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Volume 88, Issue 09 | October 28, 2009

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PHOTO COURTESY OF DANCERUNIVERSE.COMThis Is It, not quite a concert film nor a documentary, will be released Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. It comes out just months after Jackson’s death, with fans still eagerly digesting every scrap of news about him.

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King of Pop Aims for King of Music Film Status

By DAVID GERMAINASSOCIATED PRESS

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Medical Marijua-na Laws Loosen

Up

Chargers Cruise to Victory,

49 to 27

LOS ANGELES – The 50 comeback concerts Mi-chael Jackson planned in London last summer sold out in a few hours.

With those shows rel-egated to what-if status by his death in June, the ques-tion now is how well the singer can pack movie the-aters with Michael Jack-son: This Is It, a chronicle of his concert preparations that now stands as his final performance.

Advance ticket sales have been brisk, but no one has a handle on how big the turnout might be this week.

Some think it’s likely to surpass the $31.1 mil-lion opening weekend and the $65.3 million lifetime haul of Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, the biggest concert movie on record.

Some expect a $100 million total domestic haul. Others think it could go much higher, but how high is anyone’s guess.

“It reminds me of Blair Witch, it reminds me of Fahrenheit 9/11, it reminds me of Passion of the Christ. You even have to throw in Snakes on a Plane. Films that are bigger than life and just unpredictable. We don’t really know how they’re going to do,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Holly-wood.com.

For the record, The Blair Witch Project, Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ all were hits. Snakes

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Medical marijuana users and suppliers are no longer subject to arrest if they are complying with state laws, new federal policy states.

According to U.S. Jus-tice Department officials, prosecutors’ time is being wasted worrying about in-dividuals who are essen-tially following state laws. The new policy will give prosecutors the opportu-

By MELANIE ROVINSKYSTAFF WRITER

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nity to choose which medi-cal marijuana cases they pursue.

The use and distribution of medical marijuana is le-gal (in some respect) in 14 states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mon-tana, Nevada, New Mexi-co, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The remaining 36 states will continue with their current policies regarding medical marijuana.

A federal memo issued

The University of New Haven football team dem-onstrated this past Satur-day that there are many ways for a team to score in a game, when they hosted the Pace University Setters at DellaCamera Stadium. The Chargers recorded touchdowns on a quarter-back pass, halfback run, kick return, fake field goal and fumble recovery.

By MICHAEL BARONESTAFF WRITER

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The game began slow-ly as both teams failed to score for the first ten min-utes of the game. The Set-ters broke the rut following a New Haven fumble with a one play drive, highlight-ed by a 24 yard touchdown pass. QB Ryan Osiecki helped New Haven respond quickly, leading the Char-gers on an 8 play 65 yard touchdown drive that was capped off by a Josh Smart 7 yard touchdown run, eve-ning the score at seven to end the first quarter.

National & Global NewsThe Charger Bulletin | October 28, 2009

All About Halloween

Did You Know?by Joann Wolwowicz

Animal Awareness TipLynx canadensis

by Maideline Sanchez

With Halloween coming up this Satur-day, what better topic to write about then the one holiday all about candy. But is it just all about candy or is there more to it that no one ever bothered to look up? Well, that’s what I’m here for. The history of Halloween actually dates back to the an-cient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced Sa-ween). The festival was planned to cel-ebrate their new year on Nov. 1. Because this day came around the time of end of the harvest and the begin-ning of the dark, cold weather, Celtics often associated this day with human death and believed that on this night the boundaries between the living and dead became blurred.

Halloween first came to America as different European immigrants trav-eled, bringing their own Halloween tra-ditions with them. It was more common in Maryland and in a variety of southern

states where a blend of traditions slowly started to emerge to form the “American” Halloween. The first celebrations included public events to cel-ebrate the end of the harvest, where neigh-bors would share sto-ries of the dead, tell each other's fortunes, dance, and sing. Colo-nial Halloween festiv-ities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nine-teenth century, annu-al autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated every-where in the country. In 1846, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go from house to house ask-ing for food or money, similar to today’s tra-ditions.

Halloween is filled with many traditions and superstitions that many of us do not think about, but just accept. Where did they all come from? Orange and black were labeled Hallow-

een colors because orange is associated with the fall harvest and black is associated with death and dark-ness. Jack o’ Lanterns first originated in Ire-land where the people placed candles in hol-lowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Sam-hain holiday. Cos-tumes became com-mon from the Celtic traditions because the ancient Celts thought that spirits roamed the countryside on Hal-loween night. They began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.

Everything that happens on Hallow-een has a long history that dates back to over 2,000 years ago. So this year, when you are out going through haunted houses and dressing up in fun costumes, just appre-ciate that our tradi-tions came from cel-ebrating the end of a harvest and evolved to witches, ghosts, and snickers bars.

Happy Halloween!

in the above men-tioned states told prosecutors not to “fo-cus federal resources in your states on in-dividuals whose ac-tions are in clear and unambiguous com-pliance with existing

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for the medical use of marijuana.” The memo stresses the im-portance of continuing to go after individuals who are using medical marijuana as a cover for other drug traffick-ing.

Passed by the Obama administra-tion, this law is a clear deviation from former Bush policies which, according to The Asso-ciated Press, enforced federal anti-marijuana laws regardless of state codes.

There are many specific breeds of lynxes that are situat-ed in different regions of the world, and all of them are con-sidered to be threat-ened species. The Lynx canadensis’s are found in Canada and parts of northern United States. Other lynxes are found in Europe and Asia. They are character-ized by the extension of fur gathered on top

of their pointed ears that facilitate hearing and large paws that spread out as they hit the ground and act as snow shoes. They also have thick fur that provides them with warmth during the cold winter months. Their fur color varies from brown to beige-white containing dark brown spots. At night, these nocturnal cats hunt mainly snowshoe hares and deer that are

mostly ill or weak. Lynx canadensis will mate from late winter to late spring and pro-create a litter size of 1 to 4 young after a 70 day gestation period. By 9 months, the off-spring will leave their mother and fend for themselves.

Did you know? A lynx’s eyesight is so sharp that it can detect a mouse up to 250 feet away!

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14 Americans Killed in 2 Afghan Helicopter Crashes

By HEIDI VOGTASSOCIATED PRESS

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KABUL – Helicop-ter crashes killed 14 Americans on Mon-day in the deadliest day for the U.S. mis-sion in Afghanistan in more than four years.

The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national se-curity team for a sixth full-scale conference on the future of the troubled war.

In the first crash, a helicopter went down in the west of the

country after leaving the scene of a firefight with insurgents, kill-ing 10 Americans — seven troops and three civilians working for the government. Elev-en American troops, one U.S. civilian and 14 Afghans were also injured.

In a separate in-cident in the south, two other U.S. chop-pers collided while in flight, killing four American troops and wounding two more, the military said.

It was the heaviest single-day loss of life since June 28, 2005, when 16 U.S. troops on a special forces helicopter died when

their MH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by insurgents.

U.S. authorities have ruled out hostile fire in the collision but have not given a cause for the other fa-tal crash in the west. Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmedi claimed Taliban fight-ers shot down a heli-copter in northwest

Badghis province's Darabam district. It was impossible to verify the claim and unclear if he was re-ferring to the same in-cident.

U.S. forces also reported the death of two other American troops a day earlier: one in a bomb at-

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The Charger Bulletin | October 28, 2009

Ample Flu Vaccine Will Be Available

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday the swine flu vaccine "is coming out the door as fast as it comes off the production line."

But at the same time, she acknowl-edged delays in get-ting a sufficient supply for all those demand-ing it.

"We were relying on the manufacturers to give us their num-bers and as soon as we got numbers we put

ceding that's millions of doses below the amount needed.

President Barack Obama declared a health emergency over the weekend to give hospitals and health professionals more leeway from federal regulations to respond to the illness. And on Sunday, Sen-ate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Con-gress would be happy to provide additional support and money on a bipartisan basis, if the need arises.

Said Sebelius: "If we had found the vi-rus a little earlier we

knew it would come in waves."

Sebelius sought to assure people that eventually there will be enough supplies "for everyone."

Dr. Anne Schuchat, who heads the Immu-nization and Respira-tory Diseases Divi-sion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said it's hard to predict how long the H1N1 wave will continue, so even getting vaccinated a few months from now — when vaccine sup-plies are more plenti-ful — won't be too late.

"It wouldn't be too

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, center, flanked by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the swine flu.

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them out to the public. It does appear now that those numbers were overly rosy," Se-belius said in one in-terview. "We do have a vaccine that works," she said. Sebelius said the immune response is working faster than officials anticipated.

Appearing Monday morning on nation-ally broadcast news shows, she said of-ficials now have a supply of about 16.5 million doses of the vaccine, while con-

could have started a little earlier."

Asked what ad-vice she would give to people who have waited futilely in line for shots, the secretary replied, "I want them to come back."

"I hope that people aren't discouraged," she said. "I know it's frustrating to wait in line and particularly if you end up with no vaccine. We wish this could have been smoother, that we had a larger supply. We

late," she said. "We don't know how long this increase will go on. ... We might see another wave after the first of the year. I think it's important for people to take steps to protect themselves."

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared on ABC's Good Morning Amer-ica, CBS's The Early Show and NBC's To-day show. Schuchat was interviewed on CNN.

Disgraced Cloning Expert Convicted

By HYUNG-JIN KIMASSOCIATED PRESS

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SEOUL, South Korea – A disgraced clon-ing expert who falsely claimed major break-throughs in stem cell research was convict-ed Monday for em-bezzlement and other charges connected to the scandal, but he will not serve time in prison.

Hwang Woo-suk, 56 — once consid-ered a national hero in South Korea for his work on stem cells and for produc-ing the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy — was cleared of the main charge of fraud but was convicted of embezzling research funds and illegally buying human eggs for his research.

Prosecutors had asked for four years in prison, but Judge Bae Ki-yeol of Seoul Cen-tral District Court said Hwang had shown re-morse and gave him a suspended sentence, sparing him jail time if he stays out of trou-ble for three years.

had extracted stem cells from them.

Stem cell research is highly sensitive, and Hwang had been the only South Ko-rean scientist allowed to carry out studies on the master cells that scientists say could lead to revolutionary cures for hard-to-treat diseases such as Al-zheimer's and Parkin-son's.

A year later, Hwang's team also claimed in the journal that they had created human embryonic stem cells genetically matched to specific patients, a purported breakthrough that promised a way to withstand rejection by a patient's immune system.

The South Korean government stripped him of the right to conduct stem cell re-search in 2006.

He was charged later that year of fraud for allegedly accept-ing some 2 billion won ($2 million) in private donations under false pretenses. He also was accused of embez-zling 800 million won

(about $800,000) and buying human eggs for research in viola-tion of South Korea's bioethics laws.

Hwang eventually admitted the data was faked but claimed he had been deceived by a fellow researcher.

The protracted trial, which heard testimo-ny from more than 60 witnesses, lasted more than three years. Dur-ing an August hearing, Hwang pleaded for le-niency, saying he was ready to "pour the last of my passion" into research.

On Monday, Judge Bae dismissed the main fraud charge against him, saying it was difficult to be-lieve Hwang intended to deceive the donors just to get the funding.

Hwang — who with his Seoul Na-tional University team of scientists created the first known cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005 — has focused on cloning canines since being fired by the uni-versity and stripped of the right to conduct stem cell research.

Hwang still has a

South Korean disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk arrives for his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The court prepared to deliver a verdict Monday in the trial of Hwang whose fraudulent claims of breakthroughs in stem cell research shook the international scientific community.

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I n 2 0 0 4 , H w a n g and for-mer col-l e a g u e s at Seoul N a t i o n -al Uni-v e r s i t y c l a i m e d in a paper published in the j o u r n a l S c i e n c e that they had cre-ated the w o r l d ' s f i r s t c l o n e d h u m a n embryos — and

loyal fol-l o w i n g . Dozens of suppor t-ers rallied o u t s i d e the court Monday, c h a n t -ing "We trust Dr. Hwang."

W h a t are your thoughts on stem cell re-s e a rc h ? Email us at Char-g e r B u l -letin@ne-w h a ven .edu

New Haven NewsThe Charger Bulletin | October 28, 2009

This time of year students are busy with papers, exams, and projects. This point in the year, comput-ers in the Marvin K. Peterson Library are in high demand. You might come into the Library, look around, and not find a single empty computer. Does that mean you cannot get your work done? Not at all!

Many students are still not aware of the Library’s 36 laptops available for use within the build-ing. You can go to

Need a Laptop? Marvin’s Got’em!

By CHRISTINE EDGARMARVIN K. PETERSON LIBRARY

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the Circulation Desk and, with your UNH ID card, borrow a laptop for three hours that you can use any-where in the build-ing. This program is extremely popular with students since it began last year. You can take your laptop to the Jazzman’s Café and enjoy a snack, to a Group Study Room to work on a project with your friends, or to the Upper Level where you can write a paper in peace and quiet. These computers have the same software as the Library’s desktop computers and print to the Pharos printing system in the Library.

If you want to keep the laptop longer than three hours, you can come back to the Cir-culation Desk before your time is up and charge out a power cord to keep your laptop running. For those of you who pre-fer external mice to a laptop’s touch pad, you can charge out a mouse as well.

Keep in mind that using these lap-tops come with strict regulations. Before you charge out a lap-top for the first time you will be asked to read and sign a Lap-top Loan Agreement Form, which will list all the rules concern-

ing laptop use. Li-brary laptops cannot leave the building for any reason and also have an overdue fine of 20 cents per min-ute or $12 per hour. Don’t forget that these fines can be avoided by renewing your lap-top before your time is up. You cannot put a hold on a laptop or reserve one, but avail-ability of laptops has rarely been an issue. So the next time you come into the Library to study, consider us-ing a laptop! For more information about laptop policies, please see the Circulation Desk Staff or call us at 932.7197.

Notetakers Needed!

The Disability Services and Resources Office is looking for responsible students who are willing to take notes in class for fellow stu-

dents.

Requirements:

- Be Reliable and Responsible- Attend a required notetaker training

- Make a commitment for the entire semester- Take neat and comprehensive notes (typed

notes may be requested)

If you are interested or for more informa-tion please contact Crystal Hill at CHill@

newhaven.edu or call 203-932-7409 or stop by the Disability Services Office located in the rear of Sheffield Hall, two doors from Health

Services

Deadline: Friday November 20th

If you complete all requirements by October 30th, you will qualify for priority registration!

Benefits: $50 gift cards, learn new subjects, meet new people, add to co-curricular tran-

script!

UNH Award-ed 850K Grant

for StudyBy JULIE WINKELDIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELA-TIONS, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN

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West Haven– The Uni-versity of New Haven (UNH) has received an $850,000 grant from the United States Naval Research Labo-ratory in Washington, D.C., for the expan-sion of the Institute for the Study of Vio-lent Groups (ISVG). The institute analyzes open source informa-tion on the activities and associations of more than 1,500 ter-rorist groups world-wide and provides it to law enforcement and the military in an effort to combat crime

and terrorism.ISVG began in

2002 under the lead-ership of Dr. Rich-ard Ward, dean of the UNH Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and former dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). When Ward accepted the position at the Lee College in 2008, ISVG expanded its opera-tions to include UNH. ISVG now utilizes a culturally diverse staff of 40 researchers and technical specialists at UNH and SHSU to analyze information on terrorism, political

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Christopher RinckUSGA President

USGA Meetings are at 1:45 every Monday in the Alumni Lounge. All are welcome!

USGA President’s Corner

German Club PavilionI am writing this

week to poll what students think of the German Club pavil-ion. The university is looking at the pos-sibility of renovating the area.

Some ideas that come through my mind are a new pavil-ion with picnic tables

underneath, a BBQ pit that would be avail-able 24 hours a day, lighting and electric to the area, and horse-shoe pits.

What I really want to hear is what the general student body would like. What would you and your friends want? What

would your club like? Would you use this area? I ask you to please go to www.chargervoice .com and post a concern. Tell me what your thoughts on this area are so I can help make the area great for you.

Meet Career Services!

James Wightman

James displays his excellent leadership roles in many different as-pects with the Center for Experiential Education. In the Career Ser-vices Office, James helps review resumes, track data for workshops, create PowerPoint presentations, and is part of the welcoming student staff sitting at our front desk.

James is the founder and president of the XE Club. A few of the events that the XE Club has sponsored include EE Day, United Way Day of Caring, Speed Networking, and the Life Coaching Program. More exciting events are to come!

Interested in joining the club? Contact [email protected]

and religious extrem-ist groups and related transnational criminal activities.

Sifting through publicly available information such as newspapers, govern-ment reports, court documents and web sites, ISVG research-ers identify patterns and trends then pro-vide thoroughly re-searched and sourced data on terrorist, ex-tremist and transna-tional criminal organi-zations to various law enforcement and mili-tary organizations, both in the United States and abroad.

The core of the project is a relational database that is ca-pable of collecting and organizing vast amounts of open-source data at a very fine level of detail. For instance, the ISVG database is capable of recording more than 30 variables on a sin-gle bombing incident and more than 50 vari-ables on an individ-ual linked to terrorist groups. Altogether, the ISVG database has more than 1,500 vari-ables that researchers use to record tactical/operational details on incidents of terrorism, and relational details that connect individu-als, groups and orga-nizations suspected of involvement in of terrorism, extremism, and related organized-crime activities.

“The ISVG da-tabase allows users to quickly visualize every relationship an identified terrorist has, according to open sources, and establish whether seemingly random events are linked,” says Ward. He adds that the ISVG database already has

been used to identify numerous trends and patterns; from identi-fying changes in ter-rorist tactics to exam-ining the evolution of trafficking routes and making predictions about the fate of hos-tages held by terrorist organizations.

ISVG’s Director of Collection at SHSU Vesna Markovic noted that this approach is very powerful. “Col-lecting and coding information at such a granular level allows for researcher and an-alysts to conduct very sophisticated analy-ses that have not been possible with other datasets.” The techni-cal architecture of the ISVG database allows this power to be har-nessed when it is con-nected to a wide range of government and commercial analysis and visualization pro-grams.

UNH Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and ISVG Ex-ecutive Director Dan-iel Mabrey notes that the database is used in a variety of appli-cations, “The ISVG system keeps us at the cutting edge of data analysis and visualiza-tion in the areas that are of great interest to the counter-terrorism community.” He add-ed that ISVG spent the last year applying link, social network, temporal-spatial and statistical analysis ap-proaches to the data. The funding from the Naval Research Lab will allow ISVG to make important infra-structure upgrades to expand on these meth-ods this year. Some applications of the ISVG database in the last year include:

• The Lincoln Lab-

oratory at the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology used the database to build new algorithms to analyze the operational signa-tures of terrorist net-works; the resulting paper on CT-SNAIR (Counter-terrorism Social Network Anal-ysis and Intent Recog-nition) was selected as the best paper at the IEEE Aerospace En-gineering Conference.

• The Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Laboratory at the Naval Postgraduate School uses the data-base as a resource in their curriculum to ed-ucate mid-career mili-tary officers in visual analytics and data fu-sion and counterinsur-gency and irregular-warfare strategies

• Subsets of data from ISVG are pro-vided to the Global Terrorism Database at the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for the Study of Terrorism and Re-sponses to Terrorism (START) where it is used by leading schol-ars and researchers throughout the world to better understand and evaluate counter-terrorism policies and strategies worldwide.

• Researchers at Rice University built a computational mod-el from the ISVG da-tabase for inferring responsibility for a terrorist attack that successfully inferred the group responsible for the November 2008 bombings in Mumbai, India.

• ISVG currently provides a knowl-edgebase to law en-forcement about the group-based violence along the US/Mexico border.

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University Awarded Grant for ISVG Expansion

Opinion & EditorialsThe Charger Bulletin | October 28, 2009

Zack RosenEditor-in-Chief

Erin EnnisAssistant Editor

An Open Letter to Jon & KateDear Jon and Kate,

You suck. I don’t care about you; hell, even YOU don’t care about you. Your kids don’t care about you,

your parents prob-ably forgot the con-dom (looks like you did too?), and the only thing holding your life together is the pros-pect of more money by exploiting your kids.

That’s right, you are completely and totally exploiting your kids. You know, hav-ing cameras around

them 24/7. Oh and having you, Kate, as a mother. That alone should be considered child abuse and prob-ably could carry a fine of up to $500,000.

Have you ever no-ticed what horrible parenting there is in this country? Not my parents, probably not yours, but still. And not only is there hor-rible parenting, but also horrible neglect. Speaking of neglect, abuse, and bad par-enting, enjoy the photo to the right of a girl with a beer fun-nel. Sure, the website that this came from (www.WhyTheFdoY-ouHaveAKid.com) is funny and all, but it’s actually pretty dis-turbing. Some of the photos may be fake and staged, but some definitely are not.

Jon, of the two of you, I actually feel bad for you. You mar-

ried a floozy. Why, I’ll never know, but hey we all make bad deci-sions.

Fact of the matter, Kate, you’re a bad mother. You realize that when 5-year-old Collin is 21 he’ll be addicted to meth and prostituting on the street corner? Yeah, that’s because of your bad parenting. Not to mention 9-year-old Cara will probably grow up to be just like you. That’ll probably be a worse situation than that of your meth head son.

Can you tell I don’t like stupid reality TV? I mean, Hell’s Kitchen is where it’s at. They make some darn good looking meals. But what is the point of watching a TV show where a husband and wife (now ex’es, of course) fight…all while their kids watch. Now if you

had the eight kids fight to be the best chef, there’s no doubt that Kate would make a great Gordon Ram-say. That’d be some awe-some televi-sion.

Of course I don’t wish for Collin to be-come addicted to metham-p h e t a m i n e , and I certainly hope that Cara doesn’t grow up to be like you, Kate. But the fact is that how you act around your

quel show. (Which, by the way TLC, that was an original name. To whoever picked that: you’re fired.) Jon, stop fighting with Kate. And you know what?

If you both stick to those plans, maybe your kids won’t turn out horribly.

Love, and sympa-thy,

Zack

PHOTO COURTESY WHYTHEFDOYOUHAVEAKID.COM

kids, and how you treat and talk to them, will affect them.

So do your kids a favor, and end it now. Kate, don’t do that stupid Kate Plus 8 se-

Like most people, I have the same inter-net routine just about every day. I check my email and look to see if any of my friends have updated their blogs. I read up on the news via Yahoo and laugh over the newest fmylife posts. Then I go on one of the most popular networking sites available on the World Wide Web: Facebook.

I would venture to guess that ninety per-cent of this campus uses Facebook on a daily basis. The Char-ger Bulletin has its own fan page, as does SCOPE, the Chariot Yearbook, and Stu-dent Activities. Clubs across campus support their events through the popular network-ing sites and we pub-lish our personal and

What Happened to My Facebook Newsfeed?

scholarly complaints across the news-feeds. When Obama was campaigning for President, thousands of people around the globe updated their statuses to support the election. Even when the Pay-To-Print issue first presented itself here at UNH, groups and events were cre-ated in protest. My newsfeed fills every-day with the opinions, lives, and moments of

UNH students. Yet, despite our love for the popular site, we as a population seem un-able to cope with sim-plistic changes.

Over the weekend, Facebook changed it’s ever popular news-feed process (it is more like a happy me-dium to stalk people, but that is for another article), and people seemed to freak out. Every which way, there were groups be-ing created in protest of the new “live feed” and “normal feed”. Some didn’t want to know about friends adding new people to their friends list. Others did not care that Facebook now allowed you to view friends you had not contacted in awhile. People seemed gener-ally annoyed with the

changes…and for no good reason.

Last year, Face-book updated its homepage to look more like the popular networking website Twitter, where status updates were main-tained on a continuous live stream. People HATED it. Everyone moaned and com-plained that Facebook was becoming more like Twitter and less like the site the major-ity of us had grown to love. Groups were created, petitions were signed, and a general annoyance was felt across the entire site. Even though the anger eventually subsided and people got used to the changes, Face-book creators listened and made a signifi-cant compromise: the Facebook that came

into existence this weekend.

For those of you who haven’t figured out the changes yet, they are relatively simple. If you stay on the “regular” news-feed page, you will only see feed updates that an algorithm dis-covers to be most interesting to you. These will include feed updates of the friends you talk to the most, the subjects you “like” the most, and the games you play the most. However, if you switch over to “live feed”, Facebook will go back to the Twitter-wannabe website it had been before, with continuous streaming status updates. Easy enough right?

Moral of the story is this: people will be angry about the

changes for awhile, but will eventually let it go (just like last time). The change gives you a little more control over your news/stalker feed and lets you decide how you want your homepage to work. Instead of complain-ing about the change, embrace it! Facebook will always be chang-ing, just like technol-ogy and the internet itself, so go with it and see where it takes you. I know this change will have no effect over my daily routine: I’ll still read my feed (although probably not on the “live” op-tion), still play Farm-ville like it’s my job, and still join all those groups. So welcome, new Facebook! Until you are updated again, that is.


And it’s over la-dies and gentlemen; the epic contests of season 1 Rec Sports have come to a close. With the ever-chang-ing New England weather, teams fought in the crisp sunlight to be named champions of the outdoor soccer men’s pro, co-rec pro, men’s semi-pro, and co-rec semi-pro divi-sions.

The final standings are thus: champion of the men’s pro division is Kinda Good, cham-pion of the co-rec pro division is Free Agents, champion of the men’s semi-pro di-

Congratulations From Rec Sports!

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vision is Hooters, and champion of the co-rec semi-pro division is Banana Pancakes. In the popular vol-leyball league, teams spiked their way to the top throughout 5 different divisions. With the final match played it’s time to crown the champions. Kinda Good rocked volleyball by winning the women’s, men’s, and co-rec pro divi-sions. Champion of the men’s semi-pro di-vision is Stoop Kids, while Safe Sets took the co-rec semi-pro division.

Finally, showing expert finesse in the dynamic sport, fid-dle stx, Stoop Kids reigned supreme in

the co-rec pro divi-sion. The final for the men’s pro division of fiddle stx has current-ly been postponed. Congratulations to all our champions and thank you to every-one who participated in season 1 sports. Good luck to all the teams signed up for season 2. If you want to participate in more intramural sports, but missed registration for season 2, look for seasons 3 and 4 next spring. In other news, there is a new item for rent at the Beckerman Recreation Center. If you need to do some resistance training, you can pick up re-sistance bands from Equipment Services.

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Arts & EntertainmentThe Charger Bulletin | October 28, 2009

The twisting tale of the Gosselin’s never seems to end. The local television net-work, TLC, is suing Jon Gosselin from the TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8. The lawsuit was officially filed on Friday, Oct. 23. “He is the Father of the Year (just kidding),” quot-ed the Miami Herald when discussing the issue. Jon has not met the obligations of his contract for being an exclusive employee and has been on oth-er programs for pay, making unauthorized disclosures about the show and his family.

The TLC Network did not mention the

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AN AP/MATT ROURKE PHOTOJon Gosselin is seen after he exited the Montgomery County courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009.

other various affairs with bartenders, nan-nies, and some college students that have

selin, has been tak-ing care of their eight children (twin girls and sextuplets) ever

deal in 2008 for Jon & Kate Plus 8, that would make him pro-vide his services dur-

ing taping, both with his family and with-out, and would only allow him to speak of

since the divorce. According to the

complaint, Gosse-lin had signed a new

plagued the Gosselin name since earlier this year. His estranged ex-wife, Kate Gos-

the program through accepted advertise-ments. In the deal, he promised that he would not do any-thing inappropriate, and would embrace “social conventions of public morals or de-cency.” The plaintiff said in the statement that Jon Gosselin had various breaches of this contract, includ-ing photographs, sto-ries, and various in-toxicated moments.

Since the breach, Jon has begun to sell his services to other media outlets, includ-ing a possible appear-ance on Entertain-ment Tonight.

Stay tuned, as Gos-selin will release his own press statement about the show later this week.

Crowded Theaters Build Momentum for 3-D at Home

LOS ANGELES – Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in the-aters this year and new 3-D televi-sions could soon have home view-ers feeling as if they're surround-ed by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.

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AN AP/SONY PICTURES ANIMATION PHOTOIn this file publicity image released by Sony Pictures Animation, Sam Sparks, voiced by Anna Faris, and Flint Lockwood, voiced by Bill Hader, are seen in Columbia Pictures’ animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs this year and new 3-D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling like they’re surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.

Next year major electronics manufac-turers Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. plan to introduce 3-D-ca-pable high-definition televisions for the mass market. You'll still need to wear spe-cial glasses, though.

Movie studios hope 3-D can help lift the sagging home video market the same way

it has pushed up box office results.

The initial price of such sets is expected

to be high — perhaps 20 percent more than normal sets of the same size. But costs should come down in the coming years.

Depending on prices, 3-D-ready TVs could be in 28 million to 46 million homes worldwide by 2013, predicts Alfred Poor, an analyst with GigaOM Pro. He es-

timates that next year, as many as 2.5 million sets worldwide will be sold with 3-D capabil-

ity."We're raising a

whole generation of kids who expect to see this effect for their movies at home," Poor said. "I think people want 3-D. I just don't think they're going to want to pay a whole lot more for it."

To avoid the need for special screens, some manufacturers of

TV sets are shunning the 3-D technology common in theaters in favor of what's known

as "active shutter." That uses an infrared emitter on the TV to tell battery-powered glasses when to flick-er the left and right lenses in conjunction with the images on the screen, which gives the perception of three dimensions.

The sets themselves will require relatively minor upgrades from

today's models, but the glasses will cost more, raising the price of the overall pack-

age.There's no

question 3-D movies are popu-lar.

They gener-ated more than $1 billion at box of-fices worldwide this year, and on a per-screen ba-sis, 3-D showings typically bring in more than dou-ble the revenue

of regular screenings when a movie is of-fered in both versions.

For hits like Dis-ney/Pixar's Up and 20th Century Fox's Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, more than half of ticket rev-enues came from 3-D screens, despite ac-counting for far fewer

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of Gilligan’s Island. With the speakers covered in fish netting and their piano con-verted into a boat, this was only the begin-ning of a great night of entertainment. Fans enjoyed a 10 song set of oldies and brand new songs. A lot of the pieces had never been performed in front of a live audience. The atmosphere of the room could be felt and seen in the faces of the hundreds of fans packed into the club and the ever growing

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The game re-mained at a back and forth tempo into the second quarter as Pace executed a 10 play touchdown drive. However, the extra point was blocked by the Chargers leaving the score at 13-7. On the resulting kickoff, Sharieff Hall demon-strated why he is the most electric return man in the NE-10 Conference by bring-ing the kickoff back 75 yards for a Charger touchdown. The New Haven defense held strong on the next drive, returning the ball to the offense with six minutes remain-ing in the half. UNH was poised to build on their lead before half-time until a fumble at midfield ended their drive. Pace would again seize the oppor-tunity to capitalize on a Charger turnover. This time it was with a 46 yard touchdown pass, bringing the score to 19-14 after a missed two point con-version. The Chargers responded with a 9 play touchdown drive of their own. The drive saw New Haven convert on three con-secutive third downs, the final conversion coming on a 26 yard touchdown pass from Osiecki to WR Demi-trius Washington-El-lison. The Chargers headed to the locker rooms at the half with a 21-19 lead.

Opening the second half, the Chargers of-fense displayed their dominance on the first offensive drive of the half, resulting in a 19 yard touchdown pass from Osiecki to

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The New Haven lead was extended to 28-19 with the convert-ed extra point. The score would remain the same until early in the fourth quarter, when the game’s turn-ing point occurred. While setting up for a 29 yard field goal at-tempt, the Chargers perfectly executed a fake field goal bootleg pass for a touchdown. The holder and back-up QB Brice DeRosa fired a strike to TE Kameel Lashley from 12 yards out.

The Chargers would add two more touchdowns before the game was over, the first of which came on a 30 yard touchdown pass from Osiecki to Hall. Dur-ing the scoring drive, QB Ryan Osiecki broke the school re-cord for completions in a season with his 210th successful pass. Osiecki, who was un-aware of his latest ac-complishment, was quick to give credit to his teammates when asked about the record saying, “A lot of the credit has to be given to my offensive line and receivers for mak-ing it possible for me, I definitely wouldn’t be able to achieve suc-cess without them.” The final Charger score of the afternoon came on a 34-yard fumble touchdown by OLB Tom Herd. Pace would add a touch-down on to the game’s final score to make it 49-27. The Chargers look to build on this victory next Saturday when they travel to Saint Anselm to take on the Hawks at noon.

A CHARGER ATHLETICS PHOTOFootball alumni returned as part of UNH’s “Best of the Best” theme at Friday, Oct. 23, 2009’s Annual Charger Huddle.

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of the Best" at the 2009 Charger Huddle which took place on Friday, October 23 at Anthony's Ocean View in New Haven.

The Charger Hud-

dle is an annual event which the depart-ment uses to bring alumni together on a yearly basis. Nearly 200 people gathered to reminisce about

their memories as UNH student-athletes. Alumni from each of the Chargers sports were recognized as the "Best of the Best" in their sport.

Overtime Score Lifts Women’s Soccer Over St. Michael

COLCHESTER, Vt. - The University of New Haven women’s soccer team kept their Northeast-10 Con-ference postseason hopes alive with a 1-0 overtime victory at St. Michael’s College Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Alexa DellaRocco scored an unassisted goal in the 97th minute to lift the Chargers. With the win the Chargers conclude their regular season with a 10-6-3 overall record and a 7-6-2 record in the NE-10.

DellaRocco’s goal capped a rather even and uneventful match

in Colchester. The sophomore had the Chargers only other big scoring opportu-nity in the first half when she was one-on-one with the St. Michael’s goalkeeper. The Chargers also had two opportunities in the second half in the 83rd and 87th min-utes.

The Purple Knights tallied five total shots and three shots on goal. They registered one scoring opportu-nity in the first half with a shot on goal in the 18th minute. The Purple Knights also attempted two shots on goal in the second half, but UNH goal-keeper Kim Taylor stopped both.

The Chargers held

an 8-5 advantage in shots and a 5-1 lead in corner kicks. Taylor totaled three saves in the win, while St. Mi-chael’s also grabbed three saves.

DellaRocco and freshman Lucy Fran-cisco each tallied three shots and two shots on goal for the Chargers, while Holly Dawson and Marta Bertsos each tallied one shot.

The Chargers con-clude the 2009 regu-lar season with the victory, their fourth straight. After all of Saturday’s games, the Chargers sit sixth in the NE-10 standings. Three other teams, who could knock the Chargers out of the NE-10 Tournament, play on Wednesday,

Oct. 28. Currently ranked seventh, Adel-phi travels to 12th ranked Southern Con-necticut, with a Pan-ther win or tie, they would jump the Char-gers. Currently ranked eighth, St. Anselm takes on 13th ranked Bentley, with a St. Anselm victory, they would also jump the Chargers in the stand-ings. Currently ranked 10th, Le Moyne hosts first ranked St. Rose, the Dolphins need to win to jump the Char-gers as well.

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Arts & Entertainment Cont’The Charger Bulletin | October 28, 2009

on a Plane, despite tremendous advance buzz, fizzled.

Not quite a concert film, not quite a docu-mentary, This Is It is like nothing that has hit theaters before. It comes just months after Jackson’s death, with fans still eagerly digesting every scrap of news about him. It distills more than 100 hours of footage shot as Jackson rehearsed for the concerts in the weeks before his death. And it truly is a final glimpse of an art-ist who ruled the pop charts in the 1980’s before retreating to a reclusive life amid al-legations of child mo-lestation.

Distributor Sony is treating the film like the crown jew-els, keeping it un-der wraps until the big blowout Tuesday night, when there will be simultaneous pre-mieres worldwide, followed by advance screenings for paying customers ahead of Wednesday’s official theatrical debut.

No critics have seen it, and entertain-ment journalists were shown only 12 min-utes of footage last week before inter-views with the film-makers.

Sony, which paid $60 million for the film rights, plans to

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have the movie out for just over two weeks, lending it some of the exclusivity of Jack-son’s aborted concert stand in London.

“We think the 16 days is right. It’s sort of a special event that you want to frame in a special way,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony.

If business really takes off, Sony could extend the film’s run, as Disney did with Cyrus’ concert movie, which originally was scheduled for only a one-week leg in the-aters.

Concert films his-torically have been a niche genre, with only a few finding a lasting audience in theaters or on home video, among them Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Madonna: Truth or Dare, the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shel-ter and Shine a Light, The Band’s The Last Waltz, the Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense and U2: Rattle and Hum.

Box-office results for concert flicks have been petty cash com-pared to blockbuster action films and come-dies, with last March’s Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experi-ence running a distant second to Cyrus’ film in the record books, topping out at $19.2 million.

The Batman block-buster The Dark Knight took in $67.2 million on opening day, more than Cyrus’ concert movie did in its entire run.

This Is It opens in about five times as many theaters as Cyrus’ movie, which played in only 683 cinemas because of the limited number equipped to show dig-ital 3-D films.

Advance ticket sellers Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com report that sales for This Is It are run-ning about where Cyrus’ film was days before its release.

Comparisons be-tween the two mov-ies are dicey, though. Fans of Jackson, who was 50, are much older than Cyrus’ and generally less inclined than young audiences to make the trek to movie theaters. Yet Cyrus does not have the huge global appeal of Jackson, whose film is opening in vir-tually every country at the same time.

“As big as she is, I don’t think she holds a candle to Michael Jackson around the world,” said Walt Borchers, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Movi-eTickets.com.

And, added Borch-ers, the fact that Jack-son now is out of reach

deepens his film’s ap-peal.

“Miley, you could have seen her in con-cert. Now nobody is able to see Michael Jackson in concert. On this film, that does add some fervor,” Borchers said.

Based on the initial fervor when tickets first went on sale in late September, Fan-dango.com expected that This Is It easily would shoot past the box-office receipts of Cyrus’ movie, said Rick Butler, chief op-erating officer.

Since then, though, sales have leveled off, so it’s uncertain Jack-son’s movie will hit that mark, Butler said.

The movie’s dura-bility ultimately will come down to how good a performance Jackson gives, Butler said. In trailers and the footage shown to reporters last week, Jackson was in prime musical form.

“It’s all going to be about his voice. How good does he sound? And boy, the voice sounds as good as it ever did,” Butler said. “There’s no reason to believe that what-ever snippets they’ve given us for whatever of his songs, he won’t sound that way with everything in his rep-ertoire.”

This was an Asso-ciated Press report.

showings, accord-ing to research firm Screen Digest. Those screenings tend to fill up, and moviegoers are willing to pay a few dollars extra per ticket.

Making these 3-D movies hasn't been cheap, and so far there hasn't been an ad-equate way to recoup those higher costs in the home video mar-ket, which brings in far more dollars to studios than the theat-rical release.

In September, DreamWorks Ani-mation SKG Inc. re-leased a two-disc pack of Monsters vs Aliens with just a 3-D bonus vignette accompany-ing a 2-D version of the movie. It comes with cardboard glass-es with magenta and green lenses that cre-ate a 3-D effect. The so-called "anaglyph" technology is out of date and can distort colors but works with regular TVs.

"We think for 10 minutes or so, it's a fun experience, but it's not a great experience for an hour-and-a-half or two-hour-long movie," said John Batter, DreamWorks' co-president of pro-duction for feature animation.

Batter said 3-D re-leases "will certainly grow over time and it will become I think a significant part of our home video business in a three- to five-year cycle."

Meanwhile, Uni-versal Studios Home Entertainment re-leased the stop-mo-tion animated movie Coraline in July both in 2-D and 3-D with

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the cardboard glasses, but director Henry Selick said he was disappointed with the result.

"I wish they'd waited to do the home 3-D release until the technology caught up to what it was in the theaters," Selick told a conference last month. "I'm disappointed in how few people got to see it in the best pos-sible way."

As more living rooms are equipped for movies in 3-D, studios will have stronger incentives to release them for home viewing especially as 3-D movies are ex-pected to spend less time in theaters.

With about 30 3-D movies headed for theaters next year and only enough screens to show one major picture at a time, the average theatrical run will shrink to less than two weeks in 2010, down from nearly nine weeks in 2008, according to Charlotte Jones, a senior analyst with Screen Digest.

That could put more emphasis on recouping filmmak-ing costs on the home market, she said. But the home market is also coming under pressure.

Home video rev-enues in the United States during the first half of 2009 fell 3.9 percent from a year ago to $9.4 billion, despite increases in rentals, DVD video purchases, Blu-ray disc purchases and orders for movies on demand over set-top boxes, according to an industry association, The Digital Entertain-ment Group.

AN AP/DREAMWORKS PHOTOThis image shows a scene from the animated feature, ‘Monsters vs Aliens.’ While 3-D movies played the hero at the box office this summer, the format hasn’t helped a slumping home video market — mainly because most people still can’t watch 3-D movies in their living rooms. That will start to change next year when major electronics manufacturers such as Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. introduce 3-D capable high-definition televisions for the mass market.

Fun & GamesThe Charger Bulletin | October 28, 2009

A word to the wise is not necessary, it’s the stupid ones that need all the help.

TheChargerBattery

FOOTBALL! Damn we are good! 49-27?! TAKE THAT, PACE!!

Midterms are OVER!!! But don’t turn a blind eye, Chargers. Finals will be here before you know it! YIKES!

To all of you CJ majors out there, and that’s like what, HALF the school? As of 2010 UNH will supposedly be offering a Criminal Justice PhD program! YAY!

Pay to Print, now known as the “Print Green” initiative, was a HUGE issue. But calm your jets, peeps! Undergrads get 225 free print credits per semester, and this whole charade doesn’t start until November 9th. So PRINT, people! PRINT your little hearts out! You have 12 more days of free printing!!

The Halloween Haunted House in Bartels is THIS SATURDAY (a.k.a. Halloween…duh) from 8-11! Come out and have some frightful fun! Show off your costumes!!

Only 28 days until Thanksgiving break! Wahoo!

YANKEES WORLD SERIES! YANKEES WORLD SERIES! YANKEES WORLD SE-RIES!!

Positives Negatives

A weekly recap of the positives & negatives at UNHby Sam Drotar

Shawn’s Hotties of the Week

Guy

Girl

Angela Martello Eric BrouilletteEric helps keep things moving in the Office

of Student Activities. His main purpose in the office is to staff, schedule, and main-tain the Bartels Information Desk. Eric is

always willing to advise a school sponsored trip for any club or organization. Thanks,

Eric!

Angela is a great student and passionately involved in the CJ program here at UNH. Angela is doing amazing things for the A-Team and the CJ Club (ACJA). Keep being awesome, Angela!

Hometown:Sleepy Hollow, NY

Major:Criminal Justice, Psy-chology, Fire Science

Year:Junior 2011

Involvement:ACJA, A- Team, Rec Sports

Hometown:Rapid City, SD

Major:Psychology

Year:Graduate Student

Involvement:Office of Student

Activities Graduate Assistant (head of

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by Shawn L. Tremblay

Charger Chat by Tyler Salovin

A quick quip each and every week!

Bill CosbyComedian, actor, author

WHY is it necessary to rip up the entire road/sidewalk area on Ruden St.?? I’m not seeing the need here. The sidewalks were fine!! If you ask me, there are a thousand other little projects the school could pay someone to do, like, oh, I don’t know, THE HENRY C. LEE BUILDING?!? Or maybe the CAFETERIA?!?! Ya, boss, let’s get on that.

The lines at Jazzmans Café make me grow old, I swear! The WORST possible time to go to Jazzman’s is like the only time I ever go there: 10:40am on Mondays and Wednesdays. Granted, there are usually 3 people working at this time, but still! Seasons pass in that line! Sometimes there is no one working the register!!! It’s not like I order a drink to be made or a sandwich or anything…I’m usually getting a bottle of water! HOW hard is that? Swipe, boom, done. I think they should have at least one person on a particular register at all times to handle the easy, swift transactions like mine, then possibly another person who helps out with the register and then helps making drinks when need be. Because honestly, this is a TAD ridiculous! JUST SAYIN’!


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If you take Garfield out of the famous comic strip, it just makes

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As the world be-came fixated on the missing boy who had floated off fifty miles into the Colorado sky in a homemade fly-ing saucer-like helium balloon on Oct. 15, six year-old Falcon Heene quietly slept in the garage attic of his home. Unbeknownst to him, colossal me-dia frenzy revolved around him as author-ities, helicopters, and the National Guard scoured various areas looking for him. Live coverage of the bal-loon saga had been delivered via national television, and Fal-con’s missing body from the balloon only prompted authorities

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to believe that he had fallen out. On the con-trary, the balloon boy extravaganza that kept us engrossed for days was, indeed, a ruse de-vised by the science-driven and inventive Heene family in order to bolster their mar-ketability for a real-ity show deal. “Need-less to say they put on a very good show for us and we bought it,” Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said, regarding the un-necessary pandemo-nium, “These people are actors. We were manipulated by the family and the media were manipulated by the family.” If anyone thought fabricating a story was bad enough, consider money-hungry Richard and Mayumi Heene ex-

ploiting their three children to sound more credible, even going as far as tell-ing them to lie in the scam. With that said, it was only a matter of time before signs of a hoax surfaced.

In a special in-terview for CNN’s Larry King Live, the world was exposed to the Heene secret when Falcon’s par-ents asked him why he did not come out from hiding when they called his name to which he replied, “You guys said we did it for a show.” The Heene family had ap-parently appeared in ABC’s Wife Swap and was in talks to land another reality show. Now, reports reveal that an unnamed me-dia outlet had agreed

to fund the Heenes. It is still unclear if the media outlet was a co-conspirator or when the agreement was made, but charges can be brought up against the organization at a later date. The Heene parents are likely to incur charges of con-spiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, filing a false report, and at-tempting to influ-ence a public servant. The last, which is the most serious of the chargers, could keep the Heenes locked up for anywhere from two to six years. Un-like their parents, the Heene kids would not face charges because of their young ages. However, prosecutor Wendy Murphy con-tends that the parents

coercing their kids to participate in the con is reason for the Child Protective Services to intervene and possibly take the kids away, “Child Protective Services is likely to get involved whether they're charged or not and we’re hearing that they will, in fact, be charged.”

Despite the bizarre balloon boy chronicle, this is not the first time the Heene family has vied for publicity. According to Robert Thomas, a one-time assistant to Richard Heene, Heene had apparently been plan-ning some sort of exploit to endorse a reality show which did not include his children. Thomas re-vealed Heene’s notes for possible episodes,

“We will modify a weather balloon, so that it resembles a UFO and will elec-trically charge the skin of the craft. The result will be a dra-matic increase in local and national aware-ness about The Heene Family, our reality series, as well as the UFO Phenomenon in general.” While Rich-ard Heene’s lawyer says the Heenes are willing to turn them-selves in, it seems that nothing they do will save them from the public embarrass-ment of perpetrating a hoax. Sure, they may call themselves “mad scientists,” but what the world sees is just a group of crazy enough to stage one of the most theatrical events in news history.

tack in the east, and another who died of wounds sustained in an insurgent attack in the same region. The deaths bring to at least 46 the number of U.S. troops who have been killed in October.

This has been the deadliest year for in-ternational and U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban. Fighting spiked around the presidential vote in August, and 51 U.S. soldiers died that month — the deadliest for American forces in the eight-year war.

The Obama admin-istration is debating whether to send tens of thousands more troops to the coun-try, while the Afghan government is rushing to hold a Nov. 7 run-off election between President Hamid Kar-zai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah after it was deter-

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Monday’s Afghan Helicopter Crash Kills 14mined that the August election depended on fraudulent votes.

The Obama admin-istration is hoping the runoff will produce a legitimate govern-ment. In Washington, Obama was to meet with his national se-curity team Monday in what was to be the sixth full-scale Af-ghanistan conference in the White House Situation Room.

Abdullah on Mon-day called for election commission chairman Azizullah Lodin to be replaced within five days, saying he has "no credibility."

Lodin has denied accusations he is bi-ased in favor of Kar-zai, and the election commission's spokes-man has already said Lodin cannot be re-placed by either side.

Abdullah made the demand in a news conference during which he spelled out what he said were

"minimum condi-tions" for holding a fair second round of voting, including the firing of any workers implicated in fraud and the suspension of several ministers he said had campaigned for Karzai in the first round before the offi-cial campaigning pe-riod began.

Abdullah did not say what would hap-pen if his demands were not met. "I re-serve my reaction if we are faced with that unfortunate situation," he said.

Abdullah said he was willing to meet with Karzai to discuss the conditions, but re-peated that he would not discuss a coalition government as some have suggested, nor compromise on his recommendations out of concerns that they are difficult to imple-ment.

"These are not impossible things,"

Abdullah said, stress-ing that his team had pared them down to what they considered essential to a fair vote and possible to put in place before the run-off.

Another flawed election would cast doubt on the wisdom of sending in more U.S. troops.

"These separate tragedies today un-derscore the risks our forces and our part-ners face every day," Col. Wayne Shanks, a spokesman for the NATO-led coalition, said Monday of the crash and collision. "Each and every death is a tremendous loss for the family and friends of each ser-vice member and ci-vilian. Our grief is compounded when we have such a significant loss on one day."

U.S. military spokeswoman Eliza-beth Mathias said coalition forces had

launched an operation to recover the wreck-age of the helicopter that was downed in the west.

She said the aircraft was leaving the site of a joint operation with Afghan forces when it went down.

The joint force had "searched a suspected compound believed to harbor insurgents conducting activities related to narcotics trafficking in western Afghanistan," NATO said in a statement. "During the operation, insurgent forces en-gaged the joint force and more than a dozen enemy fighters were killed in the ensuing firefight."

Afghanistan is the world's largest pro-ducer of opium — the raw ingredient in her-oin — and the illicit drug trade is a major source of funding for Taliban and other in-surgent groups.

Elsewhere Mon-

day, Nangarhar prov-ince Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai survived an assassination attempt after a gunman fired automatic weapons at his convoy in Jalala-bad, according to his spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai. Sher-zai's bodyguards killed the gunman, as well as another at-tacker wearing a sui-cide vest and carrying grenades.

Meanwhile, secu-rity forces in Kabul fired automatic rifles into the air for a sec-ond day Monday to contain hundreds of stone-throwing uni-versity students an-gered over the alleged desecration of Islam's holy book, the Quran, by U.S. troops dur-ing an operation two weeks ago in Wardak province. Fire trucks were also brought in to push back protest-ers with water can-nons. Several officers were injured.

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