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ABORTED LANDING OF FIRST LADY’S PLANE UNDER INVESTIGATION

Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the rying first lady Michelle Obama because it was too independent National Transportation Safety Board close to a military plane ahead, officials announced. are investigating an aborted landing by a plane carSEE PAGE 3.

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N EW S BR I EF S ASSEMBLYMAN WANTS TO PREVENT REALTORS FROM RENAMING CITY NEIGHBORHOODS Brooklyn Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is trying to prevent realtors from making up new names for neighborhoods.

Jeffries says there have been several recent efforts to change names, including calling a part of Sunset Park “Greenwood Heights,” and a part of Crown Heights “ProCro.” Another example is a billboard advertising a luxury building on West 42nd Street between Ninth and 10th Avenues. The ad says it is in “MiMa,” which stands for “Middle of Manhattan.”

Jeffries says his bill, called the “Neighborhood Integrity Act,” would force realtors to get city approval for name changes.

The assemblyman also wants to prevent realtors from changing borders. He says the realtor Corcoran puts the eastern border for Prospect Heights at Bedford Avenue, which is actually three blocks from its actual border of Washington Avenue.

“Real estate brokers have been changing names and redrawing boundaries and using these tactics as weapons to promote gentrification, and force out working families,” said Jeffries.

“Real estate brokers don’t make up names. These are actually names that have been on the books for years. It’s just that no one’s used them,” said real estate broker Jamal Hasan.

“When we first rented our apartment, it was called Park Slope or Park Slope South. We used to call it ‘SoSoSlo,’ kind of ‘South-SouthSlope. But I think it’s Greenwood Heights,” said a Sunset Park resident.

Corcoran had no comment.

ON-DUTY SANITATION WORKER CHARGED WITH DWI A city sanitation worker has been charged with drunk driving after plowing into oncoming traffic while on-duty in Brooklyn.

Police announced the charges against Sebastian Tritto yesterday.

They say he was driving a sanitation truck on Grand Street near Bushwick Avenue Monday afternoon when he hit a Hyundai headed in the opposite direction.

Police arrested Tritto at the scene.

Both passengers in the Hyundai were taken to the hospital and are in stable condition.

A spokesman for the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association said the incident was unfortunate, and he hopes due process is carried out.

Tritto was suspended without pay.

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U.S. unveils new terrorism alerts, scraps colors WASHINGTON — The Obama administration yesterday unveiled a new warning system to alert Americans about specific terrorism threats, formally pushing the much-ridiculed color-coded warnings into the trash bin.

The new alerts will warn of either an “imminent threat” or an “elevated threat” with a summary of the potential threat as well as an expiration date. They could be extended, but unlike the old system there will not be an over-arching warning.

“The terrorist threat facing our country has evolved significantly over the past 10 years,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a statement. In February she warned the terrorism threat was at its greatest since 2001.

Several attacks have been either disrupted or uncovered in the past few years, including an attempt by al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen last year to detonate toner cartridges packed with explosives aboard U.S.-bound

cargo planes.

The color-coded system adopted after the September 11, 2001 attacks was ridiculed because it failed to provide specific information about potential threats and the levels have not changed since August 2006 despite numerous attempted attacks.

It has been set at orange, or “high” for the U.S. aviation system — a popular target for al Qaeda — and at yellow, or “elevated” for the rest of the country. Napolitano announced plans to scrap that warning system in January.

Under the new system, an “elevated” threat will include a credible threat of terrorism while an “imminent” threat would warn of a credible, specific and impending threat.

The new alerts will include the potential geographic area and the mode of transportation or critical infrastructure potentially targeted in the threat, the Homeland Security Department said. Some alerts may only go to law enforcement or those

directly affected by the threat, rather than the public.

The alerts that are published will be done through the media as well as social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

The Obama administration has been slowly increasing the amount of information it has made public about threats, including warnings last year that anti-American militants may try to stuff explosives in insulated drink containers.

But other plots have gone much further. A Pakistani-born man tried to detonate a car bomb in New York’s Times Square a year ago, but the crude bomb failed to explode and a street vendor alerted authorities.

Further, a Saudi man studying in Texas was discovered earlier this year allegedly trying to build bombs that he could detonate in New York City as well as at former President George W. Bush’s Dallas home. The plot was foiled after tips from a chemical supplier and a freight company.

Kirk sees no single vote for three trade pacts

By DAVID LAWDER WASHINGTON — Trade Representative Ron Kirk yesterday said he will not bundle free-trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama into a single bill for congressional approval, despite Republican pressure to do so.

“It is highly unlikely to zero that they would be (submitted) in one bill,” Kirk told reporters. “We know of no legislative template for an omnibus trade bill.”

The Obama administration’s top trade ambassador said that the Panama and South Korea deals were essentially ready for congressional consideration and technical talks with lawmakers were underway.

Kirk said the process for Colombia also would be started soon, aiming for a vote after mid-June.

Some Republicans in Congress have urged Kirk for a single vote on all three but he said this could complicate the process.

“Even though I’m very confident they’ll pass, we would run the risk of all three being knocked down by a

point of order,” he said, referring to a parliamentary maneuver. “So what we’re talking with Congress about is staging and timing.”

The Obama administration is pushing for approval of the trade pacts by July, because that is when rival free trade deals take effect, including the European Union’s pact with South Korea and Canada’s pact with Colombia. If U.S. deals are not in place by then, U.S. exports to these countries could be put at a disadvantage.

Kirk also said he wanted to work with Congress to approve other leg-

islation on trade adjustment systems and trade preference programs that help developing countries.

“We’ve given notice to Congress that we’re ready to start the informal and formal process on Korea, Panama and soon Colombia, but want it to be part of a holistic strategy that also includes the trade adjustment systems and also the preference programs,” he said.

This would include discussions with Congress on extending the expired Andean Trade Preference Act, which allowed Colombia and other Andean countries to export goods to the United States without paying duties.

Kirk also said he believes there is a more receptive attitude toward more trade deals as a way to boost exports and job growth in the United States.

“What we hope is that we have been able to demonstrate to the American public that there is a way to have fair trade,” he said. “Trade really can be a way to empower us to sell more (abroad) and to create jobs here.”

States in budget paradox: More money, more gaps

By LISA LAMBERT WASHINGTON — Many states are facing a paradox as they prepare for a new fiscal year: their revenues are improving but they still have budget shortfalls, the National Conference of State Legislatures said.

Most states begin their next fiscal year in July, and the group representing state lawmakers found at least 31 states and Puerto Rico expect shortfalls that total $86.1 billion.

Other groups, such as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, put the gaps at more than $100 billion.

“States experienced some significant drops in their revenue base,”

said Arturo Perez, director of the NCSL fiscal affairs division, adding revenues fell so far in the 2007-2009 recession that it may take years for them to return to pre-recession levels.

“They still have a lot of room to grow,” he said.

The shortfalls come after three years of budget holes that states remedied by cutting spending, hiking taxes, borrowing money and turning to the federal government.

All states except Vermont must end their fiscal years with balanced budgets.

That has left them few places to find savings for their new budgets, just as the extraordinary one-time assistance they received from the

federal economic stimulus plan winds down.

So while revenues are rebounding — 38 states say personal income tax collections are meeting or exceeding expectations and 37 say their general sales tax collections have met their targets — they will still have to make tough funding choices.

According to NCSL, 19 states expect their gaps will equal 10 percent or more of their general fund budgets. Two states, Alabama and Nevada, anticipate gaps equal to nearly a third of their budgets.

While California’s shortfall is closer to 28 percent, it has the largest projected deficit in terms of dollars in the country at $27.5 billion, said Perez on a call with reporters.

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Aborted landing of first lady’s plane under investigation WASHINGTON — Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the independent National Transportation Safety Board are investigating an aborted landing by a plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama because it was too close to a military plane ahead, officials announced yesterday.

Neither plane was in danger in the incident Monday at Andrews Air Force Base, according to both agencies.

“We consider any incident like this a serious incident,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in confirming the FAA review. “It’s under investigation, we will get to the bottom of what happened and how it happened, and obviously make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

The FAA said in a statement it will now require supervisory oversight in monitoring flights transporting the vice president or first lady. Such supervision is currently required in monitoring flights carrying the president, the FAA said.

LaHood emphasized that the first lady was never in any danger and said he had yet to hear from either Michelle Obama or the president about it. A senior administration official confirmed yesterday that Jill Biden, the vice president’s wife, also was on the plane as she and the first lady returned from a series of media events supporting military families.

The NTSB also is launching a

probe into Monday’s incident, which occurred “after an air traffic controller had sequenced it too close to another military plane,” the agency said in a statement.

According to the NTSB statement, the plane transporting the first lady — the military version of a Boeing 737 — “was directed to abort its landing attempt after the required minimum separation between it and a C17 military aircraft that was landing ahead of it was compromised.”

It said the incident involved FAA air traffic controllers at the Potomac TRACON regional radar facility in Virginia and the Andrews tower in Maryland.

The planes — which were both trying to land — were three miles apart, when they are supposed to be five miles apart, a senior administration official told CNN. The official added it was believed to be an air traffic controller mistake.

Asked why the separation rules governing plane landings were not followed, LaHood said: “That’s what we’ll figure out in the investigation.”

The FAA said in a statement controllers at the Air Force base instructed an incoming Boeing 737 to perform a “go around” “because the plane did not have the required amount of separation” behind the military plane.

“The aircraft were never in any danger,” the agency said.

The landing was briefly aborted

and the plane carrying the first lady had to circle, according to the senior administration official.

Obama’s plane, known as a C-40, was part of the Air National Guard, not the regular Air Force fleet used

by VIPs at Andrews, said Maj. Michelle Lai of the 89th Airlift Wing at Andrews Air Force Base.

The FAA did not want Obama’s plane to be caught in the “jet wash” of the C-17 as it landed, Lai said, referring to air turbulence trailing in the wake of the plane’s jet engines.

“It’s important to know the FAA made the right call and at no time was the first lady’s life in danger,”

Lai said.

When the Potomac TRACON radar facility handed off the plane to the Andrews Air Force Base tower, the planes were three miles apart, a government official told CNN. “Both facilities knew how far apart they were” at the time of the hand-off, the official said. But the official declined to say why the handoff occurred.

The TRACON could have slowed Obama’s plane down or order it to turn earlier, the official said. Why that wasn’t done is under investigation, but “it was a controlled situation,” the government official said.

The fix is in and don’t blame us, says New York police union

By AMAN ALI Ever since traffic tickets were invented, police officers have been asked to make them disappear for family, politicians and celebrities, a top police union chief said yesterday.

Edward Mullins, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said it’s just a fact of police life and should not be the focus of an ongoing criminal investigation of as many as 400 cops accused of waiv-

ing tickets.

To prove his point, Mullins urged his members to reveal and potentially embarrass the big names who have sought a ticket fix.

A “Wanted” poster on the union website urges police to reveal any requests for “police courtesies,” especially from “high-ranking police officials, elected officials, members of the judiciary, the medical profession or any other persons of notoriety.”

Mullins, a cop for over 30 years,

said it’s unfair to target these officers because it is not uncommon for police to get calls from their bosses instructing them to waive tickets for people.

“These phone calls are as much within the culture of the department as arresting criminals,” Mullins said in an audio recording released yesterday.

“If the culture needs to be changed, then change it. But to criminalize these actions and demonize so many hard working officers

A year after BP spill, U.S. vows to restore Gulf

By CRAIG GUILLOT NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Residents bowed their heads at a sunrise vigil yesterday to mark the anniversary of the massive blowout on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig, which unleashed the biggest maritime oil spill in history and blackened beaches from Texas to Florida.

President Barack Obama vowed to do “whatever is necessary” to restore the U.S. Gulf Coast and to “hold BP and other responsible parties fully accountable for the damage they’ve done and the painful losses that they’ve caused.”

Oil-coated dolphin carcasses and sticky tar balls continue to wash up on beaches a year after the April 20, 2010 explosion which killed 11 workers and sank the Deepwater

Horizon some 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana.

By the time the well was capped 87 days later, 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of oil had gushed out of the runaway well 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

Hundreds of miles of fragile coastal wetlands and beaches were contaminated, a third of the Gulf’s rich U.S. waters were closed to fishing, and the economic costs since have reached into the tens of billions.

Months of uncertainty caused deep emotional trauma for the fishermen and coastal residents who feared their way of life was being destroyed. More than 120,000 people are waiting on compensation claims inching through a clogged system.

“I was very happy, and to have it ripped away from you, it’s like a part of your heart is dead,” said shrimper Dee Poche of Lafitte, Louisiana.

The immediate environmental damage appears to be surprisingly limited — thanks in large part to favorable winds and tides which kept the bulk of the oil from reaching the coast — but scientists warn it’s far too soon to predict what the full impact will be.

“While we’ve made significant progress, the job isn’t done,” Obama said in a statement.

Nearly 2,000 workers remain engaged in the recovery effort — down from a peak of more than 48,000 at the height of the spill — and the goal is to “ensure that the Gulf Coast recovers stronger than before,” Obama said.

is dehumanizing, demeaning and downright wrong.”

Mullins said prosecutors in the Bronx were conducting a probe of officers mostly stationed in the area.

The Bronx prosecutor’s office declined to comment on the investigation and the New York City Police Department did not immediately respond to questions seeking comment.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed to reporters that the investigation was taking place but said police in recent years have implemented “an electronic system where doing this fixing tickets is almost impossible.”

The mayor said, “There’s always the possibility of somebody scamming any system. You can never make it 100 percent bulletproof. But the common practice - or the practice of just calling up and saying, ‘Can you fix a ticket for me?’ really isn’t possible anymore because once something’s in the database electronically somebody that can look to see whether it was removed and go and see why.”

Mullins said labeling police waiving traffic tickets as corrupt is “ludicrous” because they don’t do it in exchange for favors.

“If the truth were to be told, it is hard to call such practices acts of corruption when the culture of extending courtesies to members and their families within the NYPD has existed since the day the very first summons was ever written,” he said.

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Contrary to television “talking heads”, all budgets are not all the same. How private citizens construct budgets is vastly different from how government should do. Household budgets at their best are balanced by not spending more than revenue received. Government budgets are different in that, by providing services to the public, there is not a “zero/sum” construct. Some programs within a federal budget must be preserved for the good of the nation.

In short, politics can be defined as who gets what, and when.

Therefore, budgets drafted by politicians are moral documents, filled with the values of who and what is important.

Such is the backdrop for the raging debate in Congress over America’s federal budget in how to address spending cuts to the “debt ceiling” (America’s credit card) and retain our nation’s bond rating in order to produce lower long-term deficits There are two budgetary views that receive most of the news coverage by commercial television outlets: Those of Democratic and Republican members of Congress.

The Republican budgetary proposal seems to value war and the wealthy. As though imitating “reverse Robin Hood” the Grand Ole Party would take

from the poor and give to the rich. The idea of “trickle down” economics where the rich get richer, and somehow stimulate the economy to share their money with the less fortunate has been proven untrue during the past 30 years. In the spirit of President Ronald Reagan who coined the phrase “starve the beast”, Republican leaders today intend to use the federal budget to dramatically reduce programs established for the dispossessed and downtrodden.

Another popular phrase used

by Republicans is to “shrink the size of government.” Yeah, right!

If such a philosophy of “smaller government” were taken to its nonsensical conclusion, we would have less post offices, interstate highways, traffic lights, and police and fire departments. Not good.

Democrats, on the other side of the political aisle, seem to favor cutting programs for the poor underprivileged within the national budget, but by less than the Republicans’ plan.

Thus, top Democrats propose to place “everything [programs] on the table for cutting.” The one major point of the Democrat’s plan I believe will be beneficial to the nation is the proposed repeal of Bush-era tax cuts to millionaires (top 2% wealthy in the nation).

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In today’s budget proposal battle, the nation may well need “door number three”, by way of the proposed budget offered by the Progressive Caucus of the United States Congress. Unlike proposals thrown by the Democrats and Republicans, the Progressive Caucuses “People’s Budget” would preserve needy domestic programs and cut programs for the greedy.

For example, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Planned Parenthood would be left in tact. Moreover, the “public option” would give Americans the choice of selecting a health plan provided, in part, by the government that would cost less than those provided by private health providers. The “People’s Budget” would cut costly programs such as military ones within the Department of Defense and millionaires would be forced to pay their fair share in taxes.

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The American people should value the People’s Budget offered by the Progressive Caucus within the Congress. Ask your representative is he or she is a member of the Progressive Caucus.

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Black America meets lacrosse

By HARRY C. ALFORD This game is fascinating!

Lacrosse was invented by Native Americans around 500 AD. It has evolved into a national sport touted by the American elite and is now crossing into Black America. It is somewhere between football and hockey. The Algonquin tribe played it during spring and summer and then would play hockey during fall and winter. Today, colleges are starting clubs and teams. There is an organized body by the NCAA that manages national championships. It has been previously ignored by Black communities because of the cost of equipment and lack of television exposure. That has changed.

The first Black to excel in Lacrosse was football legend Jim Brown. He played it while growing up on Long Island, New York and continued as a side sport at Syracuse University.

Later, Morgan State, the great HBCU in Baltimore, Maryland, had a team organized by a guy named Harrison.

Kyle Harrison, his son, would later become a great in the sport and motivated my sons, Thomas and Harry III to jump in and do their best at it.

It was 1994 and we had just moved to Washington, D.C. to start the National Black Chamber of Com-

merce®. We were staying in a motel on Georgetown University’s campus and our twin sons went out to play.

They ran into a practice by the Georgetown lacrosse team and became very curious.

They approached the players and questioned what they were doing. The gracious players explained the sport and gave them about a dozen lacrosse balls. From that point on, lacrosse would be in the veins of the Alford family. We bought them sticks the next week and entered them into local lacrosse leagues. Their school, St. Albans, was fanatical about lacrosse so it was a natural fit. Little did we know that they would become lacrosse stars. My thing was football, University of Wisconsin, but lacrosse would supersede their football accomplishments.

A Black playing lacrosse was novel but to have twin Blacks playing and excelling in it was worthy of Washington Post tracking. Harry III was a goalie and started varsity his freshman year. Thomas joined him on varsity his sophomore year. They kicked butt!!! The thing I am most proud of is that they inspired other Black kids to jump into the game.

The most significant thing about lacrosse is that major schools offer scholarships in it. My boys went to the University of Maryland, one of

What about the workers?

By JULIANNE MALVEAUX President Barack Obama is adept at walking a tightrope.

That’s what he did last week when he talked about the budget, chastising both Democrats and Republicans.

He spoke to the need for government to stand in the gap for the needy even as he understood the ramifications of the Ryan budget.

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee, is bound and determined to reduce the size of government. He will do it on the backs of the poor and the needy, and he will, if he has his way, eviscerate the role that government plays in providing a safety net for those at the bottom.

President Obama has to negotiate all of this. He is in charge, but then he isn’t. His bosses, the folks that he has to run stuff by, are not in his corner. He can’t appoint a cabinet member without getting approval from people who have openly said they are not in his corner. He has veto power, but there are but so many vetoes he can manage. He is in charge, he is not in charge.

Let’s add, or let’s not add, the matter of race. These Tea Party people seem committed to ideas and

ideals, but there is a race component to the ways that they approach this president.

When people say they want to take our country back, I wonder what they want to take it back to, especially when there is this celebration of the Civil War that I, frankly, cannot understand. Why are we celebrating renegade states that chose to leave our union because they felt that strongly about slavery? Is there no sensitivity to those who are descendents of slaves?

Back to the budget. Back to the funding cuts. Back to the exaggerations about the many ways we are on a “spending spree”. If we tell the truth and shame the devil, former President Bill Clinton racked up a surplus that President Bush spent profligately. And now, in the middle of an economic crisis, when spending is necessary to stimulate the economy, the same Republicans who encouraged the Bush spending are now crying foul.

Those Republicans who are toe-

the greatest institutions on earth, via lacrosse scholarships. It saved me and mama hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Harry and Thomas love lacrosse and are thankful of the opportunities it provided them. Graduating on the Dean’s List and making relationships with powerful figures that are just bringing in the dividends. Now, they want to give back and alert Black communities everywhere that lacrosse is an avenue to success. It has come a long way just within our experience.

There is now a Black Hall of Fame for lacrosse. Of course, Jim Brown is the headliner. Mr. Harrison’s son, Kyle, is the biggest star right now.

He makes $1 million plus in endorsements and promotions for the sport.

My Thomas idolized him in high school and during his freshman year at Maryland he had the challenge of facing off with him when they played John Hopkins University.

He learned a lot that day.

Lacrosse has become our sons’ business. They have a website devoted to the sport: www.lacrosseplayground.com.

Advertisements are coming in exponentially. It is the second most popular lacrosse website in the world. Only ESPN has a larger website. They also have a lacrosse fashion line known as Lacrosse and ing the line on spending correctly note that we are borrowing about 43 cents for every dollar we spend.

Yet, they don’t note that this amount ebbs and flows with the business cycle. Further, programs like the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which hires poor seniors to work and earn, will be cut by nearly half, putting at least 50,000 poor old people out of work. Is this compassionate? Does it reflect our national values?

Should it actually occur?

Indeed, if we are really concerned about our budget shouldn’t we be creating jobs, not eliminating them? There are 14 million officially unemployed Americans, half of whom have not worked for more than half a year. They are struggling, scrapings, trying their best to survive. And, they aren’t paying taxes or anything else.

Why not put them to work, make an investment in their survival and then, indirectly, in the survival of our nation? Because if we don’t put people to work now, there will be nowhere to work later. We are being battered by the rest of the world, and we refuse to make the same investment in the future that they have made.

We are like

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Co. where they sell leisurewear featuring the sport. Yes, they are making money but they are also busy alerting our people about the advantages of the game.

Harry III has introduced it to the Washington, D.C. public school system. Last year, he and his high school team mate, Lucious Polk, became the coaches for Wilson High School. This year there are now four D.C. schools playing it. A couple of charter schools have started teams and even Oxon Hill high school in Prince Georges County, Maryland is now in the house. It is spreading across the nation. Birmingham, Alabama has Black high school teams now and they even made a visit to D.C. to play against Harry’s Wilson team. Thomas is an assistant coach at Gonzaga High School, which won the Catholic League last year. He is keen on spotting good Black talent and alerting key college recruiters about them. That is making a difference.

Lacrosse can pay the tuition. As a Birmingham parent noted, “I was thinking of Troy St. or Talladega for my baby. Now, we are looking at Duke, University of North Carolina, and Vanderbilt. There is a big difference.” We can’t all play football or basketball. Look at lacrosse y’all.

— Mr. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®.

Website: www.nationalbcc.org.

Email: halford@nationalbcc.org. greedy farmers eating our seed corn today instead of investing in tomorrow. And, our young people will resent our decisions as we move into the future.

We spend more on the elderly than we do on youth. I am at the age when I look forward to the possibility of social security, but I do not look forward to the possibility that the young person who tends to me in a nursing home will drop me out of the pique if she feels that I was part of a generation that did not invest in her future.

Respecting our president, as I do, I understand that he offers, in Cornel West’s words, “Hope on a Tightrope”. Still, what about our nation’s workers? What about our students? What about the young people who have been kicked to the curb by a series of budget choices?

What about the elderly poor? Why has defense (which could be called an offense) been taken off the table when we speak of budget cuts?

— Julianne Malveaux is President of Bennett College for Women and author of Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History (www.lastwordprod.com).

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Thousands show up to apply for fast-food ‘McJobs’

By ERIC JOHNSON CHICAGO — They may be mostly the kind of low-wage positions disparaged by some highly paid economists and politicians as “McJobs,” but they drew a torrent of eager job-seekers on Tuesday to the world’s leading hamburger chain.

Kicking off a hiring binge it insisted was no publicity stunt, McDonald’s Corp said it was inundated with applications for some 50,000 newly posted jobs at its 14,000 U.S. restaurants.

“It was positively overwhelming,” said one McDonald’s employee in New York who asked not to be identified. “We knew national hiring day was going to be suc-

cessful and prepared for lines of folks, and we were amazed by the turnout and the excitement.”

Crowds of would-be burg-

er flippers showed up to apply at one McDonald’s in Newark, New Jersey, said Cheryll Forsatz, a spokeswoman for the fast-food

chain in New Jersey. Onehundred applied at a store in Cincinnati, Ohio, and hundreds turned up in Tampa, Florida, company officials said.

McDonald’s said the jobs on offer ranged from kitchen and cashier positions paying minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to salaried managerial posts paying up to $50,000 annually.

Spokeswoman Nicole Curtin said the jobs are not just temporary summer positions.

“The summer is certainly busy, but these are on-going, nonseasonal positions,” she said.

The company used social media to help drive applicants to their website, where they could apply for the jobs.

“I think social media has played a large part in this.

We are in the hundreds and hundreds of re-tweets — all about today’s effort,” Curtin said.

McDonald’s said it would not know until later how many applications were received, or how many were hired for entry-level jobs.

The company said some 75 percent of their restaurant managers and 40 percent of corporate employees started out as lower-level restaurant workers.

Talk-show host Jay Leno, actress Sharon Stone, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Olympic champion Carl Lewis all worked at McDonald’s before they became famous, according to the company’s website.

Prosecutor tries to stop Koran-burning pastor

By BERNIE WOODALL DETROIT — A Detroit prosecutor has filed a petition in district court to stop a Florida fundamentalist Christian preacher, who recently caused riots in Afghanistan after he burned a Koran, from holding a rally outside a large Michigan mosque.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the threat of violence was too great to allow Terry Jones to hold the planned gathering tomorrow near the Islamic Center of America — the largest U.S. mosque — in the heavily Muslim Detroit suburb of Dearborn.

A hearing on Worthy’s bid to block Jones and his supporters from holding the rally at the mosque was held on Thursday in a Dearborn court. The petition is dated April 15.

Jones, in a telephone interview with Reuters, said he will proceed with tomorrow’s demonstration in front of the mosque regardless of what the court decides.

“That’s absolutely ridiculous to us,” Jones said of the so-called “free speech zones” away from the mosque that city officials want him to use. “For one thing, I think that’s totally unconstitutional.”

He also said that he will not pay a “peace bond” to cover costs of police security for the demonstration,

which was sent to him by Dearborn officials.

He said he has heard that the bond is as high as $100,000, but the papers he has show that it is to cover all costs of holding the demonstration.

Prosecutors argue that the planned gathering by Jones could incite a riot, citing hundreds of email death threats against the preacher.

Jones said he wants to provoke no one, but he will be packing his gun for his own protection. He will appear tomorrow, he said

with another man from his church and “five or six” supporters in Michigan.

“I have a .40-caliber semiautomatic and a concealed license permit, and I will be wearing that,” Jones said.

“There will be no provocative actions from us. We are coming in peace.”

More than 20 people were killed and dozens injured when riots erupted in Afghanistan after Jones burned a Koran on March 20 inside his Gainesville, Florida, church.

Jones claims he is protesting only against radical

Muslims and is not against all who practice Islam.

In a city north of Kandahar earlier this month, seven foreign U.N. staff and five Afghan protesters were killed after demonstrators overran a U.N. office.

Worthy’s filing cites the deaths that followed the March 20 Koran burning.

The 58-year-old Jones, the head of a small church called the Dove World Outreach Center, drew worldwide condemnation in September over his initial plans to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the Septem-

ber 11, 2001, attacks.

He backed down after pleas from the U.S. government and other world officials, but then presided over a March 20 mock trial of the Koran that included a torching of the book.

Jones has called his demonstration “Stand Up America Now.” Local demonstrators in Michigan plan a counter rally under the banner “Stop the Hate.”

Jones plans to hold his gathering on Good Friday, the day that Christians honor the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Tornadoes, storms again lash the Midwest and South CHICAGO — Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes tore across the Midwest and South bringing wind gusts and hail and snapping trees and damaging houses, authorities said yesterday.

Accuweather meteorologists said 33 tornado sightings were unofficially reported from Oklahoma to Ohio from Tuesday night through yesterday morning.

There were no deaths reported from the outbreak of severe weather that triggered tornado warnings from Texas to Indiana and across the South, including areas hit by storms last week that killed at least 47 people, including 24 in North Carolina alone.

Three tornadoes struck in Arkansas on Tuesday night, downing trees and power

lines and causing structural damage but no reported fatalities or injuries, according to the National Weather Service in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Last week’s storms caused at least seven deaths in Arkansas, with Little Rock hard it. Deaths also occurred in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Virginia.

In Tennessee, 11 tornado warnings were issued from Tuesday night to yesterday morning with no reported touchdowns, but 19 homes were destroyed or damaged in the middle and western parts of the state, said Dean Flener, spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.

High winds damaged the city hall roof in Milan, Ten-

nessee, knocking down trees and powerlines throughout Gibson County, Milan city recorder Julienne Hart said.

“Compared to a lot of people, we were lucky,” Hart said.

Thousands of Tennessee residents remained without power yesterday across the state, officials said. Austin Peay State University planned to open at noon yesterday.

The National Weather Service also warned of possible severe storms across Mississippi yesterday afternoon and evening that could bring large hail, heavy rains and winds up to 60 miles per hour.

In the upper Midwest, a late April storm ran from northern Iowa across to Michigan late Tuesday and

into yesterday.

Reported snowfalls ranged from nearly 7 inches in parts of southeast Minnesota, to 9.9 inches in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and 7 to nearly 10 inches in several areas of Michigan, the National Weather Service said.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday night gave a federal disaster declaration to 10 of the hardest-hit counties in North Carolina from last week.

The toll in North Carolina included 133 injuries, 439 homes destroyed and nearly 6,200 other homes with significant damage, according to state emergency officials.

Some 21 businesses were destroyed and 92 damaged, Gov. Beverly Perdue said yesterday.

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COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

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Jazz! The Women' s Viewpoint Jazz! The Women' s Viewpoint is an annual forum conceived by the late Rosalind Blair, who created the program in 1999 when she joined Alma Carroll (wife of the late Joe Carroll), Torrie McCartney (activist and vocalist) and other members of the Central ]azz Brooklyn Consortium in presenting the first Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival.

In her memory, Jazz!

The Women's Viewpoint continues to live on.

An amazing array of talented women have gathered every year to celebrate the music and themselves. What began as a discussion between wives and family members, has expanded to include talented musicians, vocalists and poets. Past participants have included Marl Toussaint, Carline Ray, Evelyn Blakely, Keisha St. Joan, Alma Dixon, Jayne Cortez, Lil Phillips, Lekecia Benjamin, Valerie Capers, Judy Bady, Tia Fuller, Amina Baraka, Melba Joyce, Charenee Wade, Kim Clarke, Sandy Jordan, Ntozake Shange, and Mickey Davidson. Each program has provided

P h o t o b y L e m P e t ek i n Moderator Bertha Hope

P h ot o b y L e m Pe te kin Panelists Patsy Grant, Beateather Reddy and Cynthia Scott

P h ot o b y L e m Pe te kin Goussy Celestin Piano, Laura Ho Bass guitar and Lucianna Paddmore Drums.

New Teacher Evaluation System on its Way Down From Albany

By C. ZAWADI MORRIS Measures are being developed in Albany right now for evaluating teachers, a new system that will begin to take effect in the upcoming school year.

Yes, new teacher evaluations are coming. In fact, the debate about whether or not they should exist was never really in question, as the evaluations have existed all along.

What was in question was whether or not to tie teacher performance with student performance.

Part of the requirements of the $700 million Race to the Top grant money the state won last summer was that the governor enact statewide aggressive measures for new teacher evaluation systems tied in with student performance, amongst other things, including the adoption of a common core curriculum and raising

the cap on the number of charter schools.

And although the teacher’s union has done all it can to push back against many of these measures, ultimately, it is forced to negotiate terms, if the schools expect to get any of the grant money.

Now, however, the big debate is exactly how teachers should be evaluated, and also, whether it should be uniform across the state or determined by each district.

The evaluations will be a factor in whether a teacher gets promoted, tenured or terminated, allowing the city to also tie lay-offs with teacher performance and doing away with the seniority-based “lastin, first-out” layoff system.

So Mayor Bloomberg will get his way-just not in time for the impending layoff of 4,000 teachers at the end of the school year, as union representatives and state agencies continue to hammer out the details of how it will work.

The State Education

Department is asking for public comments on the regulations by April 29 — just two weeks from the date they were issued. The Board of Regents will discuss the regulations at its May meeting.

Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said the implementation of the new law would not be perfect at the beginning: “This is going to take a lot of professional development, a lot of districts working collaboratively,” she said on Monday.

“But we simply must start. We simply have to forge ahead.”

It will take some time to develop a viable growth model to show a teacher’s impact on a student’s ability to grow, said Richard Iannuzzi, president of The New York State United Teachers. The union is asking for the comment period to be extended past April 29. The regulations were released a few days ago and many schools are on spring break this week, he said.

P h o t o b y L e m P e t ek i n The Jazz people Black women in Jazz a al development, and place to share their cre- business and manageative expression, person- ment acumen.

On-Duty S a n i t a t i o n Wo r k e r Char ged Wi th DWI A city sanitation worker has been charged with drunk driving after plowing into oncoming traffic while on-duty in Brooklyn.

Police announced the charges against Sebastian Tritto today.

They say he was driving a sanitation truck on Grand Street near Bushwick Avenue Monday afternoon when he hit a Hyundai headed in the opposite direction.

Police arrested Tritto at the scene.

Both passengers in the Hyundai were taken to the hospital and are in stable condition.

A spokesman for the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association said the incident was unfortunate, and he hopes due process is carried out.

Tritto was suspended without pay.

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Nigerian unrest ‘kills more than 200’

By AMINU ABUBAKAR KANO, Nigeria Post-poll unrest in Nigeria has killed more than 200 people, a rights group said yesterday, as the Muslim opposition candidate who lost the election rejected the results but urged calm.

Aid workers rushed to help nearly 40,000 displaced, many of whom had taken refuge in military and police barracks, while victims being treated in hospitals spoke of being hacked with machetes and beaten with clubs.

Authorities say many were killed in the violence, which saw corpses burnt beyond recognition and bodies reportedly thrown into wells, but have refused to give a toll, saying it could spark reprisals and would be inaccurate.

A well-known Nigerian civil rights group based in the northern city of Kaduna put the toll at more than 200 across the north.

“In the whole region, from reports reaching Civil Rights Congress, the death toll is over 200,” Shehu Sani, head of the organisation, told AFP. The numbers were compiled through his organisation’s staff and

associates.

He added that more than 1,000 people had been arrested in the city of Kaduna alone, where a 24-hour curfew had earlier gone into effect.

There were reports of fresh clashes in an area of the state of Kaduna overnight, with a community leader telling local radio “the killing was unbelievable and the destruction is colossal.”

One government official, explaining authorities’ reluctance to release an overall death toll since the vote on Saturday, said, “I wouldn’t like to use the term massacre... some places it was terrible.”

Curfews and military patrols appeared to have brought an uneasy calm to some areas yesterday as many who fled slept in the open under trees at military and police barracks.

The Red Cross said it had counted around 410 people wounded in the violence that began sporadically in the country’s mainly Muslim north before spreading to some 14 states on Monday.

It has also said there were many dead but has declined to give a number.

Victims being treated at the main hospital in the northern city of Kano spoke of being attacked with machetes

Youths stage running battles with soldiers in the northern city of Kano shortly after Goodluck Jonathan was declared the winner of Nigeria's presidential election. Post-poll unrest in Nigeria has killed more than 200 people, a rights group said, as the Muslim opposition candidate who lost the election rejected the results but urged calm.

Photo/Seyllou Diallo or clubs. One man said he was pulled out of his corner shop by dozens of youths, who looted and burnt his business.

“Somebody used his machete to hit me on the forehead the first time, and the second time I tried to use my hand to protect my head and I sustained a big cut,” 42-year-old Rotimi Ajayi said, bandages on his head and arm.

The number of displaced had increased to 39,700, Red Cross disaster management coordinator Umar Abdul Mairiga told AFP. The Red Cross has warned that the slow arrival of aid to those displaced by the unrest was causing anger to build, but a spokesman for the national emer-

Raw camel liver: breakfast of champions in Sudan

By DEEPA BABINGTON TAMBUL, Sudan Bloodied chunks of raw liver from a freshly slaughtered camel may not be the idea of an appetizing breakfast for most, but for some in northern Sudan there is no better way to start the day.

In Tambul, a village of low mud and stone houses off a dirt track lined only with the occasional donkey carcass, the camel market is where raw liver aficionados gather for their weekly fix of the local delicacy.

At the crack of dawn on Saturday, Mubarak

Mohammed Ahmed, 57, stood waiting by the main highway from Khartoum, hoping to hitch a ride to the market for a liver breakfast.

Like many others in the area, he swears the dish offers an array of health benefits — though some of the claims may be debatable at best.

“If I eat liver, I can stay out in the sun for a long time without feeling tired,” said Ahmed, which would be nothing short of a miracle under the merciless Sudanese sun.

“It gives me a lot of energy and it improves my mood.”

At her small tea shack with green walls and a few plastic chairs,

Mariam Bakhit gives a large hunk of camel liver a quick rinse before mixing it with a dash of lemon, peanut sauce and diced onions in a bowl with her fingers.

“It’s best if you don’t wash the liver, but if you must, you should do it just once to get the most of its benefits,” Bakhit said as she set out the dish with a side of chillies and lime.

Eaten directly from a communal bowl with one’s fingers, the liver tastes crunchy despite its gelatin-like texture.

The hint of peanut sauce and lemon do little to mask the feeling that one is, well, eating the uncooked insides of a camel.

gency management agency said help was being hurriedly organised.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is roughly divided in half between a mainly Muslim north and predominately Christian south.

The north, on the edge of the Sahara, has long been economically marginalised when compared to the oil-rich south, fueling resentment and divisions that Saturday’s elections helped expose.

Authorities have however argued that the rioting was not based on religion or ethnicity but was instigated by those unhappy with the victory of incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian.

Jonathan took over in May 2010 following the death of his predecessor Umaru Yar’Adua, a northern Muslim who had not finished his first term, prompting bitterness in the north over its loss of power.

In the most intense rioting Monday, mobs roamed the streets with machetes and clubs, pulling people out of cars and setting homes on fire. Reprisal attacks worsened the situation.

The main opposition presidential candidate, ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, has alleged widespread irregularities in the election but urged calm and said he would pursue his complaints through legal means.

In some areas “our supporters weren’t allowed to vote,” the

northerner told Voice of America radio’s Hausalanguage service.

Jonathan was declared the winner with 57 percent of the ballots, easily beating Buhari with 31 percent.

While the rioting began over allegations that Jonathan’s party had sought to rig the vote, the situation appeared more complex in some areas.

In remote parts of Kaduna state, residents alleged Christians had initiated the violence, leading to clashes police were unable to control.

There were also indications that Muslims were being targeted in areas of the southeast and seeking refuge in military barracks, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.

Despite the post-poll violence, observers have hailed the conduct of the vote as a major step forward for a nation with a history of violent and deeply flawed elections, while noting serious problems remained.

Officials: US to give Libyan rebels non-lethal aid

By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON The Obama administration plans to give the Libyan opposition $25 million in non-lethal assistance after weeks of assessing their capabilities and intentions, U.S. officials said yesterday.

Under a plan recommended to President Barack Obama, the administration will use so-called “drawdown authority” to provide the opposition with up to $25 million in surplus items to help protect civilians in rebel-

held areas threatened by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, the officials said.

Congress was briefed on Tuesday.

The items may include vehicles, fuel trucks and portable fuel storage tanks, ambulances, medical equipment, protective vests, binoculars and nonsecure radios, according to a notice sent to lawmakers and obtained by The Associated Press.

“There is an urgency in providing these commodities,” the notice said.

The authority to use excess supplies to help the rebels applies across all government agencies, but most of the aid is expected to come

from Pentagon stocks, the officials said.

It was not immediately clear when Obama would sign off on the recommendation, which does not need congressional approval.

The assistance will be sent to the Libyan people through the Transitional National Council, an opposition umbrella organization based in the port city of Benghazi, the officials said.

Gene Cretz, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, briefed Congress on the administration’s plans on Tuesday, the officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the aid.

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Libya rebels report fierce fighting in Misrata

By MICHAEL GEORGY MISRATA, Libya Rebels said they fought fierce clashes with progovernment troops in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata yesterday, and eight people had been killed the previous day, mostly civilians.

Libya’s third-largest city, the insurgents’ last major stronghold in the west of the country, has been under siege for more than seven weeks.

Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed in the city of 300,000, where aid groups say the humanitarian situation is worsening with a lack of food and medical supplies. Thousands of stranded foreign migrant workers are awaiting rescue in the city’s port area.

“Fierce fighting is taking place now on Nakl el Thequeel road which leads to the port. Gaddafi forces have been trying to control this road to isolate the city,” Abdelsalam, a rebel spokesman, said.

“NATO warplanes are flying over Misrata but I do not know if there are strikes,” he said by phone from the city.

“NATO has been inefficient in Misrata. NATO has completely failed to change things on the ground.”

He said “violent fighting” had also erupted on Tripoli Street, a main thoroughfare and another key battleground, in the morning.

“I’m hearing explosions now. A large number of snipers are positioned there,” Abdelsalam said. “Civilians can not come out for fear of being shot dead.”

Libyan officials say they are fighting militia with ties to al Qaeda bent on destroying the country, and deny government troops are shelling Misrata and its civilians.

MIGRANTS EVACUATED Rebel claims of gains on the ground in recent days — despite heavy shelling by government forces at times — have not been verified independently.

The rebels “are now controlling 50 percent of the street. The other 50 percent is controlled by Gaddafi soldiers and snipers,” another

rebel spokesman, Reda, said, referring to Tripoli Street.

Like Abdelsalam, he only gave his first name.

Reda said the area near the city’s port — a rebel-held zone that is a lifeline for trapped civilians and for badly needed food and medical supplies — was calm yesterday morning and ships were able to dock.

“A Turkish ship carrying humanitarian aid arrived there about 30 minutes ago.

Two Qatari ships were in yesterday. They evacuated around 1,500 Africans,” Reda said, referring to migrant workers desperately trying to flee Misrata.

A said a ship bringing humanitarian aid to Misrata arrived in the port yesterday aiming to evacuate more stranded migrants, estimated to number around 5,000 in the port area.

“We don’t know whether we will be able to reach them, however,” said Jeremy Haslam of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in a statement. “If they are not close to the port, then it will be extremely hard to access them given the security conditions in the city.”

Satellite images: 350 buildings burned in Sudan

By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED NAIROBI, Kenya - A Southern Sudanese official says 20 people were killed in a village attack in which an advocacy group says satellite images show more than 350 structures were burned, and officials said yesterday that three people died in a separate incident after their vehicle struck a land mine near a disputed region.

The Satellite Sentinel Project, a group backed by actor George Clooney, said Monday that analysis of images taken by DigitalGlobe indicated that at least 356 structures had been burnt at el-Feid village in the Nuba Mountains of southern Kordofan state. Kordofan is scheduled to hold an election for state governor in May. Southern Sudan has seen a sharp increase in violence since a January referendum in which the region voted to

secede from the north. The referendum was part of a 2005 peace deal ending a twodecade civil war that cost some 2 million lives. Southern Sudan is scheduled to become independent in July.

The two front-runners in the governor’s race - incumbent Ahmed Haroun and Abdelaziz al-Hilu - blamed each other for the attack.

Al-Hilu, who is backed by Southern Sudan’s government, accused a militia aligned with the northern government and under Haroun’s command, the Popular Defense Force, of attacking el-Feid and the nearby village of Um Barmbita on April 13.

According to the Satellite Sentinel Project, al-Hilu also alleged that attackers burned between 300 to 500 houses and reportedly killed more than 20 people, including women and children.

The Associated Press was not able to independently confirm the death toll.

The project said Sudan’s ruling party denied the accusation, saying the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement instigated the attack to stoke tensions.

Haroun is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of war crimes for his role in the ongoing conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur.

Last month, the project reported around 300 buildings had been burned in a village near the town of Abyei, a disputed area between north and south Sudan that is the most contentious issue between the two regions.

Abyei has seen a wave of attacks in recent days that have killed more than 100 people and sent tens of thousands of people fleeing the area.

In the latest violence, three people were killed when their truck hit a land mine near the contested Abyei region, local policeman Gatluak Bol said yesterday.

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K eny a, U ganda pr o te st as m ai ze pric es s ky r oc ket

By JASON STRAZIUSO & TOM ODULA

NAIROBI, Kenya - Stephen Omandi scratched out the number “55” on the sign advertising buckets of maize and wrote in the new price: 60 Kenya shillings.

The price hike amounted to only $0.06. But for the residents of Nairobi’s largest slum, where most people live on $1 a day, that 10 percent increase is enough to make the essential food stuff unaffordable.

“We haven’t gotten many customers because they complain, ‘Why have you increased the price?’” said Omandi. “Five shillings. It’s a lot of money, because many people could not afford it at 55, and now it’s 60.”

Food prices are rising across the globe, driven in part by the higher transport costs that accompany rising oil prices. The World Bank said last week that food prices are 36 percent higher today than a year ago, and are pushing people “deeper into poverty.”

But no region has been hit harder by rising food costs than Africa over the last three months. Wheat costs 87 percent more in Sudan. Rice is up 30 percent in Chad. Maize has risen at least 25 percent in Uganda, Somalia, Mozambique and Kenya.

Omandi used to sell 40 small buckets of maize a day, but on one recent day - the first of his most recent price hike - he sold only two.

Omandi was forced to increase his price because the government had just raised the price ceiling it sets for gasoline. The whole cycle made customers grumble.

“They said, ‘Have you increased it again?’ It used to be 35 Kenya shillings late last year. Now it has increased almost 100 percent,” Omandi said.

About 100 people blocked traffic near parliament in downtown Nairobi on Tuesday to protest the price increases. A day earlier the government cut taxes on kerosene and diesel, but protesters said the cuts were too small. Yash Pal Ghai, a constitutional law expert who took part in the demonstration, said the issue was both prices and corruption.

“The revenue authority said recently that one-third of the (tax) revenue is stolen by politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen,” he said. “Some people have a single meal a

In this photo taken Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Kenyan protesters hold placards during a demonstration against food and fuel prices hikes in Nairobi, Kenya.

Photo/Khalil Senosi

day while others live in obscene luxury and comfort.

It is amazing there has not been a rebellion by now.”

Some parliamentarians were heckled as they were driven in luxury vehicles into parliament, where a debate on food costs was held. One demonstrator held a sign that read: “Parliamentarians are just filling their potbellies while the common citizen is getting thinner.”

In Uganda, Kenya’s western neighbor, the country’s top opposition politician has led three marches over the last 10 days to protest higher food and fuel prices. Police have unleashed tear gas and bullets on the protests, and even shot the opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, in the hand. Protests have been held countrywide.

Thomas Mugisha, a worker in a mattress factory in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, said he now walks to work because the price of public transport rose from $0.30 to $0.60. The protest walks have been a reflection of that reality.

“We decided to walk to places of work as a sign of solidarity with other many Ugandans who are suffering from high prices,” said Alice Alaso, an opposition parliamentarian who invoked the example of the French Revolution during an interview. She complained of high military spending at a time when people can’t even afford food.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011

CARIBBEAN BRIEFS ONE FAMILY.

Whether West Indian, African or African American.

One God, One Aim, One Destiny.

Efforts to save Dominica’s crapaud continue ROSEAU, Dominica The Forestry — Wildlife and Parks Division in Dominica continues to work on ensuring that the mountain chicken or crapaud — what used to be the island’s national dish — does not become extinct.

A few years ago, the mountain chicken also know as a frog was threatened by a fungal disease which reduced the crapaud population in Dominica by about 70 percent.

In response to this situation, the government of Dominica, placed a ban on the hunting of the frog and established a bio technology lab at the Botanic Gardens to carefully study the frog in captivity.

Acting Director of Agriculture Ricky Brumant says much progress has been made.

“If we are talking modernisation, outside of Trinidad or Jamaica, we are probably the only other island in the Caribbean with a lab like that with a lot of capabilities. The person that manages the lab is, of course, very well trained at the highest level too. This has helped significantly with the mountain chicken project. We are moving along with the project. It is really managed out of Forestry and the Animal Livestock unit but the lab gives that support as well. With regards to the permanent destruction of the mountain chicken, I do not think we will have that. The mountain chicken will not get into extinction. We should not fear,” he said.

Dominica represented one the last two

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remaining strongholds for the species until the emergence of the Chytrid fungus threat in 2002.

The creation of the captive breeding programme for the mountain chicken in Dominica forms part of a wider crapaud conservation project.

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Cuban government expected to announce sweeping changes HAVANA, Cuba — The Cuban government has reportedly made some sweeping changes at closed door meetings of the ruling Communist Party.

The Jamaican Observer reported that President Raul Castro will make an announcement very soon.

With Raul Castro widely expected to take over from his brother Fidel as the party’s first secretary, all eyes will be on the selection of the number two spot, which could signal a possible successor.

Delegates approved about 300 economic proposals in a unanimous vote on Monday, including a measure that apparently recommends legalising the buying and selling of private property.

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

Among those who voted in favour was former leader Fidel Castro, who along with his brother was named a delegate to the Congress.

Haiti’s president-elect Michel Martelly PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — ation, education, security, recon- cuss his visit to Washington and Haiti’s president-elect Michel struction and health”. his priorities for Haiti.

Martelly is on his first official Martelly said the visit will He will share his vision for visit to the United States. also allow him to “reiterate his Haiti’s future, including earthMartelly, who will assume message that the government quake reconstruction, restrucoffice on May 14, met yesterday will focus its efforts and energy turing foreign aid, and revampin Washington with U.S. on reconstruction, boosting the ing Haiti’s business sector to Secretary of State, Hillary economy and ensuring that attract investment and spur ecoClinton, and the heads of the Haitian children have access to nomic growth.

World Bank and the basic education.”

The 50-year-old Martelly was International Monetary Fund A separate press release said elected in a run-off poll on (IMF). that Martelly will hold a press March 20, defeating former first Talks focused on “job cre- conference this morning to dis- lady Mirlande Manigat.

Guyana received more forestry funds than any other country, says president GEORGETOWN, Guyana — President Bharrat Jagdeo says Guyana has received the most money of any country, on a per capita basis, as payment for services provided by forests, with the Norway MOU coming to fruition in the form of “money in the bank”.

“The most in the world of any other country. Brazil is the other country and they got a few hundred million for a large number

of people. We got US$70 million for less than one million people,” the president said.

The Guyana Chronicle reported that he was speaking at the launching of a Ministry of Agriculture and Guyana Forestry Commission-hosted seminar on forests and their role.

Those in attendance included many loggers and persons working in the forestry sector.

Many of indigenous descent were also present at the event.

Delivering the feature address, Jagdeo urged those in

the forestry sector and all stakeholders not to allow the United Nations-declared 2011 International Year of the Forests to become another year of sloganeering but to learn of the importance of forests and their role in the fight against climate change.

“We must not just sloganeer about these issues in a superficial way. At the end of the year we must emerge with a greater consciousness of the issue at hand and commitment to doing something about it,” the president said.

Sir George Martin BBC documentary partly filmed on Montserrat to be aired over Easter BRADES, Montserrat (GIU) — A BBC Arena documentary on the life of Sir George Martin, Britain’s most celebrated music producer, is due to air on Monday April 25, on BBC 2 at 9:00 p.m. (UK time).

Best known for his work with The Beatles, the 90-minute documentary is an intimate portrait

of Sir George’s life and was partly filmed in Montserrat. In January 2011, a two-man BBC crew visited the island with Sir George and his wife to finalise work on the documentary.

The Martins have been associated with Montserrat for more than 30 years and the crew said they could not tell the story of

his life without featuring the island. The documentary features several locations on the island including Olveston House, Sir George’s residence, which was first built to house band members for stars like Elton John who were recording at Martin’s Air Studios in the 80s.

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Protest erupts in Syria’s Homs despite new law

By KHALED YACOUB OWEIS AMMAN Syrians took to the streets in large numbers again yesterday in the central city of Homs where activists say more than 20 prodemocracy protesters have been shot dead since Monday by soldiers and irregular forces.

Protesters chanted for “the downfall of the regime,” in defiance of a heavy deployment of security forces and a warning by officials to stop all forms of demonstrations.

The protest also went ahead despite a concession by the government which approved legislation on Tuesday to end the state of emergency in force for the last 48 years.

In the city of Banias, in what was seen as another attempt to mollify protesters, the chief of security police was

sacked, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Five civilians were killed in Banias last week and residents identified Amjad Abbas, the fired police chief, as one of the officers seen beating a villager in the nearby town of Baida, the Observatory said, citing sources in Damascus.

Along with the bill on emergency law, the newly appointed cabinet also approved legislation that requires Syrians to seek permission from the state before they demonstrate.

Security forces had sealed off Banias last week after demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad and an attack by irregular forces loyal to him on men guarding a Sunni mosque.

Inspired by uprisings across the Arab world, demonstrators have taken to the streets for more than a month demanding greater freedoms, undaunted by a security crackdown.

groups, Rights which say more than 200 have been killed since the unrest started, have called for independent investigations into the actions of security forces.

DEFIANT PROTESTS Hours before Tuesday’s cabinet decithe Interior sion, Ministry had called on citizens to refrain from protesting at all.

Activists said the ministry statement and the fact that authorities on Tuesday night arrested a leftist opposition figure suggested the government’s move to lift emergency law will not halt repression.

Protests continued overnight, including in the Damascus suburb of Zabadani where protesters called for freedom and for the overthrow of Assad’s rule, echoing the rallying cries of uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

There were also sitins in Jabla on the coast, a women’s rally in Barzeh in Damascus, and a candlelight procession in Tel near the capital overnight.

In Syria’s second city, Aleppo, Assad’s irregular forces broke up a small demonstration at the city’s university, beating several students and arresting 37, a rights activist said.

The U.S. State Department said the new law requiring permits to hold demonstrations made it unclear if the end of emergency rule would make for a less restrictive government.

A semi-official newspaper quoted an official source saying that, contrary to statements in March, there would be no new anti-terrorism legislation to replace emergency laws.

“Articles specific to terrorism crimes are already provided for in the Syrian general law on punishment,” he said.

“THERE MUST BE NO MORE SLAUGHTER” In a sign of resistance to protesters’ demands for reforms, the Interior Ministry on Monday night described the unrest as an insurrection by

“armed groups belonging to Salafist organizations” trying to terrorize the population.

Salafism is a strict form of Sunni Islam that many Arab governments equate with militant groups like al Qaeda. Assad and most of his inner circle are from Syria’s minority Alawite community, who adhere to an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam.

Civic figures in Homs, known for its intellectuals and artists, have signed a declaration calling on the army “not to spill the blood of honorable Syrians” and denying official allegations that

Salafist groups were operating there.

Emergency rule, in place since the Baath Party seized power in a 1963 coup, gave security organs blanket power to stifle dissent through a ban on gatherings of over five people, arbitrary arrest and closed trials, lawyers say.

Syria is involved in several Middle East conflicts. Any change at the top — Assad, backed by his family and the security apparatus, is Syria’s absolute ruler — would ripple across the Arab world and affect Syria’s ally Iran.

Gulf states to dispatch envoy to Yemen over crisis Pakistan’s ISI links with Haqqani militants: U.S.

By MOHAMED focused on easing SUDAM & MOHAMMED GHOBARI

SANAA (Reuters) Gulf Arab states trying to mediate a transition of power in Yemen will send the UAE foreign minister to Sanaa within days, a Yemeni official said, but President Ali Abdullah Saleh again refused to quit

quickly.

Bloodshed continued with at least four more deaths of anti-government protesters reported.

Saleh voiced accused opponents of instigating “conspiracies or coups” and said he would not accept either, his latest iteration of defiance in the face of massive public protests.

Yemen’s Western and Gulf Arab allies

have sought in vain so far to negotiate an orderly transition of power from Saleh, but opposition patience has been fading with more violence flaring.

“Abdullah bin Zayed is coming to Sanaa in the coming days to convey the Gulf view after listening to the points of view of the government and the opposition,” a government official told Reuters.

By PHIL STEWART

ISLAMABAD The top U.S. military officer accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of maintaining ties to militants in Afghanistan during a trip to Islamabad yesterday that was

diplomatic tensions.

Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pakistan’s perceived foot-dragging in tackling strongholds in North Waziristan belonging to the Haqqani network and its continuing relationship with it was “the most difficult part” of the U.S.-Pakistani relationship.

“It’s fairly well known that the ISI has a longstanding relationship with the Haqqani network,” he said in an interview with Pakistan’s daily Dawn newspaper. “Haqqani is supporting, funding, training fighters that are killing Americans and killing coalition partners. And I have a sacred obligation to do all I can to make sure that doesn’t happen.

P uti n wa r n s Russi a ag a i n st econ omi c comp l a cen cy

By GLEB BRYANSKI & TIMOTHY HERITAGE MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday Russia was emerging powerfully from the global financial crisis but must reduce its reliance on energy and raw materials to see off external threats to its

economy.

In a speech to parliament, he did not say whether he and President Dmitry Medvedev had agreed which of them would run in next year’s presidential election, but underlined his own credentials by outlining his government’s economic achievements.

Putin told the State Duma lower house in his more than two-hour

annual report that inflation would not exceed 6.5 to 7.5 percent in 2011 and gross domestic product grew by 4.4 percent in the first quarter of the year.

He also made a number of promises likely to please voters, including putting aside $2.7 billion for a possible increase in state pensions in August. Other spending pledges included support for

farmers, teachers and the military.

But he said Russia faced unspecified external threats to its $1.5 trillion economy and the country of 143 million people could not afford to sit back after overcoming the worst of the financial crisis.

“Based on GDP, Russia should enter the ranks of the five leading countries (by 2020),” he told

deputies, adding GDP per capita should more than double to $35,000 by then.

“The current beneficial environment in the raw materials and hydrocarbons (markets) should not make us relax. The oil boom we are witnessing only underlines the need to move quickly to a new model of economic development.”

High oil prices

helped fuel Russia’s economic resurgence during Putin’s 20002008 presidency and the price of oil, Russia’s main export commodity, is up 28 percent this year.

But the economy is over-reliant on energy and raw material exports, and any fall in the oil price will have a big impact on its overall economic performance unless it diversifies.

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‘African Cats’ beautifully filmed and full of drama

One Thought - One Humanity

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 ANDREW BARKER Astounding wildlife footage is given a kid-friendly narrative hook, but never overly cuddlified, in Keith Scholey’s “African Cats,” the third installment in the Mouse House’s Disneynature series. Following the survival struggles of a cheetah mother and a pride of lions, the film captures a wealth of spectacular and wrenching conflicts, and even if its ability to spin a story out of the footage falls somewhat short of the gold standard set by “March of the Penguins,” it’s nonetheless a remarkably cohesive piece of work.

Earth Day release should see beastly returns.

Filmed over two-and-a-half years in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve, “African Cats” boasts the state-of-the-art nature lensing one would expect from co-director Alastair Fothergil, who set the genre benchmarks with “Planet Earth” and “Blue Planet.” The pitiless portraits of predator and prey that those series cast are notably blunted here, and Samuel L. Jackson’s nar-

ration is genial and comforting when it needs to be. All the same, the unavoidable facts of life in the savanna will likely require some hard “circle of life” conversations between parents and young children afterward.

Giving all its protagonists “Lion King”-esque monikers, the film zeroes in on Sita, a cheetah with five newborn cubs, and Mara, a female lion cub whose mother, Layla, is nearing the end of the line. Mara’s pride is ruled by broken-toothed Fang, an aging alpha male who can still fend off a threatening crocodile or two, but who has little answer for stray male lion Kali, who, along with his fearsome sons, has aims to take his place in the pride. Pic is rather upfront about the Darwinian politics of lion culture -- if Kali succeeds in usurping Fang, Mara and the rest of Fang’s cubs will all either be killed or driven out into the wild - and seeing this power struggle through to its very un-Disneylike denouement clearly presented the filmmakers with a potent narrative challenge.

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Most parents vaccinate kids, trust docs’ advice on shots

By JENIFER GOODWIN About 93 percent of parents said their children either had or were going to get all of the recommended vaccinations, and more than three-fourths said they trusted their doctor’s advice on immunizations, two new surveys find.

Pediatricians and infectious disease experts say this is good news. After years of hype about a supposed autism/MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) link — a claim that has been roundly discredited — it seems parents are heeding the advice of medical experts and protecting their children from potentially devastating diseases.

“It’s reassuring that so many parents place a lot of trust in their child’s physi-

cian, more so than any other source,” said study author Dr. Gary Freed, director of the child health evaluation and research unit at University of Michigan.

Yet, there is still cause for concern. About 24 percent of parents surveyed said they place some trust in what celebrities say about vaccines.

One prominent vaccine skeptic is Jenny McCarthy, the American model and actress whose son has autism. McCarthy continues to promote the autism/MMR theory, despite the British Medical Journal retraction of the study that linked the two, according to news reports.

“Celebrities have no expertise in childhood immunizations or infectious disease,” Freed said. “There is a danger in the media of putting up celebrities as experts on

Motorcycle deaths drop for second straight year Motorcycle deaths in the United States fell by about 2 percent between 2009 and 2010, the second year in a row fatalities have declined, according to a new report.

The drop means that about 89 fewer people were killed in motorcycle accidents in 2010 than in 2009, according to a report released April 19 by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA).

An estimated 4,465 were killed in 2009 compared to 4,376 in 2010.

The drop last year follows a 16 percent decline in 2009, which came after 11 straight years of steady increases in motorcycle deaths.

The report, based on preliminary data for the first nine months of the year from 50 states and the District of Columbia, projects notable declines in many states, including decreases of 16 percent in Texas, 27 percent in Oregon and 30 percent in Oklahoma.

While the national drop in motorcycle deaths last year is good news, there may be some areas for concern, according to the report.

The fall in the number of deaths was concentrated in the early months of 2010, with deaths actually increasing by about 3 per-

cent in the third quarter compared with 2009.

The report also noted that helmet use dropped from 67 percent of riders in 2009 to 54 percent in 2010. In addition, rising gas prices will likely increase motorcycle use and put more people at risk.

“While there is a lot of good news in this report, the increase in fatalities toward the end of year is a clear red flag. Just like with overall traffic deaths, a strengthening economy presents us with the potential for more tragedy on our roads,” GHSA Chairman Vernon Betkey, director of Maryland’s highway traffic safety program, said in an association news release.

“We are going to be very aggressive in targeting our programs where they are needed the most. Additionally, we will continue to remind all roadway users that motorcycles are a legal and legitimate way of transportation and we all need to safely share the road,” he added.

The report says states need to focus their motorcycle safety efforts on increasing helmet use, reducing drinking and riding, reducing speeding and providing motorcycle training to everyone who needs or wants it.

any topic for which they have an opinion, and giving them a platform to share their opinions that is presented as equal to true experts.”

In the first survey, published in the May issue of Pediatrics, researchers used data from a 2009 nationally representative sample of about 1,550 parents of children aged 17 and younger.

About 76 percent of parents said they trusted their child’s doctor “a lot,” 22 percent said they had “some” trust, while only 2 percent said they didn’t trust the doctor.

Parents also trusted other health-care providers and government vaccine experts, but not as much as doctors.

Two percent of parents said they trusted celebrities “a lot,” 24 percent said they trusted celebrities somewhat for vaccine information, and 74 percent said they trusted celebrities “not at all.”

Women and Hispanics were more likely to trust celebrities.

A second survey by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in the same journal used 2009 survey data from parents of children under the age of 6.

Nearly 75 percent of parents reported their youngest child had received all of the recommended vaccines; another 19 percent said their child would receive the vaccines.

About 79 percent of parents were either confident or very confident in vaccine safety, and about 80 percent said they thought vaccines were important for a child’s health.

But parents still have their concerns. About 22 percent somewhat or strongly agreed that they were concerned about “too many vaccines potentially damaging a child’s immune system,” according to the study.

When asked how many shots parents were comfortable with their child receiving in a single doctor’s visit, 42 percent said one to two; 34 percent said three to four; and 23 percent said “whatever the doctor recommends.”

The authors suggest that pediatricians listen to parents’ concerns and direct them to appropriate resources for information.

“It’s encouraging that in this survey the overwhelming majority said they will get all of their immunizations. That’s a wonderful thing,” said Dr. David Kimberlin, a professor of pediatrics at University of Alabama at Birmingham and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases. “The noise out there that seems to question vaccine safety is increasingly being discounted and being discounted in a very public way.”

Even so, Kimberlin said parents still bring up con-

cerns about vaccine safety.

Even if the thought of your little one getting poked multiple times in one appointment makes you feel a bit uneasy, it’s important to follow the recommended vaccine schedule, Freed said.

“The schedule is designed to protect infants from diseases at the times they are at highest risk,” Freed said. “If you delay vaccines, you delay protecting your child and put them at risk for lifethreatening diseases.”

The pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine is typically given at 2, 4, 6 and 12 months, and then a booster at 4 years. There’s a reason for the timing, Freed said.

In adults, whooping cough can cause a barking cough that lasts for weeks, but it’s treatable with antibiotics and rarely life-threatening. But in infants, whooping cough can be deadly.

Several babies died in California last year during the worst pertussis outbreak in 50 years. Those most at risk were babies too young to be immunized.

Minnesota and Salt Lake City are experiencing a measles outbreak. Measles can cause pneumonia, brain swelling and even death.

“You don’t have look any farther than the biggest pertussis outbreak in California in 50 years and the measles outbreak in Minnesota to see what it looks like when we let our guard down,” Kimberlin said.

Kids’ eczema, hay fever linked to allergic asthma later New research finds that adults who suffered from eczema as children — especially if they also had hay fever — are nine times more likely to have allergic asthma when they’re in their 40s.

The findings are based on about 1,400 adults who have been followed for five decades as part of Australia’s Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study. The study participants were assessed in 1968, when they were 7 years old, and then again in 2004 when they were about 44 years of age.

“In this study we see that childhood eczema, particularly when hay fever also occurs, is a very strong predictor of who will suffer

from allergic asthma in adult life,” lead study author Pamela Martin, a University of Melbourne graduate student at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, said in a university news release. “The implications of this study are that prevention and rigorous treatment of childhood eczema and hay fever may prevent the persistence and development of asthma.”

Allergic asthma is airway obstruction and inflammation that’s triggered by inhaled allergens such as dust mites, pet dander, pollen and mold.

According to Martin, the study is the first to examine childhood eczema and hay fever and their connection to

allergic versus nonallergic asthma. The linkage between childhood illnesses and adult asthma is called the “atopic march.”

“If successful strategies to stop the ‘atopic march’ are identified, this could ultimately save lives and health care costs related to asthma management and treatment,” Shyamali Dharmage, principal investigator of the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study and associate professor at the University of Melbourne’s School of Population Health, said in the news release.

The researchers suspect that about 30 percent of cases of allergic asthma could be the result of childhood eczema and hay fever.

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DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011

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Mayor Cory Booker confirms Panasonic moving Roommate charged with headquarters from Secaucus to Newark hate crime in NJ suicide

By BETH DeFALCO

NEWARK - Global electronics giant Panasonic will be moving its North American headquarters from Secaucus to Newark, Mayor Cory Booker has confirmed, marking one of the biggest development coups of his administration.

“It’s historic. We’ve been seeing so much progress in the last four years,” Booker said Tuesday. “This is heralding to the globe that Newark is one of the most significant players on the Eastern Seaboard.”

The official announcement to relocate its 800 employees to Newark was expected to be made yesterday at a news conference with Booker, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, Panasonic North America CEO Joseph M. Taylor and other officials.

The move comes after a debate over whether state incentives were appropriate for a company that threatened to leave New Jersey but ultimately

to stay. chose Panasonic had said it was eyeing space in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Chicago and California after its current lease expires in March 2013.

Panasonic qualifies for a $102.4 million Urban Transit Hub tax if it brings at least 250 jobs to Newark by 2016 and creates an additional 200 jobs within 10 years, according to an EDA memo. If no new jobs are created, Panasonic will only qualify for 80 percent of the tax credit. But the company has said the 800 jobs it has in Secaucus were “at risk” if Panasonic moved out of state. The authority concluded those jobs can be considered new jobs, the memo said.

P a n a s o n i c spokesman Jim Reilly has said the company needs to relocate “to meet its business objectives.” Its headquarters include corporate and marketing offices, daily operations and some testing space.

As part of its application, Panasonic said it

would sign a 15-year lease for nearly 250,000 square feet of a new office tower at a shovel-ready site at the of intersection Raymond Boulevard and McCarter Highway, which will become Two Riverfront Matrix Center.

Development Group, based in Cranbury, and SJP Properties, from Parsippany, own the land, and the proposed 410,000-square-foot building will cost an estimated $190 million, according to the memo.

Designs of the building in 2005 called for up to 18 stories.

The EDA estimated the project will bring approximately $222.8 million to Newark in taxes and one-time construction costs over 11.25 years, the memo said.

Newark is likely offering its own financial incentives, but Stefan Pryor, deputy mayor for economic development, would not offer specifics, citing today’s formal announcement.

TRENTON, N.J. - A former Rutgers University freshman was indicted yesterday on a hate crime charge after allegedly using a webcam to spy on a same-sex encounter involving his roommate, who committed suicide shortly afterward in a case that started a national conversation on bullying.

The corporation’s current landlord, Hartz Mountain, is not letting its tenant leave without a fight. The company filed an appeal with the state Superior Court on March 31, arguing the EDA acted outside the scope of its authority and its decision “highlights significant deficiencies” in the approval process.

Secaucus filed a similar appeal.

Last week, Panasonic asked the court to expedite the case and to provide a final decision on or before Sept. 30, according to court documents.

Attorney General Paula Dow also filed a motion asking the court to consolidate and accelerate the appeal.

Rutgers ends 30-year tradition of Rutgersfest concert in response to growing violence NEW BRUNSWICK After 30 years, Rutgers University is killing Rutgersfest.

Rutgers President Richard McCormick sent a campus-wide email Tuesday announcing he is permanently canceling the annual concert that marks the end of the school year because it has grown too dangerous. Last week’s Rutgersfest attracted more than 40,000 people and ended with a string of shootings and fights in New Brunswick that left at least five people injured. None were Rutgers students.

“The safety of our university community, and that of our neighbors, is paramount, and we cannot risk further danger or the possible

loss of life,” McCormick wrote. “The problems that occur following Rutgersfest have grown beyond our capacity to manage them, and the only responsible course of action is to cancel the event.”

The president’s decision marks the end of one of the most popular student-run events at the state university.

Word of Rutgersfest’s demise spread quickly across the university as students used Twitter and Facebook to express their disappointment the threedecade-old tradition was done.

Freshman Zach Lloyd said he heard gunshots when he returned to the New Brunswick campus

after Friday’s Rutgersfest. He suspected university officials would have to respond to the growing violence.

“It was almost inevitable that they were going to do something,” said Lloyd, 19, of Allendale.

Other students said they were frustrated officials canceled Rutgersfest instead of redesigning the event so it was limited to university students.

“It’s only dangerous because it’s people not from Rutgers,” said sophomore Carrie Doyle, 20. “I know plenty of kids that went out and didn’t get into fights ... I hate it when Rutgers gets a bad rap for these things.”

This year’s

Rutgersfest was held Friday on the Busch campus in Piscataway.

The free, all-day event included boardwalkstyle carnival games, food booths and a concert featuring hip-hop artists Pitbull and Yelawolf and electronic-pop act 3OH!3.

The crowd included a large number of high school and college students from other schools who learned about the event through Facebook, Twitter and other social media, campus officials said. When the concert ended at 8 p.m., many of the attendees took university shuttle buses to College Avenue in New Brunswick to go to house parties and local bars.

A 15-count indictment was handed up yesterday by a Middlesex County grand jury against Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, who had already faced invasion of privacy charges along with another student, Molly Wei. The indictment charges Ravi with bias intimidation, invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering, and other charges stemming from the suicide of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi in September. The indictment said charges against Wei would not be presented to the grand jury “at this time.”

Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River shortly after authorities say Ravi and Wei used a webcam to peek at his liaison. Lawyers for Ravi say the webcam stream was viewed on only a single computer and did not show the men having sex.

The indictment says Ravi targeted Clementi and invaded his privacy knowing that Clementi would be intimidated because of his sexual orientation.

According to the indictment, Ravi deleted a Twitter post letting others know how they could view a second encounter involving Clementi and replaced it with a false tweet; deleted text messages sent and received by witnesses; and gave false information to police - all actions intended to mislead investigators.

If convicted of the most serious bias charge, Ravi could face five to 10 years in prison.

Lawyers for Ravi and Wei didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment.

The death of Clementi, a promising violinist in his first weeks at college, came amid a string of high-profile suicides of young people who were gay or perceived to be gay.

Partly because of his high-profile death and the other circumstances surrounding his suicide, Clementi became a face of the issue.

President Barack Obama and celebrities including talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and sex columnist Dan Savage have talked publicly about his death and said that young gays and lesbians need to know that life gets better.

NJ woman chides NYC smoker, gets stabbed with pen NEW YORK - A New Jersey woman was stabbed in the face with a pen on a New York City subway train after she tried to stop a man from lighting a cigarette.

The assault occurred on a crowded No. 3 train near the Chambers Street station during Tuesday’s morning rush.

Witnesses told the Daily News and the New York Post that an

argument quickly escalated when Evelyn Seeger asked the man not to smoke. The witnesses say two riders were trying to restrain the man when he pulled out a pen and slashed Seeger’s face.

Seeger, of Nutley, N.J., was treated at a hospital and released.

Police charged the man with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011

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Luther Campbell says he’ll be a ‘fighter’ in Miami mayor race

By ALVIN BLANCO It’s politics as usual for Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell. On April 12, the former 2 Live Crew frontman, along with 10 other candidates, formally applied to run for mayor of Florida’s MiamiDade County after a recall vote kicked then-mayor Carlos Alvarez out of office a month ago. MTV News caught up with the pioneering hip-hop artist and businessman to discuss his political ambitions.

Campbell said he planned on running for mayor of Miami in 2012, but that Alvarez’s departure sped up his plans to “get off the bench and get in the game, get off

the sideline.” Campbell’s platform includes economic development to revitalize small businesses, job creation, public safety and affordable housing, among other initiatives.

While mainstream outlets with a superficial understanding of his career may dismiss him as just a former rapper trying to get into politics, Campbell insists his career has granted him just the right experience.

“Look at my history. When you talk about rapper, at the end of the day you can say 2 Live Crew, but who owned the company?” Campbell told MTV News. “I explain to people that I am a businessman, as a kid I DJ’d, and then owned that company, and

Director: Beyonce’s ‘Girls’ video will be ‘big’

By JOCELYN VENA Francis Lawrence confirmed to MTV News at the “Water for Elephants” premiere on Sunday that he had just wrapped up work on Beyoncé’s new video.

And the director promised that this clip will live up to the expectations that have been building since photos from the set began leaking.

“I just shot a Beyoncé video at the beginning of this last week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which was fun, and I hadn’t done a video since 2009,” he said, referring to the VMA-winning video for Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.”

Lawrence went on to confirm a few more details about the song, without giving away too much of anything, per B’s orders. “The video’s for the songs ‘Girls’; it’s off her new album,” he said. “She would probably have me shot if I said anything. ... Some stuff spilled out, but she wasn’t happy about it, so I’ve been sworn to secrecy.”

What spilled was some looks from the video, as well as details that there will be lots of dancing in the clip.

“It’ll be big, it’ll probably be one of the bigger Beyoncé music videos ever done,” he added. “And, I can say that I think the song is unbeliev-

then 2 Live Crew. I give them the story about it. I let people know I did that on the weekends. I wasn’t able to go on long tours like Run-DMC and everybody because I had to run the business. I had to make hip-hop act] H-Town gold and platinum, I had to go and produce Pitbull and Trick Daddy and all these different artists. People just don’t understand that the music business is a business. It is a global business. That experience is allowing me to be able to run for a public office like this.”

Campbell claims that his Luke Records was the first Black-owned hip-hop label, releasing music from 2 Live Crew, H-Town, Poison Clan and his own solo material.

Campbell also was instrumen-

tal in launching the careers of Trick Daddy and Pitbull. In recent years, the “I Wanna Rock” rapper has dialed back on his “Uncle Luke” reputation. He starred in a VH1 reality series called “Luke’s Parental Advisory” in 2008, and has performed community service and founded youth programs throughout MiamiDade County for years. In the meanwhile, Miami has become a hotspot for the hiphop world and the entertainment industry in general.

Campbell had a hand in raising Miami’s profile via his artists’ videos and the groundwork he laid for the city’s current crop of hip-hop talent, like Rick Ross and DJ Khaled.

Along with being a Miami native, Campbell believes that he possesses a greater affinity for the needs of its residents.

“Right now the entertainment industry is a major economic boost for this city,” Campbell said. “These are some of the things that I created and I did, and I’m proud of that. So when I look at where we need to go as a community, who best has the ideas? Me. Some other guy who really is just in there just to take money from contractors and special interest groups, he’s in there to make money. I’m not in there to make money. I’m all right. I just want to make the haves and the have-nots all be able to

participate in this beautiful city and get jobs and live comfortable.”

What might not sit so well with Miami citizens, and what Campbell’s opponents will be sure to point out, are the past controversies surrounding his music. One infamous case was in 1990, when the American Family Association went after 2 Live Crew over the sexually explicit lyrics of “Me So Horny.” 2 Live Crew and Campbell defended themselves by citing their firstamendment rights to free speech and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where it was dismissed.

Campbell defended his rights in court frequently, and being familiar with the justice system is another reason he believes he is qualified to run the affairs of his hometown.

“One thing people know about me, I’m a fighter,” insisted Campbell, who listed Sonny Bono, Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger as examples of entertainers that became politicos. “Controversy comes with politics. All my controversy was based around politics. Tipper Gore came after me — that was politically motivated. When the vice president had something to say about us, when it’s time for me to go to the Supreme Court, all of that is politically motivated. So I understand politics as is.”

Black Eyed Peas to open multimedia academy able.”

The director noted that artists have definitely stepped up their video game in recent years and once again made visuals a vital part of their work. He gives some credit for that to Lady Gaga, as well as a number of Lawrence’s past collaborators, like Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and the Black Eyed Peas.

“The Gaga thing took me by surprise, ‘cause I’ve done videos for probably 15 years, and I had forgotten what it felt like to have a video premiere and have it be anticipated and have it explode,” he explained.

“And yeah I hope the same for Beyoncé, but I don’t know if that’s gonna happen. It is a fantastic song, so I really hope that song catches for her, and I think the video’s gonna be really fun and cool and different for her.”

The Black Eyed Peas are opening a school where local teenagers will learn video and music production using professional-quality equipment.

The six-time Grammy Award winners announced that their Peapod Foundation together with the Adobe Foundation will open a Peapod Adobe Youth Voices music and multimedia academy in lower Manhattan.

The Peapod Foundation is the group’s charitable organization; it’s administered by the Entertainment Industry Foundation. The Adobe Foundation is the philanthropic arm of software maker Adobe Systems Inc., whose products include Acrobat, Flash and Photoshop. The two foundations already run three Youth Voices academies in California — in Los Angeles, Oakland and Redwood City.

The New York academy will offer classes to students ages 13 to 19 starting this

July, the foundations said.

“Our passion for music and media was fueled by many generous people on our road to success,” Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am said.

“Expanding the network of Peapod Adobe Youth Voices academies enables us to pay it forward, giving more youth the skills and encouragement they need to realize their dreams.”

The academy will be housed in a facility operated

by Urban Arts Partnership, which runs after-school arts programs for teens who attend high-poverty schools.

Students will be accepted into the academy based on recommendations from teachers and demonstrated interests in subject areas such as camera work, editing and graphic design.

DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011

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‘Fast Five’ utterly preposterous fun

By MEGAN LEHMANN SYDNEY — Are we there yet?

The answer, sure to please a frothing “Fast and the Furious” fan base, is: not nearly. The wheels have yet to come off this car-crazy franchise and the fifth installment, dubbed “Fast Five” and set in Rio De Janeiro, puts several more gallons of gas in the tank.

There may be more brains in your bucket of popcorn, but this gleefully silly smash-’em-up heist film is sturdy enough to restore much of the fan goodwill torched in 2006 by the horror movie that was the Diesel-free “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”

Big crashes, lithe women and roiling testosterone, not to mention the addition of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a fire-and-brimstone federal agent — there’s plenty to pull in the (mostly) young male audience that’s shelled out a cumulative $1 billion

over a decade to follow the turbo-charged adventures of a gang of street-racers.

“Fast Five” (also known as “Fast and Furious 5” outside North America) is primed to equal if not better the $71 million opening weekend of its 2009 predecessor and, if a sixth film were not already in the works, that kind of coin would guarantee it. The film opened in Australia yesterday, Britain today, and North America on April 29.

Director Justin Lin, back for his third go-around, opens it up in top gear; a mere 30 seconds elapse before the first screech of tires rents the air. Showing the blithe disregard for the laws of physics and logic that defines the series, former cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) and girlfriend Mia (Jordana Brewster) use a matching pair of hot rods to bust Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) out of a prison transport van.

All three go on the lam in Rio de Janeiro, where logic would dictate that Lin make the most of the city’s famous-

ly underclad residents and luscious beach backdrops.

But no. Instead, we get favelas and back-street garages and gun-toting bad guys. Lin knows, perhaps, that his target demographic can live without the surplus eye-candy; they come to see shiny muscle cars getting totaled and they would likely do so if Fast Five were set in Scranton, Pa. While gearheads may be disappointed at the final tally of choreographed car crashes and have their patience tested by lengthy collisionfree stretches, Lin serves up at least two set pieces that hit new heights of metalcrunching mayhem.

This is the most expensive installment yet and it’s clear the budget wasn’t used on acting lessons for the cast.

After making a mortal enemy of the city’s reigning drug lord, Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), Dom and company find themselves in a jam that makes illegal streetracing look like kids’ stuff.

With tank-like federal agent Hobbs (Johnson) hot on their

Paula Patton’s new ‘Mission’: Doing her own stunts Paula Patton says she jumped at the chance to take part in the next “Mission: Impossible” movie because it gives her the opportunity to perform stunts. “‘Mission: Impossible’ came as a surprise,” she told Cinemablend.com. “It was an incredible opportunity for me, especially after being pregnant. I got to do

all my own stunts. I got to be a very fierce, badass chick, if I can say that. It was a dream come true in many ways to be able to play this character.”

In “Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol,” star Tom Cruise reprises his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt under director Brad Bird.

The film is due in theaters on Dec. 16.

Ced the Entertainer to lead ‘Hot in Cleveland’ spinoff TV Land has announced it’s developing a “Hot in Cleveland” spin-off starring Cedric the Entertainer.

The as-yet-untitled series will focus on a character Cedric will debut on Cleveland’s upcoming third season: a minister who gets involved with the ladies’ adventures.

“We’re definitely going to bring people quality entertainment and laughs with this new show,” Cedric said.

“I’m very excited to be working with TV Land and the creative team of Hot in Cleveland.”

The project is contingent upon the pilot script, which will be co-written by Cedric and “Cleveland” creator Suzanne Martin.

“Cedric is hilarious and I’m so happy to do this show with him,” Martin said. “We are going to have a lot of fun developing and exploring his role as a minister.”

“Hot in Cleveland,” starring Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves, returns on June 15.

Vin Diesel (L) and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in “Fast Five”. trail and Reyes’ henchmen blasting at them with rocketpropelled grenades, Dom decides the only way to buy freedom is with $100 million of Reyes’ money.

So he assembles a dream team, calling in franchise favorites including Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Han (Sung Kang) and Gisele (Gal Gadot) for “one last job.”

That’s about it for plot really, with the crew making an apathetic stab at nutting out a clever, Oceans 11-style heist strategy before reverting to type and just smashing through the obstacles.

Perhaps it’s just as well or

audiences may never have been treated to the sight of a giant reinforced steel vault careening through the streets of downtown Rio tethered to a pair of muscle cars.

Screenwriter Chris Morgan peppers his dialoguelight script with a couple of good zingers and Johnson appears to be having fun with his overzealous staccato delivery.

Walker and Brewster are as one-dimensional as ever, even while harboring a little secret that may see us lumbered with a future installment titled “Fast and Furious: The Next Generation.”

Chris Brown strikes gold in three weeks Through all the controversy leading up to the release of Chris Brown’s album F.A.M.E., fans have supported the singer in large numbers. His loyal supporter’s purchases lead to the album debut of No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and a gold certified album within three weeks of its release according to Jive Records.

F.A.M.E. has spawned three consecutive No. 1 singles and marks the multiplatinum singer’s first No. 1 album on the Top 200 chart.

Brown co-wrote the majority of F.A.M.E., the follow-up to his 2X Grammy-nominated 2009 album, Graffiti. Sporting collaborations with Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Ludacris, among others.

Chris Brown continues the momentum of his success with the release of his fourth single “She Ain’t You,” which has been the No. 1 added song to Urban Mainstream radio. In support of the album, Brown will headline “The F.A.M.E.

Tour” starting in Adelaide, South Australia and will end on May 3, 2011 in Perth, Western Australia.

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Gold breaks $1,500 as investors seek security

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“Gold has been acting as a currency in its own right, and that is why we are up at $1,500,” said Simon Weeks, head of precious metals at the Bank of Nova Scotia.

“There is an awful lot of bad news in the price. The S&P comment the other day has given us the final kicker to get up here.”

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rising consumer incomes in China and India are also boosting demand there.

“The theme of longer term higher inflation than we have seen in the last 10 years in China is a pretty solid view, so gold is going to be an asset class that is probably going to be more in favor in China than it has been in the past,” said Macquarie analyst Hayden Atkins.

China is the world’s second-biggest gold consumer behind India, as well as being the biggest producer.

In the short term, losses in the dollar yesterday are supporting the precious metal above $1,500 an ounce.

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against the euro as the single currency was boosted by higher risk appetite and after a bond auction from Spain was well received by investors.

Weakness in the dollar boosts gold’s appeal as an alternative asset and makes dollarpriced commodities cheaper for holders of other currencies. Gold priced in euros and sterling remained off recent highs yesterday.

Oil prices also recovered, rising back toward the multi-year highs they hit earlier this year as unrest in the Middle East and North Africa sparked fears of a supply outage.

Higher oil prices tend to benefit gold, both because they can boost commodities as an asset class and lift interest in gold as a hedge against oil-led inflation.

The gold:silver ratio — the number of silver ounces needed to buy an ounce of gold — meanwhile fell to its lowest since 1983 below 34.

“The last time silver was this expensive in relation to gold was almost 28 years ago,” said Commerzbank in a note. “Both precious metals are still reaping the benefit of the news of recent weeks and days.”

Platinum was at $1,800.99 an ounce against $1,761.50, while palladium was at $754.97 against $726.95.

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Upbeat company earnings boost global stocks, commodities

By DOMINIC LAU LONDON — Upbeat earnings from companies including chip maker Intel lifted stocks and boosted appetite for riskier assets yesterday, driving commodities higher and the Australian dollar to a 29-year high versus the dollar.

The strong showing in this quarterly earnings season so far has helped offset concerns of government debt problems on both sides of the Atlantic after Standard & Poor’s on Monday cut the outlook on the United States to negative.

World equities measured by MSCI All-

Country World Index advanced 0.9 percent, extending the previous session’s 0.5 percent rise and further recovering from Monday’s 1.6 percent loss.

Emerging market stocks climbed 1.6 percent, catching up further with the MSCI AllCountry World Index after sharply underperforming the global gauge earlier this year on concerns over high inflation in emerging economies.

“While S&P grabbed some headlines earlier in the week, on a future event that may or may not happen, it seems things on the ground are coming up pretty good,” said Philip Isherwood, European equities strategist at Evolution Securities.

“The economic and corporate message is good. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”

Intel posted betterthan-expected sales and forecast quarterly revenues well above Wall Street’s estimates, while world’s biggest cosmetics group L’Oreal and carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen also came in with robust figures.

Of the 45 S&P 500 companies that have reported first-quarter earnings so far, 79 percent of them have either beaten or met market expectations and the remainder came in below forecasts, data from Thomson Reuters StarMine showed.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 rose 1.2 percent, while

Europe’s tech stocks put on 2 percent.

In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei average rose 1.8 percent to snap a threeday losing run, also boosted by Intel’s results.

The improvement in sentiment also boosted the euro and high yielding currencies, such as the Australian dollar, which was up 0.7 percent at $1.0599 after hitting a fresh 29year high of $1.0609.

“Investor focus is on the earnings season in the U.S. and this is key in driving growth expectations and pushing stockmarkets higher. This keeps focus away from the euro zone periphery right now,” said Manuel Oliveri, currency strategist at UBS in Zurich.

AT&T weathers iPhone exclusivity loss iPhone at Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc. AT&T also attributed some of its defections to network technologies changes for some customers resulting from its acquisition of Alltel assets and Centennial.

But Wall Street analysts were impressed that it managed to keep customer defections lower than expected as many feared the Verizon iPhone would send hordes of customers fleeing AT&T, which has been criticized for poor network performance.

“It doesn’t look like (Verizon Wireless) decimated AT&T as many people thought they might,” said Piper Jaffray analyst Christopher Larsen.

AT&T, which reduced the price of one iPhone model to $50 in the quarter, also noted that it still added 3.6 million new iPhones to its network in the quarter and that 23 percent of those customers switched from rival services.

But the iPhone promotion and other efforts to retain subscribers appeared to come at a heavy cost to profitability. AT&T’s wireless service profit margin based on earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization fell to 39 percent from 44.5 percent a year earlier.

It was also well below an estimate for 41.3 percent from Pacific Crest analyst Steve Clement.

“This should put concerns on iPhone (subscribers) to rest for

the time being but the margins are still a concern,” Clement said.

AT&T earnings rose to $3.4 billion, or 57 cents a share, matching the average Wall Street estimate, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. A year earlier it posted a profit of $2.5 billion, or 41 cents per share.

Revenue rose 2.3 percent to $31.25 billion compared with analyst expectations for $31.26 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Its results came the day before the scheduled report of Verizon Communications.

AT&T is expected to surpass Verizon Wireless as the No. 1 U.S. mobile service if regulators approve its plan to buy No. 4 rival TMobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom.

Amazon to allow library lending of Kindle books

Amazon introduced the market-leading Kindle in 2007 and has priced most of the ebooks it sells for less than $9.99 to speed up adoption and ward off competition from devices such as Barnes & Noble Inc’s Nook and Apple Inc.’s iPad. Barnes & Noble introduced library lending at the same time it launched Nook in October 2009.

By SINEAD CAREW AT&T Inc. survived the loss of its exclusive U.S. rights to sell the Apple Inc iPhone.

The No. 2 U.S. mobile service, which is planning to buy TMobile USA, managed to eke out a slight increase in subscribers in the first quarter, surprising Wall Street even as some analysts said the growth came at too high a cost.

Its addition of 62,000 net contract customers in the quarter was much weaker than its fourth quarter growth of 400,000 but better than the average expectation for a loss of 83,000 customers from seven analysts polled by Reuters.

The decline reflected the February launch of

Amazon.com Inc. will start allowing users of the Kindle to borrow e-books from many U.S. public libraries later this year in its latest move to

speed the adoption of its electronic reading device.

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer by sales, said that Kindle owners will be able

to borrow e-books from 11,000 libraries and make electronic annotations in the books but did not give the exact timing of the service’s launch.

The euro rose 0.6 percent to $1.4422, while the dollar fell 0.4 percent against a basket of currencies.

The soft dollar added to the boost for commodities, with copper up 1.1 percent and Brent crude up 0.5 percent to just below $122 a barrel after dropping 1.7 percent in the previous two sessions.

Gold breached $1,500 an ounce for the first time and silver hit a 31-year high, supported by a weak dollar

and concerns over the euro zone sovereign debt crisis.

Spain will issue up to 3.5 billion euros of 10and 13-year paper later in the day after yields for the euro zone states struggling with high debt surged this week on the back of increasing speculation Greece will move to restructure its debt.

Yields on 10-year Spanish government bonds were steady at 5.507 percent.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 3, Subchapter 3 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, a public hearing will be held at, 22 Reade Street, Borough of Manhattan on Wednesday May 11, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. on the following: REAL PROPERTY PUBLIC HEARING in the matter of the acquisition by the City of New York of fee simple (Fee) and conservation easement (CE) interests, and by the Watershed Agricultural Council (WAC) of conservation easement interests using funds provided by the City of New York, on the following real estate in the Counties of Delaware, Greene, Putnam, Schoharie, Ulster and Westchester for the purposes of preserving and preventing the contamination or pollution of the water supply of the City of New York: NYC ID County Municipality Type Tax Lot ID Acres (+/-) Delaware Andes Fee p/o 260.-1-13.12 27.17 7168 Bovina CE p/o 153.-1-5 80.70 4236 Delhi CE 171.8-1-3 & p/o 172.-1-1.1 106.00 2982 Delhi CE 150.-1-91 & 94 170.90 2982 7728 Fleischmanns Fee 287.18-2-22.2 0.47 5116 Kortright Fee 85.-2-9 25.27 6164 Kortright WAC CE 84.-3-1 71.00 7728 Middletown Fee 287.-1-38 52.90 488 Roxbury CE 72.-1-22 33.00 Roxbury Fee 180.-1-21 & 202.-1-28.3 128.12 1646 1826 Roxbury Fee 222.-4-1, 222.-4-3.41 thru 3.46 33.07 1826 Roxbury Fee 222.-4-3.47 & 222.-4-road area 47.33 7623 Roxbury Fee 177.-1-9 & p/o 177.-1-7.3 72.64 7994 Stamford Fee p/o 131.-1-10.1 150.50 1765 Walton Fee 335.-2-14 201.00 Greene Ashland Fee p/o 77.00-1-5.1 129.21 2394 1646 Halcott Fee 124.00-1-1 200.00 1694 Hunter Fee p/o 182.00-5-4 41.50 Hunter Fee 180.00-2-30 & 180.00-3-5 114.31 1840 7376 Hunter Fee 196.00-5-38 thru 43 36.12 Jewett Fee 129.00-4-3.11 32.30 5437 4867 Lexington Fee p/o 128.00-2-1.2 29.00 Windham Fee p/o 63.00-4-60 39.00 2945 1516 Putnam Kent CE p/o 42.11-1-8 50.00 488 Schoharie Gilboa CE 207.-1-37 149.70 1173 Ulster Denning Fee 51.-2-16.112 23.60 Olive Fee 45.4-2-8.100 5.60 4843 919 Wawarsing Fee p/o 66.1-2-15 19.00 1508 Westchester North Castle CE p/o 107.02-1-5 20.81 A copy of the Mayor’s Preliminary Certificate of Adoption and maps of the real estate to be acquired are available for public inspection upon request. Please call (845) 340-7810.

Caswell F. Holloway Commissioner

Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor

Contractors will be required to comply with EEO, D/M/WBE and other federal and state procurement laws, regulations and Executive Orders.

MTA NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT (NYCT)

RFQ#: CM1423, Due Date: 5/24/11 Title: Consulting Services for the R-179 Subway Cars RFQ#: 3077, Due Date: 5/12/11 Title: Remanufacturing of ZF Transmission BIDS: Opening Date: 5/10/11, #4877, Pandrol; #5309, Brush; #5370, Pad, tie saver; #3958, Air spring; air spring, assy; #4772, Module, bumper; #5243, Propylene glycol; #5324, Filter. Opening Date: 5/11/11, #5302, Coolant pump; dimmer switch; thermostat controller; #5204, Lock; # 5205, Motor; #5208, Switch; #5234, Swing, wood stake assy; #5237, Ground lead assy; #5368, Screws. Opening Date: 5/20/11, #4968, Hand tools. More detailed info & the MTA-NYCT contact for the above solicitations can be found at: www.mta.info/nyct/procure/nyctproc.htm

MTA- NYCT SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT (S)

NYCT intends to purchase the following item(s) without competitive bidding from the only known source(s). Any other firm may assert its potential to supply the item(s) by notifying the designated NYCT Contact in writing within 5 business days of this notice. Contract #: R-000XV943, Desc: Pedal, accelerator Mfg/Supplier Part #: MCI 04-15-1199 NYCT Contact: R. Jordon, MTA –NYCT, 2 Broadway, 19th Flr, New York, NY 10004, Ph: (646) 252-6554 Earliest Award Date: 5/9/11

MTA BUS COMPANY (MTABC)

MTA Bus Co. (MTABC) is seeking a vendor(s) to furnish the item as listed below to any or all of the 9 MTABC depots. Contract duration is 27 months and is an estimated quantity contract. Terms and conditions are contained in bid documents. All prices quoted must be FOB delivered. Payment NET 30 unless otherwise indicated. Bid No: PRB110877, MTABC Stock#: 86-87-0142 Qty: 160 Description: Separator Assembly, Air Oil. Mfg.: Orion 071215519. Bid opens: 5/10/11 at 11:00 AM. For more information or to request a solicitation package, please contact Coretta Covington, Sr. Contract Analyst, MTA Bus Co., 128-15 28th Ave., Flushing, NY 11354, Phone: 718-888-6226 or email coretta.covington@mtabusco.com. All inquiries must include co., contact name, title, address, tel. no., e-mail address.

MTA BRIDGES AND TUNNELS (B&T)

Sealed Bids for the below solicitations must be received by B & T at the Bid Suite, 3 Stone Street, NY, NY 10004. Sealed Bids will be publicly opened at the above address on the dates/times indicated.

Bid #: OP 1461 – Two Ton Roller with Trailer. Bid Opening Date: 5/4/11 at 3:00 PM. See project description at www.mta.info/bandt/procure/purchpage.htm

MTA METRO-NORTH RAILROAD (MNR)

MNR will receive sealed bids for the following. Bids must be submitted on inquiry forms provided by MNR by the specified date and time. Bid documents are available at the Procurement & Material Management Department, 347 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10017, 212-340-3223. INQUIRY #, DESCRIPTION, (DUE DATE, TIME, CONTACT): INQ#: 1000002877, Printing and Delivery Services, (5/20/11, 3:00 p.m., Nina Laney Boyd); INQ#: 2639, Gloves, Tuff Coat, 100% Kevlar or Approved Equal., (5/6/11, 2:00PM, Karen Crawford); INQ#: 1000003242, Purchase of a Counterbalanced Walkie Stacker and Scissor Lifts, (5/4/11, 3 PM, Irene Gallante, 212-340-2616); INQ#: 1000002576, Purchase of Production Switch Tamper and Dual Spike and Hairpin Pullers, (5/3/11, 3 PM, Irene Gallante, 212-340-2616; INQ#: 1000003117, Small Engine OEM Repair Parts Blanket Orders (Kohler, Tecumsen, Wisconsin, Briggs & Stratton, Kubota and Honda) for delivery to North White Plains, NY 10601. (5/10/11, 2:30PM, Linda O'Brien, lobrien@mnr.org).

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Kentucky trio to test NBA Draft waters

By WILL GRAVES LEXINGTON, Ky. Kentucky freshmen Terrence Jones, Brandon Knight and junior DeAndre Liggins are heading to the NBA. Maybe.

The school announced yesterday all three players have declared for the NBA draft but will not sign with an agent, clearing the way for them to return to school next fall if they change their mind by May 8.

Jones and Knight are considered mid-to-high first-round picks while Liggins is a defensive stopper who hopes to play his way into the first round after being evaluated by scouts.

The trio helped the Wildcats to their first Final Four appearance in 13 years this spring.

Kentucky fell to Connecticut in the national semifinals.

Knight averaged 17.3 points at point guard and proved to be one of the best clutch performers in the country. The 6-foot-3 Knight hit a pair of game-winning shots during the team’s NCAA tournament run. His driving lay-up helped Kentucky escape an upset bid by Princeton in the second round and his pull-up jumper with 5 seconds left allowed the Wildcats to knock off top-seeded Ohio State in the regional semifinals.

“Playing in the NBA has always been a dream of mine and this is the next step,” Knight said. “All season long coach has been tutoring me on the fine points of being a point guard, and now I have an oppor-

tunity to put my game on display in front of NBA scouts as a result of my hard work.”

Knight’s 657 points were the most by a Kentucky freshman and he also broke the school’s freshman 3-point record by knocking down 87 3s.

Jones averaged 15.7 points, 8.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks and set a Kentucky freshman record by pouring in 35 points in a victory over Auburn in January.

He was chosen SEC Newcomer of the Year by The Associated Press.

The 6-8 power forward volunteered to take on a slightly lesser role during the postseason to allow his teammates to get more involved, a move coach John Calipari said was key to the team’s postseason success.

Liggins will have the most to prove. He blossomed into one of the country’s top defenders but remains limited offensively. He averaged 8.6 points and 4.0 rebounds while leading the team with 46 steals.

“Growing up in a tough environment in Chicago, it’s a pleasure to have an opportunity to do something special,” said Liggins, who welcomed his first child during the season. “This is another challenge I’m looking forward to, to have my game evaluated by pro scouts and see how I rank against some of the top players in the world.”

Calipari encouraged all three players to test their prospects but added he would “would love the opportunity to continue to coach them again next season.”

The coach told reporters last week the unstable NBA labor sit-

uation could throw a wrench into his players’ plans to leave early.

The collective bargaining agreement between the NBA Players Association and the owners expires June 30. If a new deal can’t be reached, there’s a chance league owners could lock out the players.

“The lockout really kind of screws everything up because a lot of kids are pulling their names because what if the lockout goes the whole year?”

Calipari said. “What kind of mistake did you make?”

The announcement comes one day after freshman guard Doron Lamb said he would return next fall. Lamb pointed to the Final Four loss and another talented freshman class next season as the main reasons for his decision.

Lamb’s return guarantees at least one high-profile freshman will be back, one more than a year ago when Kentucky lost John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe and Daniel Orton to the pros after just one season on campus.

Hall of Fame coach Bobby Knight criticized Kentucky for promoting the “one-and-done” culture over the weekend but backed off his statements Tuesday.

Knight said in a brief statement released by ESPN: “My overall point is that ‘one-anddones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.”

KRAWCZYNSKI

MINNEAPOLIS - The NFL and its locked-out players wrapped up their fourth day of court-ordered talks yesterday with few signs of progress and no plans to meet again until mid-May. Executive vice president Jeff Pash, the NFL’s lead negotiator, said U.S. Judge Magistrate Arthur Boylan told both sides they probably won’t convene again until May 16.

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson is expected to decide well before then on the players’ request for an injunction to immedi-

ately lift the lockout, now in its 40th day. Her decision will almost certainly be appealed, but it will give the winning side some leverage in any further talks - even as the clock ticks on the 2011 season.

“That is the judge’s decision,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “She will make that ruling when she is prepared to do it,

and at that point in time we all will respect the ruling and we will get back to the point where we are negotiating.”

Goodell said the league is planning to start the season on time.

“We’re planning to play a full season and we’re going to negotiate as hard as we can to get that done,” Goodell told Giants season-ticket holders in a conference call during a break in mediation session at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis.

Goodell, Packers CEO Mark Murphy, Falcons President Rich McKay

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SPORTS BRIEFS Should Panthers take Newton No. 1? Opinions vary

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The growing consensus among NFL draft analysts is the Carolina Panthers will take Cam Newton with the No. 1 overall pick.

Those pundits differ on whether that’s a smart decision.

As the Panthers remain mum on what they’ll do next week, there’s no shortage of advice. The most polarizing opinions involve the quarterback who dazzled college football last season in leading Auburn to the national title but carries plenty of off-field baggage and concerns.

ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. recently moved Newton to the top of his mock draft, even as he questions Newton’s work ethic and continues to tout Carolina’s Jimmy Clausen. Peter King of Sports Illustrated has Newton going to Carolina, too.

ESPN analyst Jon Gruden thinks the same way and is bullish on Newton.

- MIKE CRANSTON

Attorney to lead USOC’s safe training initiative COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The U.S. Olympic Committee has hired an attorney to oversee its efforts to ensure safe training environments for Olympic athletes.

Malia Arrington was hired as director of ethics and safe sport yesterday, a position created at the recommendation of a USOC panel led by board member Nina Kemppel.

The panel called for the USOC to take a “leadership” role in standardizing rules for all the Olympic-sport orgnizations as they try to eliminate sexual and physical misconduct in their coaching ranks.

In the past year, USA Swimming has been hit by a number of sex-abuse allegations by coaches.

Arrington also will manage the USOC’s internal ethics program.

Klitschko to fight Haye in Hamburg on July 2

NFL, locked-out players wrap up talks for now

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and owners Pat Bowlen of Denver, Jerry Jones from Dallas and Jerry Richardson from Carolina attended yesterday’s session.

Players Ben Leber and Mike Vrabel were joined

by Hall of Famer Carl Eller and attorneys for the talks with Boylan.

All declined comment.

The two sides have spent four days with Boylan, following 16 days of failed talks in front of a federal mediator in Washington.

Goodell said all parties involved remain committed to ending the NFL’s first work stoppage since 1987.

BERLIN - Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye agreed yesterday to the final detail of their longawaited heavyweight title bout, selecting Hamburger SV’s soccer stadium for the July 2 fight.

The Klitschko Management Group said that a deal was reached with the Bundesliga team to use its 57,000-seat Imtech Arena in Hamburg for the fight between IBF and WBO champion Klitschko and WBA title holder Haye.

“We’re all very happy that this mega fight has finally been confirmed,” KMG executive Bernd Boente said. “We are expecting this event to be shown live or delayed in well over 150 countries.”

Klitschko (55-3, 49 knockouts) and Haye (231, 23 KOs) originally were scheduled to fight in June 2009.

“I’ve been training for this fight since the end of 2010 and it’s nice to now have a concrete date to work towards,” Haye said. “We’re going to have an army of Brits invading Germany on July 2 and I can’t wait to sample the atmosphere.”

The 30-year-old Londoner said he would have fought the younger Klitschko brother anywhere, and “wasn’t bothered” about where the fight took place.

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Anthony falls short of stardom with loss

By ADRIAN WOJNAROWSKI BOSTON - Out of his wildest Rocky Mountain dreams, this transformed into one of those nights that Carmelo Anthony had to fantasize for himself.

As Anthony plotted his getaway to the New York Knicks, the plan had long been to manufacture a ‘Melo mythology on the world’s biggest, brightest basketball stage. Here he was playing the part of the transcendent franchise star, daring to destroy these Boston Celtics beneath the 17 championship banners. Down goes Chauncey Billups and Amar’e Stoudemire, and still ‘Melo wouldn’t let go of this forever franchise’s throat, wouldn’t let the Celtics out of Game 2 without raining down pure mayhem.

From everywhere on the floor, the ball kept dropping into the basket.

He rebounded. He blocked shots. He passed to cutting teammates. This had been a clinic of impressive proportion, ‘Melo gone mad with 42 points, 17 rebounds and six assists.

Even with a pedestrian cast of Knicks misfits, he had resurrected the ghosts of Bernard King.

Circumstances called for ‘Melo to be magnificent, and he was mesmerizing until the final moments of the Celtics’ 96-93 victory.

And once again, this was enough for Carmelo Anthony. Once again, he still doesn’t understand that a superstar’s code calls for different disposition when a losing playoff night is over. Whatever he’s done, it isn’t enough. Let everyone else praise you, but the superstar doesn’t take bows when his team is down 2-0 in a series where he ended one game missing 10 of 11 shots.

“It was fun,” ‘Melo said late

Tuesday.

Yes, the Knicks had so much reason to be proud, but let’s face it, after getting ripped in the New York tabloids for such a poor Game 1 performance, ‘Melo’s debriefing on Game 2 had an unmistakable message to it: Too bad we lost, but you can’t blame me for it. If Anthony wants everyone else to regard him as one of the sport’s superstars, he needs to hold himself to the standard that comes with it.

He never acted like a leader in Denver, and nothing’s changed in New York. He had come to New York, because he said he wanted to be a winner. He wanted championships.

So, the Knicks lose a playoff game, and ‘Melo can’t stop insisting that he made the right play by giving up the ball with a chance for victory. The Knicks lose a playoff game, but ‘Melo explains he was too tired to chase down and foul a Celtics player dribbling out the clock on the victory.

When Anthony had a chance to close out the game, he made the safest possible play to ultimately deflect criticism, the one that deep down he knew would free him of blame when it predictably crumbled.

What he needed to say was that he left two plays on the floor in the final seconds, and the Knicks needed more out of him with Stoudemire and Billups reduced to spectators. He’s done little to shed his rep in Denver, which is this: Nothing’s as important as scoring, stats and status. Mostly, ‘Melo was glad he wouldn’t wake up and see himself roasted on the back pages of the tabloids.

Everyone understood Big Baby Davis would blitz Anthony on the final Knicks possession, with them trailing 94-93, and as Ray Allen told Yahoo! Sports later: “It was interesting, because we had to wonder: When we went at him, was he going to give

the ball up?”

It was ‘Melo and four bench players on the floor, and it didn’t matter that he had found several of them for assists in the fourth quarter.

Everything changes with the game on the line, and ‘Melo had to choose without a moment’s notice: Could I split the defenders and bet on myself or give the ball to Jared Jeffries because he happened to be open?

“The way he was scoring, you’d figure he would’ve shot the ball there,” Paul Pierce said.

Anthony passed to Jared Jeffries near the basket, and Jeffries tried to pass to Bill Walker to beat the Boston Celtics in an NBA playoff game.

Walker had taken 11 shots, and missed 11 shots. Jeffries’ pass never made it past Kevin Garnett, who stole the ball and leapt onto the floor to gather it.

“I made the right play,” Anthony said. “The right play was to go to Jared. ... I thought Jared was going to lay it up ... I made the right play so I can live with that.”

When the ball leaves your hands for Jeffries, what he does with it is your responsibility. That’s how it works. Here’s something that would never, ever happen: There wasn’t a Boston Celtics star who would’ve let such a brilliant individual performance overshadow a playoff loss. Kobe Bryant wouldn’t do it. LeBron James wouldn’t do it. Derrick Rose. And on and on.

This series is far from over, but ‘Melo needed to let everyone else celebrate this magnificent performance and hold himself to a higher standard, a superstar’s standard. And that isn’t going, ‘Hey, I gave the ball to a lousy player, who made a lousy decision so how’s that on me?’ And that isn’t letting the clock tick down with the final seconds bleeding away.

Despite the cast of characters on

the floor, Game 2 had played out with a chance for the Knicks to steal a victory. And they didn’t do it. When the game was over, Anthony couldn’t stop congratulating Doc Rivers for diagramming a marvelous play to run out the clock. With four seconds left and the Celtics holding a 94-93 lead, the Knicks believed the ball would get inbounded to Ray Allen, a career 90 percent free-throw shooter in the playoffs.

Only Rivers had the ball thrown into the backcourt to guard Delonte West. Yes, it was a wise move, but this doesn’t explain why ‘Melo, the closest Knick, hesitated before chasing West down to foul him. Once Anthony reached him, West had bled the clock to six-tenths of a second.

Once West made the two free throws, the Knicks were out of timeouts to advance the ball to midcourt and try to run a last-second play. That’s on coach Mike D’Antoni again in this series, but a superstar can’t sell the world on the idea that he was too tired to chase down a foul with the game ticking away.

Parents sue policeman Alabama OT James Carpenter had eight in killing of NY student WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. The parents of a college football player from Massachusetts have filed a federal lawsuit against the New York police officer who shot and killed him.

Pleasantville Officer Aaron Hess, who was cleared by a grand jury in February, was sued yesterday. His lawyer did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Hess shot Danroy Henry Jr., of Easton, Mass.,

through the windshield of his car on Oct. 17 as Henry drove away from a disturbance outside a bar. Hess has said he was hit by the car and had no choice but to fire.

In the lawsuit, filed in White Plains, N.Y., the parents say Hess jumped in front of the car and had no good reason to shoot.

They ask for damages for their son’s death and their suffering.

- JIM FITZGERALD

Alabama offensive tackle James Carpenter has visited eight teams and conducted four private workouts, according to a league source with knowledge of the situation.

The Pittsburgh Steelers announced that Carpenter was one of their official visits.

Carpenter was twice named All-Southeastern Conference at left tackle.

He could also play right tackle or guard in the NFL. “James can be a Pro Bowl player,” said Chip Smith, who trained Carpenter at

Competitive Edge Sports in Georgia. “He’s a great athlete.

James has got great change of direction, really good feet, really good base, long arms.

He has all the things a great offenisve lineman needs to compete. He’s quiet, but it’s not a shy type of quiet.

“He’s self assured, he’s doing everything he needs to do to get ready. He worked extremely hard. He’s a dominant player. He’s going to be a steal for somebody if he gets out of the second round.”

He started 27 consecutive games at left tackle in two seasons for the Crimson Tide after transferring from Coffeyville Community

College.

He was on the Outland Trophy watch list last season.

He chose Alabama over Oklahoma, Mississippi, Iowa State, Texas Tech, South Carolina and Oklahoma State.

“I went down to the Senior Bowl to watch him and I thought he certainly made some money that week,” Smith said. “He showed his athleticism. I sat with some of the teams in the stands and they were marveling over seeing someone that athletic to be as big as he is. He’s an extremely hard worker and a really great player.”

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Brandon Roy ‘hurt’ by not playing — DALLAS Brandon Roy, considered the face of the Portland Trail Blazers’ franchise entering the season, fought back tears while sitting on the bench Tuesday night.

The source of the three-time All-Star’s frustration wasn’t the Blazers losing Game 2 to trail the Dallas Mavericks 2-0 as the series heads to Portland. Roy was upset about playing time in the first half, during which the Blazers led for all but 36 seconds.

Roy, who is adjusting to a reserve role after returning from midseason surgeries on both knees that caused him to miss two months, told The Oregonian that he “always thought I would be treated a little better” after playing only eight minutes in Portland’s Game 2 loss.

He was upset that Nicolas Batum, Rudy Fernandez and even little-used point guard Patty Mills got off the bench before him.

“There was a point in the first half, and I was thinking, ‘You better not cry,’ “ Roy, one of the first players to leave the locker room, told the newspaper in the American Airlines Center hallway. “I mean, serious. I mean, there was a moment where I felt really sorry for myself. Then I was like, nah, you can’t be sorry for yourself. I’m a grown man, but there was a moment there that I felt sorry for myself. Especially when I think I can still help.”

In Portland’s Game 1 loss, Roy played 26 ineffective minutes, scoring two points on 1of-7 shooting. He had three assists and two rebounds in that game.

Roy went scoreless in Game 2, when the Blazers’ bench failed to score a point in the sec-

ond half, during which Roy played only 2 minutes, 17 seconds. The only statistics recorded

by Roy, who insists that his knees feel fine, were one missed field goal, two missed free throws and a turnover.

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little hurt, or disappointed,” Roy told The Oregonian. “But the biggest thing is to keep moving, to try and keep my spirits up. But it’s tough, man. I just ...

I just always thought I would be treated better.

That was a little disappointing for me.”

Portland entered the series planning to utilize Roy as a post-up weapon against Dallas sixth man Jason Terry, who gives up about four inches and 35 pounds to the 6-foot-6, 211pound Roy. That had been effective for Portland during their two regular-season wins over the Mavericks.

Roy had a post-operations-best 21 points in

the Blazers’ March 15 win over Dallas.

Portland had great success running its offense through Roy during its April 3 win over the Mavericks, when he didn’t post impressive statistics but played a major role in the Blazers’ 38-point second quarter.

“You take advantage of the defense,” Portland coach Nate McMillan said before Game 2. “If we have a matchup, we want to go to that matchup. Then that matchup has to produce.”

Terry, who is friends with fellow Seattle native Roy, downplayed the defensive success he has had against Roy. Terry pointed out that Roy’s minutes were greatly reduced and said he remains a major concern for the Mavs.

“He’s so dangerous,” Terry said. “We definitely don’t want to get him going.”

Roy just hopes he gets more of a chance to

affect the series, although he said he had no plans to approach McMillan about the issue.

“I think my nature I’ve never been one to confront. Never been the one to create controversy,” Roy told The Oregonian. “I think Coach is comfortable with his guys and it’s hard for him to get me

back in there. If that’s what he is comfortable with, then I’m going to try and support the team. And if he can get us past [the first round], then he can. I just always thought I would be treated a little better, but ... it is what it is. I’ll be all right. I’ll go home, see my kids, and be happy.”

Cheyenne Woods: Not just Tiger’s niece anymore Ravens GM Newsome prepares for different NFL draft

By JOEDY McCREARY

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - At least one Woods is a winner this year.

Tiger Woods’ title slump certainly hasn’t extended to his niece Cheyenne. After winning the Atlantic Coast Conference individual golf title, the Wake Forest junior wants to keep establishing her own identity during the upcoming NCAA regionals.

Cheynne Woods said Tuesday that maturing in the shadow of her famous uncle has been a positive because it has “definitely gotten my name out there.” She says dealing with the spotlight that comes with her lineage has made her better at dealing with the spotlight - essential in an individual sport like golf.

She was under par for all three rounds at the par-71 Sedgefield Country Club, shooting a 5-under 208 to win the ACC championship by seven strokes.

By DAVID GINSBURG

Erik Spoelstra, LeBron James bonded

By TOM HABERSTROH MIAMI — Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has maintained that the Heat’s early-season struggles would make his team more unified. And that seems to have happened between him and star forward LeBron James, but Spoelstra said it took a conversa-

tion to get there.

Speaking after yesterday’s practice, Spoelstra said that he had a conversation with James in early December, in the wake of the swirling controversy generated by a bump between the two in the third quarter of a Nov. 27 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. It has been reported that the two met immediately after the incident in November as well.

Nonetheless, Spoelstra said yesterday that the December meeting was a turning point in their relationship.

“It was a reminder for both of us that we have to manage all the noise outside and keep it to what’s real,” Spoelstra said. “The only things that matter are the people in the locker room. At the end of the day, a lot of the noise will be pointed in our direction.

O W I N G S MILLS, Md. Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome is getting ready for an NFL draft unlike any he’s ever experienced.

Because of the NFL lockout, teams have not been allowed to sign free agents during the offseason. So Newsome and the Ravens will head into the draft on April 28 without having the benefit of addressing

any pressing needs.

Newsome said Tuesday that the last time he can remember a draft coming before free agency, he was still a player. That was more than two decades ago.

Newsome says the unusual situation hasn’t changed his approach or altered the team’s draft board.

Newsome plans to stick with the same plan that has proven to be successful in the past, meaning he will pick the highest-rated player on the draft board rather than stretch to fill a need.

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