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HARLEM 4 JAPAN

An extraordinary gathering of Harlemites came out in support of a historic benefit concert, “Harlem 4 Japan,” held at Aaron Davis Hall on the campus of The City College of New York this week. Pictured above are Joyce Adewumi and the New York African Chorus Ensemble, one of the many artists

who performed to help raise funds for the victims of the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crisis in Japan. Read the complete story on pages 12 and 13 in Inside New York’s section of the Daily Challenge. Photo credit: Tony Graves

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NEWS BRIEFS City issues financial advisory QUEENS DA LEADS NEW CHARGE AGAINST ILLEGAL TOBACCO SALES Queens prosecutors are going after cigarette smugglers who they say cost the city a fortune in lost taxes.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown announced the creation of a new unit targeting individuals and businesses who deliberately avoid paying taxes.

He also announced the arrest of a dozen people accused of smuggling cigarettes, following a three-month investigation.

Some of the defendants allegedly worked together as part of a ring, while others worked individually.

The illegal activity involved more than 4,000 cartons of cigarettes and 22,000 cigars, which were sold in local stores and bodegas.

The city estimates it caused a loss of $270,000 in tax revenue.

“The marketplace is being flooded with inferior products, much of which is smuggled in from overseas, products containing dangerously high levels of tar and nicotine and other additives,” Brown said.

“By individuals not paying the correct amount of taxes, the state cannot adequately maintain our roads and bridges and other governmental services we’ve come to depend on. Tax evasion is not a victimless crime. It affects us all,” said Richard Ernst of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

The defendants face charges including violations of tax law and criminal possession of forged documents.

MTA LOOKS TO SELL-OFF MIDTOWN HEADQUARTERS The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is looking to bring in some cash by selling its Midtown home.

The agency says it plans to sell its headquarters and two connected buildings on Madison Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets.

It’s hoped a deal could bring in as much as $150 million.

The nearly 900 workers there would likely join about 4,200 others already at another building in the Financial District.

The MTA bought the 20-story buildings between 1979 and 1991 for a combined $48 million.

The authority is also evaluating its space at 26 other buildings it owns or leases.

STATE COURT SYSTEM LAYS OFF DOZENS OF EMPLOYEES The state’s court system announced dozens of employees are being laid off because of budget cuts.

This is the first time in 20 years that pink slips are going out.

The 58 jobs cut include computer programmers, secretarial staff, auditors and attorneys.

In addition, 16 temporary employees will be out of work on May 4.

The state cut $170 million from the judicial budget for the current fiscal year.

requests for proposals In response to questions about the Requests for Proposals (RFP) for a Financial Advisor, Pricing Advisor and Swap Advisor released jointly by the Comptroller’s Office and the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget, Comptroller C. John Liu stated the following: “New York City’s ambitious infrastructure rebuilding plan requires billions to be raised in the capital markets. These RFPs will allow new as well as established firms to com-

pete for the city’s business, ensuring that our taxpayers get the best deal with lower borrowing costs. Moreover, opening the process up to competition may result in doing more business with firms owned by minorities, women and small NYCbased business, whereas continuing the same old non-competitive process guarantees the status quo.”

The existing Financial Advisor contracts had been extended multiple times without a new RFP being

issued.

Deputy Comptroller for Public Finance Carol Kostik stated, “New York City benefits from a deep talent pool in financial services. We manage a large and complex financing program, so we want the best and the brightest on our financing teams. With these RFPs, firms can compete to earn a place on those teams.”

Two RFPs were issued, one for Financial Advisor and Price Advisor, and one for Swap Advisor. The RFPs will be used to hire advisers for the City General Obligation bonds as well as for the New York City Transitional Finance Authority, the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, and the Hudson Yards Infrastructure Authority.

Obama eyes energy markets for fraud WASHINGTON — With gasoline pump prices soaring, the Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a working group of federal agencies to probe potential fraud in the energy markets.

Rising fuel prices are a persistent concern for the White House, which worries about their impact on the economy’s recovery and on voters’ wallets as President Barack Obama runs for re-election.

The Justice Department announced the working group, which will include representatives from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Justice and Treasury.

“We will be vigilant in monitoring the oil and gas markets for any wrongdoing so that consumers can be confident they are not paying higher prices as a result of illegal activity,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement unveiling the effort.

Obama devoted considerable time to the subject of rising gasoline prices this week — seeking to reassure Americans that there was enough global oil supply and blaming soaring gasoline prices on speculators.

Average U.S. gasoline prices hit $3.84 a gallon last week, the most

expensive since August 2008, as oil prices have soared above $100 a barrel. With pump prices already above the key level of $4 a gallon in U.S. cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, there is political pressure on Obama to act.

The group, which will be part of the administration’s Financial Fraud Task Force, will focus on any manipulation of oil and gas prices, collusion, fraud or other violations of state and federal laws, Holder said in a memo.

It will also examine investor practices, supply and demand factors and the role of speculators and index

traders in the oil futures markets, according to his memo sent to the task force members.

Holder said he was acting on a March 11 request from Obama to look into rising energy prices and that during a subsequent meeting last month with task force members and state attorneys general they discussed pending inquiries in some states.

They also talked about “areas that require additional exploration, including whether there is any evidence of unlawful price manipulation at the supplier level or higher,” Holder said in the memorandum released by the Justice Department.

BP to provide $1 billion for oil spill projects WASHINGTON — BP Plc has agreed to provide $1 billion for projects in the Gulf of Mexico to restore natural resources damaged by last year’s oil spill, the company and the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

The department said the agreement, the largest ever of its kind, represented a first step in fulfilling BP’s obligation to fund a complete restoration of harmed public resources, such as rebuilding coastal marshes and replenishing damaged beaches.

Other initial projects to be funded will restore barrier islands and wetlands and conserve areas for ocean habitat.

The deal came a day after the oneyear anniversary of the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, which started when an explosion aboard the

Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers and released nearly 5 million barrels of oil that fouled the shorelines of four U.S. Gulf Coast states.

The department said the agreement does not affect BP’s ultimate liability or any other company for environmental damages, but allowed restoration projects get started sooner.

BP has estimated the full cost of the disaster at $42 billion, and on Thursday sued three of its well partners for damages — Transocean Ltd., Halliburton Co. and Cameron International Corp.

BP said the agreement will accelerate work starting this year to restore areas harmed by the spill.

“Our voluntary commitment to that process is the best way to get

restoration projects moving as soon as possible,” said Lamar McKay, chairman and president of BP America Inc. The states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas each will select and implement $100 million in projects while the rest of the money will be used for projects picked by the federal government or by trustees for the oil spill, the Justice Department said.

BP said the agreement will have the effect of speeding up restoration work that would have been delayed for several years while a complete assessment of the damage continued.

It said more than 100 studies are underway to evaluate potential harm to Gulf wildlife and habitat. The agreement will focus on projects that can start this year and in 2012.

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Earth Day organizers call for ‘a billion acts of green’

By JAMES B. KELLEHER CHICAGO — If the environmental movement has a high holiday, Earth Day is it.

The annual effort to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire actions to clean it up marks its 41st anniversary on Friday, coinciding with the Christian Good Friday and Judaism’s celebration of Passover.

In an effort dubbed “A Billion Acts of Green,” organizers are encouraging people to observe Earth Day 2011 by pledging online at http://act.earthday.org/ to do something small but sustainable in their own lives to improve the planet’s health — from switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs to reducing the use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals.

“Millions of people doing small, individual acts can add up to real

Students pose with a globe during a campaign to mark World Earth Day. change,” said Chad Chitwood, a spokesman for the umbrella group coordinating efforts.

There will be hundreds of rallies, workshops and other events around the United States, where Earth Day was born, and hundreds more overseas, where it is now celebrated in 192 countries.

In the United States the activities range from the premiere of the new film from the director of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” (it’s called “Revenge of the Electric Car”) at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York to a discussion about creating a green economy in 12 cities along the Gulf Coast, where this time last year residents

were reeling from the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the years since the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 the environmentalist movement made great strides with passage of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and other groundbreaking laws.

But the bipartisanship that marked the birth of Earth Day — it was sponsored in Congress by a Wisconsin Democrat named Gaylord Nelson and a California Republican named Pete McCloskey — is often missing in discussions about environmental policy today.

Efforts to fight climate change by regulating greenhouse gases, for instance, face fierce resistance from many Republicans and members of the business community, who dispute the science supporting global warming and warn new rules to regulate emissions will kill jobs and raise energy costs.

CDC: 26 states have comprehensive smoking bans

By JULIE STEENHUYSEN CHICAGO — More than half of U.S. states have enacted smoking bans in private worksites, restaurants and bars in the past decade, but a government report says southern states lag in adopting such laws.

The report, released on Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows swift progress in much of the country since 2000 to pass laws to protect nonsmokers from effects of secondhand smoke.

But many southern states still allow smoking at worksites or bars or restaurants, and seven states have no laws prohibiting smoking in these public places.

“In the span of 10 years, smokefree workplaces, restaurants and bars went from being relatively rare to being the norm in half of the states and District of Columbia,” researchers said in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality report.

As of December 21, 2010, 26 of the

50 U.S. states have enacted comprehensive smoke-free laws, and nearly half of residents in the United States — 47.8 percent — are covered by state or local smoke-free laws, the CDC said.

If trends continue, the nation could be 100 percent smoke-free by 2020, the researchers said.

But states in the South and parts of the West have resisted comprehensive statewide bans. Seven states — Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming — have no laws banning smoking in private workplaces, restaurants and bars.

That leaves about 88 million nonsmokers in the United States still exposed to secondhand smoke, the CDC said.

Only three southern states — Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina — have laws banning smoking in any two of the three venues (workplaces, restaurants and bars) and no southern state has a smoke-free law covering all three.

According to the U.S. surgeon general, measures such as separating smokers from nonsmokers,

cleaning the air and ventilating buildings do not fully protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke, and the only effective measure is to ban smoking in all indoor areas.

“We must zero in on those areas that continue to lag despite studies that show smoke-free policies benefit public health and the local economy

with lower health care costs,” Nancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, said in a statement.

According to the CDC, secondhand smoke causes an estimated 46,000 deaths from heart disease and 3,400 lung cancer deaths among U.S. nonsmoking adults each year.

New York City to develop solar power in landfills

By HENRY GOLDMAN New York City will create solar power plants atop capped landfills capable of generating power to supply 50,000 homes as part of a renewed effort to reduce climate-changing carbon gas emissions.

The program, announced in a speech by Mayor Michael Bloomberg Thursday, would reduce the city’s reliance on emergency generators that burn petroleum-based fuel on hot summer days when electricity demand peaks, said Jason Post, a spokesman for the mayor.

The mayor also unveiled a plan to use $40 million of federal economic

stimulus funds to create a nonprofit Energy Efficiency Corp. It will provide low-cost financing to building owners to conserve energy with more efficient lighting, heat and insulation, Post said.

“Banks are often reluctant to lend money for energy- efficiency projects because the loans are relatively small and difficult to manage,” the mayor’s office said in a memo outlining the financing proposal.

The ideas are part of Bloomberg’s PlaNYC, which has more than 100 programs, including tree plantings, rainwater recapture, rooftop gardens and reflective paint. Bloomberg began PlaNYC in 2007 with the goal of reducing carbon-gas emissions city-

wide 30 percent by 2030. The city cut emissions 13 percent between 2005 and 2009, the mayor said in September.

The initiatives were outlined in a speech at Harlem Stage, a performingarts center inside a 121-year-old gatehouse guarding a tunnel that delivers water from the Croton reservoir system to the north.

The new city-owned corporation will also provide technical advice and information on energy-saving technology and other opportunities for financial support, the mayor’s office said.

One percent of buildings in the city produce 86 percent of the soot — more than all vehicles — by burning the dirtiest grades of heating fuel,

Bloomberg said. To reduce emissions, the mayor announced new rules to phase out use of those grades. Incentives will include financing by the corporation to help building owners convert to natural gas and low-sulfur oil.

The plan to create solar plants capable of generating as much as 50 megawatts of power in the capped landfills of Staten Island and Brooklyn would seek partnerships with private companies developing renewable-energy technology.

“Installing solar power at these sites could significantly improve local air quality by reducing generation at the city’s dirtiest plants during periods of peak summer demand,” the administration’s memo stated.

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DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011

JOURNAL OF THE PEOPLE’S PASTOR ‘WRITING THE HISTORY I’VE LIVED, LIVING THE HISTORY I WRITE!’

Fifty-two nights and half-a-day in the hospital: My experience

THOMAS H. WATKINS

A Black American Earth Day

By REV. DR. HERBERT DAUGHTRY

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As hard as I tried, I could not make out what the doctor was saying, but I spoke up, and I said, “Yes, I need help. Get me the Marines, Army, Air Force, Navy, and everybody else.” The response from another doctor was, “No, he is alright.”

Later, I was told by a nurse that I should not joke the way that I did. They had given me a certain medicine which had the potential to produce hallucinations. She said, “The doctors will think you are hallucinating which will subject you to other kinds of treatments.”

“Thank you very much,” I whispered.

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Donald Trump’s baseless challenge to Obama’s U.S. citizenship

By GEORGE E. CURRY Donald Trump, who is again flirting with the possibility of running for president on the Republican ticket, has garnered widespread publicity by repeating thoroughly discredited claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is ineligible to be president of the United States. He has hired private investigators to look into whether Obama was born in Hawaii.

Trump should save his money.

There is no doubt that Obama was born in the United States. The only people who refuse to accept this truth are ignorant, brain dead or decline to let facts get in way of their right-wing politics. In this case, Donald Trump might fit all three categories.

In a letter to the New York Times, Trump wrote, “There is a very large segment of our society who believe [sic] that Barack Obama, indeed, was not born in the United States.”

For the record, Barack Hussein Obama was born at 7:24 p.m. on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu. His parents were Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. What is the source of this information?

Obama’s official birth certificate that was issued by Hawaii’s Department of Health. The birth was registered August 8, 1961 and the “Certification of Live Birth” notes that Obama’s mother was Caucasian and his father was African.

In addition to the official birth document, Obama’s entrance into the world was recorded in both local newspapaers, the August 13 Honolulu Advertiser and the August 14 Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Trump

said on April 7: “Well, guess what?

His grandparents probably put in a thing because everybody wanted to become a Unites States citizen, more so than today to be honest with you, because they were more proud in those days. But for purposes of hospitalization and welfare, you want to become an American citizen. So, the grandparents living in Honolulu, living in Hawaii, probably put it in. It’s a very simple explanation.”

It may be a simple explanation, but it is a wrong one.

The Honolulu Advertiser noted, “In November 2008, the Advertiser reported that the first mention of the future president appeared in a Sunday Advertiser birth announcement that ran on Aug. 13, 1961: ‘Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hgy., son, Aug.4.’

“The identical announcement ran the following day in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

“Birthers wave off those birth announcements, saying that Obama family members 48 years ago could have phoned in false information to both newspapers.

“Such vital statistics, however, were not sent to the newspaper by the general public but by the Health Department, which received the information directly from hospitals, [Health Department spokeswoman Janice] Okubo said.”

Trump was also wrong about relatives on the father’s side.

He asserted in his letter to the New York Times, “His grandmother from Kenya stated on tape, that he was born in Kenya and she was there to watch the birth. His family is fighting over which hospital in Hawaii he was born in – they just don’t know.”

Not true, according to FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania

Fifty-two nights and half-a-day Continued from page 4 According to the article, such changes in critical care have helped Montefiore reduce its overall mortality rate from 3.5% in 1997 to 1.8% in 2009. In its medical and surgical ICUs, the mortality rate fell from 36% in the 1980s to less than 8% in 2004—in part because many terminally ill patients are now offered palliative care elsewhere.

“Every four hours or so, we are asking, ‘Is this patient benefiting from ICU care?’” said Dr. Vladimir Kvetan. “It’s all about using this precious resource as wisely as possible.’”

According to the article, Montefiore Hospital has reduced its overall mortality rate from 3.5% in 1997 to 1.8% in 2009. In its medical and surgical ICU’s, the mortality rate fell from 36% in the 1980s to less than 8% in 2004. In part, it is claimed because many terminally-ill patients

are now offered palliative care elsewhere.

“We can get to any patient with the risk of death within 10 minutes to evaluate and properly stabilize them and assess their benefit from the intensive-care resources,” said Dr. Kvetan. “The guiding principle is to have the most experienced and highest-trained physicians available around the clock.”

Dr. Kvetan, who joined Montefiore in 1983 and became head of critical care in 1999, began making changes about 10 years ago when he realized that many patients in the

whose goal is to “reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.” It noted, “He [Trump] claims the president’s grandmother says Obama was born in Kenya. In fact, the recording to which he refers shows Sarah Obama repeatedly saying through a translator: ‘He was born in America.’” The site further confirmed that the future president was born in Honolulu’s Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital.

In an April 7th interview on The Today Show, Trump charged, “He [Obama] doesn’t have a birth certificate or he hasn’t shown it. He has what’s called a certificate of live birth. That’s something easy to get…A certificate of live birth is not even signed by anybody. I saw his. I read it very carefully. It doesn’t have a serial number, doesn’t have a signature…”

Again, any apprentice should have known better.

FactCheck.org stated, “Had Trump looked at our 2008 article, he would see the signature stamp of Alvin Onaka, certifying the document is ‘a true copy or abstract of the record on file,’ issued to Obama June 7, 2007 as he was preparing to run for president. Furthermore, the serial number (actually a ‘certificate’ number) shows quite clearly in our photos. The number is 151 1961010641, for whatever that’s worth.”

It added, “Trump is also mistaken about what legally qualifies as a ‘birth certificate,’ which is actually a broad generic term with no specific legal meaning. The U.S. Department of State uses the term ‘certified birth certificate’ to refer to exactly what Obama produced, which Hawaii calls a ‘Certification of Live Birth.’ The State Department accepts a state-certified photocopy of a hospital-generated document, as was commonly used in the past. But Hawaii, like ICU didn’t really need such intense care. They needed faster and better evaluation before they got there. So he devised a system to provide that, while keeping more ICU beds available for patients who could benefit most from them. … to be continued.

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many states, now uses computerprinted documents instead, and Hawaii’s form also meets State Department standards for establishing citizenship.”

Ironically, when pressed for a copy of his birth certificate, Trump also produced a “Certificate of Birth.”

It shows that Donald John Trump was born at 10:54 a.m. on June 14, 1947 at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, N.Y. In an interview on Good Morning America, Trump claimed, “…He [Obama] grew up and nobody knew him…Nobody ever comes forward.

Nobody knows who he is until later in life. It’s very strange. The whole thing is very strange.”

What is strange is that Trump never saw the many television programs and newspaper articles about Obama’s early years in Hawaii.

For example, the Maui News published a story January 21, 2009 in which it quoted Aimee Yatsushiro, who was a student teacher in Obama’s kindergarten class. She remembered 5-year-old Obama as a “cute, likable, heavy build child.” Katherine Nakamoto, who retired as a teacher at Noelani Elementary School, said, “We called him Barack…He was very well mannered, respectful, confident and independent.”

Trump struck out at every turn.

FactCheck.org stated, “If Donald worked for us, we’d have to say: ‘Donald, you’re fired – for incompetence.’”

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Homemade bomb found at mall near Columbine high

By KEITH COFFMAN DENVER — A busy shopping mall near Columbine High School was evacuated on Wednesday after authorities responding to a small fire at the retail complex found two propane tanks and a pipe bomb, officials said.

Twelve years to the day after two Columbine High School students shot dead a teacher, 12 students and themselves on April 20, 1999, the devices were discovered at Southwest Plaza Mall, about a mile from Columbine.

Jacki Kelley, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, said the security scare began when a small blaze broke out in the mall’s food court around noon on Wednesday.

Firefighters arriving on the scene discovered the propane tanks “at the origin of the fire,” and police ordered an estimated 10,000 shoppers and mall employees

A man, described by investigators as a person of interest, is seen in a surveillance video released by the FBI. out of the complex, Kelley said.

Bomb squads later uncovered the pipe bomb nearby as they combed through the sprawling plaza with explosives-detecting dogs, she said.

Among the arsenal that Columbine assailants Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris

brought to school during their assault in 1999 were pipe bombs and propane tanks fashioned into bombs.

The similarity of devices found at the mall to the explosives in the school attack was not lost on investigators, Kelley said.

“It’s very disturbing that this happened today of all

days,” Kelley said.

FBI agents called to the scene were treating the bomb placements as “a case of domestic terrorism,” Kelley said.

FBI spokesman Dave Joly later told reporters that investigators believe the pipe bomb was intended to trigger a larger explosion of the propane tanks.

Kelley said the bomb fell apart while explosives technicians were handling the device as they prepared to detonate it, and it was “rendered safe.”

Investigators reviewed videotapes from surveillance cameras for clues, and later released two still images from the tapes showing a gray-haired man with a mustache and baseball cap they described as a “person of interest.”

The FBI asked for the public’s help in locating the unidentified man, who was captured in one photo near a door by a stairwell, carrying a plastic grocery bag in one hand.

Columbine cancels classes

U.S. arms buyer predicts more big-ticket cuts

By JIM WOLF WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s top arms buyer on Wednesday predicted more scrapping of big-ticket arms programs starting as soon as the 2013 fiscal year due to tightening U.S. defense budgets.

“There undoubtedly will be more cancellations of that kind,” Ashton Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, told an audience at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington.

Carter made the comment after referring to a Pentagon decision announced in February to kill a roughly $13 billion Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, a hybrid landing craft and battle truck being developed by General Dynamics Corp., as well as other big programs that have been cut, curtailed or capped in the last couple of years.

“Yes, for sure, as we prepare the fiscal year 2013 budget,” he replied, when asked if the projected cancellations, that he did not specify, might occur that soon.

The Pentagon is already working on its spending request for fiscal 2013,

which starts October 1, 2012.

President Barack Obama last week called for shaving $400 billion from U.S. security-related spending, starting in fiscal 2013 through the 2023 fiscal year, as part of a $4 trillion push to trim the U.S. deficit. Overall, the United States is projected to spend as much as $7.5 trillion on military outlays during this period.

The Pentagon’s biggest arms suppliers include Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co., Northrop Grumman Corp., General Dynamics, BAE Systems Plc and Raytheon Co. Carter, in his remarks, said the Defense Department would seek greater buying power for all items — not just arms purchases — in its roughly $530 billion core budget.

He singled out space programs as one of the areas where costs would be reviewed aggressively, saying “we’re paying too much.”

He referred to the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite program; Spacebased Infrared System Program (SBIRS); and Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV).

Boeing and Lockheed are the prime contractors for EELV, which is designed to provide affordable launch services for the Department of Defense and other government payloads.

The program is “performing very well but costing too much,” Carter said.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has scrapped or scaled down more than 20 troubled or “excess” arms programs since April 2009. The Pentagon calculates this has saved more than $300 billion in long-term costs.

The Defense Department is undertaking a review of its roles and missions to help identify areas where savings may be achieved to meet Obama’s deficit reduction goal.

Frank Kendall, Carter’s top deputy, said earlier Wednesday that he regarded program cancellations as a failure of the Defense Department overall.

“It’s a failure that goes back to the beginning of the program, to its planning, to its execution,” he told reporters at a breakfast session.

each year on the anniversary of the massacre there. But other schools in the area were placed on lock-down during Wednesday’s bomb scare at the mall as a precaution until the all-clear was given, Kelley said.

The mall will remain closed until the investigation is complete.

Discovery of the pipe bomb came a day after police in Colorado Springs, about 50 miles to the southeast, confronted a teenage boy who posting admitted “Columbine-style threats” against his high school on his Facebook account.

A police spokesman said the Palmer High School ninth grader told officers who visited his home Tuesday that the threats were meant as a joke, and he apologized, along with his family.

The student, whose name was not released, also agreed to stay home from school on Wednesday. Police patrols and security at the school were stepped up for the day, police said.

Kendall heaped doubt on the near-term prospects for so-called directed energy weapons, a science fiction staple now in development for 21st-century battlefields.

“Directed energy is one of those technologies which is always five years away no matter how many years go by,” Kendall said.

The Pentagon spent more than $5.2 billion on Boeing’s Airborne Laser, a directedenergy system aboard a modified 747-400F airliner. It was designed as a missile defense system but in 2009 Gates recommended the cancellation of a planned second such aircraft and demoted the project to research status.

Wine for ‘mommy’ sets off trademark fight Rival wine sellers targeting overworked mothers are fighting over use of the word “Mommy” on their wine labels, according to a lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court.

In the suit California-based winery Clos Lachance Wines asked the court to declare that its “Mommyjuice” does not violate the trademark of “Mommy’s Time Out,” which is marketed by a New Jersey distributor.

“Mommy is a generic word that they don’t have a monopoly on,” said KC Branch, an

attorney who represents Clos Lachance.

The owner of “Mommy’s Time Out” declined to comment on the lawsuit.

To succeed in a trademark violation case, a brand owner must show it is likely that a rival’s mark will create confusion in the minds of consumers.

The front label of Mommyjuice features a drawing of a woman juggling a house, teddy bear and computer. The back label advises moms to “tuck your kids into bed, sit down and have a glass of

Mommyjuice. Because you deserve it.” The wine is available in a white Chardonnay and a red mixed blend.

The front label of “Mommy’s Time Out,” an Italian wine sold in red and white, shows an empty chair facing a corner. A wine bottle and glass sit on a table next to the chair.

Trademark conflicts between winemakers are relatively common, said Richard Mendelson, a California vintner who teaches a course on wine law at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley.

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COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

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Unity Fellowship of Christ Church Welcomes Gay Worshippers

By MCCARTON ACKERMAN Homosexuality is still a taboo topic within most church circles.

But one church that is accessible to the Brooklyn community has made it a point to invite gay people of faith to come out and worship.

The Unity Fellowship Church-NYC (UFC) led

by Bishop Zachary Jones is based in East New York, and it offers Sunday services and community outreach programs during the week that attract people from all walks of life.

“We take a bold stand in that we are openly LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) people of faith, but we also believe the scriptures in the Bible,” said Jones.

Unity Fellowship Church was founded in Los Angeles in 1982 by Reverend Carl Bean and was the first church organized specifically to reach African Americans of faith in the LGBT community.

Since then, they have branched out to 17 churches across the country.

As for their East New York location, Jones said the church consciously targets communities which are marginalized or challenged economically.

“It’s important that we pick areas which will benefit the most from our services,” said Jones.

“There are already churches on Castro Street in San Francisco or in the East Village in New York that openly seek out LGBT people of faith, but that was not the case here when we first opened.”

Although there is not a burgeoning LGBT community in East New York, Jones says he believes that there is an increasing amount of tolerance towards homosexuality in the area.

“At the East Market Cafe across the street from our church, there was a recent instance where a man entered the restaurant and made

Bishop Zachary Jones derogatory remarks “We have an outreach about homosexuals, and organization called the owner took a stand,” Unity Fellowship said Jones. “He invited Breaking Ground, him to sit down quietly which was started over or leave.”

15 years ago for LGBT As part of UFC’s out- youth and their famireach to the LGBT com- lies,” said Jones. munity, they offer pro“It was initially creatgrams that work direct- ed to deal with issues ly with youth who are related to sexuality and struggling with their HIV among youth, but sexuality. we’ve expanded since

Mocha Moms: A Sisterhood Grows in Brooklyn

By C. ZAWADI MORRIS Sometimes the greatest heroes are the lesser known.

Tuesday evening around 30 mothers and their small children gathered in a tiny room in the basement of the Macon Branch library.

All of the women had three things in common: They were women of African descent, they were married, and they were all stay-at-home moms.

They were a part of a women’s support group called “Mocha Moms,” and they were holding a small fundraiser for young girls in Haiti who were still reeling from the earthquake.

“Last year, we held a fundraiser to benefit Haitian refugees right after the earthquake.

But we decided to do it again this year, because the situation in Haiti hasn’t improved

enough for us,” said Eisa Ulen Richardson, co-president of Brooklyn Mocha Moms.

“There are still women and girls who are living in camps or who are homeless. They need things like rape whistles and flashlights, so that they can feel safer in these camps.”

The fundraiser was a benefit for Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklynbased women’s support group for Haitian refugees.

The fundraiser event featured invited guest speaker City Councilmember Tish James, speakers from HWFHR, food, music and a raffle of children’s books and toys. It also welcomed the participation of the Mocha Moms’ husbands.

James said she supported Brooklyn Mocha Moms because the group defies all stereotypes of what most peo-

ple think about women of color and motherhood, and she wanted to stand behind their efforts.

“There’s not a lot of mama drama going on here,” said James.

“What you have here are stay-at-home moms, wives and husbands who care about one thing and that is the development of their child. You don’t often hear this side of our story, and this story needs to be told.”

The love, support and laughter in the room were thick. Mothers got down on the carpeted floor to play with their children, while toddlers gleefully and dutifully ran amok, and fathers mingled freely— All of this, while Eisa Richardson assisted an eager little girl in reading off numbers of raffle ticket winners; it seemed as though everyone in the room was winning something.

“This is a good support for mothers, especially if you’re a new mother,” said Chaha Wells, a Mocha Mom for 2 years. “I’m a 40-plus stay-at-home mom, and I just love the camaraderie here. It’s a great place for the children to hang out together.”

Brooklyn Mocha Moms received a $500 donation from Paper Medium to start off their fundraiser, and at $10 per family, raised a few hundred more.

“We were very lucky that we got a donation from Paper Medium,” said Richardson. “We had a good turnout, so we’re very happy and hopeful that we’ve raised at least a few more hundred dollars.

We’d like to hand over a nice four-figure check that will help fund the women of [HWFHR], because they fly back to the island and will distribute supplies to these young girls that need our support.”

then to deal with issues pertaining to heterosexual youth such as teenage pregnancies. In light of the recent suicides amongst gay youth due to bullying in school, we also offer mental health support.”

Jones has been involved in church activities for his entire life. Born and raised as a Baptist in Los Angeles, he held his own Bible studies as a teenager and was licensed in 1978 as a pulpit minister at the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.

However, Jones, who is openly gay, says he experienced severe distress as a teenager while trying to manage his sexuality with his spirituality.

“It created enormous conflict,” said Jones.

“When I was growing up in the 60s and early 70s, the churches didn’t have the language to deal directly with sexuality, and it wasn’t a topic on TV or in mainstream culture the way it is now. I reached out to have dialogue with my church over what I

was experiencing and was silenced.” a selfThrough imposed religious exile and experimentation with other churches, Jones eventually found UFC. He was appointed Assistant Pastor of the congregation in 1987, and served in that role for five years before forming the New York City branch of the church.

Now a happily married husband and father, Jones says he feels a responsibility for the church to have a positive impact on those who are grappling with their sexuality.

“I’m a gay man, and I don’t feel that I am a misfit or freak of any kind,” said Jones. “To find no support from your community can be a very dark and lonely feeling, and the experiences I had feeling that way growing up inform and shape my life today.

Any way that I can help influence young people to accept themselves for who they are is something that I take very seriously.”

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DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011

Egypt tells Ethiopia it will negotiate over Nile ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Egypt’s ambassador to Ethiopia says his government is willing to negotiate disputed Nile River issues with Ethiopia, including a colonial-era treaty that gives Egypt a majority stake in the river.

Tarik Ghoneim said Thursday: “Everything is on the table.” He says Egypt’s new government wants to start discussions with all nine Nile countries about using waters in the best interest of all.

Ethiopian officials welcomed the offer.

Ethiopian plans to build a hydroelectric power dam along the Blue Nile River had drawn objections from Egypt and Sudan.

Egypt has previously refused any deal that would reduce its share of the Nile and give more access to other countries. A 1929 treaty gives Egypt majority rights to the Nile’s waters.

Rebels seize Libya-Tunisia border crossing: witnesses

By TAREK AMARA TUNIS - Rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in a mountainous region took control of the Libyan side of a border crossing with Tunisia on Thursday, waving the country’s pre-Gaddafi flag, witnesses said.

Thirteen Libyan officers and soldiers, including a general, handed themselves over to the Tunisian military at the border, Tunisia’s state news agency TAP reported, apparently seeking refuge after clashes with the insurgents.

Witnesses said some wounded Libyan soldiers were treated at a nearby Tunisian hospital.

In Tripoli, Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim denied that the insurgents had taken over the border post.

Thousands of Libyans fleeing worsening violence in the remote region known as Western Mountains have poured into southern Tunisia and the border town of Dehiba in recent days.

The violence in the sparsely populated area has received little of the international attention given to attacks on cities on the Libyan coast such as Misrata and Ajdabiyah.

“We see rebels who control the border crossing,” a witness who gave his name as Ali told Reuters by phone from Dehiba.

He said there had been fierce fighting near the border, lasting until Thursday morning, and that dozens of Libyan soldiers had turned themselves over to the Tunisian army. The Defense Ministry was not immediately available for comment.

The post is the smaller of Tunisia’s two border crossings with Libya; the main one is at Ras Jdir further north.

Another witness at the crossing said rebels were celebrating by shooting in the air and several waved the pre-Gaddafi green, black and red Libyan flag — a symbol of the rebellion against his rule. Gunfire could be heard over the phone.

Chanting “God is greatest,” dozens of Libyan refugees from a camp near Dehiba as well as some Tunisians joined in the rebels’ celebrations, witnesses said.

TAP said about the incident. “Libyan revolutionaries ... took control of the border gate of the Libyan side of Dehiba crossing after a heavy exchange of fire.”

African Union lifts Ivorian sanctions but violence simmers

By AARON MAASHO/LOUC OUMANE COULIBALY A D D I S ABABA/ABIDJAN The African Union lifted sanctions on Ivory Coast on Thursday, ending four months of diplomatic isolation, but fighting between armed groups underscored the challenges facing the new president.

The AU’s move follows President Alassane Ouattara’s victory in a post-election power struggle with Laurent Gbagbo, who had refused to step down after a November election but was captured last week in a French and United Nationsbacked assault on his forces. Gbagbo is now under house arrest in the country’s north.

Ouattara received almost universal international backing during the stand-off and international organisations have shown they are ready to help out. But he must heal deep divisions, including many within his own camp.

“We recommended that the president-elect

French troops from Operation Licorne patrol through a residential area in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan. (should) pursue build- days after Gbagbo’s ing peace in Ivory Coast, arrest, pro-Ouattara reconcile people and forces are still strugmake Ivory Coast a gling to get full control country where people of the main city Abidjan, are in unity,” Joseph which was wracked by Nsengimana, Rwanda’s nearly two weeks of AU ambassador and heavy fighting and lootchairman of the AU’s ing.

Peace and Security On Wednesday Council, told journalists Ouattara’s forces on Thursday. clashed with remnants Nsengimana was of pro-Gbagbo militia, as speaking after the puni- well as members of the tive sanctions, imposed formerly allied “Invisible to try and force Gbagbo Commando,” which to relinquish power, spearheaded attacks on were lifted at a meeting Gbagbo’s forces ahead of in the Ethiopian capital last month’s full-out Addis Ababa. assault.

The European Union Residents said fighthas also eased some of ing had died down in its restrictions, paving Abobo and Yopougon the way for exports to overnight, though sporesume, although ship- radic gunfire was still pers say it will take heard. weeks to reach normal Kascou Coul, a memvolumes. ber of the Abobo-based INSECURITY “Invisible Commando,” But more than ten said they were on high

alert and some colleagues had been arrested but Ibrahim Coulibaly, the force’s chief, was seeking to resolve the situation.

There are long-standing divisions between Coulibaly and the proOuattara forces.

A member of the promilitia in Gbagbo Yopougon also said talks were under way.

“They started yesterday.

We want peace so life can return to normal in Yopougon,” said Gerome Youan.

After months of failed diplomacy, the proOuattara former rebels from the north launched an offensive in late March, seizing swathes of territory before becoming bogged down in urban combat.

U.N. and French forces intervened to destroy Gbagbo’s heavy weapons in an operation that provided Ouattara forces the breakthrough they needed, ending a crisis that has killed well over 1,500 people and forced 1 million from their homes.

The turmoil has shattered Ivory Coast’s economy and social services and the United Nations on Thursday warned of the threat of spreading polio after three children were confirmed as having the crippling disease.

UK’s Cameron: NATO not creeping toward ground war

By DAVID STRINGER LONDON British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Thursday that NATO isn’t edging toward the deployment of ground troops in Libya despite the decision by several European nations to send military staff to assist rebel forces.

Italy, France and Britain are sending

experienced combat advisers to help train and organize Libya’s opposition forces as they struggle to loosen Moammar Gadhafi’s grip on power.

Ministers have insisted the officers won’t play any role in offensives against Gadhafi’s troops - and have repeatedly said NATO and allies won’t overstep boundaries set out in the United Nations resolution authorizing action in Libya.

“The U.N. Security Council does limit us.

We’re not allowed,

rightly, to have an invading army, or an occupying army,” Cameron told BBC Scotland radio. “That’s not what we want, that’s not what the Libyans want, that’s not what the world wants.”

Liam Fox, Britain’s defense secretary, appeared to have raised the prospect of a greater role for international troops by comparing the conflict with international action in Afghanistan.

Fox said after talks in Italy on Wednesday that the situation was “not

that different from what’s happening in Afghanistan, where we’ve decided that training up security forces so that the Afghans themselves can look after their security is the best way forward.”

Some British lawmakers have demanded Parliament be recalled from an Easter vacation to discuss the evolving mission, while an editorial in France’s left-leaning Le Monde daily said on Thursday that French involvement in Libya also “merits debate.”

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Darfur rebel supporters push ouster of Khartoum govt KHARTOUM Thousands of supporters of Darfur rebel chief Abdelwahid Nur protested in Sudan on Wednesday, responding to a call from the exiled leader for uprisings to topple the Khartoum government.

“From today, as chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), I have ordered the people all around Sudan, and in Darfur, to rise and change... this Islamic and genocidal regime,” Nur told AFP by telephone from Kenya.

Thousands protested in Zalingi, a town in western Darfur, carrying SLM flags and pictures of the rebel leader, chanting slogans against President Omar

al-Bashir and complaining of rising food prices, demonstrator Abdullah Al-Shafia said.

Police used tear gas and batons to disperse the demonstrators, arresting 23 and wounding numerous others, Abdullah added.

Many of the protesters were residents of the four camps in Zalingi for people displaced by the eight-year conflict, but there were also people from the town itself, a traditional stronghold of Nur’s rebel group.

In Nyala, the state capital of South Darfur, around 900 students demonstrated outside the university before they were surrounded by police, who fired tear gas and drove them back inside the compound, a witness said.

Nur said there had also been demonstra-

tions in Darfur’s other main cities — El-Fasher and El-Geneina — although sources in ElFasher, the state capital of North Darfur, denied there had been protests there.

The rebel leader repeated his call for the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone in Darfur similar to that in Libya.

In Deleng, a town in the oil-producing state of South Kordofan that borders Darfur, around 600 Nur supporters marched, chanting slogans against Bashir and state Governor Ahmed Harun, witnesses said.

Police fired tear gas and used batons to break up the protest, and a number of people were arrested.

Bashir and Harun are both wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war

S.Africa aims to double foreign tourist numbers CAPE TOWN South Africa aims to boost foreign tourists to 15 million annual visitors and will target new markets in Asia, Africa and South America, the tourism minister said Wednesday.

“We aim to increase the number of foreign tourist arrivals to South Africa from seven million in 2009 to 15 million by 2020,”

Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk told lawmakers.

“We will also be fostering new growth by accessing markets unlocked by the World Cup.” By 2020, the government wants tourism to contribute 499 billion rands ($74 billion, 51 billion euros) up from 189 billion rands in 2009, to create 225,000 new jobs, with domestic tourists to reach 18 million.

“Our traditional markets in North America and Europe will remain important, particularly in terms of arrivals and spend, and these markets will certainly not be neglected,” said Van Schalkwyk.

“We will also aggressively pursue the longterm growth opportunities in amongst others China, India, South America and our own continent.

S.Africa’s ruling party’s youth chief defends song

By DONNA BRYSON JOHANNESBURG - The youth leader of South Africa’s governing African National Congress never wanted to be dragged into court to defend his right to sing a song some whites find offensive, and says those who filed the suit are more concerned about his high profile than his singing, he testified

Wednesday in his descendants known as Afrikaners - for farmer, hate speech trial.

But, taking the stand for the first time more than a week into the trial, Julius Malema said Wednesday he now sees some benefit in proceedings that have been closely followed across South Africa.

Malema said the trial “has helped to shed some light,” allowing him to explain why whites should not be offended when he sings “shoot the boer.” His entire testimony was broadcast live across the country Wednesday.

“Boer” is Afrikaans the language of Dutch

and sometimes is used as an insult for whites.

Malema argued that in the song it is a metaphor for apartheid, and the call is to eliminate oppression, not kill individuals.

The appearance of the star witness drew special attention after days of testimony by politicians and criminologists, music experts and even a poet.

The judge, Collin Lamont, intervened unusually often to engage with Malema, whom he called charismatic.

crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, while Bashir has also been charged genocide in with Sudan’s war-torn western region.

In the Sudanese capital, meanwhile, around 100 students from AlNilein University demonstrated outside the campus, shouting “Ocampo, you said the right thing!” in reference to the ICC’s chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.

Security forces then arrived and arrested “many of them,” according to a witness.

Based in Paris until early last month, Nur was asked to leave by the French authorities and moved to Nairobi.

He has since travelled to Kampala, where he has held talks with Minni Minnawi, who heads another branch of the Sudan Liberation

Abdelwahid Nur Movement/Army, and groups have strongly met the UN’s chief criticised the governenvoy to Darfur, ment’s plans to hold a Ibrahim Gambari. referendum on how Following a relative Darfur should be govlull in the fighting in erned before peace is Darfur, renewed clash- established. es between rebels and Khartoum’s proposal the army since to add two new states to December have resulted the region’s existing in more than 70,000 three, which was new arrivals at camps endorsed by a presidenset up for those fleeing tial committee last their homes, according month, has drawn to UN reports. equally sharp condemThe main rebel nation.

East African union undercut by regional fears DAR ES SALAAM - Leaders of five East African nations in a stalled regional bloc admitted this week to broad concerns over the union, with Uganda’s unrest and a monetary union among the sticking points.

The presidents of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda met in Dar es Salaam Tuesday to review the status of the East African Community, a regional economic and trade union similar to ones elsewhere in Africa.

The leaders said in a final statement the team tasked with finding out what their citizens thought about the bloc had “identified fears, concerns and challenges”.

The statement did not elaborate but said the team would draw up “concrete proposals on how to address those

fears, concerns and challenges” before the next summit scheduled for November in Burundi.

A federation would necessarily mean that members lose some degree of sovereignty and some diplomats worry that constitutional reform in several countries, notably in Kenya, is complicating moves towards integration.

There are also concerns about the democratic credentials of some of the partners such as Uganda, said Tanzanian opposition leader and economist Ibrahim Lipumba.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has in recent weeks clamped down on opposition protests, tarnishing his democratic image.

“Our countries should first be democratised,” he said, adding: “A leader who does not respect the constitution of his country will not respect the constitution

of the East African political federation.”

The East African Community has had a customs union since early 2005 and a common market launched in July 2010.

But Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, it current leader, has said member states still need to put in place the legal instruments to make those structures “fully operational”.

Negotiations are meanwhile under way to establish a monetary union but there are worries the members’ economies are too divergent for this to succeed.

The EAC was set up in 1967 by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania but ceased functioning 10 years later because of political and economic differences.

It had however made some progress on monetary and fiscal issues, as well as customs, education and railway and port management.

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India seeks to increase Caribbean faces double economic shock development cooperation with Dominica

By MERVIN MATTHEW ROSEAU, Dominica (GIS) — The government of India is seeking to increase cooperation with Dominica in several key areas of development.

Indian High Commissioner to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Malay Mishra, has confirmed plans by the Indian government to continue providing scholarships to Dominican students.

The High Commissioner was speaking to reporters at a press conference last week.

“Earlier, we were giving five slots. These are short term training programmes entirely funded by the government of India including air travel costs, local hospitalities, stipend for the courses, everything is taken care of by India. We have about 50 top ranking institutes of India providing courses, through the year, to about 2,000

trainees from various parts of the world. We have now increased the slots giving more scope for training facilities to nationals of the Commonwealth of Dominica in India in our apex bodies there in various areas: you have management, personnel development, accounting, bureau of standards, and climate change even in crime prevention,” he said.

Meanwhile, there are also plans by the Indian government to assist Dominica’s Ministry of Health in the provision of pharmaceuticals.

“In India today, is one of the most well known and most important producer and exporter of pharmaceuticals in the world. Generic medicines, which India produces, are the third largest in the world to date. We export to the tune of US$12 billion and we would like to also see how best our Indian pharmaceutical products could come to Dominica but, at the same time, come to the larger OECS and CARICOM market,” the High Commissioner said.

Guyana moves to boost sugar production GEORGETOWN, Guyana — In a move to boost sugar production in Guyana, the government is offering several incentives to cane farmers.

Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud, said that 35 percent of the cane produced in the country came from private farmers and the remainder from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco), a government corporation. He added that incentives would be given to the private farmers in order to boost production.

The Guyana Chronicle reported that the minister said, “We are talking about a very substantial package, It is close to $600 million (US$2.9 million) going directly back to the cane farmers.”

He added that there has

been an increase in production from cane farmers.

Persaud announced an increase of $5,000 per tonne in the price of cane supplied by the farmers. Further, he said, that for the next crop, government would be providing half of the required fertiliser to the cane farmers as part of the menu of measures aimed at making life easier for the cane farmers and encouraging greater productivity from them.

The minister also announced that Guysuco agreed to reduce its punt and machine charges by 10 percent and 25 percent each. Further, he said that the president has agreed to the purchase of a number of five D-6 bulldozers and for this purpose government has committed the sum of $250 million.

Chilean Minister of Finance, Felipe Larraín and the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena SANTIAGO, Chile — Latin region had good growth the gaps in income, social America and the Caribbean prospects, and that its security access and job secuare facing a double shock of macroeconomic systems give rity.” rising commodity prices and it a certain robustness within The opening conference of the growth in global liquidi- the international context. the workshop was led by ty. Faced with increased She said, “Although Felipe Larraín, Chilean inflows of foreign capital increased inflow of investor Minister of Finance, who inflows to the region, it is capital is generally a positive spoke about external risks vital to think back to past development, it may become and financial integration. crises and learn the lessons a nightmare.”

He explained that the they have to offer, stated Latin America and the main risk now facing the Alicia Bárcena, executive sec- Caribbean have experienced world economy is the rise in retary of the Economic periods when excess foreign oil prices: “World GDP could Commission for Latin liquidity resulted in unsus- fall by between 0.8% and America and the Caribbean tainable expansions in 1.0% if oil reaches US$150 a (ECLAC). spending and falls in the real barrel and stays at that The senior United Nations exchange rate, which ulti- level”. The current reference official opened a workshop in mately led to painful process- price is around US$120 a Santiago, Chile, last week on es of recessive adjustment, barrel. macroeconomic policies, leaving unemployment, Larraín described the global integration and inter- poverty and social instability Chilean experience of intenational financial markets, in their wake. grating the international which brought together ecoBárcena highlighted that financial markets, and mennomic authorities and “we must learn the lessons tioned the most recent issuexperts from several Latin from past crises.” ing of sovereign bonds by the American and Caribbean She added, “Economic country and how these bonds countries to analyse the chal- growth must not be confused have opened markets for the lenges relating to fiscal, with development, and there international placement of monetary and regulatory can be no development with- bonds by Chilean companies, policy that are facing the out equality. Employment is including in the national region in the medium term. the cornerstone for tackling currency.

Bárcena said that the inequality and narrowing

Caribbean firm has designs on fashion BRIDGETOW N, Barbados — An enterprising apparel manufacturing company has big plans for Barbadian and Caribbean fashion designers.

Declaring “you can’t have fashion without fabric,” Rozana Moseley, cofounder of LaRosa Couture, believes the local and regional fashion industry has been hindered by the absence of quality manufacturing facilities to support its creativity.

Moseley, who cofounded the compa-

ny with her husband Ryan, said LaRosa Couture is positioning itself to mend the situation.

The fashion fraternity, she announced, has responded positively to the company’s mission to become the leading small batch apparel manufacturing company in Barbados as the new business starts to gain momentum with the support of the B a r b a d o s Entrepreneurs’ Venture Capital Fund, known as BIM Ventures.

“We are starting to bear fruit and

have expanded our efforts to include providing manufacturing support for the work of fashion designers in neighbouring Trinidad, Martinique and Guadeloupe,” Moseley disclosed, noting that LaRosa Couture is answering the call for a regional manufacturing facility for high-end clothing.

The financial and mentorship support provided by BIM Ventures to LaRosa Couture has been indispensable to the execution of the vision, Moseley said, “broadening the

scope of our company.”

Gregory Hinkson, BIM Ventures Shepherd and Director of LaRosa Couture, agreed: “The relationship between the shepherd, who functions as more than a mentor, and the entrepreneur is crucial to fulfilling the mandate of the company — we can truly see the potential of boosting foreign exchange reserves through our operations while supporting fashion designers in their mission to go global.”

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Despite N.J. school budget cuts, many arts programs remain intact

By CARMEN CUSIDO PRINCETON BOROUGH - Music is central to Princeton High senior Emefa Agawu’s education, and to her life.

She sings with the school’s jazz band, has been a choir member since freshman year, and she plans to study music in college. She says music provides her not only with an artistic outlet, but a community experience as well.

“Music is one of the only inclusive art forms. It’s a unique medium to connect with other people,” said Agawu, 17, who will study music and political science at Yale University in the fall.

“Even if you’re singing a solo piece, you’re still sharing it with other people.”

Arts programs remain vibrant in the Princeton schools, despite the recession and state budget woes that have affected the district’s finances, administrators said.

The same is true at

many other districts in Mercer County and around the state.

Many arts supervisors have retired or seen their jobs eliminated in the past year, but programs themselves have largely survived, said Robert Morrison, arts education an researcher who chairs the governance committee of the New Jersey Arts Education Partnership.

“The reality is arts education in the U.S. and in New Jersey is widely available for most students,” he said.

He also said the partnership has not seen a disparity in arts programs between wealthier and poor communities.

The Princeton Regional School District music programs draw more students than any other art classes, said Patrick Lenihan, supervisor of visual and performing arts. At the middle school level, almost 75 percent of students are enrolled in an elective music program.

That has remained true even though the district and others around the state were

rocked by unexpected state aid cuts last year, and despite the state’s new 2 percent cap on tax increases by districts and local governments.

Princeton lost a performing arts center manager and a middle school arts teacher, but was able to shift resources to avoid affecting students, Lenihan said.

“We’ve seen a little bit of a cutback, but not significant program changes,” he said.

Statewide, nearly 60 percent of districts that responded to an informal survey last month said they had not made cuts to elementary school music and arts programs in the past three years, while 34 percent said they had cut, the New Jersey School Boards Association reported.

For secondary schools, 61 percent of districts reported no reductions and 20 percent trimmed their programs.

The most common results were less frequent art classes, followed by cancellation of after-school or extracurricular pro-

grams, discontinuation of arts-based field trips or assemblies, and switching from dedicated art classrooms to mobile “art on a cart” programs.

Several local district leaders said they have fought to preserve arts programs, often with the help of regional nonprofits.

Nancy Gartenberg, superintendent of the South Hunterdon Regional district, said assistance from the Lambertville Area Education Foundation has allowed her to avoid cuts altogether in recent years.

“Cutting arts in our school district is not negotiable,” Gartenberg said, “Our classes are heavily subscribed. It’s just a really unique environment here that’s really arts-friendly.”

For the past two years South Hunterdon high schoolers have put on gallery exhibitions, and the McCarter Theatre has twice sent artists in residence to work on writing plays with students, she said.

This year the district hosted an a capella group from Ithaca College.

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School Regional District has likewise been able to keep its fine art and performing arts staffs, offer arts electives, and have theater students perform set design and sound engin e e r i n g , Superintendent Constance Bauer said.

Lenihan said Princeton Regional not only maintained its offerings but also was named a New Jersey Model School in the Arts last year. This year fundraising allowed the choir to tour Spain and perform at the Petit Palau in Barcelona.

Grants from the Princeton Education Foundation also help maintain programs, Lenihan said.

In Trenton, a poor district that has seen funding for oncerenowned school musical groups fall away over the past decade, the arts have remained vibrant in part through help from Young Audiences, a Plainsboro nonprofit organization.

With funds from Target Corp., the organization provided grants to eight schools earlier this year, and is separately funding elemen-

tary arts programs and literacy programs.

Still, the region’s arts education picture is not entirely rosy. Some school administrators, like Hopewell Valley Regional School District Superintendent Thomas Smith, said they were particularly concerned about the new restrictions on tax increases.

“The belts just continue to tighten with a 2 percent cap,” he said.

Hopewell Valley has orchestra and choir programs that start in the elementary schools, with students getting access to string instruments starting in the third grade, Smith said.

But as the district keeps its focus on core academic subjects, music, arts-related field trips and other enrichment programs could eventually face cuts, he said.

Other districts have already had to pare back on the arts.

R o b b i n s v i l l e Superintendent Steven Mayer said the district eliminated middleschool performing arts programs in the current year’s budget.

Random roadside inspections of charter buses continue in N.J. after recent fatal crashes

By MIKE FRASSINELLI ATLANTIC CITY Jason Simons lost 48,000 pounds in one day.

The bus driver from Washington, D.C., had his Greyhound towed from Atlantic City Wednesday after a random roadside inspection found a hole in the frame at the rear of the vehicle.

“Needless to say, this one will be going out of service,” said Keith Repp, part of a team of investigators from the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission’s Commercial Bus

Inspection and Investigation Unit.

Three vehicles later in the line that formed at the shuttered Bernie Robbins Stadium was a CMT Express bus out of Philadelphia that arrived with a hole in its brake lining.

It, too, was taken out of service.

At another time, during another year, random inspections of charter buses off the side of the road might not have attracted much attention.

But the spotlight is shining brightly on the charter bus industry after 17 people were killed and dozens more injured last month in

two bus crashes in the metropolitan area.

On March 14, a bus that left New York City’s Chinatown for Philadelphia crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick, killing the driver and a passenger.

The crash involved a bus company, Super Luxury Tours of Pennsylvania, that had one of the worst rankings for unsafe driving in America, according to records from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Two days earlier, a bus returning to Chinatown from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut crashed in

the Bronx, killing 15.

“We’re all aware of the terrible tragedies that have occurred this year with commercial buses and crashes that have resulted in significant injuries and fatalities,” said Ray Martinez, chief administrator for the state MVC. “We want to reassure the citizens of the state of New Jersey that we are on the job not just because of those tragedies, but every day throughout the year, we are doing inspections like this.”

The inspection unit the federal government funds 80 percent of the $600,000 annual cost of inspections and the

state picks up the rest checks more than 7,700 buses in terminals and up to 1,000 roadside.

Of the 15 buses inspected roadside

Wednesday, two were taken out of service, nine had violations that had to be addressed before the next bus run and four had no violations.

Bayonne teen arrested in mugging of Bayonne woman and stealing her painkillers; 2nd teen arrested on alcohol charge, police say A Bayonne teen was charged Tuesday night with mugging a 49-year-old Bayonne woman and stealing her prescription painkillers, police said.

The victim was walking on 37th Street and Kennedy Boulevard near Stephen Gregg Park at 11:45 p.m. when she was approached by two 18year-old men, one of whom pushed her to the ground and then took her bag of pills, reports said.

The victim gave cops a description of two men and they were found walking on 32nd Street and Avenue A, reports said.

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Ticket to Paradise & Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba won the Havana Star Prize for Best Film & Best Documentary The Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) presented its 12th year of award-winning films, panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with distinguished international directors, actors, and producers. A full house enjoyed the HFFNYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closing night ceremony and awards presentation at the Directors Guild Theatre followed by the New York premiere of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Del amor y otros demoniosâ&#x20AC;?

(Of Love and Other Demons). The film, based on a GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez novel, has won awards around the world.

The festival compiled and exhibited more than 50 films in the fiction and documentary film genres. The total attendance was the largest in the history of the festival. After careful consideration of the 15 selected fiction films, the jury concluded: â&#x20AC;&#x153;As jurors, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to see filmmakers that are determined to tell their own stories and to define personal styles and aesthetics that made our job all the more interesting and challenging.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ticket to Paradise / Boleto al paraĂŽsoâ&#x20AC;? by Gerardo Chijona (Cuba) won the Havana Star Prize for best picture in the fiction competition.

Inspired by true events, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ticket to Paradise/Boleto al paraisoâ&#x20AC;? tells the story of Eunice, a teenager running away from her father´s sexual abuse.

On the road, she connects with Alejandro, a young boy who escapes to Havana after robbing a pharmacy. Together, they will search for a paradise that will change their lives.

Cuban filmmaker Gerardo Chijona accepted the prize. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was in this festival in 2000, when it just started; to come back and receive this award itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an honor

Maria Marta Antin' jury of Fiction Competition, Gerardo Chijona, direcAmerican Filmmaker Estela Bravo, winner of tor of Ticket to Paradise, winner of Best Film at Havana Film Festival best documentary for Operation Peter Pan: FlyNY with Diana Vargas, HFFNY program/media liason and Carole ing Back to Cuba and Cuban choreographer Rosenberg, HFFNYchair and executive director at the closing ceremony.

Pedro Ruiz among the many victims for me,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Operation Peter Pan: of criminal actions and Flying Back to Cubaâ&#x20AC;? an unjust proxy war.â&#x20AC;?

A Special Jury (U.S-Cuba) directed by went to Estela Bravo won the Mention Havana Star Prize for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robatierra / Stolen best documentary. The Landâ&#x20AC;? (Colombia) directby Margarita documentary tells the ed story of more than Martinez and Miguel 14,000 unaccompanied Salazar. The jury said Cuban children who the film is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a well were sent by their par- researched, compelling ents to the U.S. between story that takes place 1960 and 1962 to save over decades, yet is crysthem from the revolu- talized into a concise 73 tion. Fifty years later, a minutes. The problem of group of Peter Pans mono cultures replacing ecosystems returned to Cuba to diverse make peace with their exists around the world and threatens not only past.

The jury said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We the Nasa people of commend the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Colombia but also the Carlos Arbelaez, director of The Colors of the Mountain, Special Jury balance of Mention and Actress Puy Navarro. extensive research as delicate well as the filmmakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ecosystems around the Beatriz Novaro for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Viaje Carlos Arbelaez. grams in the arts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since efforts to capture several world.â&#x20AC;?

The Havana Film 2000, we have been redondo / Round Tripâ&#x20AC;?

The Havana Star for (Mexico) and Diana Festival New York is a working towards that of these agentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; testimonials before it is too late. best director went to Cardozo for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Te extraĂąo project of American end. As a partner of ÂĄSĂ­ We are also happy that Fabian Hofman for his /I Miss Youâ&#x20AC;? (Argentina- Friends of the Ludwig Cuba! we are definitely the filmmakers allowed film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Te extraĂąo / I Miss Mexico); the Special Foundation of Cuba doing that,â&#x20AC;? explained (Argentina- Jury Mention went to (AFLFC), a non-profit Carole Rosenberg, execfor the multiple political Youâ&#x20AC;? viewpoints while also Mexico); the best screen- â&#x20AC;&#x153;Los colores de la mon- 501 (c) (3) organization utive director of HFFNY unflinchingly showing play prize went Ex taĂąa /The Colors of the building cultural and president of AFLFC. to Marina Mountainâ&#x20AC;? (Colombia- bridges between the U.S. the permanent scars of Aequo and Panama) directed by and Cuba through prochildren who were Stavenhagen

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Harlem 4 Japan Benefit Concert An extraordinary gathering of Harlemites came out in support of the benefit concert, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harlem 4 Japan,â&#x20AC;? held at Aaron Davis Hall on the campus of The City College of New York this week.

The evening opened with a special message from Lloyd Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, and City College President Lisa Staiano Coico. They both shared their enthusiastic support for the benefit concert and spoke of Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship and support for the Japanese people who were victims of the recent earthquake, tsunami, and radiation leaked by the damaged nuclear power plant.

The eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertainment began with the Soh Daiko drummers, the first Japanese Taiko drummers on the east coast, and was followed by an amazing group of artists who all donated their time and talent to the concert, including: Rhythm and Blues legend and Grammy nominee Chuck Jackson; International artists Yuichiro Oda, Yuko Darjeeling, and Toya; jazz pianist and composer Onaje Allan Gumbs; recording artist Alyson Williams; The New York African Chorus Ensemble from the National Jazz Museum; the Jason Marshall Trio; Oscar and Grammy nominated IMPACT Repertory Theatre; jazz trumpeter Joey Morant; saxophonist Lonnie â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Prince of Harlemâ&#x20AC;?

Youngblood; 15-yearold guitarist Solomon Hicks; 15-year-old vocalist Tiffany Obi; 10year-old organist Matthew Whitaker; Harlem vocalists Claude Jay, Janice Marie Robinson, Lady Cantrese, Annette St. John, Lee Olive Tucker, and Queen Esther, win-

Alyson Williams tore down the house with her energetic performance accompanied by jazz pianist and composer Onaje Allan Gumbs.

Photo: Tony Graves Lonnie "the Prince of Harlem Youngblood" performed soulful renditions of his most popular hits.

Photo: Tony Graves

Chuck Jackson captivated the audience with his performance of "Any Day Now." Photo: Tony Graves

Tevin Thomas

ner of the Jazzmobile

2008 Vocal

Janice Marie Robinson Competition and Tevin Thomas; Harlemwood

Solomon Hicks (15 year old guitarist)

Records recording artist Lainie Cooke;

Choreographer Obediah Wright and the Balance Dance Company; pianist Christian Sands from the Manhattan School of Music; the New Amsterdam Musical Association, and Keith â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Captainâ&#x20AC;? Gamble. There were 27 acts and more than 100 musicians performed. It was truly a historic evening in Harlem.

Thousands of dollars were raised during the evening and contributions were made to the Japan Chamber of Commerce, The Japan Society and The Consulate General of Japan.

Voza Rivers executive producer of the New Heritage Theatre

said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are not enough words to express my thanks to all of the talented artists that gave of their time, support and professionalism to this project.â&#x20AC;?

The concert was supported by The City College of New York, the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Community Works, Harlem Arts Alliance, the Dwyer Cultural Center, International Artists for Peace and World Harmony, Council Member Inez E. Dickens, The Office of State Assemblyman Keith Wright, Voza Rivers/New Heritage Theatre Group and Katsuya Abe.

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One Thought - One Humanity

The 2011 Trumpet Awards to air on TVOne Easter Sunday

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

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

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

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

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

riage may be in trouble.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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him to ensure that the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will not only be built on the National Mall, but dedicated as well in August of 2011 for the world to see and behold for generations to come,” states Ms. Xernona Clayton, Founder, President and CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation, Inc. The Trumpet Awards is a prestigious annual event founded by Civil Rights Icon Xernona Clayton honoring African-Americans who contribute significantly to the cause of justice and equality. Originally presented by Turner Broadcasting in 1993 and now presented by the Trumpet Awards Foundation, Inc., the Trumpet Awards were created to herald the accomplishments of Black Americans who have succeeded against immense odds and will air on Sunday, April 24 on TVONE.

Honoring Eric H. Holder, Jr., Judge Mathis, The O’Jays and Reverend Al Sharpton, this year’s annual black-tie awards ceremony will be hosted by actors Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe and Niecy Nash and will feature performances by recording artists Eric Benét, Angela Brown and James Ingram.

The annual Trumpet Awards acknowledges the accomplishments of men and women who have significantly contributed to enhancing the quality of life for all.

President and CEO of the Memorial Foundation, Harry E. Johnson, Sr. will also receive the “President’s Award.”

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THE RELIGIOUS ROUTE

BY VELMA HART “And he saith unto them, be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.” St. Mark 16:6, the Holy scriptures. On this day, April 22, Christians all over the world celebrate “Good Friday.” Many churches combine their services and take note of the seven last words of Jesus just before he died. Thusly, the seven words, “….It is finished.” St. John 19:30 The words talk tol truths that the scrip-

tures would be fulfilled. However, the greatest fulfillment of Jesus is that had he not arose from the dead, all of mankind would be lost in sin. Praise be to God. Jesus lives. And he lives forever more. After Jesus had risen, His first words to his 12 disciples, his followers, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” St. Mark 16:1516. Amen. In keeping with scriptures.

On preachers.

On April 10 at 6 p.m. I found myself at the Harvest Kingdom Church, 109-50 Merrick Blvd., in Jamaica, Queens, Rev. Jesse C. Davenport III, pastor. The service began with praise singing to the highest Jesus. Pastor Davenport took part in leading the praise group. He is a very good singer. And a terrific keyboard player. . The preacher for the hour was Bishop Orin Pullings. He is pastor of the United Kingdom Church,

Richmond, Va. He brought forth much preaching. He was one among eight other invited preachers. They were Bishop Archie McInnis, Pastor Darryl Hill, Bishop Eric Garnes, Pastor Darius Nixon, Bishop Michael Turpin, Bishop Julius Sloane and Bishop Gerald Seabrooks. All New Yorkers. Pastor Davenport was also given a banquet.

Happy Easter!

Until next time, show love.

Aspirin cuts heart attacks, not deaths or strokes

By FREDERIK JOELVING Small doses of aspirin can lower the risk of heart attack in people who never had heart disease, a new look at the medical evidence shows.

But the blood-thinning drug doesn’t appear to cut the chances of dying from the disease, at least not enough that researchers can say for certain.

And experts warn people to consult their doctor before taking the medication, which increases the risk of bleeding ulcers.

“I like to say you have to make the recommendation about aspirin one patient at a time,” Dr. Michael L. LeFevre, who was not linked to the study, told Reuters Health.

LeFevre worked on the 2009 aspirin recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a federally supported expert panel.

The task force advises that men age 45 to 79 take aspirin to stave off heart attacks, as long as the benefit outweighs the risk of bleeding. For women age 55 to 79, aspirin is recommended to prevent strokes, with the same caveat.

The new work, by Alfred Bartolucci of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and colleagues, was supported by aspirin-maker Bayer AG. The research team pooled the results of the nine trials that have tested the drug in the prevention of heart disease so far, including three that weren’t part of the 2009 USPSTF review.

About 100,000 men and women age 45 and up took part in the studies.

Some were healthy and some had diabetes, but none had chest pain or other symptoms of an ailing heart.

The researchers found a 19-percent reduction in non-fatal heart attacks among participants who took aspirin compared to those who did not.

They don’t mention how many people actually suffered such a heart attack, but an earlier analysis of six of the trials showed that out of every 1,000 people, 18 individuals taking aspirin had heart attacks every year, compared to 23 individuals taking placebo pills.

On the other hand, that analysis also found aspirin increased the rate of bleeding from 0.7 to 1 per 1,000 people per year, making the authors conclude the drug was of “uncertain net value.”

Heart disease is the leading killer worldwide and accounts for more than a third of deaths in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association. Every year, heart attacks alone kill some 400,000 Americans.

In the current study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, the researchers also report small decreases in stroke and death risks with aspirin, although those changes might have been due to chance.

“It refines our knowledge of how beneficial aspirin is,” Dr. Graham Nichol, an expert in emergency care at the University of Washington in Seattle, said about the study. “I don’t think this paper is inconsistent with previous work.”

Nichols, who was not involved in the study, said aspirin is clearly bene-

ficial for people who’ve already had heart disease, and that it also seems to help those at high risk.

“There is not universal agreement on what is high risk,” he told Reuters Health. “In my mind, if you have diabetes or multiple risk factors for heart disease — such as smoking or obesity — it is reasonable to take aspirin.”

In addition, working to eliminate those risk factors by other means will not only slash the risk of heart disease, but also a host of other health problems.

LeFevre added that while the new

study did add extra evidence compared with earlier work, it failed to analyze the effects on men and women separately.

That muddies the picture because men may see a benefit in the form of fewer heart attacks, whereas aspirin appears to lower the risk of stroke in women.

“We can’t tell from the existing study if that is going to hold up or not,” he said.

One recent study has suggested that despite the increase in bleeding ulcers from aspirin, the reduction in heart attacks might make the cheap drug cost-effective for men over 45.

The question then becomes finding out what your risk of heart attack is in the first place, which your doctor can help with.

“The number of events that you prevent depends on your baseline risk,” LeFevre concluded. “A blanket recommendation that everybody should take an aspirin is not a good idea.”

Men and women may truly see things differently Men are more likely to see issues in black-and-white, whereas women tend to see things in shades of grey, a new study contends.

British researchers asked 113 volunteers to judge how 50 objects fit into certain categories: partially, fully, or not at all. The objects and categories were highly likely to stimulate debate or disagreement.

For example, is a tomato a fruit? Is paint a tool?

Men were found to be more likely to make absolute judgments (a tomato is or is not a fruit). Women, on the other hand, were more flexible and 23 percent more likely to say that an object belonged in the partial category (a tomato can “sort of” be a fruit, for instance).

The study by University of Warwick researchers, scheduled for publication in Archives of Sexual Behavior, used scientific methods to test the popular belief that men and women differ in terms of making choices and decisions.

“Of course, simply because we have

found a significant sex difference in how men and women categorize does not mean that one method is intrinsically better than the other,” Zachary Estes, a psychologist and author of the study, said in a university news release.

“For instance, male doctors may be more likely to quickly and confident-

ly diagnose a set of symptoms as a disease,” Estes said. “Although this brings great advantages in treating diseases early, it obviously has massive disadvantages if the diagnosis is actually wrong. In many cases, a more open approach to categorizing or diagnosing would be more effective.”

DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011

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Dr. Dre wins judgment over ‘Chronic’ reissue

By ERIQ GARDNER LOS ANGELES — Dr. Dre has emerged victorious in a lawsuit against his former label, which put out a new version of his iconic album “The Chronic” and a greatest hits collection without his permission.

Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, claimed that the digital release of his early work violated a 15-year-old contract that guided how such material would be presented to the public.

The lawsuit stems from his days at “gangsta” rap label Death Row Records, which he co-founded. The label later suffered financial problems and has emerged under new corporate ownership as WIDEawake Death Row Records.

In 1996, he left Death Row to set up a new shop at Interscope Records, and bought his freedom by disclaiming his ownership interest in both Death Row and the sound recordings he had produced there.

But Dre also didn’t want his lega-

cy tarnished, so in a 1996 deal, he sought some measure of security in how Death Row presented his recordings by making the label agree not to distribute any of his songs except “in the manners heretofore distributed.”

One of the first releases for the new WIDEawake Death Row Records was a digital re-issue of “The Chronic” as well as a Dre greatest hits collection. Dre then sued.

The issue of artistic control and profit participation in digital releases of old work has been a sore subject for the past decade. Other artists such as Pink Floyd have sued, contending their works were only meant to be distributed as albums, not singles in venues like Apple’s iTunes. Some producers, like the one guiding Eminem’s early career, have successfully argued they should be entitled to higher royalty rates from record labels for digital distribution of their work.

In Dre’s case, the issue turned on his artistic intention and an exami-

nation of contracts made during the formative period of his career.

Arriving at a conclusion here wasn’t easy. Most of the agreements made between Dre and the folks running Death Row at the time were oral ones, subject to differing interpretation about what was said upwards of two decades ago.

A few months ago, a judge dismissed several of Dre’s claims — that the reissue constituted trademark infringement, false endorsement, and a publicity rights violation — but the main claim over an alleged contract breach survived.

In a decision on Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder finds that the agreement not to distribute Dre’s songs except “in the manners heretofore distributed” unambiguously prohibited Death Row from reissuing “The Chronic” in a new form, including as digital downloads.

The case now moves onto a question of damages. Judge Snyder agrees that Dre was forced to accept a reduced royalty rate for the reis-

sue than he normally would have accepted. She limits Dre’s award to “actual damages,” though. Just how much Dre is owed will be the subject of a jury trial, in all probability.

Toni Braxton makes bulk of her money performing overseas

In an interview with Sister 2 Sister magazine, Toni Braxton says she has to rely on lucrative tour dates in Europe to boost her bank balance, because her family’s reality TV show is not profitable enough for her to live on.

The singer was forced to file for bankruptcy last year amid reports she owed between $10 million and $50 million in unpaid debts after cancelling a series of Las Vegas shows due to heart problems.

She recently assured fans her financial woes were not as bad as had been reported and claimed she just had an outstanding tax debt with U.S. authorities amounting to $500,000.

But the star, who currently

appears in the We TV reality show “Braxton Family Values” alongside her four sisters and mother, insists she has only managed to stay on top of her money issues by taking on concert deals outside of America, because she and her two young sons can live off the big pay checks for months on end.

“I still live in a house in Atlanta.

And I do one-off dates in Europe – because I’m much bigger in Europe than I am here in the States,” she tells the magazine. “I do little spot dates here and there and get paid really good, so I am surviving. The reality show is not how I am really getting paid. Who said reality shows make you rich? That’s a misconception.”

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‘American Idol’ mulls voting tweaks to fix boy bias

By JILL SERJEANT LOS ANGELES — “American Idol” producers said on Wednesday they are considering tweaking the voting system on the toprated TV contest to correct a bias toward male contestants by the show’s largely female audience.

But any changes are unlikely to take effect this season, which has already seen the early exit of four female finalists, including presumed front-runner Pia Toscano.

“We are aware very much that the voting could quite possibly be skewed toward the boys,” executive producer Ken Warwick told reporters in a conference call.

“It is something we are going to have a long discussion about after we finish this season.

We won’t be in the process of changing anything at the moment. It is going to go the way it goes,” Warwick said.

Warwick said reality TV shows like “American Idol” traditionally attract predominantly female viewers, who

TV on the Radio musician dead of lung cancer at 36 LOS ANGELES — The bass player with alternative rock band TV on the Radio died on Wednesday after a battle with lung cancer, the group said.

Gerard Smith was 36.

“We are very sad to announce the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a courageous fight against lung cancer,” said a message posted on its Web site. “We will miss him terribly.”

Smith’s illness was disclosed five weeks ago, with the band noting in an upbeat statement that given Smith’s “legendarily willful disposition ... it might just be cancer that has the problem.”

He was diagnosed with cancer after the band had finished recording its new album “Nine Types of Light,” which coincidentally debuted at No. 12 on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday.

Smith joined the five-piece band in time to work on its previous album, 2008’s “Dear Science.” Away from the band, he and

singer Tunde Adebimpe wrote and composed music for “The Lottery,” a documentary that looks at public education through the eyes of Harlem’s Success Academy annual intake lottery.

“Gerard was a classy, thoughtful guy and he always seemed kind of bemused by the rock’n’roll thing,” Spin magazine music editor Charles Aaron said.

“He hung back, because he didn’t write the band’s songs, and didn’t wanna try to interpret the other guys’ work, but he had plenty of strong opinions.”

then tend to drive telephone, text and online votes toward male contestants.

That bias has resulted in a male singer being crowned the “American Idol” and winning a recording contract, every year since 2008. Jordin Sparks in 2007 was the last woman to win.

Paul McDonald last week became the first man to be booted off the most-watched U.S. tele-

vision show, leaving just two women — Haley Reinhart and Lauren Alaina — in the running for a shot at reaching the finale in May. Warwick said one of the changes under consideration was allow the three judges — Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson — to vote each week. The judging panel on ABC’s popular “Dancing with the Stars” TV contest

have their votes counted along with those of viewers.

“Just one of ideas on the table is to let the judges vote,” Warwick said, but added, “I am pretty sure we won’t be putting anything into practice until next year.”

Ballad singer Toscano, 22, was eliminated on April 8, moving Lopez to tears and stunning the 25 million strong “Idol” audience.

“American Idol”, now in its 10th season on Fox television, has produced bona-fide stars like Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Oscar-winning actresssinger Jennifer Hudson.

But in recent years, the public has chosen white, male middle of the road singers as the champion, although few have been able to translate their victory into top-selling albums.

Damon Wayans Jr. says father ‘trademarked me’ BOSTON — Los Angeles native Damon Wayans Jr. says he is proud of his father, but that he has grown up to become his own man.

The 28-year-old comedian and actor is now carving out his career as a star in the ABC comedy “Happy Endings,” The Boston Herald reported.

“I’m not trying to be different. I’m not trying to be like him,” Wayans said of his father. “It’s just kind of happening organically.

Me and him aren’t the same person. I have my own kind of perspective on life and how it should be. I live different experiences than him, so of course we’re not going to have the same total sense of humor. I love my dad.

He’s an awesome dude.

I embrace the similarities, but I also am my own person.”

Wayans said when

he first started performing stand-up, he used a pseudonym, calling himself Kyle Green.

“Just so people wouldn’t feel like they were obligated to laugh, or people wouldn’t just judge me immediately,” Wayans told the Herald.

The plan didn’t always work, Wayans said.

“I would be onstage and people would just yell out, ‘You’re Damon Wayans’ son,’” he said.

“Same name. Same voice. Same face. It’s ridiculous. My name isn’t even really my name. Damon, that’s my dad’s name. He trademarked me.”

In the television comedy Wayans plays the role of Brad, a married executive. He discovers his group of friends forever changed when Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) dumps Dave (Zachary

Knighton) at the altar.

“I relate to him [Brad] in the fact that I work hard. I never stop working,” Wayans said. “I think he’s the only guy on the show that actually has a

legitimate job that pays. Everybody else is still trying to find themselves. I’m pretty sure I know who I am.

So I feel like we both kind of know who we are.”

Rihanna makes Billboard history with 10th No. 1 single Rihanna has set a record on Billboard with her new single “S&M.” The track moves up one on the new Billboard Hot 100 to claim the top spot, making her the first solo artist to log the shortest span between a first and 10th number one in the chart’s 52-year history.

It took her closest rival Mariah Carey five years and four months to land the feat; Rihanna did it in four years, 11 months and two weeks.

Only the Beatles and the Supremes have better chart records – the Fab Four landed their

first 10 number ones in a one year, eight month span, while Diana Ross’ Motown trio achieved

the feat in two years, eight months.

Rihanna is only the ninth artist to total at least 10 Hot 100 number ones.

Rihanna’s “S&M” unseats her pal Katy Perry’s E.T. at the top of the countdown. Perry’s track drops to two after spending three weeks at number one.

Another leading lady, Lady Gaga, scores the week’s highest debut with “Judas,” which crashes into the Hot 100 at 10.

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Apple crushes forecasts again, iPad backlogged

By POORNIMA GUPTA and NOEL RANDEWICH SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc.’s results smashed Wall Street’s after expectations iPhone and Mac sales scaled new heights while iPad supplies could not keep up with roaring global demand.

Shares of the world’s most valuable technology corporation rose 3 percent after it said a record 18.65 million units of the categorydefining iPhone — its flagship product — moved in the March quarter, outpacing the 16 million or so expected.

Apple sold just 4.69 million iPads — which command an 80 percent share of a burgeoning tablet market in which Motorola Inc and Samsung Electronics also compete — but investors argued that would not detract from strong long-term demand.

But investors largely ignored the lower-thanexpected sales for iPads during the quarter as company executives said they were scrambling to meet “staggering” demand and were heavily backlogged for now.

“I’m not going to predict when supply and demand will come into balance,” Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said. “I can only be confident on supply side.”

Apple’s iPad 2 dominated the nascent market for tablets with competing products like Research In Motion’s PlayBook receiving poor reviews from customers and experts.

The stellar results on Wednesday came as concern is growing over how component supply constraints after Japan’s earthquake and tsunami would squeeze margins and restrain iPhone and iPad sales in coming months.

“Dynamite numbers across the board. The only hiccup is lower than expected iPad numbers,” said Capital Advisors Growth Fund portfolio manager Channing Smith.

“We can attribute some of the weakness to stocking issues at some of the retail outlets and obviously the supply chain issue in Japan.

Unfortunately, the supply chain issue will likely persist for the coming months but once we get past summer and the supply chain issues are resolved it’s all systems go again for Apple.”

Apple executives told

analysts on a conference call they foresaw a hit to revenue this quarter of about $200 million — less than 1 percent of projected global quarterly sales — but expected no cost impact.

The company, known for its tight relationship with Asian suppliers, stands at the head of the queue for electronics components even if the supply crunch continues. Japan accounts for an estimated 6 percent of overall revenue.

“We source hundreds, literally hundreds, of items from Japan, and they range from components such as LCDs, optical drives, NAND flash and DRAM, to base materials such as resins, coatings,” Cook said.

Apple did see some revenue impact from the crisis during the second quarter but it was not material to the results, Cook said,

Sharp says to make smartphone panels at TV panel plant

By REIJI MURAI TOKYO — Japan’s Sharp Corp. said on Thursday it would start production of small display panels for use in smartphones at an existing TV panel plant this year and a source said plans to build a further production line remained on track.

The previous day, the company denied a report in an industry newspaper that Toshiba Corp. had been chosen to produce small liquidcrystal display (LCD) panels for Apple Inc., and that Sharp had

been dropped as a supplier.

Sharp said in a statement it would start production of smartphone panels alongside TV panels at the Kameyama No. 2 factory in Mie Prefecture this year, but executives at a news conference declined to comment on the fate of the company’s Kameyama No. 1 factory.

A source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Sharp’s plan to build a new production line for smartphone panels at the Kameyama No. 1 factory remained unchanged.

The building has

been empty since Sharp sold the TV panel-making equipment to a Chinese rival.

Demand for small panels continues to grow, with Apple announcing on Wednesday it had sold 18.65 million iPhones in the March quarter, well ahead of the 16 million expected.

Sharp already produces small panels at two other factories in Japan, but it has been forced to suspend production at two largepanel factories amid plunging domestic demand and a shortage of a gas needed in the production process.

adding that he does not see any unsolvable problems related to the disaster.

On rising prices for memory chips, Cook said he felt “good” for the third quarter as the company does not typically buy in the spot market.

“Beyond Q3, I’m saying I’m not sure because it’s tough to see that far,” he said.

The March quarterly report was Apple’s first under the stewardship of Cook after Chief Executive Steve Jobs went on his third medical leave in January.

Cook, who is known as an operations and supply chain maven, said his boss — who has undergone a liver transplant and survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer — still played an active role in important decisions.

“He is still on medical leave but we do see him on a regular basis. He continues to be involved in major strategic decisions. I know he wants to be back full time as soon as he can,” Cook told analysts.

Apple’s iPad sales in the quarter fell well short of Wall Street’s expectations: some analysts had projected

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Report: Players to file for intervention There could be a rift opening in the NFL Players Association.

A group consisting of as many as 70 players is close to signing with a law firm in order to intervene in the Tom Brady antitrust case, the Sports Business Daily reported on its website Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

The group of players isn’t contesting the earlier lawsuit but wants a place at the mediation table, according to the report, so the group can explain its take on the labor dispute.

With the lockout in its 40th day, the NFL and its players wrapped up their court-ordered talks Wednesday. An attorney for the team owners, Jeff Pash, says a federal judge told both sides Wednesday that they probably won’t convene again until May 16 — nearly a month away.

Whereas the plaintiffs in the earlier lawsuit filed by 10 players consisted of some of the

biggest names in the NFL — Brady, Drew Brees and Peyton Manning — this new group comprises midtier players, according to the Sports Business Daily.

The new group of players, which the Sports Business Daily said could not yet be identified — is reportedly unhappy that earlier mediation talks ended in Washington last month before the NFLPA filed for decertification.

“We’ve had discussions about representing some additional players who want to have a voice in the matter,” said Bryan Clobes of Cafferty Faucher.

But Clobes said the number is “nowhere near 70” and that it does not indicate any dissatisfaction with the way things are progressing.

“The players have extremely capable counsel,” Clobes said.

“If we were to get involved, it would be so we could add and lend our expertise, not

because we thought the current lawyers were not doing a credible job.

They’re doing an incredible job.”

DeMaurice Smith, the head of the players’ trade association, said he was unaware of the report.

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Mike Vrabel, one of the plaintiffs in the Brady case, told ESPN’s Ed Werder in Minneapolis during a break in Wednesday’s mediation session — ordered two weeks ago by a federal judge — that he was unaware of the report but said everybody on the players side is unhappy with how the original mediation attempt ended in Washington.

Vrabel said that abandoning the cause in this way would be the wrong way to demonstrate dissatisfaction.

“We all have a seat at the table already. If they’re unhappy, then we should get together and elect a new executive board,” he said.

Some things have to

happen, however, before the intervention is filed, the Sports Business Daily reported. The law firm wants at least 75 players on board before filing the intervention, and the firm has to resolve a minor conflict, which was not identified in the report. If these issues are solved, the new group of players could file by the end of this week.

It has been two weeks since U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered the Brady suit and the NFL back to the negotiating table. She is expected to decide soon on the players’ request to lift the lockout, which is the NFL’s first work stoppage since 1987. Her decision almost certainly will be appealed.

“That is the judge’s decision,” commissioner Roger Goodell said in a conference call Wednesday with New York Giants seasonticket holders during a break in the fourth day of mediation. “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.”

The two sides spent four days with U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, following 16 days of failed talks in front of a federal mediator in Washington.

Some have questioned whether the two sides were committed to negotiating while awaiting Nelson’s ruling. But Goodell said all parties involved remain committed to the process.

“I think fans want solution. I want solutions,” he said. “I think the players want solutions and I think the teams want solutions.

That’s why we have to be working at it in negotiations and figuring out how to get to that point.”

With appeals expected, there isn’t a ton of time left when it comes to the 2011 season. The

NFL released its reguschedule lar-season Tuesday night, announcing that the season will open Thursday, Sept. 8, with the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers hosting the New Orleans Saints.

That’s less than five months away, with free agency, trades and other roster decisions still up in the air while the lockout is in place.

The announcement of the schedule came with a big if, of course.

The longer the labor strife drags through the court system, the more danger is posed to actual games being canceled.

“We have to identify the solutions and get it done,” Goodell said. “It is tough for me to project. We’re going to continue to make the preparations for the season and work as hard as we can to solve those issues in advance so we can play every game and every down of the season.”

New Tiger, old Tiger, they both sound the same

By NANCY ARMOUR He still curses. He still tosses clubs. His interviews, still, are clipped and smug - the few he gives, that is.

This new version of Tiger Woods was supposed to be warmer, fuzzier, someone who showed more respect for the game and all those fans who’ve made him a very rich man. A year later, it appears as if the only thing about Woods that’s really changed is his ability to win.

No one expected Woods to become Phil Mickelson when he returned to the game following the swiftest, sharpest downfall of a star athlete in recent

memory. Taming his temper and ego was going to be as big a project as his swing change, and he’s having about as much luck.

Sure, he’ll occasionally wave as he walks off the tee, make eye contact with fans here and there. He has stopped during pro-am rounds to pose for pictures.

He’s even embraced Twitter, showing a charming personality in 140 characters or less. Those things are relatively easy to do, however. When it comes to basic course etiquette and being more accessible, he can’t seem to be bothered.

He was fined for spitting on the green during the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic

earlier this year. He cursed enough during the Masters that CBS’ coverage probably should have come with a “parental discretion is advised” disclaimer. His interview with Bill Macatee after shooting a 67 on Sunday was needlessly testy, making his uncomfortable chat with Peter Kostis a year earlier look like a fireside chat.

Even when he does talk, he sidesteps the most mundane questions about how his life has changed, and treats reasonable inquiries about the state of his game with disdain.

“When he was at his height, he was great golfer and had a very likable persona,” said Michael Gordon, a prin-

cipal at Group Gordon S t r a t e g i c Communications, a corporate and crisis firm in New York. “Both are missing right now.”

Woods is hardly the first flawed golfing hero. Arnold Palmer was criticized for smoking. Ben Hogan was considered aloof. John Daly makes soap operas seem dull. And even Woods’ boorish antics were overlooked while he piled up wins in record numbers and closed in on Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 majors. If his Sunday run at the Masters was any indication, all will be forgiven if he starts winning again.

But with nary a title in almost 17 months, patience with his

tantrums and pouting is wearing thin.

Before the sex scandal, Woods had a Q Score - the measure of likeability among consumers - of 28, second only to Michael Jordan among athletes. Now his Q Score is 14, putting him in the same company as serial problem children Terrell Owens and Randy Moss.

“He was never the most personable athlete out there by any means.

He always had that attitude, but it fell by the wayside because he was a champion. That’s not the case now,” said Henry Schafer, executive vice president of The Q Scores Company.

“This is where he’s at, and that’s what people

are going to focus on until he starts winning.”

His spitting incident in Dubai caused so much outrage that Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson suggested this week that the PGA and European tours make their disciplinary actions public.

“I would not want to give the impression in any way that the standards of behavior in golf are poor,” Dawson told the Press Association on Tuesday at Royal St. George’s. “I think they are very high, and golf is still held up as a model for many other sports. These particular incidents that we see do get a great deal of publicity and rightly so.”

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Sports Briefs Ex-ballplayers to receive up to $10,000 pension

NEW YORK - Players who appeared for the major leagues for less than four years from 1947-79 will receive payments of up to $10,000 in each of the next two years under an agreement between Major League Baseball and the players’ association.

Dan Foster, chief executive officer of the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association, says at least 904 players will receive money under the agreement. The size of each payment depends on players’ quarters of service.

The payments will be funded mostly from money paid from the luxury tax assessed each year on high-spending teams. Of the $209.8 million in tax money raised since 2003, $192.2 million has been contributed by the New York Yankees.

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said at a news conference Thursday that “sometimes in life, it’s just the right thing to do.”

- RONALD BLUM

Scouts say new bats make job easier PEARL, Miss. — College baseball’s new metal bats have been praised by fans, coaches and pitchers. Game times are quicker and there are dramatically lower run totals.

But some of the biggest fans of the new bats are Major League Baseball scouts.

For these talent evaluators, the college variation of the game resembles “true” baseball for the first time in years, making their job a little easier as MLB’s draft approaches in June.

“It takes some of the guesswork out of recruiting in college baseball,” said Art Gardner, a Major League Baseball regional scout who is based in Mississippi. “You used to go to a game and it seemed like every team’s lineup had six guys with 10-plus homers.

“It was a constant struggle to figure out the true power hitters.”

The new metal bats — which must adhere to the NCAA’s new Ball-Bat Coefficient of Restitution standard — aren’t perfect. One difference: There’s no broken bats on inside pitches so there’s still bloop singles in the college game that wouldn’t occur at the professional level.

Jim Fleming, the Florida Marlins’ vice president for player development and scouting, agreed the new bats were a vast improvement, but said college baseball should go one step farther and use wood bats. College players currently use wood bats in some of the elite summer leagues like the Cape Cod League.

“We use wood — so anything other than wood isn’t a completely accurate representation,” Fleming said. “That being said, the new college bats are much better. It’s much more accurate. It’s more of a true, clean game.”

The old bats, which produced so much offense, made college baseball difficult for scouts to evaluate for many reasons. In 2010, there were 36 players in the Southeastern Conference who hit at least 10 home runs.

Even marginal power hitters could produce big numbers, and when those same players reached professional baseball and used wood bats, many of those homers turned into fly balls to the warning track.

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Marketing veteran Richie new WNBA president NEW YORK - Veteran marketing executive Laurel J. Richie was hired to lead the WNBA on Thursday, becoming the league’s third president as it enters its 15th season.

Richie brings more than three decades of experience in consumer marketing, corporate branding, public relations and corporate management, NBA commissioner David Stern said.

She has worked for Ogilvy and Mather, and served most recently as senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Girl Scouts of the USA. She replaces Donna Orender, who resigned in December.

“Laurel combines extraordinary marketing and brand-management skills, with a tremendous enthusiasm to help evolve young women into leaders,” Stern said. “She joins the WNBA at such an exciting time in its history and we know her expertise will be key to continuing the growth and success of the league.”

Richie was the driving force behind the recent brand revitalization of the Girl Scouts,

responsible for communications, publishing, marketing and webbased initiatives.

“I’m looking forward to working with these talented women as they strive to achieve their professional goals both on and off the court,” Richie said. “I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to build upon the successes of the WNBA and help grow this league into a world-class business.”

Richie has received the YMCA Black Achiever’s Award and Ebony magazine’s Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications. She graduated Dartmouth with a degree in policy studies.

Richie follows Orender, who stepped down after nearly six years to start a marketing and media strategy company. NBA vice president Chris Granger assumed the job on an interim basis.

Val Ackerman was the WNBA’s first president, hired in 1996 - a year before the league began play.

Richie will begin her duties on May 16. The season begins in June.

Veteran marketing executive Laurel J. Richie was hired to lead the WNBA on Thursday becoming the league's third president as it enters its 15th season.

Report: Jalen Rose struggled on tests DETROIT — Former Michigan and NBA player Jalen Rose told authorities he hadn’t been drinking and performed poorly on several tests to determine if he was intoxicated after rolling his Cadillac Escalade on a snowy Michigan road, according to a police report.

The report from the West Bloomfield Township police, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information request, also said Rose registered a 0.088 blood-alcohol level two hours after the March 11 crash.

Michigan’s legal limit is 0.08.

Rose, 38, was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

He was driving the 2004 SUV along Walnut Lake Road when it veered off the roadway at about 2:10 a.m. and rolled over just east of Middlebelt, about 20 miles northwest of Detroit. Neither Rose nor his female passenger was hurt in the crash.

When West Bloomfield police arrived at the accident an off-duty Troy police officer was standing with Rose and his passenger.

“While speaking with Jalen, I detected an odor of intoxicants on his

breath,” West Bloomfield officer Robert Stephens wrote in the report. “I also noticed that Jalen was swaying while he was standing and his eyes were slightly blood shot.”

Stephens wrote that he asked Rose if he had any alcohol that evening and was told that “he had none and that he does not drink.”

Rose was given several field sobriety tests and had difficulty with each one, Stephens wrote. He had trouble following the horizontal movement of the officer’s finger. Rose also could not keep his balance while listening to instructions on walking and turning.

“Jalen did not touch heel to toe on a few of

the steps and made an incorrect turn while walking,” according to the report.

Stephens wrote that Rose could not hold his foot off the ground, planted it and used his arms for balance during a timed 30-second oneleg stand test. Rose also had trouble blowing into an instrument that measures blood-alcohol content.

After he was taken into custody, an in-car police video showed Rose stretched across the rear seat of a patrol car.

“There’s no reason to arrest me,” Rose told the officer. When he was told it was for driving while intoxicated, Rose replied: “For what, sir? But I haven’t been drinking.”

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Less than 9 percent of MLB players Black NEW YORK — The percentage of black players in the major leagues dropped again on Opening Day this year even as the sport again received a top overall grade for racial diversity.

Baseball’s grade for gender hiring declined slightly, according to the annual study released Thursday by Richard Lapchick’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.

Baseball received an A for racial diversity in hiring, the same grade as last year, and a Bminus for gender, down from a B. Its overall grade remained a B-

plus.

“Jackie Robinson’s dream was to see more African-Americans playing, coaching and in the front office,” Lapchick said. “While this year there has been a slight decrease in the grade for racial and gender hiring practices, there has been a long-term consistent and dramatic increase in the role of people of color and women regarding who runs the game.”

The percentage of Black players dropped to 8.5 percent on Opening Day this year, down from 9.1 percent at the start of last season and its lowest level since 2007. The percentage of Latino players dropped from 28.4 percent to 27 percent — baseball’s lowest since

1999’s 26 percent.

“This has been a concern of Major League Baseball and leaders in the African-American community,” Lapchick said. “However, the 38.3 percent of players who are people of color also make the playing fields look more like America with its large Latino population.”

While Major League Baseball’s central office received an A-plus for racial diversity and an A-minus for gender diversity, the 30 clubs fared more poorly.

The number of Black and Latino managers dropped from 10 at the start of the 2010 season to six, and the percentage of Black and Latino coaches dropped from 31 to 29 percent. No Blacks were team chief executives or presi-

dents and only Houston Astros president of business Pam Gardner fell into that category.

Black and Latino general managers dropped from five to four, and at the team vice president level percentages declined for Blacks (9.8 percent last year) and women (18.2 percent). For the VP level, teams received a C to C-plus for racial diversity and an F for gender diversity.

“MLB has made great strides with diversity in who runs the game, and today is one of the best in sports.”

Lapchick said.

“However, there is clearly room for improvement, especially regarding hiring more women into professional positions.”

Veterans Brand, Iguodala letting down young Sixers so far

By SHAUN POWELL PHILADELPHIA — Their time will come.

Their chance to shine, sharpen their skills, earn big money, push for All-Star teams and restore pride in the Sixers isn’t far in the distance. Even the notoriously fickle Philly fans are willing to wait.

We’re talking about Lou Williams, Thad Young and Evan Turner. The kids. The Broad Street Babies.

But it wasn’t too long ago when this conversation was about Elton Brand and Andre Iguodala. And how’s that turning out?

The Sixers are in a deep hole in their series with the Heat not entirely because the games go well past the bedtime of half the roster, but because the once-future of the team now seems so passé.

This is supposed to be when Brand and Iggy lead by example, show the way and carry their weight as well as they

do their paychecks. So why does it feel like they are weighing the Sixers down?

You could confine their highlight in this series to the first quarter of Game 1, when Brand had his jumper working. There’s been little-to-nothing since then, only grim evidence of a major investment gone sour.

Brand scored three points in Game 2, his only basket courtesy of a goaltending call. He hardly looked like the player who once carried the Clippers into the West semifinals.

Iguodala has 10 points in the series.

Remember when he averaged almost 20 ppg three seasons ago? It’s quite disheartening for the Sixers when their two best — and most veteran — players are looking lost in the playoffs, when your best and most veteran players are supposed to show up.

“We definitely need ‘Dre and E.B. to get

their average,” said Sixers coach Doug Collins. “We need 30 points out of those guys because our bench has been good.”

The Sixers are leaning on two players designated as the franchise’s foundation in the post-Allen Iverson era. Here’s the difference, though: Iverson, for all the trouble he caused, at least took the Sixers to the 2001 NBA Finals. Iguodala and Brand are still trying to win a playoff game together.

After trading Iverson in 2006, the Sixers embarked on an ambitious facelift and identity change. Gone was a rebellious, highreward/high-maintenance superstar, and it was replaced by a team built on balance. By 2008, the Sixers had taken the favored Pistons to six games in the first round and anxiously awaited the future with open arms and wallets.

However, Iguodala became devalued almost

before the ink dried on his six-year, $80 million deal. Big contracts then were the rage; a year earlier, Rashard Lewis signed with Orlando for $118 million, and he lacked the same all-around skills.

So the Sixers figured they were getting a bargain. How could they not? Iguodala averaged 19.9 ppg, 5.4 rpg and 4.8 apg in 2007-08, numbers that were nearly equaled the next season.

Plus, his

defense was respectable.

The Sixers lured Brand from Clipperland with a five-year, $80 million deal and almost overnight, both forward positions seemed secure for years. Even though Brand was coming off Achilles surgery, his career numbers (20.3 ppg and 10.2 rpg) and his age (29) were positives.

“I won’t let anybody down,” Brand said at the time.

He then dislocated his shoulder one month into his first season in Philly, needed surgery, then had philosophical differences with thencoach Eddie Jordan.

Brand has responded much better to Collins and finished the season strong, averaging 18.4 ppg in the final month.

But he’s being badly outplayed by Chris Bosh, a player who gets far more grief from the basketball public than Brand.

D’Antoni optimistic Stoudemire will play in Game 3 GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni is optimistic All-Star forward Amare Stoudemire will be available for Game 3 of their playoff series with the Boston Celtics.

He’s less encouraged about point guard Chauncey Billups.

Neither injured player practiced Thursday. Stoudemire stayed at home so driving wouldn’t aggravate the pulled muscle causing the back spasms that kept him out of the second half of Game 2. Instead, Knicks trainers would come to him.

“You don’t know until he wakes up,” D’Antoni said of Stoudemire’s status for Friday, when the Knicks return to Madison Square Garden trailing 2-0.

Billups underwent treatment for his strained left knee at the Knicks’ training facility. He said he had a cortisone shot and had the knee drained Wednesday. Billups missed Game 2 after he was hurt on a drive to the basket near the end of the series opener.

“Just hoping for the best,” Billups said.

Asked why he was less optimistic about Billups, D’Antoni said with a laugh, “He hurts more.”

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