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Toomey sponsors deficit measure

Hugs and a prize for Mia Farrow

Backers say the bill would balance the budget in nine years and avoid immediate radical change to Medicare and Social Security.

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The actress is embraced by singer Angela Brown before receiving the Marian Anderson Award on Tuesday at a Kimmel Center gala. She was honored for such efforts as fighting polio in Nigeria and genocide in Darfur.

Christie: GOP on its own in tax fight

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Skyler Kauffman’s mother, Heather Gebhard, gets hugs during a vigil Tuesday for the 9-year-old Montgomery County girl. Her body was found in a trash bin hours after she was reported missing Monday in Souderton.

Child once escaped suspected murderer Skyler Kauffman, 9, told police the man held her in his apartment.

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A year to the day after he proposed a “tool kit” of legislation intended to lower property taxes, Gov. Christie used his bully pulpit Tuesday to blast Democratic legislators for not taking action on the measures, while Democrats served up proHe had a posals of fiery town their own. hall talk in theDrawing most heatEvesham. ed rhetoric from the Republican at a town hall meeting in Evesham was the policy of paying local government and school district employees for unused sick and vacation time. Under the current system, the governor said, taxpayers might just as well hand cash to retiring workers. Workers “can have a little bag, like at a wedding, a little silk purse where they put each one of those checks from you,” See CHRISTIE on A9

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Officials investigate the trash bin where the body was found.

James Lee Troutman, below, who lives in the complex, was charged with first- and second-degree murder, kidnapping, and several sex crimes.

Skyler Kauffman

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Zoning overhaul is facing a threat

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Two city councilmen are moving to block its adoption unless the Northeast is exempt.

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Just when it seemed that the commission charged with overhauling Philadelphia’s antiquated zoning laws had won a broad consensus for a svelte, new 384-page codebook — regulating everything from parking to pasta manufacturing — two councilmen are moving to block its adoption unless the city’s Northeast neighborhood is exempt.

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She narrowly escaped what could have turned into a sexual assault only three weeks ago, investigators said. Monday, 9-year-old Skyler Kauffman wasn’t so lucky. Hours after discovering the Souderton girl’s bludgeoned and beaten body wrapped in a comforter and tossed into a nearby trash bin, police arrested the same 24-yearold neighbor who allegedly locked the girl in his apartment and threatened to expose himself to her last month. Now, he was charged with her murder. If police had only done something the first time, tragedy could have been prevented, said the girl’s mother, Heather Gebhard. Instead, she said, “they blew me off.” Prosecutors say they believe James Lee Troutman led the brown-eyed child who neighbors described as outgoing and friendly into a basement at the Souderton Garden Apartments just before 5 p.m. Monday. There, in the dark, he allegedly raped and See SKYLER on A4

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The Zoning Code Commission, which was created by public referendum in 2007, was to vote Wednesday morning on whether to wrap up four years of work and submit the proposed code to City Council for review. But the councilmen’s opposition now threatens to unravel the process — which could delay a finished code by at least five years. At-large Councilman Bill Green and Brian J. O’Neill, who have both served on the zoning code commission since its inception, say the current draft is still rife with defects and needs substantial revision, particularly in those See ZONING on A4

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WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey and a group of fellow conservative Republican senators proposed a plan Tuesday that would balance the federal budget within nine years while avoiding for now radical changes to Medicare and Social Security that could be political poison. The plan was announced as congressional leaders prepared to meet with White House negotiators on raising the ceiling Sen. Pat Toomey on the govern- on Senate plan: ment’s ability to “Deficits are borrow. GOP offi- not inevitable.” cials, including House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, are insisting on deep permanent cuts in future spending in exchange for a vote to increase the debt limit, which the administration says will be needed by sometime this summer. Toomey, who has emerged as a GOP leader on fiscal policy in his first term, said he hoped to show it was possible to balance the budget without raising taxes or making apocalyptic cuts. “Deficits are not inevitable; they can be stopped if we in Congress have the will,” Toomey said. In the proposal, federal spending would be lowered to 18.5 percent of gross domestic product by 2021, down from an estimated 25 percent today. The national debt, now projected to reach 69 percent of the economy’s total output by the end of this year, would be reduced to 52 percent of GDP by 2021. Toomey’s proposal differs from the House-passed GOP budget plan See TOOMEY on A8

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Richard Scrushy liked Chagall, and Miro, not to mention Picasso. Or his wife did. Or maybe an adviser. Whichever, the art collection of the now-jailed former CEO of HealthSouth — known in Birmingham, Ala., as “our Bernie Madoff” — will be auctioned off at 2 p.m. Sunday at Freeman’s in Philadelphia, after being exhibited at the auction house through Saturday. “An infamous name is, I think, helpful in bringing attention to the fine art,” said Anne Henry, Freeman’s modern and contemporary art specialist. “And the objects speak for themselves.” Proceeds will go to HealthSouth and its shareholders, who won a $3 billion civil judgment against Scrushy in 2009 and have been seizing and selling everything from “the $5 million lake house to the $3 lampshade” to recoup the money, See AUCTION on A9

It will sell a trove of stunning art from a jailed former CEO.

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Philadelphia! My Philadelphia! Rise up and hear the bells! We are getting a poet laureate! Camden, home of Walt Whitman, will shame us no more. Mayor Nutter recently announced that Philadelphia — city of clamorous larynx and dexterous middle digits! — will establish through its Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy an official Poet Laureate program. Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer, who will chair the planning committee, “hopes the poet laureate can be announced sometime this fall.” When Nutter first assumed office three years ago, before the economy imploded and governing became the business of cuts and saying no, and beauty languished, he was big on the arts. Also, fun. The mayor hosted screenings of Sex and the City and The Wire. These works tackled dating, violence, and cruel, costly shoes, but where was the splendor, the sensitivity, the subtle majesty of the English language? True, Phila-

delphians have been known for their oratorical creativity (see Rizzo, Frank, the father), but still. Philadelphia, we sometimes forget, is poetry itself: Shall we compare thee to South Street on a summer morn? Two roads diverged in Center City, the bike and car lanes, I took the one less traveled by. Volumes could be written about the transcendence of the Phils’ pitching rotation. I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as Cliff Lee. Philadelphia is rich in material waiting to be mined. Where is our “Howl”? The job of poet laureate is not without risks, politics, or even litigation. Samuel Hazo was Pennsylvania’s first state poet. He was also our last and only, holding the job for less than a decade until 2003, when his services were no longer required. New Jersey’s poet laureate program was more incendiary, lasting all of three years. Amiri Baraka was halfway

through his tenure when he was excoriated for his Sept. 11 poem, “Somebody Blew Up America.” Then-Gov. Jim McGreevey tried to fire Baraka, but found no provision to do so. Ultimately, the state Senate abolished the post — also in 2003, a bad year for laureates. The termination inspired four years of legal prose, the case appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a turn of “poetic” justice, in 2004 McGreevey resigned after becoming embroiled in a controversy involving adviser Golan Cipel, who self-published a book of poetry. Pennsylvanians may joke about New Jersey, but the state has produced many of the nation’s greatest poets: Whitman, Allen Ginsberg (author of “Garden State”), William Carlos Williams, C.K. Williams, Stephen Crane, Joyce Kilmer, and Robert Pinsky, as well as rock bard Bruce Springsteen. Philadelphia is home to many accomplished poets, including Daisy Fried, Bob Perelman, Yolanda Wisher, Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Gregory Djanikian, and many others. The committee might consider hybrid artists, such as dancer/poet Plumdragon-

A portrait of Walt Whitman, one of New Jersey’s many famous poets. Now, Philadelphia plans to honor a poet of its own.

ess of Poet Tree in Motion, or performance poet/artist/siren Ursula Rucker because it would be kind of wonderful to have a poet laureate also known as Supa Sista. Other nontraditional candidates include Schoolly D, The Roots’ Black Thought, or Jill Scott. Blunt, straighttalking Philadelphia lends itself to Ogden Nash-style doggerel, the sort of insights perfected by Bill Cosby, who has never been one to hold

his tongue. The committee will weigh the poet laureate’s duties — an ode to the budget? a quatrain for the Mummers? — and compensation, and whether, given the economy, the funds will be privately raised. Already, though, there’s some suggestion that the committee may seriously consider celebrated poet Sonia Sanchez, who read last week at City Hall when the laureate program was announced.

Steuer noted that Sanchez was not named to the planning committee, comprising novelist Lorene Cary, Free Library Director Siobhan Riordan, and Kelly Writers House’s Al Filreis, among others, so she could be considered for the post. But selecting a poet laureate, as recent history demonstrates, is not without risk. Poets are, by nature, outsiders and are prized for their honesty and free expression. Sanchez, a spirited civic leader and arguably the city’s most honored poet, is a supporter — as is Rucker — of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the third rail of Philadelphia politics. There’s always the potential that a poet will be inspired by the city’s conflicts, its most troubling moments, rather than, say, the glory of Fairmount Park. As Steuer tells me, “Art can always be dangerous.” Indeed, the best art often is. Have a poem about Philadelphia? Contact columnist Karen Heller at kheller@phillynews.com or 215-854-2586. Read her blog posts on Blinq and her work at www.philly.com/KarenHeller. Follow her at Twitter @kheller.

A social Web network giving users control By John Timpane

ful use of the Web. It’s social media, but with a hen Jason Rosenthal, difference. For one thing, it’s chief executive of not free; you pay for it. For Ning.com, says, “We another, Ning and services think it’s the next thing,” he’s like it put more power in the speaking of more than just hands of their users: Think of Ning, his growing Web compa- the difference between creatny. And more than just the ing a Facebook page and creWeb itself. ating your own Facebook. He’s talking about society, “A big part of the value of how people organize around Ning,” says Rosenthal, “is the shared interests. He’s talking control we give users.” You about our growing ability — create the look of your site. anyone’s — to craft a custom You can ask profile questions universe of our own design. when people sign up to see The Web service called whether you want them as Ning (Chinese for “peace”) is part of the community. You less well-known than Face- can control what’s shared, book and Twitter. Whereas charge membership or ser250 million people use Face- vice fees, have commercials book, Ning says it comprises and sponsors, and make the more than 90,000 individual group as private as you want. networks or sites, which have Even so, there are limits. 60 million active users on a “We leave most community monthly basis. But — along guidelines to the users,” with analogous services such Rosenthal says, “but we won’t as Spruz, Flux, MZinga, Hive do any porn, anything unconLive, and others — Ning rep- stitutional, anything illegal. resents a growing and power“You see activists of all INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

sorts using it,” he says, “from nonprofits to politicians. Businesses and brands. Lots of artists and musicians, such as 50 Cent, Incubus, and Linkin Park, use it. A huge number of educators and teachers use it to connect with students, students’ parents, or other teachers and researchers.” Ning says its biggest use is for education networks, at 16 percent of its sites. Other leading uses involve entertainment and music, at 11 percent. Activism/nonprofit use is at 9 percent, as is business and professional use, and religion is at 6 percent. Ning played a role in organizing local and national political groups throughout the country during the 2010 election campaign. Parties and candidates used Ning as a virtual campaign and fund-raising office. Although both parties had Ning networks, media attention was especially drawn to the brilliance and precision

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of its use, especially on the local level, by Republican and tea party candidates. A Ning group titled the Brown Brigade was credited with organizing support and channeling resources for then-U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown, who eventually won Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s long-Democratic seat in 2010. Ning doesn’t always help you win — Joe Sestak had a Ning site, as did Mike Castle of Delaware — but several winning candidates have given it a lot of credit. And subgroups can form within communities and bud off into their own Nings. A women’s Ning group is titled Political Voices of Women. Black Republicans have created an Internet TV network, HipHop Republican Tv (sponsored by, among others, Ford and Olive Garden). Philadelphia Ning sites range from the nonprofit Philly Wellness Association, a clearinghouse for the holistic-

health community (600 members), to Matrix Fights, which promotes martial arts, to J Zone Entertainment, a “Spotlight on Philly Jazz, Latin, Soul and Gospel.” James Dennis, chief executive of J Zone, says: “I’m trying to cover the local jazz and live-music scene in Philly, which needs a shot in the arm. I’m just a cat trying to make things better for younger musicians coming up.” Dennis and J Zone have worked with the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts (which has its own Ning site) to connect and promote artists and fans. He credits Ning with helping to organize galas for Philly musicians such as Charles Fambrough and Odean Pope. “The Internet is going to be about being social and being mobile,” Rosenthal says. Creators of Ning sites can stay in touch with their websites while on the go. So can members.

Is it all upside? Jared Keller, associate editor of the Atlantic Wire site, says he prefers open, public social media such as Facebook and Twitter to build-your-own networks: The former “allow people to expose themselves to new information and new points,” while the latter make it too “easy to surround oneself in an echo chamber of Twitter friends and media outlets that reflect and reinforce one’s preexisting views. … After a while, people become so complacent in their cocoons it’s impossible to reason with them.” Rosenthal thinks the movement toward social and mobile media can’t be stopped: “People are reinventing the Web to be a social experience, one they control as they move forward.” Contact staff writer John Timpane at 215-854-4406, jt@phillynews.com, or on Twitter at @jtimpane.

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By Robert Field, professor of law and public health at Drexel University: o you know anyone who died of polio or from a cup of water? If you live in America, probably not. But in many countries, such tragedies are still common. We in the United States owe our good fortune to the work of public health. It protects our health and well-being on a national scale. Public health is different from health care. The latter is the range of services we receive from doctors, nurses, and others. They work to keep us well and treat us when we become sick. Public health treats the entire population. It searches for underlying causes of disease, like contaminated drinking water, infected mosquitoes, and airborne germs. And it devises ways to protect us from them, like water treatment, insect control, and vaccination. Thanks to public health, we can drink from the kitchen sink without fear of cholera or play outdoors in the summer without fear of yellow fever. In fact, public health does much more to keep us healthy than individual health care. That is true even when you consider all of the miracle treatments of modern medicine. It’s not that health care isn’t vitally important. It’s that public health is even more so. Public health is the main reason that life expectancy in the United States has risen from 47 years in 1900 to 78 today. You can think of public health as similar to national defense. When it works well, it’s invisible in our lives, so much so that we tend to take it for granted. But if we let down our guard, we are at the mercy of forces intent on doing us great harm. In the last few years, those forces have included SARS, tuberculosis, West Nile virus, and bird flu. It wasn’t always this way. In the 19th century, Americans faced many of the same disease threats as people all over the globe. By freeing us from these dangers, public health has changed our lives. And for all of this, only a tiny fraction of our national health budget goes to public health, about 3 percent. Without question, this is the best bargain anywhere. Yet, many in Congress want to slash even this minuscule investment. The continuing resolution passed in April to keep the government from closing cut almost $2 billion from two of the most important federal public health agencies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources and Services Administration. The budget resolution that the House passed for next fiscal year cuts an additional 13.5 percent. And the House has voted to eliminate funding for prevention programs and school health clinics under the health-reform law. Could anything be more shortsighted? The effect of these cuts on the deficit would be infinitesimal. But we will pay for the consequences, in more sickness and higher costs for health care for many years to come. Military threats would abound without strong national defense. Diseases and other health threats would do exactly the same without strong public health. Think about that the next time you drink a cup of water.

Fox Chase study finds more evidence that it could prevent or slow the disease. By Stacey Burling

tree in 400 B.C. to relieve pain. In 1897, a chemist at Baynew Fox Chase Cancer er & Co. synthesized a stable Center study provides form of the active ingredient: more evidence that aspiacetylsalicylic acid. Aspirin berin has cancer-fighting propcame available without a preerties. scription in 1915. With all the superexpenBecause of its broad efsive, highly targeted cancer fects, Ford said, “aspirin is drugs that have emerged in probably the most fascinating recent years, it may come as over-the-counter drug that a surprise that a cheap, overthere is.” However, she addthe-counter drug might preed, many think it could not vent or slow cancer. get FDA approval now beBut Mark Buyyounouski, a cause of its side effects. Fox Chase radiation oncoloBuyyounouski said it was gist who looked at the impact not clear why aspirin might afof aspirin on prostate cancer Mark Buyyounouski, a radiation oncologist, looked at the impact fect cancer, but there is evipatients, said scientists had of aspirin on prostate cancer patients who had radiation. dence that its anti-inflammatobeen studying aspirin and ry properties might play a role. cancer since the 1970s. Does this mean that people The cancer society does not It may also encourage apoptoSeveral recent studies have should take aspirin to pre- currently recommend taking sis, or the programmed death found an association between vent cancer or slow it down? aspirin for cancer, he said. of cancer cells. taking aspirin and a lower risk Buyyounouski says no, and ofJacobs said the new Fox Timothy Rebbeck, associof some cancers or cancer-re- ficials from the National Can- Chase study should be “inter- ate director for population scilated death, but scientists, in- cer Institute and the Ameri- preted cautiously because ence at the University of cluding Buyyounouski, say the can Cancer Society agree. this is an observational study, Pennsylvania’s Abramson evidence is too weak to sugWhat his study may mean, not a randomized trial.” Cancer Center, said the idea gest that people start taking Buyyounouski said, is that “if Mounting the kind of large that aspirin could fight canthe drug for cancer. Aspirin you’re taking aspirin already randomized trial of aspirin cer was “plausible and intercan cause serious side effects: and you have prostate can- for cancer that researchers esting” given the growing foulcers and bleeding. cer, you may get double duty want won’t be easy. Because cus on inflammation and canBuyyounouski analyzed a da- out of it.” aspirin is already cheap and cer. But, he said, it’s “not comtabase of 2,000 men who had The cardiovascular benefits easy to get, the pharmaceuti- pletely clear” that aspirin afradiation treatment for pros- of taking aspirin after a heart cal industry is unlikely to fects any form of cancer. tate cancer between 1989 and attack or stroke are well-estab- fund such a trial. That leaves Experts said the evidence 2006. Aspirin users were less lished, but its impact on can- the government. was strongest for colorectal likely to have a recurrence, as cer is much murkier, said Eric Leslie Ford, associate direc- cancer. “There’s now very measured by rising prostate- Jacobs, strategic director of tor of clinical research in the strong evidence that long-term specific antigen (PSA) levels. pharmacoepidemiology for NCI’s cancer-prevention divi- daily aspirin does lower the Ten years after treatment, the cancer society. He re- sion, said a cancer-preven- risk of colorectal cancer and 31 percent of the 761 men who turned Tuesday from a trip to tion trial likely would take 10 probably esophageal cancer as took aspirin during or after London to discuss an interna- years. “It is a topic for discus- well,” the cancer society’s Jaradiation had developed a re- tional consensus statement on sion,” she said, but NCI wants cobs said. “There is much less currence compared with aspirin and cancer. Those who to have a better understand- conclusive evidence … about 39 percent of nonaspirin us- attended will now try to calcu- ing of why aspirin might af- certain other cancers, for exers. The aspirin users also late the risks and benefits of fect cancer and who is at ample stomach cancer and were 2 percent more likely to aspirin for different cancers. greatest risk for side effects lung cancer.” Studies have survive the disease after 10 Even a baby aspirin a day before embarking on such an been mixed, he said, for breast years, although that finding can lead to fatal stomach bleed- ambitious project. and prostate cancer. was not quite statistically sig- ing, Jacobs said. Complications Aspirin has a long history. nificant. Buyyounouski said are most common in the elder- Hippocrates, the famed Greek Contact staff writer Stacey the survival difference might ly, the group also most likely to physician, reputedly used the Burling at 215-854-4944 or widen with longer follow-up. suffer from prostate cancer. bark and leaves of the willow sburling@phillynews.com. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

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Christie Continued from A1 he told an audience of several hundred people at the Blue Barn recreation center. Last year, Democrats passed a bill to cap payments at $15,000, but Christie conditionally vetoed it, saying he wanted to get rid of the compensation. Democrats have drafted a compromise bill that would cap payouts at $7,500, but he did not mention it at the town hall. Though Christie noted that only four of his more than 20 proposals have become law, Democrats have argued that many of the remaining bills would not affect property taxes. And two significant measures — to mandate that public employees pay more toward their pension and medical benefits — are being negotiated behind the scenes by the staffs for Christie and State Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D., Gloucester), both sides have said. Enacted tool kit measures hold property-tax increases to 2 percent, with some exceptions; cap raises that arbitrators can award to members of public-safety unions; give permission for colleges and universities to pool resources for insurance; and allow outside groups to file complaints about unfair mandates on local government. But the fruits of bipartisan cooperation in this election season, when all legislative seats are up for a vote, were not discussed Tuesday. In Trenton, Democrats said Christie’s effort to force employees to use banked time before they take new sick or vacation days was potentially illegal, and cited an opinion from the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services that said Christie’s proposal “raises due process and contractclause concerns.” And in Evesham, the governor fired a barrage of numbers at the audience, saying municipalities face sick-time and vacation payouts of $825 million. In Camden, he said, public workers are owed an estimated $23.2 million — the equivalent of $770 for each taxpayer in the city. Employees call such money the “boat check,” Christie

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SKYLER from A1 strangled her, banging her head against the concrete floor over and over again. And once he had disposed of her body, they said, he quietly crossed the small parking lot back to his apartment and sat down to dinner with his fiancee. Meanwhile, Kauffman’s mother, grandmother, and neighbors began a desperate search for a child whose body lay only yards away. And this bedroom community near the Montgomery-Bucks County James Lee Troutman was an line began to grapple with early focus of the police one of the most unnerving investigation, officials said. crimes it has seen in years. He reportedly confessed. “Things like this just don’t happen here,” said neighbor BUCKS MILES COUNTY DAVID SWANSON / Staff Photographer Corey Wagner, hugging her N own 2-year-old daughter to Gov. Christie at the Blue Barn recreation center in Evesham. 0 1/2 her hip. “I just don’t know said, because they can use it His tax plan, which has been what to think.” Souderton to buy a boat. drafted into legislation but not Troutman, whose only 309 CO Garden UN Then he turned to the yet introduced, is similar to known previous arrest was TY Apartments LIN state’s tax on gas, which he those in many states and for shoplifting, was charged ER MA said one Democrat has pro- would allow people to pur- with first- and second-degree D. IN . ST ST D posed raising. “I’m the only chase better homes as proper- murder, kidnapping, and sev. A O BR thing standing in between ty taxes declined, Greenwald eral sex crimes. He was ar[the Democrats] and your wal- said. It also would more fairly raigned at a hearing Tuesday Souderton let,” he told his audience. distribute the tax burden and afternoon held at the district SO UD Assembly Democrats said provide relief for seniors and court across the street from ER TO Tuesday that they did not younger families, he said. the apartment where Skyler N PIK MONTGOMERY have plans to raise the gas He said that Christie’s tool-kit lived with her mother and E C O U N T Y tax, which is among the low- reforms involving shared servic- grandmother. The heavyset est in the nation. es, pensions, and health bene- man wearing a rumpled black Assemblyman Louis D. fits were not enough to reduce T-shirt and jeans said little as N.J. BUCKS 611 N Greenwald (D., Camden) of- property taxes, which he called Magistrate Judge Kenneth COUNTY MILES fered a different approach to “the most discriminatory tax in Deatelhauser denied him 202 Area of 0 10 protecting taxpayers’ wallets. the country.” bond. detail At a Budget Committee hearWhen asked about GreenWhen investigators led 476 422 ing, Greenwald proposed allow- wald’s proposal later in the Troutman to an awaiting MONTGOMERY ing residents in New Jersey’s day — during a news confer- squad car, a crowd of resi- CHESTER 276 COUNTY 566 towns to vote on whether ence at the new Virtua Hospi- dents and onlookers that had COUNTY E RNPIK PA. TU their municipalities should be tal in Voorhees, set to open grown throughout the day un95 PHILA. allowed to impose local sales May 22 — Christie called it “a leashed its fury. PA. and income taxes of up to 1 monumentally stupid idea” “Burn in hell,” one man 676 202 percent each. Any resulting in- and vowed to veto the mea- yelled. Others hurled obscenicrease in revenue, he said, sure if it crossed his desk. ties as Troutman ducked his The Philadelphia Inquirer would trigger a corresponding New taxes are not the an- head and covered his face. decrease in property taxes. swer, he said. Across the street, officers naked women, the girls reIn addition, Greenwald’s “Most New Jerseyans would continued to block off the portedly told police. plan would reduce the state agree that we are taxed basement where Skyler spent He allegedly let them go sales tax to 6 percent from 7 enough, and now we need to the last minutes of her life, only after one of the girls bepercent. be taxed less,” he said. her blood still pooled on the gan screaming. Although ofThe state has an “addiction” floor, spattered across a near- ficers interviewed Troutman to property taxes to fund Contact staff writer Matt Katz at by water heater and streaked at the time, no charges were schools and local government 609-217-8355, along a path leading from the filed. And despite criticism operations, he said at the hear- mkatz@phillynews.com or building to the trash bin from the family Tuesday, auing, where several mayors testi- @mattkatz00 on Twitter. Read where she was found hours thorities defended that decified about their struggles in the “Christie Chronicles” blog at after Gebhard first reported sion. keeping those taxes down. her missing. “You have to have a crime philly.com/christiechronicles. “The child obviously strug- take place in order to file gled,” Souderton Police Chief charges,” Montgomery Counthe Delaware River Waterthe Delaware waterfront. James P. Leary said. ty District Attorney Risa Clearing the Record front Commission. A lighted ¢ Troutman became an early Vetri Ferman said. “Everyone The “Changing Skyline” col- screen by artist Dick Torchia A story Friday incorrectly focus of the investigation, did what they were supposed umn on the Race Street Pier, will be located on the west- reported details of the testi- Leary said. to do and unfortunately it published Friday in Home & facing side of the Race Street mony of a woman who was Police had been called to wasn’t enough to prevent the Design, included incorrect in- highway overpass. The new raped inside a South Philadel- Souderton Gardens on April death of this child.” formation. Marilyn Jordan park is the second pier that phia coffee shop March 31. 18 after Skyler and a playBut once they had TroutTaylor serves on the board of the DRWC has landscaped on The woman testified that she mate reported that he had man in their sights this time, was raped after the man locked them in his apartment detectives acted quickly. 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blood on Troutman’s tennis shoes. He initially told them he had had a nosebleed, according to the probable-cause affidavit in his case. But detectives found more clothes saturated with blood in his apartment. Troutman’s fiancee told investigators she thought he had been working out at a nearby school at the time of Skyler’s disappearance. And while she had heard screams, “wailing” and “crashing sounds” coming from the communal basement they shared with three other units, she called Troutman and he assured her everything would be OK, she said according to the affidavit. When confronted with the mounting evidence against him, Troutman reportedly confessed. He told investigators he led the girl into the basement, strangled her, and then blacked out. “I got rid of her,” he is quoted as saying in the affidavit. “Once I took her down [there], I knew she could get me in trouble.” As details of the investigation trickled in throughout the afternoon, the crowd of neighbors gathered behind police lines continued to grow. Many had seen Troutman and his fiancee when they moved into the complex less than four months ago, but few claimed to have interacted with them at all. Tom DiNora III, 36, appeared upset as he struggled to keep tabs on his own 5-year-old daughter Maria, a frequent playmate of Skyler’s who scampered from stranger to stranger striking up conversations Tuesday. “I tell her the same thing I told Skyler when I would see her. You don’t go knocking on apartment doors of people you don’t know,” he said. “Now, I don’t know what to do now with my daughter.” Later that evening, nearly 150 — including Skyler’s parents and grandparents — gathered at a prayer vigil in downtown Souderton hoping to answer the same question about their own children. “She’s in heaven now,” said Gebhard, Skyler’s mother. “That’s all I can say. She’s safe.” Contact staff writer Jeremy Roebuck at 267-564-5218 or at jroebuck@phillynews.com. Staff writers Anthony Campisi, Larry King, and Peter Mucha contributed to this article.

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tion of writing or drawing messages to remember the little girl. More than a few drew Skyler engaged in one of her favorite pastimes: on the playground swings. “This is one of those days that you hope never happens,” Souderton Area Schools Superintendent Fred Johnson said. Trisha Williams said she met Gebhard when both were pregnant and later saw Gebhard almost monthly at family-building classes hosted by Grandview Hospital. Skyler, Williams said, was a leader, the type who preferred running up a slide to gliding down it. “She knew what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it,” she said. Neighbors at the complex also described the girl as fearless, saying she would sometimes run from unit to unit, knock on doors and strike up conversations with tenants. “She was very friendly, maybe too friendly,” said Tom DiNora III, 36, whose daughter played with Skyler. Another neighbor, Corey Wagner, saw the girl’s demeanor as refreshing. “She had a very strong personality,” Wagner said. Foland, the family friend from Telford, said he met an older man from the neighborhood Tuesday who Skyler and her friends regularly stopped by his house to run errands for or help him and his wife. “She was an angel,” Foland said. “She’s going to be taken care of.” Staff writers Jeremy Roebuck and Kristin E. Holmes contributed to this report. Contact staff writer John P. Martin at 215-854-4774 or at jmartin@phillynews.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court Tuesday ordered the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health-care system. In the strongly worded ruling, the Ninth Circuit court said it took the VA four years on average to fully provide the mental-health benefits owed to veterans. It often takes weeks for a suicidal vet to get a first appointment, a three-judge panel said. The “unchecked incompetence” in handling the flood of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental-health claims is unconstitutional, the court said in overturning a federal judge’s 2008 verdict. The court said one of every three soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan was treated by the VA for mentalhealth issues, including posttraumatic stress syndrome. The VA could ask the court to reconsider its decision, ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case, or abide by the ruling. VA spokesman Josh Taylor declined to comment, citing the pending litigation. — AP

U.S. to review 251 imperiled species

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Obama administration announced a deal Tuesday with environmentalists to work through a backlog of 251 imperiled animals and plants by 2016 and decide which merit greater protections. Most of them are likely to be proposed for threatened or endangered status if a federal judge approves the agreement, Interior Department officials said. The species to be reviewed range from the greater sage grouse and Canada lynx to 110 plants and 38 kinds of mollusks. That could lay the groundwork for future conflicts over industrial development, water management, and residential expansion. The deal would settle pending litigation between Interior and Denver-based WildEarth Guardians. — AP

Reinstated lesbian major will retire

SEATTLE — An Air Force Reserve flight nurse who sued to overturn her dismissal under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law against gays serving openly in the military said she was retiring with full benefits rather than resuming service. Maj. Margaret Witt, 47, served 18 years — two short of being eligible for full retirement — before being dismissed in 2006 for being gay. A federal judge ruled last fall that her dismissal failed to advance any legitimate military goals and violated her constitutional rights. The judge ordered that Witt be reinstated as soon as possible. Early this year, after President Obama signed a repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” Justice Department officials told Witt’s lawyers they planned to remove the discharge and credit her with two additional years of service, said Sarah Dunne, legal director for the ACLU of Washington, which represented Witt. The settlement was announced Tuesday. — AP

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EL PASO, Texas — President Obama visited the Southern border Tuesday to push for an overhaul of the immigration system, part of a renewed effort to shore up his standing among Latino voters and paint Republicans as hostile to a minority group that is a growing force in U.S. politics. Chances of passing an immigration bill are considered low, but the White House is taking steps to show it is not abandoning a goal that has its roots in Obama’s 2008 campaign. The president said his administration had made great strides in stopping immigrants from illegally crossing the Southern border, but he added that the problem required a “comprehensive” solution that would include a path to legal status for the estimated 11 million people living illegally in the United States. Asking the audience to pay special attention, he accused Republicans of moving “the goalposts.” “They said we needed to triple the border patrol,” said the president, addressing an enthusiastic outdoor crowd. “But now they’re going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol. Or they’ll want a higher fence. Maybe they’ll say we need a moat. Maybe they’ll want alligators in the moat. They’ll never be satisfied. And I understand that. That’s politics.” With Obama running for reelection, Republicans questioned the sincerity and timing of his immigration push. House Speaker John A. Boehner’s office said it had not heard from the White House on the issue. White House aides have not released a timetable for passing a bill or put forward a draft. What’s more, the political conditions for taking up an immigration bill are worse than in the first two years of Obama’s

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — At least 10,000 Syrian protesters have been detained in the last several days in a mass arrest campaign aimed at quelling a sevenweek uprising in Syria against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, activists said Tuesday, as security forces sent reinforcements to restive cities and towns across the country. The Syrian government widened its crackdown Tuesday to include more cities and towns. Activists in Syria said army troops, backed by tanks, entered Hama, in central Syria, and several southern villages near Daraa, the impoverished and besieged town in a region known as the Houran that has become a symbol of the uprising. “The big question now is what’s next,” said Wissam Tarif, executive director of

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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a measure Tuesday imposing tight restrictions on abortions and making Indiana the first state to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. The group asked a federal judge to stop the cutoff.

the Latino vote in 2008. A Gallup poll released last month showed that his supLiberties Union and port among Latinos had fallNational Immigration Law en to 54 percent. But other Center had sued to stop polls show Latinos still prethe law, warning that its fer Democrats to Republiimplementation could cans by wide margins. lead to racial profiling. Disenchantment among Latinos comes from the Utah Assistant Attorney stalled immigration effort General Jerrold Jensen paired with aggressive desaid after the hearing portation policies. that the law was “fully In Obama’s first two constitutional” and that years in office, the United his office planned to States deported about “argue it vigorously.” 783,000 people, 19 percent The next hearing on the more than were deported in matter is set for July 14. the last two years of George — Associated Press W. Bush’s presidency. But even if he can’t retool the immigration system beillegal immigrants is purely fore the 2012 election, Obapolitical. The president ma can put Republicans in wasn’t able to pass his ver- an awkward spot, analysts sion of immigration reform say. when he had large DemoPressed by the tea party cratic majorities in the movement and conservaHouse and Senate because tive voters, Republicans of bipartisan opposition.” can ill afford to pass a bill Obama has refocused on that could be depicted as immigration at a moment providing “amnesty.” But when his approval rating opposing such legislation among Latino voters has be- further distances the party gun to slip, as it has among from Latino voters already other groups. disillusioned with the ReHe received two-thirds of publican brand.

Judge Blocks Utah Immigration Law A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a new Utah law that would have allowed police to check the citizenship status of anyone they arrest. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups issued his ruling in Salt Lake City hours after the law went into effect, saying there was sufficient evidence at least some portions of the legislation would be found unconstitutional. The American Civil presidency, when he was unable to get a bill passed. Republicans, who won a majority in the House in the 2010 midterm elections, have filled key committee posts with legislators who oppose a pathway to legal status, calling it “amnesty.” Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement: “The president’s push to legalize millions of

Insan, a Syrian human- heard Tuesday in several rights group. “They are southern villages, including about to announce victory, Inkhil, Dael, Jassem, Sanbut what will happen when amein, and Nawa. Activists they pull the troops out?” reported casualties though At least seven people the numbers were difficult were killed in to ascertain, givdemonstrations the difficulSyria is to be en Monday night ties in commu— three in replaced as a nication and Maadamiyah, a Syrian govcandidate for the Damascus subernment’s supurb, and four in the U.N. Human pression of inDeir al Zour, a dependent town in north- Rights Council. news-gathereastern Syria, ing. Phones he said. have been cut “The people are very an- in most besieged towns and gry and they swear they will cities. be protesting again,” a resiThe military operations dent who lives near Othman came as activists called for bin Affan mosque in Deir al daily protests on the FaceZour said by telephone. The book page of Syrian Revoluprotesters were killed in tion 2011, an Internet-based front of the mosque, which opposition group. security forces closed two “The Tuesday of solidarity weeks ago to worshipers to with prisoners of conscience prevent them from organiz- in the jails of the Syrian ing demonstrations. criminal regime,” the page Heavy gunfire was also said. “The demonstration

will continue every day.” U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the deployment of tanks and reports of shelling of residential areas in Syria were “alarming.” Her remarks came during a Security Council debate on the United Nations’ responsibility to protect civilians in armed conflict. Western diplomats said Tuesday that Kuwait was slated to replace Syria as a candidate for a seat on the United Nations’ top humanrights body in what would be a victory for rights groups and governments opposed to the crackdown. An intense behind-thescenes campaign has been waged to prevent Syria from being elected to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. This article contains information from the Associated Press.

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TRIPOLI, Libya — In a one-two punch against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, NATO warplanes struck a command center in the capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday after pounding regime targets around the besieged port of Misrata. Rebels hoped the stepped-up attacks could help extend some of their biggest advances to date, including a major outward push from Misrata. The opposition also said it made gains along a longdeadlocked front near the eastern town of Ajdabiya. Gadhafi, Libya’s autocratic ruler since 1969, has not been seen in public since one of his sons was killed in a NATO air strike April 30. A NATO official, Italian Brig. Gen. Claudio Gabellini, said

the alliance had no evidence to indicate whether Gadhafi was alive or dead. The rebels’ military spokesman, Col. Ahmed Bani, said opposition forces had pushed Gadhafi’s troops out of rocket range on the west side of Misrata and dislodged them from the airport after two days of battles, raising the prospect that the siege could be broken. Bani said rebels from Misrata and Zlitan, 35 miles west, had joined up to fight in close-range combat that rendered the regime forces’ long-range rockets useless. Speaking at the headquarters city of Benghazi, Bani said Gadhafi’s brigades were pushed about 10 miles back from Misrata’s airport. “The picture is looking good for us,” he said. In another boost to the opposition, the U.S. State De-

partment said the first load of nonlethal American military aid for the rebels landed Tuesday at the port in Benghazi. Spokesman Mark Toner said the shipment consisted of more than 10,000 meals, with further shipments of medical supplies, boots, and protective gear to arrive shortly. The delivery came ahead of planned meetings in Washington this week between U.S. officials and the head of the opposition Transitional National Council. The Libyan conflict, dating to mid-February, had seemed stalemated for more than a week, with most of the fighting along the border with Tunisia in the far west. The latest air strikes and overland advances may give the rebels new momentum in their

struggle to topple Gadhafi and win greater freedoms. NATO planes struck what the alliance called a command-and-control facility in downtown Tripoli early Tuesday, according to Gabellini. He denied that NATO was targeting Gadhafi. In eastern Libya, rebels reported advances near the oil oasis of Jalu and also between the towns of Ajdabiya and Brega after being bogged down on that front for weeks. Walid Mohammed, a rebel manning a checkpoint outside Ajdabiya, said some of his comrades had advanced about 20 miles toward Brega after what he described as the fiercest fighting in weeks on that battlefront. Brega has an oil terminal and Libya’s second-largest hydrocarbon complex.

With the trial of the American hikers held in Iran set to resume Wednesday, Amnesty International renewed an appeal on their behalf. Josh Fattal, a graduate of Cheltenham High School, and Shane Bauer, of Minnesota, both 28, have been imprisoned since their July 31, 2009, arrest on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan. A third hiker, Sarah Shourd, 32, was freed on bail in September for medical reasons and returned to the United States. The three say they were trekking in a tourist section near the unmarked border when they were seized by Iranian guards. Iran charged them with espionage. “Iran’s justice system has systematically failed to observe international fair-trial standards in this case, including giving the men adequate contact with their lawyer, families or consular assistance,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Program. “This … indicates that Iran has a political motive for holding them and has no intention of granting them a fair trial. … Holding foreign nationals with the sole purpose of seeking concessions amounts to hostage-taking,” Sahraoui said. — Michael Matza

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War-crimes trial is suspended

BUDAPEST, Hungary — The war-crimes trial of a Hungarian former gendarmerie officer was suspended Tuesday while doctors determine if he is well enough for the trial to continue. Sandor Kepiro, 97, is charged with involvement in the deaths of 35 people in the Serbian city of Novi Sad during an anti-partisan raid by Nazi-allied Hungarian forces in January 1942. Kepiro, who says he is innocent, looked frail and had trouble understanding what was being said. The judge and prosecutor both expressed doubts about whether he was fully aware of what was happening. — AP

‘Honor killings’ ruling is hailed

NEW DELHI — Rights groups in India on Tuesday hailed a Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a life sentence in an honor killing and recommended that lower courts consider the death penalty for perpetrators of such crimes, which it called “barbaric” and “feudal.” Most victims are young adults who fall in love or marry across caste lines. The high court, weighing in on the issue for the first time, on Monday affirmed a life term imposed on a man convicted of killing his daughter, but added that “people planning to perpetrate honor killings should know that the gallows await them.” “The government should now speed up legislation to punish not just killings, but all forms of social and economic crimes ordered by village councils against young adults wanting to get married to a partner of their choice,” said Kirti Singh, a women’s rights lawyer in New Delhi. — AP

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Egypt’s public prosecutor extended the detention of former President Hosni Mubarak for 15 days as part of investigations of allegations his administration was corrupt and ordered attacks on protesters.

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TOKYO — Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that Japan would abandon plans to build more nuclear reactors, saying his country needed to “start from scratch” in creating a new energy policy. Kan’s announcement came as Japan allowed residents of evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant to briefly revisit their homes for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March caused the nuclear accident. The decision will abandon a plan the Kan government released last year to build 14 more nuclear reactors by 2030 and increase the share of nuclear power in Japan’s electricity supply to 50 percent. Japan’s current 54 reactors supplied 30 percent of its electricity before the quake. Cancellation of the planned nuclear plants is the second time that Kan has suddenly announced big changes in nuclear policy without the endless committee meetings and media leaks that characterize the country’s consensus-driven decision-making. Kan appears to be seeking

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Kan said Japan would retain nuclear and fossil fuels as energy sources, but he vowed to add two new pillars to energy policy: renewable energy and conservation. While Japan has been a global leader in energy conservation, it lags behind the United States and Europe in adopting solar and wind power, and other new energy sources. “We need to start from scratch,” he told reporters. “We need to make nuclear energy safer and do more to promote renewable energy.” Kan had also previously called for Japan to sell its nuclear technology to emerging nations as a new source of export income. However, the Fukushima accident has prompted a global rethinking of nuclear energy and may drive customers away from Japanese suppliers to rivals in places such as South Korea. On Tuesday, Japan was reminded of the human costs of the disaster when a group of 92 people paid two-hour visits to their homes in the town of Kawauchi, within the 12-mile zone around the plant that was evacuated. The residents wore white anti-radiation clothing and traveled in buses under tight supervision by nuclear officials.

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bin Laden denounced violence of all kinds, a stance he repeated in the statement. None of Osama bin Laden’s innocence and the right to a sons other than Omar was By Scott Shane NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE fair trial were ignored. named in the statement, so it WASHINGTON — The “We maintain that arbitrary was not known exactly who adult sons of Osama bin Lad- killing is not a solution to po- else approved the message. en lashed out at President litical problems,” the state“We want to remind the Obama over their father’s ment said, adding that “jus- world that Omar bin Laden, death, accusing the United tice must be seen to be done.” the fourth-born son of our faStates of violating basic legal The statement, prepared at ther, always disagreed with principles by killing an un- the direction of Omar bin Lad- our father regarding any vioarmed man, shooting his fami- en, a son who long ago public- lence and always sent messagly members, and disposing of ly denounced his father’s ter- es to our father, that he must his body in the sea. rorism, was provided to the change his ways and that no In a statement they asked New York Times by Jean Sas- civilians should be attacked why the al-Qaeda leader “was son, an American author who under any circumstances,” not arrested and tried in a helped the younger Bin Lad- the statement said. court of law so that truth is en write a 2009 memoir, “Despite the difficulty of revealed to the people of the Growing Up bin Laden. publicly disagreeing with our world.” A shorter, slightly different father, he never hesitated to Citing the trials of Iraqi dic- statement was posted on a ji- condemn any violent attacks tator Saddam Hussein and hadist website Tuesday. made by anyone, and exSerbian leader Slobodan Omar bin Laden, 30, lived pressed sorrow for the vicMilosevic, the statement ques- with his father in Afghanistan tims of any and all attacks,” tioned “the propriety of such until 1999, when he left with the statement said. assassination where not only his mother, Najwa bin Laden, Condemning the wounding international law has been who cowrote the memoir. of one of the al-Qaeda leadblatantly violated” but the In the book and other pub- er’s wives during the assault principles of presumption of lic statements, the younger May 2 in Abbottabad, Paki-

stan, the statement added: “As he condemned our father, we now condemn the president of the United States for ordering the execution of unarmed men and women.” The statement called on Pakistan to hand over to the family the slain leader’s three wives and several children, now believed to be in Pakistani custody, and asked for a U.N. investigation of the circumstances of the killing. Sasson also shared with the Times notes on what Omar bin Laden, who declined to be interviewed directly, had told her by phone in recent days. The notes describe the younger bin Laden’s struggle, as he came of age, to understand and then reject his father’s embrace of religious violence. Omar bin Laden told Sasson the death of his father “has affected this family in much the same way as many other families in the past in the loss of a family member.”

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TUNICA, Miss. — The bulging Mississippi River rolled into the fertile Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, threatening to swamp antebellum mansions, wash away shotgun shacks, and destroy fields of cotton, rice, and corn in a flood of historic proportions. The river took aim at one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the country after cresting before daybreak at Memphis just inches short of the record set in 1937. Some low-lying neighborhoods were inundated, but the city’s high levees protected much of the rest of Memphis. President Obama declared Memphis’ Shelby County and surrounding counties disaster areas, making them eligible for federal aid. Over the last week or so in the Delta, floodwaters along the rain-swollen river and its backed-up tributaries have already washed away crops, forced many people to flee to higher ground, and closed some of the dockside casinos that are vital to the state’s economy. But the worst is yet to come, with the crest expected to roll through the Delta over the next few days. With hundreds of homes already damaged, “we’re going to have a lot more when the water gets to where it’s never been before,” said Greg Flynn, a spokesman for the Mississippi emergency management agency. Across the region, federal officials anxiously checked and reinforced the levees, some of which could be put to their sternest test ever. About 10 miles north of Vicksburg, Miss., contractors lined one side of what is known as a backwater levee with big sheets of plastic to keep it from eroding if

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GIFT from A1 great doctors” but previously have avoided medical school because of the heavy burdens of borrowing money to pay for a medical education. He also said the nation would need more doctors as a result of significant changes to the health-care system under the Obama administration. “It became apparent to me that the health care system was going to start changing drastically in the United States,” Perelman said. In a separate interview Tuesday, Gutmann said that after the papers were signed, champagne was uncorked, and participants made "a toast to Raymond and Ruth, and to a historic day for Penn and Philadelphia and the School of Medicine." Along with boosting recruitment and research, Gutmann said, the money will help students directly. Financial aid for medical students will increase 20 percent beginning in the next academic year as a result of the gift, Gutmann said. Gutmann said that after the

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ning to go to Pakistan to train with Islamist extremists. Five of the men, some of them French citizens, were arrested Monday night and Tuesday morning during police raids in Paris and in two of its heavily immigrant suburbs, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said. The sixth suspect was arrested Tuesday morning at Charles de Gaulle Airport as he arrived on a flight from Algeria. Gueant described him as the group’s leader and said he had “a high level of technical training.” News agencies reported that he was a native of India and an engineer. None of the suspects was named. There was no indication that the French arrests had any connection to intelligence gathered by U.S. troops from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. This article includes information from the Associated Press.

in a phone interview. “That has a lot to do with it, the comfort level. … Plus, Freeman’s results from Lehman’s were right on par.” (The LehContinued from A1 man’s sale set 50 world according to shareholder law- records for artists. There is yer John Q. Somerville of Bir- still more Lehman in Sunmingham. day’s sale, a massive 241-lot It is a coup for Freeman’s, auction of modern and conthe 206-year-old Chestnut temporary art, including 50 Street auction house where works by Philadelphia favorchairman Beau Freeman, 73, ite Bo Bartlett.) still wields a gavel, and which By the time Jones, Henry, last year auctioned off parts and others saw Scrushy’s art, of the vast Lehman Brothers most of the works had been collection, including Lucio stripped of their “proveFontana’s Concetto Spaziale nance” — the history of at $1.1 million, a Freeman’s where they’d been bought record. and sold over the years. In both high-profile collec“We had no idea what the tions — disgraced health-care history was,” said Somerville, executive and spectacularly who won the $3 billion judgfailed global financial-servic- ment. “They did it to reduce es firm — Freeman’s finessed the value of it, so we wouldn’t its way past the big New York want it, so we wouldn’t know houses to land the consign- what it was, so we wouldn’t ments. want to keep it. When we got And now, for the bidding the art, every single piece pleasure of the Philadelphia had labels missing.” region and the international HealthSouth removed art world, it presents the “Ri- Scrushy when he was chard Scrushy Collection,” 16 charged with accounting distinguished items, includ- fraud. He was acquitted, but ing a rare hand-washed and later convicted of unrelated -inked 1965 Picasso print (esti- charges of bribing Alabama’s mated value, $50,000 to governor for a seat on a state $80,000); a Renoir lithograph health board. Shareholders se($50,000-$80,000); another Pi- cured 25 percent of all liquidaJEFF ROBERSON / Associated Press casso print, Tete de Femme tion assets ($100 million so No. 5, ($30,000-$40,000); a far) with the rest going to Homes on Mud Island sit amid floodwater in Memphis. Although some low-lying sections of the city were engulfed, levees protected much of the rest. The river crested just short of the record. Patrick Hughes installation Scrushy-less HealthSouth. based on Piet Mondrian’s Without documentation, floodwaters flow over it as least 3 feet water, as were Cutoff. “We have no time work; a few Donald Roller Wil- Freeman’s had to embark on chimp p a i n t i n g s an extensive process of aufeared — something that dozens of other homes in the frame on how long we can s o n ($20,000), and a Chagall ink thentication, sending the art has never happened to the neighborhood. Nearby, his stay.” levee since it was built in brother Milton cast a fishing As Mitchell and friends sat and wash on paper, L’Echelle to artist’s boards worldwide to be validated, Jones said. the 1970s. rod. outside chatting in the Au Ciel, ($50,000-$70,000). All in all, a pretty good He first laid eyes on “At least we can catch some- breeze, children rode bikes In Vicksburg, at the southand tasteful haul from a Scrushy’s art in a Birmingern tip of the rich alluvial soil thing fresh to eat, because we nearby. in the central part of the ain’t got no icebox or electrici“Cutoff is a community man blamed for thousands ham hangar warehouse, stumstate, the river was projected ty,” he said with a smile. where everybody lives from of lost jobs and millions in bling upon Neat Piet, Patrick to peak Saturday just above Then the pair playfully debat- paycheck to paycheck,” Mitch- lost investments, now serv- Hughes 1939 3-D installation the record set during the cata- ed whether they would actual- ell said. “It’s also a communi- ing a seven-year sentence in of oil on folding boards that, (On T u e s d a y , viewed from the right angle, clysmic Great Flood of 1927. ly eat anything caught in the ty where everybody sticks to- T e x a s . Scrushy won reversal of two creates an illusion of standThe town was the site of a filthy floodwaters. gether.” pivotal Civil War battle and is “If you eat a fish right now, As the water rose, Mississip- convictions from his 2006 ing inside another gallery home to thousands of soldier you won’t live to see the wa- pi Gov. Haley Barbour moved criminal trial, while a U.S. showing Mondrian. (Estimatgraves. ter go down,” William Jeffer- furniture out of his lake appeals court affirmed four ed value: $20,000-$30,000). “I knew instantly it was house outside Vicksburg on other counts.) Wearing rubber boots and son said. “We went down last fall and right,” he said. “You just had Jimmy Mitchell, 46, and his family land that was inundatwatching fish swim up and down his street, William Jef- wife and two children have ed during the 1927 flood. A didn’t know what we’d be see- to be there. It was somewhat ferson stood on a high spot been living in a lent camper week ago, he urged residents ing in this big sprawling man- shocking to find these pieces in his neighborhood just out- for more than week at a civic to flee low-lying areas, saying sion,” said Henry. “We went in this random facility. These were some very important that the state would not assist through it room by room.” side Vicksburg. He said he arena in Tunica. The Picasso washed print pieces. It was surreal.” “There’s no sewage hook- the evacuations and that peohad not had a hot meal since Indeed — in content as well water started coming into up. You go in a barn to take a ple should help one another — Lot 7, Portrait de Femme de his house a few days ago. On shower,” said Mitchell, who is secure their property and get Profil — is the biggest prize. as discovery: A Salvador Dali “This will have people in watercolor, Paradiso, is valTuesday, the house was in at from the small community of out. the print world very excited,” ued at $40,000 to $60,000. said Henry. A linoleum cut “I think they [the Scrushys] print, with extensive hand In- did have somebody guiding dia inking, it is one of just six them correctly on some of the rincée impressions, experi- pieces,” said Jones. “They mentally rinsed by the artist. were very smart buys. Some “For a New York house, even, of it looks like they just liked onore, for the university’s ex- that would be a coup. It blurs them. But some were done isting Annenberg School of the distinction between print with an educated eye.” Communication and for the and drawing.” Freeman’s Henry says creation of the Annenberg How did Freeman’s land Scrushy was checking his list. Public Policy Center. the right to auction the art “I do think, at least from this In 2002, Mrs. Annenberg of Scrushy, some of which group … the most common made an additional $100 mil- had to be pried from the fin- thread is the blockbuster lion donation to the school gers of his wife, Leslie, who names of the 20th-century artand the center. stuck “Leslie Scrushy claims world, making sure he’s got The Perelmans recently an interest in this” stickers them all represented.” supported construction of the on virtually everything he The art, and many nonRuth and Raymond Perelman owned? (Leslie Scrushy Scrushy works including a Center for Advanced Medi- stickers were still on three Max Ernst oil on slate grattDAVID SWANSON / Staff Photographer cine and an endowed profes- Chagalls and a Miro last age titled Deux Oiseaux and Raymond Perelman, 93, at his home on Rittenhouse Square. He sorship in internal medicine. week, though her claims are valued at between $80,000 They have supported the long settled.) and $120,000, can be viewed said the gift was inspired by today’s changes in health care. Kimmel Center’s Perelman The answer may lie in the from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Perelmans made a $25 mil- and Gutmann said the dona- Theater, among many other soft-spoken, “let’s chat some Thursday and Friday and lion donation in 2005 for an tion would spur Penn for- beneficiaries. over a cup of tea” Southern noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at advanced medicine center at ward. Their $15 million gift en- charm of John P. Jones, who Freeman’s, 1808 Chestnut St. Penn, they and Penn officials “We will redouble our ef- abled the Philadelphia Muse- lives in Birmingham. Educatbegan discussing what the forts to make Penn a global um of Art to create the Ruth ed at New York University, Contact Inquirer staff writer Amy Perelmans might do next. model of a comprehensive ac- and Raymond G. Perelman he was hired a few years ago S. Rosenberg at 215-854-2681 or "I bounced possibilities off of ademic center, which inte- Building, an addition that to represent Freeman’s in the arosenberg@phillynews.com. him, and he suggested naming grates the most innovative reopened in 2007. Raymond Per- southeastern United States. the school of medicine," she search, education, and pa- elman is on the board of the Jones helped run the muchsaid.Perelman, who grew up in tient care for the betterment museum. publicized March “yard sale” Olney and graduated from of humankind,” they said. of items from Scrushy’s lavAlso on sale Sunday are Penn’s Wharton School in 1940, Before the Perelman gift, Contact staff writer Robert ish home in suburban Vesta50 works by is a trustee of Penn Medicine, the largest donation to the eMoran at 215-854-5983 or via Hills, which yielded more PAFA-educated artist Bo the umbrella organization for University of Pennsylvania bmoran@phillynews.com. than $200,000 (his son-in-law Bartlett. Read more at Penn’s medical school and its was the 1993 gift of $120 miland daughter showed up to www.philly.com/bartlett. hospital network. lion from publisher Walter An- Staff writer Joseph N. DiStefano buy some of Dad’s clothes.) In their statetment, Cohen nenberg and his wife, Le- contributed to this article. “I’m from here,” Jones said

Memphis was largely spared, but river may be saving the worst for last. By Holbrook Mohr and Shelia Byrd

In a new threat of retaliation, al-Qaeda warned that the United States had committed a “big mistake” and a “serious sin” in killing Osama bin Laden and called on Muslims to avenge his death. In a statement posted on the Internet, al-Qaeda’s official online media organization, Al-Fajr, said the American people “will pay the price” for the May 2 raid. It acknowledged that the U.S. president “is protected by armies,” but asked Americans, “Who will protect you from our assault?” It also urged Muslims to use bin Laden’s death as motivation to carry out attacks, according to a transcript provided Tuesday by SITE Intel, a group that monitors extremist messages. The statement was posted Monday on Islamic extremist websites. Meanwhile, French authorities reported the arrests of six men suspected of plan-

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ttorney General Eric Holder should either charge the CIA agents who participated in the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogation” program or end the long investigation. At this point, ending their ordeal seems the best course. First of all, in the wake of the worst attack on U.S. soil, one that killed close to 3,000 innocents, these men were participating in a program that had been vetted by the Justice Department and approved by their chain of command. Americans who believe waterboarding is torture may make a case for holding higher-ups accountable. But why make scapegoats of these six interrogators? There’s also a danger in one administration’s criminalizing the policies of its predecessors. What if the next attorney general decides that targeted assassinations, even of terrorist leaders, is illegal or against U.S. values? Should the members of SEAL Team Six one day be subject to prosecution for shooting an unarmed Osama bin Laden? Speaking of bin Laden, it’s believed that information leading to his location may have come from CIA interrogations of 9/11 orchestrator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others. In announcing bin Laden’s death, President Obama said, “Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who’ve worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. … They feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.” Will the pursuit of justice include indictments against six of those intelligence professionals? Not if the president, as he has before, accepts today’s political realities. That’s essentially what

Attorney General Eric Holder should charge CIA interrogators of al-Qaeda captives or end the long investigation. he did when the administration backed down amid growing opposition to plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and hold civilian trials for terror suspects. Imagine the outrage Obama would have to withstand were he to put the CIA interrogators on trial. Could any president expect to be reelected by boasting about taking out Osama while simultaneously putting on trial intelligence officers whose work may

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Derby had speed, excitement after all The animal kingdom taught us humans a lesson when a 20-1 longshot defied the odds and won the Kentucky Derby. Contrary to Bob Ford’s prediction of a slow race and his wish for “more excitement” at the event (“Not a lot of speed in this Kentucky Derby,” Friday), I believe that the unexpected drama and surprise ending captured viewers’ attention and created two new heroes (thoroughbred Animal Kingdom and jockey John Velazquez). When it comes to horse racing, a foregone conclusion is a bad bet.

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have led to the al-Qaeda leader? No charges were deemed warranted following an initial Justice Department investigation of the six CIA agents that ended in 2007. Holder, however, reopened the case in September 2009, and said almost a year ago that his special prosecutor was “close to the end of the time that he needs and will be making recommendations to me.” So make them. There should be no further delay. If there’s a case, prosecute the CIA agents to the fullest extent of the law. If not, dispel the cloud of suspicion that unjustly continues to hang over these six intelligence officers.

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hile it’s good to hear that Gov. Christie is busy working on a plan to fix the failing Camden school system, given the state’s track record it is hard to get excited about the state coming to the rescue again. Certainly, it is good to see Camden get any attention from Christie. Only months ago, he was telling the poor city that it should learn to stand on its own. Christie still hasn’t revealed exactly what he has in store for Camden schools. But after declaring this the year for education reform in New Jersey, he has waged an all-out assault on public schools with a push for vouchers and more charters. Newark public schools, though, have benefited lately from Christie’s interest. He recently accepted a $100 million matching grant for Newark schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and the governor helped select a new superintendent for that urban district. But by most accounts, Camden’s schools are worse than Newark’s. The South Jersey district has an abysmal graduation rate and has consistently failed to meet testing benchmarks in reading and math. Two of Camden’s high schools are ranked the worst in the state. Those conditions have led to urgent pleas for the state to completely take over Camden schools, just as it has operated Newark schools since 1995. But the state has had some degree of oversight over Camden schools for at least a decade, and the district still has a fiscal monitor assigned to it with authority to overturn spending decisions. Despite such stringent state intervention, the Camden School

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Vouchers would privilege the few As a hardworking mother of one child in a Philadelphia public school and another child headed toward kindergarten, I read Sunday’s article on the Pennsylvania legislature’s proposed voucher bill with great dismay (“In Pennsylvania, activists pour millions into the fight for school vouchers”). Although I was already disgusted with state legislators currently trying to gut funding for education in Pennsylvania, this voucher bill seems a crowning lunacy. Senate Bill 1 would siphon our tax dollars away from the vast majority of Pennsylvania’s children for the use of a very few in programs with no accountability to or oversight by the state. We have worked incredibly hard over the years to create an outstanding public school in our neighborhood — for all the children who attend. Now our children are looking at class-size increases of 66 percent and the loss of full-day kindergarten (which is particularly devastating to working families still emerging from the damage of the recession), and a host of other horrific cuts. Where is the sense in cutting $7,900 checks for individual families to purchase a luxury when we need to put our tax dollars toward the public good of all the children of this state? I would implore our state legislators to vote against Senate Bill 1 and against the governor’s budget cuts to education, for the sake of all of our children.

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Velazquez, wins Kentucky Derby. funded by corporations and a small cadre of very wealthy and equally ideological individuals seeking to defund not just public education, but just about every government program benefiting working Americans. These people don’t care about the quality of public education; they care about moving billions of our tax dollars from public schools to private companies. We do need to improve public education in disadvantaged areas, both urban and rural, but vouchers are not the way to do that. How about we stop blaming teachers, stop looking for a magic fix, and instead focus on real and demonstrable differences between quality schools and failing schools, to say nothing of the low teacher pay and insufficient funding? Joe Magid Wynnewood

Let’s have some data on default rates I’d like to see some data on how the default rates are bad for consumers before hearing more about state Public Utilities Commission Chairman Robert F. Powelson’s backdoor attempts to get rid of utility regulators (“PUC is putting Pa.’s default system in play,” Sunday). I

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District continues to be plagued by mismanagement, academic scandals, and one of the highest dropout rates in New Jersey. State oversight to this point has largely been a failed exercise to improve Camden schools. But no one knows what Christie has in mind now. The governor could move for more comprehensive state intervention, which would allow the state to appoint a new school superintendent. The school board, which has been mostly ineffective anyway, would be relegated to an advisory role. Or Christie could simply press for more options that let students leave the failing Camden schools and go elsewhere. School choice alone, however, isn’t the answer. Those students who choose to stay in their neighborhood schools won’t be helped unless those schools are also improved. If Christie’s plan doesn’t improve the quality of Camden public schools, then it isn’t the right strategy. The governor should know that.

Voucher activists not just folks I have a real problem with the headline for Sunday’s article regarding school vouchers (“In Pennsylvania, activists pour millions into the fight for school vouchers”). These “activists” pouring millions into elected officials’ campaign accounts, TV ads, and mailers are not everyday folks, and FreedomWorks isn’t just some Washington “advocacy group.” FreedomWorks, and organizations like it, are astroturf outfits

live in Center City and shopped around, but found only one supplier for my location, and it cost significantly more than PECO. A lot of people will be burned when they find out what “floatingrate” means for electricity. Just as households were destroyed by floating-rate mortgages, most alternative suppliers do not explain that the penny or so you save right now can turn into losses of dimes and quarters in the future. Powelson will probably try to push through changes before rates skyrocket, but everyone else should stay put until we’ve gone through two or three summers to find out how much those floating rates can hurt. Tsee Lee Philadelphia

Nothing new about ‘wrong war’ feelings

I was deeply saddened to read Monday’s column by a combatwounded soldier, Shannon P. Meehan (“A soldier learns he fought the wrong war”). But it is not surprising that many today should think that the United States should not be fighting in the Middle East. After all, only a third of the population of the British colonies in America had the stomach to support (and fight) in the American Revolution. Then there was “the forgotten war” in Korea, where we fought to an uneasy truce that still holds today. And let’s not forget what is called the “only war that America lost.” I am a U.S. Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War, which actually helped bankrupt Soviet-backed communism and started the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union. As they say, there is a silver lining to every dark cloud. You just have to (as we Marines say) “pull your head out” and see the light. John Wear New Hope johnwear@yahoo.com

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Litter is everywhere, not just on beaches Those who think that only New Jersey beaches have a litter problem should take a look around any beach, city, or town. Litter is a bane the world over. Marine debris is a serious problem, especially for marine animals, which can be harmed from entanglement by or ingestion of plastics. It can also render beaches a disgrace. In New Jersey, we take pride in our beaches and defend our waters tenaciously. Recently, thousands flocked to Jersey’s beaches and volunteered for Clean Ocean Action’s Beach Sweeps. The small and the tall scoured the sand of harmful and ugly debris that had washed ashore over the winter or was left behind by the careless or clueless. These hearty souls also recorded what they found, and created a legacy of evidence that will be used to reduce litter. They provide testimony to the power of the people to help solve problems and to keep the real Jersey Shore a natural and economic treasure. We send them waves of thanks. Try it. Make your beach or neighborhood a litter-free zone — or just come to New Jersey. Cindy Zipf Executive Director Clean Ocean Action Sandy Hook info@cleanoceanaction.org

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Demonstrators burn a representation of the American flag in Multan, Pakistan, on Monday. Congress has approved up to $1.5 billion in annual aid to that country.

Should U.S. keep aiding Pakistan? Yes: This may be a difficult alliance, but it’s also a useful one.

No: America’s money won’t make the world do what it wants.

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sama bin Laden is dead; long live the American-Pakistani alliance! Mine may not be the flavor-ofthe-week opinion in liberal circles, let alone among those Republicans and Democrats looking to Fortress America as the only reliable shelter for a nation straining under the load of its hegemony. The depth of hurt and the memory of what bin Laden did to America nine years and eight months ago erupted as joy in spontaneous crowds that formed around the White House and elsewhere. The shouts celebrating bin Laden’s death at the hands of Navy SEALs told the world that America’s memory is as long as its punishing arm. For many, the discovery that bin Laden hid in plain sight on the periphery of a Pakistani army installation — only 100 miles from Islamabad, the country’s capital — confirmed long-held doubts about Pakistan’s reliability as an ally. For proof of that, look no further than the blogosphere. Why, then, do I say “long live the alliance”? And why do I use the word alliance in the first place? I’ll present my reasoning as clearly and concisely as I can: America — and the Western world — must have Pakistan’s help to prevent the hideously worse. Is it an alliance of necessity? Yes, of course it is. Does Pakistan need it as badly? Yes, it does. It may be an unloving union, but each side knows it will fare worse without the other. I would argue that Pakistan is a steady partner when it counts. It stood by the United States when India, America’s current darling, danced body-rubbingly close with the Soviet Union, to America’s detriment. Pakistan, meanwhile, made it possible for the United States to reap the benefits of the Soviets’ defeat in Afghanistan. The mujahideen — more armed poppy growers than religious zealots — fought, died, and defeated America’s rival superpower in a strategically important part of the world. They were helped by the CIA, provided with guns, Sidewinder handheld antiaircraft rockets, and military intelligence. They lobbied in Washington and showed up repeatedly at news bureaus in the National Press Building. But no sooner had they won than President George H.W. Bush and national security adviser Brent Scowcroft washed their hands of Afghanistan. They left the war-devastated country to its own wits, without so much as a “thank you” or a dime of help. For Pakistan, Bush and Scowcroft went one better: They cut support funds and embargoed fighter planes that Pakistan had bought and paid for. The F-16s were stopped on the production line or parked in the United States. The money, too, landed in escrow accounts. Alliances created on an as-needed basis make perfectly good sense to politicians and publics of the hardball school. They are cheap and offer full freedom to cut and run without nasty consequences. They look great on paper — but not so great when danger is self-evident and nobody knows who can depend on whom. Dangers lurking in the Pakistan-Iran-Afghanistan swath of Asia threaten the United States severely right now, and they can only grow nastier if Pakistan is cut loose, as happened decades ago. I don’t know whether Pakistan’s military and security service kept bin Laden hidden in plain sight while telling Washington they had not a clue where he might be. But they kept Pakistan’s nuclear weapons out of al-Qaeda’s hands, and that is vastly more important than any lie about bin Laden. The question is what to do next. The smart thing, I would argue, is to acknowledge Pakistan’s effective part in the war on terrorism and to confirm and strengthen this useful alliance of necessity.

akistan is a major beneficiary of U.S. aid. Since 2002, we have given the country more than $18 billion. Now it appears that Osama bin Laden was living for years in a specially built compound within a stone’s throw of Pakistan’s major military academy. Even if bin Laden did not don his sandals to buy bread in the local market each morning, it’s hard to believe that no higher-up in Pakistan’s government was aware of his presence. Yet Congress has hoped our largesse would encourage Pakistan to take our side against terrorism. U.S. aid projects are highvisibility — rural electrification, school construction — so that the population can see the products of our beneficence. In 2009, Congress authorized up to $1.5 billion in annual aid to Pakistan for five years. Even before bin Laden’s death, the efficiency of that aid was questioned, particularly due to corruption in the Pakistani government. In February, the Government Accountability Office reported that of the $1.5 billion allocated for 2010, only $179.5 million had been disbursed by the U.S. government. The problem is ensuring that Pakistani agencies handle the funds properly. The U.S. Agency for International Development was to reconstruct 115 schools destroyed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley two years ago during fighting between the Pakistani army and the Taliban. To date, not a single school has been completed. Beyond efficiency issues, the aid and our policies seem to Pakistanis to be headed in opposite directions. For example, the Obama administration has made liberal use of wildly unpopular drone aircraft attacks in the northern tribal areas of Pakistan. Residents in those areas are terrorized, because they never know when a missile will descend out of the sky. Many in Pakistan view the aid as an attempt to get the population to swallow the drone attacks. Our use of CIA agents in Pakistan without the government’s knowledge is another source of concern. The fatal January shooting of two Pakistanis by CIA operative Raymond Davis intensified the resentment over drone attacks. What’s viewed as our continuing denigration of Palestinian national aspirations also angers the Pakistani populace, even as President Obama proclaims ever more loudly that our policies are not anti-Muslim. Giving billions in aid to get a country to do what we want involves a leap of faith. Our track record is not good. After President Jimmy Carter got Egypt and Israel to sign the 1979 Camp David agreement, he upped aid to Israel and began massive aid to Egypt. The latter gained the compliance of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, but Egypt’s new government is acting on regional issues without checking with Washington. Even our aid to Israel, our greatest beneficiary, has yielded no great love for the administration there. And we are, of course, running huge federal budget deficits, so the billions spent on foreign aid affect how much we must raise taxes or cut expenditures. In Pakistan, the assault on bin Laden’s compound is widely viewed as an effort to find a face-saving way to scale down U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. While bin Laden is not popular there, Pakistanis don’t see the assault as a game-changer in terms of dealing with terrorism, and they may well be correct. Our aid to Pakistan is not reaping the rewards Congress sought. The United States had been hoping, probably naively, to get Pakistanis to accept practices they do not like — practices we should have had second thoughts about anyway. Getting our practices oriented more rationally might win more hearts and minds in Pakistan than our billions of aid dollars.

Bogdan Kipling is a Canadian columnist based in Washington. This was distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

John B. Quigley is a professor of law at Ohio State University. This was distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Seth Williams District attorney His One Great Idea: Expose more high school students to the working world through internships.

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“The No. 1 thing that people have in common that get arrested in Philadelphia is that they didn’t finish high school. So being smart on crime means we should do all that we can to reduce truancy. ... “I think one great idea is to do all that we can to expand the opportunities for Philadelphia youth to have ... internships. And one great program that accomplishes that goal is WorkReady. “Why is WorkReady and why are internships important? ... Because they expose our youth to the possibilities of careers. It exposes them to all of the skills that are necessary when they go to work. They learn how to behave. They learn the social skills requisite to work every day. ... “And it’s very important for all Philadelphians to help create internship programs. It’s very important for the members of our business community to make the investment in our future by giving

One reader’s idea: “Years ago, Market Street was ablaze with clubs, restaurants, and miles of dancing neon. Shops stayed open late, and the big department stores were lit up and bustling. “Let's install more streetlights, bathe more buildings with floods, and give the green light to the proposal to wrap some buildings east of City Hall with high-tech ads. It's better than the darkness that now befalls that dim stretch of Market after sundown. “Police and security experts will tell you that bright lights not only give people a sense of safety, but also deter crime.” children after-school internship programs and summer internship programs. All of us will reap the benefit in the future.”

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Lewis case to federal judge The former Olympic star says his removal from the state ballot violated his constitutional rights. By Cynthia Burton

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A federal judge is preparing to hear whether Olympic track star Carl Lewis’ constitutional rights were violated when the New Jersey secretary of state removed him from the ballot, saying he did not meet the state’s residency requirement for candidates. Lewis, however, remains on the June 7 Democratic primary ballot for state Senate because a federal appeals court ruled that he should stay there until the constitutional question is decided. He wants to represent the Republican-dominated Eighth District, mostly in Burlington County. State courts have upheld Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno’s ruling to remove Lewis from the ballot. She was acting as secretary of state when she issued her April 26 order. That leaves U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman as Lewis’ latest, best chance to run against freshman Republican Sen. Dawn Marie Addiego. Hillman asked attorneys for Lewis, the state, and Burlington County Republicans to file documents in the case by Thursday. The case could wend its way through the system for as long as a month and could include a jury, lawyers speculated. Among the next court arguments will be whether Lewis’ attorney, William Tambussi, can call Guadagno to the stand to answer questions about whether she considered Lewis’ constitutional rights when she ruled that he failed the residency test. “Two things are clear. They don’t want Carl Lewis’ name on the ballot, and they don’t want Kim Guadagno to have to testify,” Tambussi said. Mark Sheridan, attorney for the Burlington County Republicans, said he might call Lewis to the witness stand to answer questions about his residency. See BALLOT on B4

Flames rise above the roof of the house, as the borough’s name is spelled out in front of it on part of a fire truck.

Fire sweeps house in Collingswood

A house caught fire Tuesday morning on the 800 block of Grant Avenue in Collingswood. None of the residents of the building, which was divided into apartments, was injured, though Mayor Jim Maley said the flames spread into the walls before being extinguished by firefighters. The cause was under investigation. Staff photographs by

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Two firefighters work as the flames shoot above a

Sheila Moore reacts as flames jump from her apartment.

dormer window at the residence.

Search still going on for woman, 18

Plans for a potboiler end in guilty plea Agnes O’Brien tried to extort money from a billionaire with threats of a book. She faces sentencing Aug. 30. By Kathleen Brady Shea INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

She never made it to school Monday. Her car is turning up little in the way of clues. By James Osborne

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Authorities continued to search Tuesday evening for an 18-year-old Burlington County woman who had disappeared Monday after leaving for school. Sarah Townsend, a student at Allentown High School in Monmouth County, left her home in Florence Township at 7 a.m. Monday but never arrived at school, prompting a massive search-and-rescue effort that stretched into Tuesday afternoon. The search, which involved close to 100 state and local police officers and volunteers, focused on the woods and wetlands surrounding Green Acres Park in Burlington Township where Townsend’s car was found Monday morning. It was unlocked, and the teenager’s purse and cell phone were inside. So far, police have few leads. “What is so baffling there was no blood in the car or drag marks outSee TEEN on B4

A threatened potboiler about a Chester County billionaire is permanently off the burner. At a hearing Tuesday in federal court in Philadelphia, Agnes “Aggie” O’Brien, 55, pleaded guilty to

three counts of extortion against Mary Alice Malone, a Campbell Soup heiress who resides on a 1,000-acre horse-breeding farm in the Coatesville area. O’Brien worked for more than two decades as Malone’s cook, horse trainer, concierge, confi-

dante, and traveling companion before the relationship ended, said O’Brien’s attorney, Michael M. Mustokoff. In July 2009, O’Brien, who had rented a home from Malone near her estate, Iron Spring Farm, was shocked when she received an eviction notice, he said. Having made improvements to the home to facilitate a catering business she ran, O’Brien feared losing her liveli-

hood and “panicked,” Mustokoff said. The result: O’Brien sent an e-mail to Malone titled “When the Soup Boils,” detailing a work of fiction with unflattering, thinly veiled portraits of Malone, her friends, and relatives, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Lauren M. Ouziel. Under the terms of a proposed See EXTORTION on B6

Despite full ballot, will voters be played? Back in March, on the day City Councilman Frank DiCicco announced that he would abandon his reelection bid, he gathered reporters in his office to discuss the past and future of Philadelphia politics. While DiCicco lamented being driven from office over the sleazy, but legal, money grab known as the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (or DROP), I noticed a collection of

yellowed clippings and editorial cartoons on the wall behind his desk. Among the criticisms was a 2009 column of mine with the headline “DROP: As in ‘dead, politically.’ ” I write so often about entrenchment and entitlement in this town where old habits die hard and keep on voting, I’d forgotten the piece. In it, one of the city’s most astute political observers dreamed aloud about the

Frank DiCicco is one of the City Council incumbents not running for reelection.

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2011 Council elections. What this city needs, declared political consultant Neil Oxman, is a new revolution: 17 real people running on an independent ticket to ‘Kick the bums out.’ With 53 candidates on the ballot

in the May 17 primary, it’s worth asking whether we’re witnessing that revolution or a passable fake. Just 12 of the 53 candidates are incumbents; five Council veterans decided to vacate the premises — See CANDIDATES on B4

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They would limit the number of passengers and increase hours of practice for drivers 16 and 17. By Tom Barnes

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HARRISBURG — Two bills to put additional restrictions on young drivers and distracted drivers are moving to the state Senate after approval by the House on Tuesday. One limits the number of passengers that junior drivers, those ages 16 and 17, may have in their car, and requires junior drivers to wear seat belts or risk being stopped by police. The second bill is aimed at reducing careless or distractCHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer ed driving, such as cellphone A couple enjoys the pleasant weather as they walk along the Perkiomen Trail through the Lower Perkiomen Valley Park in Oaks. The forecast for Wednesday is more of the same: plenty of sunshine and a high temperature of 71. use or eating, drinking, combing hair, or putting on makeup while driving. However, such an offense would be considered secondary, meaning police would have to stop a driver for another reason, such as speeding or running a red light, betap its own reserves and buy more product than they could Bad weather worldwide, a weak economy, and food to make up the shortfall. sell. The companies would do- fore issuing a ticket for carefood-industry shifts hit hunger-relief groups. But bad weather and other nate the excess to food banks less driving. problems have raised prices and take a charitable donation. The junior driver bill was By Alfred Lubrano poor, Philabundance is unusu- everywhere, Clark said. But over the last few years, a sponsored by Rep. Katharine INQUIRER STAFF WRITER al: About 60 percent of what Fires around Moscow last secondary market has devel- Watson (R., Bucks), who said Extreme weather around the agency distributes is pro- year hurt the potato crop in oped that pays better than char- auto accidents are the leadthe world and high gas prices duce, agency figures show. Russia, and Russians are “suck- ity: dollar stores and so-called ing cause of deaths of teens. at home are combining to put Philabundance, unlike ing up large parts of the Canadi- salvage stores that feature Her legislation, House Bill 9, a strain on food banks, includ- many food banks, has a large an potato crop,” he added, driv- dinged cans and foods past would increase, from 50 to 65, ing Philabundance, the larg- capacity to keep produce reing up prices 35 percent. their expiration dates, said the number of hours of pracest hunger-relief agency in frigerated. Meanwhile, meat consump- Ross Fraser, spokesman for tice a teen must have to get a the area. Because Philadelphia is a tion in China is rising, caus- Feeding America, the national license, and stipulate that Beyond that, changes in the port city, Philabundance has ing the Chinese government hunger-relief charity to which some of the hours must be at food industry are drying up long been able to receive win- to import more grain to feed Philabundance and about 200 night and in bad weather. resources that food banks ter produce from South Amer- livestock, Clark said. This is other food banks belong. A junior driver could have once used to feed the poor. ican countries. placing greater pressure on Manufacturers can get 20 All this is happening during But, according to agency re- world markets, driving up cents or more on the dollar by no more than one teen passena post-recession period of search, bad weather caused wheat prices nearly 40 per- selling their overstock to the ger at a time, to cut down on high unemployment, which is the continent to experience cent, he added. secondary market, according to chatting and other distrackeeping the need for charita- its least productive growing Making matters even tough- data from food manufacturers. tions. There is an exception ble food high. season in 25 years. er are $4-per-gallon gasoline “Food from salvage has just for young siblings, meaning “There’s just this sense of Generally, stores pick the prices, which drive up the dried up nationally,” Fraser more than one younger brothfrustration we’re feeling,” best-quality imported pro- cost of truck deliveries of said. er or sister would be allowed. said Bill Clark, executive di- duce to sell, and the rest is food to Philabundance. Locally, the salvage stream Junior drivers could be rector of Philabundance, donated to places like PhilaThe agency is wrestling has been severely pinched. In stopped by police if they are which has seen a 30 percent bundance. But when there’s a with all-time high truck- 2007, Philabundance received not wearing seat belts. Some spike in people needing food shortage, stores buy the crop freight charges amounting to 1.97 million pounds of salvage lawmakers asked Watson since last year and more than that they would have normal- 10 cents per pound of deliv- food. Last year, it got just how police could tell if an un60 percent over two years. ly rejected, and the charity ered food. Typically, a full 130,217 pounds, agency figbelted young driver was 16 or Globally, storms, drought, market suffers. tractor trailer holds 40,000 ures show. unpredictable temperatures, The result: Foreign pro- pounds of donated food. “It’s harder and harder to 17, since some youths in their as well as high volumes of duce to Philabundance was Further pain for Philabun- get this food off an industry 20s look like teenagers. She rain in various growing areas down 66 percent between dance, as well as other food that no longer has it to give,” said that if a police officer stops a car and the unbelted have played havoc with March of this year and the banks, comes from changes Clark said. driver turns out to be 18 or crops. same time last year, agency in the food-manufacturing inolder, the officer would just While the vast majority of records shows. dustry. Contact staff writer Alfred let him go. food banks disperse mostly When produce supplies are In the past, manufacturers Lubrano at 215-854-4969 or canned and dry goods to the down, Philabundance must would find themselves with alubrano@phillynews.com. Failure to wear a seat belt

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is a secondary offense for those 18 or older, meaning a police officer has to have another reason, such as speeding, to stop a car, and can add the lack of a seat belt as a second offense. According to a recent poll, Watson said, “people agree there need to be additional restrictions on young drivers to make them better and safer drivers.” The bill was approved, 175-21. Violations carry a $75 fine. It now goes to the Senate, which in the past has wanted to limit unrelated teens in a car to three, rather than just one. The House also approved House Bill 896, by Rep. Chris Ross (R., Chester), which aims at reducing distractions while driving, such as talking on a cellphone, sending text messages or e-mailing, using a “personal grooming device” while driving, eating, drinking, or reading “any printed material.” The bill would not pertain to drivers who glance at a global positioning system device in their vehicle, however. But a police officer could ticket a so-called distracted driver only after the driver had already been pulled over for a more serious violation, such as speeding, running a red light, or other form of careless or reckless driving. The “distracted” offense would add an additional $50 to whatever fine the driver got for the initial offense. The money from fines would go into a new pot called the Driver Distraction Awareness Fund and would be used to publicize the behavior that would now be banned and to conduct programs about the dangers of not paying attention while operating a vehicle. Watson has another bill, to make texting while driving a primary offense, meaning police could pull a driver over for texting. That measure could come up for a vote Wednesday.

Chester police find pot farm in house Eighty plants plus generators and growing equipment were taken from a former pharmacy. By Mari A. Schaefer

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Chester police Tuesday found a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation in the basement of a former city drugstore. Police removed about 80 plants, small industrial generators, grow lights, large plastic tubs, 55-gallon drums, hoses, Miracle-Gro containers, and other items used in the operation from the basement at 128 E. 24th St. “This is the first one I have come across to this scale,” Capt. Joseph Massi said. “Someone knew what they were doing. It took a lot of time and effort.” The plants were grown in six

rooms, divided by size from seedlings to four-foot-high adult plants, Massi said. Massi said the plants were grown hydroponically, without soil. Police found the operation when they received a call for a burglary in progress about 9:40 a.m. When they arrived at the vacant building, police found a door open. “We are trying to figure out whose operation this is and who had knowledge of it,” Deputy Chief Darren Alston said. The building was once a nail salon, then a Rite Aid Pharmacy, and finally a local drugstore. Neighbors said the building had been empty for a number of years. Massi said patrolmen re-

News in Brief Democrats fail to stop abortion bill HARRISBURG — Democrats in the state House fell short Tuesday in bids to modify a bill that they said would improperly limit access to abortion under the guise of making abortion facilities safer. This strongly suggested the GOP majority will have little trouble passing the measure in an expected Wednesday vote and sending it to the state Senate. Supporters of the bill as originally drafted said drastic changes are warranted in the wake of a scandal involving the West Philadelphia abortion clinic operated by D. Kermit Gosnell, where a grand jury reported filthy and unsafe conditions. Gosnell is being held without bail on murder charges for allegedly performing illegal abortions. The measure would hold such clinics to the same regulations that apply to freestanding ambulatory surgical centers. But Democrats said the bill would place new and onerous requirements on abortion clinics. Proposals failed that would have phased in the changes over more time, exempted centers that only facilitate birth control and clarified that the Abortion Control Act would apply if the laws contradict each other. — AP

ported a strong smell of marijuana in the neighborhood about a week ago but could not pinpoint the source. “I don’t know how many harvests they got out of this,” he said. He said that while portions of the building did have power, generators for the illegal farm were spliced into Peco Energy Co.’s main electrical trunk line. The exhaust was vented through the first floor and out through the roof. Massi said the marijuana may have been packaged elsewhere. Police found little evidence of materials used for processing the pot. Neighbors watched from porches and behind yellow caution tape at the activity, as police, fire, and the city’s Public Works Department personnel removed the equipment

and directed traffic around the intersection. “I am just outdone,” said Janice York, who has lived across the street for about 15 years. “I have never seen anything like this before.” York, who said she never suspected anything was amiss, described the neighborhood as nice. “I am just amazed at what people will do,” said Portia West, a Chester councilwoman who went to the scene. “We are trying to move our neighborhoods and community in a different direction.” Massi said the pot would be stored by county investigators as evidence and eventually destroyed. Contact staff writer Mari A. Schaefer at 610-892-9149 or mschaefer@phillynews.com.

Pa. bill to relax superintendent qualifying advances

HARRISBURG — The state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill, 35-15, to allow school districts to hire a superintendent or assistant superintendent if the person holds a graduate degree in business or finance. Those hired would be required to complete a leadership-development program that meets Pennsylvania School Leadership Standards. Under current law, superintendents or assistant superintendents must have, in addition to teaching and supervisory experience, completed a college or university graduate program in education. The bill goes to the House for consideration. — AP

Beach Theatre group to ask court to block razing

CAPE MAY — The nonprofit Beach Theatre Foundation Inc. will seek a preliminary injunction to prevent demolition of the half-century-old Jersey Shore movie house, its president said Tuesday. Steve Jackson said the group would ask for an injunction in state Superior Court on the grounds that a litigation settlement reached last week between the city of Cape May and theater owner Frank Investments to allow the razing was illegal because the company’s 2007 demolition permit had expired. Frank had sued the city in March to have the permit upheld after officials said Frank needed a new demolition license from the local zoning board. The theater owner wants to build condos on the site. — Jacqueline L. Urgo

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Caymus-Cabernet 2008 WS-93...............59.97 Ch St Jean-Chardonnay ............................9.37 Ch Ste Michelle-Cab,Merlot.....................11.37 Ch Ste Michelle-Chardonnay......................9.17 Ch Ste Michelle-Riesling............................8.17 Chalk Hill-Chardonnay Sonoma................25.97 Chimney Rock-Cab Stags Leap District.....47.97 Clos du Bois-Cab,Merlot..........................13.17 Clos du Bois-Chardonnay ........................10.57 Clos du Val-Cabernet Napa......................22.97 Cloudy Bay-Sauvignon Blanc ...................21.97 Columbia Crest GrEst-Chard,Cab,Merlot.....9.17 Conundrum ............................................17.97 Coppola Diamond-Claret,Pinot Noir ..........14.17 Coppola Diamond-Merlot.........................13.17 Cupcake-Chard,Sauv Blanc,Cab,Merlot ......7.37 David Bruce-Pinot Noir Sonoma...............19.97 Domaine Serene-PN Evenstad Res...........39.97 Dynamite-Cabernet.................................10.17 Ecco Domani-Pinot Grigio..........................8.27

Edna Valley-Chardonnay..........................11.37 Erath Vineyards-Pinot Noir.......................12.97 Estancia-Cabernet...................................12.17 Estancia-Pinot Noir..................................15.97 Etude-Pinot Noir Carneros .......................32.99 Far Niente-Cabernet................................91.97 Far Niente-Chardonnay ...........................41.97 Ferrari-Carano Chardonnay......................15.97 Ferrari-Carano Fume Blanc......................10.67 Fetzer-Gewurztraminer..............................7.47 Fetzer-Vlly Oaks-Chard,Cab,Merlot.............6.47 Folie a Deux-Menage a Trois Blanc, Rouge...9.07 Franciscan-Cabernet...............................18.57 Frei Brothers-Chardonnay Reserve...........13.47 Gnarly Head-Old Vine Zinfandel..................8.07 Greg Norman Estates-Cabernet/Merlot.....11.47 Grgich Hills-Cabernet ..............................42.97 Heitz-Cabernet Napa...............................36.97 Hess Select-Chardonnay Monterey.............9.27 J Lohr-Cabernet Seven Oaks ...................12.17

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Robert Snyder got 13 years in a heroin plot, a day after a collaborator was sentenced.

For the second day in a row, a former Philadelphia police officer was sentenced to prison Tuesday for a scheme to steal and resell heroin. Robert Snyder, 30, who became a police officer in March 2007, will serve 13 years in prison. He was one of three officers arrested last year in connection with the heroin plot. He was also charged and pleaded guilty to his role in plotting a planned armed robbery. His wife, Christal Snyder, will be sentenced Monday for her role in organizing the scheme with her sister’s boyfriend, Angel Ortiz, a drug dealer. She faces a 10-year sentence. Snyder sobbed in the courtroom as he expressed remorse for the crimes and regret that the couple’s three children will be without their parents for 10 years. Family members are expected to care for the children — ages 11, 7, and 3 — while their parents are in prison. More than a dozen friends and family were in court, and Christal Snyder bowed her head almost to her knees as her husband spoke. Her role was to pass information between Ortiz, who has also pleaded guilty, and the officers. The plot blew up because a Drug Enforcement Administration undercover agent posed as a money launderer working with Ortiz. Agents had numerous video and audio recordings of the plot. Defense attorney William Spade argued for a 10-year sentence, but U.S. District Court Chief Judge Harvey Bartle III cited Snyder’s betrayal of his oath as a police officer, and the damage the crime did to public trust in the police. Snyder, who was left by his mother when he was 17 — she moved back to Kentucky to remarry — worked five years as a custodian at a downtown office building before becoming an officer, according to court documents. “He was making significantly more money,” Spade wrote in a sentencing memo. “By his own admission, Mr. Snyder did not need the relatively small amount of money he received as payment for his crimes.” A new patrolman makes about $42,813 a year, not including overtime. Snyder’s sentencing followed a hearing Monday during which James Venziale, a 10-year Police Department veteran, was sentenced to 42 months in jail for his role in the scheme. Both men had pleaded guilty. The third officer, Mark Williams, was convicted at trial and has not yet been sentenced. Snyder also admitted to plotting to rob a supposed Mafia cash courier.

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U.S. judge BALLOT from B1 He said Guadagno established that Lewis did not meet the state’s residency requirement. “The only issue that remains is that Carl Lewis claims he is entitled to some special treatment and the constitution doesn’t apply to him,” Sheridan said. Lewis, 49, of Medford, grew up in Willingboro but left the region for college and an Olympic career, which netted him nine gold medals and one silver in the 1980s and 1990s. He bought a house for his mother and himself in Mount Laurel in 2005 and planned to move to New Jersey from California, he has said. But he also voted in California in 2009, which Guadagno said indicated that he was a California resident in 2009. The New Jersey constitution requires state Senate candidates to have lived in the state for four years. As the court drama unfolds, Lewis has been making the rounds with Democratic leaders and has done some campaigning in Pine Hill, a Camden County town in the district. Contact staff writer Cynthia Burton at 856-779-3858 or cburton@phillynews.com.

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Search on for woman, 18 TEEN from B1 side,” Burlington Township Police Lt. Bruce Painter said. “It could be as simple as she walked away. But we just don’t know.” Townsend’s car was discovered by her boyfriend in a parking lot next to a pond that is popular with joggers and fishermen. The couple had Sarah gone to the Townsend attends high park often and had communischool. cated that morning, Painter said, though he declined to elaborate. Townsend’s parents have of-

fered a $10,000 reward for information leading to their daughter’s safe return. Standing on the porch of the home they have lived in since their daughter was born, they said Tuesday that nothing was amiss when she left for school that morning. “Everything was ordinary. It was just like any morning,” said her father, Roy. “Please tell the police how grateful we are for all they’re doing. We just want Sarah home safe.” The search of the roughly three-square-mile wooded area around where Townsend’s car was found was called off Tuesday about 1 p.m. after dive teams, K-9 teams, and helicopters with infrared sensors failed to find any trace of the

missing woman. Mark Hopkins, chief of operations for Greater Philadelphia Search and Rescue, said the terrain, namely the wetlands, had made the search difficult. “I’m not sure she isn’t here,” he said. “With something like this, there’s so many opportunities for failure.” Police are now interviewing Townsend’s family and friends from high school, but as of Tuesday evening, there were no leads. Anyone with any information is asked to call the Burlington Township police at 609-386-2019. Contact staff writer James Osborne at 856-779-3876 or jaosborne@phillynews.com.

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Aware that the First District is rapidly changing, DiCicco nonetheless endorsed more of the same. He coldly dismissed engaging challengers like Joe Grace and Jeff Hornstein, instead supporting Mark Squilla — anointed by Democratic Party boss Bob Brady and union kingmaker John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty.

“When I look at Mark,” DiCicco told me approvingly, “I see myself.” Imagine what voters could have seen if Michael Nutter was more of a finisher. For a man who promised a “new day, new way” in City Hall, the mayor punted on a chance to make Billy Penn’s head spin. Nutter could have used some of his remaining political capital to draft his own slate of Council candidates — community activists, smallbusiness owners, teachers, retirees, maybe even a fiery incumbent or two, real people committed to serving the city, not special interests. Instead, the mayor endorsed only establishment challengers and reliable stalwarts with ties to VIPs. Thinking Philadelphia could be different is so 2008. As a wise colleague notes, Nutter is the establishment now.

Doin’ it for themselves

“There’s no sense of adventure with these candidates,” grouses Chris Mottola, a Republican political strategist. “Everybody who’s going to get elected to City Council will know the same people who make decisions at lunch at The Palm.”

Mottola likes Republican atlarge candidate Malcolm Lazin, and Oxman’s crossing fingers for his old friend Grace as well as Marty Bednarek and Andy Toy. But neither political pro expects many surprises. Both fear record low turnout will signal voters have given up. “This election is not about ending nepotism, it’s not about term limits, it’s not about changing the culture of City Hall,” Oxman declares. “It’s about the same 200 people running the city for themselves and their friends. And none of them want things to change.” Well, maybe one. Jim Kenney, a Fumocrat elected in 1991, has long complained that Council members can’t achieve much on their own. But Oxman praises the insider for remaining so riled up that he tries. “He’s the angriest and the most passionate,” Oxman says, “because he knows how bad it is.” Reach me at myant@phillynews.com or 215-854-4670. Read me at philly.com/blinq. Connect on Facebook and Twitter at philly.com/kinney.

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Graduate-to-be shot to death for motorcycle By Mike Newall

his late-model Honda Civic was stolen. His course books Mohan Varughese worked and papers were lost in that hard for his prized Kawasaki theft. motorcycle. Varughese scored a perfect The 23-year-old Bustleton semester of straight A’s in his native bought the shiny red final grading period, said his Ninja with tips earned as a psychology thesis adviser, Center City valet. He got it Michael Bernstein. last summer, just in time for “He was especially motivathis final year at Penn State ed and enthusiastic, very preAbington, where he pared to be taking was set to graduate on the world,” Friday with a psyBernstein said. chology degree. Varughese had Monday afterrecently landed a noon, someone else job working as a wanted it and killed youth counselor him over it. and wanted to use Varughese was vishis degree to help iting his girlfriend, a underprivileged Temple University children, Bernstudent, at a house stein said. on the 2200 block of For his thesis, North Camac Street, Mohan Varughese wrote Varughese was about “mortality saMICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer a few blocks north of Temple. The couple to graduate lience,” the study Parents listen to Philadelphia School District chief financial officer Michael Masch at Meredith Elementary School. He was there were sitting on the Friday. of how people deal to discuss how the district would deal with its budget shortfall. Many proposals have disturbed district parents. steps in the sun. His with the eventualibike was parked on ty of their own the curb. deaths. A man put a gun to his face, He found that awareness of demanding the keys. death can make people emVarughese said, “Don’t do brace life. this,” according to police. “Maybe thinking about dyBy Kristen A. Graham Sophia, who held a sign of her schoolyard,” Schumacher ally got people fired up.” INQUIRER STAFF WRITER The gunman repeated his ing at an early age could own. “I wonder where their said. “We’re doing whatever The cuts to full-day kinderThey are boarding buses kids go to school.” we can. Parents need to step garten have received the demand, then shot Varughese actually increase a person’s mood and self-esteem,” he for Harrisburg and bending Pacell said there had been up and question where the most attention, but many par- in the chest and cheek. The killer did not take the wrote. “Thinking about how legislators’ ears. They’re plan- an uptick in parent participa- money is going.” ents are also concerned about ning rallies, writing letters, tion since the cuts were anParents at Greenfield Ele- the larger class sizes that are bike. He just shot Varughese short life is might lead peofor not moving quickly ple to also think about the volunteering at phone banks, nounced. mentary School in Center looming. and speaking out at meetings. “This personally affects all City have had advocacy train“All of a sudden, we’re go- enough and then ran away, things that are really imporWith $629 million in proof us,” she said. ing with the nonprofit group ing to be up to 30 and 33 kids Homicide Capt. James Clark tant.” On Tuesday afternoon, posed cuts on the table for The district’s $2.8 billion Education Voters of Pennsyl- in a classroom, and it’s going said. “A cold-blooded killer,” blood still spotted the Camac the Philadelphia School Dis- budget has been squeezed by vania and are pushing on sev- to make it harder for those trict, city parents are increas- a sharp decline in state fund- eral fronts. kids to succeed and those said Clark, who described the Street concrete where ingly becoming activists. Greenfield has launched teachers to help kids,” Peter shooter as a black male in his Varughese fell. ing, flat city revenue, and the early 20s, heavily tattooed, inThe small street is a mix of “People have kind of come loss of federal stimulus letter-writing and e-mail said. cluding a teardrop tattoo unlong-term residents and Temout of the woodwork,” said funds. To balance the budget, campaigns. On Thursday, Shana Kemp, a spokeswomple students. Cheryl Dore, president of the officials have proposed the the Greenfield parents will an for the district, said that der his left eye. Tuesday morning, grievFour houses on the street Cook-Wissahickon Elementa- cuts, which include more lead other city parents in a officials are fielding many ing relatives and friends are being renovated, and ry School Home and School than 3,000 fewer jobs, the sub- phone-bank night, reaching more calls from parents. held a prayer vigil at the while fleeing Monday, Association. “More parents traction of full-day kindergar- out to voters to encourage “This is an issue that we all Varughese home on a quiet Varughese’s killer had to are making themselves aware ten, the elimination of most them to push back against realize is pretty serious,” street off Welsh Road. jump over construction workof issues, and doing some- transportation services, and the cuts. Kemp said. “We welcome all Varughese commuted to ers in a hole in the street. thing about them.” various other cost-cutting Greenfield parent Christine the help we can get.” school and lived with his “This is the frontier,” said Outside Dobson Elementa- measures. Carlson said the group was Parents have packed dis- parents. Three religious can- Temple sophomore Mark Elofry School on Tuesday mornEileen Brown, who leads zeroing in on state legislators ing, 30 parents waved signs the Grands as Parents group, now, but will soon begin lob- trict meetings on the budget dles burned on the sidewalk er, who heard the shots from around the city. More are like- in front of his house, while his rented apartment across and offered fliers outlining which represents grandpar- bying city leaders. the effect of the cuts — fewer ents raising grandchildren, is She hopes parents “keep ly to speak out at a School the family, which is of Indi- the street. Most Temple students live teachers, counselors, nurses, doing whatever she can to their eye on the ball and Reform Commission meeting an descent, held a prayer vigil inside. The family did west of Broad Street, he said, and support staff, for start- spread the word. don’t get distracted,” Carl- Wednesday. Dore, the Cook-Wissahickon not wish to speak to report- but recently more have been ers. No full-day kindergarten; Her organization has held son said. “There’s a lot of finding homes on the northless money for programs several political forums so animosity toward the school parent, is part of a group travelers, a relative said. Varughese’s college bud- east side of Broad, he said. from special education to community members can district, but I think it’s im- ing to Harrisburg on WednesOne of his roommates was sports. make their concerns about po- portant now that we work day to meet with State Sen. Vin- dies mourned a friend they Cars navigating the narrow tential district cuts known to together. I feel like the state cent Hughes (D., Phila.) to air described as outgoing and robbed a few months ago at is trying to use a divide-and- views about the budget. Late full of life. George Mejia, also gunpoint while sitting on streets of Manayunk honked City Council candidates. their horns, drivers waving at “We’re asking a lot of ques- conquer strategy, and that last month, she was one of a senior at Abington, recalled the front steps, Elofer said. thousands who traveled to the softball games and fishing Now the group is moving, parents who stood on Umbria tions about the budget, and doesn’t help us.” Street outside the Dobson, letting them know that we reKevin Peter is expecting a state capitol to begin protest- trips with Varughese and the he said. Halloween when Varughese Tanina Tindley, 29, lives which educates about 255 K-8 ally want answers and ac- big crowd — and several legis- ing the cuts. “Our goal is really just to styled his hair in a bowl cut across the street, too. She has students. countability,” said Brown, lators and other politicians — Home and School president whose grandchildren attend to attend a rally he is plan- continue to hammer away, and went as rapper Rick lived on Camac her whole life, she said. She rushed outClaire Pacell is not happy Duckrey Elementary in North ning for Sunday at 1 p.m. out- to send letters, to do whatev- Ross. Parking fancy cars at a side when she heard the with the legislators and other Philadelphia and a district al- side the Trolley Car Diner on er we can,” Dore said. “Now, we’re looking to posh restaurant motivated shots. decision-makers, she said. ternative school. “People real- Germantown Avenue. One neighbor held a shirt Dobson stands to have 27 per- ly care about this.” Peter, who lives in Mount reaching out to our friends Varughese to save harder for to Varughese’s wounds, she cent lopped off its budget, Rachel Schumacher, a par- Airy and has a seventh grad- in other counties, going his bike, Mejia said. “That motorcycle was his said, while the dying man’s meaning the loss of five teach- ent from the Northeast whose er at Masterman, said the through Facebook and sogirlfriend cradled his head in ers, a full-time librarian, and children attend Crossan Ele- budget cuts have really mobi- cial networking and reach- pride and joy,” he said. ing out to everyone we can Varughese was cautious her lap. a new, full-time graphic-arts mentary and Wilson Middle lized parents. program. School, is using Facebook to “So much of the school dis- think of. This is not just a about taking his motorcycle when visiting his girlfriend, Contact staff writer Mike Newall “They need to come out encourage her friends to sign trict’s issues are just kind of Philadelphia problem.” his friends said. at 215-854-2759 or and actually see what they’re a petition encouraging legisla- ambient,” Peter said. “Folks During a visit late last year, mnewall@phillynews.com. hurting — we’re losing a lot,” tors to restore cuts to educa- shake their heads and keep Contact staff writer Kristen said Pacell, who has two chil- tion. on going. But when the poten- Graham at 215-854-5146 or dren at Dobson and a baby, “I’m telling everyone in the tial cuts got announced, it re- kgraham@phillynews.com. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Parents mobilize to overturn cuts

Guilty plea in extortion case

EXTORTION from B1 plea agreement, O’Brien would spend six years on probation for three felony convictions. If the judge accepts the deal, she also would be prohibited from communicating in any form about Malone or any of her relatives. She had faced a maximum sentence of six years in prison. Malone, 61, was listed as the 437th-richest person in the world by Forbes magazine in 2010, with an estimated worth of $2.2 billion. She is a granddaughter of John T. Dorrance, a chemical engineer who discovered a new method for canning soup that spawned the Campbell empire. Asked by U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones 2d about her criminal history, O’Brien said she did not even have “unpaid parking tickets.” The judge expressed hesitation in accepting the guilty plea, creating new intrigue in a case that has already generated speculation about what O’Brien planned to divulge. Jones said that O’Brien appeared to have been encouraged to commit the crimes by attorneys no longer involved in

the case. He pointed to court records stating that an attorney for Malone had tried to negotiate a private settlement with O’Brien in January 2010 without contacting authorities, and that O’Brien’s attorney had congratulated her with a “well done” e-mail when she was offered a check for $200,000. “The court is rightfully outraged,” Ouziel told the judge. After the hearing, Ouziel, Mustokoff, and Malone’s attorney, Tom Hogan, all declined to identify the attorneys. After listening to both sides, the judge accepted the plea. Mustokoff said that O’Brien’s “initial acts all occurred outside the attorneys’ advice.” He also said other people had warned O’Brien she was breaking the law, but she continued the shakedown. “It’s a sad case,” he said later. Hogan had a different view. He characterized O’Brien as an “occasional employee, sometime friend, sponge,” blackmail artist, and deadbeat tenant who took advantage of Malone's kindness. He said O’Brien had stopped regularly paying her $1,000 monthly rent in 2001

and was $83,000 in arrears when she moved out in 2010. Hogan said as soon as his firm got involved in the case, the FBI was contacted. According to court records, the FBI recorded O’Brien’s conversations about a payment from Malone with an intermediary — who was then acting as a confidential informant — which led to her indictment in August. The indictment said O’Brien’s promised novel “referenced specific instances of alleged conduct by the ‘characters’ that, regardless of the veracity of the allegations, would prove embarrassing” to Malone. O’Brien’s e-mail said: “Maggie [the fictional Aggie O’Brien] got her feelings hurt when she was wrongly accused and never allowed to defend herself, but this book has been a cleansing of sorts … It’s fast and funny, and opens many new doors. She feels sure she can sell it and write many more.” The judge set a sentencing date of Aug. 30 for O’Brien, who is free on $10,000 bail. Contact staff writer Kathleen Brady Shea at 610-696-3815 or kbrady@phillynews.com.

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Phila. zoning overhaul is facing a threat By Inga Saffron

their actions as an 11th-hour attempt to delay, or even kill, Just when it seemed that the new zoning code. the commission charged with “We know we’re not sendoverhauling Philadelphia’s an- ing a perfect document to tiquated zoning laws had won Council,” Greenberger said. a broad consensus for a “But we’ve worked on this for svelte, new 384-page code- four years. It’s as ready as it’s book — regulating everything going to be. If we don’t move from parking to pasta manu- on to the next phase now, zonfacturing — two councilmen ing reform will die.“ are moving to block its adopAlthough Green has threattion unless the city’s North- ened to table the new code in east neighborhood is exempt. Council, he denied he was tryThe Zoning Code ing to sabotage efCommission, which forts to streamline Two city was created by pubthe city’s Byzantine lic referendum in councilmen zoning code, which 2007, was to vote dates to 1962 and may stall Wednesday morning still contains pason whether to wrap the work. sages regulating up four years of work tanneries and and submit the proslaughterhouses. posed code to City Council O’Neill did not return phone for review. But the council- calls made over several days. men’s opposition now threatAlthough several communiens to unravel the process — ty groups had voiced concern which could delay a finished about elements of the new code by at least five years. code, the commission spent At-large Councilman Bill the last several months sucGreen and Brian J. O’Neill, who cessfully tweaking the draft have both served on the zoning to win their support. code commission since its in“The commission has taken ception, say the current draft is the time to consider the vast still rife with defects and needs amount of public input resubstantial revision, particular- ceived and I think at this ly in those sections that affect point, the code is pretty good. the Northeast, where O’Neill’s Definitely not perfect, but district is located. clearly better than what we Deputy Mayor Alan Green- now have,” said Timothy A. berger, who chairs the zoning Kerner, of the Center City Rescode commission, described idents Association. INQUIRER ARCHITECTURE CRITIC

Attorney Richard C. DeMarco, who often represents developers, also favors passing the draft. “I am just fearful of losing the momentum for reform that a delay might cause,” he said. Zoning has long been a political minefield in Philadelphia. Because the city charter gives Council members the “prerogative” to intervene on zoning matters, they often act as gatekeepers, supporting or blocking projects according to their personal whim. Several Council people have gone to jail for demanding kickback payments in exchange for zoning variances. The commission was established in an effort to overcome old-style backroom deals and make the zoning process more predictable for developers and homeowners alike. The new code is significantly shorter than the current, 650-page version and easier to read. Most importantly, it reduces the need for variances. Rewriting it has been an arduous task. The code comprises thousands of details that govern big things like the height of buildings, as well as excruciating minutiae, like the types of pasta that can be produced by manufacturers. Under the old code, ravioli could be produced in certain neighborhoods, but not lin-

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PATRICIA R., on May 8, 2011, of Flourtown. Survived by her daughter, Amy Miska (Andrew) of Phoenix AZ. Funeral will be held Thursday, May 12th, 11 A.M., in the Wayside Chapel at Whitemarsh Memorial Park, 1156 Horsham Rd., Ambler PA 19002. Interment Whitemarsh Mem. Park. (JACOB F. RUTH)

BECKER/ANASTASIA

DOROTHY H. (nee Scott), age 86, on May 9, 2011. Beloved wife of the late Charles Becker, former wife of the late John A. Anastasia, survived by her children, Bonnie Zierle (Fred), John Anastasia (Suzanne), Linda Gillespie (the late James); also survived by her 4 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren and her sister Ruth Hansen. Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing Thursday, 9:30 A.M. St. Cecilia Church, 535 Rhawn St., Phila PA 19111 followed by Funeral Mass 10:30 A.M. Int. Forest Hills Cem. In lieu of flowers donations in her memory to the Immaculate Mary Home, 2990 Holme Ave., Phila. PA 19136 would be appreciated. www.wackermanfuneralhome.com

BLAIR

HUGH J., JR., May 10, 2011. Beloved husband of Anne E. Blair (nee Wynn), loving father to Theresa (Mark) Britton, Marianne (Joseph) Gallagher, Hugh III (Lisa Eagelman) and Kathleen (Thomas) Hopkins, grandfather of 9, great grandfather of 2; he will also be missed by his sister and brother Therese and William Blair. Relatives and friends are invited to Hugh’s Mass of Christian Burial Friday May 13, 10 A.M. St. Bernard R.C. Chuch, Cottage and Bleigh Sts., Phila., PA 19136 where friends may call Friday 9 to 10 A.M. Interment Resurrection Cem. In lieu of flowers contributions in Hugh’s name may be made to St. Bernard R.C. Church at the above address.

BORDMAN

GERALD M., May 9, 2011, of Bala Cynwyd PA. Son of the late Morris Bordman and the late Anna (nee Jacobs). Graveside Services will be held Friday, May 13, 2011, at 11 A.M. at Montefiore Cemetery, 600 Church Rd., Jenkintown PA. www.levinefuneral.com

BOYLE

ALBERTA C. "BOOTSIE", on May 9, 2011, of Essington, formerly of S.W. Phila. Beloved wife of the late James P. Boyle; devoted mother of Anthony Boyle, Helena Boyle, Kimberley Boyle, Kelly Kinsella, Mark Boyle, Lisa Brogan, Adriane Clemson and Deborah Lalli; dear sister of Emma Locke and Harriet Austin; also survived by 15 grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Relatives and friends are invited to attend her Viewing on Friday, after 9 CAVANAGH A.M., at THE FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, 301 Chester Pike, Norwood, followed by a Service at 11 A.M. Interment private. www.cavanaghfuneralhome.com

D’AMBROSIO

ANNA (nee Marcellino), May 10, 2011, age 97. Beloved wife of the late Mark. Devoted mother of Mark D’Ambrosio, Carmen (Carol) D’Ambrosio and Marianna Donleavy. Grandmother of 6 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. Sister of Frank (Theresa) Marcellino. Relatives and friends are invited to her VIEWING FRIDAY 8:45 A.M. at the Epiphany of Our Lord Church, 11th and Jackson Sts. followed by her Funeral Mass at 9:30 A.M. Interment Holy Cross Cem. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to a charity of the donor’s choice. Expressions of Sympathy www.montiragofuneralhome.com

FEASTER

DOUGLAS M., age 80 of West Chester PA; passed away May 5, 2011. He is survived by his wife Susan, father to Douglas Jr. (Diane), David (Karen), Paul (Marisa), Becky Sommi (Lou), Laurie Lavalla (Frank), brother to Richard, Janet and Nancy, grandfather to 12 grandchildren; also uncle to many nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 625 Montgomery Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA on Monday, May 16 at 11 A.M. Reception at the church to follow. The Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers please make donations to Jefferson Hospice, 240 Radnor Chester Rd., Suite 100, Radnor PA 19087-5174.

FERRARO

MARGUERITE "MAGGS" (nee Krafft) on May 9, 2011. Loving wife of Mark Ferraro, cherished mother of Dominic and Sofia Ferraro, beloved daughter of Margaret Pastella and George Krafft, sister of Kathleen (Jason) DiPrinzio, daughter-in-law of John and Antonia Ferraro. Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing Friday 6 to 8 P.M. THE CLARE McILVAINE MUNDY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 7384 Ridge Ave. (cor. of Wigard Ave.) and to her Funeral Mass Saturday 10:30 A.M., St. Anthony of Padua Church, 259 Forest Ave., Ambler, PA 19002. Interment private. PLEASE OMIT FLOWERS. The family requests donations to the Ferraro Children’s Trust, c/o Kathleen DiPrinzio, 17 Crimson Drive, Norristown, PA 19401. CLARE McILVAINE MUNDY F.H. INC. 215-482-8878

FLEISHMAN

IRVING, May 9, 2011. Husband of Anne R. (nee Ratner), father of Gerald (Sheryl) Fleishman and Daniel (Debbie) Fleishman, brother of Irene Lubin, grandfather of Carrie (Randy) Blasband, Jamie, Robert, Lauren, and Melissa Fleishman, great grandfather of Madison, Hailey, Alex, Zachary and Benjamin. Relatives, friends and members of KrausPearlstein Lodge #8 - Brith Sholom are invited to Funeral Services Wednesday 11:30 A.M. GOLDSTEINS’ precisely ROSENBERG’S RAPHAEL SACKS SUBURBAN NORTH, 310 Second St. Pike, Southampton. Interment Montefiore Cemetery. Shiva will be observed at the residence of Daniel and Debbie Fleishman. Contributions in his SEENA KRAMER BROODNO, memory may be made to a May 9, 2011. Beloved wife of charity of the donor’s choice. www.goldsteinsfuneral.com the late Fred. Devoted mother of Iris Broodno. Dear sister of the late Jules Kramer. Loving grandmother of Stacy and Erica Goodman. Dear aunt of Dean and Claire Kramer, Vicky and Bob Eisele and Harvey Broodno. Relatives and friends are invited to Graveside Services Thursday, 9:30 A.M. precisely, Roosevelt Memorial Park, (Sec. Z), Trevose PA. Contributions in her memory may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. www.goldsteinsfuneral.com

GAUGHAN

H E L E N E (nee Fischer), of Phila., on May 4, 2011. She was preceded in death by her husband Richard J. Gaughan. She is the dear mother of Patricia Augustyn (Michael), Susan, Richard, and Linda Klemens (Jon), the loving grandmother of Richard (Lori), Courtney, Drew, Caitlyn, Lindsey, Kristen, Madeleine, and Isabella, and her great grandchildren Riley, and Zachary. Relatives and friends are invited to her Memorial Service on Monday May 16, 2011 at 10:30 A.M. at St. John the Baptist RC Church, 146 Rector St., Phila., PA 19127. Visitation in church from 9:30 A.M. Interment to follow in Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Special Olympics, 1133 19th St., Washington DC NW, 20036-3604. Arrangements by ROBERT P. MONAGHAN FD.

RICHARD J., age 82, of King of Prussia and formerly of Phila., on Monday May 9, 2011. Husband of the late Elizabeth (Gregory) Cole. Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, May 12th at 10:00 A.M. in Mother of Divine Providence R.C. Church, 333 Allendale Rd. King of Prussia. Interment St. Augustine Cemetery, King of Prussia. Relatives and friends may call on Thursday morning from 9:00 to 9:50 A.M. at the church. Memorial contributions may be made to The Pink Sisters of Philadelphia "Convent of Divine Love", 2212 Greene St. Phila., Pa. 19130. S. Arrs. by the BERNARD GUTKOWSKI FUNERAL HOME, INC. of King of Prussia. www.gutkowskifuneralhome.com

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DOROTHY(nee Moore), on May 6, 2011. Loving wife of the late William Edward Frank. Dorothy is survived by her children Phyllis Darrah, and Christopher Frank. Also survived by 5 grandchildren. She was a graduate of Beaver College, a lover of music, a Girl Scout leader, and active member of St. John’s Anglican Church, active member of her community and Questers. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday May 20, 2011 at 10 A.M. at St. Mark’s Reformed Episcopal Church, Beverly and Meetinghouse Roads, Rydal, Pennsylvania. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Mark’s Organ Fund, 1162 Beverly Rd. Rydal, Pennsylvania 19046-3006. HELWEG FH www.helwegfuneralservice.com

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JOSEPH, age 75, of North Cape May; formerly of Bucks County, PA passed away peacefully on Monday, May 9, 2011. He is survived by his wife Patricia; his three children; five grandchildren; and one great grandchild. Funeral Services and Interment will be private. The family suggests contributions in Joseph’s memory to the Love of Linda Cancer Fund, P.O. Box 1053, Wildwood, NJ 08260. To share condolences, please visit www.evoyfuneralhome.com

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DORIS, 92, died Sat., May 7, 2011. Funeral Service will be held Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 9:30 A.M. Viewing will be 8:30 A.M. at Bright Hope Baptist Church, 12th & Cecil B. Moore Ave. Int Ivy Hill Cem. FLETCHER H. TOWNSEND F.H.

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FLORENCE (nee Sack), May 9, 2011, of Bala Cynwyd. Mother of Beth (Dr. Richard) Reisboard, Valerie Swarbrick and William (Gudi) Gilbert. Grandmother of Adam and Lisa Reisboard, Dr. Dana ReisboardKorin, Jeremy and Jenifer Swarbrick, Mark and Amanda Swarbrick and Amy and Daniel Mayer; great grandmother of Isabelle Swarbrick-Mayer, Jaden and Bodhi Mayer, Ethan and Jonah Reisboard, Jordyn, Max and Lilah Swarbrick, Gabriela and James Korin, Gabriel and Owen Swarbrick. Relatives and friends are invited to Services Thursday, LEVINE 1:30 P.M., JOSEPH AND SONS MEMORIAL CHAPEL, 4737 Street Rd., Trevose. Interment Montefiore Cemetery. The family will be at the residence of Valerie Swarbrick after the Interment on Thursday and Sunday evening at 7 P.M. Contributions in her memory may be made to South Jersey JDRF, Crohn’s and Colitis Fdn. of Phila., or Gerda and Kurt Klein Fdn. www.levinefuneral.com

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ANNE M. (born Baumeister), May 8, 2011. Beloved wife of the late Stanley Jackson and the late George McGugan, loving mother of Chuck McGugan (Babe), dear grandmother of Matt McGugan. No viewing, interment private. JOHN R. DEADY FUNERAL HOME

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THOMAS J., of Havertown, on May 9, 2011. Husband of Rosemary (nee Reilly) Loftus; father of Thomas Joseph (Connie) and Kevin (Denise); grandfather of Jessica, Katie, Tom and Jimmy and great grandfather of Liam. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 A.M., Friday, in Sacred Heart Church, Havertown, where family and friends may call 9:30 to 10:45 A.M. Int. St. Denis Cem. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to Sacred Heart School, 109 N. Manoa Rd., Havertown PA 19083. STRETCH of HAVERTOWN www.stretchfuneralhome.com

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ALBERT, JR., on May 10, 2011 of Lindenwold, NJ, age 91. Survived by his loving wife Mary (nee DeCree). Beloved father of Albert (Lorraine) of Laurel Springs and Anthony (Eileen) of Cinnaminson. Proud grandfather of Anthony, Joseph, Eric, Ashlee, Nicholas and Deidre; also 5 great grandchildren. Also survived by 2 sisters Mildred Sweeney and Anne Pollick and 3 brothers John (June) Monte, Louis (Mary) Monte and Gerald Monte. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Viewing Friday 9:30 - 10:45 A.M. D A N K S - H I N S K I FUNERAL HOME, 125 N. White Horse Pike, Lindenwold N.J. Mass of Christian Burial 11 A.M. from St. Lawrence Church, Lindenwold. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, donations to the National Kidney Foundation, Bourse Bldg., Suite 411, 111 S. Independence Mall East, Phila., PA 19106 would be appreciated.

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EDWARD R., JR., May 7, 2011, at age 79, of Wyndmoor, formerly of Roslyn. Beloved husband of the late Nancy (nee Schneider), dear father of Donna, Karen Leimbach (Bill), Edward and Brian, also survived by 4 grandchildren, one great grandchild, nieces and nephews. He proudly served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War. A Reading Railroad and Conrail Employee for over 40 years. He is a member of the V.F.W. Post in Wyndmoor and several other organizations. Viewing 10 A.M. St. Luke the Evangelist Church, Easton and Fairhill Roads, Glenside PA. Mass of Christian Burial 11 A.M. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations to Abington Hospital Hospice, 1250 Maryland Rd., Suite 250, Willow Grove, PA 19090.

McKENNA

THOMAS F., on May 9, 2011, of Laurel Springs, formerly of Phila. Age 63. Beloved husband of Andrea T. (nee Reid), devoted father of Kelly Anne McKenna, loving son of Elizabeth (nee Tynan) and the late Francis, dear brother of Elizabeth McKenna Hunter and Patricia Donahue (Daniel); also survived by nieces and nephews. There will be visitation from 9:15 to 11:15 A.M. Friday morning at Our Lady of Hope Parish, St. Agnes RC Church, 701 Little Gloucester Rd., Blackwood. Funeral Mass 11:30 A.M. in church. Interment private. Family requests in lieu of flowers donations be made in Mr. McKenna’s memory to the cancer charity of the donor’s choice. Family and friends may share memories at www.GardnerFuneralHome.com Arrangements under the direction of GARDNER FUNERAL HOME, RUNNEMEDE & BELLMAWR.

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FLORENCE T. (nee Bertolino) on May 9, 2011. Loving mother of John (Marianne), Gina (Marc) DiNoia and Dana (Ron) Rodriguez; beloved mom mom of Johnny, T.J., Michael, Alyssa, Matthew, Lauren and Jamie. Relatives and friends are invited to her Funeral Mass FRIDAY 11 A.M. Annunciation B.V.M. Church, 10th and Dickinson Sts. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

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FRANCES M. (nee Polaneczky), of Collingswood, NJ, peacefully on May 3, 2011, age 50. Beloved wife of Adam M. Paul; devoted mother of Henry A. and Samuel K Paul; daughter of Aloysius ( and the late Patricia) Polaneczky; sister of Al (Darcy) Polaneczky, Peggy (Paul Schuman) Polaneczky, Pat (Bill) Federowic, Ronnie (Noel Weyrich) Polaneczky, Michael (Janet) Polaneczky, Mary Lou (Chuck) Rittenhouse, Rosemary (Bob) Jenkins and Joey (Rachel Allen) Polaneczky. Frances was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Gwynedd-Mercy College, served at the rank of Captain in the USAF, was a nurse at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phila. and in 2006 became Director of Patient Safety at Cooper Medical Center, Camden. Memorial Gathering Friday, 6:00-9:00 P.M. in B L A K E DOYLE FUNERAL HOME, 226 Collings Ave., Collingswood, NJ. Funeral Gathering Saturday, 9:00 A.M. in First United Methodist Church, 201 Dayton Ave., Collingswood, NJ. Memorial Services Saturday, 11:00 A.M., Pastor Sam Mountain presiding. The family respectfully suggests donations be offered in Fran’s memory to Samaritan Hospice, 5 Eves Dr., Suite 300, Marlton, NJ 08053.

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MARY B. (nee Farley) went to heaven peacefully on May 7, 2011 after a long courageous battle with cancer. Mary was 77 years old and a life-long resident of Roxborough. Mary had worked as a registered nurse and instructor at Roxborough Memorial Hospital retiring in 1974 and also a PA State Inspector of Nursing Homes retiring in 2001. Beloved wife of Edward "Ron" Maiden. Amazing mother to Christopher (Denise) Maiden and Carolyn (Charles) Ruffing. Loving grandmother of Claire and Thomas. Cherished sister of Rev. Bernard Farley, James and John Farley, Catherine "Kate" Gallagher and the late Emily Rafter. She will be missed by her nieces, nephews, friends and colleagues. Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing Thursday 6-8 P.M. THE CLARE McILVAINE MUNDY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 7384 Ridge Ave. (cor. of Wigard Ave.) and again on Friday in church after 9 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. St. John the Baptist Church, 146 Rector St. at Cresson St., Manayunk, PA 19127 followed by her Funeral Mass 11 A.M. Interment Westminster Cem. In lieu of flowers, donations are requested in Mary’s name to St. John the Baptist School Alumni Assn . CLARE McILVAINE MUNDY F.H. INC. 215-482-8878

VINCENZO "JIMMY" on May 9, 2011 in his 98th year, born in Isca Sullo Ionio, Calabria, Italy. Beloved husband of the late Valeria C. (nee Nestico). Devoted father of Marziale, Constantino, Antonio, Maria Lomanno, Lena Messina and Elvira Ferrante; also survived by his 14 loving grandchildren and 7 loving great grandchildren; loving uncle to his nieces and nephews. Jimmy was a life-long PECO employee and a devoted husband and father. Relatives and friends are invited to attend his Viewing and Funeral Thurs. 9 A.M. from Stella Maria Church, 9th and Bigler Sts. Funeral Mass 10 A.M. Ent. Calvary Mausoleum, Cherry Hill, NJ. In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory to Associated Services for the Blind, 919 Walnut St., Suite 410., Phila., PA 19107. GRASSO FUNERAL HOME

FRANK J., age 68, of Bryn Mawr, on May 8, 2011. Husband of Martha E. "Murf" (nee Doran); father of Debbie (Troy), Lisa (Andy), Brian (Mandy); grandfather of Andrew, Justin, and Joey Moore, and Sebastian Pietropaolo; son of Licia and the late Nicholas Pietropaolo; brother of Ralph Pietropaolo and Diane Farren. Funeral Mass will be celebrated 11 A.M., Thursday, in Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, Pennswood Road, Bryn Mawr, where family and friends may call after 9:30 A.M. Interment Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to S.P.C.A., 19 E. Ridge Pike, P.O. Box 222, Conshohocken PA 19428. STRETCH of HAVERTOWN www.stretchfuneralhome.com

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JOSEPHINE I. (nee Kosinski), on May 9, 2011. Dear wife of the late Joseph D. Beloved mother of Michael J. (Jeannie), Thomas J., Patrick J. and the late Christine Rospondek. Also survived by 5 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. Relatives, friends and the All Saints Senior Citizens are invited to her viewing and funeral Friday, 8 A.M., at THE SLABINSKI FUNERAL HOME, 2614 Orthodox St., Phila. Funeral Mass, 10 A.M., St. John Cantius Church. Int. Holy Redeemer Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in Josephine’s memory to St. John Cantius Church would be appreciated by her family.

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SIDNEY, May 10, 2011. Beloved husband of Shirley (nee Burd), beloved father of William Rosenberg and Robert Rosenberg, loving grandfather of Erica (Brian) Zatzkin and Brooke Rosenberg. Relatives and friends are invited to Graveside Services Friday 12 Noon precisely at Montefiore Cem. (Sec. 12) Contributions may be made to Kenccid, 9150 Marshall St., Phila., PA 19114. www.goldsteinsfuneral.com

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D R . GER A LD M. of Holland, PA born in Philadelphia, PA, age 72. He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Carolyn, who he loved dearly, his four children, Dr. Lane Sandler, Todd Sandler, Monica Day and Thomas Roche, III. He was PopPop to 8 grandchildren, and he also leaves behind his brother, Dr. Alan Sandler and his wife Elizabeth Sandler, a niece and nephew and their families. For over 40 years, Dr. Sandler practiced optometry at the Holland Shopping Center and most recently, in Penndel. He will be remembered for his love of music and art, as well as his honesty, humor and integrity. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to MusiCares or Musicopia, organizations that support music and musicians locally and nationally. Relatives and friends are invited to a Memorial Service to be held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. GOLDSTEINS’ precisely ROSENBERG’S RAPHAEL SACKS SUBURBAN NORTH, 310 Second St. Pike, Southampton, PA. The family will observe the period of shiva at his late residence. www.goldsteinsfuneral.com

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THOMAS J. SR., May 6, 2011, of Hershey’s Mill PA, formerly of Wallingford. Survived by his wife, Claire P. (nee Powers); his children, Thomas J. Jr. (Rosann), Kevin M. (Janice) and Maryann Berot (Tom), his grandchildren, Derek, Tiffany, Keri, Peyton, Taryn, Jarret and Hayley and his great grandson Aspen. Predeceased by his brother, Paul Leyden. Tom’s Funeral Mass was Private at SS. Peter and Paul Church. Interment SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery. Contributions in Tom’s memory to, Glaucoma Foundation 80 Maiden Lane Suite 700 New York, New York 10038, would be appreciated. www.danjolell.com

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ALPHONSO E. JR., age 76, on May 10, 2011. Dear father of Sherrie A. (Joseph) Cline, Alphonso C., Steven A. (Kathy), Michael (Hope) Schiavo, Lori (Matthew) Giosa and James Schiavo. Also survived by 12 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren and a sister Maria Scotese. Relatives and friends invited to his viewing Fri. 8:30 A.M. RUFFENACH FUNERAL HOME, 21st St. and Snyder Ave. Funeral Mass St. Edmond Church 10 A.M. Ent. St. Mary Mausoleum, Bellmawr, NJ. Family requests donations to St. Edmond Church, 21st St. and Snyder Ave., Phila. PA 19145.

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RONALD S., May 9, 2011, of Elkins Park PA. Husband of Elaine S. (nee Ingber). Father of Jonathan Slott (Mary Ellen), Valerie Slott (Julie Agresta) and Kate Slott (Andrea Bowen). Grandfather of Sophie Bowen Slott, Gabriel Bowen Slott, Isabella Slott and Hailey Slott. Relatives and friends are invited to Services Friday, May 13, 2011, at 1 P.M., at Congregation Beth Or, 239 Welsh Road, Maple Glen PA. Interment Roosevelt Memorial Park. The family will return Saturday evening to the late residence and respectfully request that contributions in his memory be made to Congregation Beth Or, or to Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Phila., 2100 Arch St., 5th Fl., Phila. PA 19103. www.levinefuneral.com

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MABELLE D. (nee Draper), age 93, on May 7, 2011 of Newtown Square. Beloved wife of the late W.D. Waples and Paul F. Smyth, Sr., devoted mother of Sylvia E. Schlenker (Jerry), William E. "Ted" Waples (Brenda) and J. Robert Waples (Rita), stepmother of Paul F. Smyth, Jr. (Sherry), Donna Smyth and Karen Horn (Albert); also survived by 10 grandchildren and several great and great great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her grandson William E. Waples, Jr. Funeral Service Thursday 12 Noon, Spruce Street Baptist Church, 3701 Gradyville Rd., Newtown Square 19073, where friends 11 A.M. may call after Donations may be sent in her name to the above Church. Interment private. FRANK C. VIDEON, Broomall

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BERTHA S. "BETTY", on May 10, 2011 at the age of 88. Beloved wife of Donald, devoted mother of Donna and Denise (Joseph DiMeo), loving grandmom of Jessica, Robert, David and Stephen. Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing Saturday 9 A.M. to 9:45 A.M., St. Jerome’s Church, 8100 Colfax St, Phila 19136 followed by her Funeral Mass 10 A.M. Interment Resurrection Cem. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to National Down Syndrome Society, 666 Broadway, 8th Fl., NY, NY 10012 in her memory. www.burnsfuneralhome.com 215-637-1414

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MISS SAMMIE BELLE TONEY, 88, passed away May 6, 2011. Arrangements by K N O T T S FUNERAL HOME, Siler City NC

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GEORGE H., of Andorra, April 27, 2011, age 70. Husband of Theresa (nee D’Amico), father of Michael J. Van Osten (Wendy), brother of William and James Van Osten, grandfather of Daniel Sontag. Relatives and friends are invited to call Sat. 9 A.M. followed by Memorial Mass 11 A.M., St. Mary’s at the Cathedral, 630 E. Cathedral Rd. In lieu of flowers donations in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1626 Locust St., Phila., PA 19103. KOLLER FUNERAL HOME

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D. Santoro; owned 7 eateries By Sally A. Downey

for the charity, he was there answering the phones, said David Santoro, 60, of his son, Nicholas. Mount Laurel, owner and opAs a child, Mr. Santoro aterator of seven McDonald’s tended St. Cecilia School in restaurants in South Jersey Pennsauken, and he later and Southeastern Pennsylvacoached youth basketball nia, died Saturday, May 7, at there. More recently, when Resorts Hotel in Atlantic City. the school was in danger of Determination of the cause of closing, he volunteered as a death is pending an autopsy. financial consultant. Mr. Santoro and his wife, Mr. Santoro had season tickTerri Breuer Santoro, spent ets to Eagles, Flyers, Sixers, the occasional weekend in Atand Phillies games and atlantic City, where he enjoyed tended Phillies Dream Week David Santoro, who owned seven McDonald’s restaurants, going to shows and playing appeared with Donovan McNabb for a bobblehead promotion. in Clearwater three times. He card games and video poker tracked all national sports staat the casinos. he put Mr. Santoro in charge. An avid sports fan, Mr. San- tistics and could answer any The owner of four McFour years later, Baim sold toro initiated promotions trivia question, John Durante Donald’s restaurants in Bur- the Delran McDonald’s to Mr. such as free Big Macs to cus- said. lington County and three in Santoro. “He had proved him- tomers when the 76ers scored Besides his wife and son, Delaware County, Mr. San- self as a good store manager, 100 points and free bagels Mr. Santoro is survived by a toro began sweeping floors and he was the logical buyer,” when the Flyers scored four grandson. and taking orders at a McA Funeral Mass will be said said Baim, who now owns goals. Donald’s when he was 15. Afat 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, In 2001, he organized the nine McDonald’s restaurants. ter graduating from Camden Donovan McNabb bobble- May 11, at St. Cecilia Church, Mr. Santoro was treasurer Catholic High School in Cherhead campaign, offering a 4800 Camden Ave., Pennsaury Hill, he continued to work and past president of the Mc- likeness of the then-Eagles ken. Friends may call from at McDonald’s, flipping burg- Donald’s Owner/Operator As- quarterback for $4.49 with 9:30 a.m. Entombment will be ers and cooking fries, while sociation of the Greater Phila- the purchase of any soft at Calvary Mausoleum in earning an associate degree delphia Region, which imple- drink. Cherry Hill. from Camden County Col- ments advertising and marDonations may be made to Mr. Santoro served on the keting for the independently board of Ronald McDonald Ronald McDonald House, 550 lege. At 22, he became manager owned restaurants. House Charities, which re- Mickle Blvd., Camden, N.J. of a McDonald’s in Delran He was dedicated to the ceives funds from Mc- 08103. owned by Ed Baim. company and was a mentor to Donald’s promotions, includWhen Baim opened a new younger restaurant owners, ing sales of Shamrock Shakes Contact staff writer Sally A. McDonald’s in Port Rich- said John Durante, currently around St. Patrick’s Day. Downey at 215-854-2913 or mond in Philadelphia in 1978, the association president. When there was a telethon sdowney@phillynews.com. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

HOWARD T. III, 75, on May 7, 2011. Loving husband of Joanne Peixotto Wallace; father of Brian D. (Jaime), Dean A. (Heather) and the late Scott H. Wallace. Grandfather of Dylan, Bailey, Maceyn, Rylan and Quinn; brother of Shirley Drescher and Deborah Greet. Funeral Service 11 A.M., Friday, May 13, at the Doylestown Presbyterian Church, 127 E. Court St, Doylestown PA 18901, where the family will receive friends after 9:30 A.M. until the time of Service. Int. Grove Methodist Cem., West Chester. Memorials to Doylestown Presbyterian Church. www.shellyfuneralhomes.com

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ROBERT R., age 83, of Phila. on May 7, 2011. Beloved husband of the late Phyllis (nee McAlpin) and loving father of Clifford (Denise), Kenneth (Roxanne), Phyllis and Lucille. Grandfather of 12 and great grandfather of 9. Brother of the late William and Helen. Relatives and friends are invited to Robert’s Life Celebration, Friday, May 13th from 9:30 - 10:30 A.M. at JOHN F. GIVNISH OF ACADEMY RD., 10975 Academy Rd., Phila. followed by his Funeral Service at 10:30 A.M. Interment will follow in Hillside Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society, 1626 Locust St., Phila., PA 19104 would be appreciated. To share your fondest memories of Robert, please visit www.lifecelebration.com

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WAYNE J., on March 31, 2011, of Blackwood NJ. Age 58. Husband of Stefani (nee Covell). Father of Nicole and Jessica Wenger. Grandfather of Cristian. Brother of William Jeffrey (Pat), Kay Capola, David Wenger (Peggy) and Henry Wenger (Kathy). Nieces and nephews. Memorial Service Sat., May 14, 2011, 10 A.M., at Trinity Christian Chapel, 269 Greentree Rd., Sewell NJ. Int. private. In lieu of flowers, donations in Wayne’s memory to Samaritan Hospice, 5 Eves Dr., Ste. 300, Marlton NJ 08053. www.egizifuneral.com

RICHARD J., DDS, age 78, of passed away Moorestown, Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at Samaritan Inpatient Hospice Center at Virtua Memorial Hosp. He was a loyal dentist serving the Burlington County for 50 years. Community Beloved husband of Anne C. (nee Carlin) Van Sciver, devoted father of Marie (Jim) Stavros and Martha (Ken) Tozzi, loving grandfather of Kenny, Brett, Alexis, Katie and Caroline, brother of Eloise Van Sciver, Marjorie Moore, Robert Van Sciver and the late J. Gilbert Van Sciver, Esq. Viewing Thursday Evening from 6 to 8 P.M. and Friday Morning 10:30 to 11:30 A.M. at McCHESNEY FUNERAL HOME, 30 W. Main St., Moorestown NJ. Funeral Mass at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Moorestown at 12 Noon. Burial private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions HARRY T., age 83, of Phila., on May 9, 2011. Retired may be made to Samaritan Ph ilad elp h ia Hospice, 5 Eves Drive., Suite Firefighter and WWII 300, Marlton, NJ 08053. veteran. Beloved husband of Sarah A. JAMES A., age 70, on May 9, (nee Spingler) and loving father 2011. Beloved husband of of Michael F. (Deborah), Mark Vinnie (nee Ranniello); P. (Carmen) and Maureen dear father of James A. Henseling. Also survived by 6 (Susan), Christopher grandchildren and 9 greatand Michael; loving grandchildren. Relatives and grandfather of Christina, Frank, friends are invited to Harry’s Jamie and Danny; dear brother Life Celebration Friday, May of Antoinette Ranniello, 13th, from 9:30 to 11 A.M., at Elizabeth Ringcamp, John the Church of St. Cecilia, 535 Visco and the late Domenic Rhawn St., Phila., followed by Visco; also survived by many his Funeral Mass at 11 A.M. cousins, nieces and nephews. Interment will follow in Our Relatives and friends are invited Lady of Grace Cemetery. In to call Wednesday eve, 7 to 9 lieu of flowers, memorial contriP.M., and to Funeral Thursday, butions to the above named 10 A.M., G A L Z E R A N O Church would be appreciated. FUNERAL HOME, 9304 OLD Life Celebration Service Bustleton Ave. (below Welsh provided by JOHN F. GIVNISH Rd.). Funeral Mass, 11:30 A.M., OF ACADEMY ROAD. Maternity B.V.M. Church. Ent. To share your fondest memories Sunset Memorial Park. In lieu of Harry, please visit of flowers, family prefers www.lifecelebration.com donations to Vitas Hospice at Nazareth Hospital, 2601 Holme Ave., Phila. PA 19152. www.galzeranofh.com

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WILLIAM R., age 84, on May 9, 2011. Beloved husband of Sarah B. (nee Gift), devoted father of Sallyanne Fisher (James), MaryMargaret Geissler (Donald), William R. F., Matthew (Marialena) and Jacqueline Bancroft (Brian); also survived by 7 grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are invited to his Viewing Thursday Eve, 7 to 9 P.M., W A C K E R M A N FUNERAL HOME, 8060 Verree Rd., Phila. PA 19111 and to his Funeral Mass Friday 10:30 A.M. St. Agnes-St. John Nepomucene Church, 4th and Brown Sts., Phila. PA 19123. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory to Jeanes Hospital, Attn: Gifts Coordinator, 7600 Central Ave., Phila. PA 19111, would be appreciated.

vices for the Blind and was INQUIRER STAFF WRITER active on committees for the Patricia Sweet Clutz, 80, of Schuylkill Nature Center and Radnor, a volunteer who the Main Line Art Center. headed fund-raisers for severMrs. Clutz was also a memal organizations, died of com- ber of the women’s commitplications from chronic ob- tee of the Philadelphia Zoo structive pulmonary disease and in 1990 was cochairwomTuesday, May 3, at home. an of the Zoobilee, an annual Mrs. Clutz served on the fund-raiser. It raised a record women’s committees of the amount for the event, said Philadelphia her husband, John J. Clutz Jr. Museum of Art He credited his wife’s taland the Acade- ent as a party planner to her my of Natural “keen mind, quick wit, and a Sciences. In vivid imagination.” the 1980s, she In recent years, Mrs. Clutz was a volun- wrote the introductory article teer publicist for the program for the annufor Super Sun- al Philadelphia Museum of d a y o n t h e Art Craft Show. Parkway, a A graduate of Radnor High Patricia S. fund-raiser School, where she played Clutz sponsored by field hockey, basketball, and the academy lacrosse, Mrs. Clutz earned a and Art Museum. bachelor’s degree from the In 1983, she was chairwom- University of Pennsylvania an for the annual holiday Fair- and played lacrosse for Penn. mount Park Houses tour, She and her husband marsponsored by the Art Muse- ried in 1953. They lived in Balum. timore and Cincinnati, when For several years she was he was with Procter & Gamchairwoman of the Louis ble Co. Braille Award ceremony banThey returned to the Philaquets for the Associated Ser- delphia area in 1958, when he

became an executive for Rohm & Haas Co. and Mrs. Clutz went to work for the Curtis Publishing Co. From 1964 to 1969, she was coordinator of volunteers for the Fairmount Park Houses administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She and her husband then lived in Toronto for six years and in Coral Gables, Fla., for three years before moving to Radnor in 1978. They enjoyed travel and took a cruise to South America in 2004. Besides her husband, Mrs. Clutz is survived by a brother, Kenneth S. Sweet Jr., and a niece. A memorial gathering will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at Merion Cricket Club, 325 Montgomery Ave., Haverford. Donations may be made to the Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Box 7646, Philadelphia 19101. Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or sdowney@phillynews.com.

Paul E. Sullivan, 87; battled segregated swim club in Va. By Elaine Woo

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Paul E. Sullivan, 87, an analyst with the Defense Department who won an important civil-rights victory in 1969 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the whites-only membership policy of his Fairfax County, Va., swim club, died March 14 of complications of a stroke at his Fairfax home, his daughter Maria Sullivan said last week. In 1965, Mr. Sullivan, who was white, moved from his home in the county’s Bucknell Manor development and rented it to Theodore Free-

man, an African American economist who lived there with his wife and children. When Mr. Sullivan bought the home, it came with membership in the nearby swim club. But when the Freemans tried to claim their membership, the club refused to admit them. Mr. Sullivan complained to the board, which responded by expelling his family. He was incensed and became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit with Freeman that sought damages and restoration of their membership. The trial court ruled against them, arguing that the club was private and

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By Walter F. Naedele INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

John C. Williams Jr., 85, of Lafayette Hill, a parttime construction manager at Montgomery County Community College from 1994 to 2006, died of a heart attack April 29 at his home. Born in Pen Argyl, Pa., north of Easton, Mr. Williams graduated from what John C. is now Pen ArWilliams Jr. gyl Area High School. Mr. Williams studied naval science at the University of Virginia and served as an officer on a Navy tender off Bikini Atoll during atomic bomb testing, according to his son, J. Scot. Mr. Williams earned a bachelor’s degree at Lafayette College in 1950 and a master’s at Lehigh University in 1952, both in civil engineering. From 1952 to 1962, he was vice president and general manager at Weighing & Controls, which, his son said, was located in Hatboro. Mr. Williams was executive vice president from 1962 to 1978 for STV Inc, a construction management firm in Douglassville, Berks County. In 1978, he and his wife, Cora, founded Peripheral Systems Inc. in Oley, Berks County, a business that, among other services, provided data processing and records management. A founder of the Boy Scout troop at Plymouth Meeting Evangelical Congregational Church, Mr. Williams was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Data Processing Managers Association, and the National Society of Professional Engineers. Besides his wife and son, Mr. Williams is survived by a daughter, Judi DeAngelis; two grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. A daughter, Alona Mae, died in 1969. A visitation was set from 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 11, at Lownes Funeral Home, 659 Germantown Pike, Lafayette Hill, before an 11 a.m. memorial service there. A graveside service is to be private.

exempt from civil rights laws on public accommodations. As the case wound through the courts for four years, life for Mr. Sullivan, his wife, and eight children was not pleasant. Hate calls were constant, and their mailbox was blown up every Fourth of July. In 1969, the Supreme Court took up the case. Mr. Sullivan was represented by civil-rights lawyer Allison Brown, who argued that the Little Hunting Park club violated the obscure 1866 Civil Rights Act, which granted blacks the same contract rights as whites. In December 1969, the justices ruled 5-3 in Mr. Sullivan’s favor. Justice William O. Douglas, writing for the majority, rejected the Virginia courts’ conclusion that Little Hunting Park had special status as a private social club. By the time the ruling came down, Freeman was no longer Mr. Sullivan’s tenant. But the case, as one of the first successful challenges to the exclusionary practices of pool clubs, was credited with helping to eliminate racially restrictive policies at other community pools. In 1973, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Sullivan decision in a Maryland case involving a black doctor and his family. Despite the harassment, Mr. Sullivan, a Defense intelli- Contact staff writer Walter F. gence analyst for 30 years, Naedele at 215-854-5607 or never left Fairfax County. wnaedele@phillynews.com.

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Weather Report

Wednesday’s Forecast

The blocking pattern in the upper atmosphere that has kept our area sunny, will finally break down over the weekend. Once it does, moisture will be able to return. But then a new blocking pattern will develop, with our area in the wet, cool part of the block.

Wednesday

HIGH

Thursday

LOW

HIGH

71 53

Scranton

LOW

HIGH

Saturday

LOW

78 55

Sunny and pleasant

Sun/Moon

New York

Friday

75 54

Sunny and pleasant

74/48

Sunny and pleasant

75/52

Lancaster 73/50

Asbury Park 68/51

Philadelphia

Wilmington

Full

Trenton 73/49

71/53

72/50

Vineland 71/46

Baltimore

Water Temp

Dover

70/51

Washington

76/57

Regional Forecast

Poconos Partly cloudy skies. High 68.

Atlantic City 63/50

76/51

Cape May

63/50

Marine Forecast

Last

May 17 May 24

New

June 1

First

June 8

Air Quality

The worst pollutant in the region Tuesday was ozone, produced mainly by motor vehicles and power plants. Good (G) . . . . . . . . . . . . 0-50 Carbon monoxide . . . .CO Moderate (M) . . . . . . . 51-100 Nitrogen dioxide . . . . .NO Unhealthful (U). . . . . 101-200 Particulates . . . . . . . . . PA Very Unhealthful (V) . 201-300 Sulfur dioxide . . . . . . .SO Hazardous (H) . . . . . 301-400 Ozone . . . . . . . . . . . . . OZ At a Pollution Standard Index rating of 100, the general population begins to experience irritation and other unhealthful effects.

Tuesday’s Pollution Standard Index

Bristol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . Camden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Norristown. . . . . . . . . . . . Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . Trenton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmington . . . . . . . . . . .

G33 G35 G37 G38 G39 G37 G36 G39

High Pollution Pollutant Forecast Tuesday Wednesday OZ OZ OZ OZ OZ OZ OZ OZ

Manasquan to Cape Henlopen Partly cloudy. Wind northeast at 10-15 knots. Visibility 7-10 miles. Waves 4-6 feet.

Ozone forecast available daily at 1-800-872-7261 and at www.dvrpc.org.

Jersey Shore Sunny to partly cloudy. High 63.

Delaware Bay Partly cloudy. Wind northeast at

Tuesday’s pollen, count and discomfort levels:

Delaware Sunny to partly cloudy. High 70.

Mostly clear skies Wednesday night. Low 51. Mostly sunny Thursday. High 71.

5-10 knots. Visibility 7-10 miles. Waves 1-2 feet.

Cape Henlopen to Virginia Beach Partly cloudy.

Wind northeast at 10-15 knots. Visibility 7-10 miles. Waves 4-6 feet.

G G G G G G G G

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Philadelphia Almanac

Readings taken through 4 p.m.

Philadelphia (Chestnut St.) High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8:26 a.m., 9:11 Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:52 a.m., 3:35 Weather indications s = sunny; pc = partly cloudy; c = cloudy; sh = showers; t = thunderstorms; r = Delaware Breakwater High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3:15 a.m., 3:58 rain; sf = snow flurries; sn = snow; i = ice. Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9:34 a.m., 9:56 City Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Cape May Allentown 74/41/s 74/44/pc 75/46/s High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:26 a.m., 3:22 Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8:52 a.m., 9:12 Atlantic City 73/47/s 63/50/pc 63/49/s Atlantic City (Steel Pier) Baltimore 76/46/s 76/51/pc 76/54/s High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1:52 a.m., 2:48 Harrisburg 74/44/s 75/52/pc 77/54/pc Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8:31 a.m., 8:51 New York 74/54/s 70/50/pc 71/50/s Beach Haven (Little Egg Harbor) Pittsburgh 76/52/pc 79/54/pc 79/58/pc High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4:27 a.m., 5:19 Salisbury, Md. 75/47/s 70/47/pc 70/48/pc Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12:05 p.m. Scranton 73/39/pc 74/48/pc 70/43/s Barnegat Inlet Washington 75/52/s 76/57/pc 76/58/s High tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:02 a.m., 2:54 Low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9:08 a.m., 9:33 Wilmington 76/48/s 72/50/pc 75/53/s

In the Region

Temperatures

Tides Wednesday

p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.

High Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 (3:34 p.m.) Record high for Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 (1896) 3 p.m. humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27% Low Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 (5:43 a.m.) Record low for Tuesday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 (1966) Normal high/low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70/53 High/low same date last year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63/42 Season cooling degree days. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Last season cooling degree days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Normal season cooling degree days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Tuesday’s barometer

6 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.01 rising Noon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30.01 falling 6 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.93 steady

Daylight sky conditions Tuesday 60% clouds with 40% sunshine

Precipitation

HIGH

LOW

68 57

LOW

68 55

Rainy and cool

LOW

68 54

Rainy and cool

Weather at noon Wednesday and forecast high/low temperatures

Minneapolis 81/64 Chicago 80/66 St. Louis 89/67

Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.00 Month through Tuesday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.47 Year through Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.09 Normal through Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.82 Surplus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.27

in. in. in. in. in.

Denver 49/42

Los Angeles 67/58

Low High

Phoenix 87/67

Dallas 86/67

Thunderstorms

City Albany, N.Y. Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston, S.C. Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver Des Moines Detroit Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville

Ice

Tuesday WednesdayThursday 70/43/s 70/45/pc 74/48/s 75/48/pc 64/45/pc 75/50/s 54/34/s 58/35/s 59/40/s 88/67/s 90/68/pc 89/66/pc 56/52/pc 60/49/pc 62/49/pc 68/45/c 63/52/pc 71/53/pc 87/65/pc 78/68/pc 77/66/t 85/60/pc 80/63/t 82/61/t 90/62/c 80/66/t 83/62/t 81/57/pc 85/65/t 85/65/t 78/55/pc 74/58/pc 77/61/t 84/73/c 86/67/t 87/62/pc 75/42/pc 49/42/sh 61/41/pc 94/71/pc 85/65/t 77/53/t 68/53/t 73/57/pc 76/59/t 81/73/r 88/74/pc 86/73/s 90/76/pc 91/74/pc 89/72/t 84/65/pc 84/66/t 84/66/t 92/64/s 92/70/pc 89/68/pc

Tuesday Wednesday 90/79/pc 90/72/pc 72/52/pc 67/48/s 64/55/pc 66/55/sh 68/54/pc 65/55/r 96/75/pc 100/76/s 90/79/pc 89/79/t 88/81/s 89/79/t 79/54/pc 81/57/s 81/48/s 78/52/pc 72/64/pc 70/65/t 73/54/pc 69/48/s 73/46/pc 70/46/pc 82/61/s 88/66/s 72/48/s 68/51/sh 63/50/pc 58/45/sh 90/66/s 89/69/s 90/81/pc 89/79/t 76/55/s 77/55/s 66/46/s 68/46/s 84/55/pc 82/57/pc

Thursday 89/72/pc 64/45/sh 68/55/sh 66/53/sh 100/74/s 90/78/t 87/78/pc 75/54/pc 72/51/t 72/66/t 65/46/s 68/48/pc 79/61/s 64/47/sh 56/42/sh 92/70/s 87/77/t 71/52/pc 68/45/s 82/56/pc

Washington 76/57

Fronts:

Atlanta 90/68 New Orleans 88/70

MEXICO

Cities Abroad City Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Barbados Beijing Berlin Bermuda Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Copenhagen Dublin Havana Hong Kong Jerusalem Johannesburg Kabul

Memphis 91/71

Houston 91/74

Rain Snow

Montreal 68/48 Toronto Boston 69/51 60/49 Detroit 73/57 Pittsburgh New York 79/54 70/50 Philadelphia CANADA

Billings 62/40

Portland 67/46

San Francisco 58/49

Becoming mostly clear Wednesday night. Low 41. Mostly sunny Thursday. High 70. Mostly clear skies Wednesday night. Low 50. Mostly sunny Thursday. High 63.

71 55

Tuesday

Mostly cloudy Cool wtih showers and cooler with a chance of showers

Vancouver 56/46 Seattle 64/45

74/44

75/47

LOW

Monday

s = sunny; pc = partly cloudy; c = cloudy; sh = showers; t = t-storms; r = rain; rs = rain/snow; sf = flurries; sn = snow; i = ice

70/50

Reading

HIGH

Sunday

National Forecast

Sun rises 5:50 a.m., sets 8:05 p.m. Moon rises 1:33 p.m., sets 1:59 a.m.

Allentown Harrisburg

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Stationary Warm Miami 90/74

Cold

City Tuesday WednesdayThursday Kansas City, Mo. 88/74/s 85/65/t 78/52/t Las Vegas 67/51/pc 81/65/s 87/68/s Los Angeles 66/54/s 67/58/s 69/58/s Memphis 89/72/s 91/71/pc 88/66/t Miami 89/73/s 90/74/pc 91/76/pc Minneapolis 84/56/pc 81/64/t 76/52/t New Orleans 89/72/pc 88/70/pc 88/71/pc Orlando 91/67/s 92/70/pc 91/68/pc Phoenix 72/61/s 87/67/s 94/72/s Portland, Maine 56/48/pc 61/44/c 67/43/pc Portland, Ore. 57/48/pc 67/46/sh 62/45/pc Richmond 76/50/s 77/53/pc 77/59/s St. Louis 82/70/sh 89/67/t 85/64/t Salt Lake City 52/41/pc 62/45/pc 71/50/s San Diego 67/56/pc 66/55/s 70/57/s San Francisco 60/49/s 59/49/pc 61/50/pc San Juan 85/77/t 85/75/t 83/73/t Seattle 54/46/pc 64/45/sh 61/44/pc Tampa 89/71/pc 90/74/s 88/72/pc

City London Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Milan Montreal Moscow Nassau New Delhi Paris Prague Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver

Tuesday Wednesday 70/48/pc 68/48/pc 79/52/s 83/54/s 55/37/pc 50/45/sh 84/59/pc 84/58/t 75/52/s 81/59/t 63/45/s 68/48/pc 68/41/pc 63/44/s 90/70/pc 88/75/pc 109/82/pc 107/83/s 75/57/pc 72/50/s 73/48/s 76/51/s 77/72/pc 84/70/pc 77/52/s 80/58/s 66/57/pc 70/57/sh 90/75/pc 91/79/t 75/45/s 70/47/pc 61/50/s 59/49/sh 77/63/pc 63/57/r 61/48/pc 69/51/pc 57/48/pc 56/46/sh

Thursday 65/45/pc 80/55/pc 55/45/sh 84/57/t 77/56/t 72/50/pc 64/44/pc 89/75/pc 106/81/s 68/44/s 76/53/t 85/72/pc 79/56/pc 69/50/sh 93/78/t 67/46/sh 63/49/pc 68/59/r 68/51/pc 57/42/sh

OBITUARIES Robert Stempel

wheel-drives. In the 1970s, Mr. Stempel Former GM chief, 77 recognized the need to cut Former General Motors Co. pollution and make cars more chief executive officer Robert efficient, helping lead a shift Stempel, 77, an engineer who to smaller, more efficient veled the development of the hicles, said Lloyd Reuss, a catalytic converter but was former GM president. Mr. Stempel led the develousted in a boardroom coup, opment of the catalytic condied Saturday in Florida. During his verter, which uses precious three decades metals such as platinum to at the compa- convert the harmful gases ny, Mr. Stem- from combustion into less — AP pel helped to harmful ones. develop many of the fuel-effi- David Mason cient and polluBeatles’ musician, 85 tion-control David Mason, 85, a classical technologies Robert still in use to- musician best known for his Stempel day including distinctive piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles’ recording front-wheeldrive cars, the of “Penny Lane,” died April 29 catalytic converter, and even after a brief battle with leukebattery-powered cars. Mr. mia, according to the All Music Stempel was chairman and online database. The Beatles’ Paul McCartney CEO from 1990 to 1992. “He is the best engineer was looking to embellish “PenI’ve ever worked with in the ny Lane” when he saw Mr. Maworld,” said Stan Ovshinsky, son on television playing the who ran Energy Conversion trumpet on Bach’s BrandenDevices, a car-battery-devel- burg Concerto No. 2 in F Maopment firm where Mr. Stem- jor. The next morning, producpel worked after leaving GM. er George Martin recruited Mr. But Mr. Stempel’s accom- Mason to record with the Fab plishments as an engineer Four. “I did not even know who were overshadowed by his the Beatles were when I was asked to do a recording session short tenure as CEO. He and his management with them,” he told England’s team were forced out after Bath Chronicle in 2003. He went to the 1967 session GM’S North American operawith nine trumpets and “by a tions lost billions of dollars. While he wasn’t blamed for process of elimination” settled all the losses, Mr. Stempel on the B-flat piccolo trumpet for the high-pitched solo, he latand his team were seen as er said. No music was written moving too slowly to fix the ahead of time. Instead, McCartcompany’s problems. ney sang what he wanted to The Trenton native earned hear, Martin wrote out the a bachelor’s degree in science notes, and Mr. Mason played at Worcester Polytechnic In- them. “The actual recording stitute in Massachusetts and was done quite quickly,” he a master’s in business admin- said in the 1989 book The Beatistration from Michigan State les Recording Sessions. “They University, according to GM’s were jolly high notes.” Heritage Center website. Mr. Mason also contributed Mr. Stempel started out at to several other Beatles’ songs Oldsmobile in 1958 as a detail- recorded in 1967: “A Day in the er in chassis design and was Life,” “Magical Mystery Tour,” part of the team in 1966 that and “All You Need Is Love.” helped develop the Toronado. Mr. Mason studied at LonHe designed the car’s front don’s Royal College of Music suspension and developed and was a trumpet professor the mounting system for the at the school for 30 years. He engine and transmission. It eventually was principal trumwas the first American front- pet for the Royal Philharmonic wheel-drive car in nearly Orchestra, the New Philharmothree decades. nia Orchestra, Covent Garden Most cars today are front- Opera, and the English Chamwheel-drive. They are lighter ber Orchestra. and more efficient than rear— Los Angeles Times

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Statue back in its finery for spring Craig Johnson used pressurized water to bring a Robert Laurent sculpture back to full glory on Kelly Drive at the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial. “Spanning the Continent” (1937) had been under protective wax since 1987.

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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver announce their separation. But why? E4.

TV Tonight

Better With You: When Mia goes into labor, she and Casey decide it’s time to get married — before the baby comes. 8:30 p.m., 6ABC

Criminal Minds: Bodies are found buried in the seafloor off Florida. One may be Morgan’s cousin. 9 p.m., CBS3

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¢ Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack, 12:40 p.m., Chester

Horse Racing

¢ Reading Phillies vs. New Hampshire Fisher Cats, 6:35 p.m., FirstEnergy Stadium, Reading ¢ Trenton Thunder vs. Binghamton Mets, 7:05 p.m., Waterfront Park, Trenton ¢ Wilmington Blue Rocks vs. Salem Red Sox, 6:35 p.m., Frawley Stadium, Wilmington

Local Events Minor-League Baseball

¢ Mississippi State at Mississippi, 7:30 p.m. (ESPNU)

College Baseball

¢ SEC quarterfinals: noon, 2:30, and 5 p.m. (ESPNU); 7:30 p.m. (ESPN2)

College Softball

¢ ATP: Italian Open, 1:30 p.m.; 6 a.m. Friday

Tennis on Tennis Channel unless noted

¢ European PGA: Iberdrola Open, 9 a.m. ¢ PGA: The Players Championship, 1 p.m.

Golf on Golf Channel unless noted

¢ Game 7: Red Wings at Sharks, 9 p.m. (Versus), if necessary

NHL Conference Semifinals

¢ Game 6: Bulls at Hawks, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

NBA Conference Semifinals

¢ Rays at Indians, noon (MLB Network) ¢ Royals at Yankees, 7 p.m. (MLB Network)

TV/Radio Baseball

THURSDAY

¢ Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack, 12:40 p.m., Chester

Horse Racing

¢ Wilmington Blue Rocks vs. Salem Red Sox, 6:35 p.m., Frawley Stadium, Wilmington ¢ Trenton Thunder vs. Reading Phillies, 7:05 p.m., Waterfront Park, Trenton

Minor-League Baseball

¢ MLS: Union vs. Los Angeles Galaxy, 7:30 p.m., PPL Park

Local Events Soccer

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WEDNESDAY

TV/Radio Baseball

¢ Phillies at Marlins, 7 p.m. (CSN; WPHT-AM 1210, WUBA-AM 1480: Spanish) ¢ Cardinals at Cubs, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

NBA Conference Semifinals

¢ Game 5: Celtics at Heat, 7 p.m. (TNT) ¢ Game 5: Grizzlies at Thunder, 9:30 p.m. (TNT)

Tennis on Tennis Channel unless noted

¢ ATP: Italian Open, 1:30 p.m.; 6 a.m. Thursday

Soccer

¢ MLS: Los Angeles Galaxy at Union, 7:30 p.m. (TCN)

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Bernard Hopkins will challenge champion Jean Pascal for the WBC light-heavyweight title on May 21 in Montreal.

BUSINESS

GAMBLING

Pa. tables erode A.C.’s share

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What Skype offers to its users

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Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion As company tries to catch Google, acquisition is its biggest ever. By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Steve Lohr

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it would buy Skype Global, the Internet telephone service, for $8.5 billion in cash, in its largest acquisition ever. In Skype, Microsoft is acquiring the leader in Internet voice and video communications, with 107 million us-

ers per month who are each connected for an average of more than 100 minutes a month. “It’s an amazing customer imprint,” Microsoft chief executive officer Steven A. Ballmer said in an interview. “And Skype is a verb, as they say.” He was referring to many people’s use of the word Skype to mean online telephoning. Ballmer did not mention Google

Inc., Microsoft’s archrival, whose name is used as a verb in Internet search — a market where Microsoft is spending heavily to try to catch Google, making some recent progress but at great financial cost. “Google is way behind Skype, and getting ahead of Google in this market was certainly an incentive for Microsoft,” See SKYPE on C5

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Gambling at the Borgata: Atlantic City revenue from table

games fell 15.4 percent, to $80.9 million, from a year ago.

Pa. table games eat into A.C. profits The resort’s casinos have cut jobs and lost market share since the Pa. debut. By Suzette Parmley

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

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Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer (left) with Skype chief Tony Bates, who will head the new Microsoft Skype Division.

A chance for Microsoft to regain some magic Will Microsoft end the magic of Skype, or improve it? That’s the $8.5 billion question. You may not use the Internet-based phone and video-calling service, but chances are that you have kids or grandkids who do. For a young person on a budget, what’s not to like about free video calls — a futurist’s dream of my own youth — or free overseas phone calls? When she’s not working late, my 22-year-old daughter Skypes nightly with her boyfriend in another city, and visits frequently with other far-flung college friends. And yes, they all use Skype as a verb — even the English majors among them. With Skype, you can call anywhere in the world for free — audio alone, or audio plus video. All you need is a fast Web connection, the desire to connect with someone else hooked up to the Internet, and a tolerance for frozen frames and other passing imperfections that go with a peer-to-peer, real-time service.

Market Summary

Elantra gets a cool new look. It has a big-car feel, and all the accompanying benefits and drawbacks.

Price: $19,980. $22,110 with

options. (Entry-level starts at $14,830, but you have to shift and work the clutch.)

Marketer’s pitch: The compact

car other compact-car makers don’t want you to know about.

Conventional wisdom: Hyun-

dai has come far from its early days, when it marketed the inappropriately named Excel.

PhillyInc

Dow Jones industrial average.

Last four weeks: +4.05% Tuesday 12,760.36 Up 75.68

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Skype’s Internet phone service offers free

calling — audio alone, or audio plus video.

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Skype even comes with “screen sharing,” which allows you to share what you’re viewing — say, work projects, photos, or YouTube videos. Sometimes, my daughter and her boyfriend watch TV, movies, or sports events “together”: each on a computer seeing the same screen and, in a separate window, each other. See JEFF GELLES on C5

Market mover:

Stocks, fueled by corporate deals all year, again go higher. C5.

Hyundai keeps refining its slick Elantra

2011 Hyundai Elantra Limited: Redesigned for 2011, the

ATLANTIC CITY — Table games are not even a year old at Pennsylvania casinos, but they are already claiming market share and jobs in the casino industry here. While slots revenue has been free-falling for four years, figures released Tuesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement confirmed what had been suspected since poker and blackjack debuted in Pennsylvania in July — the new competition would eat into what had been 25 percent of Atlantic City’s revenue. Total casino revenue among 11 gambling halls fell 7.1 percent last month, to $289.4 million, from April 2010, according to the DGE. While slots revenue took a 3.4 percent hit, revenue from table games registered a 15.4 percent decrease, to $80.9 million. Reflective of tables’ precip-

Reality: The Elantra has

grown up. And like most grown-ups, it’s big, eats a lot, and is not always a lot of fun.

First glance: The newly de-

signed Elantra’s big-car-ness appears at first sight. I was surprised that it was only about a foot longer than my Protege5. The design pays homage to the Honda Civic, and that’s not a bad place to start.

On the road: The 1.8-liter four-

cylinder and six-speed automatic with Shiftronic worked smoothly and didn’t draw attention to themselves. Hyundai See HYUNDAI ELANTRA on C5

The Hyundai Elantra has evolved into more of a big-car feel,

which brings benefits to many drivers, but it’s lost some of the small-car handling fun. In mixed driving, it got 30 m.p.g.

itous slide, during the same month five years ago before casinos sprang up in Pennsylvania, the then-dozen Atlantic City casinos reported $440.2 million in revenue. Of that, $324.2 million, or nearly 74 percent, came from slot machines. The rest, $116 million, came from table games. That is a 30 percent decrease in five years. This week, at least three casinos — the Borgata, Trump Taj Mahal, and Trump Plaza — confirmed they had cut staff for blackjack and other table games. Borgata released 50 such workers on Monday. Brian Cahill, spokesman for Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., said the new regulatory structure at the resort, along with the economy, drove the decision. “Decisions such as these are never easy,” Cahill said. “We do not take them lightly or without compassion for all of our colleagues.” Legislation to ease regulations here, known as S-12, was signed into law by Gov. Christie on Feb. 1 and allows Atlantic City casinos more flexibility in deciding their staffing levels. See TABLE GAMES on C5

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Small-business signs still less than robust I don’t like to wring my hands too much over one set of economic data. The $15 trillion U.S. economy is far too complex to fixate on only one aspect of it. The direction of employment, or rather unemployment, gets and deserves a lot of attention, but it’s not the only thing that matters when it comes to economic health. While I’m inclined to view Friday’s announcement that the economy created more than 200,000 jobs for the third straight month as very positive, it wasn’t the blowout statistic that I think forecasters have been rooting for. The economic recovery may be 22 months old, but I’m impatient for the business mood to switch to risk-taking from risk-forsaking. Sure, mergers-and-acquisitions activity seems to have picked up at the Fortune 500 level. That’s cold comfort to small businesses that are simply looking for their sales to pick up. Small business is a big deal for the U.S. economy, with half of all Americans working for a business

with fewer than 500 employees. On Tuesday, the National Federation of Independent Business said its monthly Small Business Optimism Index fell 0.7 points for April after a March decline of 2.6 points. The Washington trade group described the recovery of the small-business indicators it tracks as “especially anemic” compared with the aftermath of the 1980-82 recession. Chris G. Christopher Jr., senior principal economist for IHS Global Insight, noted that the net percentage of small firms that said they intended to hire has stagnated at 2 percent. “Not a very robust number,” he said in a note. We may like to think of economic recoveries as being like rising tides lifting all boats, but the captains’ comfort levels depend on what shape their boats are in. Because small businesses are much more exposed to construction and consumer spending, they are feeling the deleterious effects of a post-bubble housing market and See PHILLY INC on C5

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affairs official, Olli Rehn, said that Portugal would have to pay more than 5.5 percent in interest for its rescue loans — more than what Greece has to pay for its bailout. Greece currently has to pay just above 4 percent for its bailout, while Ireland’s interest rate is at 5.8 percent. However, Rehn said he expected a deal among eurozone states to lower Ireland’s interest rate “shortly.” The yield on Portugal’s 10-year bond has been over 9 percent for weeks, an unsustainable level that shows investors do not trust Portugal to pay back its loans. — AP

In the Region Judge acquits ex-Glaxo attorney

A former GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. attorney who had been accused of covering up the company’s improper marketing of its antidepressant drug Wellbutrin SR won acquittal by a federal judge at her criminal trial. The pharmaceutical company has major operations in the Philadelphia area. Lauren Stevens, of Durham, N.C., was cleared of wrongdoing Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Roger Titus in Greenbelt, Md., before the case went to the jury. Titus ended the trial after prosecutors presented their evidence for 10 days and before Stevens’ lawyers offered her defense. Federal judges rarely dismiss cases before jurors can decide the outcome. Prosecutors charged Stevens, a former vice president and associate general counsel for London-based Glaxo, with impeding an inquiry in 2002 and 2003 by federal regulators into the marketing of the drug for unapproved uses. — Bloomberg News

Vishay to sell $150M in debt

Vishay Intertechnology Inc., Malvern, said it was selling to institutional investors $150 million worth of debt securities that will pay 2.25 percent interest annually. The maker of chips and electronic parts will use the proceeds plus available cash to repurchase outstanding shares of its common stock, which Vishay said might increase the share price or prevent a decline. The stock hit a 52-week high of $19.08 on April 29. It closed Tuesday at $17.73, up 82 cents. — Paul Schweizer

Elsewhere U.S. home sales rise, prices fall Existing-home sales rose 8.3 percent nationally in the first quarter from the last three months of 2010, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. But sales were 0.8 percent below the 2010 first quarter. The median price in this year’s quarter was $158,700, down 4.6 percent from $166,400 the year before. Association chief economist Lawrence Yun said lower-priced housing accounted for the largest share of the 2011 quarter’s sales because those homes are favored by investors and cash buyers. — Alan J. Heavens

Scrushy wins reversal on two counts

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A store advertised big discounts in Athens but is now shut. With Greece still stuck in recession,

European nations are debating new support to keep it from defaulting on part of its huge debt — a step officials warn would rattle banks across Europe and hurt the continent’s recovery.

New Microsoft policy on phone data Microsoft Corp., responding to privacy concerns raised against makers of smartphone software, said it would stop logging and storing location data that can be traced back to specific handsets. Microsoft said in a blog post Monday that it was taking steps to eliminate the use and storage of the so-called unique device identifier from smartphones using its Windows 7 operating system. The number serves as an ID for the gadget. Federal lawmakers have increased scrutiny of how consumer data are collected from smartphones and tablet computers. Apple Inc. and Google Inc. defended how they gather location data from mobile devices Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the topic. — Bloomberg News

U.S. cuts oil-cost forecast The Energy Department reduced its crude oil price forecast for 2011 as demand growth slips, non-OPEC production increases, and stockpiles climb. West Texas Intermediate oil will average $102.67 a barrel this year, down from April’s projection of $106.38, the department said in its monthly Short-Term

Energy Outlook. Crude prices in 2012 will average $107, a decrease from last month’s estimate of $113.50. The department cut its forecast for global oil consumption for this year to 88.08 million barrels a day from 88.2 million estimated last month, the report showed. Demand will be 1.6 percent higher than last year’s average of 86.68 million and will climb to 89.66 million in 2012. — Bloomberg News

Disney profit, revenue disappoint

Wendy’s/Arby’s loss narrows

Walt Disney Co. reported lower-than-expected net income and revenue for the second quarter, due to the poor box-office performance of “Mars Needs Moms” and the temporary closure of theme parks in Japan from the earthquake and tsunami. Net income for the three months ended April 2 fell to $942 million, or 49 cents per share, from $953 million, or 48 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue grew 6 percent to $9.08 billion from $8.58 billion a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet were looking for earnings of 57 cents per share on $9.12 billion in revenue. — AP

Portugal to pay more for bailout The European Union’s top monetary

Richard Scrushy, the former chief executive officer of HealthSouth Corp., won reversal of two convictions from his 2006 criminal trial, while the U.S. appeals court affirmed four other counts. The appellate panel in Atlanta sent the case back to the trial court for resentencing after reviewing the charges for a second time. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the reexamination last year after narrowing the scope of a federal law making it a crime to deprive citizens and shareholders of the honest services of public and corporate officers. The three-judge panel upheld two of the honest-services convictions against Scrushy and former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, while overturning two other such counts relating to the former CEO’s alleged self-dealing with the former governor’s help. — Bloomberg News Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. plans to raise prices, following in the footsteps of competitors such as McDonald’s Corp. The company also cut its earnings outlook because of rising costs for beef and other ingredients. The announcement also came as the company reported a first-quarter loss and said revenue at Wendy’s locations had stagnated. Wendy’s/Arby’s net loss of $1.4 million, or break-even per share, was narrower than the loss of $3.4 million, or 1 cent per share, in the same quarter last year. Excluding a charge, the most recent quarter’s earnings were 1 cent per share. Analysts expected earnings of 2 cents per share. Revenue rose about 1 percent to $848 million, beating analysts’ expectations of $820 million. Last month, much larger rival McDonald’s said it expected to raise prices as well, after already raising them 1 percent in early March. — AP

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Bearish on N.J.

Gov. Christie has won taxpayer support for trimming state and local spending. But among investors, New Jersey’s financial reputation has kept going down. Moody’s cut New Jersey’s bond rating to Aa3 last month, after S&P cut it to AA- in February. Both cited the state’s high debt load, which looks more like cash-strapped Michigan than neighboring Pennsylvania. Investor worries are costing taxpayers millions: New Jersey had to pay investors 5.47 percent annual interest for its new $600 million highway bond issue, compared, for example, with a lower-rated Drexel University construction-finance bond that

sold for just 5.45 percent, notes Alan Schankel, municipal bond analyst at Janney Capital Markets. Drexel trustees can’t tax or toll, but bond buyers consider them more trustworthy than the New Jersey General Assembly. Meanwhile, New Jersey is recovering from the recession more slowly than its neighbors because Christie’s cuts in state and local government jobs have left more workers unemployed, Schankel notes. The state hopes short-term pain will pay off as debt finally stabilizes.

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How do you explain to your long-suffering shareholders that you’d rather keep your job, instead of accepting your competitor’s aggressive takeover offer? They can’t afford us seems to have worked for Tenet Healthcare Corp. The chain that owns Hahnemann Hospital repeatedly disparaged, not just the prices rival Community Health Systems quoted in three takeover offers, but also Community’s ability to borrow and pay for an acquisition, given its existing debt load and a government review of its Medicaid reimbursement practices. Late Monday, Community finally gave up on Tenet after its latest rejection. Pulse Electronics, of Philadelphia, is using a similar line in resisting a would-be buyout by rival Bel Fuse of New Jersey, suggesting its richer but smaller would-be acquirer would have a tough time paying for the deal. Investors’ adviser Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. lent support to Pulse’s claim Monday when it questioned the “financing risk” Bel faces if it has to borrow money to pay for the deal.

records under the state’s two-year-old Right to Know law is reeling from a state court decision that could force it to hold hearings every time a state agency or public figure resists making records public. A three-judge panel headed by Commonwealth Court Judge P. Kevin Brobson ruled last week that the Office of Open Records should have held a hearing to review whether officials need to disclose letters and memos written in connection with directors they appoint to private, nonprofit groups. Brobson ruled in a dispute in which Jonathan Bari of Philadelphia, who owns Constitutional Walking Tours, has

tried to get public officials who control board seats at the nonprofit Independence Visitor Center Corp. to explain why they chose Ride the Ducks to occupy choice office and curbside real estate at the privately run but publicly supported center, leaving guys like Bari with less-desirable locations. Some organizations that depend on government funds, including Temple University, are included in the open-records law. But if a governor’s or mayor’s appointment to a nonprofit board were forced to make that board’s actions public, it would force disclosure of what goes on at “countless private, not-for-profit corporations,” the

judges wrote. As if that were bad. Michael D. Fabius, of the law firm Ballard Spahr, which represented the center, called the ruling “significant.” “It’s the first time the court has ordered the Office of Open Records to conduct a hearing,” says Terry Mutchler, director of the office. “The Right to Know law was designed so citizens would have quicker and broader access to records of the Commonwealth. This definitely slows down the process.” She’s considering an appeal. Contact columnist Joseph N. DiStefano at 215-854-5194 or JoeD@phillynews.com.

Baby Boomers Now Fear Memory Loss MoreThan Cancer Mayo Clinic guidelines detailed in top-selling brain health book may help prevent mental decline; reveals natural formula shown to ‘help fight memory loss’

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON – When do normal, everyday memory problems become a cause for concern? That’s a question that crosses the minds of millions of Americans 50 and older, everyday. According to a MetLife/Harris survey, older Americans are now more concerned about losing their cognitive abilities than they are about cancer, heart disease or stroke. “There’s a dark cloud of uncertainty when it comes to severe memory loss,” says America’s leading brain expert, Joshua Reynolds. “People are scared and worried.” That’s why Reynolds is offering adults 50 and older a free supply of the world’s first clinically validated memory pill along with a free copy of his enlightening blockbuster, 20/20 Brainpower: 20 Days to a Quicker, Calmer, Sharper Preeminent Mind. brain expert, His top-selling author Joshua book contains vital Reynolds reveals brain information and easy-to-do prerejuvenation techniques in ventive measures his top-selling to help ward off book. mental decline. It’s an effort rooted in a decadeslong quest to keep the brain, youthful and alert. Over the course of a 40-year-long career, Reynolds has done for the human brain what fitness gurus Jack Lalanne and Jane Fonda have done for the body. And he sees big changes ahead.

“It marks a sea-change in US population shift.For the next 18 years, 10,000 Americans a day will turn 65. We’re facing an epidemic of memory loss.” During his lifetime of research, Reynolds became aware of a common yet easily corrected brain condition that, if left untreated, could have alarming consequences for every adult in America.

Are Aging Brains Stuck in the Slow Lane? “We discovered that as your brain ages it can run low on a vital fuel called neurotransmitters,” says Reynolds. “These are like hi-octane additives in gasoline. When the octane drops too low, your car sputters, and loses power.The same thing happens to the brain.” “If you’re over the age of 45, and experiencing symptoms like mental fatigue and sluggishness, poor concentration, and frequent forgetfulness, says Reynolds, there’s a good chance your brain needs a neurotransmitter boost.” A few years ago, Reynolds and a team of scientists began looking for a safe, drug-free way to oxygenate aging brains and replenish sagging levels of neurotransmitters, the brain fuel that’s crucial for thinking, focus and memory. He identified three natural extracts with a long history of safe use that have a ‘powerful effect’ on aging brains: acetyl-l-carnitine, huperzine, and vinpocetine.

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Cisco Systems earnings

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Cisco’s earnings should give more details about the company’s plans to remake itself. The world’s largest maker of networking equipment wants to be more efficient in bringing products to market. So it killed its Flip video camera business earlier this year and said it would stop selling some of its products to consumers. Investors are eager for signs of a turnaround; Cisco’s stock has fallen 32 percent over the past year.

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Rate 4.64 1.75

Close: $6.63 0.11 or 1.7% Community Health Systems ended its effort to buy its competitor after the hospital operator rejected its latest $4 billion-plus offer. $8

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JASO

M A 52-week range

Close: $6.48 0.38 or 6.2% The solar energy company’s quarterly profit rose 78 percent, topping Wall Street estimates, as customers bought more solar cells. $9

$29.73

PE: 10.9 Vol.: 120.5m (1.9x avg.) Yield: 2.5% Mkt. Cap: $216.47 b SOURCE: Sungard

$4.22

Vol.: 17.7m (1.8x avg.) Mkt. Cap: $1.1 b

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Forn. curr. Dollar in Country in dollars forn. curr. Argentina .2450 4.0821 Australia 1.0828 .9236 Brazil .6221 1.6075 Britain 1.6349 .6117 Canada 1.0429 .9589 Chile .002149 465.35 China .1540 6.4931 Colombia .000559 1789.50 Dominican Rep .0264 37.94 Egypt .1682 5.9435 Euro 1.4396 .6947 Hong Kong .1286 7.7736 India .0224 44.683 Indonesia .000117 8557.50 Israel .2896 3.4530 Japan .012380 80.78 Malaysia .3346 2.9886 Mexico .086513 11.5590 Peru .3582 2.792 Philpins .0233 42.99 Russia .0361 27.7162 Saudi Arab .2666 3.7504 Singapore .8112 1.2327 So. Africa .1481 6.7504 So. Korea .000926 1080.04 Sweden .1605 6.2305 Switzerlnd 1.1350 .8811 Taiwan .0349 28.61 Thailand .03314 30.18

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+17.0%

2010

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Last 98.25 5.91 4.49 12.50 17.73

Largest losses Stock Entercom Gramrcy JonesGrp InstFnMkts Dorman

Last 9.13 2.27 12.96 3.72 37.52

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Wednesday Spotlight: Telecom/Media Companies based in the area and selected major competitors. Stock AT&T Inc Comcast DirecTV A EchoStar Entercom InterDig LibtyMIntA NewsCpB SprintNex TimeWarn VerizonCm

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Vol.: 38.9m (38.9x avg.) Mkt. Cap: $508.47 m

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PE: ... Yield: ...

Close: $5.46 1.01 or 22.7% The owner of proprietary rights to “American Idol” and Elvis Presley’s name and image is being sold for about $511 million. $6 4

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LocalStockSpotlight

7501.52 6018.89 23336.00 4052.51 35678.92 9818.76 64876.90

$10.13

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PE: 11.9 Vol.: 14.4m (2.5x avg.) Yield: 3.8% Mkt. Cap: $4.77 b

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Vol.: 25.0m (5.6x avg.) Mkt. Cap: $2.24 b

Close: $25.67 -0.16 or -0.6% The software giant is buying popular Internet telephone service Skype for $8.5 billion, the biggest deal in its 36-year history. $28

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Close: $15.64 -0.29 or -1.8% The tax preparer’s shares sank for a second day on fears that mortgage bond investors may force it buy back billions in bad home loans. $18

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history. The Dow rose 75.68 points, or 0.6 percent, to close at 12,760.36. The S&P 500 index rose 10.87 points, or 0.8 percent, to 1,357.16. The Nasdaq composite gained 28.64 points, or 1 percent, to 2,871.89. DF H&R Block HRB

Close: $12.24 1.26 or 11.5% The country’s largest milk producer raised its earnings forecast for the year. It said it will cut costs and likely raise prices. $14

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est.

$0.40

$0.36

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4Q ’11

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based on past 12 months’ results

Source: FactSet

Stocks with the most shares outstanding. Stock

10 DAYS

$20

Widely Held Stocks

Close: 2,871.89 Change: 28.64 (1.0%)

Businesses are spending more on technology, and that means they’ll also need to spend more to safeguard their computers and protect sensitive data. That should help Symantec, the security software maker. The company makes a range of tools to encrypt data and help consumers backup their files. But Symantec is also facing higher sales and marketing costs, which could have hurt its results in the latest quarter.

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1,320

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Rising oil prices likely pushed the U.S. trade deficit higher in March. Economists are forecasting that the deficit totaled $47 billion, up from $45.8 billion in February. The Commerce Department’s report will also show whether U.S. exports rose. If so, that will be a plus for the economy and would offset some of the impact of more expensive oil.

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+.08

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65.48

+.62

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12.35

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29.60

+.05

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+.28

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9.57

+.11

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+.29

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11.04

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+.26

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11.04

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39.73

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11.04

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32.64

+.21

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25.35

+.23

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17.66

+.09

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34.51

+.28

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+.22

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64.88

+.53

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+.19

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+.21

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36.51

+.18

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13.47

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124.32 +1.00

37.98

+.35

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124.33 +1.00

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10.88

13.47

+.01

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72.08

+.50

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10.78

-.01

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31.87

+.17

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10.68

-.03

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14.59

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92.86

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16.69

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42.46

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34.28

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76.27

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34.28

+.30

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48.10

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34.27

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+.01

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32.97

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56.94

+.27

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28.18

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Chg %Chg

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7.77 41.58 2.30 5.69 6.27 6.61 1.79 23.02 16.76 18.79 138.94 57.05 42.52 86.60 37.90 4.00 63.60 20.53 86.24 98.25 32.73 9.50 29.46 43.15 56.41 16.46 32.90 37.57 19.37 17.73 43.25 47.44 4.50

-0.02 -0.3 +0.20 +0.5 +0.10 +4.5 +0.15 +2.7 +0.07 +1.1 +0.17 +2.6 ... ... +0.46 +2.0 +0.23 +1.4 +0.40 +2.2 +1.77 +1.3 +0.83 +1.5 +0.67 +1.6 -0.64 -0.7 +0.70 +1.9 +0.02 +0.5 +0.51 +0.8 +0.42 +2.1 +0.93 +1.1 +9.70 +11.0 +0.21 +0.6 +0.18 +1.9 +1.32 +4.7 +0.66 +1.6 +1.00 +1.8 +0.36 +2.2 +1.47 +4.7 +0.33 +0.9 +0.19 +1.0 +0.82 +4.8 +0.46 +1.1 +0.56 +1.2 +0.07 +1.6

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Another corporate deal sends the markets higher By Stan Choe and Matthew Craft ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Corporate deals and strong earnings have been credited with driving stocks higher this year — and Tuesday saw a bit of each. The biggest news, that Microsoft Corp. said it would buy Internet telephone service Skype for $8.5 billion in cash, is another sign that cash-rich companies are starting to spend. Corporations built up a record amount of cash over the last several years, and they have started using it to buy rivals, pay dividends, and expand their businesses. That, in turn, has led to increased confidence among money managers and other investors that stocks will continue to rise. Large companies also want to put their cash stockpiles to work because they’re getting minimal returns on them, said Oliver Pursche, president of Gary Goldberg Financial Services. Interest rates for shortterm savings pay less than 1 percent. “The crisis is behind us,” he said. Companies “don’t need this much cash anymore.” Microsoft had $50.15 billion in cash and short-term investments at the end of March. The Skype purchase would be Microsoft’s largest in its 36-year history. It follows AT&T Inc.’s announcement in March that it would buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion and Johnson & Johnson’s $21.3 billion deal announced last month to acquire Synthes, a West Chester maker of medical instruments and implants. CKX Inc., which owns the rights to the names and images of Mu-

hammad Ali and Elvis Presley, jumped more than 22 percent after it agreed to be bought by privateequity investors. The buyout group will pay about $511 million for the company, which also owns the American Idol television show. Also Tuesday, dairy producer Dean Foods Co. and Medifast Inc. reported earnings that beat analysts’ expectations. Dean had a stronger start to the year than it expected and raised its forecast for full-year earnings. The company also said it would raise prices to help combat falling milk sales. Dean jumped 11.5 percent. Medifast, which operates a weightloss program, rose 17.9 percent. Boston Scientific Corp. sank 9 percent after the medical-device company said its president and CEO, Ray Elliott, would retire at the end of the year. The company is looking for his replacement. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75.68 points, or 0.60 percent, to close at 12,760.36. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 10.87 points, or 0.81 percent, to 1,357.16. The Nasdaq composite index gained 28.64 points, or 1.01 percent, to 2,871.89. Stocks have risen sharply in 2011, driven by strong earnings reports from major U.S. companies such as heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. and Apple Inc. The S&P 500 is up 8 percent, more than it gained in five of the last 10 full calendar years. Companies in the S&P 500 are on track to report first-quarter earnings growth of 19 percent, according to FactSet. That’s far ahead of the 11 percent that analysts were forecasting at the end of 2010.

Skype

and smaller companies, analysts said, picking off technical teams that are then folded into Microsoft products likes Windows, Office, Continued from C1 and Internet Explorer. But during said Leif-Olf Wallin, an analyst for Ballmer’s tenure as chief execuGartner Inc. in Sweden. tive, beginning in 2000, the compaBallmer said Microsoft planned ny has also made far larger, riskier to expand Skype’s business and in- bids, most of which have been ject its voice-and-video technology viewed as unsuccessful. across the spectrum of Microsoft The Microsoft acquisition is the products, from consumer offerings second time a technology giant has such as Xbox to its Office produc- acquired Skype. tivity software. In 2005, eBay bought Skype for Despite its popularity, the ser- $2.6 billion with hopes of tightly intevice has struggled to maintain prof- grating the service as a sales tool. itability. Since most of its services But the deal never lived up to its are free, Skype makes much of its promise and eBay took a $1.4 billion income from a small group of us- write-down on its investment. ers who pay for long-distance calls Skype was sold several years latto telephone numbers. In 2010, er to a consortium of investors. Skype recorded $859.8 million in The boards of both companies revenue but reported a net loss of have approved the deal. $7 million, according to a filing. Tony Bates, the current head of Microsoft’s deal-making history Skype, will become the president is mixed. The company has often of the newly created Microsoft been a smart acquirer of start-ups Skype Division.

Jeff Gelles

For $9 a month, you can make unlimited calls to phone lines in 20 European countries. For $14 a month, you can reach phone lines in 40 countries worldwide. You can even buy access to voice mail or group-video connections. As much as any company, Skype has shown the power of an Internet data connection to turn traditional business models on their head. Microsoft did that too, once upon a time. The question is whether it can once again.

Continued from C1 She has never paid for Skype, which makes its money from addon options. But many of her friends are paying customers for Skype’s genuine Internet-age bargains. For a penny or two per minute, depending on the plan, you can call from your computer to another person on a telephone, anywhere in the world. Although wireless companies clearly worry about the threat to revenue, Skype even works from many Contact Jeff Gelles at 215-854-2776 or mobile phones. jgelles@phillynews.com.

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days, such details are found even in the little Ford Fiesta. No chime sounds if you leave the headlights on, although the Elantra did have a little light on the dashboard as Continued from C1 a reminder. Unfortunately, has made shifting fun; some ve- that light was difficult to see. hicles I’ve tested are made to But the lighting on the be driven more like automatics. speedometer and the rest of the gauges was as pretty as A small car for big fingers: the Buick LaCrosse’s, some The steering-wheel cruise- of the best I’d seen all year. control and radio buttons aren’t so small that you’ll fat- Friends and stuff: The bin in finger them. The big radio the front for cellphone, chargcontrols are asymmetrical er, and USB is roomy and has and help drivers keep their a handy cover to keep things eyes on the road. protected. The bin under the armrest is cavernous by Still chintzy? Hyundai carries small-car standards. with it — from days of yore — The seats are comfy, and the a reputation for cheap parts. backseat serves passengers But most of the interior in fairly well. And the leather is this model showed Hyundai standard in the limited edition. has put this behind it: It was Like almost every sedan nicely put together, and the these days, the rear seat swoopy exterior design carried folds down in sections to add over to the dashboard. But the extra trunk space. heater knobs and plastic door handles didn’t feel as if they On the big screen: The video would be up for the long haul. display/back-up camera (a $2,000 option, which also addQuick answers: The back cover ed automatic headlights and of the owner’s manual an- keyless start) was also large swers some quick questions, for a compact, among the bigsuch as how to open the hood, gest I’d seen. the fuel capacity, and type of Big-car mileage: Though rated oil to use. A nice touch. at 40 m.p.g. highway and 29 in Night shift: Interior accent the city, my test model averlighting (along, say, the dash- aged barely 30 in a mix of drivboard or cup holders) was ing around Philadelphia and nonexistent, which is not the its suburbs. In comparison, a end of the world. But these Chevy Cruze automatic I had

One survey ranks US Airways worst of 10 airlines, but a report puts it 2d By Linda Loyd

“In 2010, we were ranked No. 1 amongst our peers in baggage delivUS Airways, the dominant carrier ery.” at Philadelphia International AirUS Airways is “aggressively adport, scored the worst of 10 large dressing seat comfort” with improveairlines in a new customer survey ments to both wide-body and exby Consumer Reports. press airplanes, particularly the Uncomfortable seats and exces- CRJ900 regional jets flown by partsive fees are the top gripes of air ner Mesa Airlines, he said. travelers, and a reason many said Airlines were scored by Consumer they were flying less, according to Reports’ readers based on overall the survey results released Tuesday. satisfaction, check-in ease, cabinSouthwest Airlines Co. and Jet- crew service, cabin cleanliness, bagBlue Airways topped the ratings. gage handling, seating comfort, and In a separate report Tuesday by in-flight entertainment. the Transportation Department, US Consumer Reports also asked Airways fared better — ranking sec- questions about the extra fees for ond in on-time arrivals, first in bag- checked bags, choice seats, and pilgage performance, and second in lows and blankets. customer satisfaction among five Southwest was the only airline to major airlines. receive top marks for check-in ease US Airways was at the bottom of and cabin-crew service. Passengers the Consumer Reports rankings gave Southwest high marks for cabbased on responses from 14,861 sub- in cleanliness and baggage hanscribers taken between January 2010 dling. (The survey was conducted and January 2011. The survey covered before Southwest’s problems in 29,720 domestic round-trip flights. April with cracks in several of its “Our results tell a different story,” Boeing 737 planes.) said US Airways spokesman Todd LeJetBlue was the only airline to earn hmacher. He noted the airline had top scores for in-flight entertainment seen a 70 percent improvement in — its seat-back television screens ofbaggage handling and a 51 percent fer passengers 36 channels. improvement in customer satisfacEight of the 10 major airlines rated tion, based on federal Transportation by Consumer Reports’ readers reDepartment statistics since 2007. ceived low marks for seat comfort. INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

US Airways ranked last in its overall score, the same spot it held in Consumer Reports’ last airline report in 2007. US Airways had the worst marks of any airline for cabincrew service. The proliferation of fees at, or after, check-in by many carriers contributed to passengers’ low opinions of flying, and even their decisions about whether to fly, the magazine said. Forty percent of those polled said they were flying less, and cited increased fees as the major reason — more than flight delays, poor service, or any other reason. “What we found is that paying fewer additional fees generally translates into a passenger having higher overall satisfaction with an airline,” said Mark Kotkin, a director of survey research at Consumer Reports. Low-cost airlines took the five top spots, while the large network carriers ranked lowest in the Consumer Reports rankings. Airlines were scored on a zeroto-100 scale: Southwest (87), JetBlue (84), Alaska (79), Frontier (78), AirTran (74), Continental (72), American (65), Delta (64), United (63), and US Airways (61). Contact staff writer Linda Loyd at 215-854-2831 or lloyd@phillynews.com.

The many facets of real estate fraud By Alan J. Heavens

amount is paid, return the title. “It’s too good to be true,” Gastley Fraudsters. Fraudulators. Scamsaid. mers. Even knuckleheads. Why such scams succeed, said asCall them what you will, those who sistant U.S. Attorney Leo Tsao, is have found ways to prey upon people that “the fraudsters know what the who have lost the most in the housvictims want to hear.” ing-market collapse, they are motivatTsao has spent years working to ed by just one thing: greed. convict Gennaro Rauso, who was “It is the one thing behind it all,” able to get scores of troubled borPennsylvania’s deputy banking secrowers facing sheriff sale to sign retary, David Bleicken, told a sumtheir houses over to him in return mit on housing fraud Tuesday at St. for rent payments lower than their Joseph’s University. loan payments. It was Bleicken who called them The lenders were unaware of “knuckleheads.” Since his department this, and tried to fore“Most victims I talked close, however, has issued “a whole load” of ceasebut Rauso, who is awaiting with had no idea what and- desist orders against some of the sentencing in June, had homeownworst mortgage-modification compaers give him power of attorney to they were doing.” nies in the state, he ought to know. file for bankruptcy in their names, Bleicken was one of a group of which delayed sheriff sale. Assistant U.S. Attorney speakers at the summit, sponsored “Most victims I talked with had Leo Tsao by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the no idea what they were doing,” Eastern District of Philadelphia. Her group, which provides pro Tsao said. “They lost their homes The points every participant em- bono legal services to those who and the last chance to work out phasized were that fraud in the real cannot afford a lawyer, handles a their situation with lenders.” estate industry was not going away variety of cases, from soured leaseForeclosures are frequently a sympand that the perpetrators perfected purchase agreements to fraudulent tom of a larger problem, Bleicken ways to carry out these scams for conveyances, in which a signature said, and many victims, “curled up in years before they were caught. on a deed is forged and the “fraudu- a ball in the corner,” make themselves The situation that created the fer- lator” transfers the property — of- ripe for mortgage scammers. tile field for fraud — the housing-mar- ten to unsuspecting third parties. “Desperation can affect the qualiket collapse and the resulting harvest Then there are the mortgage-res- ty of decisions.” of record mortgage delinquencies and cue scams, in which homeowners are foreclosures — has not gone away. told to sign over title to the rescuer, Contact real estate writer Alan J. While emphasizing the continued who promises to pay off the mort- Heavens at 215-854-2472, seriousness of the financial situa- gage, rent the property back to the aheavens@phillynews.com or Twitter: tion, Ira Goldstein, director of poli- homeowners, and once a certain @alheavens. INQUIRER REAL ESTATE WRITER

Table games Continued from C1 “The layoffs are not surprising, given the reduction in play because of the increased competition,” said gaming analyst John Kempf, of RBC Capital Markets in New York. “We wouldn’t be surprised to see continued cost-cut-

averaged 33 and a stick 35.

Big-car handling: The Elantra

also rivaled some minivans I’d tested for floaty handling. It just didn’t have that “funto-drive” small-car feeling.

Swoopy shortcomings: The

long, angled, fat pillars in front make turning hazardous for people in crosswalks. The almost-horizontal rear window cries out for a wiper, but none is available. And the swoopy rear of the car put my head solidly against the ceiling when I tried out the backseat. I’d prefer a hatchback in something this small, and, lo and behold, Hyundai offers the Elantra Touring.

cy solutions at the Reinvestment Fund in Philadelphia, said state and local authorities were in a position to tackle fraud. “They are close to the problems and familiar with the victims,” he said. Financial reform will give states more responsibility “to fight the bad guys” in their jurisdictions. Fraud comes in all shapes and forms, however, and Kelly Gastley, supervising attorney of Philadelphia VIP, focuses on “tangled titles” and related issues.

ting efforts by the casinos.” The staff reductions come as Atlantic City enters its peak season. DGE data showed four A.C. gambling halls failed to meet cash operating expenses last year: Resorts, Atlantic City Hilton, Trump Plaza, and Trump Marina. Pennsylvania, which currently has 854 table games among 10 casinos, will likely exert even more pressure. Market-leading Parx, in Bensa-

Philly Inc Continued from C1 household budgets being stretched by higher energy and food prices. The NFIB survey isn’t the only small-business indicator flashing “caution.” Last week, the Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index fell for the second month in a row — not a good sign for the services sector that dominates the U.S. economy and the small-business world. Glenview, Ill.-based SurePayroll Inc., an online

lem, is adding 53 tables games by the end of June, bringing its total to 203, the most in the state. Parx, Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack in Delaware County, and SugarHouse on the Philadelphia waterfront are the closest Pennsylvania casinos to Atlantic City. Contact staff writer Suzette Parmley at 215-854-2594 or sparmley@phillynews.com.

payroll processor, said that April was the seventh consecutive month of flat or shrinking hiring by its small-business customers nationwide. MultiFunding L.L.C., of Broad Axe, surveyed 250 small businesses that were looking for financing recently and found that only 10 percent of them would be eligible for conventional loans through banks. “So many people’s collateral has self-destructed,” said Ami Kassar, CEO of the business loan broker. Good thing other surveys, such as one by the Federal Reserve of banks’ senior

loan officers, show weak demand for loans by small businesses. Of course, part of the reason demand is weak is because business owners are reluctant to apply for loans for fear they’ll get turned down. All these reports seem to leave many small-business owners where they’ve been for months: waiting for their monthly sales to pick up. Until they do, those “Help Wanted” signs will stay out of the front window. Contact columnist Mike Armstrong at 215-854-2980 or marmstrong@phillynews.com. See his blog at www.phillyinc.biz.

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Stay healthy on vacation If you’re planning to travel soon, no doubt you’re excited about your itinerary and seeing the sites. Following are some simple precautions to take so you can maintain your good health throughout the trip.

Before leaving Ask your health insurance carrier if you’re covered for emergency healthcare service outside of your geographic area. If so, bring your health insurance card with you, as well as the phone number for your primary care physician. If you’re traveling outside of the country, check the accessibility and quality of healthcare in the areas you’ll be visiting. Some websites that can aid your research include: • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), www.cdc.gov/travel • World Health Organization (WHO), www.who.int/en While you’re on the websites, check to see if you need to bring immunization records with you to enter a country. For example, some underdeveloped nations require that tourists present certifications for vaccination against cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and B, meningococcal meningitis, tetanus and yellow fever. Also, several European nations have had recent outbreaks of measles, so if you and/or your child are headed there and you’ve not yet been vaccinated, do so several weeks before your trip to give the vaccination enough time to work. Four to six weeks before you leave, check with your healthcare provider or a travel health clinic and ask about any additional recommendations. For example, children, the elderly, pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems may be at increased risk for certain travel-related

illnesses. And then check the CDC and WHO websites noted above for updated information or new developments about which you need to be aware. If your plans call for travel to a country in which gastrointestinal illness is common (e.g., Mexico), ask your healthcare provider if taking an antibiotic with you is a good idea. At your destination, take the medicine only if you fall ill.

Lastly, pack any prescription medications you need, as well as insect repellant (those that have DEET or picardin are best), a mini first-aid kit, hat, sunglasses and sunscreen. At your destination Cooked foods usually are fine, but beware of items that are served raw (e.g., salads, vegetables, unpeeled fruit, shellfish),

unpasteurized milk or cheese, and undercooked seafood and meats, as these can lead to gastrointestinal problems that range from mildly annoying to debilitating. In underdeveloped nations, avoid foods served by street vendors; instead, choose reputable restaurants. Your hotel’s concierge or front desk clerk most likely can offer suggestions. And of course, drink only bottled water and beverages, and avoid ice cubes. Drinks made of boiled water (e.g., coffee or hot tea) should be fine. If you do get gastrointestinal illness, drink plenty of bottled water and carbonated beverages, as well as broth, to replenish your fluids. If you develop dehydration or high fever, seek immediate medical care. Mosquitoes and other insects can transmit malaria and other dangerous diseases. Wear insect repellant whenever you’re outdoors. In some countries, you also may need to sleep behind a mosquito net. Other tips: • Wash your hands frequently with soap and water or an alcohol-based cleanser. • Swim only in the ocean or in pools with chlorinated water; avoid fresh-water streams or lakes that may be contaminated with sewage or animal waste. • Always wear your seatbelt when driving or riding in a car. • Upon arrival to your destination, check for an emergency number, as not all areas have 911. • And if you’re traveling with children, be sure they know (or have in their possession) the name and phone number of your hotel in case they get separated from you. With just a little forethought and a few simple health-related steps, you can ensure that you bring home from your vacation only fond memories.

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St. Bernard Puppies $500 Akc and shots 267-446-7645 Toni Yorkie Poo pups, $425/ea. Ready 5/23, Taking deposits now. 610-857-5049 Yorkshire Terrier AKC, 9 wks, 1st shots, 1 female & male, $800. (302) 463-4867

LOST BICHON male, white color, silver collar, no tags, not neutered. $3000 Reward! 267-973-7209 or 267-471-9188

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jobs Home Healthcare Provider Seeking a mature indiv w/exp to live w/ eldery female patient in exchange for free rent, share utils & small sal. Great for a person on a fixed income, (410)693-3711

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business opportunities

Blue Bell Lg 2br/1.5ba twnhse $1245+ut w/d, basement, fireplace, (714)434-1009

Granite Shop for Sale in Malvern w/ New truck, forklift & tools: Great Location! Only $65,000. 484-433-7525

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Certified Nurses Aide 18+ yrs exp seeks companion/work position (484)374-7226 Gentleman w/Truck Desires Work Moving & Junk Removal. 215-878-7055

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legal notices Meeting Notices NOTICE PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL PORT AUTHORITY The May 18, 2011 Philadelphia Region al Port Authority Meeting of the Board of Directors is canceled. The next schedules meeting is June 21, 2011. The revised meeting schedule for the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority for the calendar year 2011 is as follows: June 21, 2011 July 19, 2011 August 16, 2011 September 20, 2011 October 18, 2011 November 15, 2011 December 20, 2011 All meetings are scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month at 2:00 p.m. (unless otherwise notified) in the office of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, 3460 North Delaware Avenue, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19134.

Proposals & Bids INVITATION TO BID Building 101 – Suite 210 Renovation Construction Services Requested Philadelphia Industri al Development Corporation (PIDC) BID DUE DATE: May 20, 2011 1:00 p.m. Deliver sealed bids to PIDC, Building 101, Suite 120, 4747 S. Broad Street, The Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA 19112. MANDATORY PREBID MEETING: May 12, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Location: Building 101, Suite 210, 4747 S. Broad Street, The Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA 19112. The contract documents may be purchased beginning May 9, 2011from: National Reprographics Inc., 1015 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. 215/627-6493. Notice is hereby given that Proposals will be accepted by the Philadelphia Housing Authority for Solicitation No. P-004094 – Construction Services for Door Remov al and Replacement at Various Sites no later than 11:00 a.m. June 14, 2011 at 3100 Penrose Ferry Rd Philadelphia, PA 19145. If you choose to deliver your proposal / bid in person, please arrive early in order to ensure timely receipt of your proposal/bid. Bring identification with a photograph so PHA’s Security Staff will allow you entrance into the facility. Remember, being late denies us the opportunity to look at your propos al. Copies of the solicitation may be picked up commencing Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 3100 Penrose Ferry Road, Contracts Department between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Fax (215) 6841213 Attn: Annette Stokes for solicitation package to be mailed or for any other query relative to the solicitation. PHA encourages minority, woman-owned and Section 3 businesses to submit bids and participate in joint ventures. Michael P. Kelly ADMINISTRATIVE RECEIVER

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317 N. Lawrence St 3br/2ba $489,900 Open Sat 5/14, 11-3. Call 484-744-6328

Phila. Orphan’s Court RE Auction Thurs., May 26 at 7 PM 444 S. 48th St., Phila. 19143 4 br gar Term: $3000 cash dep Insp: 1 hr prior BARRY S. SLOSBERG, INC. Auctioneer AU1487L 215-425-7030 www.bssauction.com

MONROEVILLE, NJ 16 Cherry Run Rd Auction by owner. Lakefront prop on des Lake Gilman. No offer refused over $220K. Lg boat dock, AC, mod appls, pellet stove, lg LR/DR -LR overlooks lake. 2br. lower level overlooks lake. Auction May 14th 2 P.M. R.E. & Mtg agents on hand. 5% dep. Proof of funds for cash buyers. Finance customers must have proof of credit w/cash dep. View from 10 A.M. Call 856-383-5111

homes for rent

WILDWOOD clean 2-3br, low rates Wkly Cable, pkg, nr beach 610-583-4620

Brigantine Pets OK. May 31-June 12, $1000. June 3-June 5 $450. July & Aug: $1300/wk www.BrigB.com 856.217.0025 Longport, NJ 6br Victorian weekly on beach, parking, extras. 305-923-6480 N. Wildwood 3BR Condo Reasonable Available weekly. 267.679.2171 N Wildwood 5BR Weekly w/pool, avail 6/26 & 8/21. 609-405-2881

Brier Crest: 5 BR, sleeps 12. Saw Creek, 3br/2ba, slps 8, cntrl a/c. Wknds & Wks, 5/30, 6/12 (Race), 7/4, 609-587-9493

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ROXBOROUGH BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT APARTMENTS ! REDUCED RATES!!! Please call 215-360-1657

618 S. 2nd St. 2 BR $1050+ elec newly renovated, Call 215-665-1130

22xx Snyder Ave. 1br 2nd flr, credit check req’d, 610-659-2452 2706 Wharton St. 1Br $625/mo 2nd flr, 1st/last/sec., w/ kit. 267.231.3556 S. Phila, Broad St 1BR $975 856-904-1461

10xx S. 52nd St. 3 BR Sect 8 OK Laundry Room on premises, 215-727-0431 1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1br & 2br apts newly renov, lic #362013 267-767-6959

39xx Girard Ave 2br $650+utils large, hdwd flrs, near trans 215.280.9200

431 N 53rd 2BR $700 hrdwd flrs, C/A, carpet, 215-519-5947 50th & Haverford 1 BR $550 & up Lg kitch & bath, sec+rent.215-747-4049 53xx Master St. 1Br $575+utils lovely modern, 2 mo sec. 215-748-3327 6017 Lansdowne Ave large 1br apt $525+utils, security. (215) 747-8150 61xx Pine St. 1 BR $750 newly renov, w/w carpet, 267-640-5206 902 N 41st 1br 2nd flr $600 Lrg apt, 1st mo + security, 215-292-4145 Cobbs Creek 2 BR $525+ elec 2 mo sec,1 mo rent,fresh pnt 215.880.1188

Various 1 & 2 BR Apts $725-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

58xx Pentridge 3br/1ba $825 large, renov, hdwd flrs, yrd 215.280.9200 6319 Allman 3 br section 8 ok, must see 215-885-1700 65xx Gesner St. 3 BR/1 BA $750+utils newly renov, 3 mo. move in, 610.717.2450 67xx Linmore St. 3 BR $750+ utils Call 856-629-9529 Between 60th-70th off Elmwood Ave 2br & 3br $700-$850+utils clean, owner pays water, $2100-$2550 to move-in, Sec. 8 vouchers welcome. 215-659-5348

2xx S. 56th St. 4 BR $975+ utils 12xx N. 56th St. 4 BR $925+ utils newly renovated, Call 856-629-9529 2xx S. Alden Row House 3Br newly rehabbed, Sec 8 OK. 267-528-4121

Balwynne Park 2 BR $840+ W/D, C/A, W/W, Garage. 484-351-8633

2619 N 34th St 1 BR $555+utils 2nd flr, $1665 move in, 215-694-6280 30th & Cumberland Efficiency $550 21st & McKinley Efficiency $550 newly renov,utils included, 215-290-8702 30th & Susquehanna Ave. Efficiency kit, BR BA, own utils, 6p-9p 215.549.3759

Tioga 1br $600 ht & ht wtr inc 3rd flr, 1 blk to Temp Hosp (484)716-9330

1, 2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY - PARKING 215-223-7000

4520-22 N. Broad 1Br & 2Br $600-$650 large, newly renovated. Call 215-519-7336 2217 S. Felton St. 3 Br/1Ba $795 mo + util front porch, rear yard 215-850-0099 OVERBROOK PARK 3 BR $1050 Call: 215-909-4118

5105 N 13th St. 1 BR $500 newly renov, avail. ASAP, 215-768-8410 5851 N. Camac 1 BR $650+ utils new renov, 267.271.6601 or 215.416.2757

29xx N 27th St. 3 BR $800+ utils newly renovated, call 856-629-9529

35xx 11th St. 4br/2ba $750-$850 w/d, fridge, renovated, 215-983-7691

5028 Tacoma St 2BR/1BA $690 Util HOUSE. LR, DR, KIT, SM YARD, & W/D HOOK-UP. 215-432-7959. AVAIL IMM. 55xx Blakemore St. 3Br $725 hdwd flrs, porch, backyard. 215-722-5955 57xx Wister St 3br/1ba newly renov, lg EIK, w/d 215-913-8180 Germantown & Colter 4 BR $925+util modern, large, porch front, new ceramic bath, call John K. 215-264-5924

Forrest & Vernon Rd. 3Br $1,200/mo newly renov, hdwd flrs, granite counter tops, DW, W/D, Sec 8 OK. (215)776-8775

89xx Dewees 3br/2.5ba $1350+utils hdwd fl, fresh pnt, 2mo sec 215.888.3010 MAYFAIR Torresdale & Rhawn 3br 1ba row No sec 8 $850+utils 267-312-7100

1BR & 2BR Apts $695-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 236 W WALNUT LN effic/1br fr $540 SPECIALS AVAILABLE! HISTORIC APTS Close to transp. 215-849-7260 GERMANTOWN 1br $625 utilities included. 267-581-9656 GERMANTOWN Studios, 1 & 2 BR Various $$ Beautiful Apts. 215-849-1622 GREENE & HARVEY -SPRING SPECIAL! Lux. 1BR’S Newly dec, w/w, g/d, a/c ca ble ready, Laundry/Beauty parlor/off st prkg 215-275-1457 215-233-3322 xx W LOGAN St 1 BR $475+ utils 2nd floor, kitchen & bathroom, 2 mo. rent, 1 mo security, very clean, 215-471-1742

3xx E Upsal St. 2 BR $740+ utils newly renov,w/d, 1 mo sec, 610.675.7586 E. Mt Airy 2br bi-level $1125/utils incl. lg EIK, closets 919.451.5497/919.220.4561

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Darby: xx Greenway Ave. 3 BR Must see, available now! 215-219-5172

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Complete Electrical Servicing all of your home’s electrical needs, basic repair and maintanence to complete rewireing. 24hr emergency calls. Free estimates. Many happy repeat customers. 215-768-8949.

66 ST VIC-STUDIO, 1BR & 2BR APTS Ht/wtr Sec8 Handicap access 215-768-8243 W. Oaklane cozy 2 BR $675 ground floor apt. Call 215-651-3333

52xx Roosevelt Blvd 1br $625+utils newly renovated, 3 months req. to move in, 13th month free, 267-784-9284 Academy & Red Lion 2br $820 renov., c/a, off St. prkg, 267-981-6052 Blvd & Rhawn 2br $825+utils 2nd flr, large closets, washer/dryer, a/c, dishwasher, no pets, 215-699-5942 Fox Chase 1br $650 ht/hot water incl 1st floor, w/d, near train 215-901-6934 PHILMONT HEIGHTS 2br 2nd flr $750 new kitch, w/w & paint, gar, 267.467.1596 Tacony 1 BR $425+ utils Call 215-355-3548 Wissonoming Efficiency $475+utils spacious, EIK, sep. BR, (610)454-0307

Folcroft 2 BR condo $880 Section 8 ok, call 610-630-6618 YEADON AREA Beautiful 1 BR Move In Special 215-681-1723

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Forrestor 2002 $6,750 AWD, 94K, silver, great cond215.917.0667

Audi S4 Convert. 2008 $34,000 white,6 spd trip, 27k,ex con 215.932.1069

V70 Station Wagon 2001 $6950 Luxury 4 door with sunroof, original miles, superb condition, 215-627-1814

CTS 2003 $9000 fully loaded, 97k mi, auto, 267-334-8242

Starcraft Travelstar 23SDS 2002 Fully equip’d great cond $9,200 215-588-8371

Corvette Classic Convertible 1990 fire engine red finish, all pwr, a/c, 48,000 carefully driven miles, "pop-pops car" reluctant sac., $11,950. 215-922-5342

ALPHA CONVERTER Inc. Sell Them Direct, Buyers of Scrap Cata lytic Converters - Batteries - Aluminum Rims - Auto Rads. Call 856-357-3972

Junk Cars Wanted - $250 & Up 24/7 removal. Call 267-377-3088

Haddonfield 1br/1ba $1000+utils all amenities, garage avail (856)795-7736

11xx N 55th St AMERICAN RM RENTALS Brand New Bldg. Single rms, $400, double rms $500, rooms w/BA $500. w/full size bed, dresser, fridge, SSI/SSD ok W, SW, N Phila & Frankford 267.707.6129 13th & York, 61st & Race, B & Allegheny. 30th & Cumberland. 215-290-8702 1545 S. 30th St. furn, fridge, no kitchen, $125/wk, $375 move in. (215)781-8049 16xx Swain St. - Rooms for rent $100 a week or $400 a month (215) 609-8706 call for details 26th & Lehigh: $100-$120/wk, shared kitchen & bath, Call 215-225-5900 2745 Germanttown Ave Luxury Room for rent $350/mo. Hank (267) 974-9271 28XX CLEMENTINE ST. large newly renov rooms start’g @ $100/wk. Nr public trans. 215-681-9669 28xx N 27th St.: Furnished room, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 33rd & Ridge Ave $100-125/week. Lge renov furn rms near Fairmount Park & Bus depo. 215-317-2708.

33rd & Susquehana: shared kitchen & bath, $100-$110/wk, 267-816-3058 3536 N. 19th St, Large bright rooms for rent, move in special 215-490-6688 43rd & Market: lg, prvt room, shared kit & bath, $425/mo, 1 mo sec, 215-880-1188 4th & Diamond furn rm bed refrig micro. $85/wk, $235 move in. 267-650-8427 51xx Brown St. Large, clean, furn., $100 wk, $300 move-in. Call 215-687-6233 52nd/Westminster: Near transportation $100+/week, 215-748-7077 56xx Warrington Ave,cln & quiet,no drugs, $200/bi-wkly, $400/mo 215-668-3591 60TH & RACE Lg rms. $350-$400 . SW. Phila 3br house $700/mo. (267)592-7228

A1 Nice, well maintained Rooms: N & W Phila. Starting @$115/wk, 610-667-0101 Allegheny, near L train, furn, quiet, $90/week, $270 sec dep (609) 703-4266 Broad & Allegheny, furn rms, fridge/ micro $85/wk, $235 mvn 215-416-6738 Broad & Erie, $110-$120/wk + security, single, furn, C/A, 2.5BA’s (215)880-1799 Broad & Erie: Clean, Neat, Secure Rooms $110/wk. Shared ba, no kit 267.226.2455 BROAD ST. & HUNTING PARK AREA FREE RENT! YOUR 1ST MONTH RENT IS FREE!! Spacious furn rooms. SERIOUS INQUIRIES NEED APPLY. Before U call go to www.safehavenhomesllc.net to take a virtual tour of the rooms. THEN, ask for AL 267-235-6555 Broad & Wyoming Area/West Phila, $100-$135/wk, lrg fully furn., private entrance, $200 sec., SSI OK. 267-784-9284 E Mt Airy: rooms w/priv ba $155-$225 wk, utils incl. 919.451.5497, 919.220.4561 GERMANTOWN $150/wk, 1st flr, furn, private bath & kitchen. 215-783-4736 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083 Germantown Area. Spacious rooms for rent. Call Sheldon, 267-979-9387 Germantown Rms, $120/wk utils inc, shared kit/ba, $500 move in 215.849.5861

G-town/Mt. Airy, students welcome, upgraded units$500-$750/mo 215.514.3960 N 26th&N 32nd furn, w/cable,net $100 $500 movein 267.342.2164,267.632.9285 North Phila, West Phila & Logan- Private entr, $70-$125/wk + APT, 609-877-0375 NORTH PHILLA: $90/wk. Room for rent, cable ready. 910-305-4971 N. Phila, 18xx W. Berks St., Furn Rooms, privte entry, $75-$85 wk. 2 weeks rent + 2 weeks sec. $300 or $340 to move in. No cooking. Call John (215)236-8518 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up, SSI & Vets ok, nr trans. Avl Immed. 215-763-5565 OVERBROOK: Newly renovated large room w/ private bath, all utils included, private entrance. 215-879-2570 Richmond-Rm use of kit nr transp $100 wk Retiree/SSI ok lv msg 215-634-1139 S. Phila, 1st Wk Free, $500/mo. furn’d, full kit & BA, incls utils, 267-600-2887 SW: 25xx Lloyd St. $100/wk, 3 week deposit to move in. 215-729-4856 SW, N, W Move-in Special! $60-$115/wk room sharing avail, SSI ok (215)220-8877 SW Phila-Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk - 1st wk FREE 267-628-7454 SW PHILA: Rm, $100/wk, $300 move in. Fully furn, shared BA & kit (267)257-6327 SW & W Phila: $100-$150/wk, priv BA, priv entry,single occy. 267-597-1536 West Phila. (bottom) furnished rooms starting at $100/week. 267-339-2563

commercial industrial

UNWANTED JUNK CARS & TRUCKS $200 Cash & up (267)241-3041

GX 470 2006 $30,000 4WD, 52k mi., C.P.O., DVD ent. center, 3rd row seating, sunroof, (513)328-0299

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ALL CA$H Today All Cycles & ATVs 215-639-3100 www.eastcoastcycle.com www.americanclassicmotors.net 100+ Harleys in stock. 610-754-0451

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SPYDER Convertible 2007 $14,700 Only 25k miles, auto, 4cyl 215-588-5995

Altima SL 2002 $5490 sunroof, leather, xx clean 215-432-4580 Maxima 2000 $5500 exc cond, only 75K, auto. (610)203-6561

Nissan Titan 2008 $14,900 only 29k miles, automatic, fully loaded, 4x4, super clean, must see (215)416.3296 TOYOTA SRS 2000 $6985 luxury pickup w/extended body, new body style, 4WD, AC, faithfully serviced, carefully driven (highway miles) looks as new. Distress Sale TODAY, Tina (215)922-6113

low cost cars & trucks Buick Regal 1999 $2750 Extra clean, lthr, runs great 267.7849284 Buick Regal 2004 $3875 silver, moonroof, CD, alarm 267.592.0448 DODGE 2000 Deluxe High Top Conversion Van, full power, Handicap Equipped w/ lift, runs like new, quick private sale for less than cost of hydraulic lift to a person w/ special needs.$4975, 215.629.0630 Dodge Ram 1500 Cargo Van ’98 $3700 or b.o., will accept trade-ins.61k mi, ladder racks,shelves,barn drs,auto 856.295.2229 Dodge Ram 2500 Cargo Van ’01 $4400 or b.o.,will accept trade-ins,87k mi, ladder rack, auto, cassette & radio, 856.295.2229

Dodge Stratus 2001 $2,750 130k, x-clean, runs great 267-784-9284 Ford Escort 1993 $2500 obo will accept trade-ins.73k, 4 cyl, auto, a/c, new insp, tune-up & brakes 856.295.2229

Ford Mustang Conv 1995 $2,750 V6 5 spd, new top & paint. 215-324-2998 Ford Taurus 2003 $4600 80k mi., like new, all powr 856-296-4484

Ford Windstar LX 2001 $2750 6cyl, loaded, runs grt, 4dr 267-912-7488 GEO Metro 1991 $1,950 auto, A/C, 3 cyl, 42 MPG, 4 dr, 68K, no rust or dents, new exhaust 215-620-9383 GEO Metro 1993 $975 5 spd,3 cyl,47mpg,rns new 215.620.9383 LINCOLN Continental 2002 $4975 luxury, 4 door w/roadster roof, sunroof, original miles, superb cond, not exaggerated, quick private sale. 215-928-9632 Mazda MX-5 Miata 1993 $4,700/bo 75K miles, convertible, fully loaded. Call 215-224-9933 MERCEDES 300 CE Coupe 1993 $2250 auto, runs good, Call 609-221-7427 MERCURY Sable GS 2005 $2895 lthr, mnrf, CD, alarm, cln 267.592.0448 Plymouth Neon 1997 $1150 5spd, 4cyl, 32mpg, runs new215.620.9383 Roadmaster Station wagon 1992 $3000 High miles, runs great! 856-767-1971 Saturn SL2 1999 asking $1,650 4 dr, auto, loaded, 28MPG 215-518-8808 VW Jetta GLS 2002 $3,895 S/W, New Inspection, Nice. 484.924.8795

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Bulls defeat Hawks to take 3-2 series lead. D3

Beckham won’t bend it vs. Union. D3

Red Wings beat Sharks to force a Game 7. D7 * C

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 ★ Section D

Self-Inflicted Loss

Flyers making goalie a priority GM Paul Holmgren is high on Sergei Bobrovsky, but the team may dip into free agency for a top netminder. By Sam Carchidi

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

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Roy Halladay was victimized by a Jimmy Rollins error and his own wild pitch as Florida scored an unearned run in the eighth inning for the win.

Miscues sink Halladay and Phils in pitchers’ duel Phillies Marlins

Next: Phillies (Lee, 2-3) at Marlins (Nolasco, 3-0), Wednesday at 7:10 p.m. TV: CSN ¢ Manuel says Blanton had some soreness after last outing. D5.

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By Matt Gelb

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When Jimmy Rollins released the ball in the eighth inning, he did not know it would pull Ryan Howard off first and put the winning run on base. Before the 2-1 Phillies loss to Florida began Tuesday night, the shortstop measured the pitching matchup and this unspoken fact in both dugouts: The tiniest mistake could alter every-

thing. It did not take much to know this — if it weren’t for an error last May 29, Roy Halladay and Josh Johnson could have pitched until the sun rose at Sun Life Stadium. When the ground ball went to Rollins on Tuesday, Halladay was cruising in a tie game. Johnson was already gone, and the pitching duel had fulfilled its hype. Just like the perfect game last May, no defender wanted to be the one to ruin it. Rollins bobbled the ball, but he col-

lected it in time so a good throw would still result in an out. He knew Omar Infante was running to first. (“He’s not a flyer by any means,” Rollins said.) He knew the throw would be longer now that he had bobbled it and was flat-footed. “You can’t take that extra shuffle step,” Rollins said. But he did not know it was going wide of first base until he saw Howard stretching for it. Then, forget about the See PHILLIES on D5

Utley goes 1 for 4 in Fla. rehab stint By Bob Putnam

“I still have to talk to some people,” he said. CLEARWATER, Fla. — PhilOn Tuesday, Utley was the deslies second baseman Chase Ut- ignated hitter and batted third. ley, working his way back from He grounded out to second in tendinitis in his right knee, the first inning, struck out swingplayed in his first reing in the third, habilitation-assigngrounded out to He has not ment game with the first in the sixth, played for the and singled in the single-A Clearwater Threshers on TuesPhillies since eighth. day, going 1 for 4 in After getting his Oct. 23, when first hit, Utley slid a 5-1 loss to the Palm Beach Cardi- they lost to the safely into second nals. on a single by Darin San Francisco Ruf. As much as Ut“The knee felt good,” Utley said. “I is trying to get Giants in the ley didn’t get to do a his timing down durNLCS. whole lot of activiing his rehabilitaty.” tion assignment, After playing on consecutive he’s also using the opportunity days for the first time since com- to test his knee. ing back from the injury (Utley “It’s a little bit of both,” he played four innings in an extend- said. ed-spring-training game on MonUtley has been sidelined by paday), he will not play in Wednes- tellar tendinitis, chondromalacia day’s 10:30 a.m. game with the (cartilage irritation), and bone Threshers. inflammation in the knee for the When Utley will play again, last 11 weeks. He played in a though, is uncertain. See UTLEY on D5 FOR THE INQUIRER

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In his first at-bat of a rehabilitation assignment with single-A Clearwater, Chase Utley grounds out. The second baseman singled in the eighth.

Hopkins, at 46, wants to be Philly’s franchise Bernard Hopkins has never shied away from hyperbole. He is all about the bold statement, the brash prediction, the unvarnished truth as he sees it. It speaks to his fearlessness and to part of the reason why, at the age of 46, he still makes a living as a boxer. Hopkins is Hopkins, Philly through and through. The years roll on. He stays the same. He is nothing if not consistent. So it was on Tuesday. Hopkins was doing what Hopkins does best, being his colorful self while drumming up pub-

Phoenix’s Ilya Bryzgalov is the marquee goalie among this year’s crop of unrestricted NHL free agents, but Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren and his staff are mulling over whether the team needs to make a move for a goaltender. Holmgren, in his season-ending session with reporters Tuesday at the Flyers’ Voorhees training facility, made it clear that Sergei Bobrovsky, who had a strong rookie season but slumped toward the end of the year, was a major part of the team’s future. “He’s a tremendous young goalie in our league,” said Holmgren, whose team was swept by the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference semifinals. “How that plays out down the road in terms of when he becomes a No. 1 goalie — which I fully believe he will — I don’t know. Could it be next year? I mean, he was at times this year for us. We just have to wait and see how things play out this summer, but I’m very excited about Sergei as a goalie and as a part of our organization.” The Flyers already are near the See GOALIE on D7

licity and perhaps a little interest in the latest fight of his never-ending career. He was crediting Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods with providing him a place to shop for healthy food. He was talking about running the hills by

Boat House Row, jogging in Valley Green, and training in Philadelphia for his May 21 fight with Jean Pascal. And Hopkins was talking about one of his favorite subjects — sports in his hometown — when it hit him. The Flyers are done. The 76ers are done. The Eagles are on hiatus. “I am the franchise of Philadelphia right now,” Hopkins said with a straight face. “The Phillies are playing, but it’s early in the season, so we’ve SARAH J. GLOVER / Staff Photographer got a while for that to happen. Bernard Hopkins, in the late stages of his boxing See HOPKINS on D3 career, wants to “instigate and agitate” in the ring.

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Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who had a

strong rookie season but faded in the playoffs, remains part of the team’s future, Paul Holmgren said.

Season over, 5 Flyers set for surgery The injury report: Mike Richards, Andrej Meszaros, Kris Versteeg, Michael Leighton, and Blair Betts. By Sam Carchidi

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Five Flyers will undergo offseason surgery, general manager Paul Holmgren said Tuesday — and that doesn’t include defenseman Chris Pronger, whose back condition still is being evaluated by doctors. The five players headed for surgery: Mike Richards (wrist), Andrej Meszaros (wrist), Kris Versteeg (sports hernia), Michael Leighton (hip), and Blair Betts (finger). Scott Hartnell and Jeff Carter also are being evaluated for possible hip surgery, Holmgren said, adding that he hopes to know their medical status on Friday. Holmgren, meeting with reporters for his end-of-season address at the team’s Voorhees training facility, said that Richards had dealt with an injured wrist since training camp and that it “inhibited his play in certain aspects; it affected his performance in the faceoff circle and I think it affected his shot to some degree.” Richards, who had one goal in the See FLYERS on D7

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Signs are: Philly going soft I have always believed Philly fans were among the toughest, most demanding in sports. They rewarded and scolded the deserving with equal fervor. No player or team got a pass simply for wearing the home colors. They didn’t worship. They respected. But I’m beginning to have doubts. There are knuckleheads afoot determined, with their childish devotion, to drag us down to the level of St. Louis or Memphis. On Phillies telecasts, have you noticed the guy sitting behind home plate at Citizens Bank Park who occasionally holds up a sign that reads, “We Love You, Charlie M!”? Has the Phillies’ success really eroded our native skepticism to this level? Once we took pride in our capacity to question any managerial decision, regardless of context. Now, like tittering schoolgirls, we compose the kind of brainless love notes you’d expect to find at military homecomings or Justin Bieber concerts. What would Sign Man say? Then there are Flyers fans and their monochromatic mindlessness. This team has gone 36 years without a Stanley Cup — longer than the Phillies went between pennants (1915-1950) when they were the worst organization in sports history — yet Flyers ticket buyers apparently believe it’s more productive to collectively wear orange T-shirts to home playoff games than to hold management’s feet to the fire. Is there a logical reason I’m missing? Is there some fear that in normal clothing they might be mistaken for Rangers fans? Is there some equally irrational belief that by dressing alike they help influence the outcome? Do they fear their peers? Do they fear the jeers? Did they drink too much beer? Somehow the Flyers managed to win two Stanley Cups when their fans were attired sanely. I know, we’re not the only

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Orange rush: Do Flyers fans think that wearing the team color during the playoffs at the Wells Fargo Center will help their team end its 36-year Stanley Cup drought?

NASCAR Note of the Week Here’s the first sentence in driver Brad Keselowski’s weekly column on NASCAR.com, which was posted on May 5, four days after the Navy SEALs raid in Abbottabad. “I’m sure by now you’ve all heard about the demise of Osama bin Laden.” No, but since I typically turn to NASCAR websites for my international news, would you mind filling me in?

alike: wedding parties, Catholic schools, May Day parades in Red Square, T-ball photo days. But next spring, when the Flyers embark on another frustrating postseason, try something different, sartorially speaking. You’re going to like the way you look. I guarantee it.

Three pressing questions

1. Since the Eagles offensive line has plenty of problems, why hire a coach whose name already is Mudd? 2. Is Scott Hartnell kidding with that haircut? 3. Do NFL teams really need to waste draft picks on place where entire crowds vis- kickers? it hell’s haberdasher each postseason. But most of those Three bad sports ideas 1. Sunday night baseball. other cities are places where the typical family tree in- Love Sunday afternoon games. By 8 on Sunday cludes a Guernsey or two. nights, I’ve hit my sports quoI didn’t see any gatherings ta and would prefer even a of like-tinted lemmings in Dancing With the Stars rerun New York or Boston, two citto the sight of another ball. ies whose passionate fans are 2. Singing “God Bless Ameroften compared with ours. ica” at every baseball game. In fact, there was a kind of It cheapens the song on those poetic justice to the Flyers’ occasions when, like after the being eliminated in Boston, killing of Osama bin Laden, where Bruins fans appeared it’s appropriate. Besides, isn’t to be free-minded individu- the nightly national anthem als. enough patriotism? There are times and places 3. Allowing athletes to where it’s acceptable to dress tweet. I liked it better when

we didn’t know just how incredibly vacuous these people really are.

A pox on both

Like many basketball fans, I am confronted by an intractable dilemma: There’s no one to root for in the BostonMiami series. As a Philadelphian who can still smell the acrid scent of Red Auerbach’s victory cigars, I am biologically incapable of ever supporting the Celtics — a condition exacerbated by the sneering presence of Paul Pierce. And I’d rather see a President Palin than LeBron James hoisting a championship trophy.

Venus descending

I was going to mention Venus Williams in this column, but at the last minute she withdrew with an injury.

Trump withdraws, too

Apparently Donald Trump decided not to drive the pace car at this year’s Indianapolis 500 when officials demanded he produce a driver’s license. Trump continues to insist he learned to drive at barber’s college. Contact staff writer Frank Fitzpatrick at 215-854-5068 or ffitzpatrick@phillynews.com.

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Memorable weekend on the river This was no easy decision for Rachel Young, a senior rower at Purdue, one of the favorites at this weekend’s Dad Vail Regatta. Young admitted to being “devastated” when she realized she had to choose between the Dad Vail and staying at Purdue to take part in her U.S. Army commissioni ng ceremony. If Young chose to row, she would also miss Purdue’s graduation ceremony. “It was a rough call for all of us, but for the love of this team, this sport, it makes it so much more special of a race being here this weekend,” Young said in an e-mail. “For me, I don’t necessarily need a cap and gown walk to feel as though I graduated, but I did know I wanted some type of recognition for my commissioning ceremony that I will be missing.” So she’s coming. She’s rowing, and she’ll also be commissioned this weekend,

Longer the wait for a ruling goes on, the less it seems judges see players suffering irreparable harm; if so, you’d think they’d have ruled

on the banks of the Schuylkill. It turns out that once you are commissioned, you are allowed to perform a commissioning. That’s what will happen: Three of Young’s friends will get in a car Friday after the commissioning ceremony in West Lafayette, Ind., planning to make it to Philly in time for one of them to commission Young on Saturday. “The three gentlemen coming to the race are my best friends,” Young said. “One will have [been] just commissioned the day before with the rest of the graduates: His name is Joe Park. One other is Ian Soderling, who has another semester of school left then also will commission into the U.S. Army. Alexander Dehr used to be in the ROTC program with us but was medically disqualified; we still consider him one of ‘the guys.’ ” Young lived the first few years of her life in Brookhaven, Delaware County. Her father is a minister and pastor of a church in Blue Bell. So she’ll have local support and long-distance support and a weekend on the river that she’ll never forget.

Dad Vail Regatta Set for Friday The Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta is scheduled to be held on the Schyulkill on Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m to 5 p.m. on both days. Started in 1934 and named for Harry Emerson “Dad” Vail, one of America’s early college rowing coaches, the regatta this year is expected to feature more than 110 crews and hundreds of participants. Beginning Friday, look for expanded coverage this year in The Inquirer and on www.philly.com. For more information from regatta organizers, go to www.dadvail.com. Read Elizabeth Wellington’s column on the Boathouse Sports clothing company, E1.

If you think Villanova to the Big East isn’t likely Consider this: We’re told that a future Big East football television package is a bit more valuable with Villanova

in it than any of the other obvious current options, schools such as Central Florida or Houston. (Not sure if Villanova vs. Temple was included in the projections.)

Stating the obvious

Delonte West may be off-kilter, but even playoff teams are better with the former St. Joseph’s guard. There’s a reason teams live with his off-kilterness. … Jay Wright bringing Billy Lange back to Villanova’s staff is a big plus.

Things I don’t like to admit

I’ve never watched a Manny Pacquiao fight other than highlights. … I find myself pulling for LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. (I’m neutral on Chris Bosh.) This probably will last only until they win a title. … I once turned down a personal invitation from Phil Mickelson to play golf, just the two of us. (He was a teenager, and I was an idiot worried about a newspaper deadline.) … I still root for Tiger Woods. (Except against Phil.) Contact staff writer Mike Jensen at 215-854-4489 or mjensen@phillynews.com.

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Bob Holzwarth, Downingtown On the morning of my 75th birthday last August our daughter stopped by with a gift of two tickets for her mother and I to attend the Phillies game that evening. … When my wife and I arrived at the park, our daughter escorted us to our seats. Much to my surprise the young man in the next seat was our son, who had flown in from Portland, Ore., for the occasion. Before the game started, we were talking with one of the attendants. I’m not sure what led me to ask, “Is there a door prize for the person who came the greatest distance to attend?” I was just joking. He asked where I was from and I explained that my son had come in from Oregon. The attendant took a ball from his pocket, and gave it to us. He said that it had been a batting practice home run ball. After watching my name appear on the scoreboard along with the other birthday people, my daughter asked if I could stand one more surprise. She then led us all down to Bull’s Barbecue, where I met Greg Luzinski, whom she knew from some of the group baseball trips they had both participated in. Mr. Luzinski signed the ball and a photo was taken of Greg with me and the baseball. The day was full of surprises and everything came together perfectly. It was even a beautiful summer evening.

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The Phillies Zone: www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillies_zone/ MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — In the eighth inning of a three-run game, Charlie Manuel sent his relief pitcher, Vance Worley, to the plate with a runner on third and two outs Monday night. A few events led to Worley’s striking out with that runner on third. 1. Joe Blanton pitched only five innings. Blanton hadn’t started any kind of a game in 16 days and the most pitches he had thrown in a bullpen session was around 40. He gave them 66 pitches and it worked, only because his defense turned four (!) double plays behind him. 2. Worley pitched decently for two innings. So Manuel’s inclination was to stick with him. Worley needed 49 pitches to complete his first two innings and hadn’t thrown in six days, so the manager could ride him. … But with righties Gaby Sanchez and Mike Stanton due up in the eighth before Greg Dobbs, Manuel saw no better option... 3. Because the only other relievers he had available for the eighth were J.C. Romero and Danys Baez. Manuel said he was staying away from Antonio Bastardo for a second straight day. That decision is curious because Bastardo has thrown only 34 pitches (two appearances) in the last eight days. Manuel said there is no medical issue for Bastardo. Worley allowed the solo home run to Sanchez but caught Stanton looking, induced a pop-up from Dobbs and struck out John Buck to end the inning. Those could have been the three most important outs in a very forgettable nine innings. — Matt Gelb

Online Sports Poll Who is the best pitcher in the National League not named Roy Halladay? 1. Clayton Kershaw 4. Cliff Lee 2. Tim Lincecum 5. Tim Hudson 3. Josh Johnson

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CHICAGO — Derrick Rose scored 33 points, Luol Deng added 23, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Atlanta Hawks, 95-83, in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Tuesday night to take a threegames-to-two lead. Taj Gibson had 11 points — all in the fourth quarter. Rose also scored 11 in the fourth, and the Bulls pounded the Hawks, 26-15, in the quarter. Game 6 is Thursday in Atlanta. Rose hit 11 of 24 shots and had nine assists. It was a big improvement over Game 4 when he needed 32 shots to score 34 points.

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would have complained. In the end, though, Kevin Durant and the Thunder refused to let another overtime playoff game slip away and now the series is tied at two games apiece. Durant scored six of his 35 points in the third overtime, and the Thunder scored the final 10 points to win at Memphis, 133-123, in a thriller that started Monday night and ended early Tuesday morning.

Riley, Forman share honor

Miami Heat president Pat Riley and Chicago Bulls general manager Gar Forman are co-recipients of the NBA executive of the year award for engineering overhauls Wizards unveil ‘old’ unis that so far have propelled Red, white, and blue. Hori- their teams to the Eastern zontal stripes. Elvin Hayes in Conference semifinals. the house. No sign anywhere Riley and Forman each reof the misshaped magician ceived 11 of a possible 30 with the bizarre beard. votes from a panel of team The Washington Wizards executives. are again the Washington Bullets — in everything but name. Bynum suspended The team unveiled its new Lakers center Andrew red, white, and blue color Bynum has been suspended scheme and uniforms Tues- for the first five games of day, a blast from the past that next season for his flagrant was overwhelmingly wel- foul on Dallas guard J.J. Barcomed as long overdue. The ea in Los Angeles’ final playmodern colors worn since the off game, a 36-point loss to team changed its name in the Mavericks in Game 4. 1997 always seemed a bit out The NBA also fined Bynum of place in the nation’s capital. $25,000 for ripping off his jer“When I looked at the Wiz- sey while heading to the lockards when they played in the er room. teal, I did not really recognize Bynum hit Barea with an them as part of the Bullet orga- elbow while the Dallas guard nization,” said Hayes, the Hall drove to the basket in the of Fame forward whose No. 11 fourth quarter. Barea wasn’t is retired in the rafters. seriously hurt. Bynum expressed remorse for his acThunder even series tions, saying they were terriMEMPHIS — Trading come- ble and unacceptable. backs and clutch shots, the Oklahoma City Thunder and Pacers keeping Bird Memphis Grizzlies looked as The Indiana Pacers anif they might play all night. nounced they are keeping LarAnd considering how enter- ry Bird as team president after taining Game 4 of their West- Bird met with owner Herb Siern Conference playoff series mon in Los Angeles. Bird was was, it’s doubtful anyone in the final year of his contract.

CHICAGO VS. ATLANTA Game 1: Atlanta, 103-95 Game 2: Chicago, 86-73 Game 3: Chicago, 99-82 Game 4: Atlanta, 100-88 Game 5: Chicago, 95-83 Game 6: Thursday at Atlanta, 8 x-Game 7: Sunday at Chicago, TBD Chicago leads series, 3-2. MIAMI VS. BOSTON Game 1: Miami, 99-90 Game 2: Miami, 102-91 Game 3: Boston, 97-81 Game 4: Miami, 98-90, OT Game 5: Wednesday at Miami, 7 x-Game 6: Friday at Boston, 7 or 8 x-Game 7: Monday at Miami, 8 Miami leads series, 3-1.

Western Conference L.A. LAKERS VS. DALLAS Game 1: Dallas, 96-94 Game 2: Dallas, 93-81 Game 3: Dallas, 98-92 Game 4: Dallas, 122-86 Dallas wins series, 4-0. OKLAHOMA CITY VS. MEMPHIS Game 1: Memphis, 114-101 Game 2: Oklahoma City, 111-102 Game 3: Memphis 101-93, OT Game 4: Oklahoma City, 133-123, 3OT Game 5: Wednesday at Oklahoma City, 9:30 Game 6: Friday at Memphis, 9 or 9:30 x-Game 7: Sunday at Oklahoma City, TBD Series tied, 2-2. x – if necessary

Bulls 95, Hawks 83 Atlanta Chicago

21 21 26 15 – 83 32 16 21 26 – 95 FG FT Reb ATLANTA Min M-A M-A O-T A PF Pts Smith 38:38 6-14 4-4 3-7 1 4 16 Horford 42:16 6-13 0-0 3-10 3 5 12 Collins 14:44 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 Teague 40:40 8-11 5-7 0-4 7 4 21 Johnson 40:37 6-15 2-2 0-2 3 1 15 Crawford 26:45 1-9 0-0 0-1 4 2 2 Pachulia 22:53 5-6 3-4 1-4 1 4 13 Williams 8:31 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 2 Wilkins 1:17 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Armstrong 1:17 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Powell 1:17 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 2 Sy 1:05 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 34-71 14-17 8-33 20 21 83 Percentages: FG .479, FT .824. 3-Point Goals: 1-12, .083 (Johnson 1-5, Teague 0-1, Smith 0-2, Crawford 0-4). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 11 (17 Pts). Blocked Shots: 4 (Horford 3, Collins). Turnovers: 10 (Horford 4, Crawford 2, Johnson 2, Armstrong, Smith). Steals: 2 (Johnson, Smith). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 7:08 third; Smith, 4:04 third. FG FT Reb CHICAGO Min M-A M-A O-T A PF Pts Deng 45:50 8-18 7-7 0-4 3 2 23 Boozer 29:26 4-11 3-3 4-12 0 1 11 Noah 26:39 0-2 0-0 1-6 4 3 0 Rose 42:07 11-24 10-13 0-2 9 2 33 Bogans 24:11 4-7 0-0 1-2 0 2 11 Asik 19:52 0-0 0-2 1-4 0 2 0 Watson 5:53 1-2 0-0 0-0 2 0 2 Gibson 20:03 5-5 1-3 1-2 2 3 11 Korver 4:18 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Brewer 20:36 2-3 0-0 2-5 1 1 4 Butler 1:05 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 35-72 21-28 10-37 21 16 95 Percentages: FG .486, FT .750. 3-Point Goals: 4-14, .286 (Bogans 3-5, Rose 1-5, Deng 0-4). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 11 (7 Pts). Blocked Shots: 3 (Asik, Deng, Gibson). Turnovers: 9 (Rose 2, Asik, Bogans, Boozer, Deng, Gibson, Noah, Watson). Steals: 5 (Brewer 2, Bogans, Korver, Noah). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 7:03 first; Boozer, 4:04 third. A: 22,980 (20,917). T: 2:28. Officials: Steve Javie, Tom Washington, Bill Kennedy.

said Tuesday during a news conference. “Knowing we David Beckham won’t be have a game on Saturday, we playing, but the Union insist have to make decisions on that there won’t be a letdown players who will play three when they face the Los Ange- games, two games, that kind les Galaxy in a Major League of thing. We decided to rest Soccer game Wednesday him.” night at PPL Park. Arena then took a With his team in the Union vs. shot at MLS schedulemiddle of playing makers when it was three games in eight Galaxy suggested that Philadays, Galaxy coach Wednesday, delphia fans would be Bruce Arena decided 7:30 p.m. at disappointed about to leave Beckham in PPL Park missing Beckham. Los Angeles. The Gal- TV: TCN “We’re sorry about axy (4-2-4) played the that,” he said. “We visiting New York Red Bulls didn’t put together the schedto a 1-1 draw on Saturday and ule. Our job is to try to keep return home this Saturday to our players healthy and place the right players on the field host Sporting Kansas City. So Beckham, who is earn- each game to give us the best ing $6.5 million as MLS’s high- chance of winning.” Of course, the Union will est-paid player, got the game have to stop Landon Donooff. Of course, the Union realize that the Galaxy have many more weapons than just Beckham. “We don’t approach it like we want to beat David Beckham,” said assistant coach John Hackworth, who will guide the Union while team manager Peter Nowak com• BOY AND GIRL SCOUTS GET A petes in a charity soccer PHILADELPHIA SOUL SCOUT PATCH game in his native Poland. “We approach it like we want to beat the Los Angeles Galaxy.” In their brief history, the Union are 0-3 against the Galaxy, including a 1-0 loss in Los Angeles on April 2. In the last two meetings, both 1-0 Galaxy wins, Beckham assisted on the goals. During the win in April, Leonardo headed in a Beckham free kick. The Union (4-2-1) have allowed just three goals in MLS games this season, all coming off set pieces. “They still have guys who swing balls in, and we have to be aware,” Union defender Sheanon Williams said. “We have only given up goals on set pieces, and we have to get better at that and can’t give up easy goals like that.” When asked whether Beckham’s day off is injury-related or purely for rest, Arena said it was the latter. “Rest, fatigue, bumps and bruises you typically get,” he INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

van, who has scored his team’s last four goals. Donovan acknowledged the difficulty of playing without Beckham. “It is obviously going to hurt us,” he said. “His qualities aren’t easily matched by others.”

Notes. Hackworth said that

defender Danny Califf, who missed Friday’s 1-0 loss at Portland because of illness, practiced the last two days and is ready to go. … Midfielder Stefani Miglioranzi, bothered by a groin strain, is listed as day-to-day. Contact staff writer Marc Narducci at 856-779-3225 or mnarducci@phillynews.com. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/sjnard

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HOPKINS from D1 So right now, Bernard Hopkins is the franchise of Philadelphia when it comes to sports because I’ve delivered more than I’ve failed. I’m a Philly guy. [Donovan] McNabb’s out of town, I don’t have to worry about that now, so everything is good. This is another incentive to represent that.” Boy, are Union fans going to be ticked. Hopkins was being cute. He is not the franchise of Philadelphia, but there is no denying that he has taken care of what he calls the temple that is his body as well, if not better, than any boxer who has come before. When he fights the 28-yearold Pascal in Montreal in a rematch of their majority draw in December, Hopkins will try to become the oldest fighter in boxing history to win a significant world title, surpassing George Foreman’s record. The WBC, IBO, and Ring Magazine light-heavyweight belts will be on the line. The story will be as it has been for years now: Can the aging boxer use his wits and avoid the big hits and then seduce the younger fighter into playing his style and losing on the judges’ cards? Can the experience that comes with age trump the bravado of youth? In the first fight in Quebec City, Pascal sent Hopkins to the canvas in two of the first three rounds. He was in total control of the fight. But in the final eight rounds, Hopkins made up the difference. Many in attendance thought Hopkins deserved to win, but he had to settle for a tie and a WBC-mandated rematch. During a promotional event earlier this year, the WBC presented Hopkins with the equivalent of a lifetime achievement belt. Pascal, for whatever reason, then gave Hopkins his WBC and Ring Magazine belts. When the news conference was over,

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wearing a Bobby Clarke jersey to Canada for his May 21 bout. Pascal’s people asked Hopkins’ people for the belts back. Hopkins said no and brought the belts over the border to his Center City apartment. “He really officially knew that I was supposed to have those titles,” Hopkins said. “So they’re at CityView at my apartment, and I look at them every morning. I know I have to make it official, but I already have the belts. … After Saturday they will be presented like they are always presented at [the] fight. They will be presented to me.” While Hopkins said he will wear a Bobby Clarke Flyers jersey up to Canada for the fight, Pascal will be fighting in his hometown, in front of his fans. A 2004 Canadian Olympian, Pascal has lost just once in 28 fights, and he has gone 4-0-1 since moving up to the light-heavyweight division. Since turning 40 in 2005, Hopkins has gone 6-3-1, with wins over Howard Eastman, Antonio Tarver, Ronald Wright, Kelly Pavlik, Enrique Ornelas, and Roy Jones Jr. Hopkins also has a threefight deal with HBO, so he is not looking to end his career any time soon. “I want to instigate and agitate a little bit,” Hopkins said

of his 59th career fight. “Broad Street bullies.” Instigate and agitate has not always translated into the most compelling boxing, but it has made Hopkins nice money over the years, which is most likely why he continues to fight even though his body is giving him subtle signs that it is tired. There are some realities you cannot escape, and age is one of them. “I’m human,” Hopkins said. “Every day I’m not feeling as great as I was yesterday. That’s what it is. So I needed to see North Philly. I needed to run through Girard Avenue, through the park, train and sleep in my condo … and run up the steps of Rocky. I needed to see where I came from … “I wanted to go back and recapture not the glory of the past days but to remind myself that I still have to fight like a hungry and a starving man and a man that wants something.” Hopkins wants to be the franchise, but he will settle for being the oldest boxing champion ever. Contact columnist Ashley Fox at 215-854-5064 or afox@phillynews.com. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/AshleyMFox

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Marquis wins 100th as Nats edge Braves Nationals 7, Braves 6 Washington Atlanta Washington Bernadina cf Desmond ss Werth rf Ad.LaRoche 1b W.Ramos c L.Nix lf Espinosa 2b Hairston Jr. 3b Marquis p S.Burnett p Clippard p b-Bixler ph Storen p Totals

AB 3 4 4 2 4 4 4 4 3 0 0 1 0 33

Atlanta AB Prado lf 5 Heyward rf 3 Hinske rf 1 C.Jones 3b 3 McCann c 2 Uggla 2b 4 Freeman 1b 4 McLouth cf 4 Di.Hernandez ss 4 T.Hudson p 1 a-Mather ph 1 C.Martinez p 1 Venters p 0 c-Conrad ph 1 Totals 34

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Nationals starter Jason Marquis works in the first inning against

the Atlanta Braves. He earned his fourth victory Tuesday night. ATLANTA — Jason Marquis earned his 100th career win, backed by a pair of threerun homers from Laynce Nix and Jayson Werth, and the Washington Nationals held off the error-plagued Atlanta Braves, 7-6, Tuesday night. The Braves scored five runs in the eighth to nearly wipe out a 7-1 deficit, capped by Dan Uggla’s three-run homer. But Drew Storen got the final three outs for his eighth save in eight chances. Atlanta’s Tim Hudson lasted only five innings, his shortest stint of the season, after tossing a one-hit shutout

against Milwaukee in his previous start. Marquis (4-1) pitched into the eighth, giving up seven hits and three runs to improve his career mark to 100-93. The 32-year-old beat his original team, having picked up his first 14 wins with the Braves from 2000 to 2003. Nix homered in the fourth to give the Nationals a 4-0 lead. Werth, off to a slow start after signing a $126 million contract over the winter, put it out of reach with another three-run shot in the fifth. Hudson had allowed only one homer all season before

Cardinals 6, Cubs 4

Brewers 8, Padres 6

CHICAGO — Daniel Descalso hit a two-out, bases-loaded single in the eighth off Kerry Wood, and Albert Pujols had four hits, helping Chris Carpenter get his first win of the season as St. Louis beat Chicago. Carpenter (1-2) allowed four runs and 13 singles over seven innings to get his first win since Sept. 30. He threw 116 pitches to earn the win in his eighth start of the season. Eduardo Sanchez pitched the ninth for his fourth save. Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano went seven innings, giving up eight hits and four runs.

MILWAUKEE — Jonathan Lucroy tied career highs with three hits and three RBIs, and Shaun Marcum won his fourth straight, lifting Milwaukee over San Diego. Milwaukee built an 8-0 lead off Padres starter Clayton Richard (1-4) as every Brewers starter had at least one hit for the night before having to hold on late. Lucroy provided two of the biggest blows with a two-run single in the second and an RBI double in the fourth. He also singled in the eighth after fouling a ball into the dirt that ricocheted and hit him in the jaw.

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St. Louis 100 Chicago 200 St. Louis AB R Theriot ss 4 0 Rasmus cf 5 1 Pujols 1b 5 1 Holliday lf 4 1 Berkman rf 2 1 Batista p 0 0 d-M.Hamilton ph 1 0 E.Sanchez p 0 0 Y.Molina c 3 1 Punto 2b 4 1 Descalso 3b 4 0 Carpenter p 2 0 b-Jay ph-rf 0 0 Totals 34 6 Chicago Fukudome rf Barney 2b Byrd cf Ar.Ramirez 3b A.Soriano lf C.Pena 1b S.Castro ss Soto c a-K.Hill ph-c Zambrano p K.Wood p c-DeWitt ph Grabow p Mateo p J.Russell p Totals

AB 4 4 5 5 4 3 4 0 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 36

200 120 – 6 000 200 – 4 H BI BB SO 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11 6 5 5

11 0 13 0 Avg. .278 .299 .268 .393 .367 --.300 .000 .282 .234 .243 .133 .229

R H BI BB SO Avg. 1 0 0 1 2 .341 2 3 0 0 0 .331 1 2 0 0 1 .302 0 3 2 0 0 .286 0 0 0 0 2 .242 0 2 1 1 0 .213 0 2 1 1 0 .306 0 0 0 0 0 .226 0 0 0 0 0 .125 0 1 0 0 0 .294 0 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 0 .296 0 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 0 .167 4 13 4 3 5

a-popped out for Soto in the 1st. b-walked for Carpenter in the 8th. c-lined out for K.Wood in the 8th. d-flied out for Batista in the 9th. LOB: St. Louis 8, Chicago 12. 2B: Rasmus (7), Pujols (3), Y.Molina (7). 3B: Punto (2). RBIs: Theriot (10), Holliday (25), Y.Molina (15), Punto (7), Descalso 2 (12), Ar.Ramirez 2 (14), C.Pena (10), S.Castro (13). S: Carpenter, Zambrano. SF: Theriot, C.Pena. RLSP: St. Louis 6 (Y.Molina 3, Rasmus, Theriot 2); Chicago 6 (K.Hill 3, S.Castro 2, Fukudome). RA: Berkman 2. GIDP: Y.Molina, A.Soriano, S.Castro. DP: St. Louis 2 (Descalso, Punto), (Theriot, Punto, Pujols); Chicago 2 (Barney, S.Castro, C.Pena), (Byrd, K.Hill, Ar.Ramirez). St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Carpenter (W 1-2) 7 13 4 4 2 4 116 4.32 Batista (H 3) 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 0.60 E.Sanchez (S 4) 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 2.57 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Zambrano 7 8 4 4 2 3 107 4.35 K.Wood (L 1-2) 1 2 2 2 3 1 35 2.57 1 Grabow /3 0 0 0 0 0 4 4.05 1/3 1 0 0 Mateo 0 1 7 5.79 1/3 0 0 0 J.Russell 0 0 1 7.71 IR-S: J.Russell 1-0. IBB: off K.Wood (Y.Molina), off Zambrano (Berkman). HBP: by Batista (Barney), by Carpenter (A.Soriano). Umpires: Home, Doug Eddings; first, Dana DeMuth; second, Kerwin Danley; third, Paul Nauert. T: 2:54. A: 34,249 (41,159).

San Diego 000 Milwaukee 033 San Diego AB R Venable rf 5 0 Bartlett ss 5 0 Ludwick lf 5 0 Headley 3b 4 1 Hawpe 1b 3 1 b-Cantu ph-1b 1 0 Maybin cf 4 1 K.Phillips c 4 2 Alb.Gonzalez 2b 4 1 Richard p 1 0 Luebke p 1 0 a-Denorfia ph 1 0 Gregerson p 0 0 d-E.Patterson ph 1 0 Totals 39 6 Milwaukee Weeks 2b C.Gomez cf Braun lf Fielder 1b McGehee 3b Y.Betancourt ss C.Hart rf Lucroy c Marcum p Estrada p Stetter p Loe p c-Kotsay ph Axford p Totals

AB 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 2 0 0 0 1 0 33

001 401 – 6 200 00x – 8 H BI BB SO 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 5 0 11

13 2 13 1 Avg. .232 .235 .181 .255 .198 .207 .233 .286 .189 .000 .000 .340 --.133

R H BI BB SO Avg. 0 1 1 0 1 .291 1 1 0 0 1 .242 1 1 1 1 1 .301 2 2 0 1 0 .291 1 2 2 0 0 .262 1 1 0 0 1 .230 1 1 1 0 0 .184 1 3 3 0 0 .324 0 1 0 0 1 .167 0 0 0 0 0 .250 0 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 0 .242 0 0 0 0 0 --8 13 8 2 5

a-grounded into a double play for Luebke in the 7th. b-singled for Hawpe in the 8th. c-flied out for Loe in the 8th. d-struck out for Gregerson in the 9th. E: Bartlett (3), Headley (4), Weeks (6). LOB: San Diego 6, Milwaukee 4. 2B: K.Phillips (1), C.Gomez (6), Lucroy (4), Marcum (1). RBIs: Venable (7), Bartlett (7), K.Phillips 2 (2), Alb.Gonzalez (4), Weeks (13), Braun (24), McGehee 2 (16), C.Hart (1), Lucroy 3 (10). S: Marcum. RLSP: San Diego 3 (Ludwick 2, Maybin); Milwaukee 2 (Fielder, C.Gomez). GIDP: Denorfia, Braun, McGehee, Y.Betancourt. DP: San Diego 4 (Alb.Gonzalez, Bartlett, Hawpe), (Ludwick, Headley, Alb.Gonzalez, Bartlett, Bartlett, Alb.Gonzalez), (Headley, Alb.Gonzalez, Hawpe), (Bartlett, Alb.Gonzalez, Hawpe); Milwaukee 2 (Fielder), (Y.Betancourt, Weeks, Fielder). San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Richard (L 1-4) 31/3 10 8 7 1 1 59 4.79 Luebke 22/3 1 0 0 1 3 35 3.66 Gregerson 2 2 0 0 0 1 35 2.81 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Marcum (W 4-1) 6 9 5 5 0 8 89 2.72 Estrada (H 1) 12/3 1 0 0 0 0 25 4.50 Stetter 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2.84 1/3 0 0 0 Loe (H 7) 0 1 7 3.78 Axford (S 7) 1 2 1 0 0 2 26 5.02 Marcum pitched to 5 batters in the 7th.Stetter pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. IR-S: Luebke 1-0, Estrada 2-1, Stetter 1-0, Loe 2-0. WP: Richard, Estrada. Umpires: Home, Scott Barry; first, John Hirschbeck; second, Wally Bell; third, Laz Diaz. T: 2:54. A: 22,861 (41,900).

100 000 R 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7

330 000 – 7 5 0 100 050 – 6 9 2 H BI BB SO Avg. 0 0 1 0 .286 1 0 0 1 .218 1 3 0 0 .228 1 0 2 0 .202 0 0 0 0 .301 1 3 0 1 .258 0 0 0 1 .214 1 0 0 1 .221 0 0 0 2 .278 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 .077 0 0 0 0 --5 6 3 6

R 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6

H BI BB SO Avg. 2 1 0 0 .272 0 0 0 2 .220 1 1 0 0 .359 1 1 1 0 .273 1 0 2 0 .310 1 3 0 0 .208 1 0 0 0 .241 0 0 0 0 .258 1 0 0 0 .250 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 0 0 .222 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 .133 9 6 3 3

a-singled for T.Hudson in the 5th. b-grounded out for Clippard in the 9th. c-flied out for Venters in the 9th. E: McLouth (1), Freeman (2). LOB: Washington 2, Atlanta 4. 2B: Hinske (2). HR: L.Nix (4), off T.Hudson; Werth (5), off T.Hudson; Prado (4), off Marquis; Uggla (6), off Clippard. RBIs: Werth 3 (12), L.Nix 3 (12), Prado (20), Hinske (10), C.Jones (25), Uggla 3 (14). SB: Bernadina (2), Hairston Jr. (1). RLSP: Washington 1 (L.Nix); Atlanta 3 (Freeman 2, Prado). RA: Desmond, W.Ramos, Uggla. GIDP: Werth, Prado. DP: Washington 1 (Desmond, Espinosa, Ad.LaRoche); Atlanta 1 (Di.Hernandez, Uggla, Freeman). Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Marquis (W 4-1)71/3 7 3 3 2 3 97 3.66 S.Burnett 0 1 2 2 1 0 9 5.93 Clippard (H 8) 2/3 1 1 1 0 0 18 1.66 Storen (S 8) 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 0.46 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA T.Hudson (L 4-3) 5 5 7 3 2 3 75 3.09 C.Martinez 3 0 0 0 1 3 38 3.71 Venters 1 0 0 0 0 0 16 0.92 S.Burnett pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. IR-S: S.Burnett 1-1, Clippard 2-2. Umpires: Home, Jim Wolf; first, Derryl Cousins; second, Jim Joyce; third, Ron Kulpa. T: 2:39. A: 16,143 (49,586).

Dodgers 10, Pirates 3 PITTSBURGH — Matt Kemp hit a three-run homer and Los Angeles broke out of a lengthy hitting slump to crush Pittsburgh. The Dodgers posted a season-high 15 hits, including three each by Jamey Carroll and Aaron Miles. Ted Lilly (3-3) had little trouble over six innings as Los Angeles won for just the second time in seven games. Andrew McCutchen hit two home runs for the Pirates, who had made a rare move above .500 on Monday. Los Angeles 000 004 Pittsburgh 000 002 Los Angeles AB R H Carroll ss 4 1 3 Miles 2b 5 1 3 Ethier rf 5 2 2 Kemp cf 4 2 2 d-Gwynn Jr. ph-cf 1 0 0 Uribe 3b 4 1 1 e-Mitchell ph-3b 1 0 0 Loney 1b 4 1 1 Barajas c 5 1 2 Sands lf 4 1 1 Lilly p 2 0 0 a-Gibbons ph 1 0 0 Hawksworth p 0 0 0 Guerrier p 0 0 0 Cormier p 0 0 0 Totals 40 10 15 Pittsburgh A.McCutchen cf Tabata lf Diaz rf Walker 2b Pearce 1b Doumit c Br.Wood 3b-ss Cedeno ss b-Alvarez ph-3b Correia p Moskos p c-Paul ph Crotta p Resop p Totals

AB 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 33

R 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

150 – 10 15 0 010 – 3 7 2 BI BB SO Avg. 0 1 1 .320 2 0 0 .280 1 0 0 .369 3 0 2 .336 0 0 0 .234 1 0 0 .217 0 0 1 .000 0 1 0 .228 0 0 1 .236 1 1 1 .206 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .100 0 0 0 --1 1 0 --0 0 0 .000 9 4 6

H BI BB SO Avg. 3 2 0 0 .242 1 0 0 2 .226 1 0 0 0 .239 0 1 0 0 .287 1 0 0 0 .278 1 0 1 0 .297 0 0 0 0 .219 0 0 0 2 .208 0 0 0 0 .202 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 1 .281 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 --7 3 1 6

the Nationals took him deep twice. But the Braves starter certainly didn’t get much help from his defense, which committed two errors and had two other miscues that were generously ruled hits. Four of the seven runs off Hudson were unearned.

a-popped out for Lilly in the 7th. b-grounded into a fielder's choice for Cedeno in the 7th. c-struck out for Moskos in the 7th. d-reached on error for Kemp in the 9th. e-struck out for Uribe in the 9th. E: Resop (1), Pearce (2). LOB: Los Angeles 7, Pittsburgh 5. 2B: Barajas (3), Tabata (6), Diaz (5). HR: Kemp (7), off Correia; A.McCutchen (6), off Lilly; A.McCutchen (7), off Cormier. RBIs: Miles 2 (8), Ethier (20), Kemp 3 (24), Uribe (18), Sands (8), Guerrier (1), A.McCutchen 2 (19), Walker (21). SF: Walker. RLSP: Los Angeles 4 (Kemp, Miles, Ethier, Sands); Pittsburgh 1 (Pearce). RA: Diaz, Walker. GIDP: Miles, Ethier. DP: Pittsburgh 2 (Walker, Cedeno, Pearce), (Pearce, Cedeno, Pearce). Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lilly (W 3-3) 6 4 2 2 1 4 97 4.67 Hawkswrth (H 2) 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 11 3.12 1 / 3 0 0 0 0 1 6 3.44 Guerrier (H 5) Cormier 2 2 1 1 0 1 35 8.71 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Correia (L 5-3) 61/3 10 5 4 0 2 87 3.25 2/3 0 0 0 Moskos 1 0 10 0.00 Crotta 0 3 4 4 1 0 15 9.28 Resop 2 2 1 1 2 4 41 4.42 Crotta pitched to 4 batters in the 8th. IR-S: Guerrier 1-0, Moskos 1-0, Resop 3-3. WP: Crotta. Umpires: Home, Tim Welke; first, Jim Reynolds; second, Mike DiMuro; third, Andy Fletcher. T: 3:16. A: 13,497 (38,362).

Reds 7, Astros 3

Mets 4, Rockies 3

EAST PHILLIES Florida Atlanta Washington New York CENTRAL St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee Chicago Houston WEST Colorado San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego

W 23 21 20 17 16 W 21 20 18 16 15 13 W 19 18 17 15 14

L 12 14 17 18 20 L 15 16 18 20 19 23 L 15 16 20 18 22

Pct GB .657 – .600 2 .541 4 .486 6 .444 71/2 Pct GB .583 – .555 1 .500 3 .444 5 .441 5 .361 8 Pct GB .559 – .529 1 .459 31/2 .455 31/2 .389 6

Streak L-1 W-1 L-1 W-1 W-1 Streak W-2 W-3 L-1 W-2 L-2 L-4 Streak L-1 W-3 W-1 L-1 L-2

Home 13-7 12-8 9-8 9-7 8-11 Home 10-9 10-9 7-10 10-5 7-11 7-11 Home 8-7 7-5 9-9 10-9 7-14

Away Last 10 10-5 6-4 9-6 5-5 11-9 7-3 8-11 5-5 8-9 5-5 Away Last 10 11-6 6-4 10-7 6-4 11-8 6-4 6-15 3-7 8-8 5-5 6-12 4-6 Away Last 10 11-8 3-7 11-11 6-4 8-11 3-7 5-9 5-5 7-8 5-5

RESULTS TUESDAY Florida 2, PHILLIES 1 Washington 7, Atlanta 6 Milwaukee 8, San Diego 6 New York 4, Colorado 3 MONDAY PHILLIES 6, Florida 4 Cincinnati 6, Houston 1 Colorado 2, New York 1

Los Angeles 10, Pittsburgh 3 St. Louis 6, Chicago 4 Cincinnati 7, Houston 3 Arizona at San Francisco Pittsburgh 4, Los Angeles 1 Milwaukee 4, San Diego 3

AHEAD

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

2011 Team 2010 Club/Time Odds Pitcher W- L ERA W- L vs.Opp PHILLIES –110 Lee (L) 2- 3 3.69 3- 4 0- 0 at Marlins/7:10 +100 Nolasco (R) 3- 0 3.23 4- 3 1- 0 Padres +130 Stauffer (R) 0- 1 2.61 4- 3 0- 0 at Brewers/1:10 –140 Wolf (L) 3- 3 3.37 3- 4 0- 1 3- 1 5.63 5- 2 0- 0 Reds –125 Volquez (R) at Astros/2:05 +115 Rodriguez (L) 2- 3 4.00 3- 4 1- 1 Mets +170 Niese (L) 1- 4 4.71 3- 4 0- 0 at Rockies/3:10 –180 Jimenez (R) 0- 2 5.88 0- 5 0- 1 Dodgers –110 Kuroda (R) 3- 3 3.69 3- 4 1- 0 +100 Maholm (L) 1- 4 3.68 1- 6 0- 1 at Pirates/7:05 Nationals +190 Lannan (L) 2- 4 5.09 3- 4 2- 0 –210 Hanson (R) 4- 3 2.63 4- 3 0- 1 at Braves/7:10 Cardinals +105 Westbrook (R) 2- 2 6.14 4- 3 2- 0 at Cubs/8:05 –115 Garza (R) 1- 4 4.43 2- 5 0- 0 3- 2 5.29 3- 3 0- 0 D'backs +150 Galarraga (R) at Giants/10:15 –160 Sanchez (L) 2- 2 3.55 4- 3 2- 0 ODDS: Number with favorite (–) indicates amount needed to wager to win underdog (+) indicates amount won if $100 is wagered. TEAM W-L: Team’s record in games this pitcher starts.

THURSDAY’S GAMES St. Louis at Chicago, 2:20 Los Angeles at Pittsburgh, 7:05

Last 3 Starts W-L IP ERA 0- 2 21 3.43 1- 0 201/3 3.54 0- 0 191/3 1.86 1- 1 20 3.60 1- 1 152/3 4.02 1- 1 22 2.45 1- 1 19 3.32 0- 1 15 4.80 1- 1 191/3 4.19 1- 1 21 3.00 0- 3 141/3 7.53 3- 0 20 1.35 1- 0 181/3 2.45 1- 2 20 4.05 0- 2 141/3 4.40 0- 1 15 4.20 $100; Number with

Arizona at San Francisco, 3:45 Washington at Atlanta, 7:10

By Don McKee, Inquirer Staff Writer What rule will they change now?

The Phillies aren’t the only ones with hitting problems. Baseball’s 30 teams put up 72 shutouts through Sunday, a pace that would leave baseball with more shutouts this year than all but two seasons in major-league history. Those were 1968 and 1972, when, as SI.com’s Tom Verducci said: “Offense was so putrid baseball changed its rules both times to inject more scoring into the game.” The lords of baseball lowered the mound from 15 to 10 inches in 1969 to counteract overpowering pitchers. They went on to add the designated hitter in 1973. What bothers some students of the game are the two tiny, but converging trends — fewer runs and fewer fans. The decline of hitting — and of home runs specifically — HOUSTON — Homer DENVER — Mike Pelfrey Bailey pitched seven score- hit a tiebreaking, two-run dou- can be laid in part to random drug testing that began in less innings, Jay Bruce had a ble and limited the Rockies to 2003. The decline in attendance can be laid to the two-run homer, and Joey Vot- three solo homers, helping economy and the weather. But baseball has shown repeatedly that when it runs into to drove in three runs as Cin- New York beat Colorado. cinnati beat Houston. The Mets had lost all five of attendance problems it changes the rules. (Why do you Bailey (2-0), who made his their games to the Rockies think they adopted the lively ball in the wake of the 1919 2011 debut last week against this season but finally put to- World Series scandal?) Whether the suits will decide the trend toward more the Astros, struck out five gether a couple of rallies with no walks to get his sec- against their new nemesis to shutouts demands changes remains to be seen. ond win of the year. counter home runs by Troy Houston starter Brett My- Tulowitzki, Seth Smith, and McCourt may head to court ers (1-3) tied season highs by Carlos Gonzalez. According to the Los Angeles Times, baseball is allowing 10 hits and six runs Despite the trio of long preparing for the chance owner Frank McCourt might take in his third straight loss. All balls he served up, Pelfrey the Dodgers into bankruptcy court. The move could of Cincinnati’s runs off Myers (3-3) allowed just six hits over provide McCourt with the authority and funding to remain came in the first two innings 62/3 innings and improved to in control of the team, experts told the paper. and seven of the hits he al- 6-2 lifetime against the RockThat would bring up the nuclear option: The lowed came in that span. ies. His outing was cut short commissioner could use a “voluntary termination” clause Cincinnati 420 000 100 – 7 15 0 by a nearly hour-long rain de- as empowered by the MLB constitution to revoke a Houston 000 000 030 – 3 7 1 lay in the seventh inning. franchise upon a bankruptcy filing. Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Colorado has lost seven of Stubbs cf 5 2 1 0 1 2 .266 Renteria ss 4 1 1 0 2 2 .283 nine but remains atop the NL Injury report Votto 1b 5 1 3 3 0 0 .344 West. Mets starter Chris Young was diagnosed with a torn B.Phillips 2b 5 0 2 1 0 0 .315 Bruce rf 4 2 1 2 1 1 .250 New York 200 200 000 – 4 7 0 anterior capsule in his right shoulder and is considering J.Gomes lf 5 0 2 0 0 3 .192 Colorado 020 001 000 – 3 6 0 surgery, the team said. … Cardinals manager Tony La Russa Chapman p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. has been diagnosed with shingles in his right eye, and it Masset p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --Jos.Reyes ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .318 Bray p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --was uncertain when he would return to the team, general Cairo 3b 3 0 3 0 1 0 .290 Dan.Murphy 2b-1b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .263 4 0 0 0 0 2 .234 manager John Mozeliak said. Hanigan c 4 0 1 1 1 2 .288 D.Wright 3b H.Bailey p Heisey lf Totals

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Houston AB Bourn cf 4 Ang.Sanchez ss 3 Pence rf 4 Ca.Lee lf 4 Wallace 1b 4 Hall 2b 4 C.Johnson 3b 4 Quintero c 3 Myers p 1 a-Inglett ph 1 Escalona p 0 Del Rosario p 0 W.Lopez p 0 b-M.Downs ph 0 Melancon p 0 c-Bogusevic ph 0 d-Towles ph 1 Totals 33

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0 0 7

0 2 .167 0 0 .235 6 12

H BI BB SO Avg. 0 0 1 0 .256 0 1 1 0 .277 1 2 0 2 .301 1 0 0 1 .229 2 0 0 1 .336 0 0 0 2 .216 0 0 0 1 .181 1 0 1 0 .259 1 0 0 0 .235 1 0 0 0 .231 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 .270 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 .333 0 0 0 0 .289 7 3 3 7

a-singled for Myers in the 6th. b-was hit by a pitch for W.Lopez in the 8th. c-was announced for Melancon in the 9th. d-grounded out for Bogusevic in the 9th. E: Ca.Lee (2). LOB: Cincinnati 13, Houston 7. 2B: Votto 2 (10), Cairo (1). HR: Bruce (8), off Myers. RBIs: Votto 3 (21), B.Phillips (18), Bruce 2 (20), Hanigan (12), Ang.Sanchez (17), Pence 2 (30). RLSP: Cincinnati 7 (J.Gomes, Stubbs, H.Bailey, Renteria 2, Hanigan 2); Houston 3 (C.Johnson, Hall, Bourn). RA: B.Phillips, Towles. GIDP: Bourn. DP: Cincinnati 1 (B.Phillips, Votto). Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA H.Bailey (W 2-0) 7 5 0 0 0 5 95 0.69 Chapman 0 0 3 3 3 0 19 4.26 Masset 11/3 2 0 0 0 2 22 4.79 2/3 0 0 0 Bray 0 0 9 0.69 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Myers (L 1-3) 6 10 6 6 4 8 113 5.01 Escalona 0 0 1 1 1 0 5 Del Rosario 1 2 0 0 0 2 26 4.80 W.Lopez 1 2 0 0 1 2 27 4.50 Melancon 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 1.53 Escalona pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.Chapman pitched to 4 batters in the 8th. IR-S: Masset 3-2, Bray 1-0, Del Rosario 1-1. IBB: off Myers (Hanigan). HBP: by Chapman (M.Downs), by Del Rosario (Cairo). WP: Bray. Umpires: Home, Tim McClelland; first, Marvin Hudson; second, Ted Barrett; third, Brian Runge. T: 3:11. A: 24,499 (40,963).

Beltran rf I.Davis 1b Turner 2b Bay lf R.Paulino c Pridie cf Pelfrey p Isringhausen p Byrdak p c-Harris ph F.Rodriguez p Totals

3 2 2 4 3 3 3 0 0 1 0 33

0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4

0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 7

0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4

1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3

1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 6

.282 .302 .304 .213 .455 .250 .071 ----.214 .000

Colorado AB Fowler cf 3 b-Spilborghs ph-cf 0 Herrera 2b 4 C.Gonzalez lf 4 Tulowitzki ss 4 Helton 1b 4 S.Smith rf 3 Iannetta c 4 Stewart 3b 3 d-Giambi ph 1 Hammel p 2 a-Amezaga ph 1 Lindstrom p 0 F.Paulino p 0 Totals 33

R 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

H BI BB SO Avg. 0 0 0 2 .256 0 0 1 0 .157 0 0 0 1 .277 1 1 0 0 .234 1 1 0 1 .250 2 0 0 1 .311 1 1 1 0 .276 0 0 0 1 .235 0 0 0 0 .064 0 0 0 0 .125 1 0 0 0 .143 0 0 0 0 .308 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 --6 3 2 6

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a-grounded out for Hammel in the 7th. b-walked for Fowler in the 7th. c-fouled out for Byrdak in the 9th. d-grounded out for Stewart in the 9th. LOB: New York 5, Colorado 5. 2B: Jos.Reyes (12), Pelfrey (1). HR: Tulowitzki (9), off Pelfrey; S.Smith (3), off Pelfrey; C.Gonzalez (3), off Pelfrey. RBIs: I.Davis 2 (25), Pelfrey 2 (2), C.Gonzalez (17), Tulowitzki (19), S.Smith (14). RLSP: New York 2 (R.Paulino, Jos.Reyes); Colorado 1 (Iannetta). GIDP: Pridie. DP: Colorado 1 (Helton, Tulowitzki, Helton). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pelfrey (W 3-3) 62/3 6 3 3 1 2 92 5.74 Isringhausn (H 7) 1 0 0 0 1 2 14 2.61 1/3 0 0 0 Byrdak (H 1) 0 1 3 4.66 Rodriguez (S 10) 1 0 0 0 0 1 14 1.10 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hammel (L 3-2) 7 7 4 4 2 5 116 3.02 Lindstrom 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 0.60 F.Paulino 1 0 0 0 1 0 18 6.94 Umpires: Home, Mike Everitt; first, Mark Wegner; second, Chris Guccione; third, Mike Winters. T: 2:35 (Rain delay: 0:50). A: 31,007 (50,490).

Key to Abbreviations E Error; 2B Two-base hit; 3B Three-base hit; HR Home run; BI Runs batted in (game); SB Stolen base; SF Sacrifice fly; CS Caught stealing; BB Walks (game); SO Strikeouts (game); AVG Batting average (season); RBI Runs batted in (season); LOB Runners left on base; RLSP Runners left in scoring positon; RA Runners advanced; IR-S Inherited runners-scored; GIDP Grounded into double play; NP Number of pitches thrown; ERA Earned run average (season); IBB Intentional walks; HBP Hit by pitch; WP Wild pitch; PB Passed ball; DP Double play; W Winning pitcher; L Losing pitcher; S Save; OPS On-base Plus Slugging IR-S (Inherited runners-scored): Number of runners on base when relief pitcher entered game; number who scored.

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PHILLIES: Leo Nunez relieved Dunn. Ross Gload hit for Sardinha and struck out swinging. John Mayberry Jr. hit for Halladay and walked. Rollins grounded out to second, Mayberry to second. Victorino grounded out to first.

PHILLIES: Ryan Howard homered to left. Raul Ibanez doubled to left. Ben Francisco hit by pitch. Pete Orr walked, Ibanez to third, Francisco to second. Dane Sardinha struck out swinging. Roy Halladay struck out looking. Rollins grounded out to second. PHILLIES 1, MARLINS 0

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MARLINS: Gaby Sanchez popped out to second. Greg Dobbs singled to right. Mike Stanton struck out looking. John Buck flied out to second.

Third Inning PHILLIES: Victorino singled to center. Polanco flied out to center. Howard struck out swinging. Ibanez singled to center, Victorino to third. Francisco walked, Ibanez to second. Orr grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Francisco out at second. MARLINS: Omar Infante grounded out to first. Josh Johnson walked. Coghlan doubled to right center, Johnson to third. Bonifacio hit a sacrifice fly to center, Johnson scored, Coghlan to third. Ramirez walked. Sanchez popped out to first. PHILLIES 1, MARLINS 1

Fourth Inning PHILLIES: Sardinha fouled out to catcher. Halladay struck out swinging. Rollins lined out to right. MARLINS: Dobbs struck out swinging. Stanton struck out swinging. Buck struck out looking.

Fifth Inning PHILLIES: Victorino grounded out to first. Polanco struck out swinging. Howard popped out to third. MARLINS: Infante grounded out to pitcher. Johnson struck out looking. Coghlan grounded out to second.

Sixth Inning PHILLIES: Ibanez grounded out to first. Francisco singled to center. Orr grounded out to first, Francisco to second. Sardinha intentionally walked. Halladay struck out swinging.

Seventh Inning

second inning. It was the only run the Phillies got against three Marlins pitchers.

Marlins nip Phils in a pitchers’ duel

PHILLIES from D1 score, the matchup, the haze creeping over the outfield, everything. “Aw, damn,” Rollins thought to himself. This game was not decided on the mound. One ball left the infield in the bottom of the eighth. Infante reached on Rollins’ error. He moved to second on a wild pitch that catcher Dane Sardinha later said he should have had. Infante advanced to third on a two-strike stroke of luck that was a groundout to second by 23-year-old pinch-hitter Osvaldo Martinez. He scored on a ball dunked into shallow center field by Chris Coghlan, and that was that. “That’s a tough way to lose a game,” manager Charlie Oswalt, Ruiz in Clearwater. Manuel said. Every mistake, as expectBright House Field will be the place to be Thursday. Both ed, was magnified. They Roy Oswalt (back) and Carlos will not dig out the pitching Ruiz (back) will play for the rubber and present it to the single-A Clearwater Thresh- winner as they did the last ers in rehab starts. And Chase time these two pitchers Utley (knee tendinitis) could squared off in this stadium, also be in the lineup after be- but this game was every bit ginning his rehab stint on as good as anticipated. Halladay, through little Tuesday. Oswalt has a 75-pitch limit fault of his own, emerged as for Thursday’s start. The Phil- the loser. He had retired 13 lies hope he will return to the Florida batters in a row berotation Tuesday in St. Louis. fore Infante reached on the He has not pitched since Rollins error. April 26. “I’m trying to limit mis“My back feels great,” Os- takes as much as I can, rewalt said. “I’m a little rusty, gardless of who you’re facthough. I can’t spot my fast- ing,” Halladay said. “Unfortuball and I don’t have any nately, it turned out that the breaking ball. Other than that little stuff did matter. You I’m in pretty good shape.” can’t go in being cautious. The team believes Ruiz But it did.” could return when eligible FriHalladay outlasted day in Atlanta. Johnson, but it was little consolation. In eight innings, the Extra bases Phillies ace threw 115 pitches Jose Contreras (elbow) threw for his third complete game his first bullpen session since of the season. He struck out going on the disabled list nine and walked two — one of April 24. … Both Manuel and Dubee said Antonio Bastardo was healthy. Manuel declined to bring in the lefthander Monday even though Bastardo had pitched in only two games the week before. … Jimmy Rollins’ leadoff home run Monday was the 36th of his career and moved him past Bobby Bonds for fifth place on the all-time list. He is 17 shy of the National League record of 53 held by Craig Biggio.

PHILLIES AB Rollins ss 5 Victorino cf 5 Polanco 3b 4 Howard 1b 4 Ibanez lf 4 B.Francisco rf 2 Orr 2b 2 a-W.Valdez ph-2b 1 Sardinha c 2 c-Gload ph 1 Halladay p 3 d-Mayberry ph 0 Totals 33

R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

H BI BB SO Avg. 1 0 0 0 .286 1 0 0 0 .289 0 0 0 1 .353 1 1 0 2 .274 2 0 0 0 .231 1 0 1 0 .237 0 0 1 0 .234 0 0 0 1 .244 0 0 1 1 .182 0 0 0 1 .348 0 0 0 3 .053 0 0 1 0 .308 6 1 4 9

Florida AB Coghlan cf 4 Bonifacio lf 3 H.Ramirez ss 3 G.Sanchez 1b 4 Dobbs 3b 3 Stanton rf 3 J.Buck c 3 Infante 2b 3 Jo.Johnson p 1 M.Dunn p 0 b-O.Martinez ph 1 L.Nunez p 0 Totals 28

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2

H BI BB SO Avg. 2 1 0 1 .274 1 1 0 0 .301 1 0 1 2 .208 0 0 0 1 .331 1 0 0 1 .338 0 0 0 2 .229 0 0 0 1 .230 0 0 0 0 .239 0 0 1 1 .167 0 0 0 0 --0 0 0 0 .200 0 0 0 0 --5 2 2 9

a-struck out for Orr in the 8th. b-grounded out for M.Dunn in the 8th. c-struck out for Sardinha in the 9th. d-walked for Halladay in the 9th. E: Rollins (3). LOB: PHILLIES 10, Florida 5. 2B: Ibanez (6), Coghlan (10). HR: Howard (8), off Jo.Johnson. RBIs: Howard (32), Coghlan (19), Bonifacio (6). SB: H.Ramirez (8). CS: Bonifacio (2). SF: Bonifacio. RLSP: PHILLIES 6 (Rollins 2, Orr 2, Halladay, Victorino); Florida 3 (G.Sanchez 3). RA: Rollins, Orr, Bonifacio, O.Martinez. DP: PHILLIES 1 (Sardinha, Sardinha, Orr). PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Halladay (L 5-2) 8 5 2 1 2 9 115 2.05 Florida IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Jo.Johnson 7 6 1 1 3 7 114 1.63 M.Dunn (W 3-2) 1 0 0 0 0 1 16 1.26 L.Nunez (S 12) 1 0 0 0 1 1 16 2.55 IBB: off Jo.Johnson (Sardinha). HBP: by Jo.Johnson (B.Francisco). WP: Halladay. Umpires: Home, Mark Carlson; first, Tim Timmons; second, Jeff Kellogg; third, Eric Cooper. T: 2:35. A: 21,955 (38,560).

MARLINS: Bonifacio bunt-popped out to third. Ramirez struck out swinging. Sanchez flied out to right.

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Second Inning

Ryan Howard watches the ball he just slugged clear the fence in left field for a home run in the

MARLINS: Infante safe at first on throwing error by shortstop Rollins. Infante to second on wild pitch by Halladay. Osvaldo Martinez hit for Dunn and grounded out to second, Infante to third. Coghlan singled to center, Infante scored. Bonifacio grounded out to second, Coghlan to second. Ramirez reached on infield single to third, Coghlan to third. Ramirez stole second. Sanchez struck out looking. MARLINS 2, PHILLIES 1

MARLINS: Roy Halladay pitching for the Phillies. Chris Coghlan struck out looking. Emilio Bonifacio singled to center. Hanley Ramirez struck out swinging. Bonifacio caught stealing second, catcher to second.

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PHILLIES: Josh Johnson pitching for the Marlins. Jimmy Rollins grounded out to second. Shane Victorino grounded out to second. Placido Polanco grounded out to pitcher.

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Manuel: Blanton was sore after start

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Going 16 days between starts provided a natural excuse for Joe Blanton’s general ineffectiveness in Monday’s 6-4 Phillies win. Those 16 days also created some confusion. After the game, Blanton said he felt “OK” in his first start since being activated from the disabled list with a sore right elbow. Asked a few times if he experienced any soreness after the game, Blanton refused to say he did. A day later, manager Charlie Manuel and pitching coach Rich Dubee acknowledged that Blanton wasn’t 100 percent in his five-inning outing. “Joe had some soreness,” Manuel said. “He definitely wasn’t as sharp as he wanted to be. Whether it’s natural or not, I don’t know.” Neither Manuel nor Dubee could say if Blanton’s next scheduled start — Saturday in Atlanta — is in danger. The Phillies decided Blanton did not require a minorleague rehab start even though he hadn’t pitched since April 23. Because of that long layoff from competitive baseball, the team is unsure if Blanton’s soreness Monday was a result of rust or continued symptoms of the elbow problem. “I don’t know,” Manuel said. “Man, we’re getting way ahead of ourselves. I’m damn sure not that smart. You never know who’s going to pitch.” Blanton has a bullpen session scheduled for Wednesday, and the Phillies will know more then. Dubee said he was optimistic. “I don’t have any reason not to be,” the pitching coach said. The red flag stems from Blanton’s decreased velocity. The righthander previously said he pitched through the elbow problem in his first four starts of 2011. His velocity Monday was just about the same as it was April 23, which is not exactly encouraging. In 2010, Blanton’s sinker averaged 89.4 m.p.h. On Monday, he threw his sinker at an average velocity of 87.6 m.p.h.

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PHILLIES: Rollins singled to right. Victorino flied out to left. Polanco grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Rollins out at second. Howard struck out looking. MARLINS: Dobbs flied out to left. Stanton grounded out to second. Buck grounded out to shortstop.

Eighth Inning PHILLIES: Mike Dunn relieved Johnson. Ibanez grounded out to first. Francisco grounded out to shortstop. Wilson Valdez hit for Orr and struck out swinging.

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Phillies Statistics Not including Tuesday’s game. HITTING Avg. AB Gload ……………… .364 Polanco …………… .363 Mayberry ……………… .308 Victorino …………… .292 Rollins ……………… .289 Howard ……………… .275 Valdez ……………… .247 Orr …………………… .244 Francisco …………… .232 Ruiz ………………… .226 Ibanez ……………… .222 Sardinha …………… .222 Schneider ………… .160 Martinez …………… .150 *Team totals ……… .262

22 135 39 137 135 131 81 45 112 62 117 9 50 20 1168

0 8 20 49 4 12 23 40 23 39 19 36 13 20 4 11 12 26 9 14 14 26 0 2 4 8 1 3 150 306

0 8 3 6 5 8 4 1 3 3 5 0 1 0 47

0 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9

HR RBI

0 3 0 3 2 24 12 7 1 4 6 9 5 17 12 20 2 8 20 15 7 31 14 39 0 7 4 13 0 2 3 7 4 18 15 19 2 9 6 10 3 15 9 30 0 0 2 4 2 4 3 13 0 1 2 6 28 145 109 222

0 3 1 8 8 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 25

0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7

0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 12

*—including pitchers and other players not listed. PITCHING

ERA

Contreras ……………… 0 Mathieson …………… 0 Madson ……………… 2 Worley …………………… 2 Bastardo ………………… 1 Kendrick ……………… 2 Halladay ……………… 5 Romero ……………… 0 Hamels ………………… 4 Oswalt …………………… 3 Lee …………………… 2 Stutes ………………… 0 Baez ……………………… 1 Blanton ………………… 1 *Team totals …………23

0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 1 3 0 1 1 11

0.00 0.00 0.64 1.20 1.38 1.50 2.19 2.35 2.83 3.33 3.69 3.86 4.20 5.83 3.09

8 1 14 3 13 9 7 10 7 5 7 6 14 5 34

0 0 0 2 0 1 7 0 7 5 7 0 0 5 34

5 8 4 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 14 9 1 1 0 15 8 2 2 1 13 7 2 2 0 18 11 5 3 0 531/3 45 13 13 0 72/3 7 2 2 0 472/3 36 15 15 0 27 21 11 10 0 461/3 47 20 19 0 42/3 3 2 2 0 15 16 8 7 0 291/3 40 19 19 10 312 272 112 107

0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 4 2 4 1 1 2 21

4 9 2 0 5 16 6 14 6 19 9 5 7 57 2 5 11 49 7 21 7 60 4 3 4 6 8 19 90 288

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Florida ace Josh Johnson struggled early, but he ended up giving up just one run in seven innings in a no-decision. which severely hurt him. In 353 career games, Halladay had issued 492 walks before Tuesday. None was to the opposing pitcher. With one out in the third inning, Johnson took all six pitches Halladay threw him. The sixth was a fastball low for ball four. “I just walked him,” Halladay said. “I don’t know what else to tell you.” Halladay screamed a profanity and snatched the ball

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Florida’s Emilio Bonifacio is tagged out by Phillies second baseman Pete Orr as he tries to steal second.

tossed back to him by Sardinha. Johnson scored after a double and a sacrifice fly to tie the game. The Phillies let Johnson escape trouble early and often, leaving the bases loaded twice. He allowed six hits and walked three in seven innings. The lone run came on an opposite-field home run by Howard in the second. That inning could have and should have been more profitable for the Phillies. After Howard’s homer, the next three batters reached base with no outs. Sardinha and Halladay struck out before Rollins grounded out to second. “You have to get something across,” Manuel said. “Hit into a double play, we’ll get a run. Whatever. It didn’t happen. Sometimes that’s the way it goes.” There was no perfection this time. Instead, a routine baseball play decided everything. Contact staff writer Matt Gelb at mgelb@phillynews.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/magelb.

‘The knee felt good,’ Utley says after game UTLEY from D1 simulated game in Philadelphia on May 1 and in extended-spring-training games on Sunday and Monday. On Tuesday, he officially began his rehabilitation assignment, which can last up to 20 days. Utley must be activated by May 30. He has not played for the Phillies since Oct. 23, when they lost to the San Francisco Giants in the National League Championship Series. Chuck LaMar, the Phillies’ assistant general manager for player development and scouting, was in Clearwater to monitor Utley’s progress. “Chase has felt so good with his rehab that he wants to take the next step,” LaMar said. “There’s no set timetable.” This is the third time in the last four years that Utley has had to come back from injury. But he is typically a fast healer. In the 2008 offseason, Utley underwent hip surgery and was not expected to be back until May. Utley, though, played in

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Chase Utley pushes off on his

right leg as he leaves the batter’s box. He could spend some time in Clearwater.

some spring-training games and was ready on opening day. Last year, Utley was supposed to be out for eight weeks after thumb surgery. He was back in the Phillies lineup nearly two weeks ahead of his scheduled Aug. 26 return date.

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Yankees beat Royals as Garcia looks sharp Yankees 3, Royals 1

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Nick Swisher (right) leaps in celebration with Brett Gardner (left) and Curtis Granderson after the Yankees’ victory.

Kansas City New York Kansas City Getz 2b Me.Cabrera cf Gordon lf Butler dh Francoeur rf Hosmer 1b Aviles 3b Treanor c A.Escobar ss Totals

AB 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 2 3 31

New York Jeter ss Granderson cf Teixeira 1b Al.Rodriguez 3b Cano 2b Swisher rf Posada dh Martin c Gardner lf Totals

AB 4 4 2 4 4 4 3 3 2 30

000 100 000 – 1 7 0 001 020 00x – 3 7 0 R H BI BB SO Avg. 0 1 0 1 1 .229 1 1 1 0 1 .282 0 0 0 0 2 .300 0 0 0 0 0 .285 0 2 0 0 0 .308 0 0 0 1 2 .250 0 1 0 0 0 .265 0 2 0 1 0 .222 0 0 0 0 2 .233 1 7 1 3 8 R 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3

H BI BB SO Avg. 2 1 0 0 .283 0 0 0 3 .274 1 0 1 0 .263 1 2 0 1 .262 1 0 0 0 .289 1 0 0 1 .218 0 0 0 1 .147 0 0 0 1 .255 1 0 1 1 .239 7 3 2 8

LOB: Kansas City 6, New York 6. 3B: Gardner (2). HR: Me.Cabrera (4), off F.Garcia. RBIs: Me.Cabrera (22), Jeter (10), Al.Rodriguez 2 (21). SB: Getz (7), Francoeur (4), Jeter (2). CS: Treanor (1), Swisher (1). RLSP: Kansas City 4 (Butler, Getz 3); New York 2 (Posada, Cano). RA: Me.Cabrera, Granderson. GIDP: Aviles. DP: Kansas City 1 (Treanor, Treanor, Getz); New York 1 (M.Rivera, Cano, Teixeira). Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Davies (L 1-5) 5 7 3 3 1 3 105 7.08 Collins 2 0 0 0 0 3 23 3.48 Bl.Wood 1 0 0 0 1 2 22 3.46 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA F.Garcia (W 2-2) 6 6 1 1 2 3 85 2.61 Robertson (H 7) 1 0 0 0 1 2 26 1.35 Chamberln (H 8) 1 0 0 0 0 2 9 3.18 M.Rivera (S 13) 1 1 0 0 0 1 16 1.62 F.Garcia pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.Davies pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. IR-S: Collins 1-0, Robertson 2-0. HBP: by Davies (Teixeira). Umpires: Home, Ed Hickox; first, Ed Rapuano; second, Brian O'Nora; third, Alfonso Marquez. T: 2:52. A: 41,275 (50,291).

NEW YORK — Freddy Garcia pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter provided the offense, and the New York Yankees’ bullpen made it stand up in a 3-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Brett Gardner tripled and scored twice as the Yankees won for the eighth time in 10 games at home against the Royals. Kansas City has a major-league-best 15 wins at

home but dropped to just 3-9 on the road this season. Garcia (2-2) gave up six hits and a pair of walks in six-plus innings to win for only the second time in nine decisions against the Royals. He outpitched Kyle Davies (1-5), who allowed three runs in five-plus innings for Kansas City. Former Yankees outfielder Melky Cabrera provided the Royals with their only run, a solo homer to center field in the fourth inning that briefly tied the game.

Jeter had two more hits after his four-hit, two-homer game Sunday at Texas. He drove in the Yankees’ first run with a crisp single in the third inning. A-Rod, who had been 5 for 27 with runners in scoring position, added a two-run single in the fifth. The hit followed a 9-for-55 slump for the Yankees’ cleanup hitter. Mariano Rivera pitched the ninth for his 13th save of the season and 25th straight against the Royals.

Orioles 7, Mariners 6

Rangers 7, Athletics 2

Indians 5, Rays 4

BALTIMORE — Matt Wieters singled home the winning run with two outs in the 13th inning, part of a stunning comeback that gave Baltimore a victory over Seattle. After the Mariners got the go-ahead run in the top of the 13th, the Orioles scored twice in the bottom half against Brandon League, who blew his first save opportunity in 10 chances this season. J.J. Hardy homered and had four hits for Baltimore in his first game back from the disabled list. The Orioles snapped a four-game losing streak and improved to 1-17 when trailing after seven innings.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Colby Lewis pitched neatly into the eighth inning, and Texas got a two-run homer from slumping Adrian Beltre in a victory over Oakland. Lewis (3-4) allowed one run and five hits over 71/3 innings. He walked one and failed to register a strikeout for the Rangers, who had lost seven of nine and 11 of 15. The righthander got 16 outs on balls hit in the air and threw a season-high 115 pitches. Beltre, who was given a night off Monday and had gone 4 for 31 over his previous nine games, connected in the fifth to chase starter Brett Anderson (2-3). Beltre batted sixth for the first time this season as manager Ron Washington revamped his lineup after the Rangers hit .231 in their previous nine games. Beltre’s first 35 starts this season had been at cleanup.

CLEVELAND — Michael Brantley drew a bases-loaded walk with two outs in the ninth inning off Tampa Bay closer Kyle Farnsworth to force in the winning run and give Cleveland its 14th consecutive win at home. The Indians have won their last four at home in their final at-bat. Cleveland loaded the bases against Joel Peralta (1-2) before Farnsworth came on and issued his first walk in 16 outings this season. Brantley and Grady Sizemore homered for the Indians, who are 14-2 at home for the first time since becoming an AL charter member in 1901.

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Seattle 020 Baltimore 001 Seattle I.Suzuki rf Figgins 3b Smoak 1b Olivo c Cust dh A.Kennedy 2b Ja.Wilson 2b Peguero lf a-M.Wilson ph-lf Ryan ss M.Saunders cf Totals

000 002 AB 6 7 4 4 5 4 2 2 4 5 6 49

Baltimore AB B.Roberts 2b 5 Markakis rf 6 D.Lee 1b 4 Guerrero dh 4 1-C.Izturis pr-dh 0 b-Fox ph-dh 3 Scott lf 4 2-Pie pr-lf 3 Ad.Jones cf 6 Wieters c 7 Mar.Reynolds 3b 6 Hardy ss 5 Totals 53

201 000 1 – 6 14 0 020 000 2 – 7 20 0 R H BI BB SO Avg. 1 2 0 1 0 .309 0 2 1 0 0 .220 0 1 1 2 1 .291 1 1 1 2 1 .213 0 2 0 1 1 .208 1 1 2 0 1 .260 1 1 0 0 0 .250 0 0 0 0 1 .154 0 1 1 0 1 .250 0 1 0 0 0 .208 2 2 0 0 2 .180 6 14 6 6 8 R H BI BB SO 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 3 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 3 3 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 1 1 0 7 20 7 6 11

Avg. .213 .239 .226 .281 .192 .156 .263 .303 .262 .235 .177 .350

Two outs when winning run scored.a-popped out for Peguero in the 7th.1-ran for Guerrero in the 8th. 2-ran for Scott in the 8th. LOB: Seattle 11, Baltimore 16. 2B: I.Suzuki (7), Figgins (7), Cust (6), Ja.Wilson (3), Pie (2), Ad.Jones 2 (5). HR: A.Kennedy (3), off Arrieta; Hardy (1), off Pineda. RBIs: Figgins (11), Smoak (22), Olivo (11), A.Kennedy 2 (8), M.Wilson (1), Scott (15), Pie (1), Ad.Jones 3 (19), Wieters (20), Hardy (3). S: Ryan, B.Roberts 2. RLSP: Seattle 5 (Peguero, Figgins 2, Cust 2); Baltimore 8 (Scott, Mar.Reynolds 3, Fox 2, B.Roberts 2). RA: I.Suzuki, Figgins, M.Saunders. GIDP: Smoak, B.Roberts, Mar.Reynolds. DP: Seattle 2 (Ryan, Smoak), (Figgins, Smoak); Baltimore 1 (B.Roberts, Hardy, D.Lee). Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pineda 6 7 3 3 1 6 100 2.84 Pauley (H 2) 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 1.33 J.Wright (BS 1-1) 1 3 2 2 1 0 19 2.20 Laffey 3 4 0 0 4 2 55 1.35 Ray 1 1 0 0 0 2 11 11.88 League(L0-2,BS) 2/3 4 2 2 0 1 15 4.80 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Arrieta 6 4 2 2 3 6 103 4.17 2 Gonzalez (BS1) /3 3 2 2 1 0 15 7.94 Uehara 11/3 1 0 0 0 1 17 3.21 Gregg (BS 2) 1 2 1 1 0 0 18 2.77 Ji.Johnson 2 0 0 0 0 1 19 4.00 Accardo (W 2-0) 2 4 1 1 2 0 43 4.32 Laffey pitched to 2 batters in the 12th. IR-S: Ray 2-0, Uehara 3-1. IBB: off Laffey (D.Lee, D.Lee, Ad.Jones), off M.Gonzalez (Smoak), off Accardo (I.Suzuki). Umpires: Home, Angel Hernandez; first, Paul Schrieber; second, Chad Fairchild; third, Joe West. T: 4:08. A: 11,485 (45,438)

Oakland 000 Texas 000 Oakland AB R DeJesus rf 3 0 Barton 1b 4 0 Sweeney cf 4 1 Willingham lf 3 0 Matsui dh 4 0 K.Suzuki c 3 0 M.Ellis 2b 3 0 C.Jackson 3b 0 0 An.LaRoche 3b-2b 4 0 Pennington ss 3 1 Totals 31 2 Texas Borbon cf Andrus ss Kinsler 2b Mi.Young dh Moreland 1b A.Beltre 3b Dav.Murphy lf Napoli c Gentry rf Totals

AB 5 3 3 4 5 3 3 3 4 33

001 001 – 2 232 00x – 7 H BI BB SO 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 5 2 3 1

5 0 11 1 Avg. .217 .210 .364 .229 .235 .239 .185 .284 .250 .229

R H BI BB SO Avg. 1 1 0 0 0 .279 0 0 0 1 1 .263 1 1 0 2 0 .221 2 3 2 1 1 .349 1 2 0 0 0 .302 1 1 2 0 0 .239 1 1 0 1 1 .274 0 1 2 1 2 .203 0 1 1 0 2 .286 7 11 7 6 7

E: A.Beltre (3). LOB: Oakland 6, Texas 10. 2B: Pennington (2), Mi.Young (14), Napoli (4). 3B: Mi.Young (2). HR: Pennington (3), off C.Lewis; A.Beltre (8), off Anderson. RBIs: C.Jackson (12), Pennington (12), Mi.Young 2 (28), A.Beltre 2 (28), Napoli 2 (16), Gentry (1). S: Andrus. SF: C.Jackson. RLSP: Oakland 3 (Willingham, Barton, An.LaRoche); Texas 6 (Gentry 2, Andrus 2, A.Beltre, Moreland). RA: DeJesus, Moreland, A.Beltre. GIDP: Willingham, Kinsler. DP: Oakland 1 (M.Ellis, Pennington, Barton); Texas 1 (A.Beltre, Kinsler, Moreland). Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Andersn (L 2-3) 42/3 6 4 4 4 5 97 3.21 1/3 2 1 1 Purcey 0 0 13 4.82 Blevins 2 2 2 2 1 2 29 4.61 Breslow 1 1 0 0 1 0 14 4.26 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 1 C.Lewis (W 3-4) 7 /3 5 1 1 1 0 115 4.57 2/3 0 1 0 Oliver 0 1 14 2.40 Feliz 1 0 0 0 2 0 20 0.87 Oliver pitched to 1 batter in the 9th. IR-S: Oliver 1-0, Feliz 1-1. HBP: by Anderson (A.Beltre). Umpires: Home, Sam Holbrook; first, Greg Gibson; second, Todd Tichenor; third, Gerry Davis. T: 2:46 (Rain delay: 0:59). A: 31,655 (49,170).

Tampa Bay 000 Cleveland 100 Tampa Bay AB R Fuld lf 5 0 E.Johnson lf 0 0 Zobrist 2b 3 1 Longoria 3b 4 1 Joyce rf 4 1 B.Upton cf 4 0 Kotchman 1b 4 0 S.Rodriguez ss 3 1 b-Damon ph 0 0 Brignac ss 0 0 D.Johnson dh 4 0 Jaso c 2 0 a-Shoppach ph-c 2 0 Totals 35 4 Cleveland AB G.Sizemore cf 5 A.Cabrera ss 5 Choo rf 3 C.Santana c 3 Hafner dh 3 O.Cabrera 2b 5 Brantley lf 4 LaPorta 1b 2 1-Everett pr-3b 0 Hannahan 3b-1b 1 Totals 31

101 110 – 4 102 001 – 5 H BI BB SO 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 8 4 2 5

Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 6 TORONTO — David Cooper hit his first major-league home run and drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as Toronto beat Boston. Jose Bautista hit his 11th homer of the season, and rookie J.P. Arencibia also went deep for Toronto. Adrian Gonzalez homered twice for the Red Sox, the 11th multihomer game of his career, and David Ortiz added a solo shot. Rajai Davis singled and stole second and third before Cooper won it with the fly ball. Boston Toronto Boston Ellsbury cf Pedroia 2b Ad.Gonzalez 1b Youkilis 3b Ortiz dh J.Drew rf Lowrie ss 2-Iglesias pr-ss Crawford lf Saltalamacchia c 3-D.McDonald pr Varitek c Totals

010 300 AB 6 4 6 5 5 5 4 1 5 3 0 1 45

Toronto AB Y.Escobar ss 2 1-Cooper pr-1b 1 C.Patterson lf 5 Bautista rf 4 Encarnacion 1b-3b 4 A.Hill 2b 5 J.Rivera dh 3 Arencibia c 4 Jo.McDonald 3b-ss 3 R.Davis cf 5 Totals 36

120 011 0 – 6 16 0 011 010 1 – 7 9 2 R H BI BB SO Avg. 0 3 0 0 1 .300 1 2 0 2 0 .244 2 3 3 0 2 .324 0 0 0 0 2 .239 2 3 1 0 0 .293 0 2 0 0 1 .237 0 1 0 0 1 .327 1 0 0 0 1 .000 0 1 1 0 2 .210 0 1 1 1 2 .208 0 0 0 0 0 .150 0 0 0 0 0 .154 6 16 6 3 12 R 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 7

H BI BB SO Avg. 1 0 1 1 .268 1 2 0 0 .143 2 0 0 2 .267 1 1 1 1 .354 1 1 1 0 .243 0 1 0 1 .227 0 1 1 0 .217 1 1 1 2 .239 0 0 2 1 .195 2 0 0 1 .197 9 7 7 9

Two outs when winning run scored.1-ran for Y.Escobar in the 6th. 2-ran for Lowrie in the 8th. 3-ran for Saltalamacchia in the 8th. E: Encarnacion (8), Cooper (1). LOB: Boston 12, Toronto 10. 2B: Ortiz (5), Lowrie (8), Encarnacion (12). 3B: R.Davis (2). HR: Ortiz (5), off Drabek; Ad.Gonzalez (5), off Drabek; Ad.Gonzalez (6), off F.Francisco; Bautista (11), off Lester; Arencibia (5), off Lester; Cooper (1), off Bard. RBIs: Ad.Gonzalez 3 (28), Ortiz (17), Crawford (9), Saltalamacchia (8), Cooper 2 (4), Bautista (20), Encarnacion (9), A.Hill (10), J.Rivera (9), Arencibia (12). SB: Ellsbury (11), Pedroia (5), R.Davis 2 (9). CS: Pedroia (2), R.Davis (3). SF: Cooper. RLSP: Boston 5 (Youkilis, Ellsbury, Ortiz, Pedroia, Crawford); Toronto 5 (Arencibia 2, Bautista, R.Davis 2). RA: Crawford, C.Patterson. GIDP: Ortiz. DP: Toronto 1 (Rzepczynski, Jo.McDonald, Cooper). Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lester 51/3 7 5 5 5 5 114 2.96 1 R.Hill 1 /3 0 0 0 0 1 15 0.00 1/3 0 0 0 Aceves 2 0 17 2.63 Bard 1 1 1 1 0 1 18 2.89 Albers (L 0-1) 12/3 1 1 1 0 2 27 1.88 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Drabek 5 8 4 4 3 5 109 4.81 Frasor 1 1 0 0 0 3 16 1.65 Rzpcznski(BS1) 12/3 4 1 1 0 1 26 2.60 1/3 0 0 0 Rauch 0 0 5 3.29 Francisco (BS 1) 1 2 1 1 0 3 18 3.52 Villanueva (W 1-0)1 1 0 0 0 0 16 1.69 Frasor pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. IR-S: R.Hill 2-0, Rzepczynski 1-0, Rauch 2-0. HBP: by Lester (Y.Escobar), by Aceves (J.Rivera). WP: F.Francisco. Umpires: Home, Paul Emmel; first, Gary Darling; second, David Rackley; third, Bruce Dreckman. T: 3:53. A: 17,820 (49,260).

R H BI BB SO Avg. 1 1 1 0 0 .282 0 3 1 0 0 .282 0 1 0 2 1 .227 1 1 0 2 0 .221 0 0 0 2 1 .337 0 1 0 0 0 .273 1 2 2 1 1 .294 1 1 0 2 1 .263 0 0 0 0 0 .333 1 0 0 2 0 .260 5 10 4 11 4

One out when winning run scored.a-singled for Jaso in the 7th. b-walked for S.Rodriguez in the 9th.1-ran for LaPorta in the 8th. LOB: Tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 13. 2B: Longoria (4), Joyce (11), Kotchman (4), S.Rodriguez (7), LaPorta (7). HR: Joyce (3), off Tomlin; Longoria (2), off Pestano; G.Sizemore (6), off Sonnanstine; Brantley (2), off Sonnanstine. RBIs: Longoria (6), Joyce 2 (14), Shoppach (5), G.Sizemore (11), A.Cabrera (23), Brantley 2 (12). SB: Damon (5), A.Cabrera (3), Brantley (5). S: Hannahan. RLSP: Tampa Bay 5 (Joyce, D.Johnson, Kotchman, Zobrist, Fuld); Cleveland 8 (O.Cabrera, Hafner 2, G.Sizemore, Choo 2, Brantley, A.Cabrera). RA: Fuld, B.Upton, Shoppach, Choo. GIDP: G.Sizemore, C.Santana, Brantley. DP: Tampa Bay 3 (Kotchman, S.Rodriguez, Sonnanstine), (Zobrist, S.Rodriguez, Kotchman), (S.Rodriguez, Zobrist, Kotchman). Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sonnanstine 31/3 4 2 2 5 2 68 2.87 C.Ramos 12/3 1 0 0 0 1 23 4.09 1/3 1 2 1 B.Gomes 2 0 17 2.45 J.Cruz 1 2 0 0 1 1 26 2.57 Peralta (L 1-2) 12/3 2 1 1 2 0 27 3.00 1/3 0 0 0 Farnsworth 1 0 8 0.73 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Tomlin 6 6 3 3 1 3 93 2.70 Sipp (H 10) 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 1.62 Pestano (BS 2) 1 1 1 1 0 1 19 1.84 C.Perez (W 2-1) 1 0 0 0 1 1 13 2.81 Tomlin pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.Jo.Peralta pitched to 3 batters in the 9th. IR-S: C.Ramos 2-0, J.Cruz 3-2, Jo.Peralta 2-0, Farnsworth 3-1, Sipp 1-1. IBB: off Jo.Peralta (Hafner). PB: Jaso. Umpires: Home, Dale Scott; first, Jerry Meals; second, John Tumpane; third, Dan Iassogna. T: 3:14. A: 13,551 (43,441).

W 20 20 17 16 15 W 23 18 18 14 12 W 20 19 19 16

L 13 15 19 20 19 L 11 17 18 22 21 L 16 18 18 20

Pct .606 .571 .472 .444 .441 Pct .676 .514 .500 .389 .364 Pct .556 .514 .514 .444

GB Streak – W-2 1 L-1 41/2 L-1 51/2 W-1 51/2 W-1 GB Streak – W-1 5 L-2 51/2 W-3 91/2 W-3 10 L-3 GB Streak – L-1 11/2 L-1 11/2 W-1 4 L32

Home 13-6 9-10 11-9 8-8 8-11 Home 14-2 15-8 9-7 5-11 4-6 Home 8-9 8-8 13-8 8-11

Away Last 10 7-7 6-4 11-5 7-3 6-10 6-4 8-12 3-7 7-8 4-6 Away Last 10 9-9 7-3 3-9 6-4 9-11 6-4 9-11 4-6 8-15 3-7 Away Last 10 12-7 5-5 11-10 6-4 6-10 3-7 8-9 5-5

RESULTS TUESDAY New York 3, Kansas City 1 Baltimore 7, Seattle 6, 13 inn. Texas 7, Oakland 2 Chicago at Los Angeles MONDAY Detroit 10, Toronto 5 Oakland 7, Texas 2

Toronto 7, Boston 6, 10 inn. Cleveland 5, Tampa Bay 4 Detroit at Minnesota

Boston 2, Minnesota 1, 11 inn. Chicago 8, Los Angeles 0

AHEAD

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES 2011 Team 2010 Last 3 Starts Club/Time Odds Pitcher W- L ERA W- L vs.Opp W-L IP ERA Tigers +120 Coke (L) 1- 5 4.75 1- 5 0- 1 0- 2 161/3 7.16 at Twins/1:10 –130 Baker (R) 2- 2 2.97 2- 4 1- 0 2- 0 211/3 1.69 Athletics +105 Gonzalez (L) 4- 2 2.68 4- 3 2- 1 2- 1 182/3 3.86 at Rangers/2:05 –115 Harrison (L) 3- 4 4.35 2- 5 0- 0 0- 3 102/3 10.97 Royals +200 Mazzaro (R) – – – – – 0- 1 – – – – –220 Burnett (R) 4- 2 3.71 4- 3 1- 1 1- 2 21 3.00 at Yankees/7:05 Red Sox –130 Lackey (R) 2- 4 7.16 2- 4 1- 2 1- 2 18 5.00 at Blue Jays/7:05 +120 Litsch (R) 3- 2 4.04 3- 3 0- 1 2- 1 181/3 4.42 Rays –140 Price (L) 4- 3 3.26 4- 3 2- 0 2- 1 21 3.86 at Indians/7:05 +130 Carrasco (R) 1- 1 4.97 2- 3 0- 0 0- 0 161/3 4.41 4- 2 3.02 5- 3 1- 0 2- 0 22 2.45 Mariners –140 Hernandez (R) at Orioles/7:05 +130 Tillman (R) 1- 3 7.16 3- 3 0- 0 1- 2 151/3 7.04 0- 0 – 0- 0 0- 1 0- 0 0 – White Sox +100 Peavy (R) at Angels/10:05 –110 Chatwood (R) 2- 1 4.08 4- 2 0- 0 1- 0 171/3 4.67 ODDS: Number with favorite (–) indicates amount needed to wager to win $100; Number with underdog (+) indicates amount won if $100 is wagered. TEAM W-L: Team’s record in games this pitcher starts.

THURSDAY’S GAMES Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 12:05 Kansas City at New York, 7:05 Seattle at Baltimore, 7:05

By Robin Smith, Inquirer Staff Writer Hughes on the road back

Derek Jeter broke out of his hitting slump Sunday, and the New York Yankees got more good news Tuesday. Righthander Phil Hughes, who hasn’t pitched since April 14, plans to start throwing on flat ground Thursday. He had experienced a lack of velocity in his first three starts, when he was 0-1 with a 13.94 ERA. Though not expected back for six to eight weeks, Hughes told the Associated Press he is “excited to get going.” Hughes got a cortisone shot about two weeks ago to relieve discomfort in his right shoulder.

What a difference a week makes

MONDAY

8 0 10 0 Avg. .238 .237 .282 .300 .356 .260 .348 .211 .256 .195 .122 .239 .170

EAST New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore CENTRAL Cleveland Kansas City Detroit Chicago Minnesota WEST Los Angeles Oakland Texas Seattle

White Sox 8, Angels 0 Chicago Los Angeles Chicago Pierre lf Al.Ramirez ss A.Dunn dh Konerko 1b Quentin rf Lillibridge rf Pierzynski c Rios cf Beckham 2b Morel 3b Totals

021 000 AB R 5 0 5 2 4 2 3 1 4 1 1 0 4 1 4 0 4 1 4 0 38 8

Los Angeles Aybar ss Abreu dh a-Mathis ph-dh Tor.Hunter rf Bo.Wilson 1b Callaspo 3b V.Wells lf H.Kendrick 2b Conger c Trumbo 1b-rf Amarista 2b-lf Bourjos cf Totals

AB 4 2 1 3 1 4 2 2 4 3 3 2 31

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

010 400 – 8 000 000 – 0 H BI BB SO 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 11 8 4 6

11 0 6 0 Avg. .250 .250 .180 .323 .279 .281 .227 .206 .231 .218

H BI BB SO Avg. 1 0 0 2 .352 1 0 1 0 .267 0 0 0 0 .197 0 0 0 1 .234 1 0 0 0 .200 1 0 0 0 .289 1 0 0 0 .183 0 0 0 0 .317 1 0 0 0 .297 0 0 0 0 .266 0 0 0 1 .143 0 0 1 2 .298 6 0 2 6

LOB: Chicago 7, Los Angeles 6. 2B: A.Dunn (5), Quentin 2 (15), Beckham (7), Bo.Wilson (1). HR: Beckham (3), off E.Santana; Al.Ramirez (4), off E.Santana; Quentin (8), off T.Bell. RBIs: Al.Ramirez (12), Quentin 5 (23), Beckham 2 (12). SB: Aybar (9), Abreu (5). RLSP: Chicago 5 (Pierzynski 2, Rios 2, Morel); Los Angeles 4 (Trumbo, V.Wells, Tor.Hunter, Conger). RA: Callaspo, H.Kendrick. GIDP: Tor.Hunter. DP: Chicago 2 (Rios, Rios, Al.Ramirez, Morel), (Al.Ramirez, Beckham, Konerko). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA EJackson (W 3-4) 7 5 0 0 1 5 101 4.29 Sale 1 0 0 0 1 1 21 6.57 Ohman 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 6.75 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA E.Santana (L 1-4) 6 8 5 5 3 5 103 4.81 T.Bell 1 3 3 3 1 0 21 3.86 F.Rodriguez 2 0 0 0 0 1 21 4.61 E.Santana pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. Umpires: Home, Brian Gorman; first, Tony Randazzo; second, Dan Bellino; third, Larry Vanover. T: 2:29. A: 38,561 (45,389).

American League Not including Tuesday’s games. G AB R Bautista Tor Joyce TB Kubel Min Hafner Cle MiYoung Tex MIzturis LAA Lowrie Bos Konerko CWS HKendrick LAA AdGonzalez Bos

27 31 33 27 36 27 30 35 36 35

92 97 118 95 142 112 103 130 145 142

26 15 13 13 17 10 16 17 26 19

H Avg. 33 34 41 33 48 37 34 42 46 45

.359 .351 .347 .347 .338 .330 .330 .323 .317 .317

RUNS: Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 28; MiCabrera, Detroit, 27; Bautista, Toronto, 26; HKendrick, Los Angeles, 26; Granderson, New York, 24. ; Ellsbury, Boston, 23; Gordon, Kansas City, 23. RBIs: Konerko, Chicago, 27; Lind, Toronto, 27; Beltre, Texas, 26; MiYoung, Texas, 26; Aviles, Kansas City, 25; AdGonzalez, Boston, 25; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 25. HOME RUNS: Granderson, New York, 11; Bautista, Toronto, 10; Teixeira, New York, 9; Cano, New York, 8; Francoeur, Kansas City, 8; Konerko, Chicago, 8; Quentin, Chicago, 8. STOLEN BASES: Andrus, Texas, 11; ISuzuki, Seattle, 11. ; Ellsbury, Boston, 10; Fuld, Tampa Bay, 10; Aybar, Los Angeles, 9; Crisp, Oakland, 9; Aviles, Kansas City, 8; Dyson, Kansas City, 8. PITCHING: Scherzer, Detroit, 6-0; Cahill, Oakland, 6-0; Weaver, Los Angeles, 6-2; Masterson, Cleveland, 5-0; Britton, Baltimore, 5-2. STRIKEOUTS: Haren, Los Angeles, 56; Verlander, Detroit, 55; Weaver, Los Angeles, 55. ; Scherzer, Detroit, 51; FHernandez, Seattle, 51; CWilson, Texas, 48; Lester, Boston, 46. SAVES: MRivera, New York, 12. ; CPerez, Cleveland, 10; League, Seattle, 9; Fuentes, Oakland, 9; Farnsworth, Tampa Bay, 7; Valverde, Detroit, 7.

Minnesota Twins lefthander Francisco Liriano’s bid for back-to-back no-hitters ended quickly. Liriano was taken out after three innings Tuesday, giving up four runs, three hits, and three walks, and throwing 59 pitches against Detroit. He got the first four outs before a walk and a home run by Jhonny Peralta gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead. The Twins said Liriano left because of illness. His first start after the no-hitter against Chicago a week earlier had been pushed back because he had flu symptoms.

A long, nasty night

Tempers flared and the dugouts emptied in the 10th inning of a game between the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night. After Baltimore’s Felix Pie hit a routine grounder to first, he reversed his direction upon seeing first baseman Justin Smoak waiting for him in front of the bag. Smoak chased Pie back toward the plate, and when Pie turned around, he took exception to the hard tag by Smoak. The two exchanged words and were separated by an umpire. Both dugouts emptied but no punches were thrown.

Comings and goings

The Kansas City Royals put lefthander Bruce Chen on the disabled list because of a strained muscle in his left side and recalled Vin Mazzaro from triple-A Omaha. Chen, a Phillie in 2000 and 2001, was 4-1 with a 3.59 ERA. On Wednesday, Cleveland plans to activate former Phillie Carlos Carrasco (elbow strain) from the 15-day disabled list to start against Tampa Bay. Contact staff writer Robin Smith at rsmith@phillynews.com. This article contains information from the Associated Press.

Minor Leagues

IronPigs beat Hens; Trenton tops Reading BY THE INQUIRER STAFF

TOLEDO, Ohio — Kevin Frandsen and Delwyn Young hit home runs as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs topped the Toledo Mud Hens, 3-1, in the International League on Tuesday.

Wilmington 3, Salem 1

WILMINGTON — Jake Odorizzi struck out 13 in six shutout innings to lead the Blue Rocks past the Red Sox in the Carolina League.

Trenton 4, Reading 2

TRENTON — Manny Banuelos and four Thunder relievers stymied the Phillies in the Eastern League.

Greensboro 9, Lakewood 2

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Ryan Fisher was 3 for 5 with four RBIs as the Bats beat the BlueClaws in the South Atlantic League.

Lancaster 10, Camden 9

LANCASTER — Fernando Seguignol’s two-run single in the bottom of the 10th gave the Barnstormers the Atlantic League win over the Riversharks. Lehigh Valley Toledo

100 000 200 — 3 5 1 000 000 001 — 1 5 0

WP: Gordon (1-0). LP: Wilk (1-4). Sv: Zagurski (4). HR: LV–Frandsen (3), Young (5). A: 6,857. Salem Wilmington

000 000 001 — 1 3 1 002 010 00x — 3 8 0

WP: Odorizzi (3-0). LP: Ruiz (1-2). Sv: Chapman (6). HR: S–Rodriguez (5). A: 4,288. Reading Trenton

010 010 000 — 2 8 2 121 000 00x — 4 8 0

WP: Banuelos (1-0). LP: Ramirez (4-2). Sv: Hernandez (5). HR: Johnson (4). A: 5,284. Lakewood Greensboro

020 000 000 — 2 6 1 020 304 00x — 9 11 0

WP: Neal (2-2). LP: Manzanillo (1-2). A: 3,134. Camden Lancaster

023 001 020 1 — 9 14 2 400 022 000 2 — 10 10 0

WP: Segal (1-0). LP: Rivera (0-2). HR: C– Hall (3), Hill (1), Macias (1), Padron (1). A: 2,296. Palm Beach Clearwater

000 020 102 — 5 9 2 000 001 000 — 1 7 2

WP: Gast (1-2). LP: Pettibone (3-2). Sv: Reid (2). HR: PB–Conley (1). A: 2,647.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick were fined $25,000 apiece and put on probation Tuesday by NASCAR for their actions Saturday on pit road at Darlington Raceway. The probation for all NASCAR-sanctioned events runs through June 15, a span that includes four Sprint Cup Series championship races and the nonpoints $1 million all-star event. It also includes Friday night’s Truck Series race at Dover — an event Harvick entered only after the confrontation. Probation is typically no more than a warning that NASCAR will not tolerate any more misconduct in the designated period.

through the 2020 season. Financial terms were not disclosed. 8 Kathryn Stockbower of the Swarthmore College women’s basketball team has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Germany for the 2011-12 school year.

CYCLING: Undeterred by

the slap on the wrist a jury gave Barry Bonds, U.S. investigators are forging ahead in a separate drug-related case against another superstar athlete — Lance Armstrong. In France, where Armstrong became famous by winning the Tour de France seven straight times, officials received a request from U.S. authorities last month for help gathering evidence about the cyclist and other members of his former U.S. Postal team. The move indicates federCOLLEGES: There was little al authorities are looking to left for Shelvin Mack to ac- bolster their case against complish at Butler. The pow- Armstrong so they can give erful 6-foot-3 guard became a grand jury in Los Angeles one of Butler’s all-time scor- the fullest account possible ing leaders and helped the of the cyclist’s actions beBulldogs reach the NCAA fi- fore deciding whether Armnal the last two seasons. strong, like Bonds, also With those accolades be- should face criminal charghind him, Mack formally an- es related to using perfornounced that he was stay- mance-enhancing drugs. ing in the NBA draft. 8 Pat Fitzgerald and North- GOLF: Christopher Gold, a western have agreed to a Hooters Tour player from new deal that keeps the foot- Kissimmee, Fla., captured ball coach under contract medalist honors in U.S.

Open qualifying at Hidden Creek Golf Club in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. Gold, formerly of Haddonfield, shot a 2-under-par 70. Others who advanced to sectional qualifying were Christopher Gray of Newark, Del.; Michael Kania of Haverford; and Jordan Gibbs of Princeton. 8 Nick Faldo, winner of six majors and currently a CBS golf analyst, will appear June 30 at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore to speak at a benefit for The First Tee of Philadelphia. Information can be obtained at www.thefirstteephiladelphia.org.

FIGURE SKATING: Ryan Brad-

ley is going out on top. The 27-year-old announced his retirement, five months after winning his first U.S. figure-skating title. He has been competing internationally for more than a decade, and finished 13th at the world championships last month in Moscow.

TENNIS: French Open cham-

pion Francesca Schiavone got off to a comfortable start at the Italian Open in Rome, beating 18-year-old American qualifier Christina McHale, 6-3, 6-1. The second-seeded Italian, backed by cheering fans at Foro Italico, broke McHale’s serve midway through the first set and cruised from there. — Staff and wire reports

Scoreboard Transactions Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Florida Marlins: Placed RHP Javier Vazquez on the bereavement list. San Francisco Giants: Activated CF Andres Torres and INF Mark DeRosa off the 15-day DL. Sent INF Ryan Rohlinger and INF Emmanuel Burriss to Fresno (PCL). AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore Orioles: Activated SS J.J. Hardy from the 15-day DL. Designated RHP Josh Rupe for assignment. Cleveland Indians: Recalled RHP Frank Herrmann from Columbus (IL). Los Angeles Angels: Recalled OF Reggie Willits from Salt Lake (PCL).

Basketball NBA League: Suspended L.A. Lakers C Andrew Bynum five games without pay for making unnecessary and excessive contact with Dallas G J.J. Barea and fined him $25,000 for removing his jersey and the manner in which he left the court after a game on May 8.

Football NFL League: G Alan Faneca announced his retirement.

Ice Hockey NHL Nashville Predators: Assigned F Blake Geoffrion, F Matt Halischuk and D Jonathon Blum to Milwaukee (AHL).

Soccer MLS Sporting Kansas City: Signed D Seth Sinovic.

Colleges Baylor: Announced sophomore C Dragan Sekleja and freshman G Stargell Love will transfer. St. Louis: Announced sophomore basketball G Christian Salecich is transferring to Missouri Southern. West Chester: Announced it did not renew the contract of baseball coach Mark Jackson. Xavier: Signed men’s basketball coach Chris Mack to a new contract, through the 2017-18 season.

MLS EAST New York Columbus UNION Houston D.C. United New England Toronto Chicago Kansas City WEST

W 4 3 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 W

L 1 1 2 3 4 3 3 3 4 L

Tennis T Pts. 3 15 4 13 1 13 3 12 2 11 4 10 4 10 4 7 1 4 T Pts.

GF 11 8 5 13 12 8 9 10 10 GF

GA 3 6 3 10 17 12 14 13 13 GA

Los Angeles 4 2 4 16 12 10 Real Salt Lake 5 1 0 15 9 2 Portland 4 3 1 13 11 13 Colorado 4 3 2 14 11 9 Seattle 3 3 4 13 12 10 Dallas 3 3 2 11 10 10 Chivas USA 2 3 3 9 8 7 Vancouver 1 4 4 7 11 14 San Jose 1 4 2 5 6 10 Three points for victory, one point for a tie. WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Los Angeles at UNION, 7:30 Toronto at FC Dallas, 9 San Jose at Vancouver, 10 SATURDAY’S GAMES UNION at Dallas, 8:30 Chicago at Toronto FC, 7 Colorado at D.C. United, 7:30 Vancouver at New England, 7:30 Houston at Real Salt Lake, 9 Columbus at San Jose, 10:30 Kansas City at Los Angeles, 10:30 Portland at Seattle, 11

WPS EAST

T Pts.

W. New York 3 0 1 10 10 4 magicJack 3 0 0 9 5 1 Boston 2 3 0 6 6 6 INDEPENDENCE 1 1 1 4 5 4 Atlanta 1 3 1 4 4 11 Sky Blue 0 3 1 1 3 7 Three points for a victory, one point for a tie. FRIDAY’S GAME Boston at Western New York, 7:30 SUNDAY’S GAME INDEPENDENCE at Atlanta, 6

Seedings in parentheses.

Italian Open In Rome MEN’S SINGLES First round: Marin Cilic def. Ivo Karlovic, 6-4, 1-0, retired. Sam Querrey def. Kevin Anderson, 7-6 (1), 1-0, retired. Nicolas Almagro (9) def. Simone Bolelli, 6-0, 7-5. Ivan Ljubicic def. Flavio Cipolla, 6-2, 6-3. Juan Ignacio Chela def. John Isner, 6-4, 6-1. Stanislas Wawrinka (14) def. Fabio Fognini, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4. Feliciano Lopez def. Michael Llodra, 7-6 (2), 6-1. Paolo Lorenzi def. Thomaz Bellucci, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Second round: Richard Gasquet (16) def. Igor Andreev, 6-1, 6-2. Tomas Berdych (7) def. Juan Monaco, 6-2, 6-2. Jarkko Nieminen def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4. Richard Gasquet (16) def. Igor Andreev, 6-1, 6-2. Robin Soderling (5) def. Fernando Verdasco, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4. Andy Murray (4) def. Xavier Malisse, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. WOMEN’S SINGLES First Round: Lucie Safarova def. Kimiko Date-Krumm, 7-5, 6-2. Anastasia Rodionova def. Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-4, 6-4. Alberta Brianti def. Zheng Jie, 6-4, 7-5. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (16) def. Chanelle Scheepers, 6-3, 7-5. Sara Errani def. Roberta Vinci, 6-2, 1-0, retired. Andrea Petkovic (12) def. Maria Kirilenko, 7-5, 6-1. Romina Oprandi def. Kaia Kanepi (14), 7-5, 3-6, 6-1. Shahar Peer (10) def. Bojana Jovanovski, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4. Bethanie Mattek-Sands def. Flavia Pennetta (15), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Second round: Francesca Schiavone (2) def. Christina McHale, 6-3, 6-1. Maria Sharapova (7) def. Ekaterina Makarova, 6-1, 6-1.

Arena Football League FRIDAY’S GAMES Georgia at SOUL, 7:05 Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:30 Tulsa at New Orleans, 8 Iowa at Jacksonville, 8 SATURDAY’S GAMES Cleveland at Orlando, 7:30 San Jose at Pittsburgh, 7:30 Milwaukee at Utah, 9 Chicago at Arizona, 10 Dallas at Spokane, 10

Merion claims Philadelphia Cup Merion Golf Club, with team captain Kim Simmons scoring a 1-up victory, wrapped up the Philadelphia Cup on Tuesday with a 5-2 victory over visiting Philadelphia Cricket Club. Merion won the top level of the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia’s inter-club team matches with a 5-0 record this spring, aided by wins from Catherine Elliott, Nancy Porter, Katie Sibel, and Vinny West.

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Philadelphia Cup Final standings: Merion 5-0, Philadelphia Cricket 3-2, Huntingdon Valley 3-2, Sunnybrook 2-3, Gulph Mills 2-3, Manufacturers 0-5. Merion 5, Phila. Cricket 2: Catherine Elliott, M, def. Kerry Rutan, 1 up; Alison Shoemaker, PC, def. Liz Haines, 3 and 2; Marji Goldman, PC, def. Loraine Jones, 3 and 1; Nancy Porter, M, def. Melena Regan, 4 and 3; Kim Simmons, M, def. Jan Albert, 1 up; Katie Sibel, M, def. Carol Cowhey, 3 and 1; Vinny West, M, def. Cynthia Clough, 3 and 2. Sunnybrook 4, Gulph Mills 3: Alexandra Frazier, GM, def. Lisa McGill, 2 and 1; Catharine Sibel, S,

1st—$22,000 F&M 3YO up, cl, $7,500 6f Mary’s Dancer (R. Montanez) 8.00 4.80 2.80 Veiled (Kyle Frey) 9.20 5.40 Alex's Sis Casey (Eriluis Vaz) 2.40 Exacta (1-4) paid 55.80. Trifecta (1-4-2) paid 129.60. Off 12:28:50. Time 1:12:03. 2d—$22,000 3,4&5YO mdn cl, $12,500 $10,500 1 MILE&70YDS Rifle (Jose Ferrer) 15.40 6.60 5.40 Admiral Rickover (Kyle Frey) 6.60 4.80 Moonshine Blues (Kristina McManigell) 8.00 Exacta (8-1) paid 102.40. Trifecta (8-1-5) paid 1,431.60. Double (1-8) paid 112.20. Off 12:55:17. Time 1:44:00. 3d—$28,000 F&M 3YO up, cl, $16,000 6f Red Hot Jazz (Angel Arroyo) 15.80 6.80 4.20 Dobra (Rosario Montanez) 3.60 2.80 Suzee Sunrise (Wilfredo Corujo) 4.20 Exacta (2-3) paid 54.40. Trifecta (2-3-1) paid 182.80. Pick 3 (1-8-2) paid 941.80. Off 13:21:29. Time 1:10:02. 4th—$26,000 3YO cl, $15,000 - $13,000 51/2f Reason to Drink (K. Carmouche) 4.40 2.80 2.40 Petionville’sdream (Jose Caraballo) 3.80 2.80 Beaureal (Alex Bisono) 4.60 Exacta (1-3) paid 14.40. Trifecta (1-3-6) paid

def. Ellen Miller, 4 and 2; Camilla Whetzel, S, def. Dina Gibson, 3 and 2; Cam Peake, GM, def. Maisie Barlow, 6 and 5; Debbie Maine, S, def. Missy Wietlisbach, 1 up; Courtney Robertson, S, def. Cici Brooks, 5 and 4; Molly Connell, GM, def. Margaret Packer, 6 and 4. Huntingdon Valley 6, Manufacturers 1: Hilary Mainka, HV, def. Tracy Albertelli, 1 up; Jean Paddison, HV, def. Pat Gelardi, 6 and 5; Bonnie George, HV, def. Kathy Platt, 2 and 1; Christine Gregor, HV, def. Sue Klauder, 3 and 2; Tierney Sadowl, HV, def. Ann Gilmore, 2 and 1; Maureen Koerwer, HV, def. Tricia Delaney, 2 and 1; Anne Marie Lewis, M, def. Amy Holman, 4 and 2. Second Cup: Wilmington 1 def. Spring Ford 1, 4-3; Whitford 1 def. Sandy Run 1, 5-2; Coatesville def. Radley Run 1, 5-2. Third Cup: Riverton 1 def. Aronimink 1, 5-2; Medford Village 1 def. Phila. Country 1, 7-0; Waynesborough 1 def. Little Mill 1, 6-1. Fourth Cup: Overbrook 1 def. Old York Road 1, 4-3; Indian Valley 1 def. Whitemarsh Valley 1, 4-3; Philmont 1 def. Brandywine, 4-3. Fifth Cup: Doylestown 1 def. Merion 2, 4-3; Phila. Cricket 2 def. DuPont 1, 4-3; Trenton 1 def. Gulph Mills 2, 5-2. Sixth Cup: Kennett Square 1 def. Huntingdon Valley 2, 4-3; Chester Valley 1 def. Wilmington 2, 6-1; Llanerch 1 def. Tavistock 1, 6-1. Seventh Cup: Concord 1 def. Cedarbrook 1, 4-3; Commonwealth 1 def. Spring Ford 2, 7-0. Eighth Cup: St. Davids 1 def. Olde York 1, 6-1; Plymouth def. Springhaven 1, 4-3; North Hills 1 def. Green Valley, 6-1. Ninth Cup: Penn Oaks 1 def. Blue Bell 1, 6-1; Hersheys Mill 1 def. Yardley 1, 6-1; Medford Lakes def. Meadowlands, 4-3. 10th Cup: Brookside def. Whitford 2, 6-1; LuLu 1 def. Indian Valley 2, 6-1; Phila. Country 2 def. Gulph Mills 3, 7-0.

11th Cup: Spring Mill def. Waynesborough 2, 4-3; West Chester def. Whitemarsh Valley 2, 4-3; Woodcrest def. DuPont 2, 4-3. 12th Cup: Riverton 2 def. Moorestown Field, 4-3; Sandy Run 2 def. Merion 3, 7-0; Talamore def. Wilmington 3, 4-3. 13th Cup: Phila. Cricket 3 def. Phoenixville 1, 6-1; Sunnybrook 2 def. Overbrook 2, 5-2; Old York Road 2 def. Rolling Green 2, 6-1. 14th Cup: Radnor Valley def. Philmont 2, 6-1; Manufacturers 2 def. Phila. Country 3, 7-0; Jericho National def. Radley Run 2, 7-0. 15th Cup: Llanerch 2 def. St. Davids 2, 5-2; Aronimink 2 def. Lookaway, 6-1; Huntingdon Valley 3 def. Doylestown 2, 5-2. 16th Cup: Chester Valley 2 def. Tavistock 2, 4-3; Kennett Square 2 def. Cedarbrook 2, 5-2; Edgmont def. White Manor, 6-1. 17th Cup: Torresdale-Frankford def. Indian Valley, 3, 6-1; Trenton 2 def. Aronimink 3, 5-2; DuPont 3 def. Merion 4, 5-2. 18th Cup: Wilmington 4 def. Manufacturers 3, 4-3; Waynesborough 3 def. Penn Oaks 2, 6-1; Bala def. Whitford 3, 6-1. 19th Cup: Laurel Creek def. Burlington, 4-3; Huntingdon Valley 4 def. J.C. Melrose, 7-0; Little Mill 2 def. Springhaven 2, 4-3. 20th Cup: Medford Village 2 def. North Hills 2, 6-1; Overbrook 3 def. Waynesborough 4, 4-3; Old York Road 3 def. Hersheys Mill 2, 5-2. 21st Cup: St. Davids 3 def. Blue Bell 2, 4-3; LuLu 2 def. Tavistock 3, 5-2. 22d Cup: RiverCrest def. Radley Run 3, 6-1; Sandy Run 3 def. Kennett Square 3, 7-0; Fieldstone def. Riverton 3, 5-2. 23d Cup: Links def. Whitemarsh Valley 3, 7-0; Applebrook def. Doylestown 3, 6-1. 24th Cup: Phila. Cricket 4 def. North Hills 3, 6-1; Aronimink 4 def. Olde York 2, 5-2.

Parx Racing Results 121.80. Double (2-1) paid 55.40. Pick 3 (8-2-1) paid 411.40. Off 13:47:59. Time 1:04:02. Scratched- Pies Bid. 5th—$25,000 F&M 3YO up, STARTER ALLOWANCE 61/2f Galicista (ARG) (F. Pennington) 3.40 2.20 2.10 Langfann (Stewart Elliott) 2.40 2.20 Racyn With Gracyn (Kennel Pellot) 3.00 Exacta (3-4) paid 8.60. Trifecta (3-4-6) paid 25.20. Pick 3 (2-1,2-1,3) paid 103.40. Off 14:15:30. Time 1:18:04. Scratched- Pat’s Kitten. 6th—$45,000 F&M 3,4&5YO PA-BRED MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT 6f Ms. Tiptaptoe (John Bisono) 29.20 11.20 5.60 Major Dixie (C. Cruz) 16.60 8.20 Pyrite Storm (R. Feliciano) 3.00 Exacta (6-4) paid 324.60. Trifecta (6-4-3) paid 1,273.40. Pick 3 (1-1,3-6) paid 172.40. Off 14:42:40. Time 1:10:03. Scratched- Miss Bollywood, Feliciti Dancer. 7th—$20,000 3YO up, cl, $5,000 7f Mountain Climber (McManigell) 18.00 9.40 5.60 Berning Blaze (Frankie Pennington) 4.60 3.80 Prudent Heir (Jermaine Burke) 4.40 Exacta (3-10) paid 109.40. Trifecta (3-10-5) paid 703.00. Pick 3 (3-6-3) paid 754.00. Superfecta (3-10-5-12) paid 64,426.80. Off 15:09:28. Time

1:25:01. Scratched- Dr. Balin. 8th—$23,000 3YO up, cl, $7,500 6f Rings Island (R. Montanez) 6.40 4.40 3.60 Private Wish (Jermaine Burke) 52.60 24.40 Cherokee Empire (Angel Arroyo) 6.00 Exacta (7-4) paid 303.60. Trifecta (7-4-3) paid 1,823.00. Pick 3 (6-3-7) paid 1,082.20. Pick 4 (1,3-6-3-7) paid 3,942.80. Pick 6 (2-1,2-1,3-6-3-7) 4 correct paid 450.00. Off 15:37:21. Time 1:11:01. 9th—$30,000 F&M 3YO up, STARTER ALLOWANCE 1 MILE Lemony Fresh (Jose Ferrer) 3.20 2.10 2.10 Prizes Galore (Roberto Alvarado, Jr.) 3.20 3.00 Bellezza Rosso (Angel Arroyo) 3.20 Exacta (2-6) paid 9.40. Trifecta (2-6-3) paid 36.80. Double (7-2) paid 12.00. Pick 3 (3-7-2) paid 169.20. Off 16:01:58. Time 1:37:04. Scratched- Mega Heir. 10th—$22,000 3,4&5YO mdn cl, $12,500 $10,500 1 MILE&70YDS Senor Bensalem (K. Pellot) 54.80 17.00 13.60 Rum Diary (John Bisono) 2.80 3.00 Prince William G (Josiah Hampshire, Jr.) 10.00 Exacta (9-10) paid 184.60. Trifecta (9-10-4) paid 2,049.40. Pick 3 (7-2-9) paid 717.60. Superfecta (9-10-4-6) paid 60,462.80. Off 16:29:51. Time 0:00:0. Total handle: $168,216.43.

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Western Conference SEMIFINALS VANCOUVER VS. NASHVILLE Game 1: Vancouver, 1-0 Game 2: Nashville, 2-1, 2OT Game 3: Vancouver, 3-2, OT Game 4: Vancouver, 4-2 Game 5: Nashville, 4-3 Game 6: Vancouver, 2-1 Vancouver wins series, 4-2. SAN JOSE VS. DETROIT Game 1: San Jose, 2-1, OT Game 2: San Jose, 2-1 Game 3: San Jose, 4-3 OT Game 4: Detroit, 4-3 Game 5: Detroit, 4-3 Game 6: Detroit, 3-1 Game 7: Thursday at San Jose, 9 Series tied, 3-3.

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First period: None. Penalties: Boyle, SJ (holding), 3:59; Demers, SJ (elbowing), 11:13; Hudler, Det (holding), 11:13; Kronwall, Det (holding), 14:19; Setoguchi, SJ (hooking), 14:51. Second period: None. Penalties: Mitchell, SJ (roughing), 4:35; Datsyuk, Det (holding, roughing), 4:35; Marleau, SJ (boarding), 10:39; Holmstrom, Det (goaltender interference), 11:32; Murray, SJ (tripping), 19:10. Third period: 1, San Jose, Couture 5 (Heatley), 3:54. 2, Detroit, Zetterberg 2 (Kronwall, V.Filppula), 10:38. 3, Detroit, V.Filppula 2 (Datsyuk), 12:32. 4, Detroit, Helm 3, 18:55 (en). Penalties: Abdelkader, Det (holding), 13:14; Thornton, SJ (slashing), 19:50; Pavelski, SJ (roughing), 19:50; Couture, SJ (roughing), 19:50; Cleary, Det (roughing), 19:50; Stuart, Det (roughing), 19:50. Shots on goal: San Jose 6-7-12–25. Detroit 18-14-13–45. Power-play opportunities: San Jose 0 of 4; Detroit 0 of 5. Goalies: San Jose, Niemi 6-5-0 (44 shots-42 saves). Detroit, Howard 7-3-0 (25-24). A: 20,066 (20,066). T: 2:32. Referees: Paul Devorski, Dan O'Rourke. Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Brad Kovachik.

DETROIT — Henrik Zetterberg and Valtteri Filppula scored less than two minutes apart in the third period, and the Detroit Red Wings rallied again for a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night, forcing a decisive seventh game after trailing three games to none in the pulsating second-round series. San Jose must defend home ice Thursday night to avoid becoming the fourth NHL team to lose a best-of-seven series after leading by 3-0. San Jose’s Logan Couture scored early in the third period, but Zetterberg tied it with 9 minutes, 22 seconds remaining, and Filppula scored the winner with 7:28 left. Darren Helm added an empty-net goal. Every other game in the series was decided by one goal. Detroit scored the last three goals of Game 5 to win, 4-3. The Red Wings are the second team this season to erase a 3-0 series hole. Chicago did it in the first round before losing Game 7 at Vancouver.

The Flyers came all the way back last year in the second round, winning the final four games against Boston. Those recent successes make the task now seem much less daunting. Skating with confidence and desperation, the Red Wings outshot San Jose, 45-25, but they were on the verge of elimination after Couture batted a rebound out of midair and the puck trickled past goalie Jimmy Howard with 16:06 remaining. The puck barely crossed the goal line before Howard covered it with his glove, but the goal stood after a review. Zetterberg tied it by deflecting a wrist shot by Niklas Kronwall past goalie Antti Niemi, and the Sharks never regained momentum. Filppula put Detroit ahead, converting a nice cross-ice pass by Pavel Datsyuk. The Red Wings outplayed the Sharks from the start. At the midway point of the first period, Detroit had an 11-1 edge in shots, to the delight of the home crowd that had given the Red Wings a standing ovation when they took the ice.

Holmgren to ponder goalies GOALIE from D1 $59.4 million cap, which is expected to rise by a few million, for next year — and that’s without factoring in resigning some of their own free agents. They would have to clear lots of cap space to sign Bryzgalov. Bryzgalov, a 30-year-old Russian who had a combined 15 shutouts and a goalsagainst average just under 2.40 in the last two seasons, will probably command about $5 million to $6 million per season. The Flyers plan to “take a look” at Bryzgalov, said an NHL source familiar with the team’s plans. “The pat answer for me is we’re always looking to make ourselves better at every position,” Holmgren said. Holmgren did not dismiss re-signing goalie Brian Boucher, who can become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. Boucher, however, seems a long shot to return. “Brian had a tremendous year for us,” Holmgren said. “I thought Brian, like a lot of guys in the playoffs, struggled with things. We will see how that plays out. … I know he wants to continue playing. I know he likes it here, his family likes it here. But we’ll see.” The amount that the salary cap increases this summer may have an effect on Holmgren’s decisions. “Do we need major changes? I would say no,” Holmgren said. “But over the course of the summertime, the salary cap has an effect on all teams, and we’ll see how the summer plays out.” The Flyers do not want to make any quick offseason decisions, said Peter Luukko,

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Ilya Bryzgalov of Phoenix is the top free-agent goalie available this offseason. He may be too expensive for the Flyers. president of the team’s parent company, Comcast-Spectacor. “When you lose, you have to access where you were as a team, not only in the playoffs but the whole year,” Luukko said. “We need to take a couple weeks to reflect.” Luukko said there’s “always pressure for us to get better. It’s self-imposed. We need to stabilize the goaltending situation, and that’s something Paul will address.” Will that mean Bobrovsky, 22, will be the No. 1, and a new No. 2 will surface? Or will the Flyers make a pitch for Bryzgalov to become Bobrovsky’s mentor — or a free agent like soon-to-be-35 Tomas Vokoun? In the playoffs, the Flyers made seven in-game goalie changes, including two in one game that were injury-related. They used three starting goalies in the series against

Buffalo. In 11 postseason games, the Flyers had a 3.46 goals-against average, 14th of the 16 playoff teams. “As far as goaltending goes, yes, we can look at the first series against Buffalo and point the finger and say you know they made some mistakes,” Flyers center Danny Briere said. “Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has bad games. I don’t think goalies could have changed much in the second round against Boston. I don’t think that’s fair to put the blame on goaltending.” But it’s fair to question whether the Flyers have the goaltending needed to end a Stanley Cup drought that has lasted for three-plus decades. Contact staff writer Sam Carchidi ar scarchidi@phillynews.com. Follow on Twitter at twitter.com/BroadStBull.

Five Flyers scheduled for surgery FLYERS from D1 postseason, has a torn ligament in his wrist, and he said on his Twitter account that he would have the surgery on Wednesday. Holmgren wasn’t sure which wrist was injured. “It’s just one of those things; over time it’s eroded,” Holmgren said. Holmgren said no thought was given to Richards’ having surgery during the season because “the medical opinion was that he could continue to play through it without damaging it any further, and take care of it at the end of the season.” Richards, the Flyers’ captain, did not make himself available to the media on Monday or Tuesday. He told the Flyers’ public-relations department he would speak Wednesday. Holmgren bristled at suggestions that Richards was not a good leader and lacked the fire to be a captain. “I don’t know where this [stuff] is coming from,” he told reporters. “You guys all know Mike. He’s a quiet kid; a reserved kid. … He’s a hard guy to talk to sometimes for

anyone, probably even his closest friends. He’s just a quiet guy, but there is no issue in terms of Mike’s relationship with Peter [Laviolette], or Mike’s relationship with any of his teammates. That’s all a bunch of crap.” Holmgren called Richards “a good captain for our team. I think he’s a tremendous player in our league, and trust me, there are 29 other teams that would love to have Mike Richards,” the GM said. Center Danny Briere agreed, saying the leadership questions were “not warranted.” Briere said Richards “leads by example, by the way he plays, how hard he plays, and the way he sacrifices his body. There are not a lot of guys that do it as well as he does around the NHL, so honestly I think he is the captain for this team. It is well-deserved. Honestly, I don’t understand what all of this talk is about.”

Who will re-sign? Holmgren said he hoped to re-sign winger Ville Leino, who can be an unrestricted free agent. He wasn’t so sure about winger Nik Zherdev, who also

can become a free agent on July 1. “He would like to come back,” Holmgren said. “I think Nikolay did some good things for us. He is obviously a highly skilled player that can do a lot of things. Where he fits in, how he fits in down the road, I don’t know.” Holmgren said Zherdev was “kind of an outsider here. I think some of that is a language barrier, I think some of that is how Nikolay is; he’s just quiet. … I asked him yesterday why he had a car service all year. Why wouldn’t you ask one of your teammates to give you a ride? He is just a different guy.” The GM wasn’t sure whether defenseman Sean O’Donnell would be re-signed. He gave a strong vote of confidence to Oskars Bartulis, who missed a big part of the season because of shoulder surgery. Bartulis, Erik Gustafsson, and Danny Syvret could battle for the sixth defensive spot. It’s likely the Flyers will resign Darroll Powe, but Dan Carcillo seems questionable. Both are about to become restricted free agents.

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Woodstown golfer Engel wins Salem championship

Woodstown’s Chris Engel birdied the 14th and 15th holes in a 2-over-par 74 round at Running Deer Golf Club on Tuesday, capturing the individual title at the Salem County Golf Championships. Engel won by two shots over teammate Nick Sherm, and the pair joined Tom Smith and C. J. Stiles in claiming the team trophy by a 53-shot margin.

Track and Field Jaymes Dennison set a meet record of 1 minute, 59.3 seconds in winning the 800 meters, and helped Penns Grove to the team title at the Salem County Championships at Schalick.

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Woodstown gave up three runs in the seventh inning but also scored three to pull out a 6-5 first-round win over Salem in the John Rose Tournament at Bridgeton. Adam Napoleon tied the game with a two-run single, and the Wolverines scored the winning run on a bases-loaded walk. Cape-Atlantic. Lower Cape

May’s Curtis Gift threw a complete game with five strikeouts, and helped himself by going 3 for 4 and scoring the winning run in the sixth inning of a 5-4 triumph at Hammonton. Gift, a senior, also singled in the first inning for his 100th career hit. Absegami’s fourth straight win was a 3-1 success over visiting Ocean City in which Anthony Soyer threw a complete game with seven strikeouts, and Rob Algeo and Ryan Irwin homered. Olympic. Ed Royds singled, doubled, drove in two runs, and scored three times while guiding Shawnee past visiting Triton, 10-2. Three runs in each of the first two innings powered Paul VI past host Bishop Eustace, 8-2. Paschal Petrongolo tripled and drove in two runs, and Jason Roselli went 3 for 3 with two RBIs. Burlington County. Ed Kaminski went 4 for 4 at the plate, with a two-run homer in the fifth inning, supporting Devon Hedgepeth’s four-hit pitching as Rancocas Valley rolled past host Northern Burlington, 12-1. Riverside’s Tim Borek hit a

game-tying home run in the bottom of the seventh inning, but visiting Burlington City rallied for a run in the eighth to escape with a 7-6 win. Orlando Ayala’s sacrifice fly plated the deciding run, and winning pitcher Anthony Coniglio had two RBIs. Colonial. Mike McLaughlin’s single, double and three RBIs combined with Sam Silver’s three hits to make Haddonfield a 7-4 winner over visiting Paulsboro. Tri-County. Delsea hurt host Williamstown’s Royal Division title hopes, 4-3, as Brian Dobzanski pitched three innings to get the win, avenging an earlier 10-2 loss to the Braves. Deptford broke open a close game with four runs in the sixth inning and beat visiting Penns Grove, 9-4. Brian McCarthy doubled twice, and Matt Richards went 3 for 4 with two runs scored. Nonleague. Pennsauken Tech’s Jeremy Lopez doubled in the tying run in the bottom of the seventh and scored the winning run on Gabe DelValle’s RBI single, rallying Tech to a 10-9 win over visiting Woodrow Wilson.

Paulsboro’s Morina named national coach of the year

Paulsboro’s Paul Morina has been named national coach of the year by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Morina led Paulsboro to its 25th Group 1 state title in his 26 seasons. His team also recorded the 1,000th victory in the history of the program. Morina has a 529-30-4 record. He also is Paulsboro’s principal. “I am very honored and proud to be recognized for doing something I love,” Morina said. “Coaching is one of the most rewarding activities, not because of winning but because of the gratifying feeling you get watching kids achieve and some overachieve in the most demanding sport.” — Phil Anastasia

Taylor Donahue and Laura Lesky remember calling each other almost every afternoon when they were little. “Do you want to have a catch?” one of them inevitably would ask. The two Seneca girls’ lacrosse players grew up right down the street from each other in Shamong. And the dream of playing Division I lacrosse was there even during those countless days spent playing catch in the back yard. The lifelong dream soon will be reality. The two seniors have played on the same team since starting organized lacrosse in middle school, including on the club team South Jersey Select. But they will part ways for the first time at the end of the season for Division I lacrosse programs. Lesky is headed to George Mason. Donahue will join her sister, Kirsten, at Ohio State. “We’ve been best friends since we were little,” Lesky said. “So we’ve always just kind of had that connection. And it’s so great that we both were able to accomplish our goal.” “And playing Division I lacrosse was definitely always a big dream of ours,” Donahue added. “We definitely always had it.” The chemistry of the two midfielders has grown into a lethal combination for Seneca. Donahue and Lesky lead a Golden Eagles team that has won 10 of 11 games and clinched the Olympic Conference National Division title, marking the team’s first division championship in the seven-year history of the program. “Laura and Taylor are definitely the leaders of our team,” Seneca coach Morgan Crothers said. “They’re our two top goal-scorers. And they work very well together, which they’ve done since they were both freshman starters. “And they’re good on both attacking and defense; it’s not just their goal-scoring.” Crothers also points to the leadership of her senior class as a whole — 10 of Seneca’s 12 starters are seniors. The varsity team has only one junior. The coach said her team has worked particularly well together recently. And that chemistry will need to be in full force as the Golden Eagles (11-3), ranked No. 8 in South Jersey by The Inquirer, enter a killer South Jersey Group 3 tournament that includes No. 1 Moorestown, No. 2 Shawnee, and No. 3

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National Wrestling Coaches Association. Morina led the Red Raiders to their 25th Group 1 state title in his 26 seasons. He has a 529-30-4 record. Morino also is Paulsboro’s principal.

GIRLS’ LACROSSE

Team

Record

Records are through Monday. Last week’s rankings in parentheses.

1. Moorestown (1) 13-3 2. Shawnee (2) 11-3 3. Clearview (3) 11-2 4. Washington Twp. (4) 12-1 5. Haddonfield (5) 13-1 6. Bishop Eustace (6) 9-4 7. Camden Catholic (10)11-3 8. Seneca (NR) 11-3 9. Eastern (9) 8-6 10. Delran (NR) 10-4 Under consideration (listed alphabetically): Cherokee (5-7), Cherry Hill East (7-7), Holy Cross (10-5), Lenape (6-6). — Chris Melchiorre

The Inquirer TOP 10 BOYS’ LACROSSE

Team

Record

Records are through Monday. Last week’s rankings in parentheses.

1. St. Augustine (1) 12-4 2. Shawnee (2) 12-3 3. Moorestown (3) 8-6 4. Washington Twp. (4) 11-1 5. Bishop Eustace (5) 9-2 6. Kingsway (6) 7-5 7. West Deptford (7) 9-3 8. Seneca (8) 8-3 9. Eastern (NR) 7-6 10. Haddonfield (9) 9-5 Under consideration (listed alphabetically): Gloucester Catholic (7-6), Holy Cross (7-4), Lenape (7-5), Moorestown Friends (8-2), Rancocas Valley (11-3). — Chris Melchiorre Clearview. “We’re going into the postseason with an open mind,” Donahue said. “We’re just going to play our hardest and play the way that we’ve been playing. We just have to hope for the best. All we can ask for is for everyone to play their hardest.” Though Donahue and Lesky will move on to different colleges, both said the separation won’t end a lifelong friendship. “We’ll definitely keep in touch,” Lesky said. “It’s cool that we’ve been able to stay so close. And we both just wish the best for each other

Eastbound and up. When con-

sidering the Eastern boys’ lacrosse team’s recent success, it’s easy to be distracted by senior Mike Jevic’s 47 goals. Indeed, the senior attackman continues to establish himself as one of the top offensive players in South Jersey. But when Eastern coach Steve Picot reflected on his team’s current run, which includes knocking off undefeated Washington Township, there’s another stat he kept coming back to. “Eighty percent of our goals are assisted,” Picot said. “And that’s huge for us. We’re not relying on one guy. We’re playing much better as a team. “And that’s what works for us — helping each other, seeing each other, and not just being a one-man team. Eastern (7-6), which plays one of the tougher schedules in the area, recovered from a 1-5 start to rattle off six wins in eight games. The only losses in that span came to No. 3 Moorestown and state power Watchung Hills. “I think our guys have really come together, and they’ve taken it upon themselves to improve,” Picot said. “We’re starting to believe that if everybody does their job, we’re going to be successful.”

Peaks and valleys. Losing is

never fun. But for the Clearview girls’ team, which stands on the cusp of joining the elite programs in South Jersey, there are far more advantages in losing to No. 1 Moorestown, which it did on Thursday, than not playing the Quakers at all. “I tell the team all the time that the reason we can hang with these great teams now is because we’ve always played such a tough schedule,” Clearview coach Megan Conklin said. “That’s how you improve. And I think we’re improving every game.” Conklin said she’s happy with her team’s play entering the postseason. The Pioneers (11-2), likely will run into Moorestown or No. 2 Shawnee or both in the South Jersey Group 3 tournament. But Conklin said her team is looking forward to the challenge. “I would play games like that all season long,” Conklin said. “And if you love the sport and you love competition, those are the games where you thrive.” Contact Chris Melchiorre at rallysports@phillynews.com.

South Jersey Girls’ Sports

Dowe rises, sets Salem meet mark Faleesha Dowe broke the Salem County meet record in the 400 meters and anchored the Penns Grove 4x400-meter relay to another meet record, highlighting the county championships at Schalick on Tuesday. Dowe won the 400 in 57.9 seconds and joined teammates Taylor Smith, Courtney Smith, and Kianje Pollard for a time of 4 minutes, 2.2 seconds in the relay. Schalick’s Victoria Wright set a record of 121 feet, 7 inches in the discus and also won the shot put (35-1). The teamchampion Cougars also received a record-tying effort of 12.0 in the 100 meters from Ciera Ismail, who also won the long jump (15-113/4).

Softball

Paulsboro wrestling coach Paul Morina was honored by the

The Inquirer TOP 10

Kelly Lupton broke the Absegami school record for strikeouts in a season by fanning 13 Hammonton hitters in the host Braves’ 4-1 win in the Cape-Atlantic League. Lupton, a junior righthander, has 197 career strikeouts,

topping Amber Beauchemin’s mark from 2008. Also in the Cape-Atlantic, Middle Township plated a run in the bottom of the seventh when winning pitcher Veronica Walters reached on an infield single with the bases loaded to score Brittany Robertson, ending a 7-6 win over visiting Holy Spirit. Vineland’s 16-0 win at Ocean City featured Demi Murray’s five-hit pitching. Olympic. Lisa Kosteleski belted a three-run homer over the left-field fence in a 10-run first inning, igniting Cherry Hill West’s 13-3 triumph over visiting Winslow Township. Camden Catholic pitcher Laura Messina struck out nine Seneca batters in five innings of a 12-0 win on her home field. Messina allowed two hits and walked none and matched teammate Ali Summers with a double in the Irish’s 15-hit attack. Bishop Eustace spotted host Paul VI a 3-0 lead through four innings before coming back to win, 5-3. Winning pitcher Alex Pecora dou-

bled twice for three RBIs and also struck out seven. Nicole Bay slugged a tworun homer in the fifth inning of Lenape’s 5-0 win over visiting rival Shawnee. Kate Rehman pitched a four-hit shutout. Burlington County. Rancocas Valley’s Alissa Martin doubled and also handled the pitching as the visiting Red Devils beat Moorestown, 5-1. Colonial. West Deptford’s Marissa Linquist threw a 2-0, five-hit shutout at host Haddon Township. Nonleague. Washington Township’s Alissa Schoelkopf outdueled Williamstown’s Tiarra Sanabria, 2-0, by throwing a two-hit shutout with 14 strikeouts and four walks.

Lacrosse Kingsway’s Lindsay Schober scored her 100th career goal in the first half of a 10-5 win at West Deptford. Schober, who has 103 goals, scored four in the game, and the Dragons rallied from a 5-4 halftime deficit.

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At Camden Cath., Brown is out as football coach He said he was fired; the school said he was ‘leaving.’ By Phil Anastasia

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Rick Brown says he never saw it coming. In his own words, Brown was “fired” Tuesday as Camden Catholic’s football coach after six seasons. The veteran football man who compiled a 37-25 record and led the Irish to five postseason tournament berths was stunned by the decision, especially its timing. “If you’re going to fire me, fire me in December,” an emotional Brown said Tuesday night. “Not on May 10, after all the jobs have been filled, after we redo the weight room for the second time in my six years.” Camden Catholic issued a statement saying that Brown would be “leaving” the school

after “six years of distinguished service.” Camden Catholic athletic director Marlene Grimes did not return a phone call Tuesday night. In the statement, Grimes said: “We wish Coach Brown the very best as we both go forward.” It was unclear if any members of Brown’s coaching staff would be retained, or emerge as candidates for the head coaching position. Last year, Brown hired South Jersey attorney Gil Brooks, who was a highly successful head coach at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia, as defensive coordinator. Brooks, who was adept at attracting top talent to St. Joe’s Prep, could be a top candidate for the position.

Brown said he met with Grimes at 9 a.m. Tuesday and was told that Camden Catholic “wanted to go in another direction” with the football program. Brown vigorously defended his program, especially in terms of the academic achievements of his players. “We have a team coming back next year that we think can contend for a state championship,” Brown said. “Of our 59 returning players, 28 have a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher. I think that’s the right direction.” Camden Catholic went 5-5 last season. The Irish are scheduled to return several top players next season, including rising seniors in quarterback Anthony Sweet, running back Mike Blandon, wide receiver Pete Galliano,

BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE Moorestown 5, Northern Burlington 0 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE Hammonton 5, Bridgeton 0 COLONIAL CONFERENCE Collingswood 5, Paulsboro 0 FRIENDS SCHOOLS LEAGUE George School 5, Moorestown Friends 0 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Cherokee 4, Triton 1 Cherry Hill East 5, Paul VI 0 Lenape 5, Cherry Hill West 0 NONLEAGUE Haddonfield 4, Roman Catholic 1 Moorestown 4, Lenape 1

1,600: 1, Taylor Smith, Penns Grove, 5:34.4. 2, Kelly O'Kane, Woodstown, 5:42.2. 3, Jamie Gallo, Schalick, 5:56.9. 3,200: 1, Kelly O'Kane, Woodstown, 12:44.3. 2, Nikki Adams, Schalick, 13:19.3. 3, Jamie Gallo, Schalick, 13.26.8. 400 hurdles: 1, Courtney Smith, Penns Grove, 1:05.5 (meet record). 2, Joyce Perry, Schalick, 1:05.7. 3, DeAsia Walker, Penns Grove, 1:11.0. 4x400 relay: 1, Penns Grove (Taylor Smith, Courtney Smith, Kianje Pollard, Faleesha Dowe), 4:02.2 (meet record). Shot put: 1, Wright, Schalick, 35-1. 2, Martin, Penns Grove, 31-61/4. 3, Keen, Salem, 30-7. Discus: 1, Wright, Schalick, 121-7 (meet record). 2, Lutek, Schalick, 102-7. 3, Hars, Schalick, 101-3. Javelin: Orth, Schalick, 108-0. 2, Wright, Schalick, 99-1. 3, Kilger, Pennsville, 97-4. High jump: 1, Kirsten Fuller, Woodstown, 4-10. 2, Katie Farrell, Schalick, 4-8. 3, Kelsey Fox, Schalick, 4-8. Long jump: 1, Ismail, Schalick, 15-11 3 / 4 . 2, Dennis, Schalick, 15-61/ 2. 3, Patterson, Salem 15-51/2. Triple jump: 1, Dowe, Penns Grove, 34-61/2. 2, Nnadi, Penns Grove, 33-4 1 / 2 . 3, Stanford, Woodstown, 31-8. Pole vault: Amanda Paterno, Schalick, 8-0. 2, Kirsten Fuller, Woodstown, 7-6. 3, Emily Gardner, Woodstown, 7-6.

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Rick Brown will not be back as Camden Catholic’s football coach next season. The school said he’s “leaving,” but Brown contends he was fired at a meeting on Tuesday morning. lineman Marcus Coleman, and defensive back Darren Bouzakis, and one of the state’s top rising juniors in linebacker Jared Alwan. Brown said he met with several players at the school Tuesday.

“The big thing to me is I preach to these kids to stand up for what they believe in,” Brown said. “I’m not going to tell these kids I resigned. I’m a football coach. I love these kids. “I just don’t understand how they can fire somebody

WP: J. Soto. LP: Roberto Torres. 2B: P-Nicky Smyth, Nick Meoli, L. Valdez, Alex Polanco, J. Soto. HR: P-Alex Polanco.

Haddon Township at Overbrook, 3:45 Woodbury at West Deptford, 7 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Shawnee at Cherokee, 3:45 Pennsauken at Bishop Eustace, 3:45 Cherry Hill East at Winslow Township, 3:45 Washington Township at Cherry Hill West, 3:45 Eastern at Paul VI, 3:45 Timber Creek at Lenape, 3:45 Triton at Seneca, 3:45 TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE Pennsville at Gloucester, 4 Wildwood at Pitman, 4:30 GCIT at Gloucester Catholic, 4 Highland at Kingsway, 3:45 Delsea at Williamstown, 4 JOHN ROSE TOURNAMENT At Bridgeton: Woodstown vs. Schalick, 4 Cumberland vs. Delsea, 7 NONLEAGUE Girard College at Doane Academy, 3:45

who gave their life to a school and not even tell them why. It’s one of the worst experiences of my life.” Contact staff writer Phil Anastasia at 856-779-3223 or panastasia@phillynews.com.

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Highlights of Tuesday’s contests can be found at: www.philly.com/rally

NJSIAA Boys’ Tennis Here are the pairings for the NJSIAA sectional tennis tournaments involving South Jersey teams. Seeded position in parentheses. SOUTH JERSEY GROUP 1 Paulsboro (9) at Gateway (8); Schalick (5) at Pitman (4); Lindenwold (6) at Pennsville (3); Woodbury (7) at Haddon Township (2). SOUTH JERSEY GROUP 2 West Deptford (9) at Lower Cape May (8), winner at Haddonfield (1); Overbrook (12) at Woodstown (5); Haddon Heights (13) at Sterling (4); Delran (11) at Manasquan (6), winner at Middle Township (3); Collingswood (10) at Buena (7), winner at Cinnaminson (2). SOUTH JERSEY GROUP 3 Delsea (9) at Timber Creek (8), winner at Moorestown (1); Seneca (12) at Cumberland (5), winner at Pinelands (4); Cherry Hill West (11) at Central Regional (6), winner at Kingsway (3); Ocean City (10) at Lacey (7), winner at Hammonton (2). SOUTH JERSEY GROUP 4 Toms River East (9) at Vineland (8), winner at Toms River North (1); Millville (12) at Cherokee (5); Egg Harbor Township (13) at Lenape (4); Oakcrest (14) at Shawnee (3); Clearview (11) at Cherry Hill East (6); Atlantic City (10) at Eastern (7); Washington Township (15) at Mainland (2). SOUTH JERSEY NON-PUBLIC A St. John Vianney (9) at Holy Spirit (8), winner at St. Augustine (1); Monsignor Donovan (5) at Notre Dame (4); Red Bank Catholic (6) at Paul VI (3); Bishop Eustace (7) at Christian Brothers (2). SOUTH JERSEY NON-PUBLIC B Ranney (5) at Moorestown Friends (4), winner at Wardlaw-Hartridge (1); Gloucester Catholic (6) at Sacred Heart (3); Mater Dei (7) at St. Rose (2). CENTRAL JERSEY GROUP 1 South River (5) at Metuchen (4), winner at Highland Park (1); Henry Hudson (6) at Bound Brook (3); Florence (7) at Pt. Pleasant Beach (2). CENTRAL JERSEY GROUP 3 Northern Burlington (9) at Burlington Township (8), winner at Holmdel (1); Lawrence (12) at Colts Neck (5), winner at Princeton (4); Nottingham (11) at Ocean Township (6), winner at Hopewell Valley (3); Hightstown (10) at Monmouth (7), winner at Wall (2). CENTRAL JERSEY GROUP 4 East Brunswick (9) at Marlboro (8), winner at South Brunswick (1); Hillsborough (12) at Monroe (5); Rancocas Valley (13) at West Windsor North (4); Brick Memorial (14) at West Windsor South (3); Manalapan (11) at Sayreville (6); Old Bridge (10) at Freehold Township (7), winner at Montgomery (2).

Tuesday’s Results Baseball JOHN ROSE TOURNAMENT Woodstown 6, Salem 5 Cumberland 15, Bridgeton 2 BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE Burlington City 7, Riverside 6 Burlington Township 10, Pemberton 0 Rancocas Valley 12, Northern Burlington 1 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE Lower Cape May 5, Hammonton 4 Holy Spirit 12, Middle Township 7 Absegami 3, Ocean City 1 COLONIAL CONFERENCE Sterling 14, Lindenwold 0 West Deptford 11, Overbrook 2 Haddonfield 7, Paulsboro 4 FRIENDS SCHOOLS LEAGUE Abington Friends 7, Moorestown Friends 6 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Paul VI 8, Bishop Eustace 2 Camden Catholic 9, Seneca 5 Cherry Hill West 4, Winslow Township 1 Shawnee 10, Triton 2 TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE Deptford 9, Penns Grove 4 Gloucester Catholic 11, Glassboro 0 Delsea 4, Williamstown 3 NONLEAGUE Pennsauken 13, Camden 0 GCIT 23, LEAP Academy 2 Pennsauken Tech 10, Woodrow Wilson 9

Softball BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE Rancocas Valley 5, Moorestown 1 New Egypt 5, Delran 0 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE Absegami 4, Hammonton 1 Vineland 16, Ocean City 0 Buena 10, St. Joseph 2 Middle Township 7, Holy Spirit 6 Our Lady of Mercy 10, Bridgeton 0 COLONIAL CONFERENCE West Deptford 2, Haddon Township 0 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Lenape 5, Shawnee 0 Bishop Eustace 5, Paul VI 3 Camden Catholic 12, Seneca 0 Cherry Hill West 13, Winslow Township 3 TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE Cumberland 15, Wildwood 5 Gloucester Catholic 12, Salem 0 Pitman 14, Clayton 0 PENN-JERSEY LEAGUE Doane Academy 25, N.J. United Christian 15 NONLEAGUE Pennsauken Tech 20, Woodrow Wilson 4 Washington Township 2, Williamstown 0

Boys’ Lacrosse NONLEAGUE Rancocas Valley 18, Steinert 1 New Egypt 10, Nottingham 0

Girls’ Lacrosse FRIENDS SCHOOLS LEAGUE Moorestown Friends 13, George School 6 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE NATIONAL Kingsway 10, West Deptford 5

Boys’ Tennis

Golf SALEM COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS At Running Deer; par 72. Team scoring: Woodstown 307, Pennsville 360, Penns Grove 368, Schalick 374. Individual leaders: 1, Chris Engel, Woodstown, 74. 2, Nick Sherm, Woodstown, 76. 3, Andrew Willadsen, Penns Grove, 77. 4, Tom Smith, Woodstown, 78. 5, C.J. Stiles, Woodstown, 79. 6, (tie) J.D. Niblock, Woosdtown; Pat Love, Woodstown, 82. 8, Randy Curriden, Pennsville, 86. 9, (tie) Gage Kirstein, Schalick; Shaune Gorman, Pennsville, 88. OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Shawnee 159, Seneca 161 (Zach Arsenault, Shaw, 36; Rob Singer, Sen, 37 at par-36 Medford Lakes) Paul VI 171, Triton 176 Triton 176, Eastern 179 Paul VI 171, Eastern 179 (Ian Kelly, P, 41; Ed Delesandro, T, 43; Jeremy Van deRijn, E, 34 at par-36 Valleybrook) B. Eustace 166, Timber Creek 176, Winslow 230 (Liam Mulligan, BE, 38; Andrew Dougherty, TC, 41; Sean Wiley, WT, 44 at par-35 Pennsauken) BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE Northern Burlington 172, New Egypt 182 (Kyle Haviland, NB, 39; Alex Hampson, NE, 39) NONLEAGUE Williamstown 172, Cherry Hill West 187 (Amber Smith, W, 39; Colin Goan, CHW, 40 at par-36 Scotland Run) Millville 179, West Deptford 183 (Chris Morris, M, 39; Kevin Brockway, WD, 40 at par-36 RiverWinds)

Boys’ Volleyball OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Pennsauken Tech 2, Camden 0 Pennsauken Tech 2, Camden 0

Track and Field BOYS New Egypt 97, Burlington City 41 Woodbury 79, Audubon 61 Haddonfield 90, Audubon 50 Haddonfield 82, Woodbury 52 Lindenwold 113, Gateway 27 Pennsauken 84, Cherokee 58 GIRLS Burlington City 67, New Egypt 63 SALEM COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS Boys’ Events Team scoring: Penns Grove 141, Pennsville 94, Salem 46, Schalick 39, Woodstown 30. 100 meters: Ridge Reese, Woodstown, 10.8. 2, Dionetai Alston, Salem, 11.0. 3, Christian Williams, Penns Grove, 11.1. 110 hurdles: 1, Shane Stranahan, Penns Grove, 15.1. 2, Montrey Rasin, Penns Grove, 16.3. 3, Charles Armstead, Schalick, 16.4. 200: 1, Dionetai Alston, Salem 23.0. 2, Colton Newsome, Pennsville, 23.2. 3, Ameer Sorrel, Penns Grove, 23.3. 400: 1, Colton Newsome, Pennsville, 50.3. 2, Shane Stranahan, Penns Grove, 51.1. 3, Kevin Robinson, Salem, 51.8. 800: 1, Jaymes Dennison, Penns Grove, 1:59.3 (meet record). 2, Brandon Dugan, Schalick, 2:02.6. 3, Ed Liable, Penns Grove, 2:05.6. 1,600: 1, Tyler Cummings, Pennsville, 4:31.8. 2, Jaymes Dennison, Penns Grove, 4:37.1. 3, Courtney Malcolm, Penns Grove, 4:49.4. 3,200: Tyler Cummings, Pennsville, 10:03.5. 2, Courtney Malcolm, Penns Grove, 10:21.9. 3, Jessie Kosier, Pennsville, 11:01.5. 400 hurdles: 1, Shane Stranahan, Penns Grove, 55.0 (meet record). 2, Montrey Rasin, Penns Grove, 58.9. 3, Kevin Robinson, Salem, 59.0. 4x400 relay: 1, Penns Grove (Shane Stranahan, Ed Liable, Jaymes Dennison, Ameer Sorrell), 3:32.54. Shot put: 1, Anthony Green, Penns Grove, 47-2. 2, Madison Chase, Pennsville, 40-9. 3, Adrian Jones, Salem, 40-61/2. Discus: 1, Jon Jones, Woodstown, 152-0. 2, Anthony Green, Penns Grove, 135-2. 2, L.J. Standford, Woodstown, 114-9. Javelin: 1, Chase, Pennsville, 154-1. 2, Kidwell, Schalick, 151-4. 3, Walker, Salem, 146-9. High jump: 1, Brandon Austin, Pennsville, 6-2. 2, Sam Maniglia, Penns Grove, 5-10. 3, Sean Sennstrom, Pennsville, 5-10. Long jump: 1, Ameer Sorrell, Penns Grove, 20-31/4. 2, Mills, Salem, 19-53/4. 3, Alston Salem, 19-51/2. Triple jump: 1, Sorrell, Penns Grove, 41-81/2. 2, Weiser, Pennsville, 39-9 1 / 2 . 3, Baker, Penns Grove, 39-61/2. Pole vault: 1, Amandeep Singh, Pennsville, 12-0. 2, Austin Salisbury, Schalick, 11-6. 3, Sean Sennstrom, Pennsville, 11-0. Girls’ Events Team scoring: Schalick 147, Penns Grove 100, Woodstown 64, Pennsville 12, Salem 11. 100 meters: 1, Ciera Ismail, Schalick, 12.0 (tied meet record). 2, Kianje Pollard, Penns Grove, 12.1. 3, Dekira Jackson, Penns Grove, 12.7. 100 hurdles: 1, Joyce Perry, Schalick, 15.3 (meet record). 2, Val Orth, Schalick, 17.0. 3, Karlee Henderson, Woodstown, 17.2. 200: 1, Faleesha Dowe, Penns Grove, 25.3. 2, Kianje Pollard, Penns Grove, 25.8. 3, Ciera Ismail, Schalick, 25.9. 400: 1, Faleesha Dowe, Penns Grove, 57.9 (meet record). 2, Mariah Dennis, Schalick, 59.9. 3, Russell, 1:03.2. 800: 1, Taylor Smith, Penns Grove, 2:25.9 (meet record). 2, Alexa DiGregorio, Woodstown, 2:26.7. 3, Courtney Smith, Penns Grove, 2:32.1.

Baseball John Rose Tournament Salem Woodstown

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WP: Eric Sims. LP: Troy Sieber. 2B: W-Corey Makos, Nick DiPietropolo. S-Aidan Suitor, Matt Eller. HR: S-Jim Marich.

LEAP Academy GCIT

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WP: Justin Frisby. LP: K. Santiago. 2B: LA-M. Roman. GCIT--Jake Danner. 3B: LA-J. Cintron. HR: GCIT-Jake Danner. Woodrow Wilson Pennsauken Tech

300 500 1 — 9 7 1 220 102 3 — 10 12 5

WP: Jeremy Lopez. LP: Headen. 2B: WW-Rosario. PT-Jeremy Lopez, Andy Contreras. 3B: PT-Roberto Presinal. HR: WW-Farlyn Bueno.

Softball Burlington County League Rancocas Valley Moorestown

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WP: A. Martin. LP: Audrey Weller. 2B: RV-A.Martin. Delran New Egypt

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WP: Bausher. LP: Hughes. 2B: NE-Bausher, Soles. D-Hughes. 3B: Bausher.

Cape-Atlantic League Hammonton Absegami

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WP: Kelly Lupton. LP: Mary Grace Arena. 2B: A-Melissa McCann. Vineland Ocean City

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WP: Demi Murray. LP: Marisa Holt. 2B: V- B. Garvey, S. Tarra 2, D. Ellis, J. Garcia. Buena St. Joseph

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Burlington County League

WP: Brittany Scott. LP: Liz Puentes. 2B: B-Scott, Gianscoli. SJP-Emily DeMarco.

Burlington City Riverside

Holy Spirit Middle Township

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WP: Anthony Coniglio. LP: Dustin Cahill. 2B: B-Pete Perez, Gares. R-Tim Borek. 3B: B-Coniglio. HR: R-Tim Borek. Pemberton Burlington Township

000 00 — 0 5 1 202 6x — 10 11 0

WP: David Viselli. LP: 2B: B-Brendan Smith, Ronnie Grant, Bryan Bessinger, Mike Zier. HR: B-Ronnie Grant. Rancocas Valley Northern Burlington

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WP: Hedgepeth. LP: Luongo. 2B: R-Turner 2. HR: R-Kaminski.

Cape-Atlantic League Lower Cape May Hammonton

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WP: Curtis Gift. LP: Kyle Congdon. 2B: LCM-Curtis Gift. H-Greg Morano, Steve Stuble, Jon Smith. Holy Spirit Middle Township

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WP: Adams. LP: Ken Camp. 2B: HS-Boglivo. MT-Richie Schmidt. 3B: HS-Tierhey, Cicali. Ocean City Absegami

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WP: Anthony Soyer. LP: Kolya Stephenson. HR: A-Rob Algeo, Ryan Irwin.

Colonial Conference Paulsboro Haddonfield

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WP: J. Maldonado. LP: P. Scott. 2B: H-Mike McLaughlin, Will Reid. P-J. Rivera. Sterling Lindenwold

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WP: Teesdale. LP: White. 2B: S-Hertz, Sloan, Mealy. Overbrook West Deptford

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WP: Ty Tastellano. LP: Fought. 2B: WD-Tony Urban,Tom Jakubowski. HR: WD-Tim Merget.

Friends Schools League Moorestown Friends Abington Friends

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WP: Nik Regalbuto. LP: Hanes. 2B: M-Bard 2.

Olympic Conference Paul VI Bishop Eustace

331 100 0 — 8 12 2 000 011 0 — 2 4 1

WP: Marc Menickella. LP: Eric Elmer. 2B: P-Ned Kerr, Nick Gallo, Paschal Petrongolo, Brian Almand. 3B: P- Paschal Petrongolo Camden Catholic Seneca

120 600 0 — 9 10 1 010 040 0 — 5 11 0

WP: McCuin. LP: Rob Antoniewicz. 2B: CC-McElhatton, T.Faiola. S-Cameron Bahr, Winslow Township Cherry Hill West

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WP: Vince Cahill. LP: Robert Humes. 2B: CHW-Andrew Fisher, Anthony Lizzi. Triton Shawnee

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WP: Nick Montefusco. LP: Wroblewski. 2B: T-Flemming. S-Ed Royds, Mike Cogliano.

Tri-County Conference Gloucester Catholic Glassboro

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WP: Jeff Paglione. LP: Bobby Bright. 2B: GC-Joe Brooks, Elliott McCummings, Brett Tenuto, Cody Brown, Tim Patterson, Rob Alessandrine. Penns Grove Deptford

100 200 1 — 4 9 0 400 104 x — 9 13 1

WP: Ryan Adamski. LP: Matt Dougan. 2B: D-Matt Richards, Brian McCarthy 2, Gary Hance 2. PG-Matt Dougan. Delsea Williamstown

000 022 0 — 4 4 1 002 100 0 — 3 1 1

WP: Brian Dobzanski. LP: Joe Antonelli.

Nonleague Pennsauken Camden

562 00 — 13 14 0 000 00 — 0 3 2

004 200 0 — 6 7 2 303 000 1 — 7 15 1

WP: Veronica Walters.LP: Amanda Webberson. 2B: MT-Alyssa Discepola, Kaylyn Goranason. HS-Tiffany Phillips, Amanda Webberson 2. 3B: MT-Discepola. Our Lady of Mercy Bridgeton

200 521 — 10 8 0 000 000 — 0 2 5

WP: G. Vozzi. LP: Paige Burch. 2B: O-Vozzi,

Colonial Conference West Deptford Haddon Township

000 011 0 — 2 6 2 000 000 0 — 0 5 2

WP: Linquist. LP: Sarah Crowley. 2B: WD-Ponto.

Olympic Conference Shawnee Lenape

000 000 0 — 0 4 0 210 020 x — 5 8 4

WP: Kate Rehman. LP: Jackie Pezzato. HR: L-Nicole Bay. Bishop Eustace Paul VI

000 021 2 — 5 10 100 200 0 — 3 5

WP: Alex Pecora. LP: Victoria Farrell. 2B: BE-Macie McGeehan, Alex Pecora 2. PV-Steph Heresniak. 3B: PV-Brielle Pietrafesa. HR: PV-Steph Heresniak. Seneca Camden Catholic

000 00 — 0 2 5 301 44 — 12 15 0

WP: Laura Messina. LP: D. Foley. 2B: CC-Laura Messina, Ali Summers. Winslow Township Cherry Hill West

1 02 00 — 3 5 4 10 30 0x — 13 16 2

WP: Alex Auletto. LP: Lindsay Sheehan. 2B: CHW-Alicia DeFlavis. HR: CHW-Lisa Kosteleski.

Penn-Jersey League N.J. United Christian Doane Academy

10 00 230 — 15 11 1 4 50 871 — 25 20 3

WP: Mary Brodowski. LP: McKeon. 2B: DA-Rebecca Perroptet, Kelsey Markowitz, Mary Brodowski.

Tri-County Conference Wildwood Cumberland

050 00 — 5 7 1 092 4x — 15 13 2

WP: Shayla Loud. LP: Tori Null. 2B: C-Kodi Pollock, K.McCormick, Katelyn Whitesell. 3B: W-Jess Freeman. Salem Gloucester Catholic

000 00 — 0 3 5 104 7x — 12 9 0

WP: Shayla Giosia. LP: Allison Parris. 2B: GC-Brianna Roderiguez. S-Christy Omler. 3B: GC-Shayla Giosia. Clayton Pitman

000 00 — 0 107 60 — 14

WP: Taylor Gillespie. LP: Casey Giedosh. 2B: P-Danielle Carr, Allyson Franchi, Alyson Yanoco.

Nonleague Williamstown Washington Township

000 000 0 — 0 2 2 000 200 x — 2 6 0

WP: Alissa Schoelkopf. LP: Tiarra Sanabria. 2B: WT-Christina Austin. Woodrow Wilson Pennsauken Tech

202 00 — 4 743 6x — 20

WP: M. DeJesus. LP: R. Sanchez. 2B: PT-R. Hamilton, Beatrice Viera, R. Malave, Bria King, C. Ortiz, P. Franco.

Wednesday’s Schedule Baseball BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE Bordentown at Medford Tech, 3:45 Moorestown at Cinnaminson, 3:45 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE Mainland at Lower Cape May, 4 St. Augustine at Absegami, 4 Atlantic City at Vineland, 4 Hammonton at Ocean City, 4 Millville at Oakcrest, 4 Pleasantville at Middle Township, 4 Wildwood Catholic at Cape May Tech, 4 COLONIAL CONFERENCE Audubon at Haddon Heights, 3:45 Collingswood at Gateway, 3:45 Haddonfield at Lindenwold, 3:45

Softball BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE Burlington City at Willingboro, 3:45 Burlington Township at Holy Cross, 3:45 Northern Burlington at Rancocas Valley, 3:45 New Egypt at Florence, 6:30 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE Lower Cape May at Mainland, 4 Vineland at Atlantic City, 4 Ocean City at Hammonton, 4 Oakcrest at Millville, 4 Pleasantville at Bridgeton, 4 Our Lady of Mercy at Holy Spirit, 4 Cape May Tech at Wildwood Catholic, 4 COLONIAL CONFERENCE Haddon Heights at Audubon, 3:45 Gateway at Collingswood, 3:45 Lindenwold at Haddonfield, 3:45 Overbrook at Haddon Township, 3:45 West Deptford at Woodbury, 3:45 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Shawnee at Cherokee, 3:45 Bishop Eustace at Pennsauken, 3:45 Cherry Hill East at Winslow Township, 3:45 Washington Township at Cherry Hill West, 3:45 Triton at Seneca, 3:45 Timber Creek at Lenape, 3:45 Eastern at Paul VI, 3:45 TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE Clayton at Schalick, 4 Pitman at Wildwood, 4 Gloucester at Pennsville, 4 Glassboro at Woodstown, 4 Gloucester Catholic at GCIT, 4 Kingsway at Highland, 3:45 Clearview at Cumberland, 4 Williamstown at Delsea, 4 NONLEAGUE Camden at Westampton Tech, 3:45

Boys’ Lacrosse CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE Lower Cape May at Absegami, 4 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Cherokee at Eastern, 3:45 Gloucester Catholic at West Deptford, 3:45 Cherry Hill West at Winslow Township, 3:45 Clearview at Washington Township, 3:45 Lenape at Cherry Hill East, 3:45 Haddonfield at Holy Cross, 4 Bishop Eustace at Woodstown, 4 Seneca at Shawnee, 6 Paul VI at Kingsway, 6:30 NONLEAGUE Moorestown Friends at Lower Cape May, 4 Southern Regional at Middle Township, 4

Girls’ Lacrosse BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE New Egypt at Moorestown, 3:45 Rancocas Valley at Northern Burlington, 3:45 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Eastern at Cherokee, 3:45 Gloucester Catholic at Haddonfield, 3:45 Seneca at Paul VI, 3:45 Gateway at Bishop Eustace, 3:45 Collingswood at Kingsway, 3:45 Cherry Hill West at Winslow Township, 3:45 Cherry Hill East at Lenape, 3:45 Camden Catholic at Woodstown, 4 Shawnee at Clearview, 6 NONLEAGUE Moorestown Friends at Cinnaminson, 3:45

Boys’ Tennis BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE Delran at Northern Burlington, 3:45 Palmyra at Burlington Township, 3:45 Burlington City vs. Moorestown, 3:45 Holy Cross at Pemberton, 3:45 Rancocas Valley at Florence, 3:45 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE Absegami at Hammonton, 3:45 Mainland at St. Augustine, 4 Buena at Vineland, 4 Millville at Lower Cape May, 4 Oakcrest at Cedar Creek, 4 COLONIAL CONFERENCE Woodbury at Overbrook, 4 Audubon at Lindenwold, 7 OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Cherokee at Paul VI, 3:45 Eastern at Timber Creek, 3:45 Camden at Cherry Hill East, 3:45 Cherry Hill East at Bishop Eustace, 3:45 Lenape at Shawnee, 3:45 Washington Township at Triton, 3:45 Seneca at Winslow Township, 4 TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE Highland at Kingsway, 3:45 Glassboro at Gloucester Catholic, 4 Penns Grove at GCIT, 4 Williamstown at Cumberland, 4 Wildwood at Pitman, 4:30 NONLEAGUE West Deptford at Woodstown, 4

Track and Field MAJOR MEETS Gloucester County Meet at Delsea, 3

Boys’ Volleyball

OLYMPIC CONFERENCE Camden County Tech at Cinnaminson, 3:45 Kingsway at Collingswood, 3:45 Williamstown at Paul VI, 3:45 Clearview at Woodrow Wilson, 4 St. Augustine at Pennsauken, 4 Camden at Moorestown, 5:15

Baseball Standings Through Monday. BURLINGTON COUNTY League Liberty Division W L Rancocas Valley ……………4 0 Northern Burlington……………3 2 Moorestown …………………3 2 Burlington Township …………2 4 Pemberton ……………………0 4 League Patriot Division W L Holy Cross ……………………7 0 Delran …………………………6 2 Bordentown …………………6 3 Cinnaminson …………………3 4 Medford Tech ………………4 4 Westampton Tech ……………0 7 Willingboro ……………………0 6 League Freedom Division W L Florence ………………………6 1 Maple Shade …………………5 1 New Egypt ……………………5 2 Burlington City ………………3 2 Riverside ………………………3 4 Trenton Catholic ……………1 6 Palmyra ………………………0 7 COLONIAL League Liberty Division W L Haddon Heights …………13 1 West Deptford ………………6 4 Haddonfield …………………7 5 Collingswood …………………5 6 Sterling ………………………3 6 Overbrook………………………3 9 League Patriot Division W L Audubon ………………………9 1 Haddon Township ……………9 3 Gateway ………………………5 3 Woodbury ………………………3 7 Paulsboro ……………………2 10 Lindenwold …………………1 11 OLYMPIC League American Division W L Washington Township ………4 2 Cherokee ……………………4 2 Eastern ………………………3 3 Lenape ………………………3 3 Cherry Hill East ………………1 5 League Patriot Division W L Cherry Hill West ………………4 2 Shawnee ………………………3 1 Triton …………………………2 4 Pennsauken …………………2 4 Winslow Township …………2 2 League National Division W L Paul VI …………………………4 1 Seneca ………………………4 1 Bishop Eustace ………………2 2 Camden Catholic ………………1 2 Timber Creek …………………1 6 TRI-COUNTY League Royal Division W L Highland ………………………6 0 Williamstown …………………6 1 Clearview ……………………3 4 Kingsway ……………………3 4 Delsea …………………………3 4 Cumberland …………………0 8 League Diamond Division W L Gloucester Catholic……………7 0 Deptford ………………………4 3 GCIT …………………………3 3 Penns Grove……………………3 3 Woodstown …………………3 3 Glassboro ……………………0 8 League Classic Division W L Pennsville ……………………8 2 Gloucester ……………………8 2 Pitman …………………………7 1 Salem …………………………4 5 Wildwood ……………………3 6 Schalick ………………………0 7 Clayton ………………………0 7 CAPE AMERICAN League Division I W L Millville ………………………10 2 Absegami ……………………8 5 Vineland ………………………6 4 Egg Harbor Township …………2 9 Atlantic City …………………3 8 League Division II W L St. Augustine …………………11 1 Ocean City ……………………6 5 Lower Cape May ……………6 5 Oakcrest ………………………6 7 Hammonton …………………2 8 Mainland ………………………2 8 CAPE NATIONAL League Division I W L Buena …………………………10 1 Holy Spirit ……………………7 2 Middle Township ……………2 4 Pleasantville …………………0 6 Bridgeton ……………………0 9 League Division II W L Sacred Heart …………………8 2 St. Joseph ………………………4 4 Wildwood Catholic …………2 3 Cape May Tech ………………3 5 OTHERS

Overall W L 10 3 7 4 11 4 5 8 4 8 Overall W L 13 2 11 4 11 5 8 6 6 7 0 12 1 10 Overall W L 10 1 5 3 9 6 8 5 5 9 1 7 0 12 Overall W L 14 1 8 6 7 7 6 8 6 8 7 10 Overall W L 12 3 12 5 5 3 4 8 2 11 2 11 Overall W L 12 3 11 5 13 5 11 4 4 12 Overall W L 10 6 8 4 4 10 8 6 11 7 Overall W L 11 4 8 4 8 7 5 9 4 11 Overall W L 12 1 9 7 6 9 11 5 7 6 0 13 Overall W L 19 1 6 7 7 5 5 5 8 6 0 10 Overall W L 10 6 12 5 12 2 6 9 7 9 1 10 4 9 Overall W L 12 3 10 5 7 5 2 11 4 9 Overall W L 13 2 9 5 11 7 8 8 5 13 2 10 Overall W L 12 5 15 2 5 6 1 6 1 13 Overall W L 12 5 4 8 3 6 3 8 Overall W L Moorestown Friends …………………………6 2 Pennsauken Tech ……………………………6 9 Woodrow Wilson …………………………2 5 Camden County Tech ………………………3 5 Camden ………………………………………0 13

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Striking an Internet match. Love Story, E3

A high-wire “The Bridge Club.” E7

Boost for music. Social Circuit, E6 B

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 ★ Section E

Instead of tenderly preserving their wedding gowns, some brides are trashing them — and hiring photographers to document the dirty deed.

CHERISH THE DRESS? NOT THEM Minerva Mneimneh set her dress ablaze with a whip. She and her husband toasted marshmallows in the flames.

By Jennifer Bails FOR THE INQUIRER

hen brides spend countless hours finding — and then fitting into — the perfect wedding dress, it’s no wonder they eventually have that pricey number professionally cleaned and packed away for future family heir-

loom status. But more women are taking a decidedly different approach to preservation: trashing the dress, and documenting it. Whether it’s days or years after the big bash, former brides are letting loose for edgy photo shoots in which the dress is trashed (by mud, grass, paint, water, urban grime, sand) for fashion-style images

fit for the pages of Vogue. The ladies’ range of rationale: anything from seeking catharsis to savoring memories. “If you’ve been a ‘Bridezilla’ or were really stressed out during the wedding, it’s a great way to let go and show you are not taking yourself so seriously,” said Heather Levine, senior fashion editor for TheKnot.com. “Plus, some brides feel if

they made this commitment to their husband for the rest of their lives, they won’t need that dress again anyway.” A recent poll on the wedding website found that 11 percent of brides were opting to “trash the dress” — as it’s come to be called — instead of preserving or selling it. Shoots start around $500 but addiSee DRESS on E2

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Barbara Galindez-Roman and Adam Roman chose a cemetery for their trash-the-dress photo shoot. The bride says the traditional white gown was “out of character for me.”

His sports togs make waves

U.S. Rowing Team members outfitted in suits

from Boathouse Sports, a company “built on the banks of the Schuylkill,” as founder John Strotbeck puts it.

Parents letting boys like pink, girls blue By Niharika Mandhana

M I R R O R, MIRROR ELIZABETH WELLINGTON

f you hang out on the banks of the Schuylkill during the Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta this weekend, you may notice a stylized “B” — rather than a swoosh — on hundreds of buff chests. That’s because Boathouse Sports outfits more than half of the teams competing in the races. And the Northeast Philly-based company doesn’t just make most of the colle-

Boathouse Sports

giate and professional athletic world’s formfitting waterproof unisuits. Boathouse Sports, headed by former rower John Strotbeck, is the official sponsor (and outfitter) for the men’s and women’s U.S. Rowing Team — a deal it practically stole from Nike three years ago. Don’t you just love it when the underdog makes a fashion splash? See MIRROR, MIRROR on E2

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Octavian Fetz Stallings, 17

months, is getting a “gender neutral” start from Mom.

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here isn’t much about 11-week-old Piper Monosoff that says she’s a girl. Her nursery is painted brown, yellow, and orange; she travels around in a green stroller; her wardrobe is an assortment of quirky stripes and polka dots. “I want people to see her as a baby, not a baby girl,” said her mother, Sara Steinbach, of Portland, Ore. “I don’t want people to expect things from her or treat her a certain way because of their preconceived notions of what girls are like.” Steinbach often faces the question: How old is your son? But that is a small inconvenience toward the greater goal. Many couples like Steinbach and her husband have sidestepped an all-pink, laceand-frills wardrobe for girls and are steering clear of monster trucks for boys in an attempt to avoid gender stereotypes in the formative years of a child’s development. Averse to pigeonholing children into society’s “blue boy boxes” and “pink girl boxes,” they’re practicing what they call genSee GENDER on E3

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Dress Continued from E1 tional fees kick in for albums or prints, and sometimes women buy a secondhand or cheaper gown for the occasion if they don’t want to put their actual dress at risk. But other women are outright bold. In September, Minerva Mneimneh and her husband, Nabil, took trash the dress to a fiery extreme in a graffiti-covered abandoned building outside Center City. Just after sunset, Mneimneh hung her strapless wedding gown from a rope, donned a black corset and fishnet stockings. Then, with a few cracks of a fire-lit whip, she set the white dress ablaze. The newlyweds cuddled in front of the satin-fueled bonfire and even roasted marshmallows in the flames. “Our wedding was pretty much a normal, run-of-the-mill wedding, and our photos were pretty classy — regular wedding stock,” said Mneimneh, a 39-year-old project manager from Lake Hopatcong, N.J. “We wanted to do something that would show a little more of our personalities.” Although the marshmallows were too charred to eat, the couple said they will always relish the memories of their early days of marriage through the photos taken by Mike Allebach of Allebach Photography in West Norriton. “I was excited, but also a little bit worried with the fire,” said Allebach, who estimates roughly 10 percent of his clients opt to trash their dress. “We just hoped for the best and that we didn’t get arrested.” Mneimneh saw no sense in stashing her gown in a box in the attic to become moth-eaten, never envisioning passing it down to her future children. “If my daughter wanted to wear a dress similar to mine, so be it, but I would want her to have her wedding dress on her wedding day, not feel that she should wear mine to make me happy,” she said. “There was no real reason to save it, and now I have fantastic photos instead.” The wedding day is often a tightrope walk between partying in the dress and protecting it from every filthy footstep. An after-the-fact photo shoot relieves a bride of that pressure while amplifying the gown’s in-the-moment beauty. “It’s an opportunity to preserve the dress as artwork to be hung on the wall as opposed to preserved in a box and stuck in a closet for however many years,” said Alyssa Andrew of Alyssa Andrew Photography in the Lehigh Valley. About a quarter of her clients, mostly adventurous, self-confi-

dent brides, choose to trash their dress. “It marks a change of tradition.” For others, letting go of the wedding after months or years of planning can be emotionally wrenching, so trashing the dress offers a chance to relive the experience in some small way, said wedding photographer Rebecca Barger, based in Jenkintown. “It’s the whole mental idea of putting that dress back on and being a bride again for a couple hours for your own little fashion shoot,” Barger said. “Bridal gowns glamorize the average woman. They feel special in that dress, so why not wear it again?” In most cases after trash the dress (fire whips excluded), torn hemlines or soot-covered petticoats can be repaired and cleaned so the gown can still be preserved as a keepsake. “If you are just tromping through the water or getting it a little dirty, it shouldn’t be a problem for an experi-

“If you are just tromping through the water or getting it a little dirty, [restoring] it shouldn’t be a problem for an experienced gown preservationist,” says a fashion editor.

Tony Hoffer Photography

Ryan and Andrea Gebely after their trash-the-dress session.

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Stephanie and Ryan Offord on the train tracks in Allentown. Their photographer says about a quarter of her clients — mostly adventurous, self-confident brides — are choosing to trash their dress, in “a change of tradition.”

Mirror, Mirror

Continued from E1 “We build the team’s badge of honor,” Strotbeck said Monday afternoon from one of his offices overlooking the 75,000-squarefoot manufacturing floor on East Hunting Park Avenue. On the rack behind him were scores of fitted softshell jackets, performance Ts, tanks, and compression shorts in a rainbow of school colors. “There is nothing that makes a team member more proud than to put their uniform or team jacket on.” In the last 22 years, Strotbeck has quietly built his company to a fashion force in the world of high school and college sports that can be played at the Olympic level. (For my unsporty stylistas out there, that includes track and field, soccer, lacrosse, swimming, and, of course, rowing.) The cuts are close to the body and sleek in an easy-to-wear, all-American kind of way. And, most important, the performance mesh fabrics are highly breathable and wick away moisture. “It’s nice when you can find American companies that are interested in doing a boutique reach into sports,” said Glenn Merry, CEO of U.S. Rowing, based in Princeton. Merry said Boathouse Sports visited Princeton to measure students’ proportions, important in a sport like rowing where players have long torsos like basketball players but often shoulders as wide as football players. The team used to use Nike, Merry said, which made cookie-cutter uniforms. Boathouse has more of a fashion edge. Think Ralph Lauren. “Athletes like it and the designs are more hip. That’s not usually the case in rowing,” Merry said. This year Strotbeck expects Boathouse Sports to ship about 45,000 orders to approximately 8,000 schools — including Drexel, Temple, and the University of Delaware — to the tune of about $20 million in annual sales. He attributes his business success not just to his six designers on staff but to sublimation, a computerized process that makes it possible for Boathouse Sports to fill a plethora of uniquely designed orders fast. Specific colors, numbers, and graphics are a cinch to put on everything from hats and jackets to sweatsuits. And turnaround time is two weeks, compared with the six to

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eight weeks required by some of the big sportswear companies doing most of their manufacturing overseas.

Strotbeck, 53, grew up in Atlantic City, but got his start in rowing at Marietta College in Ohio. He rowed in Dad Vail four times — his team winning in 1976 and 1979 — and graduated with a degree in engineering. He went to work in the Texas oil industry.

Upon returning to Philadelphia in the early ’80s, he got lost on Kelly Drive and walked into the Vesper Boat Club to get directions. He started rowing again and was a member of the 1984 and 1988 Olympic teams. While training on the Schuylkill,

MARK CAMPBELL, University of Delaware Athletics Media Relations

University of Delaware rowers in uniforms bearing the Boathouse Sports “B.” The company outfits 8,000 schools.

SHARON GEKOSKI-KIMMEL / Staff Photographer

John Strotbeck (left), founder, and Doug Tibbetts, CEO, at Boathouse Sports’ Northeast Philly plant. Strotbeck, a

former rower, started the business with a design for more comfortable, durable rowing shorts. Today, the company outfits high school and college athletes in sports played at the Olympic level.

enced gown preservationist,” Levine said. “Almost any material can be preserved after trashing the dress, except for duchess satin.” The trash-the-dress trend began in 2008 when Las Vegas wedding photographer John Michael Cooper shot an iconic image called Burning Bride of a bride clad in a blazing wedding gown, according to Levine. Indeed, trash the dress can be not so much about destroying dresses as it is about creating beautiful photographs, says Tony Hoffer, of Hoffer Photography in Downingtown. Hoffer recently traveled to Hawaii for a destination wedding and photographed the couple in their formal attire the next day — fully submerged in the resort pool. “Photos of people jumping into a pool would be visually interesting, regardless, but then you put them in a suit or wedding dress, and I think it’s just unexpected,” Hoffer said. Newlyweds Barbara Galindez-Roman and Adam Roman of West Chester certainly did the unexpected, painting skulls on their faces and putting on wedding apparel to lie down in a cemetery for a trashthe-dress shoot that gave new meaning to “till death do us part.” Galindez-Roman, 26, said they had a traditional wedding in a fire hall to please their parents, but the “Day of the Dead” session in November with Allebach allowed them to express their personalities for the camera. “We are darker people — I have really bright red in my hair and wear lots of black T-shirts and have tattoos,” she said. “A long white dress is something that is very out of character for me. I wore it out of tradition and because I didn’t want to spend an exorbitant amount on a custom color dress.” For Jill Kozar, 28, of Franconia, trash the dress is about trying to recapture lost memories from her 2006 wedding. Kozar said she had to go to court 13 times to get the rights to her wedding photos from her photographer, a stressful process that took two years. “I had a really bad experience and dislike all the pictures that I got, so this is a chance to try again,” said Kozar, who is planning to trash her dress with Barger this month, even if it means having to diet back into her gown. Kozar, who runs the wedding hair business Up Your Do, said she has no concerns about what might happen to her $3,000 dress. “One of my best friends spilled wine down the front of my dress, so it already has a stain on it anyway,” she said. “I figured, ‘Let’s just do it.’ ”

Strotbeck was unimpressed with available rowing gear: The shorts he wore didn’t hold up to the friction on the wooden seats, they were slow to dry, and nylon fabrics just weren’t comfortable. So Strotbeck designed maroon shorts — the color of the Vesper Boat Club — and like most local up-and-coming designers, he took his idea to a patternmaker in South Philly who cut and sewed the shorts. Compared with what most rowers were wearing, these shorts were lighter and more durable. He began selling them to team members, and before he knew it, he had built a small business selling to out-of-town rowers. “My business was built on the banks of the Schuylkill River,” said Strotbeck, who advertised with fliers and catalogs before the days of color printers and Facebook. “My first big promotion was at the Dad Vail in the late 1980s.” When Strotbeck got back from the Olympics in 1988, he knew he didn’t want to go back to the oil business, but he also knew he wanted to eat. So he opened a building on Ridge Avenue and focused on making outerwear for high school, collegiate, and professional athletes. He supplied jackets to NFL teams, including the Philadelphia Eagles. In 2005, Strotbeck decided he wanted his to be a head-to-toe apparel company, and in 2008, he went after the U.S. Rowing Team sponsorship. That has helped him promote the brand in a swanky way — thanks to modelesque rowers — and maintain a boutiquelike status. Currently, Boathouse Sports apparel is marketed only to competitive athletes and their affiliates. So the stylized B — which has survived four design incarnations — is an exclusive label. (“Friends” of sports teams can buy pieces through school websites and Boathouse’s website — www.boathouse.com.) Might Boathouse branch into retail for those of us wanting to don a pair of tights while running the Drive? “Maybe sometime in the near future,” Strotbeck says. “But I’m not too sure we’ll ever get to the time where we are selling anything to anybody.” Spoken like a true fashion designer. Contact fashion writer Elizabeth Wellington at 215-854-2704 or ewellington@phillynews.com. Follow her on Twitter at ewellingtonphl.

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LOVE BEHIND THE SCENES Officiant

Rev. Angelo R. Citino, Nativity of Our Lord, Warminster

Venue

Nativity of Our Lord and Northampton Valley Country Club, Richboro

Catering

Northampton Valley Country Club

Photography East Coast Event Group, Philadelphia

Music

East Coast Event Group

Flowers

A Rose Bouquet, Philadelphia

Dress

David’s Bridal

Invitations

My Personal Invitation, Donna Owens, Philadelphia

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and there was no ring in it. And I was scared as to why it was not there. Did I drop it on the carpet?” A few days later, Chris arrived at Sarah’s before she got home from work and began cooking dinner. When she arrived, he was sitting at the table and had poured two glasses of champagne. “Let’s have a toast,” Sarah said, holding up her glass. “Hopefully we’ll be getting engaged soon.” “Sooner than you think,” Chris told her, pointing to the glass. Ms. Expert Snoop somehow missed the sparkly thing at the bottom of her bubbly. Chris took the glass from her hand, and holding it out to her, got down on one knee. She said yes. They fished out the jewelry with a fork.

In spring 2007, Sarah found her love life lacking. She figured she’d give the virtual world a try and signed up for eHarmony. “I was on it for about a year, off and on,” Sarah said. “I went on a lot of first dates.” Then in April 2008, the dating site sent her Chris’ profile as a potential match. “Chris is a nurse. I liked that right away,” said Sarah, whose mother, Karen, is a nurse, too. “Nurses are nice, compassionate, and sympathetic.” Nurse Chris was in class at the Frank J. Tornetta School of Anesthesia in Norristown when his phone told him someone from eHarmony had sent him a message. “It was a nice surprise” during a challenging and, at times, tedious class, he said. During the break, Chris, who had joined eHarmony a couple of weeks before, liked what he learned about Sarah, a sales trainer at Independence Blue Cross in Center City. They exchanged messages, and then Chris called Sarah — when he knew she would be at work. “Yes, I did it on purpose,” Chris said, laughing. “You’ve got to gauge interest — did she really like me or not?” She did. “I really liked that he loved Philly sports, and loved going to Phillies games. And I liked that he was very family-oriented. He has six nieces and nephews who are young, and he talked about them a lot in his e-mails,” said Sarah, who grew up in West Chester, North Jersey, Arkansas, and Delaware. Chris, now 29, admits the first thing he noticed about Sarah is how pretty she is. But he became hooked when he learned how Sarah spends much of her free time. “She’s big into volunteering. It’s one of her passions,” he said. Sarah, now 28, continues to volunteer with the Blue Crew, Independence Blue Cross’ volunteer team. She has cooked meals for homeless women and tutored children. During one phone conversation, Chris, upon hearing Sarah liked wine, asked her to be ready at 7 p.m. May 16 for a first date with a surprise itinerary. “I took her to the Wine School of Philadelphia at Fairmount,” Chris said. “We learned about wine and what to order with what food, then went to Osteria so we could practice our new skills.” And that was the end of Internet dating and the start of dating around Chris’ school schedule. He graduated in November 2009 and now works at Jeanes Hospital, part of Temple University Health System, as a nurse anesthetist.

It was so them

Family played a big role in this couple’s big day. Chris’ father, Evans, was escorted down the aisle before the ceremony by two of his grandchildren: Aidan, 5, and Marisa, 7. Chris danced with his sister, Ethel, while Sarah danced with her father, Gary. Chris’ brother, Carlos, was his best man, and Sarah’s sister, Melissa, was her maid of honor. The couple have a mantel full of Phillies bobbleheads in their Chalfont home, and there’s now a new favorite: Their cake topper. Mini Chris is wearing his jersey beneath his tuxedo jacket, and Little Sarah carries a pennant instead of a bouquet. Glasses of their custom drink — the Phillietini — were chilled as they were poured through a Phanatic ice sculpture.

A surprise in Charito’s honor

Chris lost his mother, Charito, to breast cancer five years ago. The couple asked the country club to place breast cancer awareness pins made by Sarah and her bridesmaids on the tables. The club arranged the pink pins prominently on the black napkins, and all the guests put them on. “Right after our first dance, we looked around and saw everyone wearing the pins,” Chris said. “It was a nice, nice surprise.”

Awestruck

Chris and Sarah felt married when it was time to cut the cake. “It was really fun to go up there together, us next to our little bobbleheads,” Sarah said. They fed each other politely. “This cake is so delicious!” the bride exclaimed. Said the DJ to their 187 guests: “All right, everyone, you heard her! Go get yours!”

Discretionary spending

How does forever sound?

As soon as Chris, who grew up in Warminster, landed the job, he and Sarah began looking at engagement rings. “The one I really liked was the first one I saw at the first store we went to,” Sarah said. Chris suggested they keep looking — but later called the store and ordered the ring. He picked it up on a Wednesday in late January 2010,

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and, thinking there would be no spot safe from Sarah’s eyes at either his place or hers, he put the ring in a baggie, and in his jacket pocket. It remained there for three days. “She’s a snooper,” he said. A perceptive one at that.

The day the ring came in, Chris was to have dinner at Sarah’s. He called to say he was stuck in traffic and would be late. Sarah found this suspicious. “I started snooping Thursday morning,” she said. “I found the ring box. But I opened it up,

A bargain: The personalized bobbleheads, ordered on eBay from a shop in Hong Kong for $75. The splurge: The ice sculpture by Ice Concepts of Hatfield. “We tinkered with the budget in other places to have it,” Sarah said.

The getaway

Six days on the Riviera Maya.

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der-neutral parenting, intended to give children the freedom to express their own likes, dislikes, and interests, and ultimately, to determine their own identities. For some, the process starts before istockphoto.com the baby is born. At their recent Gender is certainly a spectrum,” said one expert. “What is masculine and feminine differs from society to society and culture to culture.” 20-week ultrasound, New York parentstime with cars than with people and days, more than 150 comments “We purposely challenge those gento-be Joey Drucker and Debra Flashen- ture, and even historically.” She believes that while men and books. came in, many favoring a stereo- der stereotypes,” said Mullen, 42. “We berg sat with their faces turned away women have some innately different “What you do with your time is type-free environment. want to make a statement that it’s OK from the sonogram screen. Stallings, who has a 17-month-old for boys to like rainbows and girls to “If we found out we were having predilections, “gender-enforcing” what your brain becomes good at,” a boy, we would be flooded with parenting magnifies these differenc- said Eliot. “So what we call our chil- boy named Octavian Fetz Stallings, like monkeys.” Small online stores aside, finding cars and sports stuff; and if we es in ways that can be oppressive. A dren, how we talk to them, what they has strong feelings against “handing boy with a nurturing wear, what they do, wires up their down an identity” to children, in her gender-neutral merchandise in mainwere having a girl, it would be side, for instance, circuits in a specific way.” case shaped partially by the fact that stream markets can be a challenge. pink bows and princess dresses,” might be deprived of She suggests deliberate “cross- her mother and mother-in-law are Cassandra Snider had found that the said Drucker, 34, who convinced Genderthe opportunity to ex- training” of children, which involves both in same-sex relationships. Deter- world of shopping for infants is dividhis wife to wait until birth to find plore and develop it if talking to boys, singing to them, read- mined to give her son a “gender-neu- ed between aisles of pink and aisles out whether they were having a specific girl or a boy. “I want my child to parenting he is surrounded by ing to them, and making eye contact tral start-off,” Stallings keeps her dis- of blue; the soccer-ball clothes on one balls to bounce and sol- with them; and getting girls to be tance from trucks, balls, and blues. side and the Barbie-doll clothes on be able to choose for himself or diers to assemble, but more active by encouraging them to “So many assumptions about gen- the other. She tends to shop in the herself what is fun, what is intercan can’t play with his sis- build, hop, skip, and run. But Eliot der roles are just entrenched in our boys’ section, which she finds has esting, what is creative.” reduce ter’s dolls, Stacey said. concedes that a completely gender- culture,” said Stallings. “Being gender more gender-neutral colors and accesDrucker, pursuing a master’s Lise Eliot, a profes- neutral upbringing is a “fantasy,” giv- neutral encourages people to pause sories. Her daughter, Medea Snider, 7 degree in social work, developed “the sor in the department en parents’ limited influence once and think about their perceptions.” months old, has a nature-themed his parenting ideology after a palette” of neuroscience at the child begins to interact with It was by way of a backlash against room of blue, green and brown. class in human sexuality, where Chicago Medical peers and the outside world. these perceptions that Marianne “If she chooses to play with dolls he learned the difference be- of a School and the author “But remember that the child is Mullen started Polkadot Patch, an on- when she grows up, I’ll happily buy tween sex and gender, the former child’s of Pink Brain, Blue learning from birth,” she added. line boutique that specializes in gen- her dolls,” Snider said. “But I don’t determined at birth and the latBrain: How Small Dif- “Early influences can have a lasting der-neutral clothing. When Mullen want to tell her to like dolls.” ter, socially learned. Sex is binary skills. ferences Grow Into impact.” was pregnant, she chose not to learn Drucker, who has decided against in nature, he explained, divided Ariel Meadow Stallings, 35, who the sex of her baby, a decision that finding out the sex of his baby for in a “black-and-white way” into Troublesome Gaps and What We male and female, but gender is not. Can Do About It, says gender-specif- runs a blog called offbeatma- changed dramatically the topic of con- just this reason, is often faced with “Gender is certainly a spectrum,” ic parenting has the effect of “reduc- ma.com, has observed that gender- versation at her baby shower. Her incredulous expressions and the inevsaid Judith Stacey, a professor of ing the palette” of a child’s skills. She neutral parenting has become a hot friends and family complained about itable question — How will you presocial and cultural analysis at New draws a cause-and-effect connection topic of discussion among parents. being “stuck,” not knowing what to pare if you don’t know? “I know the baby will eat, sleep, York University. “What is mascu- between boys’ comparatively low In February, a reader posed a ques- buy without knowing if it was a boy or line and feminine differs from soci- writing and reading levels and the tion about whether or not to wait to a girl. That stirred something in and poop,” Drucker says. “I don’t need to know anything beyond that.” ety to society and culture to cul- fact that they tend to spend more find out the sex of her baby. In two Mullen and led to Polkadot Patch.

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What took them so long to split? By Tirdad Derakhshani INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Why did Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver wait until now to dissolve their 25-year-old matrimonial, financial, and political merger? Haters might say they staved off the inevitable till Arnold un-govinated as California’s ruler — a cynical ploy to protect Arnold’s political position and power. But we’re no haters. “This has been a time of great personal and professional transition for each of us,” the couple say. “We are continuing to parent our four children together,” they added, referring to Katherine, 21, Christina, 19, Patrick, 17, and Christopher, 13.

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Shriver have been married 25 years.

Hot for Alba & Depp …

More men would cheat on their wives with Jessica Alba than with anyone else, while married women would fling it all away for Johnny Depp, reports FoxNews.com, citing a survey of 30,000 Americans by dating site AshleyMadison.com. Alba won 15 percent of the men’s vote; she’s followed by Megan Fox (14.4 percent) and Angelina Jolie (10.5 percent). Depp owns the hearts of 15.7 percent of gals, above George Clooney (13.8 percent) and Hugh Jackman (10.8 percent). Barack Obama, the only politico on the list, is at No. 4 (10.7 percent).

Schwarz-love love never dies

Speaking of The Govinator Dynasty, the nation’s foremost investigative journal, the National Enquirer, reports that Maria and Arnold’s 17-yearold son, Patrick, has fallen prey to Miley Cyrus’ good-(yet-oh-so-bad!)-girl charms. Some Anonymous Source Dude says Miley, who got Patrick’s digits from Selena Gomez, “is looking to rope Patrick into a full-fledged romance.”

Tidbits ’n’ pieces

Rachel McAdams worries. True love, she tells Elle, is “such a hard thing to find.” RMcA is dating Brit acting genius Michael Sheen but denies they’re engaged. … Bruce Springsteen warbles on Stewart Francke’s new song about the war in Afghanistan, “Summer Soldier (Holler If Ya Hear Me).”

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EntBiz movers ’n’ shakers

Tom Hanks offspring Colin Hanks, 33, will join the sixth season of Showtime’s serial-killers-are-nice-guys-too drama Dexter as a show regular. … Hugh Laurie, Olivia Wilde, Robert Sean Leonard and Omar Epps will return for

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Zahav chef wins Beard award

Corks were popping Monday night at Zahav, the upscale Israeli restaurant in Society Hill Towers, as chef/ owner Michael Solomonov won the James Beard Foundation’s award for best chef, Mid-Atlantic, in the restaurant industry’s version of the Oscars. Also getting props — best chef, New York City — was Gabrielle Hamilton, who owns Prune in the East Village. She’s daughter of Jim Hamilton of Lambertville’s Hamilton Grill Room. Marc Vetri and Jeff Benjamin’s Vetri in Center City was nominated for best restaurant but lost to Danny Meyer’s Eleven Madison Park. Also nominated was Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Del., for wine and spirits professional. — Michael Klein This article contains information from Inquirer wire services and websites. Contact “SideShow” at sideshow@phillynews.com.

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Question: My wife and I have a 3-yearold son. We are very much on the same page when it comes to the “tough love” issues of discipline, limiting TV and junk food, etc. It’s worked out well so far — we have a very happy and well-behaved child. Every year we spend a week with my family at a beach house. My sister and her husband have slightly older kids. As parents they are very heavy on indulgence and very light on discipline (putting it mildly). We anticipate that one of these years, our kid will ask why his cousins get to do and eat whatever they want, while he doesn’t. I wouldn’t know quite what to say in the presence of my sister’s family that would (a) be honest (b) not offend them, and (c) satisfy our kid’s sense of fairness in the world. Any advice? Answer: You let a 3-year-old watch SpongeBob? Yeh-heh, made you look. On purpose, because the best thing you can know going into these situations is how it feels to be judged by other parents for the choices you make for your kids. Your sister might well be too lenient with her spawn, but unless you intend to

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make a direct statement to your sister about her choices, it’s best to make no statement at all. It’s also best not to draw a straight line between your parental choices and your child’s excellence; while it’s terribly important for parents to do their jobs, hubris has no place in the insanely complex series of causes and effects that creates a well-adjusted child. So when the cousins are eating Crap Flakes straight from the box while your kid asks why he has to eat homemade granola, have a bland, stock answer ready, along the lines of “Different families, different ways.” Save the longer explanations for calm moments at strategic intervals, to teach him about nutrition, hard work, the reasoning behind your ways. You might also want to talk to your wife about bending judiciously on “special” occasions someday. You have to control his access to junk, of course — but take that control too far and you’ll have a rebellion on your hands, by a kid who hasn’t been allowed to learn for himself how and where to draw lines. E-mail Carolyn at tellme@washpost.com.

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EVIL (215) 755-2219 1-800-FANDANGO #(650) PROM (PG) (2:10 5:00) 7:35 10:05 PM 3D (PG) Additional Free Lighted Parking AFRICAN CATS (G) DP Phoenixville, PA 610-917-1228 (4:05) 6:45 9:15 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRIC(1:05 3:20 5:30) 7:45 9:55 PM PROM (PG) www.thecolonialtheatre.com CIO ENCORE (NR) WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) (4:50) 7:50 10:10 PM QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE (1:20 4:05) 6:50 9:40 PM 6:30 PM BEES TELLING US? (NR) 2:00 7:30 PM ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 (PG-13) TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) (1:50 4:25) 6:55 9:35 PM (12:40 3:40) 6:40 9:30 PM FAMILY (PG-13) H RIO 3D (G) JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) DP (4:45) 7:45 10:20 PM (1:45 4:55) 7:25 9:45 PM (11:30 AM 2:20 5:10) 8:00 10:50 PM Rt. 30 & Quarry Rd./Lancaster Pk. H RIO 3D (G) SOUL SURFER (PG) SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) (610) 518-3404 1-800-FANDANGO #(336) (1:55 4:35) 7:05 9:30 PM (4:25) 7:25 9:45 PM (11:20 AM 2:10 5:00) 7:50 10:30 PM JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) HOP (PG) SCREAM 4 (R) H THOR (PG-13) (2:20 5:10 PM) (11:20 AM 2:00 4:50) 10:30 PM (11:40 AM 2:30 5:20) 8:20 11:00 PM (4:35) 7:35 10:05 PM LIMITLESS (PG-13) SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) H THOR (PG-13) DP 7:55 10:25 PM (12:30 3:50) 6:50 9:40 PM (1:20 4:10) 7:00 9:50 PM THERE BE DRAGONS (PG-13) H THOR 3D (PG-13) (2:10 5:00) 7:50 10:35 PM (12:30 1:50 3:30 4:40) 6:20 7:30 9:10 H THOR (PG-13) Rt. 309 @ Richland Crossing 10:20 PM (215) 536-7700 1-800-FANDANGO #(347) (1:50 4:40) 7:30 10:20 PM FAST FIVE (PG-13) H THOR 3D (PG-13) JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) (12:50 1:30 3:50 4:30) 6:50 7:40 10:00 (11:55 AM 1:10 2:30 4:00 5:10) 7:00 8:00 9:50 (1:40 4:40) 7:40 10:25 PM 10:40 PM 10:50 PM SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP FAST FIVE (PG-13) (1:10 4:10) 7:10 9:55 PM (12:10 3:10) 6:10 9:20 PM (12:50 1:30 3:40 4:20) 6:40 7:20 9:35 H THOR (PG-13) H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL 10:10 PM (1:00 4:00) 7:00 9:45 PM 3D (PG) THE CONSPIRATOR(PG-13) Wed: 1:00 FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP H THOR 3D (PG-13) (12:45 2:55 5:05) 7:15 PM (1:30 4:30) 7:30 10:15 PM (2:20 5:30) 8:20 PM 4:00 9:20 PM / POTICHE(R) Wed: 1:00 4:00 PROM (PG) FAST FIVE (PG-13) H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL 7:00 PM / WIN WIN(R) Wed: 1:00 4:00 7:00 (2:40 5:15) 10:15 PM (12:50 3:50) 6:50 9:50 PM 3D (PG) 9:20 PM / FITZCARRALDO(PG) Wed: PROM (PG) OC,OC/DVS FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP (1:35 4:05) 6:25 9:25 PM 7:00 PM (12:00) 7:45 PM (1:20 4:20) 7:20 10:20 PM PROM (PG) H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY (1:00 3:30) 6:30 9:20 PM 3D (PG) FAMILY (PG-13) AFRICAN CATS (G) (1:45 4:45) 7:45 10:00 PM (12:20 2:50 4:00 5:30) 6:30 8:10 9:00 (12:55 3:45 PM) PROM (PG) 10:45 PM TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY (4:50) 10:30 PM WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) FAMILY (PG-13) PROM (PG) OC,OC/DVS (1:10 4:20) 7:20 10:10 PM (1:40 5:20) 8:10 10:45 PM (1:50) 7:50 PM 824 W. Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr 610-527-9898 H RIO 3D (G) WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) DP WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) DP www.BrynMawrFilm.org Shows Vary Daily (11:50 AM 2:15 4:45) 7:10 9:40 PM (1:20 4:10) 7:10 10:00 PM (1:05) 4:05 7:05 10:10 PM SCREAM 4 (R) DP THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE H RIO 3D (G) 9:45 PM 6:15 9:05 PM (1:35 4:35) 7:15 9:40 PM GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD (PG-13) HOP (PG) DP H RIO 3D (G) SOUL SURFER (PG) 2:00 5:30 8:00 PM (1:40 PM) (12:10 3:20) 6:10 9:00 PM (1:55 4:25) 7:25 10:05 PM WIN WIN (R) 2:00 4:30 PM INSIDIOUS (PG-13) SOUL SURFER (PG) HOP (PG) (1:15 3:55) 6:45 9:35 PM (12:00 3:10) 6:05 9:10 PM RIGOLETTO IN MANTUA (NR) 7:00 PM (1:15 3:45 PM)

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO ENCORE (NR) 6:30 PM JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) 1:10 4:10 7:05 9:40 PM SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) 1:05 4:05 6:55 9:30 PM THERE BE DRAGONS (PG-13) DP,DLP 1:25 4:10 7:00 10:00 PM THOR (PG-13) DP,DLP 2:00 5:00 8:00 PM THOR 3D (PG-13) 1:00 1:30 4:00 4:30 6:40 7:30 9:20 10:15 PM FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP,DLP 1:00 3:55 7:00 9:55 PM FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP,DLP,CC 1:35 4:30 7:30 10:25 PM HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (PG) DP,DLP 1:25 3:55 PM PROM (PG) DP,DLP 1:45 4:40 7:40 10:05 PM AFRICAN CATS (G) DP,DLP 1:55 4:50 PM TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG-13) DP,DLP 1:20 4:00 7:35 10:20 PM WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) DP,DLP 1:15 4:15 7:25 10:10 PM ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 (PG-13) DP,DLP 7:20 9:45 PM THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) DP,DLP 12:55 4:20 7:15 10:15 PM RIO 3D (G) 1:40 4:25 7:10 9:50 PM SOUL SURFER (PG) DP,DLP 9:55 PM WIN WIN (R) DP,DLP 1:15 4:35 7:15 10:10 PM

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JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) (12:45 3:45) 6:45 9:40 PM JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) DP (1:15 4:15) 7:15 10:10 PM THOR 3D (PG-13) SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) 5:10 7:45 PM (1:45 4:45) 7:45 10:20 PM PROM (PG) DYLAN DOG: DEAD OF NIGHT (PG-13) 5:20 7:40 PM 7:35 10:05 PM Regal Cinemas - UA Theatres FAST FIVE (PG-13) (12:30 1:00 3:30 4:00) 6:30 7:00 9:30 REGmovies.com 10:00 PM Off Rt. 422 and Egypt Rd. (OC) = Open Captioned FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP (610) 666-6564 1-800-FANDANGO #(341) (DA) = Descriptive Audio Available (1:30 2:00 4:30 5:00) 7:30 8:00 10:30 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICWATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) DP (1:05 3:55) 6:50 9:45 PM CIO ENCORE (NR) SCREAM 4 (R) 6:30 PM (4:40) 9:50 PM JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) SOUL SURFER (PG) (2:15 5:00) 7:40 10:20 PM (1:35 4:05) 6:35 9:20 PM SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) SOURCE CODE (PG-13) (2:00 4:40) 7:20 10:00 PM (1:10 3:40 5:55) 8:10 10:25 PM 250 Bromley Blvd. Across from Burlington Ctr. THERE BE DRAGONS (PG-13) DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK (609) 239-3500 1-800-FANDANGO #(259) RULES (PG) (1:15 4:00) 6:45 9:30 PM (12:35 2:55 5:15 PM) H THOR (PG-13) THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICLIMITLESS (PG-13) (2:20 5:10) 8:00 10:50 PM CIO ENCORE (NR) (1:50) 7:20 PM H THOR (PG-13) DP 6:30 PM (12:40 3:30) 6:25 9:10 PM JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) H THOR 3D (PG-13) (1:50 4:40) 7:30 10:20 PM (1:20 1:50 4:10 4:40) 7:00 7:30 9:50 10:20 PM SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) Rt. 555 & (Crosskeys)-Tuckahoe Rd. DYLAN DOG: DEAD OF NIGHT (PG-13) (856) 262-9300 1-800-FANDANGO #(602) (12:35 3:20) 7:20 10:10 PM (4:30) 10:15 PM H THOR (PG-13) THERE BE DRAGONS (PG-13) FAST FIVE (PG-13) (1:00 4:00) 7:00 9:45 PM (1:00 4:05) 7:10 10:05 PM H THOR (PG-13) DP (12:55 2:05 3:50 4:55) 6:40 7:55 9:35 H THOR (PG-13) (12:30 3:30) 6:30 9:15 PM 10:45 PM H THOR 3D (PG-13) (12:30 3:30) 6:20 9:20 PM FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP (1:30 2:00 4:30 5:00) 7:30 8:00 10:15 H THOR (PG-13) DP (1:40 4:25) 7:20 10:15 PM 10:45 PM (2:00 4:50) 7:50 10:40 PM H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL H THOR 3D (PG-13) 3D (PG) 3D (PG) (1:20 2:50 4:10 5:50) 7:00 8:45 9:50 PM (12:10 2:25 4:45) 6:55 PM (12:40 3:00 5:30) 7:40 10:05 PM PROM (PG) DYLAN DOG: DEAD OF NIGHT (PG-13) PROM (PG) (4:20) 9:50 PM (12:00 1:55 2:35 4:20 5:15) 6:50 7:45 9:20 (4:30) 9:45 PM PROM (PG) DP 10:20 PM FAST FIVE (PG-13) (3:45) 9:10 PM AFRICAN CATS (G) DP (3:05) 6:10 9:10 PM PROM (PG) OC,OC/DVS (12:30 2:45 5:05) 7:15 9:30 PM FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP (1:35) 7:10 PM TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY (12:50 1:35 3:50 5:00) 7:25 8:05 10:25 PM AFRICAN CATS (G) DP FAMILY (PG-13) (1:20) 6:55 PM H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (2:40 5:20) 7:50 10:25 PM TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY 3D (PG) WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) FAMILY (PG-13) (1:40 3:55) 6:35 9:00 PM (1:25 4:15) 7:05 9:45 PM (1:40 2:30 4:15 5:20) 7:20 8:10 9:55 10:40 PM PROM (PG) THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 (PG-13) (4:00) 9:30 PM (3:20) 9:30 PM (3:10) 8:10 PM PROM (PG) OC,OC/DVS RIO (G) THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) (12:50 3:15 5:40) 8:05 10:30 PM (1:25) 6:45 PM (1:00 4:35) 7:25 10:10 PM H RIO 3D (G) AFRICAN CATS (G) RIO (G) (1:55 4:25) 6:50 9:20 PM (1:05 3:35 PM) (12:45 3:00 5:25) 7:40 9:55 PM HANNA (PG-13) TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY H RIO 3D (G) (12:35) 6:35 PM FAMILY (PG-13) (12:05 2:30 4:50) 7:10 9:40 PM HOP (PG) (1:50 4:10) 6:45 9:05 PM SCREAM 4 (R) DP (12:40 2:10 3:15 5:05) 8:00 10:35 PM INSIDIOUS (PG-13) 9:05 PM WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) (2:40 5:25) 7:50 10:20 PM HANNA (PG-13) (12:25 3:40) 7:15 10:15 PM (1:45) 7:35 PM RIO (G) SOUL SURFER (PG) (1:10 3:45) 6:40 9:15 PM (1:10 3:55) 6:35 9:25 PM H RIO 3D (G) HOP (PG) DP (12:25 2:45 5:20) 7:45 10:25 PM (1:30 4:05) 6:30 8:50 PM SCREAM 4 (R) SOURCE CODE (PG-13) Naamans Rd. & Rte. 202 Concord Pike 6:55 9:35 PM (12:50 5:40) 10:40 PM (302) 479-0750 1-800-FANDANGO #(174) SOUL SURFER (PG) INSIDIOUS (PG-13) STADIUM SEATING IN SELECT AUDITORIUMS (12:55) 7:05 PM (12:35 3:05 PM) THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICHOP (PG) CIO ENCORE (NR) (1:30 4:20 PM) 6:30 PM INSIDIOUS (PG-13) JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) 1011 Ridge Pike (610) 940-3893 7:35 10:30 PM (1:00 3:50) 7:00 9:40 PM 1-800-FANDANGO #(335) SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) STADIUM SEATING IN SELECT AUDITORIUMS (1:10 4:10) 7:10 9:50 PM H THOR (PG-13) JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) Moorestown Mall (856) 222-9358 (12:10 3:00 5:50) 8:30 PM (1:55 4:45) 7:35 10:25 PM H THOR (PG-13) DP 1-800-FANDANGO #(598) THERE BE DRAGONS (PG-13) (2:20 5:10) 8:00 10:50 PM $6.00 All Day Tuesday. 3D up-charges apply. (1:15 4:05) 7:05 10:00 PM H THOR 3D (PG-13) Holidays Excluded. H THOR (PG-13) (12:40 1:50 3:30 4:40) 7:30 9:20 10:20 PM FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP (2:05 4:55) 7:45 10:35 PM JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) (2:00 4:50) 7:50 10:40 PM H THOR 3D (PG-13) (1:10 3:50) 6:50 9:35 PM H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (1:05 1:35 3:55 4:25) 6:45 7:15 9:35 10:05 PM SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) 3D (PG) H HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (2:00 4:50) 7:40 10:20 PM (3:10 PM) 3D (PG) H THOR (PG-13) DP PROM (PG) (1:40 4:15) 6:30 9:10 PM (1:00 4:00) 7:00 9:45 PM (1:30 4:00) 6:50 9:25 PM WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) DP AFRICAN CATS (G) DP H THOR 3D (PG-13) (1:25 4:35) 7:25 10:15 PM (12:30 PM) (1:30 4:30) 7:30 10:15 PM ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 (PG-13) TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAST FIVE (PG-13) DP FAMILY (PG-13) 6:20 9:00 PM (1:20 4:20) 7:20 10:30 PM (12:50 3:20) 6:45 10:00 PM THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) PROM (PG) WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13) DP (1:00 4:00) 7:00 9:50 PM (12:00 3:45) 7:45 10:30 PM (1:50 4:40) 7:10 PM HOP (PG) DP THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY (1:20 3:35 PM) (5:00) 10:35 PM FAMILY (PG-13) SOURCE CODE (PG-13) H RIO 3D (G) 9:55 PM (4:30) 9:30 PM (2:10 4:35 PM) H RIO 3D (G) THE LINCOLN LAWYER (R) SOUL SURFER (PG) (1:45) 6:50 PM (2:05) 8:10 PM (1:40 4:10) 6:40 9:25 PM

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Weekend Box Office

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Chris Hemsworth in the title role of triumphant “Thor.”

Rank/Title/Studio Last Week 1. Thor (Paramount) $65.7 mil. 2. Fast Five (Universal) 32.4 mil. 3. Jumping the Broom (Sony) 15.2 mil. 4. Something Borrowed (Warner Bros.) 13.9 mil. 5. Rio (Fox) 8.5 mil. 6. Water for Elephants (Fox) 6.1 mil. 7. Big Happy Family (Lionsgate) 4.2 mil. 8. Soul Surfer (Sony) 2.3 mil. 9. Prom (Disney) 2.2 mil. 10. Hoodwinked Too! (Weinstein) 2.0 mil.

Weeks Per Total Out Location $65.7 mil. 1 $16,618 139.8 mil. 2 8,860 15.2 mil. 1 7,477 13.9 mil. 1 4,802 115.2 mil. 4 2,610 42.1 mil. 3 2,322 47.1 mil. 3 2,222 36.9 mil. 5 1,295 7.6 mil. 2 811 6.9 mil. 2 815

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SOCIAL CIRCUIT A look at the social events, galas, functions and fund-raisers in the area. BY

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DEBBIE BOWDEN

At the Benefit for Children were Henri Moore, (left) event

A night to remember

Nearly 25 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra were among the 200 guests who attended its Perfect Harmony benefit, held Thursday at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Perelman Building. The evening featured cocktails, a buffet See more supper, and Social Circuit at musical photographs / performances http://philly.com social. by members of the orchestra. The live auction, which raised nearly $30,000, included lunch with music director designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin and a home recital by ED HILLE / Staff Photographer concertmaster David Kim Attending the Perfect Harmony benefit at the Philadelphia Art Museum were (from left) Dianne and first associate Rotwitt and musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra Kathryn Picht Read, Barbara Govatos, concertmaster Juliette and Jonathan Beiler. Kang followed by dinner for 10. The benefit, cochaired by Elizabeth Crowell, Esther Schwartz, and Lisa Weber-Yakulis, raised $85,000 for the orchestra.

cochair, and Matt Hamilton, honorary cochair.

Raise a racquet

Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education honored Douglas R. Conant, president and chief executive officer of Campbell Soup, at its 28th annual Benefit for Children, held April 29 at the Ashe Center. Honorary chairs were Dodo Hamilton, Matt and Anne Hamilton, and Helene and Archbold D. van Beuren. The benefit featured a record 475 silent auction items and six live-auction items, including two tickets to Wimbledon that went for $2,000; one week at Villa Sassella in Tuscany ($7,500); and five nights at a luxury home in Aspen ($6,500). The event for 850 Dodo Hamilton, honorary guests, chaired by cochair for the benefit. Henri and Anthony Moore, raised $750,000.

Enjoying the festivities at the Museum’s Perelman Building,

were (from left) Suzanne Robinson, Elia Buck, and board member Carole Haas Gravagno.

The benefit’s three cochairs are (from left) Lisa Weber-Yakulis,

Also attending the benefit were (from left) Sally Bullard,

Esther Schwartz, and Elizabeth Crowell.

musician Phillip Kates, and Karen and Sheldon Thompson.

Dancing with the Rock stars

The Rock School for Dance Education held its 20th annual Scholarship Benefit April 30 at the Independence Seaport Museum. The evening featured the premiere of a collaborative work between the Rock School and the Curtis Institute of Music and a solo performance by New York City Ballet principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht. The benefit celebrated the school’s ability to raise more than $125,000 toward a $250,000 challenge grant, which it received from Milton Rock in December. The benefit for 250 guests raised $162,000 for Rock School scholarships.

At the benefit were (from left) Kenny Holdsman, Jerry L. Johnson, Bud Collins, and Douglas R. Conant.

MEGAN KOCH

Milton Rock (right) PAUL CRANE

Designer Gilles Mendel (second from left) with Brian

McAndrews, his wife, Karen, and their daughter Madeline.

Fashion forward

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia grossed more than $1.3 million at its 55th annual Daisy Day Luncheon and Fashion Show, held April 27 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue. Among the more than 600 guests was French fashion designer Gilles Mendel of J. Mendel, who presented fashions from his fall 2011 collection. Michael Barkann led the live auction, which included four tickets to the American Idol finale May 25 in Los Angeles that went for $11,500. Proceeds from the luncheon, chaired by Nancy Wolfson, will benefit the Single Nancy Wolfson and her Ventricle Survivorship mother, Madlyn Abramson. Program at the hospital’s Cardiac Center.

at the Rock School benefit with (from left) Juliet Millione, Audrey Gentile, Ashlyn Rinehart, Claire Zwolak, Danielle Falciani, Olivia Hiester, and (at rear left) Violette Verdy, artistic adviser, and (at rear right) Gabriella Smith.

Attending were Regina Thomas (left) with

daughter Rebecca, school board member.

(center), Dr. Steven Altschuler, Children’s Hospital CEO. “Social Circuit” appears in Style & Soul on Wednesdays. Contact Caroline Stewart at 215-854-5747 or at socialcircuit@phillynews.com

cochair Liza Herzog, and Sonia Dasgupta.

All in the family

Seated above (from left) are

Tammy Jacob with honorary cochair Robert Klimasewski

Also at the benefit were (from left) Blaine Baron, event

Barbara Eisenhower Foltz, daughters Susan Eisenhower, an honoree, and Anne Eisenhower Flottl. Standing, David Eisenhower (left) and Wolfgang Flottl. At right, honoree Howard H. Lewis and Kim Sajet.

JACK SCULLY

Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and lawyer Howard H. Lewis of Montgomery McCracken were honored at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Founder’s Award dinner, held April 28 at Ardrossan in Villanova. The event was attended by 235 guests, including Susan Eisenhower’s brother, David; her sister, Anne Eisenhower Flottl; and her mother, Barbara Eisenhower Foltz. The dinner menu was inspired by President Eisenhower’s favorite recipes, including grilled salmon with At the dinner were (from left) Dorothy Ike’s Barbecue Mather Ix; her parents, Mary MacGregor Sauce and Mather and Charles E. Mather III; and Alice Mamie Lea M. Tasman. Eisenhower’s Million Dollar Fudge. The event, chaired by Dorothy Mather Ix, raised more than $165,000 for the society.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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A desperate leap into the unknown By Howard Shapiro

Presented by Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. Eighth St., through May 29. Tickets: $45. Information: 215-923-0210 or www.comcasttix.com.

ADRIAN ROONEY

“The Bridge Club,” features (from left) Richard Bradford as Sebastian, Laura

Chaneski as Sue, Michael Kelberg as Jack, and Bill Robling as Smyth. The premiere at Society Hill Playhouse starts with Jack ready to jump to his death. about the other’s reasoning for suicide, and each, existentially, looking into a mirror. And what happens after that — well, I won’t spoil it. Raskind’s drama reminds me of the radio plays CBS was producing almost as a vestige of the art form about 20 years ago. The programs started off as realism, then shot into the realm of the unknown. The Bridge

Club, similarly, begins believably enough; two people run into each other at the same place with the same goals. And after that the play turns into science fiction, or maybe metaphysical storytelling — which, in this case, makes it all the more interesting. It’s acted well enough by Michael Kelberg and Laura Cheneski, although Cheneski would be even bet-

ter if her line readings were more sincere at the beginning, when the play hasn’t yet gone to the outer regions. Richard Bradford, Emily Cheney and the skilled Bill Robling round out the cast. Here’s a strange footnote: Director Michael Durkin writes a note in the program cautioning the audience not to view the play’s message in a certain way. The play’s publicity, however, assures us breathlessly that we will view “the stunning and explosive conclusion” precisely the way Durkin warns us not to. I could find no “stunning and explosive conclusion,” nor any value in Durkin’s proposition. Nor could I find a clear message in Raskind’s play, only a nicely told story. The real message: Don’t bother with hype from directors or publicists. Focus on what’s happening on the stage. Contact staff writer Howard Shapiro at 215-854-5727 or hshapiro@phillynews.com. Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/howardshapiro. Follow him on Twitter at #philastage.

berating bass. INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC But that was “a long time James Blake has the ele- ago,” Blake said on Monday ment of surprise working for night during his first Philadelhim. T h e phia performance, at a sold22-year-old out First Unitarian Church, Review Londoner first where the show was moved to Music became known from Johnny Brenda’s to aclast year as a commodate demand. “Well, producer of dubstep, the Brit- not that long. But you know ish club-music micro-genre how the Internet is.” marked by throbbing, reverYes, we do. The Internet is

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reggae dynamics. Like Radiohead and 1990s trip-hop acts such as Portishead, Blake is skilled at using silence and empty space, along with glitchy, rickety percussive effects, to create drama in his almost-always down-tempo tunes. He sometimes can sound like he’s ready to tumble into the abyss: “My brother and my sister don’t speak to me, but I don’t blame them,” he sang repeatedly, dueting with a digitally altered and looped version of his own voice on “I Never Learnt to Share.” But in an hour-long set, Universal Republic James Blake, 22. His first Phila. Blake demonstrated that his audience-relating skills have concert had to be moved to improved considerably since the First Unitarian Church to he performed in March at the accommodate demand. South by Southwest Festival Monday a rowdy crowd drew in Austin, Texas. And the dehim back on stage for what pressive tendencies in might actually have been an Blake’s highly emotive music unplanned encore for a gossa- were balanced by the lush texmer solo piano version of tures that cushion his languorJoni Mitchell’s “A Case of ous tunes, as well as the promYou.” ise of a bright future that Blake has more than good clearly lies ahead. taste going for him. Though his songs rarely conform to Contact music critic Dan DeLuca conventional structures, they at 215-854-5628 or display a familiarity with gos- ddeluca@phillynews.com. Read pel chord changes and dub- his blog at philly.com/inthemix.

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a place where an evolving artist can grow up, and be scrutinized, in public long before putting out a full-length album. And when he does put out an eponymous full-length — as Blake did, in January — he can generate even more buzz by displaying talents more multifarious than those that dweeby, techno, knobtwiddlers are expected to possess. In Blake’s case, that means he not only knows how to manipulate his voice using digital effects, he can also sing. Quite beautifully, thank you. Bathed in blue light while sitting at the keyboard in the church basement, where he was backed by a drummer and a guitarist who also triggered samples on a laptop, Blake sang in an incantatory, sensitive, soul man style that bears a similarity to fellow indie sensation Antony Hegarty of Antony & the Johnsons. Blake, who studied music composition at the University of London, has a practiced ear for material well suited to his sensibility. His signature song is a ghostly, deconstructed cover of Leslie Feist’s “Limit to Your Love,” and on

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The Bridge Club

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

You know what they say about those best-laid plans, and a guy named Jack knows, too. But he probably never expected that abandoning his car, climbing to the ledge of the Golden Gate Bridge and jumping would be thwarted by a woman named Sue. So there he is, in RiReview chard Raskind’s The Theater Bridge Club — a curious and slightly spooky 70-minute one-act being given a world premiere at Society Hill Playhouse — about to jump. He calls his live-in girlfriend to say that his health situation is far worse than he let on and that he is taking his own life, and goodbye. He leaves this message on voice mail. Sue hears Jack deliver his phone message. She appears suddenly, like an apparition, at the top of the bridge, where she slinks up and stands beside him. Turns out she’s there for the same thing, which, she says, is sort of a private matter and she wasn’t expecting company. Those best-laid plans, at it again. Besides, Sue challenges Jack, you left a voice mail to a friend? And it’s who? Your girlfriend? A voice-mail suicide note? You are a coward. Not hard to imagine what happens next: a heated interchange between two tortured parties, each battling

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ARDEN CHILDREN’S THEATRE presents A new musical based on Hans Christian Anderson’s

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A magical madcap musical adventure! Friday at 7pm, Sat and Sun at 12pm and 4pm Target 2 for 1 Tickets Available! Recommended for kids 5 and older!

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Edge City

By Jacqueline Bigar

Happy Birthday This year, your psyche could work overtime. You pick up a lot just by observing. You also will enjoy your alone time far more than in the past. Your libido energies peak, and you will want to express yourself in some way — be it painting, writing or maybe even brainstorming. Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★ How you manifest your frustration and anger seems to change. You might direct this energy toward a talent, taking a class in investing or, if you’re not careful, overspending. Maintain a level of detachment. Tonight: Just feeling good. Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ Where traditional modes have failed, you open up to more dynamic ideas. Your instincts seem to inform you who is friend or foe. Confusion could surround an important friendship. Tonight: Take a midweek break. Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Curb a tendency to be selfdestructive; work on expressing your anger more appropriately. Several friends come forward with ideas, invitations or just a hello. Tonight: Downtime. Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ A male friend drives a hard bargain. The art of diplomacy can make or break this situation. A boss or someone

you look up to gives you quite a compliment. Tonight: Favorite places, favorite people. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★ Take stock of what you have to offer. You might want to invest in a talent or take a class, especially if this act can add to your job performance or desirability. Tonight: Off to the gym. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ You move into a new arena and attain a greater sense of self. Sometimes you hold yourself back. Keep building your selfconfidence and express yourself more often. Tonight: Where the action is. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ You sense a hidden agenda or that someone might not be revealing everything he or she is thinking. You might not be the only person to sense this vagueness. Tonight: Togetherness counts. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ Meetings in general help you home in on basics. You could be exhausted by everything you need to do. Ask for help. You might be surprised by how many people are ready and available. In fact, suddenly you, too, are energized. Tonight: Zero in on what is important. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★ Whether you are leading or following, work or a project

demands a lot of attention. Stay on top of a project, and don’t let anyone deter you from your goals. Tonight: Love the one you are with. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★★ Your style and manner of moving around could make a big difference. How you feel when handling a personal matter could change as a result of a conversation with a family member or loved one. Tonight: Follow the music. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Visualize more of what you want from a situation. Be willing to honor another person’s request. Everything that is happening allows greater give-andtake between you and a special friend. Tonight: Meet a friend. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★ Understanding means more to you than to many others. You are willing to let someone else run with the ball, but you would like your outlook taken into account. Tonight: Accept an invitation. Born on this date SingerEricBurdon,artistSalvador Dali, comedian Mort Sahl

Cy the Cynic says that when it comes to good declarer play, he who hesitates is boss. If you want to boot an easy contract, play without thinking. West led the five of hearts against three no-trump, and South tried the dummy’s jack. East took the king and returned a heart to the ace. South counted seven tricks. He might succeed if East had the queen of diamonds, but South wasn’t eager to try a diamond finesse that might lose to West, who had good hearts. So South led a club to his king — and West produced the ace and ran the hearts. Down one. Since West had Q-8-5 in diamonds, South could never make three no-trump, at least not after trick one. South should consider his play — and should win the first heart. South is at risk only if West has five hearts. But if West

had K-Q-10-5-2, he’d have led the king. If East has a doubleton honor, South can block the hearts by taking the ace. East can’t gain by unloading his king, and when South leads a club next, the defense is helpless.

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Bridge By Frank Stewart

DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ 8 3 ♥ Q 10 8 5 2 ◆ Q 8 5 ♣ A 9 8. Your partner opens one spade, you respond one no-trump, he bids two diamonds and you return to two spades. Partner next bids three diamonds. What do you say? ANSWER: If partner weren’t interested in game, he’d have stopped at two spades. Your decision is close. To raise to four diamonds or try three no-trump might work, but since the spade support is the worst and the queen of hearts may be worthless, I’d pass.

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Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively. Solution tomorrow.

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Word Game

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Today’s Word — COMPOUNDS (kum-POUNDS: Adds to; increases.) Average mark — 22 words Time limit — 40 minutes Can you find 33 or more words of four or more letters in COMPOUNDS? Yesterday’s Word — BAITED: bade, bait, bate, bead, beat, beta, bide, bidet, bite, abed, abet, abide, adit, aide, idea, tide, tied, edit, date, debit, debt, diet

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Yesterday’s Cryptoquote: Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner

Wonderword

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Yesterday’s Solution

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