By JIM KUHNHENN findings were presented to the public via a paper submitted to “Astronomy and Astrophysics,” and were then explained in com- plete detail at the Extreme Solar System conference in Moran, Wyoming which started on Sep- tember 11 and ran until Septem- ber 17. Their results were astronomi- What will happen when Earth is gone? Everyone at one point in their lives has asked them- selves this question. Well, some people have been searching for the answer to that question for a
oysters, mussels and scallops as well as Quahog, steamer, razor and other clams. “The spread of this particular species of sea squirt westward in Long Island Sound, along with laboratory studies of its tem- perature tolerance, indicates it can survive at higher water tem- peratures than scientists had pre- viously believed,” Cuomo said. “If further testing confirms that Styela can reproduce in warmer paired with tax increases on up- per-income people. Officials cast Obama’s plan as his vision for deficit reduction, and distinguished it from the ne- gotiations he had with Boehner in July as Obama sought to avoid a government default. As a result, it includes no changes in Social Security and no increase in the Medicare eli- gibility age, which the president had been willing to accept this summer. Moreover, the new tax rev- enue Obama is seeking is near- ly double the $800 billion that Boehner had been willing to consider in July. Republicans were already lining up against The administration also counts savings of $1 trillion over 10 years from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghani- stan. The deficit reduction plan rep- resents an economic bookend to the $447 billion in tax cuts and new public works spending that Obama has proposed as a short- term measure to stimulate the economy and create jobs. He’s submitting his deficit fighting plan to a special joint committee of Congress that is charged with recommending deficit reduc- tions of up to $1.5 trillion over 10 years. In a defiant note, administra- tion officials made clear Sun- day that Obama would veto any Medicare benefit cuts that aren’t What will happen when Earth is gone? Everyone at one point in their lives has asked them- selves this question. Well, some people have been searching for the answer to that question for a majority of their lives as well. In La Silla, Chille at the Eu- ropean Southern Observatory (ESO) a team of scientists have been using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARP), which is an instrument that searches for spectral signs to show a star is wobbling due a gravitational pull, to search for planets. According to MSNBC, these medical and nursing home ex- penditures. In addition to expenses paid by insurance companies, a recent report found that an estimated 15 million people, mostly fam- ily members, are providing more than $200 billion dollars worth of unpaid care. With statistics like this, it is no surprise that family members are reaching out and asking the government to step in. Since August alone, thousands of family members have turned out at public meet- ings, pleading for change. What they want is simple – more training for doctors and resources. Of the estimated 36 million people who have Al- zheimer’s in the world, 75 per- cent have not been diagnosed. Dr. Daisy Acosta, chair of Al- zheimer’s disease International said that, “Failure to diagnose Alzheimer’s in a timely manner represents a tragic missed oppor- tunity to improve the quality of life for millions of people.” This www.ChargerBulletin.com The official student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938. Charger Bulletin Volume 92, Issue 3 | September 21, 2011 Obama to Propose $1.5 Trillion the Invasive Sea Squirt Threatens Connecticut’s $30 Million Shellfish Industry By VERONICA MACIEL STAFF WRITER –––––––––––––––––––––––––– WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will propose $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of a plan to iden- tify more than $3 trillion in long- term deficit reduction and slow the nation’s es- calating national debt. Obama’s tax plan is aimed pre- dominantly at the wealthy and draws sharp contrasts with congressio- nal Republicans. It comes just days after House Speaker John Boehner ruled out tax increases to lower deficits. It also comes amid a clamor in his own Democratic Party for Obama to take a tougher stance against Repub- licans. And while the plan stands little chance of passing Con- gress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public can support. The core of the president’s plan totals just more than $2 tril- lion in deficit reduction over 10 years. It combines the new taxes with $580 billion in cuts to man- datory benefit programs, includ- ing $248 billion from Medicare. See SEA SQUIRT page 7 Alzheimer’s is a debilitating disease that currently affects an estimated 5.4 million Ameri- cans. While it is the sixth-lead- ing killer, there is no cure and the treatments only temporarily ease the symptoms. If not ad- dressed properly, the disease will become a problem not only for systems like Medicare and Medicaid, but also for the fam- ily members who become care- givers. This is why the Obama Administration is developing the first Alzheimer’s Plan. The plan will combine research intended to fight the disease with the help that caregivers desperately need. The disease is not only a problem now, but could become much worse as the baby-boomer generation begins to age. Ac- cording to current projections, an estimated 13 to 16 million Americans could have Alzheim- er’s by the year 2050, costing an astounding one trillion dollars in As Families Urge Action, U.S. Drafts Alzheimer’s Plan By SARA J. DUFORT STAFF WRITER –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Text message your news tips and comments to The Charger Bulletin! 1 (270) UNH-NEWS See OBAMA page 5 See ALZHEIMER’S page 6 50 Alien Planets Found findings were presented to the public via a paper submitted to “Astronomy and Astrophysics,” and were then explained in com- plete detail at the Extreme Solar System conference in Moran, Wyoming which started on Sep- tember 11 and ran until Septem- ber 17. Their results were astronomi- cal! They discovered 50 new alien planets, 16 of which are super Earths. Super-Earths are planets that have masses greater than Earth’s, but are smaller than the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. One of the super-Earths even has a possibility of having water on its surface. In their research, sci- entists find out about a planet See PLANETS page 7 By KAREN GRAVA UNH TODAY –––––––––––––––––––––––––– AP PHOTO AP PHOTO By JIM KUHNHENN ASSOCIATED PRESS –––––––––––––––––––––––––– In New Tax Revenue WEST HAVEN, CONN -- The invasive sea squirt, Styela clava, has now been discovered along the Eastern Seaboard as far south as Bridgeport Harbor and poses a signifi- cant danger to Con- necticut’s $30 million shellfish business, according to field research conducted by Carmela Cuomo, head of the marine bi- ology program at the University of New Haven, and several of her students. The migration of the non-native pest, sometimes called an Asian clubbed tuni- cate, southward from Canada and northern New England threat- ens farming of bi- valves such as clams, mussels, scallops and oysters in Long Island Sound. Styela clava’s efficient feeding, rapid reproduction and tendency to form large colonies enable them to crowd out other species. Connecticut’s shellfish indus- try provides 300 jobs statewide, generates $30 million in sales and has 70,000 acres of shellfish farms in the state, according to the Connecticut Department of Agriculture. The state, world famous for its oyster industry in the 1800s, has been working since the 1960s to rebuild its shellfish beds and clean up the pollution that led to the industry’s demise. Con- necticut shellfish beds produce A NOEL SARDALLA PHOTO DON’T FORGET This newspaper is recyclable! AP PHOTO
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oysters, mussels and scallops as well as Quahog, steamer, razor and other clams.
“The spread of this particular species of sea squirt westward in Long Island Sound, along with laboratory studies of its tem-perature tolerance, indicates it can survive at higher water tem-
peratures than scientists had pre-viously believed,” Cuomo said. “If further testing confirms that Styela can reproduce in warmer
paired with tax increases on up-per-income people.
Officials cast Obama’s plan as his vision for deficit reduction, and distinguished it from the ne-gotiations he had with Boehner in July as Obama sought to avoid a government default.
As a result, it includes no
changes in Social Security and no increase in the Medicare eli-gibility age, which the president had been willing to accept this summer.
Moreover, the new tax rev-enue Obama is seeking is near-ly double the $800 billion that Boehner had been willing to consider in July. Republicans were already lining up against
The administration also counts savings of $1 trillion over 10 years from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghani-stan.
The deficit reduction plan rep-resents an economic bookend to the $447 billion in tax cuts and new public works spending that
Obama has proposed as a short-term measure to stimulate the economy and create jobs. He’s submitting his deficit fighting plan to a special joint committee of Congress that is charged with recommending deficit reduc-tions of up to $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
In a defiant note, administra-tion officials made clear Sun-day that Obama would veto any Medicare benefit cuts that aren’t
What will happen when Earth is gone? Everyone at one point in their lives has asked them-selves this question. Well, some people have been searching for the answer to that question for a
majority of their lives as well. In La Silla, Chille at the Eu-
ropean Southern Observatory (ESO) a team of scientists have been using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARP), which is an instrument that searches for spectral signs to show a star is wobbling due a gravitational pull, to search for planets.
According to MSNBC, these
medical and nursing home ex-penditures.
In addition to expenses paid by insurance companies, a recent report found that an estimated 15 million people, mostly fam-ily members, are providing more than $200 billion dollars worth of unpaid care. With statistics like this, it is no surprise that family members are reaching out and asking the government to step in. Since August alone, thousands of family members have turned out at public meet-
ings, pleading for change. What they want is simple –
more training for doctors and resources. Of the estimated 36 million people who have Al-zheimer’s in the world, 75 per-cent have not been diagnosed. Dr. Daisy Acosta, chair of Al-zheimer’s disease International said that, “Failure to diagnose Alzheimer’s in a timely manner represents a tragic missed oppor-tunity to improve the quality of life for millions of people.” This
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Invasive Sea Squirt Threatens Connecticut’s $30 Million Shellfish Industry
By VERONICA MACIELSTAFF WRITER
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will propose $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of a plan to iden-tify more than $3 trillion in long-term deficit reduction and slow the nation’s es-calating national debt.
Obama’s tax plan is aimed pre-dominantly at the wealthy and draws sharp contrasts with congressio-nal Republicans.
It comes just days after House Speaker John Boehner ruled out tax increases to lower deficits. It also comes amid a clamor in his own Democratic Party for Obama to take a tougher stance against Repub-licans. And while the plan stands little chance of passing Con-gress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public can support.
The core of the president’s plan totals just more than $2 tril-lion in deficit reduction over 10 years. It combines the new taxes with $580 billion in cuts to man-datory benefit programs, includ-ing $248 billion from Medicare.
See SEA SQUIRT page 7
Alzheimer’s is a debilitating disease that currently affects an estimated 5.4 million Ameri-cans. While it is the sixth-lead-ing killer, there is no cure and the treatments only temporarily ease the symptoms. If not ad-dressed properly, the disease will become a problem not only for systems like Medicare and Medicaid, but also for the fam-
ily members who become care-givers. This is why the Obama Administration is developing the first Alzheimer’s Plan. The plan will combine research intended to fight the disease with the help that caregivers desperately need.
The disease is not only a problem now, but could become much worse as the baby-boomer generation begins to age. Ac-cording to current projections, an estimated 13 to 16 million Americans could have Alzheim-er’s by the year 2050, costing an astounding one trillion dollars in
As Families Urge Action, U.S. Drafts Alzheimer’s Plan
By SARA J. DUFORTSTAFF WRITER
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See OBAMA page 5
See ALZHEIMER’S page 6
50 Alien Planets Foundfindings were presented to the public via a paper submitted to “Astronomy and Astrophysics,” and were then explained in com-plete detail at the Extreme Solar System conference in Moran, Wyoming which started on Sep-tember 11 and ran until Septem-ber 17.
Their results were astronomi-
cal! They discovered 50 new alien planets, 16 of which are super Earths. Super-Earths are planets that have masses greater than Earth’s, but are smaller than the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. One of the super-Earths even has a possibility of having water on its surface. In their research, sci-entists find out about a planet
See PLANETS page 7
By KAREN GRAVAUNH TODAY
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By JIM KUHNHENNASSOCIATED PRESS
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In New Tax Revenue
WEST HAVEN, CONN -- The invasive sea squirt, Styela clava, has now been discovered along the Eastern Seaboard as far south as Bridgeport Harbor and poses a signifi-cant danger to Con-necticut’s $30 million shellfish business, according to field research conducted by Carmela Cuomo, head of the marine bi-ology program at the University of New Haven, and several of her students.
The migration of the non-native pest, sometimes called an Asian clubbed tuni-cate, southward from Canada and northern New England threat-ens farming of bi-valves such as clams, mussels, scallops and oysters in Long Island Sound. Styela clava’s efficient feeding, rapid reproduction and tendency to form large colonies enable them to crowd out other species.
Connecticut’s shellfish indus-try provides 300 jobs statewide, generates $30 million in sales and has 70,000 acres of shellfish farms in the state, according to the Connecticut Department of Agriculture.
The state, world famous for its oyster industry in the 1800s, has
been working since the 1960s to rebuild its shellfish beds and clean up the pollution that led to the industry’s demise. Con-necticut shellfish beds produce
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I ask you to work hard, and please do not procrastinate. I’ve learned through a special organization that you do not want to be a person who left mountains of things to do tomorrow.
So work hard, care for others, surround yourself with positive people, and think about your actions. We all make mistakes sometimes, but learn from them. I say this so we can make this campus even better than it has been in the past couple of years.
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On June 16, 1884, the fi rst roller coaster in America opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Unlike the roller coasters we are familiar with today, this one was known as a switchback railway, and it traveled approximately six miles an hour. Created by LaMarcus Thompson, the rise became an instant suc-cess, resulting in hundreds of roller coasters popping up around the country by the turn of the century.
La Marcus Adna Thompson, the father of the American roller coaster, was a creative man who helped bring the American roller coaster to commercial frui-tion. Growing up he created many devices for his own pleasure and to aid his family. As he grew older, Thompson ran many profi table businesses, such as the Eagle Knitting Company, which did well under his leadership. All of the success put quite a strain on Thompson, and he stepped back from the fi nancial limelight to recover and fi nd less stressful ventures. However, no one is sure exactly why Thompson decided to go into the amusement park business.
Being the creative man he was, Thompson could not stay idle long. He cre-ated his own version of the roller coaster. It was shaped like the early Russian slides- two hills parallel to each other. Thompson added hills and the cars slowly (6 mph) rolled down a track six hundred feet long and fi fty feet high. The ride made hundreds of dollars a day, an amazing feat since it only cost a nickel per-ride.
Coney Island itself is a tract of land along the Atlantic Ocean that was discov-ered by explorer Henry Hudson in 1609. The fi rst hotel opened there at 1829, and by the post-Civil War years, the areas was established as a resort with theatres, restaurants, and even a race track. Between 1897 and 1904, three amusement parks sprang up at Coney Island--Dreamland, Luna Park, and Steeplechase. By the 1920s, Coney Island was reachable by subway and summer crowds of a mil-lion people a day fl ocked there for rides, games, sideshows, the beach, and the two-and-a-half-mile boardwalk, completed in 1923.
Roller coasters and amusement parks experienced a decline during the Great Depression and World War II, when Americans had less cash to spend on enter-tainment. Finally, in 1955, the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, signaled the advent of the modern theme park and a rebirth of the roller coaster. Disneyland’s success sparked a wave of new parks and coasters. By the 1970s, parks were competing to create the most thrilling rides. In 2005, Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, introduced the Kingda Ka roller coaster, the world’s tallest (at 456 feet) and fastest (at 128 mph).
By the mid-1960s, the major amusement parks at Coney Island had shut down and the area acquired a seedy image. Nevertheless, Coney Island remains a tourist attraction and home to the Cyclone, a wooden coaster that made its debut there in 1927. Capable of speeds of 60 mph and with an 85-foot drop, the Cyclone is one of the country’s oldest coasters in operation today. Though a re-al-estate developer recently announced the building of a new $1.5 billion year-round resort at Coney Island that will include a 4,000-foot-long roller coaster, an indoor water park, and a multi-level carousel, the Cyclone’s owners have said they plan to keep the historic coaster open for business.
The First Roller CoasterEven though it’s still early in the semester, tests are already starting up.
Take some time out of your busy, fun fi lled schedule for some study time and relaxation. You defi nitely don’t want to overwork yourself so early in the semester.
Even though this past week wasn’t as busy with events as it usually is, it was still packed full of fun. On Friday, we had Mini Golf outside between Soundview and Bixler. It was fun being able to play here at school. Many people came and took a chance at the two different courses.
Saturday was Sports Night in the Bartels Programming Space. There were so many different things that people were able to do; everything from getting airbrushed baseball hats to custom bumper stickers was available. We even had pop-a-shot basketball game and pennants.
Sunday was an amazing day with Double Dare taking place in the Bixler-Botwinik Quad. All the teams did great and had fun a lot of fun playing. The audience was able to enjoy cotton candy and snow cones while they watched their friends and classmates try to win. Over all, Double Dare was a great event as it usually is.
On Monday, there was the start of Rock and Roll Week. All week long we will be having Rock and Roll themed events. Some of our earlier events this week included “Make your own Music Video” which was in the Bartels Pro-gramming Space on Monday. People were able to dance in front of a green screen and create their own music video. It was so much fun watching every-one dance around having fun.
On Tuesday, there was the UNH Band Showcase in the Bartels Program-ming Space. ROTC co-sponsored with SCOPE and created dog tags for stu-dents while everyone enjoyed pizza and soda. All of those who performed were really fantastic. Fast Five was also shown in the Bartels Dining Hall Tuesday night.
Even though we are half way through the week, we still have plenty more things for you to enjoy. Wednesday night, we will have “Can You Name That Rock Tune” Game Show in the Bartels Programming Space at 8:00 p.m. Come see how well you know rock and roll with a chance to win a great prize. There will be prizes for the top three places.
The Big E signups will also be on Wednesday night. Keep an eye out for the time that the signups will take place, and be ready to get your spot on the trip. If you sign up before sign ups start, your name will be put at the end of the list. The bus will be leaving from Maxcy at 4:00 p.m. on Friday and re-turning after 10:00 p.m. that night.
Have you ever wanted your face on the front of a magazine cover? Thurs-day is your chance to make that happen. Come to “Rock it Like a Rock Star” in the Bartels Programming Space from 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. to get on the front of a magazine. You can also get some rockin’ air brush tattoos as well.
For those of us still on campus and not on the Big E trip on Friday, Brian O’ Sullivan will be performing in the German Club at 10:00 p.m. This sing-ing comedian will have you laughing all night long. There will be prizes too. Fast Five will be playing again at 9:00 p.m. in the Bartels Dining Hall as well that night.
Saturday is the AC/DC concert performed by Livewire, an AC/DC tribute band. This will start at 7:00 p.m. in the quad. If it should rain, the concert will take place in the German Club. Karaoke will also be on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in the Bartels Programming Space. Come show off your talent and sing along.
As for next week, on Monday September 26, experience childhood again. Second Childhood will be in the quad from 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. There will be plenty of infl atables to jump and play on. The fi rst movie of the week (the Naked Roommate) will be shown on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge and the second movie (Bad Teacher) at 9:00 p.m. in the Bartels Din-ing Hall.
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New Book Shows Other Side of Jackie Kennedy
Former First Lady and American icon, Jackie Kennedy is remembered for her grace, sophistica-tion, and discreetness. A new book published this week chronicles her sur-prisingly candid 1964 in-terview with former White House aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in which she shows a side of herself that the American public has never seen.
News surrounding the new book, featuring over eight hours of recorded interviews, has focused mainly on the people Jackie did not like or did not think President John F. Kennedy approved of.
She described White House speechwriter Theo-dore Sorensen as having “a big inferiority complex,” and that he was “the last person you would invite at night.” Jackie considered Martin Luther King Jr. to be a “phony” saying, “I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King with-out thinking, you know, that man’s terrible.” She referred to Charles de Gaulle as “that spiteful man” and “that egomani-ac”. Indira Gandhi, the fu-ture prime minister of In-dia, was a “bitter, kind of pushy, horrible woman.”
She, perhaps, had the hardest words for Lyndon B. Johnson, JFK’s vice president, labeling his wife as a “trained hunting dog” and expressing her dis-comfort of his Presidency. JFK and LBJ competed bitterly in 1960 for the Democratic Party nomi-nation and did not share a
friendly relationship once in office. “Jack said it to me sometimes. He said, ‘Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would hap-pen to the country if Lyn-don were president?” she remembers. “And Bobby told me that he’d had some discussions with him…do something to name some-one else in 1968.”
Most surprising is Jac-queline’s critical assess-ment of the Kennedy fam-ily. She admonished the notion that the deceased eldest Kennedy son, Jo-seph, would have become President had he not been killed in World War II. “He would have been so unimaginative, compared to Jack,” she said. Jackie also contrasted the char-acter differences between Robert F. Kennedy and his sister, Eunice. Robert Kennedy was uncomfort-able with his appointment as Attorney General and had begged JFK to rescind it for fear of claims of nep-otism. However, Eunice was all too eager to see Sargent Shriver appointed to the head of the depart-ment of Health, Education, and Welfare.
“Eunice was pestering Jack to death to make Sar-gent head of HEW because she wanted to be a cabi-net wife,” She tells. “You know, it shows you that some people are ambitious for themselves and Bobby wasn’t.
Jacqueline speaks warmly of her husband throughout the interview. Knowledge of Kennedy’s extra-marital affairs and severe health issues were not yet public and there is very little mention of his assassination. She high-
lights the domestic side of their relationship and de-tails Jack’s fondness of his children and the nature of their relationship.
“Jack so obviously de-manded from a woman—a relationship between a man and a woman where a man would be the leader and a woman be his wife and look up to him as man,” she said.
The President was aware of Jacqueline’s opinions regarding po-litical leaders and tried to persuade her otherwise. “Jack was so sweet. He sort of rubbed my back…and said, ‘You mustn’t say that, you mustn’t say that,’” she remembered. “If you start to say or think that you hate someone, then the next day you’ll act as if you hated him.”
Jackie’s eight hour in-terview with Arthur M. Schlesinger highlights her eternal love and devotion to her husband. She con-sidered him to be exceed-ingly intelligent, romantic, and a doting father.
“If anything happens, we’re all going to stay right here with you,” she told her husband during the Cuban Missile Crisis scare. “Even if there’s not room in the bomb shelter in the White House…I just want to be with you, and I want to die with you, and the children do, too—than live without you.”
The book, Jacque-line Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With John F. Kennedy, went on sale Sept. 14, 2011 as a part of an ongoing celebra-tion of the 50th anniver-sary of John F. Kennedy’s first year in office.
Stolen Rembrandt Unlocks New Mystery
When the Rembrandt that was stolen from the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del-Ray was recovered, it should have been an open and shut case, but instead it turned into another mys-tery. According to the Huffington Post, “They have to show us some-thing to prove that they own it, and they haven’t been able to do that,” said Steve Whitmore, a spokes-man for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Depart-ment. He said authorities are keeping the alleged Rembrandt under lock and key until the ownership is-sue is resolved.”
Officials at the Linearis Institute, who claim to own the Rembrandt, titled, “The Judgment,” are not answering phone calls or email messages. But their lawyer, William Klein, says that they did buy the drawing from a legitimate
seller, they just don’t want to say who that is. “Things like that really are trade se-crets,” Klein told The As-sociated Press. “We don’t believe we need to reveal trade secrets to get back what is ours.”
What’s also suspicious is that Linearis does not in-tend to prosecute the peo-ple who stole the drawing but the Sheriff’s depart-ment is still investigating. The Huffington Post re-ports, “What is unusual,” Amore continued, “is that the institute didn’t imme-diately come forward with documents to get its paint-ing back. He compared it to someone having a high-end car like a Ferrari stolen and, after police recover it, not immediately produc-ing the ownership docu-ments to reclaim it.” Klein says that Linearis main goal is to get the drawing back as soon as possible; if this does not happen they will be taking the Sheriff department to court.
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The Huffington Post also reports that there is no paperwork verifying that the drawing is a Rem-brandt and art apprais-ers and other experts say that they cannot find “The Judgment” in any cata-logs chronicling all of his works.
Other art experts say that it would be “…diffi-cult but not impossible…” to confirm if this drawing is actually a Rembrandt. “For years,” he noted, “Rembrandt’s “Self Por-trait” with Gorget,” which hangs in the Germanisch-es National museum in Nuremberg, was thought to be a copy of the artist’s work that had been done by a friend. Then, in the 1990s, further study of documents and the paint-ing revealed it was the real deal.”
This new mystery has the art world buzzing, but hopefully this story will come to a close soon.
Maxim Healthcare Reaches Fraud Settlement
Maxim Health Care, once known as MED-CALL Medical Staffing, was founded in Columbia, Maryland in 1988. It start-ed off as a small medical staffing company but now has more than 60,000 em-ployees and subsidiaries such as Maxim Staffing Solutions, Maxim Phy-sician Resources, Time-Line Recruiting, Travel-Max, and Centrus Premier Homecare.
Recently, the company has taken a huge financial and horrible publicity hit. It has just reached a $150
million fraud settlement with 41 U.S. states. The settlement was made to pay off U.S. Government benefit programs that it al-legedly defrauded. These programs include Med-icaid and veteran health care. Just as their criminal charges have been dis-solved, so has their repu-tation. This whole issue revolves around the fact that Maxim submitted false claims for fake or undocumented services. In addition, some of its of-fices were also improperly licensed. Three former senior managers, Matthew Skaggs, Gregory Munzel, and Bryan Lee Shipman, have plead guilty to the
fraud charges.Many predict that the
pricey settlement and shameless fraud is going to plummet their stocks. However, CEO Brad Ben-nett hopes for forgiveness and for the best. “We take full responsibility for these events set forth in the de-ferred prosecution agree-ment, and we are pleased to reach a settlement that will allow us to move for-ward with the important work of caring for our patients and clients who depend on us each and ev-ery day.” One thing is for sure, only the future can tell what the faith of Max-im Health Care will be.
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Dead NASA Satellite Falling Fast
Look out above, Char-ger Bulletin readers. Reports say that a dead NASA satellite that has been in the sky for ap-proximately 20 years is going to be falling back to Earth soon. The satellite, known internally as a Up-per Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, ran out of fuel in 2005, and it has been drifting around our planet ever since.
Although the satellite, being six tons, is much smaller than the 135-ton Russian space station
Mir which fell to Earth in 2001, NASA scientists say that there is a one in 3200 chance someone could be hurt by some of the falling debris. Most of the device will burn up in the atmosphere, but still, precautions are being tak-en. Some may wonder if the extremely high odds should be worried about. This ratio applies to any of the nearly seven billion people on Earth. There-fore, the chances that any one person will be hit are about one in 21 trillion.
Regardless of the fact that much larger objects have fallen before, this story is noteworthy be-
cause NASA implement-ed a rule saying that the chance of any satellite hitting someone has to be higher than one in 10,000. This satellite, however, was launched in 1991, be-fore this rule was imple-mented.
While NASA isn’t sure where pieces of the satel-lite will land, they estimate that the pieces will scatter over a 500-mile-wide re-gion. Should any person find a piece of the satellite on the ground, it would be wise not to touch it. While there is probably no haz-ardous material left, it’s hard to be completely sure.
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the president’s tax propos-al before they even knew the magnitude of what he intended to recommend.
“Class warfare may make for really good poli-tics but it makes for rotten economics,” GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the House Budget Com-mittee chairman, said Sunday in reaction to one Obama tax proposal to im-pose a minimum tax rate on wealthy filers.
Former President Bill Clinton on Monday dis-missed GOP claims that the tax on the wealthy would discourage jobs creation and hamper eco-nomic growth.
“Republicans in Wash-
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Key features of Obama’s plan, as de-scribed by senior admin-istration officials Sunday evening:
—$1.5 trillion in new revenue, which would in-clude about $800 billion realized over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax rates for couples mak-ing more than $250,000. It also would place limits on deductions for wealthy filers and end certain cor-porate loopholes and sub-sidies for oil and gas com-
panies.—$580 billion in cuts
in mandatory benefit pro-grams, including $248 bil-lion in Medicare and $72 billion in Medicaid and other health programs. Other mandatory benefit programs include farm subsidies.
—$430 billion in sav-ings from lower interest payment on the national debt.
By adding about $1 trillion in spending cuts already enacted by Con-gress and counting about $1 trillion in savings from the drawdown of military forces from Iraq and Af-ghanistan, the combined deficit reduction would total more than $4 trillion
Over 95 Die From Kenyan Pipeline Explosion
On Monday, Sept. 12, a gasoline pipeline exploded in one of the slums in Nai-robi, Kenya, killing over 95 people and wounding over 100 others. The Si-nai slum, one of the major slums in Nairobi that hous-es 500,000 people, is built on the surface of a pipeline as well as the sewer. At 9:00 a.m. on Monday, the pipeline burst in the Sinai slum, leaking gas into the sewer, and caught fire as people tried to collect the fuel in pails.
Researchers who have
studied living conditions in slums have all cited this as dangerous and unsani-tary, and they say that peo-ple who live nearby slums will be prone to poisoning, electrocution, fires, and explosions. Amnesty In-ternational agrees: “This latest incident of fire stark-ly illustrates the particular vulnerability and inade-quate conditions faced by people living in slums and informal settlements.”
Evidently, there were illegal residents in Sinai that were supposed to have moved to another location. Residents such as Donald Wafula have said that “The government knows people
are living on this pipeline. The reason they let this slum exist is because they get votes from the slum. It is very easy to control peo-ple who are hungry, but not people who are full.”
In fact, many sources say that politics has a lot to do with nothing being changed. Musembi Mumo, the chairman at the Archi-tectural Association of Ke-nya, says Kenyan politi-cians are very selfish and are only motivated by self-interests: “As long as they vote for him, who cares if they die; new voters will [be] born tomorrow.”
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Rescuers in Choppers Reach Himalaya Quake VillagesBy ALTAF QADRIASSOCIATED PRESS
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GANGTOK, India (AP) — Rescue workers dug through mudslides as they struggled Monday to reach thousands of villag-ers cut off by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 53 people and dam-aged more than 100,000 homes in mountainous northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet.
Heavy rains slowed the relief effort and made con-ditions miserable for many homeless villagers as they prepared to spend the night outside.
Three emergency work-ers were killed in the frantic rescue effort, In-dian Home Secretary R.K. Singh said. More than 6,000 army and paramili-tary troops were working to clear concrete slabs,
bricks and mud to rescue scores of people trapped under houses that col-lapsed when the 6.9-mag-nitude quake struck the Himalayan region Sunday evening.
Nine helicopters dropped food to villages, airlifted a medical team, evacuated the injured and conducted damage assess-ments, Singh said. Heavy construction equipment was used to clear some of the blocked roads, he said.
“The rescue and relief operations are in full swing though they were ham-pered ... by poor weather,” Singh said.
By midday Monday, workers had managed to clear mudslides from one lane of the main highway leading to the Indian state of Sikkim, where the quake was centered near the Ne-pal border, Singh said. An initial convoy of 75 para-
military soldiers started moving toward Mangan, the village closest to the epicenter, but still had not arrived by evening.
At least 32 people died and 100 others were in-jured in Sikkim, Singh said. At least 10 of them worked for the same hy-droelectric project, but it was not immediately clear how they died.
Seven other people
New Clothing Technology Allows Users to Drink Rain
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One rainy day, Charles is walking down the street. He’s been out and about all day, running all sorts of errands. He’s tired. His throat’s pretty dry. He needs something to drink. There’s a 7-Eleven near-by, but as Charles reaches into his pocket he comes to the realization that he has no money left on him. He can’t buy anything, and his house is still sev-eral miles away; so what is poor Charles supposed to do to quench his thirst? In Charles’ mind, the only logical thing is to hold his head up to the sky, open up
his mouth, and try to catch the rain as it falls. Unfor-tunately for Charles, that’s just impractical.
However, Charles could have easily avoided the whole situation if he had a Raincatch, the new invention from the minds of Hyeona Yang and Josh-ua Noble of the Copenha-gen Institute of Interaction Design. The Raincatch is a special type of rain-coat that is able to capture water as it falls from the sky and purify into drink-able form. The wearer can drink the water out of a se-ries of tubes connected to the coat.
The question is, will this new technological marvel catch on with the
masses? Despite its prac-ticality and water saving abilities, a raincoat with a series of tubes sticking out of it probably isn’t go-ing to be considered fash-ionable. Can practical-ity overcome looks in the minds of the people? Or is the Raincatch going to be forgotten just as quickly as it was invented?
It’s all up to the con-sumers. If people decide to buy it, this could be the next big thing in water preservation, but if not, then Charles can keep try-ing to catch rain the old fashioned way. Or he can just carry a water bottle with him.
over 10 years, senior ad-ministration officials said.
Republicans have ridi-culed the war savings as gimmicky, but House Re-publicans included them in their budget proposal this year and Boehner had agreed to count them as savings during debt ceil-ing negotiations with the president this summer.
Obama backed away from proposing sweep-ing changes to Medicare, following the advice of fellow Democrats that it would only give political cover to a privatization plan supported by House Republicans that turned to be unpopular with older Americans.
Administration offi-
cials said 90 percent of the $248 billion in 10-year Medicare cuts would be squeezed from service providers. The plan does shift some additional costs to beneficiaries, but those changes would not start until 2017.
Illustrating Obama’s populist pitch on tax rev-enue, one proposal would set a minimum tax on taxpayers making $1 mil-lion or more in income. The measure — Obama is going to call it the “Buf-fett Rule” for billionaire investor Warren Buffett — is designed to prevent millionaires from taking advantage of lower tax rates on investment earn-ings than what middle-
income taxpayers pay on their wages.
At issue is the differ-ence between a taxpayer’s tax bracket and the effec-tive tax rate that taxpayer pays. Millionaires face a 35 percent tax bracket, while middle income filers fall in the 15 or 25 percent bracket. But investment income is taxed at 15 per-cent and Buffett has com-plained that he and other wealthy people have been “coddled long enough” and shouldn’t be paying a smaller share of their in-come in federal taxes than middle-class taxpayers.
were killed in the neigh-boring Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal, Singh said.
China’s official Xinhua
News Agency reported seven deaths and 24 in-juries in Tibet. It said the quake triggered hundreds of landslides that disrupted power and water supplies.
Nepal’s government said seven people died there, including two men
and a child who were killed when a brick wall toppled outside the Brit-ish Embassy in the capital, Katmandu. Nearly 70 peo-
ple were injured, some of them seriously, and were in hospitals across Nepal.
Most of the deaths in India occurred when houses, already weakened from recent monsoon rains, collapsed due to the force of the quake. More than 100,000 homes
were damaged in Sikkim state alone, state officials said.
Singh said it was still unclear what the final toll might be.
“There may still be vil-lages where people are trapped under collapsed
houses that we have not been able to reach,” he said.
TV broadcasters showed footage of build-ings buckled, sidewalks cracked and two major roads collapsed in Gang-tok, Sikkim’s capital, 42 miles (68 kilometers) southeast of the quake’s epicenter. Police cordoned off the office of the state’s top elected official after the building was severely damaged, police Chief Jasbir Singh said.
In West Bengal state, utility workers toiled to restore power to a large swathe of the state which plunged into darkness after power lines were snapped by the quake.
The region has been hit by major earthquakes in the past, including in 1950 and 1897.
Sanaa, according to Mo-hammed al-Maqtari, a doctor at a field hospital set up by the protesters. The wounded included soldiers from the 1st Armored Di-vision. Witnesses said the soldiers were involved in skirmishes with the Presi-dential Guards.
Tens of t h o u s a n d s of protest-ers demon-strated in Sanaa Sun-day to press d e m a n d s for Saleh to step down. Pro-regime snipers and forces using anti-aircraft guns killed at least 26 of the protest-ers.
The re-gime’s use of
violence has drawn fresh condemnation from the West.
On Monday, the United States, European Union nations and others on the U.N. Human Rights Council used a meeting of the Geneva-based body to urge Yemen’s government to stop using force against peaceful protesters and seek a resolution to the monthslong unrest.
The country’s foreign minister, Abubakr al-Qir-bi, said the government was committed to politi-cal reforms, but rejected claims of excessive force by police and pro-gov-ernment militia, accusing some opposition groups of terrorist activity.
“We have presented ev-idence proving that many
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In Resurgence of Yemen Violence, 50 Dead in 2 Days
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Thousands of protest-ers armed with sticks and backed by armed military defectors overran a base of the elite Presidential Guards in Yemen’s capital as fighting erupted across much of Sanaa on Mon-day. The death toll for the worst violence in months rose to nearly 50 in two days of clashes.
The protesters, joined by soldiers from the rebel 1st Armored Division, stormed the base without firing a single shot and seized a large number of firearms, according to wit-nesses and security offi-cials. The anti-government force used sandbags to erect barricades as they ad-vanced, providing their al-lied troops with the shelter they needed in case they took fire from inside the base. Republican Guards’ troops did not fire at the protesters and eventually fled, leaving their weapons behind.
Violence has flared anew in Yemen in frus-tration after President Ali Abdullah Saleh dashed hopes raised by the U.S. last week that he was about to relinquish power after 33 years of autocratic rule.
At least 23 were killed on Monday and 26 on Sunday, almost all of them protesters. Dozens have been wounded.
The fall of the base into protesters’ hands is a sig-nificant development in the seven-month-old up-rising against Saleh, who
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U.S. Drafts Alzheimer’s Planis why families urge that primary doctors be trained to diagnose dementia ear-lier. If they can discover the problem early on, there will more ways to offset the symptoms.
Overwhelmingly how-ever, these families are asking for resources to help Alzheimer’s patients live out their life at home, without ruining the care-givers own health and fi-nances. This may seem like a simple request, but for those who have cared for people with Alzheim-er’s, it is anything but. Alzheimer’s reduces the person’s ability to func-tion, but it is also tolls on
those who care for them. A simple task like having lunch, or getting dressed, becomes an everyday struggle. More than 60 percent of caregivers rate the emotional stress as high or very high, and one-third have reported symp-toms of depression.
Luckily, for those who have been advocating for Alzheimer strategies, Fed-eral Health officials are fi-nally getting the message. They have promised a first draft of the national plan by December, and Donald Moulds, who oversees the project said, ““Folks des-perately, desperately want to be able to provide the care themselves. It is very,
very hard work. Figuring out better mechanisms for supporting people who are trying to do that work is, one, the right thing to do.”
Every 69 seconds, an-other American will de-velop Alzheimer’s disease. By 2050, an American will develop it every 33 sec-onds. It is clear that there is a desperate need for better diagnostic strategies and a universal understanding of how Alzheimer’s affects people. Other countries like England and Austra-lia have already developed their own plan, and hope-fully the United States government will follow suit shortly.
went to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment after a June attack on his Sanaa compound and has not re-turned to Yemen since.
It signals what could be the start of a final show-down between the Re-publican Guards, led by Saleh’s son and heir ap-parent Ahmed, and the sol-diers of the 1st Armored Divi-sion, another elite outfit that has fought in all of Yemen’s wars over the past two de-cades, and their tribal al-lies in the capi-tal.
The Repub-lican Guards and the Spe-cial Forces, also led by the president’s son, have long been thought to be the regime’s last line of defense and Monday’s events could significantly help the protesters’ cause against the regime.
The 1st Armored Divi-sion, along with its com-mander, mutinied and joined the protesters about six months ago, dealing a serious blow to Saleh’s ef-forts to cling on to power in the face of the popular uprising.
“It was unbelievable,” said protester Ameen Ali Saleh of storming the base on the west side of a major road that runs through the heart of Sanaa. “We acted like it was us who had the weapons, not the soldiers.”
To other protesters, the fall of the base may signal the near-collapse of the re-
gime.“Now the remainder
of the regime will finally crumble,” said another protester, Mohammed al-Wasaby. “Our will is more effective than weapons. The soldiers loyal to Saleh just ran away.”
Yemen’s protest move-
ment has stepped up dem-onstrations in the past week, angered after Saleh deputized Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi last week to negoti-ate further on a Gulf-me-diated, U.S.-backed deal under which he would step down in return for im-munity from prosecution. Saleh has already backed away three times from signing the deal.
Many believe the move is the latest of many delay-ing tactics. Saleh has re-sisted calls to resign.
Monday’s killings took to nearly 50 the number of people killed in two days of fighting in Sanaa and elsewhere in the impover-ished nation in the south-ern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. The fighting marked the most seri-
ous outbreak of violence in months, as frustration in the streets again builds over the president’s refusal to step down.
Security officials and witnesses said hundreds of protesters headed toward the headquarters of the Special Forces in the south
of the city. They said the protesters have stopped their advance about 100 meters (yards) short of the complex, but it was not immediately clear whether they planned to later storm it too.
The officials said 20 of the 23 killed on Monday were on Sanaa’s central Hayel street. They in-cluded a child, a 14-year-old boy and at least three 1st Armored Division soldiers. Mortar shells thought to have been fired by pro-regime forces killed another two people in the capital, said the offi-cials, who spoke on condi-tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information.
Scores of protesters suffering gunshot wounds were taken to hospitals in
accusation made against security organization are baseless,” al-Qirbi told the meeting on Monday. He also rejected calls for an independent internation-al investigation into the crackdown, saying they were “inconsistent with the recommendations call-ing for dialogue between Yemeni political parties to solve the crisis.”
Washington’s envoy to the Human Rights Coun-cil, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, said the U.S. was concerned at “increas-ingly disturbing reports about violence” and urged the government to rein in the security forces.
“The United States be-lieves that now is the time for an immediate, peace-ful and orderly transition,” Donahoe said, adding that those responsible for abus-es against civilians needed to be brought to justice as part of a reform process.
The United States once saw Saleh as a key ally in the battle against the dan-gerous Yemen-based al-Qaida branch, which has taken over parts of south-ern Yemen under cover of the political turmoil in the country. The U.S. with-drew its support of Saleh as the protests gained strength.
In the southern city of Taiz, at least one protester was killed and 15 others were wounded Monday in clashes between anti-regime demonstrators and security forces, according to witnesses. In the south-ern port city of Aden, three protesters were wounded in clashes with govern-ment forces, witnesses there said.
Rare Minnows Rescued from Texas River Amid DroughtBy ANGELA K. BROWN ASSOCIATED PRESS
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Wading through a muddy river bed to reach shallow pools of water, wildlife biologists scooped up hundreds of minnows Friday in one of the first rescues of fish threatened by the state's worst drought in decades.
The scientists col-lected smalleye shiners and sharpnose shiners from the Brazos River —
about 2,300 on Thursday and 800 Friday. The fish, which are found only in the Brazos and nowhere else in the world, are both candidates to be listed as threatened or endangered under the federal Endan-gered Species Act. They will be taken to the state's fish hatchery near Pos-sum Kingdom Lake but returned to the river when the drought abates.
Scientists used a large net to scoop up dozens of fish at a time Friday morning near Sagerton,
about 150 miles west of Fort Worth. Both types of 2-inch-long minnows are shiny and have other dis-tinctive features, making them easy for scientists to spot and put in buckets, while throwing other fish caught in the nets back in the water, said Kevin Mayes, an aquatic biolo-gist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
With the water drying up in the drought, the min-nows don't have the 100 miles of river they need to reproduce. And, their
life span is just two years, Mayes said. Game fish like
catfish and largemouth bass eat the minnows, making them an important part of the ecosystem, he said.
A team rescued 110 federally threatened Ar-kansas River shiners and 60 peppered chubs from the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle near the New Mexico border last week and took them to a federal fish hatchery in Oklahoma. Gene Wilde, a Texas Tech University fish ecology professor who led the team, said he believes that effort was the first fish rescue in Texas during this severe drought.
"We value these species and they are an important
part of the Texas natural heritage, so we're trying
to prevent losing them in this drought," Wilde said, referring to both rescue ef-forts.
Large fish rescues are rare, but they could be-come more common for fish, reptiles and amphib-ians as the drought per-sists. Texas is home to 86 species considered endan-gered or threatened.
The San Saba, Colo-rado and Llano rivers are home to several species of mussels, some of which are listed as threatened in Texas and for which peti-tions are pending for fed-eral status.
Several federally en-dangered species — in-cluding the fountain darter
and the Texas blind sala-mander — could need res-
cuing from the Comal and San Mar-cos Springs, south of Aus-tin. If stream flows drop to pre-determined levels, bi-ologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will evacuate as many samples of the species as possible.
About 88 percent of the state is in the worst stage of drought, according to the U.S. Drought Moni-tor map released Thurs-day. Texas just finished its driest 11 months on record and is in its worst single-year drought ever. It also had the hottest June through August on record in the U.S.
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50 New Alien Planetsknown as HD 85512b; it orbits a star within the habitable zone. This zone is where a planet must orbit in order to maintain water on its surface. In other words, it is relatively in the same place as Earth is in regards to our Sun.
One of the authors of the study and exoplanet habitability expert Lisa Kaltenegger had this to say about HD 85512, “[it’s] a very exciting planet be-cause if it is rocky; it will be the second confirmed planet that is within the
habitable zone of its star.” The first planet which was found to be habitable was Gilese, also known as 581d which was found in orbit of a red-dwarf star.
The habitable zone is one Astronomical Unit (AU) , the distance from our sun to the Earth; there-fore any planets that falls between 0.2 AU and one AU have the chance of being hospitable to a wa-ter based species. In other words, in a few thousand years, the human species might have a few more va-cation spots.
waters, Styela may pose a greater threat than had pre-viously been imagined and may even be able to spread as far south as Florida.”
Styela clava is an in-vertebrate that can travel great distances by attach-ing themselves to the hulls of ocean-going vessels. In fact, the styela here are be-lieved to have originated in waters off the coast of Korea and were first docu-mented in British waters in 1953, after that nation’s warships returned from service in the Korean con-flict.
Styela has been report-ed in waters off Canada, and beginning several years ago were spotted in Fisher’s Island Sound near Groton, Conn. and in No-ank, Conn. It was later discovered in Atlantic wa-ters near the eastern mouth of Long Island Sound. Only recently has the spe-cies been observed within the Sound itself where the water is warmer than in Fisher’s Island Sound.
However, Styela’s pref-erence for cooler water—between 35 and 73 degrees Fahrenheit—made it seem unlikely it would travel much further south.
A UNH graduate stu-dent, Melody Wood, working in Cuomo’s lab, has documented survival of adult Styela in waters as warm as 86 degrees F. In addition, Nicholas Brunetti of Saddle Brook, N.J., an undergraduate
also working in Cuomo’s lab, has been investigating whether or not adult Sty-ela clava can reproduce at higher temperatures, along with whether or not their larvae can survive at such temperatures.
Another undergradu-ate, Samantha Davidson of Groton, Conn., has been studying the communities of organisms found grow-ing on Styela. Addition-ally, Wil Dixon, a graduate of Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, Conn., spent several years working in Cuomo’s lab on the effects of temperature on Styela’s filtering rate. He won several awards at science fairs for his work and is now a freshman at the University of Michi-gan.
Similar to other sea squirts, Styela consumes plankton by filtering sea-water through a bronchial sac inside its body cavity. These animals are called “squirts” because they pump and expel the wa-ter they have screened for food.
Styela is a particularly efficient feeder, and repro-duces rapidly through a long reproductive season. Each organism resembles a knobby, leathery club at-tached to a tough stalk and may grow to three inches or longer in length. Sty-ela grows in dense clusters of as many as 1,500 per square yard.
Cuomo and two under-graduate researchers in the
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Study: Whooping Cough Vaccination Fades in 3 Years
ATLANTA (AP) — The vaccine against whooping cough falters after only about three years, a pre-liminary study suggests, adding support to school rules requiring kids to get the vaccination periodi-cally.
California schools have turned away thousands of middle and high school students this fall who haven’t gotten the booster shot typically given at age 11 or 12. That state had a huge spike in whooping cough cases last year, dur-ing which more than 9,100 people were sickened and 10 babies died after expo-sure from adults or older children.
The study of cases in
Marin County, Calif., found the risk of getting the disease was as much as 20 times higher in kids three years or more af-ter they finished receiv-ing a recommended series of vaccinations. But kids vaccinated more recently were well protected.
The findings may help explain why significant numbers of fully immu-nized children got whoop-ing cough in the recent outbreaks.
“I was disturbed to find maybe we had a little more confidence in the vaccine than it might deserve,” said the lead researcher, Dr. David Witt. He is chief of infectious disease at the Kaiser Permanente Medi-cal Center in San Rafael.
Witt presented his find-ings Monday at an infec-tious diseases medical
conference in Chicago.Whooping cough is
very contagious and in rare cases can be fatal, espe-cially for babies too young to be vaccinated. The dis-ease starts like a cold but leads to severe coughing that can last for weeks.
It also is considered one of the hardest-to-con-trol bacterial illnesses for which a common child-hood vaccine is avail-able. Health officials say the vaccine is effective in most people, and yet there are periodic outbreaks in places with high vaccina-tion rates.
More than 80 percent of the children who de-veloped whooping cough in Witt’s study were fully vaccinated.
Young children are recommended to get five doses of a vaccine against
whooping cough — at 2, 4, 6 and 15-18 months, and then one more between ages 4 and 6.
The new study found that younger kids who got the fifth dose less than three years before be-ing tested were much less likely to get whooping cough than slightly older kids who were more than three years past their last vaccination.
The study observed what was happening dur-ing the California out-break. It is based on a re-view last year of roughly 15,000 children in Marin County, including 132 who got whooping cough.
Health officials have ac-knowledged the long-term effectiveness of whooping cough vaccine is not well understood. The nation switched over to a new
type of childhood whoop-ing cough vaccine in the late 1990s, one deemed safer than the version used for decades before.
Short-term effective-ness of the new vaccine has been shown to be 90 percent or greater. But the long-term effectiveness of the childhood vaccine has not been studied as much.
A preliminary study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted last year, found it ebbs. The five doses for young children were about 70 percent effective five years after the last shot.
Witt found that rates of whooping cough — also known as pertussis — dropped dramatically after kids were age 11 and 12, when many get the recom-mended booster shot.
But the long-term ef-
fectiveness of that booster also is not known and has received relatively little study.
“It’s a little too soon to say much” about the longer-term effectiveness of that booster, said Lara Misegades, a CDC epide-miologist who has been studying how well whoop-ing cough vaccines work.
California health of-ficials last year told doc-tors they could give the booster to kids as young as 7 in an effort to stifle the outbreaks.
CDC officials say that it’s too soon to say if the booster should regularly be given to children that young, but that they are studying the issue.
marine biology program at UNH, Kathleen Sandin of West Haven, Conn. and Brunetti, have spent the past two months traveling along the northern coast of Long Island Sound look-ing for Styela clava. The results of this work reveal that Styela has spread as far west as Bridgeport, Conn., moving closer to the oyster farms that thrive in the Sound near Nor-walk, Conn. Cuomo and her students are continuing to track the path of the spe-cies southward, as well as to study its environmental tolerances.
“At present, there are few good ways to stem the progress of Styela’s invasion,” according to Cuomo. “The invertebrate does not appear to have any natural predators in the region, and any agent that might be introduced to kill the organisms en masse—such as concen-trated salt or lime—could also damage the species Connecticut has worked so hard to protect,” she said.
The most reliable meth-od to eliminate Styela is to scrape any specimens free of surfaces to which they have adhered such as the hull of a ship, a technique that could provide fisher-men, pleasure boaters and others with an excellent opportunity to help protect the local ecology although one has to be careful not to trigger the release of gam-etes (reproductive cells) when they are in the water.
Some Koreans go a step further: They eat Styela steamed, in a mixture with beef, clams, vegetables and ground rice, known as mideodok-chim. Harvest-ing the Styela, however, would be ill advised in areas such as New Haven where there is a ban on harvesting shellfish. Stye-la sequesters heavy metals in their tissues and eating them from most Connecti-cut waters would be un-healthy.
And if the threat by Sty-ela were not enough, John Kelly, assistant professor of marine biology at UNH, and graduate student Beth Shedden of Stamford, Conn. also have identi-fied an invasive species of shrimp in Connecticut wa-ters. Oriental shrimp, also known as Palaemon mac-rodactylus, like Styela, are native to the waters off of Korea, Japan, and China. They were first detected on the east coast of the U.S. in 2001, near New York City and were recently found in the Mystic River.
Kelly and Shedden have collected samples of oriental shrimp from nu-merous locations in Con-necticut, including within the New Haven Harbor. They are trying now to determine how well es-tablished the shrimp is in the area, what habitats it prefers and whether or not it is a threat to native spe-cies.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Mon-day he won't be deterred from seeking U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine, despite what he said was "tremen-dous pressure" to drop the request and instead resume peace talks with Israel.
Abbas spoke to reporters en route to New York, where he is to seek U.N. member-ship for "Palestine" in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War. The U.S. and
Israel oppose Abbas' bid, saying a state can be estab-lished only through negotia-tions.
Abbas has said that ne-gotiations remain his prefer-ence, but that they must be based on the pre-1967 war lines and include a halt of all Israeli settlement construc-tion on occupied land.
Abbas said Monday that even if Israel were to agree to those two demands, "we will go to the U.N. because there is no contradiction be-tween negotiations and going to the U.N."
Officials from the Quartet of Mideast mediators - the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the United Na-
tions - have been holding talks in recent days in hopes of persuading the Palestin-ians to drop the U.N. bid and instead resume peace talks with Israel.
Another Quartet meeting was planned for Monday, of-ficials said, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ash-ton might present more ideas to Abbas later in the day.
The Palestinian leader said, "Last week, there was tremendous pressure to re-turn to negotiations on a new basis," but that the propos-als for a new framework for talks were unacceptable.
Full U.N. membership can only be bestowed by the U.N. Security Council, where the
recognition bid could be de-railed if fewer than nine of the 15 members vote in favor or if the U.S. uses its veto, as it said it would.
U.S. officials believe six other members may vote against or abstain, meaning the Palestinians would fall short. That tally could not be immediately confirmed. An Israeli official said it's too early to say how the votes would go, while a senior member of Abbas' delegation said he believes 11 Security Council members will back the Palestinians.
In Warsaw, Poland, which holds the rotating European Union presidency, said it was seeking member consensus
on the Palestinian bid for independence. Foreign Min-ister Radek Sikorski said the EU's position would depend on the wording of the Pales-tinian request, which is not yet known. Neither Britain nor France, both permanent members of the Security Council, have said how they will vote.
While the U.S. can de-rail the Palestinian bid at the Security Council in any sce-nario, the breakdown of the votes is key to both sides. Nine or more votes for the Palestinians would signal broad support for their state-hood quest, while the U.S. image in the Arab world would suffer another blow if it uses its veto in this case.
Abbas said his plan, for now, is to go to the Security Council, but suggested he might change tactics at the last minute and go for the lesser option of General As-sembly approval of Palestine as a nonmember observer state. Chances for success are much higher in the Gen-eral Assembly, which Abbas is to address Friday.
"From now until deliver-ing the speech at the Gen-eral Assembly, we have no thought except going to the Security Council," he said. "Then, whatever the decision is, we will sit with the leader-ship and decide."
A nod from the General Assembly could give the Palestinians access to inter-national judicial bodies such as the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
The Israelis fear such courts would target them un-fairly. The Palestinians are "going to the U.N. to get this state not to make peace but to challenge Israel's legitimacy in international arenas and to
try to undermine the peace process," Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, told CNN. His comments re-flected Israel's concern about further isolation and under-scored the country's mistrust of the United Nations.
Abbas, meanwhile, said he was warned by American officials that "things will be very difficult after Septem-ber."
"We don't know to what extent," he said. "We will know later."
Some members of Con-gress have been threatening to punish the Palestinians.
"Current and future aid will be jeopardized if you abandon direct negotia-tions and continue your ef-forts," Reps. Kay Granger, Republican chairwoman of the House of Representa-tives Appropriations foreign operations subcommittee, and Democrat Nita Lowey, the panel's senior Democrat, wrote to Abbas this summer, echoing a plea they made to the Palestinian leader in an April letter.
Concerning the possibil-ity of mass protests in the Palestinian territories, Abbas said, "All our people will do is demonstrate peacefully in-side the (Palestinian) cities."
Israeli security forces have been preparing for pos-sible West Bank violence, but Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli Defense Ministry of-ficial, played that down. "I am not identifying energy for violence and terror," he told reporters.
Abbas, however, holds no sway over the Gaza Strip or its rulers from the violently anti-Israel group Hamas, which drove out forces loy-al to Abbas during a power struggle in 2007. Hamas op-poses the U.N. initiative.
Palestinians Will Submit UN Membership Letter
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Planning for After Graduation
An Ode to Zack Rosen (and Some Networking)
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; the fac-ulty and staff at UNH are a pretty fantastic bunch of people. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve had a few less than great experiences, but overall the ratio is strong-ly in favor of good. For those of you who don’t know, I have worked on campus since my sopho-more year, and I wholly recommend it to anyone who wants to have a job that (at least somewhat) works well around your class schedule. And why wouldn’t you? Regardless, I currently work for the Career Development Cen-ter in the Bartels Student Activity Center and for the Henry C. Lee Institute. Although working in both places keeps me pretty busy, I wouldn’t trade it for anything because of the exposure I’ve had to so
Graduation may seem like a long ways away, but May will be here sooner then you know it. In the blink of an eye, winter break will be here, and next semester is when the countdown officially be-gins: five months, four months, three months, two months, one month, one week, three days, and fi-nally graduation. Anyone overwhelmed by the just the idea of graduation and what happens after? If so, then you are not alone, because for most of the graduating class this real-ization of entering the real world has not settled in
yet. That happens around February or March.
Even though none of us really are ready to start thinking about grad-uating and the real world, now is a great time to start pre-paring for that mo-ment. Some of you may wonder about what is there really to prepare for? You graduate, you find a job, and real life be-gins. Sadly, it takes a little bit more effort, especially in this economy; prepara-tion is key. The best place to start would be to consider where you would like to end up in the future (something you should have been con-
sidering these past four years).
If your goal is to obtain a position in which you
are paid for your abilities (a.k.a a JOB), start looking into perspective positions
right now. Sometimes it takes months for people to contact you about a partic-ular position. However, if
you send in your resume and a cover letter before graduation, those avail-able positions will know you are interested in em-ployment (and aren’t we all?). The second point to be made is that this is the time to update your resumes and learn how to write cover letters and thank you notes. Take advantage of the differ-ent services on this cam-pus (while you are still here) to perfect these documents that potential employers judge you off
of. First impressions are important (just in case you missed last week’s edito-
rial). Senior year is also a
good time to look into graduate programs, if graduate school seems to be in your future. Take this year as a time to study for the GRE’s, get some rec-ommendations, and apply to various programs that peak your interests. If this is your plan, start early and do not procrastinate. Some graduate programs have early admissions deadlines and very specific require-ments as to the application process. Give your teach-ers and advisors time to write you a recommenda-tion instead of asking them a week before it is due to write you one. I don’t think they would appreciate be-ing rushed, especially be-
many different people and backgrounds as a result of my jobs.
Networking is a key part of the col-lege experience in my opinion, and the easiest way to accomplish this is through getting in-volved with a club or organization or two. You don’t need to sign up for everything to get to know people, in fact I definitely advocate getting heavily involved with one group rather than trying to do so many things that a few weeks in, you de-cide to do nothing because you’re overwhelmed. Some people are superhu-man and can get away with doing a million different things, but for me The Charger Bulletin, class, and work filled the voids I had. (Friends too, because friends are a good thing
to have.) I can attribute a lot that I have done in my
time at UNH to one person that got me involved on the campus and jump-started my networking skills.
I met Zack Rosen when I was interested in WNHU, and even though my interest waned in the long run, I ended up main-taining a little contact with Zack through Twitter (so-cial networking anyone?).
The summer between my freshman and sophomore
years, I saw a tweet from @ChargerBulletin looking for people inter-ested in recording video podcast for The Charger Bulletin. I replied and soon after was recording a twice-weekly podcast. That was fine and good, but soon enough Zack asked if I was looking for work, and soon af-ter, I was working for the Center for Expe-riential Education ten hours a week running the center’s social me-dia. This introduced me to an entirely new group
of people, and although I don’t work with all of them any more, when I see any of the people I met in that first job, we very cor-dially greet each other and catch up a little because of the friendly work environ-ment we had.
Soon enough, Zack was training me in web design and little did I know, I was
quickly becoming more and more involved on campus and with The Bul-letin. By the time March came around, I was an oc-casional staff writer, still recording the podcast, and was responsible for post-ing all the articles from each issue online at www.ChargerBul le t in .com. When the application part came for becoming editor-in-chief or assistant editor of The Bulletin, Zack slyly brought up the subject, and I quickly responded that I had actually been con-sidering applying. Fast-forward a year and some months and look at me! Not only do I still work for the same office (almost, because it’s now the Ca-reer Development Center instead of the Center for Experiential Education, but there’s still a few of the same people, and some great new ones!), but Zack recommended me and that led to me being contacted for another job (the HCL
one). Zack has been an invaluable contact for me, and one of the best friends anyone can ask for. I have gained too many other friends and contacts to list here, and I would hate to make someone feel left out, so I’m not going to list anyone else. Rest assured, if you think you made an impact on me, you did and I would’ve listed your name here.
Anyway, the point of all this is that when you’re sitting in your room play-ing video games or doing nothing, you could be out meeting someone who will change your life in a great way. If I can list so much as a result of just one person, imagine if I had listed what everyone who I had networked with had done for me. This edito-rial would have filled this entire paper! Get out there and meet people; it’s one of the most fulfilling and rewarding things you can do! (P.S. thanks Zack!)
Give us your opinion! Submit your editorial to [email protected] for possible inclusion in next week’s issue of The Charger Bulletin!
cause they are essentially doing you a favor.
Lastly, senior year is also the year to make sure you are on track and will officially graduate in Janu-ary or May. It is impor-tant to make sure that all of your credits are in and you aren’t missing any-thing important that can-not be accomplished in the upcoming two semesters. And remember class of 2012, if you are graduat-ing in January, petition to graduate is October 15, and if you are graduating in May, petition to gradu-ate is November 15. So please get that paper work in and signed. There is no reason to be left out on graduation day.
Tips on Arguing: Confirmation Bias
Every day, you are barraged by advertising schemes, statistics, and political rhetoric. Every day, you must express your own views to friends, fam-ily members, teachers, and employers. If you want to hack your way through all that material or convince others of your opinions, it is essential to develop crit-ical thinking skills. They often make the difference between getting your way or being ignored. This arti-cle is committed to helping you develop these tools.
Confirmation BiasWhether or not you’ve
ever lived with someone of the opposite sex, you’re probably familiar with the following scenario:
Maria storms into the living room, where she
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finds Norm, her husband, watching TV. “You for-got to put the toilet seat down,” she accuses, her eyes narrowing. “I almost drowned myself.” Norm rolls his eyes in response. “C’mon,” he says, waving her away with his hand. “So I forgot this once.” “You always forget!” Ma-ria counters. “I do not,” he replies. “I remembered ev-ery other time this week.”
Both Maria and Norm suffer from confirmation bias: the tendency to inter-pret data based on the parts of it that fit most favorably with our beliefs. Maria sees when Norm leaves the seat up, but she can’t tell when he puts it down. Her memory is filled with her husband’s mistakes. Norm recalls all of the times that he thought to put the toilet seat down. But he can’t possibly remember the times when he forgot to; if
he had, he wouldn’t have left it up. Norm’s memory is filled with examples of his own successes.
Conf i rmat ion bias is an effect of human psychology, according to the Skeptic’s Dictionary, a book and online refer-ence by writer and retired professor of philosophy Robert T. Carroll, Ph.D. “The tendency to give
more attention and weight to the positive and the con-firmatory has been shown to influence memory,” he
writes. “When digging into our memories for data relevant to a position, we are more likely to recall data that confirms the po-sition.”
Although putting the toilet seat down might not
be a huge deal, the design and interpretation of scien-tific experiments is utterly dependent on evading the threat of confirmation bias. One way that researchers handle the problem is by introducing randomized samples into their tests. This keeps them from un-wittingly selecting a group of people with a shared characteristic.
Another method is by double-blinding a trial; neither the subjects nor the researchers know whether a person belongs to the control group or the exper-imental group, so that no one has false expectations about the results of a given test.
Even after an experi-ment is finished, groups of outside scientists will review the report of what happened. This process helps to ensure that most biases get caught. Not
even science, however, can completely escape confirmation bias. That’s why no single study is ever absolute; it must be repeat-ed over and over by others before it can be accepted.
Although no one can ever completely elimi-nate bias, you can reduce it simply by considering the reasons a person might have for holding the oppo-site viewpoint. It requires more work than you would think, but the results are worthwhile; your own ar-guments become more robust, and your mind be-comes more open.
Get involved in the de-bate! If you have a sugges-tion for a tip, a question about critical thinking, or a comment about arguing, please send it to [email protected].
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ACROSS1 Revisiting the past?11 __ shot15 “Been there”16 Country with a green, yel-low and red flag17 Israelites, to many18 Hone19 The sport of shooting, in Soissons20 Took in21 Finn’s friend23 Sarah McLachlan’s record label25 Chinese port also known as Xiamen27 2012 games host country, in Olympics code28 Come to29 Like some boxers31 “Who __ we kidding?”32 Personification34 Tales you can also read backwards?36 Fakes39 “To reiterate ...”41 Notable Nixon gesture42 Jenny Fields’s son, in a 1978 best-seller44 Luv45 Talked up47 Certain dieter’s concern
51 Go (for)52 Objects53 Glassy-eyed one55 Brand named for two states57 __ favor58 Whitman of “Arrested Development”59 Essex neighbor60 Female pop trio since 197964 Go back, in a way65 Only place on Earth where crocodiles and alliga-tors co-exist66 Lowly worker67 Pans, and how
DOWN1 Popular mint2 Mariner from Japan3 “The Piano” extras4 USNA grad5 Pay for6 Airport offering7 Succulent genus8 Cargo carrier9 Summer abroad10 Good thing to learn11 Duck in the Eurasian taiga12 Singer known for uncon-
ventional outfits13 Basic math course14 Second-least populous st. capital22 Bridge response24 Immortal college coach25 Santa __26 Illusion30 Ready to father33 Let it all out35 Shepherd-protecting org.36 KOA amenity37 Petroleum processing by-product38 Pioneer in side-scrolling video games40 Tearjerkers of a kind43 61-Down crossers: Abbr.46 How some stunts are done48 Fighting force49 Hole widener50 One may come with wings54 Refrain from singing?56 “Bring __!”57 Tudor widow61 See 43-Down62 Gp. for teachers63 Emulate Sir Mix-A-Lot
Super Fun Facts of the WeekMonday - Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Tuesday - Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
Wednesday - Every square inch of the human body has approximately 32 million bacteria on it.
Thursday - A teenager in China sold his kidney to buy an iPad 2.
Friday - A blue whale’s heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
By Emily Rodriguez
Recruitment week was this week. There were a great number of stu-dents in the quad all week long attending events of the different Greek organizations. It’s nice to see everyone trying new things, going out of their comfort zones, and trying to get involved. If you missed recruit-ment week, don’t worry because it happens again in the spring.
There is always so much to do on campus. All you have to do is get out of your dorm room. This weekend, I played mini golf in the Sound-view quad. It’s fun stuff like that that really brightens up my day. Great idea SCOPE!
NegativesPositivesHas anyone noticed that there are quite a few parking spots in the
Winchester lot that are blocked off by machinery and ropes? Hopefully they can get those spots cleared off soon, because as everyone knows, we need all of the parking spots that we can get.
The weather completely did a 180 degree turn last week. One morn-ing and afternoon, it was nice outside and still warm. That night came around and it was freezing outside. Now the weather is getting cooler and the sweatshirts need to come out again out of storage. Needless to say, I already miss summer.
ChargerBatteryby Joann
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We are going to change things up this week and make the Battery Charge about one of the positives of the week. This week we’ll talk about recruitment week: the biggest week of a semester for Greek Organizations. I know many of you probably were annoyed with all of the emails, the chanting in the quad every night, and the many people representing their organizations. However, it was nice to see so many people come
out and rush the various organizations. It’s good to learn about some of these organizations, especially because it gives you the insight as to what this campus offers its students.
The Battery Charge
Liana’s Literary Commentary
It is World War II. Si-mon Wiesenthal is living in a Nazi-controlled con-centration camp. While working one day, Simon is sent to clean medical waste at an army hospi-tal for wounded German soldiers. Suddenly, Si-mon is whisked away by a nurse from the hospi-tal, who informs him of a patient in the building. This patient is a 21-year-old dying Nazi soldier named Karl—and he is asking for forgiveness. In this biography, Simon retells the story of his encounter with Karl and the diffi cult decision he was forced to make at the soldier’s bedside.
Karl’s story left Si-mon speechless. Karl described being a naïve child and joining the
Hitler Youth. He fought in Russia and then took part in horrible atrocities against the Jews. Karl’s most vivid memory in-volves him and his fellow soldiers throwing gre-nades into Jewish homes and watching their burning victims stagger out into the frigid night, confused and clutching infants and chil-dren in their arms. Those who did not perish in the fl ames were shot instan-taneously. It was the im-age of a mother and child jumping from one of the burning buildings that embedded itself in Karl’s memory.
As Simon hears the sto-ry, he remains silent until, fi nally, Karl asks for for-giveness for the sins he has committed. “The pains in my body are terrible,
but worse still is my con-science . . .,” Karl pleads, “I cannot die . . . without coming clean . . . In the last hours of my life you are with me. . . I know that what I am asking is almost too much for you, but with-out your answer I cannot die in peace.” Simon does not answer Karl’s ques-tion, but instead leaves the room. This is not a yes, or a no. Just silence.
The following day, Si-mon returns to the hospital with his labor group and discovers that Karl has died.
Simon is perplexed by the situation and raises an important question: “What would you do?” Simon sticks by his lack of re-sponse to Karl. Apolo-gizing to one Jew for the deaths of millions seemed
too extreme. If Karl had felt true remorse, he would have stopped partaking in the killings long ago. But instead, he waited until he was on his deathbed, where the only enemy he faced was his conscience. Karl’s request was a self-ish one, something not ful-ly understood. While Karl slipped away to death, Si-mon would still be endur-ing the inhumanity left by his superiors and fellow soldiers.
As Simon observes a military cemetery near the hospital, he acknowledges the true divide between the Germans and the Jews. “On each grave, there was planted a sunfl ower…I stared spellbound…Sud-denly I envied the dead soldiers. Each had a sun-fl ower to connect him with
By Liana TeixeiraThe Sunfl ower by Simon Wiesenthal the living world and butter-fl ies to visit his grave. For me there would be no con-nection. I would be bur-ied in a mass grave, where corpses would be piled on top of me. No sunfl ower would ever bring light into my darkness, and no but-terfl ies would dance above my dreadful tomb.”
Karl would always maintain his honor. He died serving his country for a cause the Nazi’s be-lieved was correct. A con-fession to Simon would do nothing to tarnish that honor. The sunfl ower re-mains a symbol of remem-brance to Simon. Who will remember him? What will they remember him for? What is worth remember-ing about a person; their actions or their words?
After the war ends, Si-
mon continues to think of Karl and wonders whether he should have forgiven him. To this day, Simon does not have a clear answer, but believes he could not have an-swered it any other way.
“Ought I to have for-given him? Was my si-lence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong? This is a pro-found moral question . . . The crux of the matter is, of course, the ques-tion of forgiveness.” This is ultimately an issue of forgive and forget. One cannot be given with-out the other. And while one may forget things in due time, forgiveness is a choice—a choice that Simon Wiesenthal made and still questions.
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ceiver ending the Chargers near-scoring drive.
The Charger defense held strong and forced a three-and-out to give the offense one more shot at tying the game in the clos-ing minute. The William & Mary punt found its way to the UNH 23-yard line,
where the Chargers would begin their final attempt at tying or winning the game. After conveting on a big 3rd-and-4, the Chargers found themselves in another third-down at their own 39-yard line. The ensuing Osiecki pass was caught by Nick Music (West Mil-ford, N.J./West Milford ) just three yards short of the first down. The Char-gers final opportunity then came on 4th-and-3 from their own 44-yard line. Osiecki’s pass to Wash-ington-Ellison fell short and the Chargers chances of a comeback fell short with 31-seconds left in the fourth quarter.
Osiecki led the Char-gers’ offense with one touchdown and 213 yards on 19-of-35 passing. The
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Men’s Soccer Falls Short to Merrimack, 3-2, in NE-10 Action
WEST HAVEN, Conn. - Senior Dave Ljungquist (Oxford, Conn./Seymour) registered two goals on Saturday afternoon, but the University of New Ha-ven men’s soccer team was outlasted by Merrimack College, 3-2, in North-east-10 Conference action
at Kayo Field. With the loss, the Chargers dropped to 0-3-2, 0-2 in league play, while Merrimack im-proved to 3-1-2, 2-1.
Merrimack got on the board first at the 16th min-ute, however, New Haven responded with two goals of their own to take a 2-1 advantage at the break. Ljungquist scored at at 35:05 and again right be-fore the first period ended
at the 44:57 mark.
Despite the mo-mentum shifting in the
Chargers direction, Mer-
rimack came out hot in
the second period. Francis Mulkern added two more goals for the Warriors as they pulled away with a 3-2 win. Mulkern tallied three goals in the game.
J.J. Comeau (Walling-ford, Conn./Mark T. Shee-han ) started for New Hav-en and recorded four saves between the posts. Despite the loss, the Chargers actu-ally out-shot Merrimack, 17-13 and recorded five
corner kicks to their oppo-nents three.
The Chargers are back in action on Wednesday, September 21st as they host cross-town rival Southern Connecticut. Game time is scheduled for 4 p.m.
Women’s Volleyball Sweeps Le Moyne and C.W. Post in Saturday’s Tri-Match
WEST HAVEN, Conn. - The University of New Haven women’s vol-leyball team won two matches by a total of 6-1. In the first game of Satur-day’s tri-match, New Ha-ven swept Northeast-10 foe Le Moyne, 3-0. They followed that up with a 3-1 victory in an out-of-
conference match against C.W. Post to improve to 4-4 on the season and 1-0 in the Northeast-10.
Le Moyne falls to 6-3 on the day after losing to C.W. Post while the Pio-neers are now 5-6 overall.
Keidy Candelaria (Vega Baja, Puerto Rico/Bay-amon Military Academy) led all players on the day with 35 kills. She regis-tered 5.00 per set with a .361 hitting percentage
and added 14 digs. Chel-seay Alpough dished out 74 assists and Heather Ladao (West Covina, Ca-lif./Rowland ) led the Chargers with 21 digs.
The first set of Satur-day’s tri-match featured a duel between the Chargers and Dolphins. The score was tied 14 times and fea-tured five lead changes before New Haven pulled away with a 26-24 win. Trailing by one, the Char-
gers tallied three consecu-tive scores behind two kills from Candelaria and a ser-vice ace from Alpough.
The next two sets were all New Haven. With zero ties and zero lead chang-es, they took set two by a score of 25-15 before clos-ing out the match with a 25-20 win in game three. Candelaria and Alpough recorded game-highs of 14 kills and 30 assists respec-tively.
New Haven took a 2-0 advantage in the final match. After an easy vic-tory in the second set, the Pioneers rebounded with a 26-24 win in set three. Trailing 24-22, the Char-gers took the next two points to tie the game at 24 a piece. However, C.W. Post came out of a timeout strong and scored the next two points to take the set.
The fourth set went back and forth throughout
until New Haven pulled away after a kill by Margo Meteyer (Madison, Wisc./Madison West) put the Chargers up 21-19. From then on it was New Ha-ven’s set to lose, however they held on to the lead and pulled away with a 3-1 victory over the Pioneers.
The Chargers return to the court on Thursday, September 22 as they head to Dowling for a 7 p.m. contest.
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Late Rally Falls Short as No 23 Chargers Lose 13-10 to No. 4 William & Mary (D-I)
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W I L L I A M S B U R G , Va. - The University of New Haven football team dropped its first game of the 2011 season with a 13-10 loss to the College of William and Mary (D-I FCS) Saturday night. With the loss, the Chargers fall to 2-1 overall, while the Tribe improve to 2-1 on the season.
After winning the toss and deferring to the sec-ond half, the Chargers opened the big NCAA Di-vision I Football Champi-onship Subdivision game on defense. The UNH de-fense forced the Tribe to go three-and-out before blocking the ensuing punt to gain possession at the William and Mary 30-yard line. Five plays later, Chris Scifo (Coral Springs, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas / Cen-tral Connecticut State Uni-versity) connected on a 28-yard field goal to give the Chargers the opening lead, 3-0.
On William and Mary’s second possession, New Haven once again forced a punt and regained posses-sion at its own 46-yard line. As the Chargers marched down the field, they came upon a 4th-and-3 from the Tribe 22-yard line. After coming out in field goal formation, holder Brice DeRosa (Huntington Sta-tion, N.Y./Walt Whitman / Iona College) picked up the snap and rolled out to his right. His ensuing pass headed just through the hands of Kameel Lashley (Boston, Mass./Boston Comm. Leadership Acad-emy) in the right side of the William and Mary en-dzone.
The Tribe took over possession at its own 22-yard line and took the ball 39-yards on six plays to the UNH 39-yard line. Senior linebacker Mike Gomes (Brockton, Mass./Brockton ) then stepped in front of a Michael Paulus pass and grabbed his first interception of the season. The Char-gers took over pos-session and got one play off before the conclusion of the first quarter.
New Haven and William & Mary both tallied two punts to open the second quarter. On the Chargers’ final possession of the first half, the Tribe picked off a pass from Ryan Osiecki (Seymour, Conn./Seymour / Univ. of Louisville) which was tipped at the line of scrimmage. William and Mary then capitalized after taking possession in Charger ter-ritory and scored a game-tying field goal with no time remaining in the first half. Drake Kuhn connect-ed from 21-yards out to even the score at 3-3 going into halftime.
The UNH defense struggled stopping the run in the opening half, giving up 101 yards to the Tribe’s leading rushed Jonathan Grimes.
After deferring in the opening kickoff, the Char-gers took possession to open the second half. The first drive resulted in a a punt after six plays, while William and Mary took over the ball at its own 41-yard line. The Tribe took the ball 59-yards on 10 plays over the course
of 4:27 and capped the drive with an 11-yard touchdown pass from Mi-chael Graham to Grimes. The successful point after game W&M a 10-3 lead with 7:03 left in the third quarter.
Back-to-back punts by the Chargers and then the
Tribe gave UNH the ball at its own 48-yard line. Af-ter a false start penalty and two plays Ronnie Nelson (Stuart, Fla./South Fork ) scrabbled out of the pocket and was picked off by Ter-rell Wells who returned the ball 29 yards to the UNH 25-yard line. W&M had five plays and went six yards before the third quarter came to a close.
Clinging to a 10-3 lead, William & Mary attempt-ed a 30-yard field goal on the third play of the fourth quarter. The kick sailed wide left and the Chargers’ regained possession down 10-3 with 14:13 left in the fourth quarter.
New Haven took over the ball at its own 20-yard line and began a game-ty-ing touchdown drive. The drive went 80-yards in
eight plays and was capped by a 17-yard touchdown pass and catch by Osiecki and Demetrius Washing-ton-Ellison (Rahway, N.J./Rahway / Univ. of Maine). Scifo’s point after tied the game at 10-10 with 11:30 left in the fourth quarter.
William & Mary was
forced to punt on its next possession as did the Chargers who gave the ball back to the Tribe at the W&M 17-yard line with 8:17 left in the fourth. The Tribe then marched 62-yards on six plays, in-cluding a 56-yard pass and catch by Graham and D.J. Mangas. William & Mary then regained the lead with a 28-yard field goal with 5:28 left in the fourth quarter.
The Chargers imme-diately answered with its own inspiring drive. Start-ing from their own 43-yard line, the Chargers went 36-yards in four plays to the W&M 21-yard line. Osiecki then launched a pass deep down the field, near the W&M goaline, and Jabrel Mines stepped in front of the intended re-
senior also throw a pair of interceptions in the loss. Josh Smart (New Haven, Conn./Hamden ) led the receiving corps with four catches, while Jason Thompson (Stuart, Fla./South Fork ) totaled a team-high 73 receiving yards off three catches. Washington-Ellison added 50 yards off three catches, while Chris Ruffin (New York, N.Y./Phillip Ran-dolph) collected three catches for 24 yards.
The UNH rushing game struggled to get off the ground. The team com-bined for 33 rushing yards on 27 carries. Mike DeCa-ro (Weston, Fla./Cypress Bay ) led the team with 23 yards rushing.
Defensively, a num-ber of different players stepped up when needed. Charlie Hatchett (Bridge-port, Conn./Stratford / Santa Monica College) led the side with 11 to-tal tackles, while Mike Gomes (Brockton, Mass./Brockton ) added nine and Desmond Anderson (Jack-sonville, Fla./Edward H. White / Becker College) added eight. Defensive lineman, Raheem Stanley (Hartford, Conn./Weaver ) also played big with seven stops and 1.5 tackles-for-loss.
The Chargers return to action on Saturday, Sep-tember 24 when they travel to Assumption College for another night game. Game time in Worcester, Mass. Is set for 7:00 p.m. next Sat-urday night. Stay posted to www.NewHavenCharg-ers.com throughout the week for complete cover-age.
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That Time of Year is Back AgainBY AMANDA DOERRSTAFF WRITER
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The National Football League’s professional football season has begun! Despite the previous lock out issues and legal set-backs NFL fans will not be unhappy this season.
On Thursday, Septem-ber 8, the Super Bowl win-ning Green Bay Packers played the New Orleans’ Saints in an impressive display of Green Bay’s
accuracy and endurance. By the fourth quarter, it seemed quite inevitable that Saints would not be able to stop Aaron Rodg-ers on point passes and of-fensive success. The game resulted in the first win of the season for the recent Super Bowl Champions (34-42).
The latter was followed by the devastating loss for the Pittsburgh Steelers who managed to have sev-en turnovers during their game against the Ravens
which ended in a 28 point loss. The last time that the Steelers had six turnovers was back in 2006. This is really not a good look or start for this former six time super bowl winning team.
On a better note, the Bengals performance is looking very promising in comparison to previ-ous seasons. They came out against the Browns with a 10 point win and look like they may have a chance in their next game
against the Broncos who lost to the Raiders. The Colts are not doing so hot without their QB Manning and were crushed by the Texans. Their back up QB Kerry Collins is definitely no Peyton, but maybe they can pull it together for the next game against the Browns. The Chief’s just couldn’t overcome the 41 points scored by the Bills.
Surprisingly, the De-troit Lions look like they really have it together this season. The Lions beat
the Buccaneers by seven and will be starting of the season with a solid 1-0 and will be playing the Chiefs in the next game. Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys could not handle the heat brought by San-chez and went on to lose by a mere field goal.
Tom Brady led his team to a 38-24 point win against the Dolphins and acquired an impressive 517 yards. The Patriots are looking well rested and fo-cused their first game. If
they keep up this energy and minimize the injuries they will have no problem making it into the playoffs this year.
It is that time of the year again, and it looks like it will be a football season filled with some unexpect-ed successes. It will only get better in the weeks to come.
Crowd is Quiet, and so are Phillies’ BatsASSOCIATED PRESS
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The crowd was another sellout, though the atmo-sphere clearly wasn’t the same.
A day after clinching their fifth straight NL East title, the Philadelphia Phil-lies rested two starters and lost 5-0 to Chris Carpenter and the St. Louis Cardi-nals on Sunday night.
“It was a little different than last night,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. “Not as much noise.”
Albert Pujols helped take the crowd out of the game early with a two-run homer in the first inning off Cole Hamels (14-9). Allen Craig added a pair of homers for St. Louis and Carpenter pitched eight innings to keep the Phillies (98-53) four wins shy of setting a franchise single-season record.
Carpenter (10-9) re-corded all but four of his outs by groundballs, and induced three double plays. Only three Phillies reached second and none advanced to third. Car-
penter finished with five strikeouts and one walk.
“Their pitcher pitched good,” Manuel said. “He was changing speeds and had a good sinker. The double plays made it dif-ficult to score runs.”
Said Carpenter: “I was getting ahead in the count, sinking the ball down and away and getting the ball on the ground, which is key for these guys. My stuff was good, command-ing down in the strike zone on both sides of the plate with my fastball. When you’re against guys who want to swing, if you make good pitches, you get early outs.”
While the Phillies are merely awaiting the post-season, the Cardinals (83-69) are fighting for a spot in the playoffs and pulled within 3½ games of the Atlanta Braves in the NL wild-card chase.
St. Louis, which has won nine of 11 games, is avoiding focusing on the big picture.
“Common sense is if you allow anything to dis-tract you then it’s going to take away from your best shot,” St. Louis manager
Tony LaRussa said. “So don’t think about any-thing but the next game we’re going to play. We can’t control what Atlanta does. But if we don’t win a bunch of games, then it’s all irrelevant. We’re just trying to win the game we play in the series we’re playing.”
The Phillies have the luxury of giving key play-ers rest. First baseman Ryan Howard, who is bat-tling a nagging left ankle injury, and catcher Car-los Ruiz didn’t start for Philadelphia. Howard is scheduled to have an anti-inflammatory injection in the ankle on Monday.
And they can provide opportunities for newcom-ers such as Justin DeFra-tus, who made his major league debut in the ninth inning. The right-hander nearly gave up a homer on his first pitch, but Lance Berkman’s drive to center was caught on the warning track.
“He almost got intro-duced on the first pitch,” Manuel joked. “I think Mother Nature held the ball up.”
DeFratus took a big
sigh after Shane Victo-rino caught the ball, and he wound up pitching a scoreless inning.
“I was not as nervous as I thought I would be, but definitely keyed up,” DeFratus said. “I was try-ing to throw a strike on the first pitch so when Victori-no caught it I thought that was cool. I was just trying to throw strikes.”
DeFratus was one of two relievers to follow Hamels. The left-hander was vying to tie his career high with 15 wins, but two bad pitches did him in. Outside of the homers, he was solid with nine strike-outs and no walks while allowing seven hits and four runs in seven innings.
“A couple of bad pitch-es, otherwise he was fine,” Manuel said. “Pujols hit a fastball that looked like it was inside, but Pujols is Pujols.”
Pujols put the Cardinals up 2-0 in the first inning by launching Hamels’ first pitch into the second deck in left field. The St. Louis slugger had been just 3 for 20 (.150) off Hamels entering the game. It was the 36th homer for Pu-
jols, who is five RBIs shy of 100 in his quest for his 11th straight season of bat-ting .300 with 30 homers and 100 RBIs. He went 1 for 4 and his averaged dropped a point to .300.
“I’ve seen it for 11 years,” LaRussa said. “It got everybody excited and Hamels got really, really tough so it’s a good thing we got him before every-thing got working.”
St. Louis increased the margin to 4-0 in the sixth on Craig’s two-run shot. Craig twice failed in sac-rifice bunt attempts, but he made up for it with a long drive to deep left cen-ter. Craig’s homer was the 17th allowed by Hamels this season, which is the most on the heralded Phil-lies staff.
Craig added a solo shot to center in the eighth off Joe Blanton.
“He’s hit every place he’s played,” LaRussa said of Craig. “And he’s gotten big hits and those are two big ones.”
Fernando Salas com-pleted the shutout with a scoreless ninth.
Carpenter hopes the Cardinals can continue the
momentum.“You continue to play
hard, just like we have all year,” he said. “Fortu-nately we’ve been pitch-ing well and hitting well. Some things are going well for us at times and we’re pitching and playing well. That’s what you have to do.
“We’ve been playing well and hopefully we can continue it tomorrow and get back home and con-tinue it at home.”
Notes: Pujols has now reached safely in 34 straight games. St. Louis outfielder Matt Holliday missed his fourth straight game with an inflamed tendon on his right middle finger. The Phillies’ crowd of 45,063 was the club’s 199th regular-season sell-out and 212th straight over-all, counting postseason. .. Philadelphia was shut out for just the sixth time this season. ... Cardinals right-hander Kyle Lohse (13-8, 3.62) is scheduled to face right-hander Roy Halladay (18-5, 2.34) at 7:05 Mon-day night in the finale of the four-game series.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — For the second straight week, Cam New-ton threw for more than 400 yards, sidestepped pass rushers and moved the Carolina Panthers up and down the field.
Leave it to Aaron Rod-gers and the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers to spoil Newton's home debut.
Rodgers threw for 308 yards and two scores, while the Packers with-stood a 432-yard passing day from the No. 1 overall draft pick to beat the Pan-thers 30-23 on Sunday.
A week after throwing for 422 yards — most in league history by a rookie in his professional debut — Newton topped himself by setting an NFL rookie record for passing yardage in a game. He passed for one touchdown and also ran for a 4-yard score with 37 seconds left to bring Carolina (0-2) within sev-en, but the Packers (2-0) recovered the onside kick to seal the victory.
Newton briefly held the NFL record for most pass-ing yards in the first two games of the season by any quarterback (854), be-fore New England's Tom Brady broke it a few hours later. Newton still set a league record for most yards passing in the first two games of a career.
"I knew he would be good, but if I told you I knew he'd be this good this early, I'd be lying to you," said Packers nose tackle B.J. Raji, who had one of four sacks of Newton. "He doesn't get frustrated. We threw a lot of stuff at him today and he was able to sit back there and make some of the plays they needed."
While Newton racked up the big yards, Rodg-ers was the one to direct his team to a victory. He found Greg Jennings for a 49-yard touchdown pass early in the third quarter, the go-ahead score in a run of 23 straight points to erase an early 13-0 deficit.
Then, after Clay Mat-thews stopped Newton a yard shy of the marker on a fourth-down run inside the 5, Rodgers found Jordy Nelson for an 84-yard
touchdown that made it a two-possession game and helped the Packers hang on.
"It wasn't clean by any means," Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy said. "We can sit here and pick apart all the things that didn't go right, but most impor-tantly, we finished it as a football team."
While Newton had an-other big yardage day, the Packers' defense came up big by forcing the rookie into three interceptions — two by Charles Woodson. Matthews' stop came as Newton and the Panthers were closing in on a tying touchdown.
Two plays later, Rodg-ers found Nelson on the left side, and the receiver sprinted down the sideline and all the way to the end zone to push the lead to 30-16 with 2:14 left.
Newton went on to crack the 400-yard mark on the ensuing possession, finding Steve Smith deep over the middle for a 62-yard pass before capping the drive with his scoring run. He completed 28 of 46 passes and showed plenty of mobility — he made
Matthews miss on tackles at least three times — and finished as Carolina's top rusher with 53 yards.
Rodgers said he told Newton afterward that he was impressed by the rookie's play.
"I think someone said in the locker room that I'm kind of glad we played him early in the season," Rodg-ers said, "because when he figures it out fully, he's go-ing to be even tougher to stop."
Just as with last week, Newton wasn't in the mood to celebrate after a loss.
"We've just got to get it right. We're going to get it right," Newton said. "But I'm not the person to just sit up here and say, 'Well, we have next time.' I'm not that type of person. I want it right now and I want to get it right now."
Newton couldn't have asked for a better start in his home debut in front of a crowd loudly cheering his every move and hoping he'll reverse the franchise's sagging fortunes. He threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Brandon LaFell on his first drive. Then, after a fumbled kickoff return by
Randall Cobb, Newton di-rected the first of two field-goal drives to take the 13-0 lead.
But Rodgers and the Packers offense — which spent most of the first quarter on the sideline — finally got in rhythm while Newton started making mistakes.
His first came late in the second quarter by throw-ing to Smith in double coverage, with Woodson diving in front of Smith near the sideline for the in-terception.
His second intercep-tion came when he tried to throw against pres-sure from Matthews, with Woodson jumping in front of Smith for a second pick. On the third, Newton sim-ply overthrew an open Legedu Naanee and the ball ended up in the arms of safety Morgan Burnett near midfield late in the third quarter.
"This is a rookie quar-terback that's learning and growing and getting better each opportunity he gets," Panthers coach Ron Rive-ra said. "When we go back and really get to watch the tape, we'll see he missed
a read here, he missed a throw here, but for the most part, he handled him-self with the type of poise and composure you would not expect."
Meanwhile, Rodg-ers played a mistake-free game and completed 19 of 30 throws. John Kuhn added a goal-line plunge for the Packers' first touch-down, while Mason Cros-by kicked three field goals.
Notes: Packers safety Nick Collins was carried off the field on a stretcher after he injured his neck while trying to tackle Jon-athan Stewart in the fourth quarter. The team said Col-lins had "normal feeling and complete movement" in his extremities but would be kept overnight in a hospital for observation. ... Packers receiver Donald Driver had a 10-yard catch to become the Packers' all-time leader with 9,666 receiving yards. ... Stewart and De'Angelo Williams combined for 18 yards rushing, though Stewart had eight catches for 100 yards. ... Smith had 156 yards receiving, but lost a fumble in the third quarter on a 25-yard catch.
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And the Winner Is…By ASHLEY BOGDANSKISTAFF WRITER
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This season on Big Brother 13, there have been a lot of twists throughout the game from the start. Originally eight “newbies” (people who had never played Big Brother) came into the Big Brother house. These eight people were Cassi, Dominic, Adam, Kalia, Keith, Lawon, Porsche, and Shelly.
The newbies were then told that they were going to have to work in pairs. All of a sudden three other couples from past Big Brother seasons came into the Big Brother house to play the game again. These three couples were
Jeff and Jordan from sea-son 11, Rachel and Bren-don from season 12, and Evel Dick and Daniele from season eight. These “veterans” coming into the house threw the newbies for a loop, and this made the veterans a target from day one.
There was also a second twist at the beginning of the game, which said that for the first four weeks, whoever was not the one evicted out of the couple up for eviction would be safe until there were only ten people left in the game. Daniele (received a golden key because her father left for a family emergency suddenly during week one), Porsche, Shelly, and Adam all received golden keys as well. This meant
that they were also unable to compete in competi-tions until the “golden key rule” expired.
Throughout the sum-mer, the veterans played their hearts out with win-ning most of the compe-titions at the beginning and getting some of the newbies out of the game. Then, a few veterans were sent home, until it all came down to Porsche, Adam, and Rachel for the final three.
For the final head of household (HOH) com-petition, the competition was broken up into three different parts. For the first part, Rachel, Adam, and Porsche were compet-ing in an endurance com-petition, which involved standing on what looked
like a beater over a bowl of what was intended to look like butter. The beater that they were standing on spun around and also went partially into the buttery mixture. Rachel won this part of the competition by hanging on the longest, not surprisingly since she has won most of the endur-ance competitions all sum-mer. As a result, Rachel advanced straight to round three of the HOH com-petition and would com-pete against the winner of round two.
Adam and Porsche had to battle it out for the sec-ond spot in the final com-petition. For the second competition, there was an underwater maze that con-tained all the past HOH’s pictures from the summer
in an underwater maze. The object of the compe-tition was to arrange the pictures in the maze in the order the contestants won the competitions. This competition was primarily based on speed; Porsche beat Adam with a time of three minutes and five seconds. Therefore, final competition was going to be Porsche vs. Rachel.
For the final compe-tition to determine who would be the final and most valuable HOH, Rachel and Porsche had to finish sen-tences from the people in the jury house. Rachel won the final HOH over Porsche by getting two answers correct out of five and then picked Porsche to go to the final two. The winner would win a grand
prize of $500,000. Rachel and Porsche both had to answer questions from the jury (consisting of evicted houseguests) to explain why they should deserve the money.
In the end, Rachel won Big Brother Season 13 by a vote of four to three. Brendon, Jeff, Jordan, and Shelly all voted for Rachel to win, while Daniele, Ka-lia, and Adam all voted for Porsche to win Big Broth-er season 13. However, Porsche did not go away empty handed; the sec-ond place winner always receives $50,000. Lastly, America voted for who their favorite Big Brother competitor of the season was; for the second time, Jeff won $25,000.
Any Questions? Please contact Larry Earnesty at 203‐932‐7026 or via email at [email protected]
This past year the Department of Athletics in conjunction with the Substance Use Task Force was awarded grants from the NCAA and the State of Connecticut to enhance the alcohol education programming on campus, by encouraging our students to make responsible CHOICES. As a result, the grant committees would like you to create the official logo for all alcohol educational programming conducted at UNH for years to come. The winning logo will be the new permanent logo for all alcohol education conducted on the campus of the University for New Haven. Logo will be unveiled during Alcohol Awareness Week October 16th‐22nd. Contest begins: August 25th Entry Deadline: September 23rd. Criteria:
1. Logo must include the words “University of New Haven” 2. Logo must incorporate the title “CHARGER CHOICES” 3. Logo must be Charger Blue and Gold
Eligibility: All students, Faculty and Staff are encouraged to participate. Selection of entries: All entries will be judged on the above criteria and the CHARGER CHOICES logo will be selected by the Substance Use Task Force and the Charger CHOICES Grant Committee. Logo submission: All entries must be submitted electronically to Larry Earnesty at [email protected]. All entries must be submitted as a JPEG. Once winning logo is determined, winner will be contacted to supply a logo file for print production. All entries must accompany the following information. Name, year, major, email address and phone number.
So How’s the Emmy Awards Show Going?By DAVID BAUDERASSOCIATED PRESS
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It's never a good sign when a show celebrating television feels like a rerun from the beginning.
When host Jane Lynch of "Glee" began a pre-taped musical number celebrating TV with "sur-prise" guest spots from prominent actors, a viewer immediately thinks of Jim-my Fallon's "Born to Run" takeoff on last year's show.
Not in a good way, though. Fallon's open-ing felt fresh and funny. Lynch's felt hashed-over. Even Jon Hamm was a re-run; the "Mad Men" actor appeared in Fallon's skit, too.
There's also something a little off-putting about a musical number pro-claiming television "a vast wonderland" and "joy in a box" when it's drenched in irony. This is the time of year when viewers actu-ally want to believe that,
and not feel it's all one big joke.
The problem with using irony as the dominant co-medic theme is that under-cuts other moments. Char-lie Sheen may deserve his own real-life Emmy for his springtime of bi-zarre entertainment, but he came onstage Sunday to calmly wish the stars of his old "Two and Half Men" good luck in their upcom-ing season.
Then you waited. He couldn't mean that, could
he? It had to be some sort of a joke, right? No, appar-ently not.
By the way, the Emmys should rethink the idea of frontloading the telecast with so many comedy awards. Not only does it diminish comedy vis a vis drama, it takes the risk of what exactly happened Sunday: that the awards were less about all of tele-vision and more about one show.
That did give Lynch her best moment of the night.
"Welcome back to the 'Modern Family' awards," she said coming back from a commercial.
Speaking of "Modern Family," Emmy winner Julie Bowen needs a few meals. She looked emaci-ated in her gown.
The drama awards did add some class and a few surprises to the show. The biggest was when Kyle Chandler of "Friday Night Lights" took home the dra-ma acting award, giving luster to a network show that struggled for public attention.
Guy Pearce and Kate Winslet were delights for their wins with "Mildred Pierce." Pearce was drolly humorous in talking about working with Winslet, while Winslet — a big movie star — was infec-tious with her enthusiasm.
It's early in awards sea-son, but can we start a mor-atorium on winners saying "I did not think that was going to happen" or "I was sure I wasn't going to win so I didn't write a speech"? Come on, we heard from the "Mad Men" folks when they won best drama. You're the most praised show on television, and you say you're surprised to win an Emmy? Come on. If you're nominated, don't act surprised to win.
The Emmy for most sincere pleasure had to go to Margo Martindale, a veteran actress genuinely touched by winning for "Justified."
We're happy for "The Good Wife" and CBS and for Julianna Margulies for her Emmy. But it sounded awfully off-putting to hear her describe "my stellar cast."
It's also time, perhaps, to get rid of the announcer who makes pithy com-ments while Emmy win-ners approach the stage, like when he talked about Margulies' favorite "I Love Lucy" episodes as she climbed to the stage. Really? When it's neither funny nor adds valuable information, it may be the
time to rethink it.You want reruns? How
about "The Daily Show" and Jon Stewart winning an Emmy for their show for the ninth year in a row? Or another win for "Amaz-ing Race"? Their work shouldn't be diminished, but it's just one more sig-nal for viewers that they've seen it all before. Da-vid Spade couldn't have looked less excited about the reality show awards if he was trying to act that way.
In one sign that much of the creativity in televi-sion has shifted to late-night, one of the night's best routines came when Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel came onstage to present an award. Their elaborate joke about whether or not Fallon had written a speech in case he won an Emmy felt fresh and funny.
We liked the beauty pageant way the nominees for best comedy actress lined up onstage when their names were called.
The biggest backstage buzz was about someone who WASN'T there: Alec Baldwin. He asked that a pre-taped bit that included him in the opening skit be excluded when a joke involving News Corp.'s phone hacking scandal was cut out by Emmys broadcaster Fox. He was replaced by Leonard Ni-moy.
It all made Ricky Ger-vais' comedy skit seem more ironic. The contro-versial "Golden Globes" host appeared in a pre-taped routine, and said Fox editors would change it if he said something offensive. Of course, he seemed to say several "of-fensive" things awkwardly cut out and replaced. After Gervais started saying that HBO was the best network on television, the edit had him saying, "apart from Fox, that is."
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and violence, Drive represents a fully realized vision of arthouse action.
Top 12 Movies This Week from RottenTomatoes.com
Top Pop Singles1. Someone Like You, Adele, Columbia
2. Moves Like Jagger, Maroon 5, featuring Christina Aguilera, A&M/Octone
3. Pumped Up Kicks, Foster the People, Colum-bia
4. Party Rock Anthem, LMFAO, featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock, Cherry Tree
5. Super Bass, Nicki Minaj, Cash Money
6. You and I, Lady Gaga, Streamline/Kon Live/Interscope
7. Lighters, Bad Meets Evil, featuring Bruno Mars, Aftermath
8. You Make Me Feel, Cobra Starship, featuring Sabi, Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen
9. Give Me Everything, Pitbull, featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer, PID
10. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.), Katy Perry, Capitol
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Dave’s Music ReportI think it’s pretty safe
to say that reality televi-sion has really changed pop culture in America. Almost undeniably the leader of the pack is (or was) American Idol. It probably had something to do with a combination of the audience interac-tion and the witnessing of the American dream that really drew people in, but it was only a matter of time before the copycats emerged. Now, in Europe, singing competitions have been around forever, and they have remained over-whelmingly popular. In fact, pretty much all of the singing competition shows in America are just imports from overseas, including American Idol, America’s Got Talent, and the newest addition to the pack, The X Factor.
However, in the U.S., it’s kind of a different ball-game. Currently, there’s no
bigger television show or force in the music industry than the Simon Cowell-led X Factor. Even the third and fourth runners up are releasing massively suc-cessful music, and past competitors have gone on to have big careers. Here in the U.S., contestants don’t seem to be quite so lucky. In fact, Idol winners such as Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood are the exceptions rather than the rules. I mean, who even knows what fellow winners Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks are do-ing? Let alone, who cares? Sure, even some non-win-ners have seen success, such as Chris Daughtry and his self-titled band, and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson; but are they actu-ally amongst the biggest acts in music? Not really.
So the question really is why so many shows? Sure, ratings are consis-
tently high, but American Idol hasn’t produced a true superstar since Car-rie Underwood in 2005. Instead, we’ve seen more cult acts, such as Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken, middle ground pop stars, like Jordan Sparks, and a hoard of complete failures. Even Jennifer Hudson is more of just a celebrity with an acclaimed voice. She’s hardly lighting up the charts. So what makes other shows think they can top it?
This summer, we were introduced to The Voice. A confusingly crafted, yet strangely addictive compe-tition, the show was one of the most surprising hits of the summer. In fact, it real-ly seemed like the winner and even runners up, had a real shot at superstardom. However, as time moves farther away from the fina-le, where Javier Colon was named “The Voice,” a suc-
cessful career is starting to seem more and more grim. Now, I could be wrong, but to put it in perspective, when Kelly Clarkson won Idol, her debut single was a huge-selling #1. Javier’s single barely cracked the top-20. We’ve also seen shows like America’s Got Talent, the US version of Britain’s Got Talent, which produced the multi-platinum international su-perstar Susan Boyle, has failed to truly launch a mega-star, the exception being Jackie Evencho, the 11-year-old classical crossover singer, who has seen unprecedented album sales for her genre.
It almost appears that the judges are the ones who actually reap the ben-efits. New Idol judges, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are perfect examples. The Aerosmith frontman earned himself a top-40 hit, and J.Lo unarguably
By Dave IannaconeA Reality Checkhad one of the biggest singles of the year, “On The Floor,” which was her most popular in quite some time. The Voice judges seemed to have it even better! A faltering Christi-na Aguilera was tacked on to fellow-mentor, Adam Levine’s band Maroon 5’s single “Moves Like Jag-ger,” and the song is cur-rently sitting on top of the Billboard Hot 100. Even country artist Blake Shel-ton earned his first #1 al-bum after appearing on the show. However, as for the contestants themselves? No one’s really seems to care all that much.
So now that Simon Cowell is bringing The X Factor to America, we re-ally have to re-examine the “why?” from earlier. Yes, it’s huge overseas, but that doesn’t particu-larly mean it will be here. It also has at least three competing shows, two of
which Cowell had a hand in creating, and more on the way. What’s the draw? To be quite honest, Simon himself and the return of former Idol judge, Paula Abdul. Will the contes-tants actually win fame? That’s to be determined, but if the previous shows are anything to go by, probably not.
It really seems that these television shows are just that…shows. They’re not really setting up any-one for superstardom. They’re just providing bi-weekly entertainment. Once the show’s over, so is the interest. I think the appeal is very legitimate, but the competition is re-ally all that matters. The winner wins their moment of glory, and that’s really about it.
“Toddlers” Controversy: When is Enough, Enough?By ANA ABRAHAMSTAFF WRITER
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CNN recently wrote an article on the controversial TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras. The show, which has been airing since 2009, has been a cause for heat-ed debates over whether the line between innocent children playing dress up and young girls being sexualized by their parents even exists anymore.
In recent footage, a three year old contestant was dressed up to look like Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman. Another episode had a young girl dressed like Dolly Parton,
with padding on her chest and buttocks. These two girls were obviously too young to realize the impli-cations of the outfits they were wearing, but there is a strong agreement among critics that their parents should have known better.
Toddlers and Tiaras shows a new pageant every week, usually following three or four contestants from the week leading up to the pageant to the pag-eant itself. When the pag-eant itself is shown, TLC lets viewers see before and after pictures of each child. The screen splits in half: one half showing an inno-cent, non- made up child and the other half show-
ing the same child looking like a doll. The children are subjected to fake hair, nails, tans, teeth, and ab-surd amounts of make up, often for no more than a small monetary prize or a pageant title.
The show focuses on the children’s parents, of-tentimes more than the children themselves. The parents are often short with their children, and they let it be known that the kids have no choice in compet-ing. Some of the children scream and cry and throw tantrums, and some even hit their mothers. Some of the mothers even say that the money they make winning pageants is re-in-
vested into pageants, even though their families are having financial trouble. A therapist from California, Dr. Nancy Irwin, is quot-ed as saying to a popular news source, “These par-ents are selfish…spoiling their children, and train-ing them that their value is based on their beauty.”
All this is not to insult pageant children. There are many people who say that pageants transformed their life and their family’s lives for the better. How-ever, the current consensus is that Toddlers and Tiaras has taken a potentially in-nocent competition sport a step too far.
Netflix Separates its DVD, Streaming BusinessesBy BARBARA ORTUTAYASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix Inc. is moving to formally separate the DVD-by-mail plan it built its business on from the online streaming service it's betting will be future of entertainment consump-tion.
In announcing the changes, CEO Reed Hast-ings also apologized to subscribers for the way the company communicated its decision to split the two services, which raised the prices for those who want both.
The mail order plan will be renamed "Qwikster." In a few weeks, Netflix sub-scribers who want to get DVDs by mail will go to a separate website to access Qwikster. The streaming business will continue to be called Netflix.
Members who sub-scribe to both services will have two entries on their credit card statements. In-stead of Netflix, the dis-tinctive red envelopes will now say Qwikster.
It's a risky bet. The amount of streaming con-tent the company offers is still far less than the num-
ber of DVDs in its catalog. And competition, from Hulu, Amazon, Coinstar's Redbox kiosks and other services, is growing. Net-flix could even alienate customers further by ask-ing them to now deal with two separate websites and accounts instead of just one.
Netflix CEO Reed Hast-ings apologized for the way the company commu-nicated the price changes, but not for the price hike itself.
"I messed up," Hast-ings wrote in a blog post Sunday night that was also emailed to subscribers.
The changes come as the company faces increas-ing scrutiny from custom-ers and shareholders over the decision announced in July to separate its mail or-der and Internet streaming services into two separate plans. The change raised the prices for users who want both services, by as much as 60 percent for some.
"Our view is with this split of the businesses, we will be better at stream-ing, and we will be better at DVD by mail," Hastings wrote.
Last week, Netflix low-ered its U.S. subscriber
forecast for the third quar-ter and the former stock market darling's shares took a beating as a result.
Hastings said he "slid into arrogance based upon past success" when he did not adequately explain the reasons behind the plan separation and effective price hike. He said the rea-son is that instant stream-ing and DVD-by-mail are becoming "two quite dif-ferent businesses, with very different cost struc-tures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently."
Explaining the reasons behind the plan change "wouldn't have changed the price increase, but it would have been the right thing to do," Hastings wrote.
Netflix announced its move just as the once-mighty Borders Inc. shut-tered the last of its book-stores around the country. Hastings' blog post seemed to take heed. He said that for the past five years, his "greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn't make the leap from suc-cess in DVDs to success in streaming."
"Most companies that
are great at something — like AOL dialup or Bor-ders bookstores — do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us). So we moved quickly into streaming, but I should have personally given you a full explanation of why we are splitting the servic-es and thereby increasing prices," he wrote.
Hastings said the DVD service will be the same as ever, "just a new name." But customers will see a video games upgrade op-tion for game rentals on the Qwikster website. Andy Rendich, who has been working on Netflix's DVD service for 12 years, and leading it for the past four years, will be the CEO of Qwikster.
Hastings also said Net-flix will add "substantial" streaming content in the next few months, and re-assured that there are no more pricing changes.
Shares of Los Gatos, California-based Netflix rose $4.13, or 2.7 percent, to $159.32 in morning trading. The stock is about 45 percent since July 12, when the company an-nounced the plan pricing changes.
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