without the governor’s support, because it would be an exercise in futility,” state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (DUnion), a prime sponsor of the bill, said Monday. “Been here, done that.”

Lesniak said Senate President Stephen Sweeney (DGloucester), who con-

trols what bills get posted for a vote, was of the same mind, though Sweeney himself declined to comment.

As for the governor, a spokesman, Kevin Roberts, was equally vague.

“The governor noted at a press conference in the past few weeks that, while philosophically inclined toward less regulation, the devil is always in the details and we will review the legislation in its final form, should the legislature choose to approve it.”

The bill, which sailed through the Assembly in February by a vote of 66-7 with bipartisan support, would remove regula-

tions on the industry that proponents say is intended to modernize the state by making it more competitive and attractive to business.

But consumer groups stepped up the pressure last month and got the Senate to delay a vote on the bill despite assurances by Verizon that rates would not go up for two years.

They contend that the measure would remove many protections that consumers depend on and cause some rates to soar even though the state’s Lifeline program, which provides deeply discounted rates for the poor, would be untouched.

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‘Rio’ rocks box office while ‘Scream 4’ bombs LOS ANGELES — Moviegoers around the world headed to “Rio” for the weekend.

The 3D animated misadventure of a Brazilian macaw scored the biggest opening so far this year at the North American box office, and was the top choice overseas for a second weekend, distributor 20th Century Fox said on Sunday.

The film sold an estimated $40 million worth of tickets across the United States and Canada during the three days beginning April 15, coming in at the top end of expectations.

It also provided some rare good news at the box office where sales so far this year are down 19 percent to $2.65 billion, according to box office analysts at Hollywood.com.

The previous best launch this year was the $38 million bow for the Johnny Depp cartoon “Rango,” which remains the biggest release of 2011 with $119 million.

Actor Tracy Morgan arrives at the premiere of the film “Rio” at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

“Rio” ended the two-week lion weekend in 62 markets. reign of another cartoon, the (Fox earlier estimated a $128 Easter-themed “Hop.” million total.) It opened at Buoyed by strong critical No. 1 in France, and reviews, an “A” rating remained at the top in such among patrons polled by markets as Brazil, Mexico, tracking firm CinemaScore Germany and Spain. Brazil, and the spring break/Easter not surprisingly, is the top holiday, “Rio” should have market overall with sales to little difficulty becoming the date of $18.9 million. year’s first big blockbuster.

“Rio,” which cost about Its foreign haul rose to $90 million to make, revolves $129 million after a $54 mil- around Blu, a rare blue

macaw (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg of “The Social Network”), who returns home to Brazil after a coddled existence as a smuggled pet in the United States. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha, the Rio de Janeiro native behind Fox’s “Ice Age” trilogy. Fox is a unit of News Corp.

Opening at No. 2 in North America with considerably less success was “Scream 4,” the first installment in the horror franchise in 11 years.

The Dimension Films release sold about $19.3 million worth of tickets across the United States and Canada. Industry insiders had expected the bloody reunion of David Arquette, Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell to open in the mid-$20 million range. Dimension is a unit of the closely held Weinstein Co. The best opening in the series was the $34.7 million start for “Scream 3” in 2000, but it quickly stalled and finished up with $89 million —

the worst in the series. The 1996 original was the most successful with sales of $103 million.

“Hop” slipped to No. 3 with $11.2 million, taking its total to $82.6 million. Its foreign total stands at $29.4 million from 45 countries, with 13 still to open. The film was released by Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp-controlled NBC Universal.

The top 10 boasted one other new entry. Robert Redford’s “The Conspirator,” his first directorial outing since the 2007 underperformer “Lions for Lambs,” earned a solid $3.9 million, tying at No. 9 with the comedy flop “Your Highness.”

The Abraham Lincoln assassination drama, one of just a handful of serious, adult-skewing films in theaters, played in just 707 theaters, while the rest of the top 10 averaged about 2,900 each. It was released by closely held Roadside Attractions.

Mariah Carey joins ‘X Factor’ ‘Spider-Man’ musical to re-open in June Following months of rumors, Mariah Carey has reportedly been confirmed as having some kind of “role” on Simon Cowell’s “X Factor.”

For months, Cowell had been shooting down the rumors, citing her pregnancy as a reason she wasn’t being considered. But during a recent radio interview, he admitted that the singer would participate in some way.

“I think Mariah will have a role on the TV live shows,” Cowell confirmed to host Jackie Brown. “I met her recently and she was on great form. And her idea was to be the judge of the judges, which only Mariah could come up with. She’ll be involved in some form. I literally adore her. I love her to bits.”

Carey makes two confirmed participants for the show, with stars such as ex”Idol” co-judge Paula Abdul, Jessica Simpson, Nicki Minaj and UK star Cheryl Cole as rumored judges and Pussycat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger as a potential host. Cowell told Brown that the rumors are being dragged out on purpose.

“The media have got it because our company leaks

any information — if we meet anybody, the whole world knows about it. But I don’t have a problem with that,” Cowell told the Huffington Post in March.

So far, record industry vet Antonio L.A. Reid has been confirmed as a judge for “X Factor.”

Auditions for the show are currently taking place around the country; it begins airing on FOX in September.

A new version of the $70 million Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” with music written

by U2’s Bono and The Edge will open June 14, producers said on Monday.

The most expensive show in Broadway history, the revamped musical will be first shown in previews on May 12. The show has been postponed at least six times due to cost overruns, actors injured during preview performances and director and co-creator Julie Taymor being relieved of duties in March.

The hi-tech musical, which has still been gaining a strong box office despite its problems, closed for three weeks starting Monday for cast and crew to rehearse the new version that has diminished some of Taymor’s vision.

It will also add new songs

by Bono and The Edge, as well as changing the story and some of the choreography.

“We look forward to getting to the finish line with the wonderful new version of ‘Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark’ that is now in the works, with Phil McKinley at the helm,” producers said in a statement.

Patrons wait in line at the box office of the Foxwoods Theater, home to the Broadway play ‘’Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark’’.

McKinley replaced Taymor, the director behind the spectacular reinterpretation of Disney’s hit “Lion King,” after critics had a field day lambasting the stuntpacked tale of a crime-fighting teenager with the superpowers of a spider.

Other setbacks for the show which features complicated flying sequences

included a stuntman injured in December when he fell from a high platform on the stage, and one actress suffered a concussion when she was hit by a rope while offstage.

The injuries caused safety and health officials to order the show’s producers to implement new safety rules.

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‘Treme’ remains riveting in second season

By TIM GOODMAN LOS ANGELES — While it took a couple of seasons for the general public to figure out that David Simon’s “The Wire” was more than just an urban crime drama, there was no such lag in appreciation last year for his HBO follow-up “Treme,” a tasty visual gumbo of sociology, politics, music, race and anthropology.

How could Simon not outdeliver? “Treme” was about New Orleans post-Katrina — a story begging for someone of his journalistic stature to tell its story, much like he did with Baltimore in “The Wire.”

Season 1 of “Treme,” set three months after Katrina, was about what it takes to care enough to rebuild one of the country’s great cities and then to do it. That Simon and fellow producer and New Orleans vet Eric Overmyer pulled it off by letting locals help create the ambience needed (musicians, actors, foodies, local institutions,

etc.) added the authenticity that allowed New Orleans’ natives to hand down their seal of approval.

Season 2, beginning April 24, begins more than a year after Katrina, and New Orleans is no longer frontpage news. But those in the Crescent City are still suffering. Crime is up, help is slow, tourism is way down, and outsiders with money are pouring in to profit from the reconstruction.

There are glimpses of a resurgence a little further down the line. For instance, LaDonna (Khandi Alexander) speaks of the Saints and this new quarterback who might work out (Drew Brees, of course, worked out great, marching the Saints to the promised land of the Super Bowl).

As Season 2 kicks off, we find Toni (Melissa Leo) still trying to fight the good fight but still hurt by the suicide of her husband, Creighton (John Goodman). Daughter Sofia (India Ennenga, now a full-time cast member) has seemingly absorbed her dead

father’s rage and despair over the state of New Orleans, and that puts additional pressure on Toni.

Newly minted Oscar winner Leo, by the way, remains marvelous in everything she does.

Antoine (Wendell Pierce) has designs on starting his own band; Albert (Clarke Peters) is dumped out of the bar he revamped when the owner returns; Albert’s son Delmond (Rob Brown) begins to feel the allure of New Orleans again when his fellow New Yorkers disparage the culture; and Janette (Kim Dickens) also tires of the Big Apple as she works under a demanding but talented chef (Anthony Bourdain has been added to the writing staff, so the kitchen banter and attention to detail is exceptional).

Meanwhile, DJ Davis (Steve Zahn) is still angering his bosses at the radio station, still railing against the dying of the culture, but at least he’s got a blossoming relationship with Annie Tee (the lovely and talented

Creator and executive producer David Simon (L), cast member Wendell Pierce (C) and creator and executive producer Eric Overmyer (R) participate in a panel for HBO’s series “Treme” during the HBO sessions of the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, California.

Lucia Micarelli). Sonny (Michiel Huisman), noted screw-up and Annie’s ex, takes one step forward and two back, as expected. Lt. Colson (David Morse, who also gets upped to full-time cast member) continues to deal with the police department’s handling of crime in the city. And a newcomer from Dallas, Nelson Hidalgo (Jon Seda), adds to the politi-

cal intrigue and race to reshape New Orleans.

Ambitious? As always.

New Orleans has better days ahead, but Simon and Overmyer look to be spending much of Season 2 on the struggle. This is a series primed to rise another notch, and viewers, like the citizens of the Crescent City, should be there for the transformation.

Kanye West saves day, reputation at Coachella

By JEFF MILLER INDIO, California — Kanye West doesn’t have the best track record as a festival attraction: remember the illplanned performance at Bonnaroo 2008 when he emerged hours late to perform a lighting-show-reliant set as the sun came up to a bitter, rapidly-emptying corral of fans.

So, his festival-closing set at Coachella on Sunday was under a fairly intense micro-

scope: Another major screwup in such a high-profile environment would shred his reputation.

Thankfully, that was far from the case. Starting just 15 minutes after his scheduled 10:30 start time (the blame for which rests squarely on other acts earlier in the day), West delivered a grandiose, theatrical performance destined to be remembered as one of the great hip-hop sets of all time.

Every moment of the carefully-choreographed set was

larger than life, beginning with West’s entrance. He rose above the audience via an enormous crane that swung him over nearly the entirety of the main stage’s gigantic swath of real estate while blasting through “Dark Fantasy.”

The high-intensity start was followed by a runthrough of nearly all of West’s hits (“Stronger,” “Gold Digger,” “Through The Wire”) divided into a cinematic, three-part arc that was mostly special-guest free

and hit surprising emotional resonance mid-set, when West declared his Coachella performance the most important to him since his mother’s unexpected death in 2007. The heft of that statement carried through the performance’s end, when West nearly teared up during the poignant “Hey, Mama.”

West’s strength felt needed on a day of mixed performances. Other than a solid, stoned main-stage set from “Black and Yellow” rapper

Halle Berry won’t star in Broadway play Halle Berry will not star in the Broadway production of Katori Hall’s play, “The Mountaintop,” as planned this fall, the show’s producers said.

The stage drama, directed

by Kenny Leon, is to star Samuel L. Jackson as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a fictionalized account of the night before the civil rights activist was assassinated in 1968.

Berry was to play Camae, a maid at Memphis’ Lorraine

Motel where King was killed, but producers told

The New York Times, “Ms. Berry would not be appearing in the role due to child custody issues.”

Berry has been working out arrangements with her ex-boyfriend, French-Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, regarding the custody of their 3-year-old daughter Nahla.

Berry’s replacement is expected to be announced shortly, the Times said.

Wiz Khalifa, not much resonated with the sold-out (if exceedingly tired) crowd. A much-hyped reunion of Canadian rockers Death From Above 1979 turned out to be more noisy than worth making noise about, and LA’s cute Best Coast were just that, no more. Even the National — the moody, dark rockers who seem to be on the verge of a breakthrough — had a hard time connecting, with many fans sitting or sleeping rather than appearing engaged.

Standing above the fray in the evening were Duran Duran, out to re-prove their hipness after years as a state-fair mainstay, and Coachella veterans Chromeo, a Palestinian/Israeli dancepop duo. Both delivered different versions of 1980sstyle, synth-heavy, interaction-encouraged pop (though only one actually helped invent the genre).

The Strokes drew a monstrous crowd, while PJ Harvey attracted considerably fewer fans to a drab, if wellintentioned set that found her playing everything from auto-harp to acoustic guitar.

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Apple sues Samsung, says stop copying us

By DAN LEVINE and MIYOUNG KIM S A N FRANCISCO/SEOUL — Apple Inc. sued Samsung Electronics claiming the South Korean firm’s Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets “slavishly” copies the iPhone and iPad, according to court papers, a move analysts say is aimed at keeping its close rivals at bay.

Apple is one participant in a web of litigation among phone makers and software firms over who owns the patents used in smartphones, as rivals aggressively rush into the smartphone and tablet market which the U.S. firm jumpstarted with iPhone and iPad. Nokia and Apple have sued each other in numerous courts and as recently as last month Nokia filed a complaint with the U.S. trade panel alleging that Apple infringes its patents in iPhones, iPads and other products.

Samsung is one of the fastest growing smartphone makers and has emerged as Apple’s strongest competitor in the booming tablet market with models in three sizes but it remains a distant second in the space.

“If Apple fails to fend off Android, it will within a year or two find itself in a situation like Research in Motion,

Customers look at smartphones behind Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Tab tablet (L) and Apple Inc’s iPad tablet displayed at a registration desk at the headquarters of South Korean mobile carrier KT in Seoul. even if at a higher level (initially),” said Florian Mueller, a technology specialist and blogger on patent battles.

“Apple has realized this already as its new lawsuit against Samsung shows, but given what’s at stake, I think Apple would have to do much more than this. It would have to sue more Android device makers and over more patents.”

Samsung’s Galaxy products use Google’s Android operating system, which directly competes with Apple’s mobile software. However, Apple’s claims against Samsung focus on Galaxy’s design features, such as the look of its screen icons, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit, filed on Friday, alleges Samsung violated Apple’s patents and trademarks.

“This kind of blatant copying is wrong,” Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said in a statement.

Apple is bringing 16 claims against Samsung, including unjust enrichment, trademark infringement and 10 patent claims. “...Samsung has made its Galaxy phones and computer tablet work and look like Apple’s products through widespread patent and trade dress infringement... By this action, Apple seeks to put a stop to Samsung’s illegal conduct and obtain compensation for

Tablet market seen surging to $49 billion by 2015 HELSINKI — The global tablet computer market, born last year with Apple’s iPad, will grow to a $49-billion business by 2015, research firm Strategy Analytics said.

The tablet computer market will become the third largest consumer electronics sector, after televisions and personal computers, the research firm said, forecasting 149 million units will be

sold in 2015, growing eightfold from 2010.

“Tablets are a highvalue casual-computing segment that is creating huge growth opportunities for major brands, such as Apple and Samsung,” said analyst Neil Mawston.

Estimates on market growth vary widely — the view is still only half of Gartner’s 294 million unit forecast for 2015, issued last week.

Apple’s iPad is expected to dominate the market for years, with Samsung Electronics a distant second.

Apple is estimated to have sold about 1 million iPad 2s in the first weekend of its U.S. launch last month. Samsung may have sold a similar number of its Galaxy Tabs in the past three months and sales growth is expected to lag.

the violations that have occurred thus far,” Apple said in the court document.

Samsung’s shares closed up 0.9 percent after slipping to their lowest level in one month in a broader market down 0.7 percent.

Samsung said it would respond to the legal action “through appropriate legal mea-

sures to protect our intellectual property.”

“Samsung’s development of core technologies and strengthening our intellectual property portfolio are keys to our continued success,” it said in a statement.

Samsung faces the challenge of moving beyond being a hardware company, clever at copying ideas, to becoming more creative, better adept at software, at a time when consumer gadgets are getting smarter all the time.

It has yet to come up with the kind of original, iconic, market-leading products that powered brands such as Apple’s i-series or Sony Corp’s Walkman. Nor has it taken the kind of initiatives in software that Google and Apple did to thwart Microsoft.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has criticized Samsung and other rivals in presentations of new products or technology debates. Analysts say Samsung’s response to this has been muted, partly because Apple was Samsung’s secondbiggest customer last year after Sony.

Apple brought in around 6.2 trillion won ($5.7 billion) of sales to Samsung in 2010 mainly by purchasing semiconductors, according to Samsung’s annual report.

John Jackson, an analyst with CCS Insight, said Samsung is essentially Apple’s only real tablet competitor at this stage. “It’s clear that they do not intend to let Apple run away with the category,” Jackson said.

“This is more like a symbolic move by Apple that it is quite serious about rivals advancing and it is trying to hold back its close competitors,” said John Park, an analyst at Daishin Securities in Seoul.

“Samsung is unlikely to respond aggressively given that Apple is its core client in the component business,” Park said.

To better compete with Apple, Samsung redesigned within weeks its new 10.1-inch tablet, first introduced in February, to make it the thinnest in the category after Apple set the trend with its iPad 2.

Survey: Seasoned users shun spontaneity on the Web LONDON — Spontaneous activity on the Internet is on the wane among experienced users as they shun aimless surfing and plan their online sessions more, according to a study published by Microsoft and two agencies.

The survey found that spontaneous use of the Internet fell to 21 percent in 2009/10 according to diaries kept by users in Brazil, Britain, France and Canada from 39 percent in 2007, when a similar survey was conducted in those countries.

Microsoft and its survey partners, mec and Mindshare, attributed the change in usage patterns to a growing resistance among seasoned Inter-

net users to becoming too dependent on the Web, as well as to greater efficiency.

“I’ve stopped bringing my laptop into the bedroom at night, as I would just sit there for hours surfing aimlessly,” said one French user. Another said: “I spend less time on the Internet but I manage to do much more than before.”

In all, more than 7,000 people were surveyed by market research firm Ipsos in 11 countries: in addition to the four above, Spain, Russia, China, India, Japan, Mexico and the United States were added in 2010.

The survey also found that users in emerging economies were far more open to online ads than those

in mature markets.

Respondents in mature markets said there was too much online advertising of every kind, while those in emerging markets said they were happy to see more of several types, especially mapbased ads and video ads.

“When the Internet is a novelty, even advertising is a novelty,” Beth Uyenco, head of research at Microsoft advertising, told Reuters by telephone.

Pop-up ads were the least popular type of online advertising in both mature and emerging markets.

Microsoft made $1.9 billion in revenue from online advertising in 2010, about 3 percent of its total sales.

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Sony Ericsson defies supply setbacks with quarterly profit

By SIMON JOHNSON and TARMO VIRKI STOCKHOLM/HELS INKI — Booming smartphone demand and cost cuts kept cellphone venture Sony Ericsson in the black in the first quarter as it battled supply disruptions from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami.

“The Japan earthquake made it a challenging quarter operationally and we are experiencing some disruptions to our supply chain,” Chief Executive Bert Nordberg said in a

statement.

Sony Ericsson posted a pretax profit of 15 million euros ($21.31 million), beatings an average analyst forecast for a loss of 24 million, but within a wide range of estimates.

Revenue missed forecasts as Sony Ericsson sold just 8.1 million phones in the quarter, below all expectations, and giving it market share of just over 2 percent, the lowest level since the venture was formed 10 years ago.

“These results point to a significant and ongoing impact on Sony Ericsson’s supply chain and operations caused

by the Japan earthquake, with shipments falling a considerable way short of expectations,” said CCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber.

“This is a challenging situation for Sony Ericsson, but with lowered operating expenses and continued improvement to gross margin, it is at least in a better position to weather the storm than it was 12 to 24 months ago,” Blaber said.

Other global companies have also recently highlighted the impact of the earthquake. Earlier on Tuesday Toshiba Corp said its operating profit missed forecasts

due to the disaster, while chip maker Texas Instruments Inc warned overnight of slowerthan-usual quarterly sales growth as it scrambles to restart production.

Japanese component factors will also be in focus in reports from Apple Inc on Wednesday and Nokia Oyj a day later.

Sony Ericsson said in early April the March 11 quake, which hit component supplies for electronics firms around the globe, was limiting volumes in its new smartphone offerings and delayed the wider launch of its neo

Tech firms look to grow gov’t ties for space work

By KAREN JACOBS ATLANTA — U.S. government spending on defense and space is coming under pressure, but some technology companies are finding ways to find new business by providing data services to defense and civil agencies.

Companies such as Iridium Communications Inc, a mobile satellite service provider, want to leverage their technical know-how to meet emerging needs.

In March, Iridium won a $13.4 million Defense Department contract to enhance its Netted Iridium satellite communication system, which powers tactical radios used by more than 5,600 U.S. soldiers.

The radios on the Iridium network can transmit voice or data signals to and from multiple users simultaneously via satellite.

The company is part of an alliance that is urging the government to work with private industry to send sensors and other equipment into space on satellites already built for commercial use.

Such arrangements could be a way for government agencies to gain space-

based data at a fraction of the cost of establishing proprietary satellites.

“There’s going to be a lot of pressure over the next couple of years, which is why we’ve been talking about hosted payloads being so important,” Iridium CEO Matt Desch said in an interview.

Iridium said its nextgeneration satellite system will enable it to offer more data services. Iridium NEXT, which will include 66 operational satellites and six spare satellites in low Earth orbit, is due to be up and operational starting in 2015. The company has reserved space on each satellite for third-party payloads.

While senior U.S. military officials saw the value of so-called hosted payloads on commercial satellites, Desch said, current budget pressures and generally slow decision-making were hindrances to greater government involvement.

Officials “are frustrated in their organization’s ability to react quickly,” Desch said.

Even so, Iridium is eyeing other potential deals. Efforts are under way on behalf of organizations such as the U.S. Federal Aviation Admin-

istration, Eurocontrol and Nav Canada to place a special receiver on Iridium NEXT satellites that would track aircraft movement in real time for air traffic control purposes.

“We estimate that the FAA opportunity alone could generate tens of millions of dollars annually,” Raymond James analyst Chris Quilty said in a note to clients last week.

Inmarsat Plc, an Iridium rival, said the earthquake in Haiti and conflicts in the Middle East spurred government demand for its satellite voice and video transmissions.

“If we find creative ways to bring our services to market, the outlook is actually quite good in that the requirements are not going away,” said Leo Mondale, managing director of the Inmarsat GX wireless broadband network subsidiary.

“There’s an increasing acceptance and even embrace by governments, both defense and civil agencies, of commercial capacity and services as a long-term part of their portfolio,” he said.

Harris Corp, which makes telecommunications gear such as antenna reflectors

deployed on orbit and tactical radios for soldiers that distribute voice and data in an encrypted form, said it won more than $300 million in new spacerelated contracts in the current fiscal year.

Sheldon Fox, president of the government communications systems business at Harris, said government customers were hungry for ways to obtain new capabilities in space without having to launch large new programs.

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Analysts have said this makes 2011 another tough period for the 50-50 venture of Sony and Ericsson, which only returned to profit a year ago after seven straight quarters of losses.

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Sony Ericsson has slashed costs — including cutting around 4,000 jobs — and refocused on higher margin smartphones that link to social networking sites like Facebook.

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NFL sees progress in concussion treatment

By BARRY WILNER NEW YORK - A puzzling decision to let Eagles linebacker Stewart Bradley back into the season opener led to significant improvement in the detection and treatment of concussions during the rest of the 2010 season, a key NFL medical consultant said Monday.

Dr. Richard Ellenbogen cited the way concussions to two Seattle Seahawks were handled in a playoff game at Chicago as proof the league had taken major steps to ensure such injuries are treated properly.

Asked if the incident with a woozy Bradley being allowed back on the field in Philadelphia spurred the improvement, Ellenbogen said in a conference call, “Had that not happened, we may not have had the NFL sideline examination (for concussions) this year.”

The NFL has standardized those examinations for all 32 teams. Ellenbogen, the co-chairman of the league’s head, neck and spine committee, said such standardization “will protect against exactly what happened in Philadelphia.”

During the Eagles’ loss to the Packers, quarterback Kevin Kolb sustained a concussion.

While he was being examined, Bradley also was injured and had staggered off the field.

Yet Bradley soon was back

playing before being removed for the rest of the game.

“That was the exception and not the rule,” said Ellenbogen, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

He then praised the way injuries to Seahawks tight end John Carlson and cornerback Marcus Trufant were handled on Jan. 16, four months later.

Carlson suffered a concussion and was carted off in a situation handled “perfectly,” Ellenbogen said. And when Seattle cornerback Marcus Trufant was hurt soon after, “team physicians and professional athletic trainers were all over that.”

“Remember, when someone is concussed on the field, there are other doctors and trainers watching the game,” he said.

“So when one player gets concussed, we have others who are watching to ensure the situation in Philadelphia will not occur.”

Added Ronnie Barnes, the vice president of medical services for the Giants: “We have any number of trainers and medical staff on the sidelines. You know, we rely on the players quite a bit on concussions. We are constantly assessing players and often we are told by other players: `Watch this guy. He might have a concussion.’ “ That’s a culture change from the macho approach of the past,

one that John Madden sees as a significant step toward improved player safety. The Hall of Fame coach oversees the league’s player safety advisory panel and is encouraged that medical personnel are now charged with decisions about when a player is healthy enough to return to action.

“Taking it out of the coaches’ hands is the way it always should have been,” he said. “I go way back and it was a lack of education when I was coaching.

I am not proud of it, but it’s true. I remember saying (about an injured player), `What happened to him? Good, it’s not a knee or an ankle, it was his head. They will give him smelling salts and he will be back in. Your head will clear up in a couple of minutes and he will be back in.’

“We were all that way. Now, you see the seriousness of it.”

Madden is calling for specific terms that can be used from youth football up to the NFL to describe a player’s health. If the players shouldn’t be on the field, regardless of the injury, they are a “no-go,” Madden said.

“No-go is in the video game and I think it should be used on TV by the commentators,” he said. “Our protocol is the player has to leave the field, be escorted off by team personnel, go into the locker room, and will not be made available to the media.”

Portland coach fined $35,000 Thunder’s go-ahead basket should not have counted-league for comments about officiating NEW YORK - The Oklahoma City Thunder’s goahead basket late in their playoff victory over the Denver Nuggets was offensive basket interference and should not have counted, the NBA said on Monday.

Kendrick Perkins put the Thunder ahead for good in Sunday’s opening game of their first-round series when he tipped in a ball that caromed off the rim with 1:05 to play. Denver players immediately looked to officials to wave it off.

“Kendrick Perkins was improperly credited with a basket that should have been ruled offensive basket interference,” the league said in a statement.

“Although a player is permitted to touch the net while the ball is in the cylinder above the rim, Perkins also touched the ball while it was still in the cylinder which is a violation and constitutes goaltending.”

NEW YORK - Portland Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan was fined $35,000 for criticizing the officiating after his team lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the opening game of their playoff series, the NBA said on Monday.

Following the Mavericks’ 89-81 win on Saturday, McMillan questioned the 29-13 edge in free throws that Dallas enjoyed, including a 19-2 edge in the final quarter.

“Our guys didn’t know how to play with the fouls being called ... a lot of touch fouls,” McMillan said after the game. “It’s hard for our guys to know how to play out there when it’s called a little different.”

When asked about the fine on Monday McMillan said he was surprised because he did not feel he directed his comments at game officials.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Bucs set to play Bears in London in October

LONDON - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play the Chicago Bears at London’s Wembley Stadium in October if the NFL season isn’t altered by a labor dispute.

The league said Monday that the Bucs will return to the British capital for the second time in three years, having lost to the New England Patriots at Wembley in 2009. For the Bears, the game on Oct. 23 will mark the 25th anniversary of having played a preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys at the stadium.

It is the fifth year in a row that the NFL stages a regular-season game in London.

However, the league and its locked-out players have yet to reach a deal on a new labor agreement, meaning the 2011 season could be in jeopardy.

Kentucky G Doron Lamb returning to school LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky freshman Doron Lamb will return for his sophomore season.

The 6-foot-4 guard averaged 12.3 points and shot 48 percent from 3-point range for the Wildcats while helping them to their first Final Four appearance in 13 years. He scored a thenschool freshman record 32 points in a victory over Winthrop in December, a mark later broken by teammate Terrence Jones.

Lamb says the tough loss to Connecticut in the national semifinals and the addition of another top recruiting class next fall are the main reasons he decided to not enter the NBA draft.

It’s still unclear whether Jones, freshman guard Brandon Knight and junior swingman DeAndre Liggins will return next fall.

Underclassmen have until April 24 to enter their names in the draft.

Boston pushes record for Geoffrey Mutai BOSTON — Boston Marathon officials said yesterday they will apply to the international track governing body to have Geoffrey Mutai’s winning time of 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds certified as a world record.

IAAF rules say the Boston course is ineligible to set a record because it is technically downhill.

The course’s layout also allows for a tailwind that wouldn’t be possible on a loop course like the governing body prefers.

But Boston officials say that the 115-year history of the race shows it is not an artificially fast course. The Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathon — older than the IAAF itself.

Mutai and second-place finisher Moses Mosop, both Kenyans, both broke Haile Gebrselassie’s sanctioned world record of 2:03:59.

Heat getting defensive at right time of year MIAMI - Philadelphia closed Game 2 of its Eastern Conference first-round series against Miami by making five straight shots, which saved the 76ers from ignominy.

Only 19 teams in the last 19 seasons had shot less than 30 percent in a playoff game.

And the Heat had the 76ers on the cusp of joining that group, holding Philly to just under 30 percent until the final moments of Monday’s Game 2 romp. Miami won 94-73 to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

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Chapman looks to be back to his old self

By MARK SHELDON CINCINNATI — The radar readings might have been in dispute on Monday, but there was no question that the life was more than back in A r o l d i s C h a p m a n ’s prized left arm.

For the first time since he worked with subpar velocity last Wednesday in San Diego, Chapman emerged from the Reds’ bullpen and worked the ninth inning of a 9-3 loss to the Pirates. It was a 1-23 inning with one strikeout. His first two pitches to Pittsburgh’s Kevin Correia were clocked at 100 mph by Pitch F/X on MLB.com Gameday.

In Chapman’s third pitch to Andrew McCutchen, the scoreboard radar display showed 106 mph, as the crowd cheered. However, the television broadcast radar read 105 mph

and Pitch F/X had Chapman reaching a top speed of 102. Had the 106 mph been legitimate, it would have broken his previous record of 105.1 mph set in September last year in San Diego.

“I feel good. I don’t think my speed away,” went Chapman said through his interpreter, Tomas Vera. “It was just like a normal day, like any other pitcher.

My arm wasn’t feeling as well as it is and that’s it.

My arm never felt bad.”

Chapman was told to rest his arm for a few days because of inflammation after he turned in fastball speeds mainly in the low-to-mid 90s on back-to-back days vs. the Padres. He made only 10 pitches last Wednesday and looked erratic. Catcher Ramon Hernandez alerted the club that afternoon and suggested that Chapman be removed from the game, much to his displeasure.

Chapman downplayed that issue on Monday.

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NFL, players resume courtordered negotiations

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI MINNEAPOLIS - The NFL and its players resumed court-ordered mediation yesterday with a federal judge’s decision expected soon on a request to immediately halt a lockout now in its second month.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones joined the NFL’s contingent in Minneapolis as talks resumed following a three-day break. Jones walked in with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and others, including Denver owner Pat Bowlen and Green Bay Packers CEO Mark Murphy. All declined comment.

DeMaurice Smith, the head of the players’ trade association, did not attend due to a family emergency.

Linebacker Mike Vrabel and Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller were among the players on hand.

The talks are the latest step in the contentious fight over a new collective bargaining agreement. Sixteen days of mediated talks in

Washington fell short, resulting in a classaction antitrust lawsuit filed by the players against the NFL and the league’s first work stoppage since 1987.

Michael Hausfeld, an attorney representing retired players, said both sides are serious about reaching a resolution.

“This is no charade.

This is no illusion. This is going to come to a resolution either by the parties compromising or agreeing or by a judgment,” Hausfeld said yesterday before talks resumed. “And even with a judgment, many times there is then a discussion as to how to compromise the judgment so there is not a winner-take-all situation.

“This takes time. The

court is doing everything within its power to get the parties to realize that.”

When discussions concluded last Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, who is overseeing the sessions, assigned some weekend homework.

Hausfeld walked into the federal courthouse with a document that he estimated at about 100 pages responding to the questions Boylan asked them to answer.

“What this mediation is about, what the dispute is about, is the structure of the game and the relationship between the rookies, the active players, the retirees, with each other and the league,” Hausfeld said. “Those are fundamental.”

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered the talks, which lasted 13 hours over two days last week. Her ruling on the players’ request to lift the lockout is expected any day.

Players including MVP quarterbacks Tom

Brady and Peyton filed the Manning request along with the antitrust claim. The lawsuit has been combined with two other similar claims from retirees, former players and rookiesto-be, with Eller the lead plaintiff in that group.

The prospects of Nelson’s ruling giving one side leverage could influence the mediation, Hausfeld said.

“I hope everyone in the room, owners, active players, rookie representatives and retiree representatives understand that this is a situation that not only involves their interests but the interests of many fans and other people who depend upon the game being played,” Hausfeld said. “And if everyone seriously approaches the issues with the manner in which the court has, then hopefully progress can be made.”

Any decision Nelson makes, Hausfeld said, would certainly be appealed to the federal appellate court in St. Louis.

NHL to r emain with NBC, Versus NEW YORK — The NHL is staying on NBC and Versus for the next 10 years with a deal commissioner Gary Bettman calls the most significant in league history.

In a joint announcement yesterday, the NHL and the NBC Sports Group said the new deal will run through the 2020-21 season. The package is reportedly worth a total of $2 billion.

NBC will remain the exclusive network home for the NHL, and Versus is retaining the major cable rights. The NHL had drawn interest from ESPN, Turner and Fox Sports, but decided to stay where it has been for

the past six years since the end of the season-long lockout.

“This is right across all factors, not the least of which is the tremendous relationship we have with NBC and Versus,” Bettman said. “When we looked at the entire package and the relationship, it was clear we were going to stay with the incumbent.

“But it’s nice to go out and find out you’re pretty.”

For the first time, all Stanley Cup playoff games will air on one of the NBC Sports Group’s channels.

Beginning in the second round and running through the finals, those channels will hold exclusivity. NBC will show up to five games

of the Stanley Cup finals, with Versus airing Games 3 and 4.

The NBC Sports Group will televise 100 regular-season games per season, and NBC will have a new telecast the day after Thanksgiving in the new contract.

This deal would easily exceed the $120 million contract the NHL had with ESPN from 1999-2004.

“We had constructive conversations with the NHL and wish the league continued success,” ESPN said in a statement.

“Everybody has enormous respect for ESPN,” Bettman said. “Six years ago we decided to go in a different direction, for a variety of reasons, and it has worked

well for us. This for us is a great place to be. Versus’ coverage of our game has been extraordinary. Hockey fans have found it and have been telling us on a regular basis that the coverage is terrific, and I think it’s going to get better.”

In the current contract, Versus pays the NHL about $75 million per year but NBC doesn’t pay at all because of a revenue-sharing agreement with the league.

That will now change.

“Our run of not paying anything for a number of years is over with this deal,” said Dick Ebersol, the chairman of the NBC Sports Group. “We are paying a substantial part, not the

majority.”

Bettman didn’t seem concerned about how the payments would be split between NBC and Versus under the umbrella of Comcast Corp., which acquired the majority stake in NBC Universal in January.

“I never had any regrets with the deal we had with NBC,” Bettman said. “As far as we’re concerned it’s one contract. They can whack it up any way they want.”

The NBC Sports Group will obtain digital rights across all platforms for the games it televises. In the regular season, NBC will continue to show a national game of the week and the outdoor Winter Classic.

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Lamar Odom top sixth man S P O R T S BR I E F S Bama’s Mark Ingram says knee is ‘100 percent’

By DAVE MCMENAMIN

LOS ANGELES — Lakers forward Lamar Odom has won the Sixth Man of the Year Award, multiple sources confirmed to ESPNLosAngeles.com.

Odom averaged 14.4 points, 8.7 rebounds and three assists per game while shooting 53 percent from the field, the highest shooting mark of his 12-year career.

The only requirement to win the award is for a player to come in as a reserve more games than he starts. Odom started 35 games and entered off the bench in 47.

When a player is in the playoffs and is in line to win one of the NBA’s annual awards, the league will often schedule the press conference prior to what could potentially be the team’s last home game so that there can be an additional presentation of the award in front on the player’s hometown fans.

The Lakers trail their bestof-seven first round series against the Hornets 1-0 and the series shifts to New Orleans for Games 3 and 4, meaning that tonight’s home game would be the last in the

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Former Alabama tailback Mark Ingram says his knee is “100 percent” healthy.

The 2009 Heisman winner said yesterday he doesn’t know where the reports are coming from that NFL teams are concerned about his surgically repaired knee. Ingrams says that is “false information” and that NFL teams and Dr. James Andrews have “given positive reports on my knee.”

Ingram had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee on Aug. 31, but missed only the first two games. He is projected as a late first-round pick.

Ingram says he has worked out for the Miami Dolphins and visited the St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Redskins and New Orleans Saints.

He’ll be on the cover of NCAA Football 12, EA Sports announced yesterday.

RB Taiwan Jones to visit the Panthers

case of an unlikely sweep by the Hornets.

Earlier in the season Odom said if he ended up winning the award he would place the trophy on the scorer’s table at center court for the duration of the game as a symbol of his appreciation for the fans.

Khloe Kardashian, Odom’s wife and reality TV co-star, tweeted, “Today is going to be an amazing day!!!!!!! I’m so excited!!!!!” yesterday.

Odom is the first player in Lakers history to win the award, which has been presented since 1983. He finished sixth in the voting in 2010.

Odom’s main competition for the award, which was voted on by a panel of 120 media members, included Dallas’ Jason Terry, Boston’s Glen Davis, Oklahoma City’s James Harden and Philadelphia’s Thaddeus Young.

Titans WR Britt makes court appearance

By DAVID PORTER JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A New Jersey prosecutor will review charges against Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt stemming from a traffic stop.

Britt is charged with eluding an officer, hindering apprehension and obstructing governmental function. He was arrested last week in his hometown of Bayonne after police said he drove his Porsche at 71 mph in a 55mph zone and then led police

on a chase.

Britt appeared briefly in municipal court in Jersey City yesterday wearing a dark pinstripe suit over a pink shirt, but he entered no plea. He politely declined to comment outside the courthouse after the hearing. His attorney, John Hughes, also did not comment afterward.

The judge referred the case to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, which will review it and decide how to proceed. Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio

said it could take a few months before the decision is made on whether to present the case to a grand jury for possible indictment.

The three offenses Britt faces carry a maximum prison term of five years apiece upon conviction, but DeFazio said they also carry a presumption of no jail time if the offender has no criminal record, as in Britt’s case. Britt also would be eligible for a pretrial diversionary program that wouldn’t involve jail, DeFazio said.

KU forward Robinson cited for battery LAWRENCE, Kan. Kansas sophomore forward Thomas Robinson has been cited with misdemeanor battery after a fight at a nightclub.

Jerry Little, the city prosecutor in Lawrence, Kan., said yesterday that Robinson is accused of being involved in the April 10 fight. He said offi-

cers served Robinson with the ticket Monday.

Coach Bill Self said he’s aware of the “situation” with Robinson, who notified him immediately after being interviewed by police. Self said Robinson has been cooperating in the investigation.

Robinson averaged 7.6 points and 6.4 rebounds a

game last season, and decided to return to Kansas instead of entering the NBA draft. He missed two games this season when his mother unexpectedly died, leaving Thomas and his 7-year-old sister without a mother or father at home. He also was out three games with meniscus surgery.

Eastern Washington junior running back Taiwan Jones has a visit with the Carolina Panthers, according to a league source with knowledge of the situation.

He also has visits with the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders.

He ran the 40-yard dash between 4.28 and 4.35 seconds at his Pro Day workout, according to a league source who attended the workout.

It was an outstanding performance as Jones also registered a 40-inch vertical leap and an 11-foot broad jump. He had a 42inch vertical leap, but it was scratched due to a foot placement.

Jones has met with the Philadelphia Eagles and has meetings with the Arizona Cardinals, Miami Dolphins and the Kansas City Chiefs.

The majority of his meetings have been conducted on the West Coast. The Carolina Panthers are another team that has interest in Jones.

Jones has rare athleticism as one of the faster players in the draft and has emerged as an potential draft target between the second round and the fourth round. He’s expected to run the 40-yard dash in the 4.35 range.

The 5-foot-11, 194-pounder is scheduled to work out April 14 after being unable to do so during the NFL scouting combine due to a broken left foot suffered last season.

Jones rushed for 1,742 yards and 14 touchdowns last season and was named Big Sky Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year, declaring early for the draft.

A former cornerback, Jones recorded 54 tackles and two blocked kicks before breaking his leg.

Last season, he finished with 2,421 all-purpose yards after generating 2,345 all-purpose yards as a junior and being named third-team All-American.

His first career carry went 87 yards for a touchdown.

In 2008, the San Francisco native returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown.

Kentucky takes ‘great offense’ to Knight statement LEXINGTON, Ky. - Bob Knight is taking aim at Kentucky coach John Calipari once again.

The Hall of Fame coach blasted Calipari’s habit of recruiting players who spend just a year on campus before bolting for the NBA during a speaking engagement in Indiana over the weekend.

During his remarks Knight claimed several players on Kentucky’s 2009-10 roster did not attend class during the spring semester. The Wildcats started five underclassmen last spring, four of whom went on to become first-round NBA draft picks last June. Another freshman, center Daniel Orton, also left early for the NBA. Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart responded on Monday evening, saying the school took “great offense” to Knight’s accusations. He says all five starters last year finished the season in good academic standing.

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