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CNN with plead for gun control’ Rebuilding. City overhauls Sandy

recovery plan to bring aid faster The de Blasio adminis-tration is ready to pour millions of federal dol-lars into a renewed effort post-Superstorm Sandy.

Speaking in Queens on Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new plan to help many residents who he said have gone through “the worst 17 months of their lives.”

Part of the restructur-ing includes a reformed Build It Back program to streamline rebuilding ap-plications and reimburse-ments requests.

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The city is promising faster aid for homes and businesses destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. / GETTY IMAGES

On a recent afternoon, the tiny front room at the Brooklyn Perinatal Network in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, was packed with New Yorkers eager to enroll for health insur-ance.

“It’s been very, very busy,” said Denise West, the network’s deputy ex-ecutive director — one of dozens of organizations in the five boroughs with navigators trained to help New Yorkers and business-es use the state’s health exchange, mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

Since the launch of NY State of Health in October, more than 1.1 million peo-ple across the state have completed applications on the marketplace, and more than 782,000 have enrolled.

But as the deadline for 2014 coverage approach-es, New Yorkers scramble to sign up before mid-night Monday. More than 281,000 people in the state enrolled in just over the last four weeks alone.

West said a steady stream of people — with and without appoint-ments — have come to the organization for assis-tance enrolling in the past few weeks.

“Because it’s so late,

people are afraid to try on their own,” she said.

West said calls to the organization have also increased. On a recent Fri-day, West helped one man enroll over the phone un-til about 11 p.m.

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so fast,” she said, explain-ing why some put off the application. West also at-tributed a recent surge in enrollment to confusion following media reports on technical difficulties with the federal exchange website.

Michael Wallace, a 37-year-old walk-in client at the network, blamed his own procrastination on laziness.

“I need insurance,” Wallace said. “I should have done it sooner.”

Despite having worked longer hours in the last days of open enrollment, West said it was an “excit-ing time.” One of the goals of the Brooklyn Perinatal Network is to improve community well being by connecting New Yorkers

with health services, she said.

West stressed the im-portance of health insur-ance in bettering New Yorkers’ lives. In New York City, one in five adults are uninsured, according to the Health Department.

Until West helped him enroll a few weeks ago, Emroy Caesar, 31, was one of those uninsured. A Berkeley College student doing work-study at the site, Caesar said he finally enrolled because he knew his 12-year-old daughter would need shots soon.

“It was very last-min-ute,” he admitted. “Down to the wire.”

Denise West, deputy executive director of Brooklyn Perinatal Network, looks over Emroy Caesar’s insurance application . / BESS ADLER, METRO

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The clown who briefly terrorized Staten Island streets swung by Manhat-tan on Friday morning.

The joker was revealed as a stunt by a Staten Island-based production company, but the men be-hind the prank said it was all in good fun.

“Really, no matter how it is, we like to entertain people,” said Michael Leavy of Fuzz on the Lens Productions. “It wasn’t meant to hurt anybody or harm anybody. It was re-ally just having fun.”

Leavy, along with his brother Michael and friend Steven Della Salla brought along the in-famous clown to radio station Z100 s morning show for their latest hur-rah — scaring one of the hosts on her birthday.

“You either love clowns or you hate them,”

Michael said. “When you do something like this, you’re going to have peo-ple talking about it.”

Leavy revealed the creepy clown came about as a gag on a local comedi-an, Vic Dibitetto, who was working on a film with them at the time.

The clown went on to make appearances on Twitter and Instagram accounts, where it even-tually went viral as the

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“We didn’t expect it to be what it became,” Leavy said, who added that the clown’s fifteen minutes might not quite be over.

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Jokers. The group behind the viral clown sightings say it started as a prank on a friend.

Staten Island clown creators reveal his origin

The Staten Island Clown made an appearance in a Manhattan radio station Friday. / PHOTO COURTESY Z100.

Philip Eure will serve as the first-ever NYPD inspector general, a post created in response to the city’s Muslim surveil-lance and stop-and-frisk programs.

Eure, 52, will manage a staff of 50 investigators, analysts, lawyers and community outreach per-sonnel as he oversees the police department. He will also provide regular reports to both Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council, which passed the controversial bill into law last year.

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Compromise. Cuomo announces $140BN state budget deal Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a state budget agreement that, if ap-proved by Tuesday, would settle the ongoing debate over universal prekinder-garten.

The nearly $140 billion budget includes Cuomo’s five-year commitment to provide statewide univer-sal prekindergarten as an

alternative to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s request for a tax on the city’s wealthiest to fund the initiative.

The city would receive about $300 million for prekindergarten and middle school after-school programs — $40 million less than de Blasio request-ed. The mayor celebrated the news nonetheless.

“Through ups and downs, we never wavered from our promise to the people of this city to expand full-day pre-K and after-school for our children starting this Sep-tember,” de Blasio said in a statement Saturday.

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The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 could take years, U.S. Navy officials suggest-ed on Sunday, as search and rescue officials raced to locate the plane’s black box recorder days before its batteries are set to die.

Ten ships and as many aircraft are searching a massive area in the Indian Ocean west of Perth, Aus-tralia, trying to find some trace of the aircraft, which went missing more than three weeks ago and is pre-sumed to have crashed.

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cue Center, He Jianzhong, told the Xinhua state news agency no objects linked to the plane had been found on Sunday, and that Chi-nese vessels would expand their search area.

U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Matthews, who is in charge of the U.S. Towed Pinger Locator, told journalists at Stirling Naval Base that the lack of information about

where the plane went down seriously hampers the ability to find it.

“Right now the search area is basically the size of the Indian Ocean, which would take an untenable amount of time to search,” he said.

“If you compare this to Air France flight 447, we had much better position-al information of where that aircraft went into the water,” he said, referring to a plane that crashed in 2009 near Brazil and took more than two years to find.

The U.S. Navy cannot use the pinger locator and other sonar used to listen for the beacons on the aircraft’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders until “conclusive visual evi-dence” of debris is found, U.S. Navy spokesman Cmdr. William Marks told CBS’ “Face the Nation” pro-gram. REUTERS

Days after the mudslide left dozens dead and miss-ing, Dan Rankin stood in a high school gymnasium and hugged tight a teenage girl reeling from the loss of her sister.

Before the March 22 di-saster, Rankin’s main tasks as mayor of the small log-ging town of Darrington, Wash., included oversee-ing town council meetings and resolving property line

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But since the mudslide about 10 miles west of town, Rankin’s job has been transformed into that of comforting the grieving and articulating their an-guish to the outside world.

“That scar on the mountain will never heal, nor will the scar in our hearts ever heal,” Rankin, 52, told reporters. REUTERS

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Malaysian offi cials observe a moment of silence in memory of the 239 people killed in the fl ight MH370 prior to the Malaysia Formula One Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. / GETTY IMAGES

Long search looms for missing Malaysia jet Australian defense force ship. It has been fi tted with a US black box locator and an underwater drone.

Remembering the lost

Churches honor victims Churches offered prayers for the victims of last week’s devas-tating mudslide in Washington state as the death toll from the disaster kept rising but the number of missing fell sharply.

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count rose to 28 on Saturday. But despite the grim toll, news also came that the number of missing fell to 30 from 90 as officials were able to account for dozens of people as “safe and well.”

Funeral preparations are also beginning for those lost in the trag-edy. REUTERS

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America’s top general in Europe has been sent back early from a trip to Wash-ington in what the Pen-tagon on Sunday called a prudent step given Rus-sia’s “lack of transpar-ency” about troop move-ments across the border with Ukraine.

Gen. Philip Breedlove, who is both NATO’s Su-preme Allied Commander Europe and the head of the U.S. military’s Euro-pean Command, arrived in Europe on Saturday evening. He had been due to testify before Congress this week.

Top US general returning to Europe over Ukraine crisis Tensions . The West threatened tougher economic sanctions against Russia if Moscow invades eastern Ukraine.

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McCain looks to US companies in Russia if Putin pushes The U.S. should consider forcing major American companies such as General Elec-tric and Exxon Mobil to suspend business in or pull out of Russia if President Vladimir Putin attempts to take more territory from Ukraine or other neighboring nations, said Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

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The Pentagon an-nouncement came as Sec-retary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Min-ister Sergei Lavrov met in Paris seeking to hammer out the framework of a deal to reduce tensions over Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea re-gion.

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Don’t reread, remember

Think repetition and reading for long hours are the key to learning? Not according to a new book based on the research of two Washington Univer-sity professors.

“Empirical research into how we learn and remember shows that much of what we take for gospel about how to learn turns out to be largely wasted effort,” reads one of the opening passages of “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” out today. The work is the result of 10 years of research into the application of cognitive psychology to education practices by Henry Roedi-ger and Mark McDaniel, both in the Department of Psychology at Wash-ington University in St. Louis. They then enlisted the help of novelist (and

Roediger’s brother-in-law) Peter Brown to turn their findings into a book for a mass audience.

Brown has filled “Make It Stick” with illustrative anecdotes to support the academic theories. “When I heard what [Roediger], McDaniel and their col-leagues were finding, it seemed like big news: Most of us are going about learning the wrong way! This was something every-body needed to hear.”

For example, rereading texts and repeatedly prac-ticing something won’t really help you learn. In fact, most intuitive modes of learning also came up short. The book’s sug-gested practices say that learning must be arduous. We asked Brown why.

What is it about overcoming diffi culty that makes learning stronger?The best way to make learning stick is to focus less on getting knowledge into the brain and more

on getting it out. You learn best by trying to retrieve an answer from memory.

How does that work?When the brain encoun-ters new information, the representation of that is pliable — the brain works at making sense of the new material by filling in gaps and connecting it to what you already know.

And then you suggest switching things around?It’s the arduous retrieval practice that strengthens learning. When you mix up your practice, and the retrieval is more difficult because you’re constantly switching between differ-ent topics, and it doesn’t feel like you’re mastering them, you are building complex neural connec-tions and a more versatile ability to recall and apply the learning later.

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Gone are the days when students could rely on their college career centers to prepare them for the real world — now it’s on them. Students have to be accountable for their ca-reers and seek out oppor-tunities on their own. In a new study by my company and Internmatch.com, we found that almost 50 percent of students aren’t using their career centers, opting to use online re-sources instead. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employ-ers, the average ratio of students to career services staff is 1,889 to 1. It’s no wonder almost a third of students in our study said

employment.

2Get your campus career

center to introduce you to

alumni in your fi eld. The most

important asset that career centers have that they don’t use nearly enough is their alumni database. Instead of just going into a meeting with your

career counselor about your résumé and cover letter, ask for introductions to alumni that are employed at companies you’re interested in. That connection is way more important than the format your résumé is in!

3Use online platforms to edu-

cate yourself. Don’t rely on your career center as the single place where you learn job skills. Instead, turn to online resources like Udemy.com, Coursera.com, KhanAcademy.com, SkillShare.com and Udacity.com. Based on your profession and industry, you can learn vital skills that will translate into new opportunities for you.

4Do as many internships

and freelance gigs as you

can until you fi nd your career

path. College students are almost always clueless as to which career path to pursue, even after selecting a major. To fi gure things out, you have to have as many experiences as possible to understand the roles you do and don’t like. By doing so, you may discover the profession you want to be in, the size of the company you want to work for and the corporate culture you’ll do best in.

Attending events where you can meet alumni and fellow career-seeking students is certainly smarter than spending a day watching reruns, so get out there. / COLOURBOX

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In a past survey, we found that 40 percent of students feel like technology has hurt their soft skills, such as the ability to interact and build relationships face to face. Make sure you are discon-necting every day so that you can meet people and form stronger connections that can lead to jobs.their career centers were

understaffed. What’s most alarm-

ing is that 61 percent say career centers are either never or rarely effective in helping them land a job. Clearly, students have to take matters into their own hands. Here’s how:

1Be proactive: Attend as

many career-oriented

college events as possible.

If your school is bringing in a guest speaker or hosting a roundtable with alumni, you should attend. The worst outcome from going to an event like that is learning more about a diff erent industry, and the best case is making a new connection that could lead to

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GOSSIP

S limed at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards

Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting and Pharrell Williams got hit with the green stuff . / GETTY IMAGES

You have to kind of love the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards — it’s a chance for stars to get down, dirty and watch Adam Sandler finally win an award that isn’t a Razzie.

Mark Wahlberg was the host of Saturday’s shindig — he managed to go the entire night without getting slimed until the very end, when comedian Kevin Hart and Wahlberg’s own three kids got him. “I can’t believe my own kids turned on me,” he yelped after getting drenched.

Magician David Blaine

slimed himself in a crazy trick that made him ap-pear to lose his own head (and what came out was slime instead of blood). Austin Mahone and Cody Simpson both got slimed, as well as Pharrell Williams (tricked out in SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas) and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting.

Robert Downey Jr. did not get slimed — maybe because he won for best male buttkicker. “This is the highest honor yet bestowed on me. I’m grate-ful, humble, the whole deal,” the “Iron Man” star

said. “You know I wasn’t always a buttkicker. In fact, life has kicked my proverbial butt countless

2014 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards winners:

• Favorite TV Show: “Sam & Cat”

• Favorite Cartoon:

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• Favorite TV Actor: Ross Lynch, “Austin & Ally”

• Favorite TV Actress: Ariana Grande, “Sam & Cat”

• Favorite Movie: “Hunger Games: Catching Fire”

• Favorite Movie Actor: Adam Sandler, “Grown Ups 2”

• Favorite Movie Actress:

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• Favorite Animated Movie:

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• Favorite Music Group: One Direction

• Favorite Male Singer:

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• Favorite Female Singer:

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Prince George and Lupo crush it in new royal photo The royal family has released a new offi cial photo, and if it were any more adorable it would be a Buzzfeed quiz about kittens. The photo was taken as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, look out a window at Kensington Palace while Prince George of Cambridge and Lupo (he’s the family dog and does not get a fancy title) gaze adoringly into each other’s eyes. In case you can’t see, Prince George’s sweater says “George” across the front in white stitching — like he isn’t the most famous 8-month-old in the world.

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He-man. The former Governator says action movies have changed Given his résumé, it’s understandable that Arnold Schwarzenegger would think he knew all there was to know about action movies. So naturally when “Sabotage” director David Ayer suggested the former California governor sign up for some weapons training prior to filming, he balked. “Why do I need weapons training? I mean, I’ve shot more guns than anyone in movie history and killed more people than anyone. So why do we need to go through weapons training?” he remembers.

But Schwarzenegger was actually impressed by Ayer’s push for realism and technical accuracy. “I love that he pushed me,” he says. “Sometimes direc-tors get intimidated when they meet someone like me. They say, ‘I’m looking forward to working with you’ and ‘Let’s just figure out how we’re going to get ready for the movie.’ But David came in and was very clear with the set of things that needed to be done.”

He also knows that the filmmaking world has changed a great deal since his action heyday, and

Like son, like father

Getting into t he family business Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t the only actor in his family anymore, as his 20-year-old son Patrick has already started popping up on screen in “Grown Ups 2” and the upcoming “Dead Eleanor.” So how

does his 66-year-old father feel about Patrick getting in on the game?

“My son is heavily into acting, but at the same time I have him go to the university and study busi-ness. Then after that he re-ally can decide if he wants to be a full-time actor, what he wants to do,” he says.

“I always try to teach kids to fi nd what your passion is, because I despise when kids get out of college and have no idea what they’re going to do. I say to myself, ‘Well, what does that mean? You’re 22 years old and you don’t know what you like in life?’ It’s unac-ceptable.”

because of that a decent amount of preparation goes a long way. “[It’s not] like in the ’80s and ’90s, where a studio would raise $100 million and you would have a great action movie,” Schwarzenegger says. “The budgets are half of what they used to be, because the rest of the money is being used for the franchise movies and the big sequels and stuff like that.”

Making “Sabotage” didn’t just present Schwar-zenegger with a new kind of filmmaking experience, but also a new type of character to play. “I’ve nev-er played a character like this,” he says of his role in the morally murky DEA thriller. “I’m usually the good guy and I upset the bad guys. There’s a little bit of humor throughout the movie, and that’s it,” he says. NED EHRBAR

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The Criterion Collection, $39.95The public reputation of morbid legend Ingmar Bergman is basically secure; even “Muppets Most Wanted” featured a “The Seventh Seal” gag, with Death playing chess with the Swedish Chef. But things weren’t always smooth for the director. He helped birth the European art film in the 1950s, but by the ’60s he’d been eclipsed by the French New Wave. “Persona,” from 1966, was return fire — a film both innovative and mysterious.

Since then, “Persona” has largely been treated as a headscatcher, often described as being about

two women — an actress (Liv Ullmann) who’s gone willingly mute and a nurse (Bibi Andersson) tend-ing to her — who switch identities. For starters, this isn’t even accurate. What occurs between the two women is oblique, and lacks clear resolution. Only Andersson’s Alma appears to change, and the only thing she swipes from Ullmann’s Elisabet is her husband, for a dreamlike tryst. If it’s a puzzle, it’s missing a few key pieces.

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“Noah,” starring Russell Crowe as the biblical figure who built an ark to save his family and speci-mens of every animal from the great flood, collected $44 million in U.S. and Ca-nadian ticket sales to lead the weekend box office.

It sailed past last week-end’s winner, “Divergent”, based on the novel by Veronica Roth about a dystopian world divided into factions. “Divergent” collected $26.5 million and a total of $95 million since its March 21 release.

“Muppets Most Want-ed,” starring Ty Burrell, Tina Fey and Jim Henson’s furry puppets, was third with $11.4 million in ticket sales from Friday through Sunday, according to estimates provided by Rentrak.

In fourth place for the weekend, the animated film “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” collected $9.5

million in ticket sales, pushing its take in domes-tic theaters to $95 million.

Rounding out the top five, “The Grand Buda-pest Hotel,” director Wes Anderson’s offbeat look at a rundown hotel and its scheming concierge, expanded its run to nearly 1,000 theaters from 300 last week and generated $8.8 million in ticket sales.

The weekend’s other widely distributed new film, the thriller “Sabo-tage,” sold just $5.3 million worth of tickets for the seventh spot — another disappointment for one-time box office superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger, after “The Escape Plan.”

“Cesar Chavez,” star-ring Michael Pena as the labor leader who orga-nized U.S. farm workers in the 1970s, sold $3 million and was in 12th place, de-spite playing in fewer than 700 theaters. REUTERS

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Shake it up

Movement cleanses your mind and body. If you feel stagnant, jump on a bike, take a stroll through the park or do 10 jumping jacks. Keep it simple by committing to move in some way every day. Ten minutes of movement daily will clear your mind and energize your body.

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every day.

Let it go

The age-old closet rule, “if you haven’t worn something in over a year, throw it out,” applies to the mind, too. If you’ve been obsessing over some-thing out of your control for over a year, it’s time to

let it go. Get honest with yourself about how you’ve been holding onto an out-come. Begin the releasing process by simply saying once a day, “I am ready to let this go.” This simple affirmation will ignite the releasing process and let the mental cleanse begin.

Recycle the junk

Much like it’s hard to part with old clothing items, it can be hard to part with old ideas. So rather than drop the belief altogether, I encourage you to replace it with a new one. Once you identify the nega-tive beliefs that you’ve been holding onto, you can rewrite the script. Reaffirm a new belief that is more positive and energizing. For instance, if you’ve been saying, “I can’t lose weight,” recycle that thought with the af-firmation, “This spring I’m ready to let go of the extra pounds.” Rephrasing your limiting beliefs will give you the positive reinforce-ment to clean your nega-tive patterns.

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It’s whole-foods basedLillien’s recipes sometimes call for artificial sweeten-ers or packaged foods, but the basis of her diet plan is about eating clean. “There are so many ingredients that I use that are all natural, that are clean and still are perfectly aligned with what my brand is about. So I wanted to focus

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Bernstein also lays out several different factors that hold people back from cutting the cord. These fac-tors support the so-called myth of persistence. “The sunk cost fallacy,” Bern-stein says, “goes into any situation where [you say] ‘I put so much into it I should stay with it.’” That’s not al-ways a good solution.

Another factor the book highlights is the idea of unconscious bias, which is when “you get just enough praise to feel that ‘next time I’ll do it better,’” says Bernstein. “There’s a hope-fulness that comes from unconscious bias, but it ends up making people very anxious.”

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The book looks at why people continue to persist and shows readers how to fully disengage from goals that are unproduc-tive. It also gives advice on handling the emotions involved in quitting and how to create better objec-tives moving forward. It is a “myth of persistence” in today’s society that causes a fear of quitting for many people. “Sometimes you merely get stuck running in place,” Bernstein says. “What we argue in the book is there’s really an art to deescalating your con-

nection to where you’ve been and disengaging.”

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“Psychologically, it frees you from the idea that you must persist,” Bernstein says.

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Final Four set

UConn, Kentucky advanceThe second half of the Final Four was set Sunday with both underdogs

seizing spots. UConn knocked off Michi-gan State, 60-54,

while Kentucky hit a 3-pointer with two seconds left to beat

Michigan, 75-72. They will face Florida

and Wisconsin, respectively.

The objective of the New York Mets is 90 wins.

Whether the aspira-tion is reality or an overly romantic notion will be determined over the next six-and-a-half months. But for a franchise whose recent past has been un-derscored by a thorough rebuilding, it is radical change in attitude.

“It’s attainable,” David Wright told reporters in Port St. Lucie, Fla., during spring training, echoing a number first put out there by general manager Sandy Alderson. “It’s a good starting point for us. Ninety wins is a good starting point.”

Despite authoring a 374-436 record over the last five seasons, the Mets enter the 2014 season with unmistak-able ambitions due to a long-term organizational reconstruction that has borne cornerstone pieces in starting pitchers Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler and Noah Syndergaard,

along with catcher Tra-vis d’Arnaud. Harvey will most likely miss the en-tire season after Tommy John surgery, but the depth in the system is no-ticeable.

Added to that core in the offseason were out-

fielders Curtis Grander-son (four years, $60 mil-lion) and Chris Young (one year, $7.25 million) and starting pitcher Bar-tolo Colon (two years, $20 million), all of whom signed free agent con-tracts.

“I think 90 [wins] is a good starting point for giving us something to shoot for and getting guys to understand that mediocrity is not going to be acceptable,” Wright said.

“It’s not about be-ing better than last year. What does that get us? Third or fourth place? It’s about being a good team and being a playoff-con-tending team.”

The Mets’ biggest question marks are at first base and shortstop. Lucas Duda and Ike Da-vis will alternate at first, though both spent time injured during the spring.

The starting short-stop duties fall to Ruben Tejada, mostly because there is no one else.

Don’t be surprised to see new players at both positions if the Mets are bearing down on that 90-win total six months from now.

Mets season preview. Can they shake off seven seasons of being left out to fi nally make the playoff s?

The Mets open the 2014 season at Citi Field on Monday against the Nationals at 1:10 p.m. / GETTY IMAGES

Opening Day squad

Most of the Mets’ lineup

is set, but there is still a

question at fi rst base.

• Catcher: Travis d’Arnaud

• First base:Ike Davis/Lucas Duda

• Second base: Daniel Murphy

• Third base: David Wright

• Shortstop: Ruben Tejada

• Left fi eld: Curtis Granderson

• Center fi eld: Juan Lagares

• Right fi eld: Chris Young

Starting rotation: Dillon Gee, Bartolo Colon, Zack Wheeler, Jenrry Mejia, Jon Niese

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Yanks rotation has new look, questions

Robinson Cano might’ve been the biggest name to de-part the Yankees this offseason, but Andy Pettitte’s absence can’t be understated.

The Yankees rota-tion will have two key new contributors in Masahiro Tanaka and Michael Pineda. The latter hasn’t pitched since September 2011 after major shoulder surgery derailed a blockbuster trade. The team hopes they see a new CC Sabathia as well after his worst season in New York.

“I feel like if I could have been a little better, we might have made the play-offs,” Sabathia told reporters in camp. “I blamed myself for a long time in the off-season, and now I’m over it and ready to go this year.” METRO

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52014 New York Yankees, Mets storylines to watch

For all the talk of Giants and Jets, Knicks and Rang-ers, New York is first and foremost a baseball town. And after a harsh winter, baseball returns to the five boroughs on Monday.

The Yankees missed the playoffs for just the second time since 1995 and went on an unsurpris-ing shopping spree, led by Jacoby Ellsbury and Brian McCann. The Mets missed the playoffs for the seventh straight season and went on a surprising shopping spree.

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A new Hiro in townThe Yankees went out and spent big on a new ace — Japanese right-hander Masahiro Tanaka.

At least they hope he will be an ace based on the $175 million they spent to lock him down for the next seven years.

The spring training returns were positive (2-0, 2.14 ERA), but the infamous Kei Igawa was 2-0 with a 3.13 ERA in his first spring training, too. No one expects a dud, but no one will be sure until he plays real games either.

NIESE WILL START THESEASON ON THE DL.

2Niese’s health

The last thing you want after a guy missed a month and a half last year is to have him injured in spring.

But that’s exactly what happened with Jon Niese. The Mets don’t seem concerned, but it’s a fear that will last all season.

4One more trip around baseballThere’s very little left be said about Derek Jeter’s final season — and he still has 162 games left to play.

But there’s no question Jeter will be the biggest story for much of the season, even if he doesn’t want it to be. He’ll be receiv-ing accolades at each stop, much like Mariano Ri-vera did last season. In fact, his first stop in Houston will feature cameos by Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens.

TEIXEIRA HIT JUST .086THIS SPRING.

5Tex’s health

When David Ortiz had capsule surgery on his wrist, he wasn’t himself for two years. What will be the case with Mark Teixeira?

He will be out there Opening Day, but the production will be the bigger question mark.

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The two biggest signings for the Mets this offseason were Curtis Granderson and Bartolo Colon.

Granderson, even if he strikes out a lot, should be depend-able in the Mets lineup. Colon is a bigger question.

The 40-year-old had a 5.28 ERA and just four strikeouts in 15 1/3 spring innings. But he’s a veteran, who you presume was just stretching out his arm before Opening Day. He needs to replace Matt Harvey’s production.

COLON WAS 18-6 WITH A2.86 ERA LAST SEASONWITH THE ATHLETICS.

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