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April 12, 1975 Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she later took the name Baker from her stepfather. Surviving the 1917 riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, where the family was living, she ran away a few years after at age 13 and began dancing in vaudeville and on Broadway. In 1925, she went to Paris where, after the jazz revue La Revue Nègre failed, her comic ability and jazz dancing drew the attention of the director of the Folies Bergère. She died of a stroke.
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4-12-12 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: “Play Me, I’m Yours” by artist Luke Jerram unprecedented free three-week-long art installation by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra featuring 30 decorated pianos in 30 neighborhood locations around Los Angeles County. WHEN: Thursday, April 12, 12 noon – Thursday, May 3, 2012. Pianos are on display and accessible for public to play 24 hours per day, 7 days per week). Information available online at streetpianosLA.com, or by phone (213) 622 7001 × 221. WHERE: 30 sites across the Southland!
4-14-12 Homeless Feed: Mother’s In Action annual “Friends Serving Friends” Homeless Feed. When: Saturday, April 14, 2012, 10 AM – 2 PM. Where: On Skid Row – Town Ave. between 4th and 5th St. in the City of Los Angeles. To volunteer, participate or donate call (323) 299-3800.
4-15-12 CicLAvias Bicycle Tours:
10 miles of streets will be car-free from 10 AM - 3 PM on Sunday April 15th. CicLAvia makes the streets safe for people to walk, skate, play and ride a bike. There are activities along the
route. Shop owners and restaurants are encouraged to open their doors to people along the CicLAvia. Departing 11am, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm from CicLAvia hub at African-American Firefighters Museum on Central Avenue and 14th St. For more information visit http://www.ciclavia.org/
4-16-12 Annual Student Art and Design Exhibitions: B.A. Graduates: Works of art ranging from motion graphics, giant posters, rebranding identity, packaging and web design to mixed media assemblage, ceramic sculpture, and paintings, all created by 45 graduating seniors in studio art and design programs at California State University, Dominguez Hills will be featured in two “Annual Student Art and Design Exhibitions: B.A. Graduates” in the University Art Gallery on campus. WHEN: April 16-26; opening reception April 16, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Studio Art: May 7-17,
opening reception May 9, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Gallery open: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays 12 to 5 p.m. COST: FREE! For more information visit http://cah.csudh.edu/art_gallery or call (310) 243-3334
4-17-12 Regional Technology in Education Conference: The region’s first such event, the conference will bring together IT professionals and industry leaders with hundreds of educators and administrators from The California State University System, University of California, California Community Colleges, private colleges, and public and private K-12 school districts from throughout Southern California to discuss innovations and best practices in the use of technology in the delivery of effective teaching, learning and administration. WHEN: Tuesday, April 17, in the Loker Student Union on the CSU Dominguez Hills campus. It is open to the public. For more information about the Southern California Technology in Education Conference, visit www.csudh.edu/actech/techday or call (310) 243-3704.
Ongoing Travels Through Blackness: International Movie Poster Designs From the 1920s to 1970s” exhibit located at the Los Angeles’ Museum of African American Art in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. This exhibit celebrates the history of African Americans in film through these rare movie posters spanning a fifty year period. Travels Through Blackness shows how movies starring African Americans were historically marketed to Black and general audiences. Museum Hours: TuesdaySunday, 12 noon to 5:00 pm. Admission and parking is free. For more information about the Museum of African American Art, visit www.maaala.org or call 323.294.7071. The exhibition is on view through April 22, 2012.
Cultivate/Create: Examines ending violence against women with “I Can: Requiem for I Can’t” which runs through April 22. The event is being presented by A Window Between Worlds (AWBW) at Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), 685 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA (Old Venice Police Station). All events are free. For more information, go to www.awbw.org.
Youth Media Bootcamp: The Mission of The Duke Media Foundation is to train gifted high school students in the disciplines of media, financial literacy & the science of branding and entrepreneurship in preparation for careers in the new digital media age. Limited enrollment! Fax Completed Application to (213) 487-2310 or email: aechols@educatingyoungminds.org or Mail to: Educating Young Minds, 3325 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90010. For more information call 213 842-9267. Program runs through May 2.
Tyler Perry Production: Madea is coming to Los Angeles in April at Nokia Theatre Live stage like never before in Tyler Perry’s “Madea Gets a Job”. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at Nokia Theatre Live box office, all Ticketmaster locations and Ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. Event Times: Friday, April 20th – April 21st. Get your tickets today! For more information visit Tylerperry.com. TO MAKE A CALENDAR SUBMISSION: include event name, date(s), time, location, contact/RSVP information and admission price, if any. Use BRIEF paragraph format (no lists, line breaks, or allcaps). All calendar submissions are space permitting and may be edited for brevity. Send submissions, along with any images, to brandon@lasentinel.net with the subject heading “LAWT Community Events.” Please include text in the body of your email, not in an attachment.
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Congo president First lady seeks calls for arrest of more wanted warlord BY SALEH MWANAMILONGO | ASSOCIATED PRESS
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In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Congolese former warlord Bosco Ntaganda in his national army uniform attends the 50th anniversary celebration of Congo's independence in Goma in eastern Congo in 2010.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — In a marked turnaround, Congo’s president called Wednesday for the arrest of a notorious ex-warlord who has been serving in the country’s army despite an international indictment on war crimes charges. Bosco Ntaganda is accused of using child soldiers for fighting in northeastern Congo from 2002 to 2003. He was first indicted on war crimes charges in 2006 by the Netherlands-based International Criminal Court. President Joseph Kabila said Wednesday that Ntaganda should be arrested and face a military tribunal in Congo, presidential spokesman Andre Ngwej told The Associated Press by telephone. Kabila said the military doesn’t need to hand Ntaganda over to the ICC. “We ourselves can arrest him because we have more than 100 reasons to arrest and judge him right here (in Goma) and, if not here, then in Kinshasa or elsewhere in our country,” Kabila said in the Swahili language.
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The president made the comments during a meeting with community leaders in the country’s remote eastern province of North Kivu. In the Hague, Netherlands, international court prosecutor Luis MorenoOcampo said Ntaganda is a fugitive and needs to be brought to justice. “He should be arrested for the sake and the security of victims and citizens in the whole region,” Moreno-Ocampo said. In the past, Kabila had refused calls to hand over Ntaganda, arguing his cooperation was essential to keeping the peace in the troubled east of the country where numerous local militias and foreign rebels operate. Ntaganda was integrated into the Congolese army along with unknown hundreds of troops under a peace deal ending a 2009 rebellion that was negotiated as the rebels were about to take the provincial capital of Goma. The integration has allowed large portions of eastern Congo to come under the dominion of Ntaganda’s troops, who are largely from the Tutsi ethnic group and are accused of raping, looting and otherwise brutalizing other communities. Kabila also noted Wednesday that the army was not supposed to be tribal. Anneke van Woudenberg, a Human Rights Watch expert on Congo, said that Kabila’s government is legally bound to transfer Ntaganda to The Hague after referring the crimes committed in Congo to the ICC in 2004. The Congolese government will have to submit a request to the ICC, if it now wants to try Ntaganda domestically before a military tribunal, she said. “There is a lot of value in judicial trials taking place close to where the crimes occurred, but after years of conflict Congo’s justice system remains weak and is unlikely, at this stage, to be able to try Ntaganda’s crimes in a free and fair process,” she said. The Congolese president’s announcement follows clashes this week between troops loyal to Ntaganda and other soldiers in the Congolese army in the eastern town of Rutshuru, according to the army spokesman for eastern Congo, Maj. Sylvain Ikenge. Ikenge said that a colonel and a major responsible for the mutiny had fled into the bush with a small number of troops. “But everything is calm in Rutshuru today and 90 percent of the troops have remained loyal to the government,” he said. It was unclear how other troops under Ntaganda’s command might react to any arrest of Ntaganda. In a 2010 interview with The Associated Press, Ntaganda vigorously denied the allegations and said he did not fear arrest on the ICC charges. “I don’t think that the U.N. is able to arrest me in Congo because they have arms that I also have and that can protect me when they try to arrest me,” he said. “If it is established that I committed crimes, I won’t hesitate to answer them to a court in my country. But I will never accept answering charges by the International Court.” Pressure has been mounting for See CONGO PRESIDENT, page 11
help for military families
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Waging a fight for veterans: First lady Michelle Obama speaks at an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, marking the one-year anniversary of her joining forces campaign.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama has been everywhere from a West Point mess hall to a NASCAR speedway in the past year to drum up support for military families through her “joining forces” campaign. On Wednesday, she marked the program’s one-year anniversary by taking stock of what’s been done and challenging Americans to do even more. At a chilly ceremony on the White House lawn, Mrs. Obama praised
businesses, churches, schools and other organizations for working to hire more veterans and provide other services to military families but added, “we are not here to pat ourselves on the back.” See FIRST LADY, page 11
5 more minutes? New clock answers resounding ‘no’
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Get up now! A photo provided by Sammut Tech, LLC, shows the Ramos alarm clock, which is designed to force its owner to get out of bed once the alarm goes off. BY TED SHAFFREY | ASSOCIATED PRESS HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time. It could be the world’s most exasperating alarm clock. Once it goes off, to stop it you must get out of bed, go into the kitchen or bathroom, and punch the day's date into a telephone-style key-
pad. That’s the only way to stop the loud ‘ding-ding,’ designed to sound like a customer angrily banging on a concierge bell at a hotel. It was invented by Paul Sammut, a 25-year-old engineer who lives in Hoboken. During the day, he builds and researches underwater robots and vehicles at the nearby Stevens Institute of Technology. He started working on the gadget because he was finding it hard to get up and make it to work on time after college. See NEW CLOCK, page 11
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Kofi Annan Trayvon Martin parents appeals to Iran elated by Zimmerman arrest over Syria’s conflict BY SONYA ROSS AND SUZANNE GAMBOA | ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, third from left, is welcomed by Syrian refugee children upon his arrival at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay province, Turkey, on Tuesday TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — International envoy Kofi Annan has appealed to Syria’s key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that “any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous.” Annan spoke to reporters after talks on Tuesday with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi. The U.N.-Arab League envoy has been pushing Damascus to
withdraw its troops from cities and halt all violence in 48 hours to salvage his peace plan. Annan said in Tehran that he and his host agreed on the need to “find a peaceful solution to the crisis” and he voiced optimism that the situation on the ground would improve by Thursday morning. Salehi insisted that “change in Syria” should come under the leadership of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
UN marks Rwanda genocide anniversary, vows justice BY PETER JAMES SPIELMANN | ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria last Thursday at UN headquarters.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Top diplomats observed a minute of silence Wednesday after lighting five white candles in memory of more than 500,000 people killed in the Rwandan genocide 18 years ago. They vowed to pursue justice for the victims and survivors by apprehending fugitive Rwandan killers. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice recalled that the “United Nations was established in the shadow of a genocide,” the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews during World War II. See RWANDA GENOCIDE, page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trayvon Martin’s parents expressed relief Wednesday over a special prosecutor's decision to charge the man responsible for the 17-yearold's death. Martin’s mother said if she could speak directly to George Zimmerman, she would allow him a chance to say he is sorry for what happened. “I would probably give him an opportunity to apologize,” Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, told The Associated Press in an interview. “I would probably ask him if there were another way that he could have settled the confrontation that he had with Trayvon, other than the way it ended, with Trayvon being shot.” Her voice trailed off, and tears welled in her eyes. She remained stoic and expressed faith that the justice system would work as it should. Martin's father, Tracy Martin, offered several questions that he would like to ask Zimmerman about the sequence of events that led up to Trayvon's death, but in the end he
Ben Crump, left, attorney for Trayvon Martin's parents — mother Sybrina Fulton, center, and father Tracy Martin — are interviewed by The Associated Press in Washington on Wednesday. would want to know, “Was it really worth it?” “The question I would really like to ask him is, if he could look into Trayvon's eyes and see how innocent he was, would he have then pulled the trigger? Or would he have just let him go on home?” Tracy Martin said.
The parents spoke in Washington shortly before special prosecutor Angela Corey announced in Florida that Zimmerman, 28, had been arrested on a second-degree murder charge in their son’s Feb. 26 death. The parents and Trayvon’s See ZIMMERMAN ARREST, page 10
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Dying with dignity protecting his son BY BRANDON I. BROOKS Assistant Managing Editor INGLEWOOD, CALIF. - Another senseless killing: Fredrick Martin, Jr. (Freddie Mac, as he was affectionately known by his friends and family) was killed on the night of April 3, shielding his 8-yearold son from gunfire. According to sources, Martin, his son and one of his best friends, Joey Hickman, who happens to be the godfather of Martin’s son, were cleaning out Martin’s garage when two unknown assailants ran into the garage and opened fire. Martin dove to cover his son Tre and was hit twice by gunfire. He made it to the hospital but, unfortunately, didn’t survive surgery. Neither Martin nor Hickman are gang-aƥliated. Martin was 28 years old. His son Martin III was grazed by a bullet, and Joey Hickman was
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shot in the ankle. Both survived the shooting but are obviously mourning the tragic loss of Martin Jr. No suspects have been apprehended nor identified to date. In a statement posted online, the family described Martin as a devoted father; at a press conference Monday, they made a public plea for help in finding his killers.
Also, a reward of $10,000 has been oơered for information leading to the arrest of whoever killed Fredrick Martin. Inglewood Mayor James Butts, who was at the press conference and who knows the family personally, said, “It’s an outstanding family, and this has put a hole in their heart that will never be filled.” Though specifics about investigation and suspects have not been released since it is an ongoing investigation, the city and the police department are working closely together on the case but it is still believed that Martin was not involved in gangs. Martin graduated from Frank D. Parent Middle School in 1997 and went to Westchester High School, where he led his frosh/soph football teams to an undefeated season playing the quarterback position. He continued playing football and doing well in the classroom, eventually graduating from high school in 2001.
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Inglewood Mayor James Butts at a new family of Fredrick Martin asking the pub of the murder of Martin and announcing is surrounded by (l to r) Inglewood Polic James D. Madia, family friend Dr. Micha arri Pratts, friends Teddy Fletcher and Ja evening, the 28-year-old father was cle mother’s Inglewood home, along with h III, and his son’s godfather, Joseph Hick nearby. Hickman was shot in the ankle.
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In 2003, Martin accomplished his greatest feat when he and his high school sweetheart, Ebony Delton, gave birth to their son, Fredrick Demetrius Martin III,(Tre). Tre immediately became the joy of Martin’s life, and he dedicated himself to Tre like nothing he had ever done before. Tre was his main motivation for earning his college degree in sociology from Texas Southern University in December 2006. Upon graduation, Martin returned to Inglewood to be close to his family and friends but mainly Tre. He
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started working for Kaiser and being actively involved in the rearing of his son. Though Ebony and Fred eventually decided to part ways, they always worked together to ensure Tre had everything he needed. In 2011 Fredrick Martin, Jr., married Amanda Grant, and they conceived a child later that year. In the fall of 2011 Fred and Amanda moved to a home in Inglewood next to his beloved grandmother, Darley Tankey. He and his wife, Amanda Martin, were expecting their second child; their one-year anniversary would have been on May 11. He is survived by his son Tre; Tre’s mother Ebony; his wife Amanda and their unborn child; his mother Ilene; his father Fred
Martin Press Conference Inglewood Police Department spokesperson Lt. James D. Madia, Det. Scott Collins, and Mayor James Butts at a news conference Monday asking the public for help in solving the case of the murder of Fredrick Martin and announcing a $10,000 reward. Inglewood Mayor James Butts said he knew Martin’s mother personally and spoke highly of the family, at one point choking up during the news conference. Photo/Isidra Person-Lynn
ws conference Monday with the blic for help in solving the case g a $10,000 reward. The Mayor e Department spokesperson Lt. ael Pratts, Martin’s sister Michaaye Person-Lynn. On Tuesday aning the garage of his grandhis son, Fredrick “Tre” Martin kman, when they heard gunfire Photo/Isidra Person-Lynn
Sr.; his sisters Micharri Pratts, Star Martin and Taschae Martin; his brother Tehadre Martin; his great-great grandmother Janie Embers; his grandmother Darley and grandmother Faye as well as a host of cousins, aunts, uncles and friends. As you can imagine, this unexpected tragedy has hit the family extremely hard. Right now, community support would be greatly appreciated by the family, as they are raising money to help take care of funeral arrangements and other family expenses. These donations will be split between the children and the family. For more information, please visit: http:// www.wepay.com/xyd3ox/donations/mac-martinkid-s-fund
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Dodgers’ new owner: Magic Johnson NEW YORK (AP) — Magic Johnson says the new Dodgers ownership group wants to restore pride in one of baseball’s most storied clubs. Johnson was in New York on Monday, doing interviews at a theater where a play on his friendship with Larry Bird is about to open. The former Lakers star is part of the group that is buying the Los Angeles franchise for more than $2 bil-
lion. Johnson says it’s “all about winning” and restoring “the Dodger pride.” He says the group will invest to get good players and wants to make sure “the fan experience is great, make sure the fans are safe, make sure the mothers are happy they can bring their kids to the game.” Last spring, a San Francisco Giants fan was badly beaten outside Dodger Stadium.
WACO, Texas (AP) — The NCAA put Baylor on three years of probation Wednesday after an investigation turned up hundreds of impermissible telephone calls and text messages sent to prep recruits by coaches and assistants on the basketball teams. The violations were considered to be major infractions, and they were announced less than a week after the Lady Bears won the national championship with the first 40-0 season in NCAA history. Still, it could have been much worse for Baylor. All of the penalties were proposed by the school and accepted by the NCAA after a review of nearly 900,000 phone and text message records found that 738 texts and 528 calls were against the rules. The NCAA said men’s coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season, in addition to recruiting restrictions. Women’s coach Kim Mulkey also received recruiting restrictions. “I believe strongly in following NCAA rules and will always try to do so in the future,” Mulkey said in a statement released by the school. “I do nothing without permission from our com-
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Baylor center Brittney Griner (42) celebrates after the victory over Texas A&M in an NCAA college basketball championship game at the women’s Big 12 Conference tournament last month. pliance office and will continue to ask questions to assure that things are done right. Any compliance-related mistakes, even those that are secondary, are disappointing. The majority of mistakes in this matter were errors in sending text messages and failure to accurately document our phone calls.” The report put a bit of a damper on what has been an extraordinary run of success for Baylor athletics. Besides Baylor’s win over Notre Dame for the women’s title, Drew’s
team won a school-record 30 games and reached the NCAA regional finals, where the Bears lost to eventual national champion Kentucky. And all that came after star quarterback Robert Griffin III became the school’s first Heisman Trophy winner following a football season that included 10 wins for the first time since 1980. Mulkey was named the AP’s national coach of the year and junior Brittney Griner was its player of the year. How Baylor recruited Griner, one of the most dominant women’s players in college basketball history, was reportedly part of the NCAA probe. A school report obtained by ESPN.com said Mulkey and her staff committed minor NCAA violations for having impermissible contact with Griner and her family. During a 2007 camp, coaches spoke with the Griners about the basketball program, academic requirements and the school in general both before and after the camp. Mulkey also reportedly broke NCA rules when she sat next to Griner’s father and discussed what the Baylor experience would be like. Brittney Griner, who is from the Houston area, played on the same AAU team as Mulkey’s daughter, Makenzie Robertson. The NCAA report did not mention Griner or her family by name, though Mulkey addressed it in her statement. “The other matters were related to my daughter’s participation in summer basketball,” she said. “While I am and will always be a mother first, I do recognize that there has to be a balance between my role as a mother of a prospect and my role as a head coach. I have always tried to strike that balance and appreciate the opportunity to demonstrate to the NCAA staff such balancing efforts dating back to when Makenzie was in the seventh grade. I am pleased that my efforts to find the appropriate balance between a mother and a coach were recognized.” Griner said she had “made it clear to the NCAA staff and everyone else” that she had chosen Baylor early in the recruiting process. Besides keeping Mulkey off the recruiting trail in July, Baylor said one of her assistants has been barred from making recruiting calls from January through April. The school also reduced its women’s basketball scholarships See BAYLOR BASKETBALL, page 10
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Nicki Minaj: I’m surprised that kids like my music BY MESFIN FEKADU | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last week Nicki Minaj released her sophomore album, “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” which includes the hit song “Starships” and collaborations with Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Drake, Rick Ross and Nas.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nicki Minaj loves the kids, but she’s not ready to completely clean up her image for her young fans. “I’ve always been kind of racy,” Minaj says, laughing. “Don’t expect that to change, but I love children and I respect children so much. ...I’m big on them remaining, you know, kids. I don't want them to go around cursing and acting crazy.” Many kids — and others — are going out to buy Minaj’s sophomore album, “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” which sold 253,000 units in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, giving Minaj her second No. 1 album. In just three years, the rapper has transformed her image by singing on her songs and toning down her oversexed appearance. Her fan base now includes young girls, which she says surprised her. “I didn’t expect the kids to gravitate to me like that,” the 29year-old said in an interview last week before performing in New York’s Times Square at a Nokia event. “I’m finding my own niche with them.” One of the reasons children have connected with Minaj is thanks to pop hits like “Super Bass,” “Turn Me On” with David Guetta and “Starships.” Minaj is also featured twice on Madonna’s latest album, “MDNA.” “Roman Reloaded” showcases Grammy-nominated Minaj as her male alter ego, Roman. The album has multiple sounds to match her multiple personalities: In addition to dance-pop anthems that mirror Rihanna and Katy Perry, there is hardcore hip-hop, contemporary R&B and reggae flavors. “Once I did it I was like, ‘Why aren’t all albums like this? Why does every artist have to give you one thing?’ ” Minaj asked. “I like going to restaurants because I can order a little bit of salad, a little bit of bread, a little bit of chicken, some sushi. I like variety. I get
Police say no crime occurred in Houston’s death BY ANTHONY MCCARTNEY | ASSOCIATED PRESS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Police have closed their investigation into Whitney Houston’s death without finding any evidence to suggest it was anything than an accidental drowning, investigators announced Wednesday. The Beverly Hills Police Department did not release a detailed report on the case, but Lt. Mark Rosen said the conclusion came after detectives reviewed the complete findings of the coroner’s office. Coroner’s officials ruled Houston drowned accidentally at the Beverly Hilton on Feb. 11 and that heart disease and cocaine use contributed to her death. Beverly Hills authorities also released a minute-long 911 call made by a hotel worker who summoned police and paramedics to Houston's suite at the hotel. The call revealed few details, other than that people in the Grammy-winning singer’s room repeatedly hung up on hotel personnel after discovering Houston in a bathtub. The dispatcher had asked to be patched into the room to deliver life-
saving instructions, but the security worker said that wasn’t possible. He said a woman who notified the hotel that Houston was unresponsive was “irate” and didn’t provide many details. Rosen re-iterated condolences to Houston’s family and friends in a brief statement. Houston’s death on the eve of the Grammy Awards stunned the world. The singer had been attempting a comeback and had finished work on a remake of the film “Sparkle” when she drowned. Toxicology results showed cocaine throughout her body, and coroner’s officials said the results indicated chronic use. In the bathroom, investigators found a small spoon described by investigators as having a “crystal-like substance” in it, and they discovered a white powdery substance in a drawer, a coro-
Whitney Houston
ner’s report released last week showed. Houston had a history of drug abuse that marred her career, robbing her of her voice and reputation, but family and friends described her as intent on returning to glory in the months before her death. Her unexpected death at age 48 sparked a renewed interest in her music and movies, sales of which will benefit her only child, Bobbi Kristina.
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very, very bored if I have to keep things the same.” The new album follows her 2010 debut, “Pink Friday,” which is approaching double platinum status and launched seven singles that were hits on the pop, R&B or rap charts. “Roman Reloaded,” which boasts 19 tracks, features Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Drake and Nas, and producers like RedOne, Dr. Luke, Alex da Kid and J.R. Rotem. “The album alone, just the sequence and the order and the genre — that alone is a conversation piece,” she said. “People keep talking about it. I didn’t know it was going to be such a big deal.” Minaj, who was discovered by Lil Wayne and signed to his Cash Money/Young Money imprint in 2009, says she’s interested in putting out her own female rap talent. “It wouldn’t be on Young Money, it would be on my own label if I do decide to do my own label. Yeah, sure, of course,” she said. “People do come up to me a lot about their female rappers, and I always tell them, ‘It’s for the strongest, (the) mentally strongest people in the world. You know, you've got a lot of things going against you, but if you really, really want it, you push yourself, write your own lyrics and you have an opportunity. You can do it.’ ”
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PEPPERSPRAYING Continued from page 2 a line of seated Occupy protesters with the eye-stinging chemical was “objectively unreasonable” and not authorized by campus policy, according to the report by a UC Davis task force created to investigate the incident. “The pepper-spraying incident that took place on Nov. 18, 2011, should and could have been prevented,” the task force concluded in the long-awaited report. The chemical crackdown prompted campus protests and calls for the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi after videos shot by witnesses went viral. Images of an officer casually spraying orange pepper-spray in the faces of nonviolent protesters became a rallying point for the Occupy Wall Street movement. In a statement Wednesday, Katehi said school administrators would study the report’s recommendations and develop a detailed response and action plan “that will ensure that students’ safety and free speech rights are paramount.” Campus police Lt. John Pike and other officers involved in the operation have said they needed to use pepper spray to break through a hostile crowd. But the investigation determined police were able to step over the seated protesters and walk through a throng of onlookers. The report said Pike used a pepperspray canister that was larger than the one campus police officers are authorized and trained to use. John Bakhit, an attorney for the campus police officers union, said the use of pepper spray was justified after protesters disobeyed orders to disperse and wouldn’t allow the officers to leave until several detained demonstrators were released. “I believe all the officers exercised quite a bit of restraint under the circumstances where you’re surrounded by a crowd chanting vulgarities and told, we’re not going to let you go unless you let go of the prisoners,” Bakhit said. All the officers involved are under orders not to discuss the incident because an internal department investigation is ongoing, Bhakit said.
The attorney said the task force was wrong to conclude that Pike’s use of pepper spray was unreasonable because investigators were not able to interview him. The task force also blamed the incident on poor communication and planning throughout the campus chain of command, from Katehi to Police Chief Annette Spicuzza to Pike, the main officer shown in the video. The task force blamed the chancellor for not clearly communicating to her subordinates that police should avoid physical force on the protesters. It also said she was responsible for the decision to deploy police on a Friday afternoon rather than wait until early morning as Spicuzza recommended. The report chided the police chief for failing to challenge the timing of the operation and not providing clear instructions to the responding officers. The task force, led by retired California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, presented its report Wednesday at a public meeting at UC Davis. In its recommendations, the task force called on UC Davis to develop a campus policy detailing how administrators and campus police should respond to student protests and civil dis-
ZIMMERMAN ARREST Continued from page 5 brother, Jahvaris Fulton, were attending a national conference convened by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. They watched Corey’s announcement on television in a room at the Washington Convention Center. As soon as Corey uttered the words “second-degree murder,” Martin and Fulton grasped hands, and their attorney, Benjamin Crump, placed his hands over theirs. Fulton smiled slightly at the news. “We wanted an arrest, and we got it,” Fulton said later during a brief appearance before reporters. “Thank you, Lord, thank you, Jesus.” Before the arrest, Fulton said: “That won’t bring Trayvon back but at least that would give us reassurance that the justice system is working.” Zimmerman’s shooting of the Black teenager brought demands from Black leaders for his arrest and set off a furious nationwide debate over race
and self-defense that reached all the way to the White House. Zimmerman, whose father is White and whose mother is Hispanic, said the teenager attacked him, and he shot in selfdefense. Martin’s family argued Zimmerman was the aggressor. They appealed for their supporters as well as Zimmerman’s supporters to remain calm in response to the prosecutor’s decision. “We’ve always said that we want peaceful resolution, no matter what side you’re on,” Martin said. “We don’t want them to stop the protest and the rallies. We just want to make sure that they remain peaceful,” Fulton said. “We’re going through the process the right way, the proper way. We just ask that everybody that supports us do the same thing. Even the ones who don’t support us, we want to make sure that they protest in a peaceful manner.”
obedience. Mark Yudof, who heads the 10campus system, said he planned to meet with Katehi to discuss implementation of the recommendations. A separate university task force is working on a report on how school officials should respond to student protests at all 10 UC campuses, he said. “Free speech, including nonviolent protest, is part of the DNA of this university, and it must be protected with vigilance,” Yudof said in a statement. “I implore students who wish to demonstrate to do so in a peaceful fashion, and I expect campus authorities to honor that right.” UC Davis published the task force findings and recommendations online a day after a judge approved its release without the names of most officers involved in the clash. The report was originally set for release March 6, but the union sued to keep the document under wraps. It claimed the report contained confidential personnel records that should not be publicly released under state law.
RWANDA GENOCIDE Continued from page 5 “It suffered an enormous blow to its credibility and effectiveness in the face of another genocide, the one we’re gathered to commemorate today,” she said, a reference to the U.N.’s failure to intervene and halt the Rwanda genocide. Rice reminded the gathered diplomats that the first inkling that a genocide had begun in Rwanda came when the U.N. peacekeeping mission chief, Canadian Maj.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, was called to the morgue room of a Kigali hospital. “In a dark room, the beam of his
BAYLOR BASKETBALL Continued from page 8 from 15 to 13 in 2011-12. On the men’s side, Drew will miss the first two Big 12 games of the season, recruiting visits were trimmed and he lost a scholarship this past season and in 2012-13. In addition, a former coach faces a one-year “show cause” order that effectively prevents him from coaching at an NCAA school. The assistant wasn’t identified, but FOXSports.com reported in October 2010 that the NCAA was investigating the recruitment of Hanner Perea. The report said assistant Mark Morefield sent dozens of texts to Perea’s AAU and high school coaches and urged two of them to provide false and misleading information to the NCAA about a series of text messages. Morefield resigned in July 2011. “I sincerely apologize to Baylor University and Baylor Nation,” Morefield said in statement released by his lawyer. “I learned a very valuable lesson in this case. In my 13 years of coaching at NCAA institutions, I have not intentionally violated NCAA rules. I will grow from this experience with a better understanding of NCAA rules.” The NCAA violations come nine years after Baylor basketball player
Patrick Dennehy was found shot to death after he had been missing for six weeks. Teammate Carlton Dotson pleaded guilty to murder. The ensuing investigation uncovered NCAA violations, illegal tuition payments and unreported failed drug tests that led to the resignation of coach Dave Bliss, who was secretly recorded by an assistant coach of trying to persuade others to cover up misdeeds by portraying Dennehy as a drug dealer. Athletic director Ian McCaw said the school has made “significant investments in compliance staffing and infrastructure” since the investigation began. Drew said he took full responsibility for the violations, saying many were simply the result of improperly logging or failing to log calls to recruits. He noted that the school has a new software tracking system to assist coaches with the logistics. “I came to Baylor in 2003 to do a job: rebuild a program decimated by very serious NCAA rules violations and tragedy,” he said. “I promised to rebuild the program in a way Baylor could be proud — morally, academically and, finally, athletically, and we continue on that journey today.”
flashlight revealed what was left of 10 Belgian peacekeepers, mutilated beyond recognition. In the same hospital, 100 times that number of innocent Rwandans lay dead. And this was just the beginning.” Rwanda’s genocide began hours after a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana was mysteriously shot down as it approached the capital, Kigali, on April 6, 1994. The 100-day slaughter, in which more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority were killed by Hutu extremists, ended after Tutsi-led rebels ousted the extremist Hutu government that orchestrated the killings. Rwanda’s U.N. Ambassador Eugene-Richard Gasana said that “Genocide is a meticulously thoughtout atrocity, harbored in the minds and hearts” of the perpetrators, and rehearsed on various occasions: in 1959, when thousands of Tutsis were killed and driven from their homes, again in the 1960s, and in 1973, when young Tutsis were killed in their schools. It all led to the “1994 apocalypse,” he said. Gasana warned against genocide denial and trivialization, and appealed for the arrest and trial of Rwandan killers who have found shelter in other nations, where they have become politically active and propagandized against the history of Rwanda's slaughter. In a taped message, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was en route to Europe, said: “To those who persist in suppressing their fellow citizens, who cry out for dignity and freedom, we send a clear message: Justice must be done.” “Our eyes will never be closed again,” promised the General Assembly’s president, Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser.
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CIVIL ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. GS014012 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of: Ping Zhao for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Ping Zhao filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Allison Yen Vu to Allison Zhao The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing: Date: 04/26/12, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: A The address of the court is 300 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, CA 91101 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Los Angeles Watts Times Date: Mar 13, 2012 Mary Thornton House Judge of the Superior Court 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12/12 CNS-2281658# WATTS TIMES
FIRST LADY Continued from page 4 “There is so much more to do,” she said. “It’s a time for us to redouble our efforts.” Paul Rieckhoff, executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, attended the White House event, and said afterward that while the first lady’s campaign has been a welcome effort, many veterans of the two conflicts still aren’t feeling its impact. He credited the first lady for bringing new attention to the needs of military families and veterans but said much more needs to be done to make sure promised jobs actually are delivered and to address the rising suicide rate among veterans, an issue he said the White House has shied away from. “Mowing lawns for military families is great, but we’ve also got a spiking suicide rate,” he said. Reichoff said the White House would have to carefully navigate how to push the program in an election year without allowing it to become bogged down by partisanship. “It’s a very complicated dance to do, especially in an election year,” he said. Handled right, though, the initiative can be boost for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, offering the administration a patriotic platform that's guaranteed to be popular even if the war in Afghanistan is not. After the White House event, Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, the wife of the vice president, set out on a two-day anniversary tour with stops in Pennsylvania, New York, Louisiana and Florida to celebrate all things military and announce two milestones for the campaign: — A commitment by more than 150 nursing organizations and hundreds of nursing schools to train current and future nurses on how to recognize and care for those with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. The injuries have affected 1 in 6 of the troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq — more than 300,000 veterans. — The hiring of the 50,000th person under the president’s pledge last summer to promote the employment or training of 100,000 more veterans and military spouses by the end of 2013. Because military families move around so much, it can be hard for spouses to find and keep good jobs. Companies
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NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, sealed Bids for the following Work:
provided in Section 3.1 of the General Conditions. FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS.
MODULAR BUILDING FOR THE INTERIM FIREBOAT STATION NO. 20 AT PIER D, BERTH D34 LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S2459
NIB -5 Contractor’s License. Each Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class ” A” California Contractor’s License to bid this Project.
Bid Deadline:
Prior to 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Bid packages will be time/date stamped on the 4th floor or in the Lobby and shall be submitted prior to 10 a.m.
Place for Submission of Bids: 1. By Delivery Any Calendar Day Before the Bid Deadline Harbor Department Administration Building 4th Floor, Plans and Specifications/Program Management Office 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 2. By Delivery on the Same Calendar Day as the Bid Deadline Harbor Department Administration Building Ground Floor Lobby 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 Bid Opening: As soon as practical after the Bid Deadline Harbor Department Administration Building 6th Floor Board Room 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 Contract Documents Available: Date/Time: Beginning Thursday, April 12, 2012 Monday –Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Location: Harbor Department Administration Building 4th Floor, Plans and Specifications 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting: Date/Time: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 10:00 a.m. Location: 6th Floor Board Room Project Contact Person: Ann Tobin, Fax: 562-283-7352, email: tobin@polb.com NIB -1 Contract Documents. Copies of Contract Documents in DVD format may be obtained, at no cost, at the Plans and Specifications Office, 4th floor, Harbor Department Administration Building, 925 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, CA 90802 during the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. To arrange to receive a DVD of the Contract Documents by courier at the expense of the Bidder, call (562) 283-7353. For information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at http://www.polb.com/economics/contractors/out_for_bid.asp. Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at http://www.polb.com/economics/contractors/forms_permits/default.asp. NIB -2 Non-Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting. The engineering staff of the City’s Harbor department will conduct a pre-bid meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in the Board Room, 6th floor, of the Harbor Department Administration Building. Attendance is not mandatory, but highly recommended. Should a Bidder elect not to attend the pre-bid meeting, the Bidder shall not be relieved of its sole responsibility to inform itself of all conditions at the Project Site and the content of the Contract Documents. NIB -3 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: Supply of complete design of modular building, including stamped and signed drawings by California Professional Registered Engineers in the appropriate disciplines for all applicable disciplines. Obtain all permits required for installation and occupancy of the modular building. Supply of the complete modular building fully compliant with the technical specifications of the bid documents and installation of the modular building at Berth D34. The site work, site utilities and connection of the site utilities to the single point of connection at the modular building, relocation of the standby generator and connection of the relocated standby generator to the automatic transfer switch at the modular building will be performed under a separate contract. NIB -4 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Work shall be completed within 180 calendar days as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as
have pledged to hire 160,000 more veterans and spouses in coming years. The first lady also will talk up the program Wednesday night on Stephen Colbert’s TV show, “The Colbert Report.”
NIB-7 SBE/VSBE. The Port has established a Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program to encourage small business participation on construction contracts. Although an SBE/VSBE participation goal was not assigned to this contract, the Port strongly encourages all bidders to include such participation wherever possible, by utilizing small and very small business subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers. The Port also strongly encourages SBE/VSBE firms to respond to this solicitation as prime contractors. NIB -8 Prevailing Wage Rates and Employment of Apprentices. This Project is a public work as defined in Labor Code Section 1720. The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/DPreWageDetermination.htm. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices. NIB -9 Trade Names and Substitution of Equals. With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item is of equal quality to the item specified, thirty five (35) calendar days after Bid Opening. Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City. NIB -10
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NIB -11 Bid Security, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City. NIB -12 Conditional Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity. The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder. NIB -13 Period of Bid Irrevocability. Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds shall be guaranteed for ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first. NIB -14 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. Issued at Long Beach, California, this 26th day of March, 2012. J. Christopher Lytle Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California
NEW CLOCK Continued from page 4 “I wanted to make something that would essentially force me to get out
CONGO PRESIDENT Continued from page 4 Ntaganda’s arrest since the International Criminal Court convicted another Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga last month of using child soldiers, the first judgment in the court's 10-year history. The ICC prosecutor stepped up the pressure against Congo last month after
NIB -6 Contractor Performed Work. The Contractor shall perform, with its own employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 50% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract and the amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City in the Schedule of Bid Items.
Lubanga’s conviction, saying he would travel there to press Kabila to hand over Ntaganda. Moreno-Ocampo also has said that he plans to add charges of murder and rape to Ntaganda's indictment, a move that was welcomed by human rights groups.
of bed when I wanted to get out of bed the night before,” said Sammut. “And I was thinking about ways of doing it and I thought about how in high school I had the perfect solution to this, which was my mother, and how she would, if it was time for me to wake up, she would force me out of bed.” He built the prototype in his spare time and uses it every day. “Now I wake up before it goes off,” said Sammut. “I subconsciously fear it and know I have to get up.” After a friend suggested he try and sell the device, he made a video
demonstrating it, and posted that on kickstarter.com. That’s a website where the general public can support creative ideas by investing in them financially. “We raised over $150,000 over a month and a half and we currently have over 400 orders,” said Sammut. Sammut has formed a company and is now trying to fill all the clock orders by the end of the summer. He acknowledges there is one way to stop the alarm without getting out of bed. “You could smash it,” said Sammut. But with a $350 price tag, that would be a really expensive way to sleep in.
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