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Charger BulletinVolume 88, Issue 20 | March 10, 2010

Autistic Musicians Play with Perfect Pitch; Gigs in San Jose, Santa Clara

Oscars Make History as Bigelow PioneersBy DAVID GERMAINASSOCIATED PRESS

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LOS ANGELES – Kathryn Big-elow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker to the screen.

After her film triumphed at

the Academy Awards with six prizes and made her the first woman ever to win the directing Oscar, she graduated to diplomat with her deft handling of some uncomfortable personal ques-tions from reporters after the show.

Bigelow’s rivals included a man from her past — ex-hus-

band James Cameron, whose science-fiction epic Avatar also was nominated for the best pic-ture and director that she won.

Backstage, Bigelow judi-ciously handled reporters’ que-ries about Cameron, who was seated right behind her at the Oscars and joined the standing ovation she received, clapping

heartily and saying, “Yes, yes” after she won best director.

“Jim is very inspiring. I think he inspires filmmakers around the world, and for that, I think I can speak for all of them. We’re quite grateful,” Bigelow said.

Asked what she might say to Cameron about winning over him, Bigelow gave a big laugh

and shrugged off the question.“You left me speechless,”

Bigelow said. She and Cameron were married from 1989-91, and Cameron won best director and picture for his 1997 blockbuster Titanic.

First-time winners took all four acting prizes: Sandra Bull-ock as best actress for The Blind

Side; Jeff Bridges as best actor for Crazy Heart; Mo’Nique as supporting actress for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sap-phire; and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for Inglourious Basterds.

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In the Theatres and Down the Rabbit Hole...

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Lawrence Wang used to hate the shrill sounds of the flute. He’d clamp his hands over his ears to drown out his sister’s piano playing. Dur-ing music lessons, he’d fidget and fight with his teacher.

On Saturday, though, he tapped his feet while blowing happily on his saxo-phone, a member of an unusual band of special-needs per-formers.

Those who love Wang and his peers are thrilled to see how music calms their autistic nerves and becomes a unifying force in a world where they often don’t easily fit.

“Don’t ever give up on your children,’’ said Lawrence’s mother, Anna Wang of Fremont, who through her son, now 20, has become a prominent Silicon Valley autism activist. “You’ve got to open them up to possibili-ties. We so often write them off. It doesn’t do our children justice. God has gifts for everyone.’’

Later this month, Wang and 21 others have gigs at the East Side Union High School District and at a Santa Clara restaurant with the predominantly autistic band, the Magic Makers.

Autism is a bioneurological disease often marked by im-paired social behavior, such as making scant eye contact and speaking repetitively. As the

1988 film Rain Man demon-strated, autistic people can also have genius-like qualities. In that Academy-Award winning film, the lead character, played by Dustin Hoffman, was gifted

in memory and math.Some of the Magic Makers

are gifted in music.Wang’s mother calls him

a “music savant.” He doesn’t practice.

He doesn’t sight-read. And he still mostly argues with his mu-sic teachers during lessons. But pop in a CD, and in an instant “Lawrence hears the music and almost simultaneously trans-poses it,’’ his mother said. “It’s really weird.’’

It may be a little weird at first, said David Ladd Anderson, the band’s director, but it’s also wonderful.

“These guys can sing and play at a really high level,’’ said Anderson, who is also a wildly popular music teacher at Buch-ser School in Santa Clara, where he started a dancing group for kids with special needs 10 years ago. “The singers have perfect

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By CAROLE MCFADDANSTAFF WRITER

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First thing’s first, “Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?” Make sure to get out to see Alice in Wonderland to find out the an-swer to this riddle!

Alice’s [Adventures] in Won-derland is a novel written by English author Charles Lut-widge Dodgson under pseud-onym Lewis Carroll in 1865. The popular story is about a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that has given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.

Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland is a fantasy ad-venture film written by Linda Woolverton. The movie stars an eccentric cast, including Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Hel-ena Bonham Carter, Anne Ha-thaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, and Stephen Fry.

In the film, Alice is now 19 and accidentally returns to Won-derland. She is told that she is the only one that can slay the Jabber-wocky, a dragon controlled by

the Red Queen. Burton doesn’t see this as a sequel to previous films or as a re-imagining; he be-

lieves the original Wonderland was only about a girl wandering

around from one character to an-other without an emotional con-nection. Burton wanted to make

his feel m o r e like a s t o r y t h a n a se-ries of events. T h e f i l m uses a t e c h -n i q u e of com-b i n i n g l i v e a c t i o n and an-imation i n t o unusual graphic scenes.

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A few weeks ago, The Char-ger Bulletin went green for a week! Instead of the normal, building-to-building delivery service that normally occurs every Wednesday morning, the paper was instead available on-line to any curious clicker across campus. Of course since then, The Charger Bulletin has gone

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back to its normal technologi-cally advanced printing meth-ods: your every day newspaper!

For those who don’t know, printing of the weekly edition of The Charger Bulletin is not exactly the most green process on campus. We use a lot of pa-per for copy editing, energy to create layouts, and we normally order more newspapers than the campus actually needs. In order to reach out to the campus com-

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Members of “Magic Makers” perform at a special needs performance of the Jungle Book at the Mexican Heritage

plaza in San Jose Saturday, Mar. 6, 2010. (A Patrick Tehan/Mercury News PHOTO)

Big Wins for The Hurt Locker, Bigelow, Bullock, Bridges

Earthquake Flattens Turkish Villages,

Kills 51By KADIR KONUKSEVERASSOCIATED PRESS

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OKCULAR, Turkey – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a pre-liminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, kill-ing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.

The earthquake surprised

many people as they slept, crum-pling buildings into piles of rub-ble. Panicked survivors fled into the narrow village streets, some climbing out of windows, as more than 50 aftershocks mea-suring up to 5.5 and 5.3 magni-tude rattled the region.

The Kandilli seismology cen-ter said the quake hit at 4:32 a.m. (0232 GMT, 9 p.m. EST Sunday)

See EARTHQUAKE page 10

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Animal Awareness Tipby Maideline Sanchez by Joann Wolowowicz

Editor-in-Chief Zack RosenAssitant Editor Erin Ennis

Staff Writers Stephen Acevedo, Glenn Altshuler, Michael Barone, Jason Beaure-gard, Mia Becker, Ashley Bogdanski, Natalie Brandt, Heather Brown, Miriam Cor-reia, Liz De La Torre, Angela Eklund, Vanessa Estime, Matt Ezzo, Courtney Faber, Alex Gardner, Zach Gzehoviak, Stephen J. Johnson, Michael Kelly, Alex Kratman, Lindsay Lynch, Sara McGuire, Carole McFaddan, Dave McKinney, Ashley Niro, Sophie Omelchenko, Cara Petitti, Kyle Quinn-Quesada, Kait Richmond, Angeli-ca Rodriguez, Melanie Rovinsky, Maideline Sanchez, Michelle Tapper, Jonathan Starkes, Kat Wilberding, Joann Wolwowicz

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Sports Writers Tom Chieppo, Phil Paquette

Sports Layout Kyle Quinn-Quesada

Content Editors Brittni DeHart, Liz De La Torre, Courtney Faber, Stephen James Johnson, Alex Kratman, Stephanie Manganiello, Dave McKinney, Maideline San-chez, Josh Van Hoesen

Staff Photographers Colin Bassett, Sam Claver, Kim Harman

Feature Editors Tyler Salovin, Shawn Tremblay, Josh Van Hoesen

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Now that March is ful-ly underway we can look forward to what March is known for other than St. Patrick’s Day. Grow-ing out of a small-town school event in Califor-nia, Women’s History Month is a celebration of all of women’s contribu-tions to history, culture, and society. The United States observes it annu-ally throughout the month of March.

In 1979, the school district of Sonoma, Cali-fornia organized this weeklong celebration. Their idea quickly caught on within communities, schools, and organiza-tions across the country. In 1981, the US Congress made it official by pass-ing a bill establishing Women’s History Week. Six years later, the event was expanded into the en-tire month of March.

Each year, the Na-tional Women’s History Project selects a theme that highlights achieve-ments by distinguished

Women’s History MonthThe Alligatorwomen in specific fields, from medicine and the environment to art and politics. This year’s theme “Writing Women Back into History” commemo-rates the 30th anniversary and recognizes efforts to document women’s ac-complishments and ex-periences in textbooks, where they have been left out for many years. Coin-ciding with Women’s His-tory month is International Women’s Day on Mar. 8, which many countries cel-ebrate. There are demon-strations, educational ini-tiatives, and customs such as offering gifts and flow-ers. The United Nations has sponsored this holiday since 1975.

Looking back at this country’s history, there are many events that are sig-nificant and worthy of cel-ebration during Women’s History Month. The first women’s-rights conven-tion met in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, where they signed a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on

the Declaration of Inde-pendence, declaring that women (like men) were citizens with an “inalien-able right to the elective franchise.”

Further down the line, Wyoming Territory was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869. In 1924, the state’s voters also elected the nation’s first female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross. Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 and activ-ist Alice Paul proposed the Equal Rights Amend-ment for the first time in 1923. In 1928, Ame-lia Earhart was the first woman to cross the At-lantic in an airplane, and in 1933, Frances Perkins became the first female member of a Presiden-tial cabinet. Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman on the Supreme Court in 1981, nominated by Ronald Reagan. Mad-eleine Albright became

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Alligators have been known to exist for 200 million years, since the ages of reptiles. There are currently two well known types: American Alliga-tors (Alligator mississip-piensis) and Chinese Alligators (Alligator sinsensis). The species name originates from the Spanish term “el lagarto” which means “the lizard” when translated in English. The American Alli-gator can grow up to 14.5 feet and weigh up to 1,032 pounds while the Chinese Al-ligator can only grow up to 5 feet and weigh up to 100 pounds. They also grow rather slowly, only reaching two feet after 2 years.

American alligators are found in the south-eastern United States, where they live in fresh-water environments such as ponds, marshes, rivers, lakes, and swamps. The largest recorded popu-lation of alligators liv-

ing in the United States is found in Louisiana. The area can hold up to 1 mil-lion of these reptiles at a given time. Chinese Alli-gators are only found near the Yungtze River Valley,

the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Nile and the Amazon.

Generally, the larger males tend to be solitary and territorial while the smaller species remain in close proximity to each other. Their main sources

of food are smaller ani-mals, although they may sometimes consume larger prey by drowning them and initiating the “death-roll.” The “death-roll” is a technique used

by alligators to tear off larger chunks of meat of their prey by spin-ning convulsively.

In the spring, fe-males lay about 40 eggs at a time and the incubation period is 65 days. The hatch-lings use their “egg-tooth” to break open the shell. Alligators stay with their moth-ers for about 1.5 years until they move on to live on their own.

Did You Know?The sex of alligators is

determined by the incu-bation temperature while they are still in their shells. A temperature of 83°F or lower produce females while a tempera-ture of 93°F or higher produce males.

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USGA President’s CornerFellow UNH stu-

dents,Media head selection

time is here! If you are interested in applying to become a co-chair of SCOPE, editor-in-chief of assistant editor of The Charger Bulletin, or editor or assistant editor of the Chariot Yearbook, applications are avail-able now – and are due on Mar. 12. If you have any questions about the media head selection process please e-mail me at [email protected].

Be on the lookout for the USGA elec-tions campaign “Burg-ers for Ballots.” The USGA will be passing out $5 gift cards to Five Guys Burgers and Fries throughout the voting

period. In order to receive one of these gift cards, you must be one of the first 500 students to cast a ballot in the Bartels student center. Voting will be Mar. 29 – Mar. 31. Don’t miss out!

The annual Alumni Scholarship Ball will be held this year on Saturday, Apr. 17 in the David Beck-erman Recreation Center. The USGA has purchased a table for this year’s event and we would like to invite all UNH students. If you are interested in attending this event please send an e-mail to me at [email protected] by Mar. 31 at 5pm. Please answer the question: What is your involvement at UNH and how would you benefit from attending this scholarship ball? Please keep in mind you can only

attend if you are 21 years of age or older.

I encourage any stu-dents who have any ques-tions about UNH or how to get involved to come visit the USGA offices located on the top floor of Bartels Hall. You can find students throughout the day who will be able to answer your questions or help you any way they can. As always, if you have any concerns log onto www.charger-voice.com and let your voice be heard!

Have a great week,

Christopher RinckUSGA PresidentU S G A P r e s i d e n t @ n e -whaven.edu

If you did not participate last week, you missed a great Film Week: we had tons of movie-themed events! My favorite, by far, was the movie trivia game show; all of those who came out had a great time answering questions about their favorite movies and many walked away with cash prizes. Last week we also showed the movie Precious, which won many Oscars on Sunday night.

We showed two movies on Saturday night, Timer and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. We had an event where you could make your own movie poster. This event allowed you to get a picture of yourself super imposed into a movie poster. I got one with Wall-E, although Zack Rosen and Heather Brown made a pretty awesome poster if you ask me! SCOPE also took students to see Alice in Wonderland on Fri-day night. Students got to learn what their name meant with the birthday chronicles event and what’s in a name event.

To top it all off we ended film week with the Oscar party. A bunch of students came out, enjoyed some yummy pizza, watched the Oscars, and had the chance to win prizes.

But enough with last week: what’s coming up this week! Monday: special events will be hosting a Michael Jackson

Impersonator in the German club from 9-11pm. Wednesday: we will have Bean House at 9pm in the Rec

Center at Up til Dawn. Come on out and show off your talents while helping to raise money for St. Jude’s. Film will also be showing the movie for this week, The Blind Side, and it will start at 7:30 pm in the Alumni Lounge.

This weekend SCOPE will not be holding events due to spring break; we will also not be showing the movie on Friday. We hope you all have a safe and fun spring break and hope to see you at all our events when you return. Keep an eye out for upcoming events: the week we return from spring break will be our 2nd annual comedy week and SCOPE has a lot of funny things in store for you!

SCOPE It Out!by Lindsay Lynch

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munity through the school newspaper, we have to rely on relatively “non-Earth friendly” methods to print. However, some of that is about to change.

In an effort to embrace the green living lifestyle adapted throughout cam-pus, The Charger Bulletin will be making strides to add green practices to our papers. Don’t worry, cop-ies of the paper will still be delivered to blue news-stands across campus. The Charger Bulletin will still be available in print and online copies. Instead, ed-itor-in-chief Zack Rosen and assistant editor Erin Ennis will be collecting all of the unused papers at the end of the week and recycling them to local schools.

During the week, The Charger Bulletin will be rounding up all of the un-used copies of the paper on campus: whether in our newsstands, our of-fice, or floating randomly around campus. These ex-tra copies will be brought to middle and elementary schools within the West

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REC Sports season 3 has come to a close. Congratulations to all the champions and thank you for participating. Season 4 kicks off after spring break with 6v6 volleyball, in-door soccer, softball, and roller hockey. Registration is already underway, and teams have until Mar. 24 to sign up. There is a 40 team cap for softball, so be sure to get your registration in early. Other league caps apply as reported on the website. In any case, don’t be left out by waiting until

Dr. L. Timothy Ryan ’77, Certified Master Chef is the college’s fifth Presi-dent. A 1977 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, Chef Ryan is the first alumnus and the first faculty member to rise through the ranks to become president. His re-sponsibilities as Executive Vice President included supervision all of the col-lege’s degree programs and continuing education, as well as faculty develop-ment, the CIA’s intellectu-al properties and the then 62,000-volume library. During his 28 years at the college, Dr. Ryan has been instrumental in generat-ing the sustained growth, innovation, and quality improvements that have shaped the CIA.

After five years as a chef in the restaurant in-dustry, Tim Ryan returned to his alma mater in 1982 to serve on the faculty. As part of the team that devel-oped the CIA’s American Bounty Restaurant, Chef Ryan was a leader in the American cuisine move-ment. Under his leader-ship at the CIA, the col-lege launched several new programs, including the world’s first bach-elor’s degree in culinary arts and baking & pastry arts management; devel-oped a highly successful publishing program; fash-ioned award-winning vid-eos and television shows;

Food in the FuturePresident of the Culinary Institute Slated to

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dramatically expanded the college’s continuing education programs; and strengthened an already gifted faculty.

Tim Ryan is well known throughout the hospital-

ity industry. He holds the distinction of being the youngest national presi-dent of the American Cu-linary Federation (ACF), elected at age 36, and at 26 he became the young-est person ever to receive Master Chef Certification from that organization. Chef Ryan has also served as ACF vice-president and chairman, and is a former chairman of the editorial council for the ACF's pub-lication, The National Cu-linary Review.

He was named the ACF’s 1998 Chef of the Year and is one of five Americans ever to receive

the Presidential Medal from the World Associa-tion of Cooks Societies. He also captained the U.S. Culinary Olympic Team to a world championship.

A native of Pittsburgh,

Dr. Ryan earned his doc-torate degree in education from The University of Pennsylvania and bach-elors and M.B.A. degrees from the University of New Haven. He lives in Hyde Park, NY with his wife Lynne and their two children, Jackson and Sawyer.

Dr. Tim Ryan is com-ing to UNH as the Rob-ert Alvine Professional Enrichment Program distinguished lecturer on Wednesday, Mar. 31 at 11am in the Alumni Lounge. All are invited and strongly encouraged to attend.

Spring Break at the Rec Center; Gearing Up for Season 4

By KAT WILBERDINGSTAFF WRITER

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the last day to register. All registration is completed online at Charger REC website. Also look out for tournaments and events to finish out another great semester and year in REC Sports.

Speaking of the end of classes, Spring Break is just around the corner. While you take reprieve from classes the Becker-man Recreation Center will still be open for stu-dent use. Spring Break hours are as follows:

Mon. – Fri. 6:30 am – 7:00 pm

Sat. 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Sun. 12:00 pm –

5:00 pmSpring Break hours

start Friday, Mar. 12 with a closing time at 7 pm that night and run through Saturday Mar. 20. Regu-lar hours resume Sunday, Mar. 21.

Starting Saturday, Mar. 13 there will be no Group X classes or instructional programs during Spring Break. These courses re-sume Monday, Mar. 22. Enjoy the vacation, and if you have the opportunity stop by and release your stress with a quick work-out. Energize yourself for the last half of the semes-ter and the ever approach-ing end of the year.

Haven, New Haven, Mil-ford, and Orange commu-nities. Currently, many of these schools use news-print for many different activities including paper mache, gluing, desk pro-tection, and painting.

Remember when, back in elementary school, you would cover your desk in newspaper or scrap paper in order to avoid messes and spills? Now The Char-ger Bulletin will be bring-ing itself to the desks of students across the West Haven area. Our articles, editorials, comics, games, and popular features will be placed amongst glue, paint, and the occasional spill of sparkly glitter. While everyone may not see the great contribution this effort will bring, The Charger Bulletin knows it will be helping aid stu-dents at the lowest level while keeping unused newspapers away from trash recepticles. Now, your very own Charger Bulletin will be aiding the green living effort here on campus while supplying nearby schools with mate-rial for their classes.

Following the assassi-nation of a Hamas opera-tive, Dubai police will use voice and face profiling to detect Israelis arriving with foreign passports, the police chief said Monday. Israelis have always been forbidden from traveling to the United Arab Emir-ates on their passports, but dual-nationals could use their alternative passports to enter the country.

Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim said that travel-ers suspected of being Is-raeli will not be allowed into the Gulf country even if they arrive on another passport. The Emirates will "deny entry to anyone suspected of having Israeli citizenship," Tamim said. Dual nationality is fairly common in Israel.

The move follows the killing of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai, blamed by the Emirates authorities

Dubai to Use Profiling to Detect Israelis

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on Israel's Mossad intelli-gence agency.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in a Dubai hotel room on Jan. 20. The authorities have identi-fied at least 26 suspects of the alleged hit squad that traveled to Dubai. The hit squad used fake identities and forged European and Australian passports to kill al-Mabhouh. At least 15 of the suspected kill-ers share names with Is-raeli citizens, further fuel-ing suspicions the Mossad was behind the hit. "It is disgraceful how the kill-ers abused European (and other) passports and UAE soil to assassinate," Ta-mim told reporters at the sidelines of a security con-ference in Abu Dhabi. "We will not allow those who hold Israeli passports into the UAE no matter what other passport they have," Tamim said.

He did not explain what procedures would be used to identify the Israeli visi-tors, except that the po-

lice will "develop skills" to recognize Israelis by "physical features and the way they speak." It was also unclear if the measure would apply to Israeli ath-letes competing in interna-tional sports events in the Emirates and how it could affect Israel's participa-tion in international meet-ings. Last month, Israel's Shahar Peer was allowed to play in a Dubai tennis tournament, a year after the event's organizers were fined $300,000 for deny-ing her a visa to participate in the international tourna-ment. Security concerns had been cited at the time but were later overruled.

Many Israelis hold passports of other coun-tries, allowing them to travel to states that have no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, including all Arab countries, save Egypt and Jordan. Israel has maintained a policy of ambiguity on the killing, neither confirming or de-nying involvement.

If you lived through the 60’s and had even the slightest awareness of the war raging half way across the world, you would remember Phil Ochs. Whether you supported or opposed the Vietnam War at the time, Ochs was the smart, satirical, and mu-sical embodiment of the anti-war movement.

With songs like “I Ain't Marching Anymore,” “Draft Dodger Rag,” “Out-side of a Small Circle of Friends,” “Changes,” and

Lots of Folks Love Phil OchsLots of Folks Love Phil Ochs: CT Folk’s First Fridays Concert Series

Presents a Tribute to the Man and his MusicBy BARBARA MANNERSFIRST FRIDAYS, NEW HAVEN

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“Love Me, I'm a Liberal,” Phil was unafraid to skew-er the hypocrisy he saw on the right, on the left, and in the center. He received en-thusiastic acclaim at ven-ues like the Newport Folk Festival and Carnegie Hall despite the informal black-listing treatment he re-ceived from TV and most commercial radio stations. Along with Joan Baez, he became the singing voice of the anti-war movement as he appeared at major rallies from coast to coast.

To J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, who kept an ex-tensive file on him, he was anti-American. To many

he was a truth-telling hero whose early and tragic death in 1976 left us be-reft, wondering if there would ever be another songwriter who could transform the topics of the day into timeless message that transcend any particu-lar era.

The songs of Phil Ochs should be part of your life. Whether you remember the man himself or want to get hip to him now you’ll en-joy and embrace his songs on Friday, Apr. 9, when Phil’s sister Sonny Ochs presents “Phil Ochs Song Night” at First Fridays, New Haven located at

First Presbyterian Church. The evening, which be-gins at 7:30 pm, features a number of today’s most prominent “topical” song-writers singing a collec-tion of Phil Ochs’ songs and their own originals. All of these songs are driv-en by politics and timeless truths. Artists will include Pat Wictor, Kate McDon-nell, Kim & Reggie Har-ris, Greg Greenway, John Flynn, Nancy Tucker, and Magpie. Tickets are $16 in advance, $12 for seniors and students at www.ct-folk.com, and $20 at the door. For further informa-tion call 203 431-6501.

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The Academy vs. Viewers: Who Really Knows Best Picture?

Virtual Reality...Isn’t Very Virtual

I’m not a huge gamer. Sure, I enjoy my time with some Zelda and Super Mario Kart…but I can go months without touching a PS3 controller.

Some people are quite the opposite, and can’t go a day without playing a video game. But whatever, people are people and it’s just not something that I’m into.

That said, there are some people who have no idea what the concept of reality is, and they create

their own within a v i r t u a l r e a l i t y setting.

Seoul, S o u t h K o r e a : a couple was ar-r e s t e d by police because their tod-dler died w h i l e t h e y w e r e r a i s -ing a virtual child online. The biggest problem? The

couple’s h o u s e d i d n ’ t b u r n d o w n , t h e r e was no f lood…the child s t a r v e d to death.

B e -t w e e n m a r a -t h o n stretches in a local internet café, the

couple fed their 3-month-old daughter only once per

day while they were rais-ing a virtual child.

Maybe the parents were stupid – it’s certainly a pos-sibility, just read my edito-rial from last week. After-all, caring for a young girl with mysterious powers who grows and increases her skills as the game Pri-us Online progresses is to-tally more important than that little three-month-old pooping machine.

Oh, but don’t worry! Everything’s okay! The father apologized. “I wish that she hadn’t got sick and that she will live well in heaven forever. And as the father, I am sorry,” he

said.According to police, the

couple had lost their jobs and used the 3-D game as an escape from reality. News flash, the reality is you murdered your baby.

The fact that people are blaming the internet on this, such as author Mi-chael Breen saying that “the internet has provided such people with a para-dise to escape to and sim-ply get lost in,” is com-plete ludacris.

I have the feeling that the toddler didn’t do what the virtual baby did – you know, have mysterious powers. And for the par-

ents and their inane expla-nation that they needed to escape reality, I hope they enjoy the rest of their life in a South Korean prison. Oh, and I’m talking about those real prisons with bars and guards, not those virtual-reality-I-can-use-my-superpowers-to-break-down-this-wall prisons.

Special and warmest congratulations to ORL’s senior resident assistant staff for 2010-2011!

Alyssa Koehn - Soundview HallKatelyn Murray - Botwinik Hall

Tyler Salovin - New HallChelsea Keel - Bixler HallBrian Ricci - Forest Hills

Please join us in wishing them the best as they take on this prestigious leadership position for the Office of Residential Life!

As a student leader and a senior here at UNH, I cherish the four years I have been here and all the people I have met along the way. Now, I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel like I do so much for the university but when we as students seem to need the school the most we have no one to rely on.

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Sunday night, I sat around my room to enjoy a favorite pastime: the Os-cars. As usual, I had taken many bets on the awards. As the last award (and the most prestigious) of the night rolled around, those watching with me started to take bets…would it be Avatar or The Hurt Lock-er? We all agreed: Ava-tar was the better overall movie, but The Hurt Lock-er was what the Academy would appreciate. We were right of course…but why? Why does the Academy seem to never agree with what home viewers enjoy the most?

Many viewers of the Oscars know exactly what the Academy looks for:

artsy movies. Movies that make people think. Mov-ies that cross a line, or send a message, or cause the audience to experience some monumen-tal epiphany. Sometimes, to be completely hon-est, these mov-ies are the most boring mov-ies ever made. These movies are not the ac-tion packed, e m o t i o n a l l y driven movies that most home viewers enjoy. The Academy enjoys the stuffy movies that try to move you…usually into a nice long sleep. As usual, most of us felt that the Academy had got-

ten it wrong.Has this happened be-

fore? You bet! In 2005, Crash stole the show from Brokeback Mountain, Ca-

pote, and Munich. Ameri-can Beauty, although an

amazing film, beat out the much more inspiring and moving The Green Mile in 1999. Jaws dropped in 1998 when Saving Private Ryan, the most successful and beloved war movie of all time, lost Best Picture to Shakespeare in Love. Ghandi won the award over E.T. The Extraterres-trial and In the Heat of the Night ran away with the award in 1967 over favor-ites The Graduate and Sid-ney Poitier’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.

Of course, sometimes the Academy has a pretty hefty list to choose from. Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, Titanic, and As Good As it Gets were all nominated in the same year. The cult clas-sic Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption were also nominated in

the same year. Sometimes the movies fit in both cat-egories, like last year’s winner Slumdog Mil-lionaire, which was both action-packed and inspira-tional. So yes, sometimes the Academy is forced to choose between a few in-credible movies and some-times it chooses the best. But most times, the Acad-emy sticks with what it knows: artistic, message-driven movies.

I’m not saying that is a problem. Yes, I normally don’t agree with what the Academy thinks. While I’m sure The Hurt Locker was brilliant, it was cho-sen because of the world it portrays not because it was truly the “best” film. While the plot may have been unoriginal, Avatar is quite possibly one of the greatest movies of all time

and it truly deserved to be recognized. Like usual, the Academy chose its own brand of movies and home viewers, represented best in the Golden Globe awards, chose the movie that best represented the hearts of the people.

As the Academy of Mo-tion Pictures closes the door on another year of movie making, expect to see the same process next year. The “best” movie, based on viewership and general reviewing, may not win. Make sure to go out and see the artistic, “story” movies that are considered to be the best…just make sure to stay awake during them. Artsy “epiphany” movies are usually pretty boring, after all.

er seniors out there, and I am only going to speak for myself, but I am personal-ly upset with classes. This semester, I only needed to be enrolled in one more class so that I would have the proper number of cred-its in order to graduate ... and I was turned down. This class was an online class, mind you, but I couldn’t get in because it was already full. I am cur-rently enrolled in classes where you can barely find a seat or need to bring an

extra chair into class. Yet the university won’t allow for the over enrollment of an online class, where there are no actual chairs to sit in.

I tried taking a class over intersession but the class was full. I was told not to worry; since there was so much interest in the class, they would add another section. I was let down and became upset when that never happened. If there are a bunch of students who all want to

enroll in the same class, it usually means it is a re-quirement. Common sense says the university should probably add another sec-tion.

Now I don’t mean to sit here and complain about UNH. It really is a good school and gives a ton of opportunities as far as clubs and organizations go. There are a lot of very talented professors and staff members. But since we are all here as students first, you would think that

the university would work with the students in fill-ing classes. I’m happy that our school is growing, building, and improving in so many ways, but the administration needs to remember where growth leads to. All of the current freshmen will become se-niors one day and all of the classes need some equal-ity. We all pay the same amount to be here, minus grants and scholarships, so we should all be treated the same way. I don’t want

to be left out just because I’m a senior and leaving in a few months.

At the end of the day, we are all students who are just trying to get our work done and have a little fun along the way. For some of us, four years is all we can afford to pay for college.

When you need only one or two classes and “over enrollment” and missing sections make you fall, who will be there for you and how will you get it all done?

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pitch. The musicians give 100 percent effort even if they don’t look or talk to each other much.’’

On Saturday, Wang and his three autistic friends didn’t need to look at each other much as they jammed on Disney’s The Jungle Book’s tunes at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose. They joined a larger performance put on by Angels on Stage, a theater troupe of children with special needs.

As the performers enter-tained the audience from the balcony, you’d never know Wang picked up the saxophone three months ago and rarely practices. He hit the notes and kept up with the steady beat of drummer Chi-Ling Wu, 19, of San Jose.

In between sets, you might notice that Wang is autistic. He didn’t really want to answer questions

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Gifted Students Calmed by Musicabout his musical talents. Instead, he slouched over a video game and kept ask-ing his mother if they’d be back in the car by 4 p.m. after the show, as she had promised.

“He likes things a cer-tain way every day,’’ Anna Wang said. “These perfor-mances mess up his sched-ule.’’

Fellow musician An-thony Nakamoto of San Jose, is much more gre-garious than Wang. When meeting a stranger for the first time, this 16-year-old asks rapid fire: What kind of car do you drive? What model? What make?

Then, on stage, he transforms into a rock star. To watch him play the electric guitar, xylophone or, as he did Saturday, the marimba is to be amazed. Although he rarely prac-tices and learns his favor-ite Beatles tunes simply by clicking on YouTube, he’s

fun to watch, banging his sticks with amazing zest and zeal.

“You know, he doesn’t communicate with other kids except for music,’’ said his mother, Hiroko Nakamoto. “His commu-nication tool is music. It’s just great therapy.’’

Donna Smith of San Jose always feels bet-ter when the music starts for her 23-year-old son, Bernard. To her, Bernard seemed agitated being in a theater with lots of strang-ers. He sat by himself at one point, whispering aloud to himself before the show.

But just talk to him about music. Ask him what his favorite song is. He won’t just answer. In-stead, in perfect, angelic pitch, he’ll break out the Monkees’ hit “Daydream Believer.”

“Bernard’s excellent,’’ his mother said, add-ing that he plays with a few other mainstream jazz groups. “He’s good enough to be professional, except for his autistic be-havior. He’s easily frus-trated. He gets anxious. He stresses and he paces. But as soon as the music starts, the problems go away.’’

Does “majority rules, minority rights” apply to the sugar-beet industry? The USDA has been left to decide.

More than half the coun-try’s sugar comes from sugar-beets, and nearly all commercial sugar-beet farms use seeds that are genetically engineered to resist herbicides. These plants contain a gene in their DNA that makes them resistant to the same chemicals that kill their competitors in the garden: weeds.

However, smaller, or-ganic farms that provide a market for non-engineered crops are threatened by the massive use of genetically modified, or GM, crops. Wind can carry pollen from GM plants, like sugar beets, and contaminate or-ganic crops nearby.

Frank Morton, own-er of Wild Garden Seed, produces 150 varieties of organic seeds for farms across the country. Mor-ton said in a recent inter-view that “if biotech traits show up in my seeds, then my seeds are worthless.” He also pointed out that if traits from his plants show up in conventional or bio-tech seeds, their value isn’t

Stray Sugar Beet Pollen Threatens Organic Food Industry

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destroyed. “It’s an asym-metrical relationship we have here,” he continued.

Some organic farm-ers have planned to pro-tect their interests. Zelig Golden, a lawyer with the Center for Food Safety, said they plan to convince the court to ban the sale of GM sugar-beet seeds until the USDA can prop-erly protect consumers and farmers alike.

Many environmental-ists argue that GM crops can be an ease on the en-vironment, because less pesticides and herbicides are necessary, which can be detrimental to the sur-rounding ecosystems. Even more say that there is no use for a market for organic sugar-beets, be-cause genetically engi-neered sugar-beets have no known harmful side-affects for consumers.

But the fact remains that there is a market for or-ganic foods: the consumer may no longer desire a tainted product. Organic foods sell because they are guaranteed to grow without the use of genetic modification or chemicals. Without that guarantee, the market will disappear. Whether or not the mar-ket should exist in the first place is not the question at hand. The challenge for the USDA is to protect the

existing market in order to protect the livelihood of organic farmers.

According to the Or-ganic Farming Research Foundation, organic farm-ing provides 2% of the na-tions crops and remains the fastest growing sec-tor of agriculture. In 2007 there were approximately 13,000 certified organic producers in the U.S., and that number is rising. This $12.8 billion industry is under constant threat of crop contamination, as well as the 13,000 farmers and small companies that depend upon it.

Harmful long-term ef-fects of GM crops on consumers and on the environment are still un-known; we haven’t been using them long enough to have witnessed those kind of impacts. Protecting or-ganic farms is a priority. However, shutting down commercial production of sugar-beets, and possibly all GM crops nationwide is not an option either; think about the other 98% of crops that are either genetically engineered or exposed to chemicals. Therefore, a compromise is in order. Protecting both industries should be the USDA’s main interest, not eliminating one.

Japan Defends Dolphin Hunt inOscar-Winning Cove

TAIJI, Japan – The Japa-nese fishing village fea-tured in The Cove, which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dol-phins Monday as a part of its tradition.

The covertly filmed movie, which mixes stun-ning underwater shots of gliding dolphins with grisly footage of their slaughter, also claims that dolphin meat is laden with toxic mercury.

Residents of this re-mote village nestled on the rocky coast of southwest-ern Japan expressed dis-gust at the film, which they said distorted the truth, though few acknowledged seeing it in its entirety.

The mayor's office handed out a statement that said Taiji's dolphin hunt is lawful and argued that the movie contained statements that were not based on science. Other-wise, most town officials refused to talk.

"There are different food traditions within Ja-pan and around the world," the statement read. "It is important to respect and understand regional food cultures, which are based on traditions with long his-tories."

Director Louie Psi-hoyos said The Cove isn't meant to bash Japan but that it is "a love letter to

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the Japanese people.""Our hope is the Japa-

nese people will see this film and decide them-selves whether animals should be used for meat and for entertainment," Psihoyos said backstage after receiving the Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

The town of Taiji kills about 2,000 dolphins every year for their meat. Some are captured and sold to aquari-ums.

The Japanese g o v e r n m e n t , which allows about 19,000 dolphins to be killed each year, a c k n o w l e d g e s that dolphin meat is contaminated with mercury, but denies it's dangerous un-less consumed in huge quantities.

In September, amid an inter-national outcry following the screening of the movie abroad, villagers re-leased several dozen dol-phins that had been caught. But locals say they will continue with the hunt.

The movie has not yet been released in Japan, but it will start showing here in June at 20 to 30 theaters nationwide. It was shown

at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October, where viewers gave it mixed reviews.

Still, most Japanese don't know about the an-nual dolphin hunt, and dol-phin meat is hardly eaten

in Japan.Takeshi Kato, presi-

dent of Unplugged in To-kyo, which is distributing the film in Japan, said the faces of dozens of Taiji residents are being blurred out for the Japan version of The Cove to ward off possible lawsuits under

Japanese law that protects privacy.

"Our purpose is not to attack the people of Taiji," he said.

"If this movie can serve as an opportunity for peo-ple to find out, it would be

great," he told The Associated Press Mon-day.

He said he hopes the film will help open the debate in Japan on p r e s e r v -ing nature, i n c l u d -ing dol-phins and whales.

" R e -ceiving the top award in the mov-ie industry will work as a big plus for our efforts to show this movie in Japan," he said.

T w o Japanese who appear in the film — a local council-man and a scientist based in northern Japan — ex-pressed disappointment in how they were portrayed in the film, and said they were interviewed under false pretenses. Both say they have asked the film-

makers to remove footage of them from the movie.

Psihoyos was unable to get permission to ac-cess the cove where the dolphins are killed. Fish-ermen blocked it with barbed wire and fences. So he and his film team secretly broke into the re-stricted area — which is in a national park — at night to set up cameras that cap-ture the slaughter.

The movie's star is Ric O'Barry, the dolphin train-er for the 1960s Flipper TV show, who over the last decades has been cam-paigning for the release of dolphins around the world from captivity.

Various numbers in the film such as mercury lev-els in dolphin meat are also being contested. In the Japanese version, words that show up as subtitles are being added at the end of the movie to tell view-ers that research may pro-duce various results.

Japanese government officials also defended the fishermen's right to hunt dolphins and called the film unbalanced.

"There are some coun-tries that eat cows, and there are other countries that eat whales or dol-phins," said Yutaka Aoki, fisheries division director at Foreign Ministry. "A film about slaughtering cows or pigs might also be unwelcome to workers in that industry."

A dolphin demonstrates a flip at a dolphin pool in Taiji, southwestern Japan, where visitors can play with the animals Monday, March 8,

2010. The Japanese fishing village featured in 'The Cove,' which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended Monday its practice

of hunting dolphins as a part of its tradition. Residents of this remote village nestled on the rocky coast expressed disgust at the covertly

filmed movie, which they said distorted the truth, though few ac-knowledged seeing it in its entirety. (AN AP/Koji Sasahara PHOTO)

the first female Secre-tary of State in 1997.

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With just about five weeks of the semester under your belt and a de-pleted bank account from tuition and books, it’s hard to imagine doing anything other than sleeping over spring break. However, re-cent medical studies show that going on frequent vacations (at least once a year) can not only relieve stress but actually increase life longevity.

Vacationing impacts men and women differ-ently. A study in the Wis-consin Medical Journal revealed that women who take trips and partake in various leisure activities experience fewer bouts of depression and mo-ments of extreme tension. Women who take two or more vacations a year also experience higher marital satisfaction than their non-vacationing counterparts.

Doctor’s Orders: Take aVacation

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Men benefit from periods of relaxation too. An ar-ticle published in the Veg-etarian Times, Inc., stated that men who take annual vacations reduce their overall risk of death by 20 percent and their risk of death from heart disease by 30 percent.

In addition to keeping you healthy, regular vaca-tioning can also improve the quality of your pro-fessional and social life. According to an article released by the National Center for Biotechnol-ogy Information, vaca-tions promote creativity, prevent mental burnout, strengthen interpersonal relationships, and improve job performance. Momen-tarily removing yourself from the daily stresses and pressures of life allows you to face them head-on when you return back to reality.

Americans spend sig-nificantly less time on vacation than other na-

tionalities. Documentary producer and author John de Graaf observed that Eu-ropeans work about 300 hours less than Americans do each year. Consequent-ly, Americans are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. The above men-tioned study in the Wis-consin Medical Journal claimed that the average American only receives two weeks of annual paid vacation, compared to an entire month that is given in many other countries.

Vacations do not de-liver medical advantages if work or professional stressors are sitting in the plane seat next to you. As difficult as it may seem, you must leave behind your cell phone, laptop and briefcase if you truly want to reap the benefits of “getting away.” Even small trips lasting only a day or two can help your body and mind refocus and rejuvenate.

A professor at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania was alleg-edly suspended for posting complaints about her work that contained threats of violence on Facebook, highlighting the increase in disciplinary action to-wards workers due to in-appropriateness online.

Gloria Gadsen wrote in January on her Facebook, "Does anyone know where I can find a very discrete hitman? Yes, it's been that kind of day." Then in Feb-ruary she wrote, "had a good day today. DIDN'T want to kill even one stu-dent. :-). Now Friday was a different story." Gadsen claimed that all her posts were to be taken as jokes, and that only her friends and family were meant to

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see. However Marilyn

Wells, ESU's Interim Pro-vost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, told The Chronicle of Educa-tion last week that "Given the climate of security con-cerns in academia, the uni-versity has an obligation to take all threats seriously and act accordingly."

Gadsen isn’t the only one whose online activity has landed her in trouble. PinnacleHealth System, also located in Pennsyl-vania, has fired more than one employee over infor-mation posted on Face-book. A nurse in Min-nesota was fired in 2009 after posting an unauthor-ized photo of herself and a patient on her Facebook profile, violating the pa-tient’s rights to privacy. A stadium operations worker was fired after criticizing his employer, the Philadel-

phia Eagles, in one Face-book post that read, "Dan is [expletive] devastated about Dawkins signing with Denver ... Dam Ea-gles R Retarted!!"

These are just a few cases among the many that this new online venue for information has made pos-sible. However, used cor-rectly, Facebook can be an innovative tool. Applica-tions allowing resumes to be viewed easily by pro-spective employers are available on Facebook, and employers often use Facebook as a pre-inter-view for job applicants.

But Facebook is not al-ways a valid form of com-munication, and signals can get mixed. An increas-ing trend in disciplinary action suggests that em-ployees be aware of who can see their profiles and what has been published on them.

In Sequoia National Forest, not too far from California’s Yosemite wa-terfalls in the redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are slowly taking over. They have comman-deered U.S. public land to grow millions of their own marijuana plants and have smuggled immigrants into the country to cultivate the crops. It has been said that pot has been growing on U.S. lands for decades although Mexican traf-fickers have stepped it up to the next level in recent months. Currently, traf-fickers and drug gangs are using armed guards and trip wires to protect thou-sands of plants.

Not too long ago, Mex-

Under Attack: Drug Gangs Infiltrate US

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ican drug gangs also took over the methamphet-amine trade in which they have grown mega gardens. According to the Califor-nia Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotics En-forcement, Mexican traf-fickers have expanded the marijuana trade.

In 2004, The Associated Press and law enforcement officials across the coun-try reported having seen an increase in the scale of large marijuana farms. In 2008 alone, the Drug En-forcement Administration police confiscated and de-stroyed up to 7.6 million pot plants. Data suggests an increase in marijuana production, both domesti-cally and across our bor-ders.

To make it easier on traffickers, the drug gangs grow marijuana in the U.S.

to save on smuggling ex-penses. This also allows gangs to reproduce their crops in the local market. All of the sites are far from the eyes of law enforce-ment, where the grow-ers can take the time that is needed to grow more potent marijuana. Some farmers of these fields use illegal fertilizers to help the plants grow faster, which allows for more dis-tribution.

Many of the farms are heavily guarded with crude explosives and are patrolled by guards armed with AK-47’s. Despite this, there are vast amounts of pot still being smuggled into the U.S from Mexico. Federal officials have re-ported nearly daily hauls of several hundred to several thousand pounds seized along the borders.

Since 1981, the HIV and AIDS viruses have plagued the world. Con-sidered to be incurable, the HIV virus mutates at an indiscernible rate into the AIDS virus, moving quickly in some and slow-ly in others. Once fully developed, the HIV virus turns into the AIDS virus, an immune system de-stroyer. However, research has been done that sug-gests a cure could be on the way: if special, hiding portions of the virus can be destroyed.

Up until now, it had been assumed that the HIV virus and AIDS virus worked in specific, deter-mined ways. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) rapid viral replication and infection of specific types of white cells leads to the infiltration of HIV. As white counts drop, HIV

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transitions into the AIDS virus. There are periods of latency, both before and during this transition, that have been questioned by doctors for years. Where does the HIV virus go when patients are experi-encing “remission” symp-toms? When does the HIV virus start to replicate?

According to new re-search, Dr. Kathleen Col-lins of the University of Michigan has found evi-dence that the virus that causes AIDS can hide in a patient’s bone marrow. Practically undetectable, HIV in the bone marrow can grow without any con-sequence. This slow grow-ing HIV can become the AIDS virus and mutate into the body very quickly, making it nearly unstop-pable by medications and causing quick illnesses.

Dr. Collins also says this “dormant” HIV virus can cause problems for already recovering patients. It is well known throughout the

scientific community that, if stopped in time, the HIV virus can be halted from becoming AIDS. A long regiment of lifetime drugs can aid a patient in staying healthier for longer, even potentially forever. This new, dormant style of HIV can live in the bone mar-row long after “recovery” has occurred and can strike patients who slowly start taking less medication.

While this new discov-ery does little to set back research on the battle against AIDS, it also does little to take a step forward. Doctors and researchers have hoped for years that a cure for the AIDS/HIV ep-idemic would come soon. This new bone marrow hidden HIV evidence sug-gests that long term cures are still a long way off. Dr. Collins however, has hope, “If we are ever go-ing to find a way to get rid of the cells, the first step is to understand.”

Cheryl Palmer, Vice President of Club Quar-ters Inc, thinks the World Center Hotel is not only a business investment, but a rebirth. Others of New York City find the hotel to be a terrible reminder of a tragedy the United States has yet to forget.

Visitors to the World Center Hotel website might realize right away the purpose of the 169 room hotel. With glossy high resolution photographs of damage and destruc-tion, the business owners of the World Center Ho-tel hope to attract much of the tourism industry that has surrounded the site of Ground Zero since the at-tacks on Sept. 11, 2001. For almost all guests, the stay at the hotel would be a 24 hour experience, with full views of the construc-tion, soundproof windows to keep out most of the noise, and special curtains to drown the light reflect-ing off twisting pieces of metal and debris. Hall-ways would be decorated with pictures and memori-als of the terrorist attacks and hotel patrons would

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have a chance to dine on a balcony overlooking most of the destruction. The aer-ial view will be one of the first times civilians will have the opportunity to actually see Ground Zero without obscuring fences.

The nearby Millenium Hilton, which was stand-ing during the terrorist attacks nine years ago, has attempted to not use the attacks as a means of publicity and marketabil-ity. General Manager Jan Larsen spoke out against the World Center Hotel in a recent interview. “People are sensitive to maybe be-ing perceived as taking advantage of a tragedy by utilizing that in any kind of promotional information," Larsen said. "We still get customers here who didn't realize we were across the street from ground zero, and they get emotional about it.”

The owners of the World Center Hotel feel as if the building is a step in the right direction. Ground Zero, which has remained mostly untouched for the past nine years, will be home to trees and plants at the beginning of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The memorial will open up in 2011. Freedom Tower is

currently under construc-tion. Changes are coming, and those in charge of the World Center Hotel feel their business is just an-other change.

A Baltimore salesman interviewed by The Asso-ciated Press about the is-sue said, “You could say it's depressing, but you could also say it's been nine years, the Freedom Tower is going up and there's going to be a me-morial. We're looking to-ward the future.” Cheryl Palmer added, “They will have all those mixed emo-tions. But I think at the end of the day what people leave here with is the re-building.”

With costs as low as 179 dollars on weekdays and 99 dollars on weekends, many feel the new hotel will draw in at least 4,000 visitors at a given time. Reservations have now opened online despite con-tinued disputes amongst the New York community. Only time will tell if the World Center Hotel will be a shimmer of hope amidst the damage that is ground zero or another terrible mark on New York’s his-tory.

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On Feb. 25, new rules implicated immediately by the House of Lords were set up to help the citizens of London and Wales end the life of a gravely ill family member with little fear of criminal prosecu-tion. Keir Starmer, the Di-rector of Public Prosecu-tors, stated that six factors would lessen the likeli-hood of criminal prosecu-tors bringing charges to individual cases. Never-theless, prosecutors will still review each case for potential prosecution. One important element of the whole situation is if the suspect was acting out of compassion for the sick patient or if he or she had a sinister motive. Starmer is reported as saying, “The policy is now more fo-cused on the motivation of the subject rather than the characteristics of the victim. The policy does

UK Publishes New Rules for Assisted Suicide

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not change the law on as-sisted suicide. It does not open the door for euthana-sia.” Starmer brought up the circumstances of Deb-bie Purdy, a multiple scle-rosis victim, whose wish is that her husband would help end her life when she chooses without facing criminal charges. Purdy commented on the current issue of assisted suicide and said that a completely new law presiding over as-sisted suicide is required to substitute the current law, which was written over fifty years ago. She also suggested that tribunals should be created to hear individual cases before a patient decides to kill him or herself. The fam-ily members can then be then told where they stand legally before taking any further steps to help in the suicide. Terry Pratchett, a British author suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, said, “I would like to see death as a medical proce-dure—in very carefully

chosen cases.”He believes that he should be able to end his life before the dis-eases leave him helpless.

Starmer was noted as saying that different fac-tors would help lessen criminal charges, such as a victim making a com-prehensible and voluntary informed decision to end his or her life, a suspect notifying the police of the suicide and his or her in-volved role, and when a suspect tried to dissuade the patient from choos-ing suicide. Starmer also brought up the reasons that criminal charges might be filed: the victim was a minor, and that he or she did not have the intellec-tual capacity to make an informed decision or was pressured to commit sui-cide. Other issues could be that the suspect had been previously violent towards the patient or the suspect had not been sought by the patient to help.

With killer whales performing tricks and ‘playing’ with trainers, Florida’s Shamu show at SeaWorld has drawn vari-

ous tourists to check out the greatest attraction at the park, something that has made the park sky-rocket to popularity. On Feb. 24, the Shamu noon-time show was the sub-ject of mass hysteria and commotion, but not for the reason it has always been. A shocked audience wit-nessed the 12,000 lb. orca attack and kill 40 year-old veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau. “He just took off like a bat out of you know what, took off really fast and came back around to the glass, jumped up, and grabbed the trainer by the waist and started shak-ing her violently,” eyewit-ness Victoria Biniak said. People in attendance from earlier shows attest to the behavior of the 22-ft orca

Whale Attack Suggests Is-sues with Captivity

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equating to that of an “or-nery child” and languidly following directions.

Apparently, this is not the first time Tilikum has been involved in fits of disturbance. In fact, the whale has been implicated in two other human deaths.

The 30 year-old whale was connected with the 1991 death of another trainer in Canada’s Sealand of the Pacific as well as the death of a naked man whose body was discovered float-ing on the whale’s back in 1999. Tilikum’s attack on Brancheau has been the most recent to join the ranks of other animals ei-ther severely injuring or killing trainers and han-dlers.

These animal attacks have suggested the qualms about captivity and wheth-er or not it is suitable to enforce detainment with all the dangers involved. Many also question the pa-rading of animals around as exploited entertain-ment. Naomi Rose, a ma-rine mammal scientist with

the Humane Society said, “Orcas are simply too big, too complex, and too intel-ligent to be adequately ac-commodated in captivity.” Being that killer whales like Tilikum are sophisti-cated predators and have significant intelligence,

it elicits the matter of large ani-mals not be-ing able to familiarize with a small e n v i r o n -ment, a fact that can lead to boredom and violent acts.

On the c o n t r a r y , former Sea-World head trainer Thad Lacinak says that keeping

animals in captivity is nec-essary for educating people as well as protecting these large animals. He says that, unlike the Discovery Channel, learning about animals includes bringing them to the public, giving a different, more whole-some experience than “ob-serving through a pair of binoculars.” “We know for a fact that people do not learn in static conditions. They learn from these ani-mals when they are enter-tained by them. That’s just how people learn. They don’t learn when they're bored. They have a greater appreciation of the ani-mals when they walk out.” As of now, SeaWorld will keep Tilikum until man-agement decides what they will do with the orca.

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In the years after her divorce from her ex-hus-band, speculation over her plastic surgery, and the death of her father, en-tertainer Marie Osmond seemed to be bouncing back from widely publi-cized scrutiny, winning third place in the compe-tition, Dancing With the Stars, and continuing to work with her brother on their variety show, Donny

Marie Osmond’s Son Commits Suicide

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& Marie, in Las Vegas. But on Feb. 26, all the anguish appeared to resurface when Marie Osmond’s 18 year-old son, Michael Bryan, committed suicide. At about 9 pm that night, Michael jumped from the eighth floor of his Los An-geles apartment, leaving behind a suicide note for a close female friend. In the note, Michael cited his de-sire to end his life because he had felt alone with no friends and no sense of be-longing.

A statement released

on Feb. 27 by Osmond expressed her sadness: “My family and I are dev-astated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our pri-vacy during this difficult time.” One of Osmond’s eight children, Michael had been battling severe depression for years now. He entered rehab in 2007 for reasons and treatment never revealed. Just last March, Osmond had been

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near the village of Basyurt in Elazig province, about 340 miles (550 kilometers) east of Ankara, the capital.

The government initial-ly put the death toll at 57 but later lowered it to 51. It gave no explanation for the discrepancy. In addi-tion to the deaths, about 34 people were being treated for injuries from the quake, Turkey's crisis center said.

The worst-hit area was the village of Okcular, where 17 people were killed. As relatives rushed in for news of their loved ones, authorities blocked off the area so ambulances

and rescue teams could maneuver on the village's narrow roads. Residents lit fires to keep warm in the winter cold.

"The village is totally flattened," village admin-istrator Hasan Demirdag told private NTV televi-sion.

Ali Riza Ferhat of Ok-cular said he was woken up by the jolt.

"I tried to get out of the door but it wouldn't open. I came out of the window and started helping my neighbors," he told NTV television. "We removed six bodies."

Television footage showed rescue workers and soldiers at Okcular lifting debris as villagers looked on. Rescuers dug into the dirt to find the body of an elderly man and quickly covered him with a sheet. Two women sat on mattresses wrapped in blankets. The temblor also knocked down barns, killing farm animals.

Another 13 people were killed in the village of Yukari Demirci, Gov. Muammer Erol said, add-ing that by noon everyone had been removed from the rubble.

"Everything has been knocked down, there is not a stone in place," said Ya-din Apaydin, administrator for the village of Yukari Kanatli, where he said at least three people died.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kan-dilli Observatory's direc-tor, Mustafa Erdik, urged residents not to enter any damaged homes, warning they could topple from af-tershocks that Erdik said could last for days.

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Another Earthquake Rocks Europe

Erdogan blamed the region's mud-brick build-ings for the many deaths and said the government has instructed its hous-ing agency to construct quake-proof homes in the area. He said ambulance helicopters, prefabricated homes and mobile kitch-ens were being sent, and Turkey's Red Crescent aid group rushed in tents and blankets.

The quake was also felt in the neighboring prov-inces of Tunceli, Bingol and Diyarbakir, where res-idents fled to the streets in panic and stayed outdoors. Schools were closed for

two days in the region. In Tunceli province, students were sent home after the quake caused a school's walls to crack, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Earthquakes are fre-quent in Turkey, much of which lies on top of two main fault lines. In 1999, two powerful earthquakes struck northwestern Tur-key, killing about 18,000 people.

The Elazig quake fol-lowed deadly temblors in Haiti and Chile, but Ber-nard Doft, the seismologist for the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in Utrecht, said there was no direct connection between the three.

Richard Luckett, a seis-mologist from the British Geological Survey, said there has not been a spike in global seismic activity.

"If there was a big in-crease in the number of magnitude 6.0s in the past decade we would know it because we would see it in the statistics," Luckett said. "We haven't seen an increase in 7.0s either."

He said scientists often see strong quakes but they don't get reported because the damage or death toll is minimal.

"The point is that earth-quakes are common and always have been," he said.

In other Turkish earth-quakes, a 5.7-magnitude one in 2007 damaged buildings in Elazig and a 6.4-magnitude one in 2003 killed 83 children when a school dormitory col-lapsed in Bingol. The col-lapse was blamed on poor construction.

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praising her son’s efforts at getting his life back on track: “I couldn’t be more proud of him. He’s got a 3.9 GPA in high school. He’s looking at scholar-ships to some wonderful colleges.”

Michael’s body was buried Mar. 8 in the Os-mond’s home state of Utah. Marie and brother

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Osmond Son Commits SuicideDonny returned to L.A.’s Flamingo Casino & Ho-tel the next day to return to their scheduled per-formances which are ex-pected sometime next week. In the meantime, an autopsy done on Sun-day determined the cause of Michael’s death to be delayed until toxicology reports arrive, which may be in 6 weeks. As the en-

tire Osmond clan contin-ues to mourn, close friend Ruthann Clawson’s last-ing memory of Michael is anything but dismal: “If you were sad, he would be the one to make you feel better. He would find a way to make you laugh. He was there if you needed anything. I want people to remember him as the nic-est person I’ve ever met.”

Obama Appeals for Public Support on Health CareBy JULIE PACEASSOCIATED PRESS

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GLENSIDE, Pa. – Presi-dent Barack Obama ac-cused insurance compa-nies of placing profits over people and said Republi-cans ignored long-fester-ing problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of legisla-tion stalled in Congress.

"How much higher do premiums have to rise before we do something about it?" said Obama, making the first in an ex-pected string of out-of-town trips to pitch his plan to remake the health care system.

The president said dis-missively that Republican critics in Congress say they want to do something about rising health care costs, but said they did not when they held power.

"You had 10 years. What happened. What were you doing?" he said to ap-plause from an audience at Arcadia University.

Obama made his appeal as Demo-c r a t i c leaders in Congress w o r k e d on a r e s c u e plan for sweeping c h a n g e s in health care that s e e m e d earlier in the year to be on the brink of pas-sage. The two-step approach calls for the House to approve a Senate-passed bill despite opposi-

tion to several of its provi-sions, and both houses to follow immediately with a companion measure that makes a series of changes.

The White House has

said it wants the legisla-tion wrapped up by March

18, but that seems unlike-ly. The companion bill has not yet been made public, and a protracted debate is expected in the Senate, where Republicans vow

to resist even though they will not be able to block

passage by mere talk.Obama's stated goals

across more than a year of struggle has been to ex-tend coverage to millions who lack it, ban insurance

industry practices such as denying coverage on the basis of pre-exist-ing conditions and cut costs.

R e p u b l i c a n s dismissed Obama's argument instant-ly. "The American people have heard all this rhetoric from the president before, and they continue to say loudly and clearly they do not want a massive govern-ment takeover of health care," said House Republican Leader John Boeh-ner of Ohio.

Obama has long identi-fied the insurance industry

as an obstacle to changes along the lines he seeks, but the administration's actions and rhetoric seem to have escalated in recent days.

The president's pro-posal would give the gov-ernment the right to rein in excessive premiums increases — a provision included after one firm announced a 39 percent increase in the price of individual policies sold in California. Separately, Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and Hu-man Services, convened a White House meeting with insurance executives last week, and followed up with a letter released in ad-vance of Obama's speech.

It asked companies to "post on your Web sites the justification for any individual or small group rate increases you have implemented or proposed in 2010."

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Database Can Crack Missing Person Cases — If UsedBy STEVE KARNOWSKIASSOCIATED PRESS

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MINNEAPOLIS – A new online database promises to crack some of the na-tion's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate fami-lies, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

The clearinghouse, dubbed NamUs (Name Us), offers a quick way to check whether a miss-ing loved one might be among the 40,000 sets of unidentified remains that languish at any given time with medical examiners across the country. NamUs is free, yet many law en-forcement agencies still aren't aware of it, and oth-ers aren't convinced they should use their limited staff resources to partici-pate.

Janice Smolinski hopes that changes — and soon. Her son, Billy, was 31 when he vanished five years ago. The Cheshire, Conn., woman fears he was murdered, his body hidden away.

She's now championing a bill in Congress, named "Billy's Law" after her son, that would set aside more funding and make other changes to encour-age wider use of NamUs. Only about 1,100 of the nearly 17,000 law enforce-ment agencies nationwide are registered to use the system, even though it al-ready has been hailed for

solving 16 cases since it became fully operational last year.

"As these cases be-come more well known, as people learn about the successes of NamUs, more and more agencies are go-ing to want to be part of it," said Kristina Rose, act-ing director of the Nation-al Institute of Justice at the Justice Department.

Before NamUs, fami-lies and investigators had to go through the slow process of checking with medical examiner's offices one by one. As the Smo-linski family searched for clues to Billy's fate, they met a maze of federal, state, and nonprofit miss-ing person databases that weren't completely public and didn't share informa-tion well with each other.

NamUs, the National Missing and Unidenti-fied Persons System, al-lows one-stop sleuthing for amateurs, families and police. Anyone can enter all the data they have on a missing person, including descriptions, photos, fin-gerprints, dental records and DNA. Medical exam-iners can enter the same data on unidentified bod-ies, and anyone can search the database for potential matches that warrant fur-ther investigation.

So far, about 6,200 sets of remains and near-ly 2,800 missing people have been entered, said Kevin Lothridge, CEO of the National Forensic Sci-ence Technology Center

in Largo, Fla., which runs NamUs for the Justice De-partment.

Detective Jim Shields of the Omaha, Neb., Police Department hadn't heard about NamUs until he saw a presentation at a confer-ence in 2008. He then had a local volunteer associ-ated with NamUs input his data on several missing people.

Among them was Luis Fernandez, who had been missing for nearly a year before his family went to police in 2008. Shields didn't have a lot on Fer-nandez, a known gang member who'd been in and out of jail — only gender, race, height, weight, age and some data on his tat-toos.

It proved to be enough. Just a few weeks later, similarities were spotted with the unidentified re-mains of a homicide vic-tim found in a farm field in Iowa in 2007. In January, a lab informed Shields it had a DNA match — and that he could break the news to Fernandez' family.

"I could say fairly cer-tainly that this would nev-er have been solved if not for NamUs," Shields said.

Some other recent suc-cesses:

• Paula Beverly Davis, of the Kansas City, Mo., area, had been missing for 22 years until a relative saw a public service an-nouncement on TV in Oc-tober for NamUs and told her sister, who gave it a try. Among the 10 matches her

sister found were a body dumped in Ohio in 1987 that had the same rose and unicorn tattoos as her sis-ter. DNA tests confirmed the body was Davis.

• Sonia Lente disap-peared in 2002. Last June, an amateur cybersleuth with the Doe Network, a nationwide volunteer group that helps law en-forcement solve cold cas-

es, noticed similarities be-tween Lente's description in NamUs and an uniden-tified body found near Al-buquerque, N.M., in 2004. Dental records later estab-lished it was Lente.

Detective Stuart Som-ershoe of the Phoenix Po-lice Department said his agency, which has over 500 open missing persons cases, just finished enter-

ing 100 cases into NamUs. He's hopeful his depart-ment can make a match.

"It's kind of time-con-suming but I think it's a worthwhile program," Somershoe said.

NamUs grew out of a Justice Department task force working on the chal-lenge of solving missing persons cases. One need that the task force identi-

fied was to give people who could help solve cases better access to database information.

"Billy's Law" sailed through the House late last month and is pending in the Senate, where sup-porters are confident it will easily pass.

The bill would autho-rize $10 million in grants annually that police, sher-

iffs, medical examiners, and coroners could use to train people to use NamUs and to help cover the costs of entering data into the system. It would also au-thorize another $2.4 mil-lion a year to run the sys-tem and ensure permanent funding.

The bill would also link NamUs with a major FBI crime database that's now available only to law enforcement, partly be-cause it contains sensitive information about ongo-ing investigations. That confidential data would be withheld from NamUs when necessary.

Billy Smolinski, of Wa-terbury, Conn., was last seen Aug. 24, 2004, when he asked a neighbor to look after his dog. His pickup truck was later found out-side his home, though not where he usually parked it. His wallet and other be-longings were still inside.

The Smolinski family first struggled to get po-lice to take a missing adult case seriously. It took a long time for investigators to finally conclude Billy had been killed, perhaps as a result of a love tri-angle gone sour. The fam-ily put up reward posters, searched places where they thought his body might have been hidden and kept pressure on police.

Smolinski said to her NamUs is a "no-brainer."

"If they find remains I'm hopeful they'll iden-tify him through NamUs," Smolinski said.

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1. Just so all you girls out there know, even guys like flowers: they’re pretty, okay!? (Don’t tell anyone I said that, okay?) So it’s really nice to walk into Bartels and see all these flowers on the table. It adds a very nice touch and kudos to whoever thought of that idea!

2. Dun dun da dun dun da dun de dun de dun de dun da! For all you who are musi-cally illiterate, that would be the presidential march! And you know what that means! That’s right: USGA elections are coming up. Applications have been turned in for all candidates, and it’s looking to be a doozy of a race with four people going for USGA president (myself included!). So make sure to keep an eye out for when polls open, and get out and vote!!! You may even win gift cards for Five Guys Burger and Fries…who knows! :p

NegativesPositives1. Okay, so I am very thankful for the new waffle stations compared to last year…

but are you really going to tell me now that I can’t have chocolate chips in my waffles because it has the possibility of making more of a mess? That’s like saying you shouldn’t have a water balloon fight because you have to clean up all the little rubber pieces after-wards! The benefits and the joy it brings is totally outweighed by the cost.

2. Rumor has it! Bartels will no longer be giving take out trays to students for break-fast and dinner. Really? I mean, are you really going to pull this one on the students? I know I sometimes snooze a little past my alarm clock and don’t have time to sit for awhile and leisurely eat my breakfast. For those times, I have to grab and go! Now ex-plain to me how I’m going to do that without trays?

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The Gal

Katelyn Murray Glenn Altshuler

Major: Criminal JusticeYear: Senior 2010

Involvement: SCOPE Co-ChairHometown: Maynard, MA

Why is he this week’s Hottie?Glenn is an excellent friend, leader, and SCOPE co-chair! He

works tirelessly and endlessly to help out the various committees within SCOPE to provide UNH with great programming. Thanks

for all of your hard work and dedication!

Major: Forensic ScienceYear: Junior 2011Involvement: Resident Assistant or Regency, 5678 Dance TeamHometown: Glens Falls, NY

Why is she this week’s hottie?Katelyn is extremely selfless and is a fantastic voice of reason. She can listen for hours and make you feel like there is nothing else in the world besides you when you are with her. Thanks for being so genuine, Katelyn! :)

by Shawn L. Tremblay

Waffles are good and all, heck they pretty much make my morning, but like pretty much everything else in life sometimes the basic no matter how good it is, isn’t enough.

That’s where chocolate chip waffles come in. The carbohydrates in chocolate raise serotonin levels in the brain, resulting in a sense of well-being. This can help if you have a hard test that your stressing about (say Dr. Fiondella’s calc 2 mastery test on Wednesday) and we all know that when you’re feeling less stressed you’re more likely to do well. Say you slept poorly, maybe had a nightmare that has you all freaked out. Choco-late contains phenyl ethylamine, a mild mood-elevating chemical that could help you calm down and make it easier to pay attention in class.

What happened to the university wanting the students to do well? With this no chocolate waffle policy students are being set up for failure! That is not something I will stand for! Up in arms I say! Gather the mob! Grab the pitchforks! Light the torches! Oh wait: I’ve been informed

that’s against university policy, so the next best thing Is to lodge a complaint on chargervoice.com (a student’s best friend if they have something to complain about).

My last and biggest grievance with this policy: it has been proven that men who eat chocolate live a year longer than those who don’t. With the no chocolate waffle policy I could die a year earlier then every other guy I know: is that a burden Sodexo really wants on their heads?

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HOLLYWOOD ... Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Sinatra? Yup, Leo will play “Ole Blue Eyes” in a film directed by Martin Scorsese. But Leo will NOT do the singing. I’m told Sinatra recordings will supply the mu-sic. I knew Frank. Person-ally, I would never have picked Leo for the part, but we’ll wait and see if he can pull it off. P.S. They were much more alike in their personal lives. Both Frank and Leo had, and have, a No. 1 priority -- GIRLS.

Yes, the town is still prais-ing John Travolta for his trip to Haiti bringing food, m e d i c i n e and many other needs to that ravished country. AND in the many interviews he has been undergoing on TV, radio and in newspapers, the sadness of losing his son, Jet, has not been mentioned -- hopefully not to bring up his hurt. AND take it from someone who knows, he has really been hurting.

I’m not a big Conan O’Brien fan, but I feel he got a raw deal from the Peacock Network. After bringing him out here from the East and having him bring his family, they kick him off and say he can’t appear elsewhere. I don’t know what the situation is at this point, but he does have my sympathy.

A lot of singing and dancing in Dublin at the Irish Film Festival. Mer-yl Streep won the International Actress Award for It’s Complicated, and Robert Downey Jr. carried home a statue for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. Eclipse took the prize for best picture. Pretty soon, Meryl will have to add a room on to her home to house all her trophies.

Julia Roberts brought her adorable 5-year-old twins, Hazel and Phin, to the set of Valentine’s Day, and everyone cooed and gathered round the adorable young ‘uns. Her niece Emma (now 19), daughter of brother Eric, also is in the film and helped babysit the twins on the set. Now if Eric had appeared, it would have one big family bash.

Aside to Frances E. of Big Sur, Calif.: Yes, I do know Sandra Bull-ock’s hair is blonde in The Blind Side, but I think her natural color is a dark brown. The femme stars certainly cause commotion with the color of their tresses. I am constantly getting mail asking for the true color. Yes, Paris’ is white blonde. Yes, Angelina’s is almost black, etc., etc., etc.

Good news for Thomas Sawyer, producer and writer for Angela Lans-bury’s Murder She Wrote. His novel, No Place to Run, has been awarded the best fiction book of 2009 by the “American Book Readers Associa-tion.”

BITS ‘N’ PIECESAll’s quiet. Paris Hilton is in New York tending to her perfume busi-

ness. Britney is behaving. Nicole is in New York, and the rest of the usual caperers seem to be under cover.

Q: Is it true that someone is making a film about Facebook? How is it pos-sible to turn that into a film? -- Frank J., via e-mail

A: Production has begun on The Social Network, which stars Rashida Jones, Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg, and is directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Panic Room and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Shelby Young (Days of Our Lives and Wild Child) recently finished s h o o t i n g her support-ing role in the film. While she couldn’t tell me much about the movie or her role in it (they have all signed con-fidentiality agreements so the story doesn’t leak out), what she could tell me is that the movie is about the founders of the social-net- working site Facebook. Like many of the film’s stars, Shelby a d m i t s , “I am such a huge fan of Fight Club, so the chance to work with D a v i d Fincher, I just c o u l d n ’ t pass that up.” Look for The Social Network in theaters come October.

Q: At the end of last season it was stated that Friday Night Lights was coming back this year. Has that changed? I haven’t been able to find anything about it. -- Phillis M., via e-mail

A: Season Four of FNL is slated to premiere Friday, April 30, on NBC. Per an agreement with DirecTV, the fourth season already aired on The 101 Network from October 2009 through this past February, with NBC re-airing the season coming next month. If you want to be surprised by what happens this season, beware of online spoilers from those who already saw the epi-sodes on The 101!

Q: For this final season of Lost, I am as confused as ever -- and LOVING it! I also love one of the newer characters, Jacob. What can you tell me about the actor who plays him? I know I’ve seen him in other things. -- Melanie C., Dayton, Ohio

A: Mark Pellegrino, 44, who has played Jacob on Lost since the end of the previous season, has been in a ton of movies, such as The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Capote and National Treasure. On the small screen, he is most known for playing the Devil on Supernatural and Paul Bennett on Dexter. I asked Mark when we chatted recently if it was intimidating for him to join such an established, phenomenon of a show so late in the series.

“Luckily I didn’t know it was such a huge phenomenon until I landed on the island and was told,” Pellegrino said. “When you audition, the character sides are not the character you are auditioning for, and the scenes are just made-up stuff to throw off all the people on the Internet who are so anxious to get the material. I had no idea what it meant until I got there and they told me I’m Jacob. And then it dawned on me what a big deal it was.”

Charger Chat“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”

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By MATT SEDENSKYASSOCIATED PRESS

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MIAMI —Free agent Ja-son Ferguson, a veteran nose tackle most recently with the Miami Dolphins, has been suspended for the first eight games of next season for violating NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed on Sun-day that the discipline was handed down late this week but could offer no further details.

Ferguson was also sus-pended for violating NFL drug policy in 1999, sitting out four games after an an-abolic steroid showed up during a urine test.

The player’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, did not re-turn a call Sunday seeking comment.

Ferguson was side-linedwith a season-ending quadriceps injury in No-vember and underwent surgery a month later. The 35-year-old had been in on

23 tackles in nine games for the Dolphins last sea-son. Coach Tony Sparano called him a “heck of a

player” at the time of his injury.

A Dolphins spokes-man, Harvey Greene, said

Ferguson remained a free agent and had not signed a new contract.

“We won’t comment because he’s not official-ly on our roster,” Greene said. The team has not said whether they planned to re-sign Ferguson for next season.

Ferguson was drafted in 1997, playing eight sea-sons with the New York Jets and three with the Dallas Cowboys before joining Miami in 2008. He has 325 career tackles.

Ferguson tested posi-tive for marijuana at the scouting combine in 1997.

During his 1999 sus-pension, he passionately denied taking steroids, saying he used a dietary supplement, which he would not identify, but that contained no banned sub-stances.

“People are thinking I’m a drug addict or some-thing like that, and that’s ridiculous,” Ferguson said at the time. “I read bottles and I know steroids. I didn’t take no damn ste-

NFL Suspends Ferguson for first the Eight Games of 2010

Defensive tackle Jason Ferguson #95 of the Miami Dolphins warms up prior to facing the Denver Broncos during NFL action at Invesco Field at

Mile High Stadium

We may not know which team Tim Tebow will suit up for in 2010, however, we do know people want his autograph and they’ll pay handsomely for it.

The former Florida quarterback appeared Sat-urday at Palm Beach Au-tographs, and according to the Florida Times-Union, an estimated crowd of 1,500 people were in at-tendance to pay $160 for a Tebow autograph.

A portion of the pro-ceeds will reportedly go to the Tim Tebow Foun-dation, the newspaper reports. Event attendees could also chip in $75 for photos with Tebow.

Tebow talked about his first official autograph signing:

“It’s an honor to have people want to want you and want to have your autograph and want to be

around you. That’s special to have an opportunity to sign for people, but it’s more special to be able to do things like we’re doing and being able to really just brighten kids’ days in really their darkest hour of need, which is a lot of what my foundation is about. … I’m just so excited that I have the opportunity to do this and just make a differ-ence in kids’ lives.”

Prior to his autograph signing on Saturday, Tebow had a busy Friday at Jacksonville’s Brooks Rehabilitation Center vis-iting with Alex Ross, a 16-year-old who was shot by another teen in January.

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PORT ST. LUCIE’ —The Mets’ spring training has gotten underway with many issues regarding the 2010 regular season, and it is put up, or shut up time.

Starting rotation after Johan Santana is ques-tionable because the Mets don’t have a number two starter: just a bunch of guys who can be fourth or fifth starters. Nonetheless, we know that the majority of the team was decimated with injuries, making last year a total washout.

Every starting pitcher has to have a big year. Oli-ver Perez must step up his performance and not be erratic in the strike zone. He’s got to be more con-sistent around the plate. Mike Pelfrey can be a number two but he’s an average pitcher at best, who fights himself on the mound after missing the target and walking batters. John Maine is unpredict-able; his health is a worry and he doesn’t perform the same. Finally Jona-than Niese, who is a young left-hander, has to drop his pitch count. The Mets missed the boat on John Lacke; Fred and Jeff Wil-pon didn’t want to spend a lot of money on him.

Jose Reyes’ position as third batter may cause problems offensively. With Carlos Beltran out of commission until June,

the running game is taken away from Reyes, a man with very little home run experience.

Yes, Citi Field lowered the dimensions in their ballpark to have more players’ hit homers, but Reyes isn’t a 25-30 home run hitter, he’s a doubles and triples player. It’s the Mets’ prerogative to have Reyes as the leadoff hitter. The team has seemed to

choose differently.But who’s going to lead

off? Will it be Luis Castil-lo? Will it be Angel Pagan?

None of those possibilities will work. The Mets need to have David Wright hit-ting third, and with a game against the Florida Marlins in the home opener on Apr. 5, Mike Jacobs needs to hit fifth.

Jeff Francoeur would be a good choice if it wouldn’t cause three left-ies hitting in a row (a no-no in the world of Major League Baseball). The

Mets also missed the boat on Bengie Molina, who has improved his catch-ing for the San Francisco Giants. He could have been the fifth hitter for the Mets, and Reyes batting wouldn’t be a discussion

The Mets first base is a platoon because of Daniel Murphy, who has improved his defensive ability with the help of hall-of-famer Keith Hernandez. Murphy

was a .266 hitter with 12 homers 63 RBI’s, in 155 games, with 508 at-bats last season. Ike Davis, a very young player, has a lot of potential but isn’t quite ready for the starting first base position just yet.

Is Fernando Martinez the player that the Mets can rely on to have a pro-ductive year? Martinez played 29 games with 11 runs scored, 16 hits, 1 homer, 8 RBI’s, and a .176 batting average in 91 at-bats. Martinez filled in for Reyes and he didn’t live up to the expectations for Jerry Manuel’s club.

Martinez needs to de-velop his fundamentals more to become a major league player.

We can’t forget about job security. The heat is on for skipper Jerry Man-uel and General Manager Omar Minaya to have a productive season. The front office seems to be preparing for a shake up and is definitely due for one. Manuel will need to have a strong showing this season to be even consid-ered for the managerial position. Minaya keeps saying over and over to the media, “we have a good team.” Everything has to fall in place for the Mets. It’s a game of dominos for them. If one piece falls, the entire team falls. The Mets are a team with questions, but the question that will be talked about throughout the regular season is “what if?”

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Undergoing blood tests for a possible thyroid deficincy, 2010 is an important year for Mets shortstop Jose Reyes. (AN AP PHOTO)


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FT. LAUDERDALE —The Yankees left-hander struck out three, walked one and allowed one hit during a two-inning simu-lated game Sunday.

“I felt good,” Pettitte said. “Last year I did this,

and to me it’s good to break it in. I can make this pretty real even though it’s a simulated game. It’s good for me, I think, for my first start.”

Pettitte threw 18 pitch-es to Randy Winn and Co-lin Curtis in both innings in preparation for his first spring training start Friday against Washington.

It was the first game-type action for Pettitte since pitching in the World Series-clinching Game 6 in November. The simu-lated game took place on a back field at the Yankees’ spring training complex in front of around a dozen fans.

“I couldn’t get the big league field,” Pettitte joked. “I’ve got a lawn

mower out here [on the field].”

Pettitte used all his pitches, throwing 21 strikes.

Also, Yankees catch-er Francisco Cervelli is scheduled to see a neurol-ogist on Monday. He left Saturday’s game with a concussion after being hit in the helmet by a pitched

ball.Cervelli also had a con-

cussion in November af-ter being struck by a back swing during a winter league game.

“It’s a bigger concern,” Yankees manager Joe Gi-rardi said about Cervelli having two recent con-cussions. “Hopefully he’s back in a few days, but we’ll be cautious. You just take your time.”

Girardi added that con-cussions are taken more seriously now than in the past.

“You think about the players in football that had to retire,” Girardi said. “I think it’s good that we pay more attention than we used to. We used to say, ‘I got hit in the head.’ Now

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Sources close to the situation said Alston, who did not attend the game, is considering retirement.

The Heat initially an-nounced that Alston missed the Atlanta game for “personal reasons.” But later revealed Alston has not made himself available to the team by anything other than text

message since losing his starting spot at point guard before Thursday’s over-time win over the Los An-geles Lakers.

“Rafer Alston, while having made contact with

the team via text message, has made himself other-wise unavailable to the team. As a result he has been suspended indefi-nitely,” the team said in a release.

Alston could not be reached for comment. He did not immediately re-spond to an e-mail mes-sage.

Alston began his sec-ond stint with the Heat in January after securing a buyout from the New Jer-sey Nets.

The 33-year-old was benched for the final three quarters of Tuesday’s vic-tory over Golden State

and did not play against the Lakers. Alston started at point guard in his first 25 games back with Mi-ami before being replaced Thursday by Carlos Ar-royo.

Alston is in his 11th NBA season and as recent-ly as last season helped Orlando weather the injury loss of Jameer Nelson to reach the NBA Finals after the Magic acquired him in a deadline-day trade with Houston. He nor his manager were able to be reached for comment.

Over this current season he is averaging 6.6 points and 2.9 assists.

Miami Heat Guard, Rafer Alston Suspended Indefintely

CHICAGO — Officials with the new Arena Foot-ball One league said Thurs-day they are on schedule to return to the field next spring with a more modest economic model they hope will ensure its success.

The new indoor league debuts in April in 15 com-munities, including seven cities that hosted teams in the now defunct Arena Football League.

“The challenge is to do it in the best businesslike manner,” Arena Football One commissioner Jerry Kurz said during a news conference announcing the revival of the Chicago Rush, a perennial AFL power. “The [old] league didn’t do that.”

Arena Football One this week purchased the assets

of the AFL in a deal ap-proved by a judge oversee-ing the AFL’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

The reported $6.1 mil-lion sale included all team names, logos, records, film and video libraries, and other assets from the Arena Football League, which called off the 2009 season a year ago and then indefinitely suspended op-erations in August.

AFL then filed for bank-ruptcy protection. Legal proceedings also included AF2, a 25-team indoor football league with teams in smaller markets that the AFL partly owned.

“The game was always good,” said Kurz, who spent the last six years as president of af2. “Some would say [the AFL] tried to do too much, too soon. We won’t make that mis-take.”

Arena Football One

will be a mix of former AFL and AF2 teams, with Chicago as the largest market. Tampa, Fla., Ari-zona, Cleveland, Orlando, Dallas, and Utah -- all for-mer AFL locations -- will also be represented in the new league.

The league will also have teams in smaller markets such as Spokane, Wash., Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Okla., Milwaukee, and Bossier-Shreveport, La. League offices will be in Tulsa.

Arena Football One will operate as a single entity, with all players and coaches considered league employees, an arrange-ment similar to Major League Soccer. The league also hopes it will have lower costs with central-ized purchasing, insurance and marketing.

None of the former AFL ownership groups

are involved in the new league, although there are some familiar faces com-ing back in Chicago and Cleveland.

The Rush announced that the return of head coach Mike Hohensee, who guided an earlier Chicago team to an Arena Bowl title. New owners in Cleveland, meanwhile, said that former Cleveland Browns star Bernie Kosar would serve in an advisory capacity. Kosar was the Gladiators’ president in 2008.

Kurz said the league has hired Neal H. Pilson, former president of CBS Sports, to explore poten-tial TV deals. The AFL had recent broadcast expo-sure with NBC Sports and later with ESPN.

The league teams, play-ers, coaches alignment and schedules will be an-nounced before the 2010

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The Jets had cut tides with cornerback Lito Sheppard, but they sweet-ened the pot by acquiring Antonio Cromartie from the San Diego Chargers last week during the NFL Free Agency.

Cromartie can provide more punch for the Jets’ defense along with two-time Pro Bowler Darrell Revis while the Chargers will get a third round pick in the deal. However, if Cromartie makes the Pro Bowl the Chargers will ac-quire a second round pick from the Jets.

The cornerback had a total of 10 interceptions in the 2007 regular season but has fallen under the radar in the past two sea-sons. Cromartie had 2 in-terceptions in 2008, and 3 interceptions in 09.

The special teams po-sition is also a factor for Cormartie; perhaps the Jets can use him there as

well to return punts for touchdowns. He has a lot of ability and can help the Jets contend against AFC East rival New England Patroits

General Manager Mike Tannenbaum and Owner Woody Johnson have a co-hesive football team that will be ready for the 2010-2011 regular season. Head Coach Rex Ryan has an-other player to work with and make him standout. We hear it all the time in the NFL, “defense wins championships.”

The Jets were the num-ber one defense in the league last year, but can they get to the Super Bowl in 2011? That will be in the hands of quarterback Mark Sanchez.

Cromartie can help the Jets to have a great regu-lar season and hopefully get to a Super Bowl. Can Cromartie become the player that he used to be in San Diego? If it is pos-sible, make sure to check him out next season in New York.

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The New York Jet Deficiency

TAMPA, Fla. -- Steven Stamkos got high praise from an NHL great.

Stamkos extended his franchise-record points streak to 16 games, and Antero Niittymaki re-mained perfect against At-lanta, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the

Thrashers 6-2 on Saturday night.

Tampa Bay coach Rick Tocchet said former team-mate and Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux used “Wow” after the game to describe the 20-year-old Stamkos.

“He’s a special guy,” Tocchet said about Stam-kos. “The guy thrives with ice time.”

Stamkos had two goals

-- which gave him 40 for the season -- and an assist. The center has 15 goals and 14 assists during his streak.

Niittymaki improved to 17-0-0 overall against Atlanta. Martin St. Louis, Paul Szczechura, Teddy Purcell -- on a penalty shot -- and Vincent Lecavalier also scored for the Light-ning, who stopped a five-game losing streak.

“I thought it was a great team effort,” Stamkos said. “It was one of those games where if you lose it, you don’t want to say that’s the season, but it’s pretty devastating to lose to a team like that that’s ahead of you.”

The Lightning would have fallen five points be-hind Atlanta, which started the day eighth in the East-ern Conference, with a

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Steven Stamkos #91 of the Tampa Bay Lightning shoots and scores a goal against the Atlanta Thrashers in the first period at the St. Pete Times Forum on March 6, 2010 in Tampa, Florida. (AN AP PHOTO)

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Mid-August LunchThis international smash hit from the makers of Gomorrah is an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very

Roman holiday. Broke, and armed with only a glass of wine and a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni (director and screen-writer Gianni Di Gregorio) is forced to entertain his 93-year-old mother and three other lively mamas in their ancient apartment during Italy’s biggest summer holiday, Pranzo di Ferragosto. Mid-August Lunch is both warmly vibrant family drama and delicately balanced comedy of manners.

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million in the U.S. and Canada alone after audi-ences packed theaters on its opening Friday. The 3-D adaptation of the clas-sic fairy tale sold approxi-mately $41 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada on Friday accord-ing to distributor and fi-nancier Walt Disney Stu-dios. Assuming the film follows the path of a nor-mal PG-rated Disney-fam-ily movie, it should collect about $110 million this weekend. With this goal in sight it will reach the sec-

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Lil Wayne Set to be Sentenced to Year in NY Jail

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NEW YORK – Lil Wayne is set to begin an expected jail term on a New York gun case, after a dental problem and a courthouse

fire pushed his sentencing back a month.

The rap star is sched-uled to be sentenced Mon-day to a year in city jail. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal pos-session of a weapon. He admitted illegally having a

loaded gun on his tour bus in July 2007.

His sentencing was ini-tially pushed back from Feb. 9 so he could have surgery on his bejeweled teeth. It was postponed again last week when a fire shut down Manhattan's

main criminal courthouse while he was on his way there.

Lil Wayne has been one of rap's most prolific and profitable figures in recent years. His Tha Carter III was the best-selling album of 2008.

Beyonce inBrooklyn, HelpingSubstance Abusers

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NEW YORK – The president of Brooklyn has declared Beyonce an official Brooklynite.

Borough President Marty Markowitz said Beyonce is a Brooklynite by marriage and by moxie. Beyonce's husband, Jay-Z, is from Brooklyn.

The superstar visited the New York City borough Friday for the opening of the Beyonce Cosmetology Center at a resi-dential substance abuse treat-

ment center.The Phoenix House offers

programs for residents in car-pentry, building maintenance, computer technology and culi-nary arts.

Beyonce said she thought it also should have more pro-grams geared toward women. She said her mother's Houston salon helped so many people feel good about themselves and better their lives.

Beyonce first spent time at Phoenix House when preparing for the role of Etta James in the 2008 film, Cadillac Records.

tions of herself as a female filmmaker throughout awards season. After the Oscars, she reiterated that sentiment but made it clear she was eager for other women to follow her lead in winning Hollywood’s top filmmaking honor.

“I hope I’m the first of many, and of course, I’d love to just think of myself as a filmmaker. And I long for the day when that mod-ifier can be a moot point,” Bigelow said. “But I’m very grateful if I can in-spire some young, intrep-id, tenacious male or fe-male filmmaker and have them feel that the impos-sible is possible, and never give up on your dream.”

Bullock’s win came a day after she won worst-actress for her romantic comedy flop All About Steve at the Razzies, a spoof of the Oscars that mocks Hollywood’s low-points of the year.

The Razzie win makes Bullock the only actress to receive that dubious prize and an Oscar on the same weekend. Bullock became one of the few Razzie win-ners ever to collect her tro-phy in person, showing up at the ceremony Saturday pulling a little red wagon filled with DVDs of All About Steve for the audi-ence there.

Where will she keep her Oscar and Razzie?

“They’ll sit side by side on a nice little shelf somewhere. The Razzie maybe on a different shelf. Lower,” said Bullock, who was a great sport through-out awards season, joking

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Oscar Awards End with Some Surprisesabout her worst-actress Razzie nomination. “You take the good with the not-so-good.”

The Oscar marks a ca-reer peak for Bridges, a beloved Hollywood vet-eran who had been nomi-nated four times in the pre-vious 38 years without winning. Describing his long career, he bor-rowed some lines from one of his most endear-ing and enduring char-acters, the laid-back bowler the Dude from The Big Lebowski.

“Ups and downs. What does the Dude say? Strikes and gut-ters, man,” Bridges said backstage. “I’m big on the Dude. I love him.”

Known mainly for brazen comedy routines and roles in lowbrow films, Mo’Nique star-tled audiences with a dark turn as a reprehen-sible welfare mother in Precious.

Asked backstage if things would change for her, Mo’Nique de-clared, “I am a standup comedian who won an Oscar.”

Austrian-born Waltz, a veteran TV and stage actor in Europe but vir-tually unknown in Hol-lywood before Quentin Tarantino cast him in In-glourious Basterds, re-flected on his sudden Os-car celebrity.

“It’s mind-boggling. It’s fantastic. It’s very in-tense,” Waltz said. “And tomorrow I’ll probably be sorry it’s over,” he said.

The Hurt Locker scored a victory for war-on-terror dramas, which until now had found little favor with audiences shell-shocked

by nightly news coverage of the action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The film stars Jeremy Renner as the ace leader of a bomb-disposal unit in Iraq, a man whose addic-tion to the adrenaline rush of war endanger his col-

leagues (Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty).

War films normally are the arena of male direc-tors, but Bigelow has made action and stories about tough men a specialty, her films including the Keanu Reeves-Patrick Swayze thriller Point Break and Harrison Ford’s submarine adventure K-19: The Wid-owmaker.

K-19 was a 2002 flop, and it took Bigelow years to get back in action with

The Hurt Locker, which premiered at the Venice and Toronto film festivals in September 2008.

While it pulled in $12.6 million domestically, a re-spectable showing for an

ond-highest opening ever outside of summer, (not accounting price inflation) after November’s The Twi-light Saga: New Moon.

Altogether, whether you’re a nonsensical fan, Johnny Depp fan, a Tim Burton fan, or an Alice in Wonderland fan, this film is a must see: but save your bucks and skip the expensive 3-D option. The only thing worth seeing was the Cheshire Cat (he’s my favorite) and very few others.

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NEW YORK – Early indi-cations are that an Acade-my Awards telecast where The Hurt Locker topped the popular Avatar for best picture was popular with viewers.

The Nielsen Co.'s over-night measurement of the nation's 56 biggest mar-kets gave ABC's telecast a 26.5 rating and 40 au-dience share. That's a 14 percent increase over the same rating for last year's telecast, when Slumdog

Millionaire was named best picture.

Nielsen is expected to give an estimate of the au-dience size later Monday. Last year's telecast was seen by 36.3 million peo-ple. Each rating point rep-resents 1,149,000 house-holds, and the share means that 40 percent of the tele-visions being used at the time were tuned into the Oscars. The Oscars had a 29.4 rating in the New York market, Nielsen said. That was 11 percent above the average for other big cities and No. 13 among those cities.


independent film without big stars, The Hurt Lock-er is the lowest-grossing best-picture winner in this modern era of detailed box-office bookkeeping.

It took in less than one-fourth the haul of 2005 best-picture winner Crash, itself one of the least com-mercially successful recip-ients of the top Oscar.

Along with Avatar, the biggest modern block-buster with $720 million domestically, the best-pic-ture competition included the $200 million smashes Up and The Blind Side and the $100 million hits District 9 and Inglourious Basterds.”

Like Crash, The Hurt Locker was a rare film that swooped in from outside the Hollywood studios to earn the industry’s highest tribute. The Hurt Locker was acquired by Summit Entertainment after the film played at the Toronto

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festival, where Crash also was bought by distributor Lionsgate.

Joining Bigelow to col-lect the best-picture Oscar were Hurt Locker produc-ers Mark Boal, who also won the prize for original screenplay, and Greg Sha-piro.

A fourth producer — fi-nancier Nicolas Chartier, a key money man behind the film — was barred from attending as punishment for violating awards rules by sending e-mails to Os-car voters urging them to back The Hurt Locker over Avatar.

Oscar overseers said Chartier still will receive his best-picture Oscar, but at a later time.

“We haven’t spoken to him yet,” Shapiro said. “He sent me a very beauti-ful e-mail. He had a party thrown for him, and I think he’s very pleased.”

Only a week after the discovery of 17 year old Chelsea King’s body in a shallow grave on the shore of Lake Hodge’s, Califor-nia, the remains of a 14 year old girl have been found in a remote section of the Pala Indian Reser-vation. The remains are considered to be part of an ongoing murder investiga-tion and therefore cannot be discussed in detail by police. However, leaked news responses have led to the arrest of a known sex offender.

The remains, believed to be that of Amber Du-bois, are directly related to the Chelsea King case. Dubois had been walking to Escondido High School nearly a year ago when she never made it to class. Although her parent’s had never stopped looking for her, police investigation had begun to focus direct-

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ly on John Albert Gardner and faltered over the year. Minimal evidence, de-spite Gardner’s troubled

past, led police to keep the case open but practically uninvestigated. With the discovery of both bodies,

Gardner is now the pri-mary focus in both murder cases and an “easy convic-tion” according to Califor-

nia district attorneys.Gardner, a sex offend-

er, has been charged with multiple counts of assault

and a conviction of moles-tation prior to these two cases. Although he has pled not guilty in the death of Chelsea King, the new-ly discovered remains of Amber Dubois gives little reason to believe his inno-cence.

California police hope for the best in the up-coming investigations and trials for John Albert Gardner despite the new evidence. With the death of Chelsea King and Am-ber Dubois, along with the molestations and assaults from additional sources, it is believed that the John Albert Gardner case could be presented as a death penalty case.

Although Gardner has now been released on bail, groups have started to form in response and protest. Many parents of the California area fear for their children with a sex offender out in public. Stay tuned for detailed and continuous coverage of the California murders.

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Oldest Person in US Dies in NH at Age 114

W E S T M O R E L A N D , N.H. – Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.

She died Sunday at a nursing home in Westmo-reland but was active until about two weeks before her death, her granddaugh-ter Katherine Ray said.

"She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dy-ing at all," Katherine Ray said. "She was planning for her birthday party."

Even with her recent decline, Ray managed an


interview with a reporter last week, her granddaugh-ter said.

The Gerontology Re-search Group says that Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world. She was also re-corded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hamp-shire.

The oldest living Amer-ican is now Neva Morris, of Ames, Iowa, at age 114 years, 216 days. The old-est person in the world is Japan's Kama Chinen at age 114 years, 301 days.

Ray was born May 17, 1895, in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She moved to the United States at age 3.

She lived for 60 years in

Anson, Maine. She lived in Florida, Massachusetts and elsewhere in New H a m p -shire be-fore she moved to Wes tmo -reland in 2002 to be near her children.

R a y ' s husband, W a l t e r , died in 1967. Sur-vivors in-clude two sons, eight g r a n d -chi ldren, 13 great-grandchil-dren and

five great-great grandchil-dren.

Granny Camps Out 43 Hours for Grandson’s

Ice Cream

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Here's one Wisconsin grandmother who makes time for her grandson. Mi-chelle Cuestas of Green Bay used two vacation days and camped out for 43 hours to make sure her grandson would be first in line for the 2010 open-ing of a Stevens Point ice-cream landmark.

Belts' Soft Serve opened for the year Friday at 11 a.m. Thanks to grandma, 6-year-old Brayden Banks


placed the first order.The Stevens Point Jour-

nal said Cuestas arrived Wednesday at 4 p.m. She planned to spend the night in her car but after lock-ing her keys in the car, she instead slept in the Belts bathroom.

Brayden arrived Thurs-day morning. The two passed the last 24 hours playing games, reading and drawing.

Cuestas said the wait was worth it. She said making memories with her grandson is priceless.

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