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widespread opposition, Holder was not alone. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, even agreed. He stated, “our justice system, which is the envy of the world, is more than capable of trying high-profile terrorism and national security

cases.” Due to the change, the gov-

ernment has released an indict-ment that outlined its case. It charged Khalid Sheikh Moham-med and four alleged henchmen with 10 counts relating to Sep-tember 11, 2001. A judge dis-missed the indictment when the

protesters have begun to act out in several other cities. “The next step is putting aid to Yemen on the table and saying that there are going to be serious conse-quences if Saleh continues to use violence against his own

people,” said Shadi Hamid, an analyst at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar.

To suppress the revolts in-cited by the people’s frustration with the government, Saleh has sent out riot police to use bru-tality and tear gas on anyone in opposition. In the city of Taiz alone, 15 people were killed and 30 more were injured after

called for the ousting of Saleh and a vice-president to act as interim president and focus on change. In fact, according to re-ports in Washington, Saleh was already given an ultimatum that would guarantee a diplomatic

departure and public summons for stepping down, in the case of noncompliance. Even, the Unit-ed Arab Emirates’ Gulf Cooper-ation Council proposed he abdi-cate his position in exchange for protection from prosecution for himself and his family.

Despite these efforts, Saleh has refused. Instead, he has stated that he will wait until his term is over to resign. However, due to this lack of cooperation,

The price of oil reached over $108 per barrel last Monday; such an increase has not been seen in 30 months. The reason behind the hike up, however, is less clear. Many point the finger at the ongoing disputes taking place in Libya, while others ac-cuse oil compa-nies with being greedy.

Indeed, reb-els in Libya have seized con-trol over much of the east coast, preventing the steady export of oil from the country. And ac-cording to USA Today, analysts do not expect Libya to export much oil in the coming months due to the uprisings taking place in the country. However, Libya only supplies approximately two percent of the world’s oil, most of which is consumed by Eu-rope.

Although this oil is also shipped to the United States, Libyan oil only made up ap-proximately 0.63 percent of the

dren chose to walk in this event in heels, wedged shoes, flats, and platform boots to show their appreciation for those women who have been in or survived any type of domestic violence.

There were many sponsors that chose to contribute to this walk, but those from UNH were: Advocate, Jes Champagne of Rape Crisis Center of Milford, Scope, Victimology Club, Ac-

tive Minds, USGA Community Service Committee, and the Paintball Club.

USGA Community Service Head, Timothy Farmer was one of the men that chose to join the walk while in heels. Farmer said he chose to participate because he feels that domestic violence is a big issue, and it is important that especially guys participate.

Farmer also said that this walk puts guys in a different mindset beyond how uncomfortable the shoes are, but makes guys think

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Yemeni Protests Continue

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After the whirlwind revolu-tions in Tunisia and Egypt that culminated in the expulsions of

longtime rulers Zine al-Abidine bin Ali and Hosni Mubarak re-spectively, Yemen has opted to embark on its own colossal in-surgency to remove President Ali Abdullah Saleh from his thirty-two year rule. Like the aforementioned leaders, Saleh and his administration have been accused of mass corruption rang-ing from abuse crimes to theft to political nepotism.

At present, protesters have

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Students and staff at the Uni-versity of New Haven came to-gether to participate in the an-nual event “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” to help raise awareness against domestic violence.

On April 10, 2011 women and men gathered around at

Lisaman’s Landing in Milford to participate in the fifth annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.” Ac-cording to the Rape Crisis Cen-ter of Milford website, “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” is a nation-wide event that invites men to join in the efforts of women to make the world a safer place. Men, women, families, neigh-bors, colleagues, and teams par-ticipate in a one-mile walk to raise awareness around issues of rape, sexual assault, and gender violence.

Adult men down to male chil-

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The Impact of Rising Oil Prices on Your Wallets

$260.1 billion in oil imports in 2010 according to WorldCity.com. Canada, believe it or not, is the top provider of U.S. oil, fol-lowed by Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria. Libya ranks low on this list, barely maintaining a top 20 spot. If the U.S. simply imports a small por-tion of oil from Libya, the ques-

tion remains: why are oil and gas prices still increasing?

Professional oil trader Dan Dicker believes he understands the underlying issue behind the gas crisis. “There is no supply issue going on here-what we have is the perception of the possibility of a supply issue,” Dicker said to AOL’s DailyFi-nance.com, “A whole bunch of people are pouring money into an oil market trying to take ad-

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Death Toll Rises

After years of debating whether the five suspects from the September 11 attacks will face federal or military court, it has finally been de-cided. Instead of fac-ing federal court in New York, they are going to be prosecut-ed by military com-mission. The original plan to hold the trial in New York was an-nounced by Attorney General, Eric Hold-er, in November of 2009. However, due to opposition from both the Democratic and Republican par-ties, the idea is no longer on the table.

Since Holder an-nounced this, Congress has tak-en many steps to prevent a trial in New York from happening. They even passed legislation that prohibits bringing detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States. Holder was not happy with these decisions and said last Monday that these con-

gressional restrictions are “un-wise and unwarranted” and that a legislative body cannot make prosecutorial decisions. “We must face a simple truth: those restrictions are unlikely to be re-pealed in the immediate future,” Holder said.

While many people are happy about the change to a military tribunal, Holder believed that holding the trials in New York was the right decision. The Jus-tice Department was prepared to bring a powerful case, and he be-lieved civilian courts are harsh-er for terrorist cases. Despite

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Fellow UNH students,The annual Last Man Standing competition hosted by the USGA will be held this year from April 18 to April 22. Registra-

tion is going on this week until April 16. The first place prize is $2,000.00 in Visa Gift Cards, second place prize is $1,000.00 in Visa Gift Cards, and third place prize is $500.00 in Visa Gift Cards. If you have any questions at all please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].

As a reminder the annual Spring Weekend is fast approaching. I would like to thank SCOPE for all of their hard work and planning that has gone on so far. I hope to see everyone out at the concert and the carnival on the weekend of April 28 to April 30.

I encourage any students who have any questions about UNH or how to get involved to come visit the USGA offices lo-cated on the third floor of Bartels Hall. Anytime of the day you can find students 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.chargervoice.com and “Let your voice be heard.”

Have a great week!Scott KazarUSGA [email protected]

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by Joann Wolwowicz

Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years to pagan spring and fertility rites. Today it is a Christian holiday and popular cultural phenomenon. Also known as Carnival, it is celebrated in many countries around the world, though mainly those with large Roman Catholic populations. It is celebrated on the day before the religious season of Lent Begins. Brazil, Venice, and New Orleans play host to some of the holiday’s most famous public festivities, drawing thousands of tourists every year.

According to historians, Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years to pagan celebrations of spring and fertility. When Christianity arrived in Rome, religious leaders decided to incorporate these popular local traditions into the new faith, an easier task than ending them altogether. As a result, the Mardi Gras season became a prelude to Lent, the 40 days of penance between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Along with Christianity, Mardi Gras spread from Rome to other European countries, including France, Germany, Spain, and England.

Traditionally, in the days leading up to Lent, merrymakers would binge on all the meat, eggs, milk, and cheese that remained in their homes, preparing for sever-al weeks of eating only fish and fasting. In France, the day before Ash Wednesday came to be known as “Fat Tuesday.” The word “carnival,” another common name for the pre-Lenten festivities, may also derive from this vegetarian-unfriendly custom; in Medieval Latin, carnelevarium means to take away or remove meat.

Many historians believe that the first American Mardi Gras took place on March 3, 1699, when the French explorers Iberville and Bienville landed in what is now Louisiana, just south of the holiday’s future epicenter: New Orleans. They held a small celebration and dubbed the spot Point du Mardi Gras. In the decades that followed, New Orleans and other French settlements began marking the holi-day with street parties, masked balls and lavish dinners. When the Spanish took control of New Orleans, however, they abolished these rowdy rituals, and the bans remained in force until Louisiana became a U.S. state in 1812.

On Mardi Gras in 1827, a group of students donned colorful costumes and danced through the streets of New Orleans, emulating the revelry they’d ob-served while visiting Paris. Ten years later, the first recorded New Orleans Mardi Gras parade took place, a tradition that continues to this day. In 1857, a secret society of New Orleans businessmen called the Mistick Krewe of Comus orga-nized a torch-lit Mardi Gras procession with marching bands and rolling floats, setting the tone for future public celebrations in the city. Since then, krewes have remained a fixture of the Carnival scene throughout Louisiana. Other lasting customs include throwing beads and other trinkets, wearing masks, decorating floats, and eating King Cake.

Louisiana is the only state in which Mardi Gras is a legal holiday. However, elaborate carnival festivities draw crowds in other parts of the United States dur-ing the Mardi Gras season as well, including Alabama and Mississippi. Each region has its own events and traditions.

This year, Mardi Gras fell on March 8. Next year it will be even earlier, falling on February 21.

Mardi Gras

If you have ever looked carefully at a nutrition label, you may have noticed that no percent daily value is given for sugar. However, considering the increase of sugar consumption in our society, this missing piece of information may come in handy to individuals keeping track of their diets.

How much is too much?Although there is no official recommended daily allowance (RDA) for sugar, the

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) advises average adults to con-sume no more than 40 grams (10 teaspoons) of added sugar per day in their 2,000 calorie diet. According to the USDA, Americans are eating 30 percent more sugar now than we did about 30 years ago. On average, most people consume twice as much sugar as they should.

Why isn’t there an official RDA for sugar?Experts have not established an RDA for sugar because they cannot determine

exactly how much should be eaten in a day. Announcing a recommendation for sugar consumption is tricky because experts must take into account natural and added sugars, both of which currently make up the sugars listed on a nutrition label.

What’s the harm?Over consumption of sugar has been linked to numerous health problems. Ex-

cess sugar has been linked to causing or hastening the following conditions: dia-betes, obesity, heart disease, arthritis, hypertension, tooth decay, compromised im-mune system, hormonal irregularities, Crohn’s Disease, digestive disorders, and skin disease.

Do we need sugar at all?Sugars are a type of carbohydrate, which deliver quick, useable energy to our

bodies. There are many types of sugars; most of them end in the suffix –ose, mak-ing them easy to recognize on nutrition labels. Naturally occurring sugars, like those found in apples or carrots, are not harmful because they are balanced by nu-tritional benefits. Sugar is in everything we eat, from spinach to jelly beans, and as a result, it is impossible to cut it out of your diet.

Beware!Although no percent daily value is given for sugar, try to keep your added sugar

intake under 40 grams per day. It may be disheartening to put your sugar consump-tion into perspective, but a single serving bag of Skittles contains 47 grams of sugar… more than you should eat in an entire day! Don’t deprive your sweet tooth all the time; indulge in moderation!

Health and Fitnessby Melanie Rovinsky

Sugar: The Not-So-Sweet Truth

“Listen, dream on, dream on, dream on. Dream until the dream come true. Yea, dream on, dream on, dream on.” This song is still playing in my head from the con-cert on Saturday, because it was just that fantastic. The band Big Shot was amazing. In fact, the entire week was fantastic; it was an entire week filled with Rock and Roll themed events!

On Monday, students had a chance to get ready for Rock and Roll Week by attending the “Dress like a Rock Star” event. Students had the chance to get air-brushed tattoos, because what Rock and Roll Star doesn’t have at least one tattoo. There was also “Decorate Your Own Sunglasses,” which everyone loved. If you participated in the event, you had the chance to win some great gift cards, receive a free inflatable guitar, and take home a Rock and Roll Week t-shirt.

On Tuesday, the Programming Space was filled with video games that were all Rock and Roll related. Special Events had Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution, and DJ Hero. Students competed against each other in Dance Dance Revolution, and there were some people that were just amazing. Some players even received 98% on expert. For Rock Band, SCOPE’s own Weekend Programming Committee Head, Emily, had an amazing voice.

My favorite event was on Wednesday night. Singing Comedian Brian O’Sullivan entertained us with his hilarious jokes about himself and, the best thing about the night was the song about Batman. (Okay, so the only reason this was my favorite event was because he sang about Batman. So sue me.) He was really funny though; he sang many of his own songs and some of the songs were parodies of recently popular songs. All the students that attended had a great time, and by the end of the night, everyone was wiping tears from their eyes.

The Programming Space was occupied with another event on Thursday night. At this event, students were able to see themselves with their favorite artists. With the magic of the green screen, students took pictures that they probably wouldn’t normally get to take.

On Friday and Saturday, Special Events had some great bands that brought crowds to the Quad, even though it was chilly. There was a Beatles Tribute Band on Friday that was amazing and a good comparison against the Beatles themselves. This band brought one of the biggest crowds we have ever seen at our Rock and Roll Week Concerts. Saturday brought even more people out. Co-sponsoring with DEB for their “Sleep Out for the Homeless,” Special Events brought school bands and artists and the band Big Shot to the Quad. Speak in Verse was a band that was formed on campus in Bixler Hall, and they were a good opener for Big Shot. After a break for T.E.V. who announced DEB’s event and played some of his own songs, Big Shot came on and wowed the school with their covers from Billy Joel and other popular Rock and Roll artists. They ended the night with an encore that the crowd asked for. “Dream On” by Aerosmith is still stuck in my head, because it was so good.

So in conclusion Rock and Roll Week rocked! Events coming up for the week:

Wednesday, April 13 – The Food Dude in the Bartels Café at 9:00 p.m. and Six Flag Sign Ups online at 9:00 p.m.

Thursday April 14 – The Kinsey Sicks in the German Club at 9:00 p.m. and Beanhouse in the Programming Space at 9:00 p.m.

Friday April 15 – Novelties in the Programming Space at 6:00 p.m.Saturday April 16 – Trip to Six Flags New Jersey. Bus leaves at 8:00 a.m.

SCOPE It Out!by Michelle Morra

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McDonalds’ Spring Hiring Spree

Introducing the latest weapon in the fight against unemployment: McDon-alds? The fast food giant announced that it will be hiring as many as 50,000 new employees on a sin-gle day, Tuesday April 19. This will increase their U.S. work force by about 7.7%, bringing the number up to 700,000 employees. Essentially, McDonalds plans to do all of its hir-

ing for the spring in one swoop, from restaurant crew to store managers.

For years, McDonalds has tried to stem the use of the word “McJob,” and this may be their latest at-tempt to accomplish that. McJob is a term used to describe a low-paying, “dead-end” job with little-to-no benefits, the name coming from the common belief that this is what a job at McDonalds en-tails. McDonald’s spokes-woman Ashley Yingling contested this, making a

statement that many of the company’s top executives began in much lower posi-tions and worked their way up the company ranks. An Illinois-based install-ment choose to embrace the term McJob, referring to it as a job “with career growth and endless possi-bilities.”

Still, this announce-ment has been met with a great deal of controver-sy. First, there’s the fact that this quantity of hir-ing within a short period isn’t new to McDonalds.

In fact, McDonalds hires roughly the same number of people every summer. However, Yingling points out that they have yet to do it all within a single day and that “the goal of hiring 50,000 people in one day across the U.S. is unique.”

More important, how-ever, is the issue of the wages. The average res-taurant worker in McDon-alds makes slightly over $8 an hour, putting them above the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. However, work-

ing 40 hours a week with no time off, $8 an hour comes out to just $16,640 a year, compared to a fed-eral poverty cut-off point of $10,890. Furthermore, the $320 a week that will be made at that wage is barely any more than the $300 a week maximum amount someone receives from unemployment bene-fits, bringing into question whether a job in McDon-alds is ultimately worth it.

Still, the prospect of hir-ing 50,000 new employees does seem to offer some

relief with the staggering amount of unemployment present today. And regard-less of whether or not it affects someone’s income significantly, many people would be happy just to get back to work. Whether or not McDonalds sets some sort of precedent for other large businesses to follow or has any long-term im-pact on the economy is yet to be seen.

I Need “Information!”

Have you even stopped to think about exactly what you mean when you say you need “informa-tion” for a class paper or project? What exactly is information, and how do you know that the sources where you are getting your information are appropri-ate for college level work? If you have ever been stumped when trying to find the right information out of all the choices avail-able, here are some tips to steer you in the right direc-tion.

To get started, if you have a topic that you know nothing about, you should begin by getting some background information. The most common sources for background informa-

tion are encyclopedias and dictionaries from the print and online reference col-lections. The library has a variety of these both on the shelves in the library and in databases such as CREDO Reference. CREDO Ref-erence is an online collec-tion of general and subject specific, full text reference books. It’s helpful in pro-viding background infor-mation on a wide variety of topics. Another online database, Gale E-books for Colleges, consists of 18 electronic reference re-sources covering business, medicine, history, social science, and science. Your class textbooks also pro-vide background informa-tion.

Another excellent source for background in-formation on current top-ics of interest is the CQ Researcher database. A

new report each week pro-vides original, comprehen-sive reporting and analysis on an issue currently in the news. Each topic report also lists the pros & cons of a topic, which is help-ful if you need to develop a point of view. The list of resources at the end of each report can be used to further research the topic. You can locate those ar-ticles yourself to get more information.

After getting familiar with your topic, you can get additional informa-tion from articles that are published in scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, or newspapers. You can find access to tens of thousands of these thorough the databases available on the library website; go to http://www.newhaven.edu/library/da-tabases. From there, select

BP Buys Gulf Coast Millions in Gear

NEW ORLEANS – In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gad-gets, vehicles and gear — much of which had little to do with the cleanup, an Associated Press investi-gation shows.

The oil giant opened its checkbook while the cri-sis was still unfolding last spring and poured hun-dreds of millions of dol-lars into Gulf Coast com-munities with few strings attached.

In sleepy Ocean Springs, Miss., reserve police officers got Tasers. The sewer department in nearby Gulfport bought a $300,000 vacuum truck that never sucked up a drop of oil. Biloxi, Miss., bought a dozen SUVS. A parish president in Loui-siana got herself a top-of-the-line iPad, her spokes-man a $3,100 laptop. And a county in Florida spent

$560,000 on rock concerts to promote its oil-free beaches.

In every case, commu-nities said the new, more powerful equipment was needed to deal at least in-directly with the spill.

In many cases, though, the connection between the spill and the expenditures was remote, and lots of money wound up in cities and towns little touched by the goo that washed up on shore, the AP found in re-cords requested from more than 150 communities and dozens of interviews.

Florida’s tourism agen-cy sent chunks of a $32 million BP grant as far away as Miami-Dade and Broward counties on the state’s east coast, which never saw oil from the di-saster.

Some officials also lav-ished campaign donors and others with lucrative contracts. A Florida county commissioner’s girlfriend, for instance, opened up a public relations firm a few weeks after the spill and soon landed more than $14,000 of the tiny coun-

the subject list of databas-es so that you can choose a database in which the con-tent matches the topic of your search. If you need to find peer-reviewed jour-nal articles, use a database such as JSTOR or one that has the option to specifi-cally limit your search to peer-reviewed journals.

If you need a more in-depth treatment of a topic, you are going to use books that are not reference books. Bear in mind when looking for information on an event that has happened recently, you will not find it in a book. Books take time to research and write. Search for the books that we have in the library by selecting Catalog-UNH from the library website. If you need a particular book that we don’t have, ask us to get it for you from an-other library. This is called

an interlibrary loan. (But we can’t use interlibrary loan to get you class text-books, you still need to buy those yourself.)

You are probably ask-ing “why can’t I just Google it?” Everyone wants to use it because it’s quick and simple, and you can use Google to find other useful websites. The answer is, you cannot just grab any information from a Google search and use it to write your research papers without evaluat-ing each and every source you want to use for cred-ibility! Ask yourself these questions before using in-formation from a website. Who wrote the article? Why are they an expert? Is the information on the page current? Does the website contain an identi-fiable bias? Is this orga-nization’s website suitable

or qualified to address the topic at hand? And what about Wikipedia? The fact is that anyone can edit or change any Wikipedia entry, which makes it un-suitable for academic re-search.

If you need more infor-mation about all of this, the UNH Librarians are happy to help you sort through it so that you can get the right information and write the best possible paper. We have workshops throughout the semester as well as guides that you can refer to anytime at http://libguides.newhaven.edu. And of course, you can always stop in the library to speak with a librarian or call us at 303-479-4554.


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US Blocks 350 with Suspected Ties to Terrorists

WASHINGTON – The U.S. government has pre-vented more than 350 people suspected of ties to al-Qaida and other ter-rorist groups from board-ing U.S.-bound commer-cial flights since the end of 2009, The Associated Press has learned.

The tighter security rules — imposed after the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas 2009 — reveal a security threat that persisted for more than seven years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist at-tacks.

Until then, even as com-mercial passengers were forced to remove their shoes, limit the amount of shampoo in their carry-on luggage and endure pat downs, hundreds of for-eigners with known or suspected ties to terror-ism passed through secu-rity and successfully flew to the United States each year, U.S. officials told the AP. The government said these foreigners typically told Customs officers they were flying to the U.S. for legitimate reasons such as vacations or business.

Security practices changed after an admit-ted al-Qaida operative from Nigeria was accused of trying to blow himself up on a flight to Detroit on Christmas 2009. Un-til then, airlines only kept passengers off U.S.-bound planes if they were on the

no-fly list, a list of people considered a threat to avia-tion.

Now before an inter-national flight leaves for the U.S., the government checks passengers against a larger watch list that includes al-Qaida finan-ciers and people who at-tended training camps but aren’t considered threats to planes. The govern-ment was checking this list before, but only after the flight was en route. If someone on the flight was on the watch list, the per-son would be questioned and likely refused to enter the country after the plane landed.

“As terrorists keep adapting and changing their approach, so must we,” Sen. Jay Rockefell-er, D-W.Va., told the AP. During a Senate hearing shortly after the attempted Christmas attack, Rock-efeller raised concerns about divisions among the different watch lists.

Hundreds of people linked to al-Qaida, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other terror groups have been kept off airplanes under the new rules. They in-clude what U.S. officials described as a member of a terrorist organization who received weapons training, recruited others, fought against American troops and had a ticket to fly to the U.S. Another traveler prevented from boarding a U.S.-bound flight was a member of a terrorist or-ganization whom intelli-gence officials believe had

purchased equipment for terrorism.

A third case, in January, involved a Jordanian man booked from Amman, Jor-dan, to Chicago, who was considered a threat to na-tional security, according to a law enforcement of-ficial. The State Depart-ment had already revoked his visa. He was on the ter-rorist watch list but not the no-fly list. He was not con-sidered a threat to aviation.

After U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers performed the now-rou-tine check, the man was kept off the flight. Before the change, he would have arrived in Chicago, where he would have likely been stopped at customs, ques-tioned and sent home.

The law enforcement official and other U.S. of-ficials insisted on anonym-ity to discuss sensitive se-curity issues. They would not provide the names of the people suspected of terror ties or some key de-tails about the cases for se-curity reasons.

“We’ve gotten better with our techniques and applying them predepar-ture, ensuring we’re look-ing at as broad a section of potential risk as possible,” said Kevin McAleenan, deputy assistant commis-sioner of field operations at Customs and Border Protection.

CBP said the gap in U.S. security practices wasn’t obvious until after the at-tempted Christmas attack. Officials were prepared

ty’s $236,000 cut of BP cash for a month’s work.

The April 20 explo-sion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 work-ers and spawned the na-tion’s worst offshore oil spill. As BP spent months trying to cap the well and contain the spill, cities and towns along the coast from Louisiana to Florida wor-ried about the toll on their economies — primarily tourism and the fishing in-dustry — as well as the en-vironmental impact.

All told, BP PLC says it has paid state and local governments more than $754 million as of March 31, and has reimbursed the federal government for an-other $694 million.

BP set few conditions on how states could use the money, stating only that it should go to mitigate the effects of the spill. The contracts require states to provide the company with at least an annual report on how the money has been used, BP spokeswoman Hejdi Feick said. But it’s unclear what consequenc-es, if any, the states could face if they didn’t comply.

Some of the money BP doled out to states and municipalities hasn’t been spent yet, but the AP’s re-view accounts for more than $550 million of it.

More than $400 million went toward clear needs like corralling the oil, propping up tourism and covering overtime.

Much of the remaining chunk consists of equally justifiable expenses, but it’s also riddled with mil-lions of dollars’ worth of contracts and purchases with no clear connection to the spill, the AP found.

William Walker, execu-tive director of the Mis-sissippi Department of Marine Resources, said it’s clear now that commu-nities bought more equip-ment than they wound up needing. But he doesn’t regret handing out BP’s money freely.

“At the time we were making these decisions, there were millions of gal-lons of oil going into the Gulf of Mexico with no clear idea when it would stop,” Walker said. “We didn’t wait. We tried to get (grant money) into circula-tion as quickly as possible. We didn’t have any extra time. We needed to move when we moved.”

When oil from the rup-tured Macondo well be-gan to lap at Louisiana’s marshes, BP deployed an army of workers to sop it up and hired contractors who specialize in disaster cleanup.

Even with BP and the federal government taking

the lead, many communi-ties weren’t content to rely on equipment they had be-fore the spill.

Lafourche (luh-FOOSH’) Parish President Charlotte Randolph billed BP for an iPad, saying she needed it in addition to her parish-paid Blackberry to communicate with staff and other officials during the crisis. But she didn’t buy the iPad until Aug. 26, a month and a half after the well was capped and several weeks after the federal government said much of the oil had been skimmed, burned off, dis-persed or dissolved.

“Just because it wasn’t streaming from the well any longer doesn’t mean it wasn’t approaching our shore,” Randolph told the AP. “My work is very important. Perhaps one day you could follow me somewhere and learn what my work involves. I must be in contact at all times.”

Lafourche Parish spokesman Brennan Matherne, who bought a new Dell laptop and ac-cessories for $3,165, said working on the spill had worn out the computer he got just a year earlier for $2,700.

Biloxi, home to a strip of casinos overlooking the Mississippi Sound, bought 14 sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks, two

boats, two dump trucks and a backhoe loader with its $1.4 million share of BP grant money.

Mayor A.J. Holloway, who drove a city-owned 2006 GMC Yukon before the spill, now has one of the vehicles the city pur-chased with the BP grant — a black 2011 Chevy Tahoe 1500 LT that cost more than $35,000. The city’s public works direc-tor and chief engineer also are driving SUVs bought with BP money.

Holloway declined to answer questions about his new vehicle. City spokes-man Vincent Creel said the mayor has used it to travel to “countless meet-ings” about the spill and to gauge the city’s response with his own eyes.

“The mayor also uses the vehicle in the normal course of his duties, just as other BP equipment is used in the course of day-to-day business,” Creel wrote in an email.

Walker, the state offi-cial, said he didn’t know about the mayor’s use of the vehicle but doesn’t ob-ject.

Some Mississippi com-munities took a conser-vative approach in using their share of the money. Bay St. Louis received $382,461 to buy safety vests, street barricades, radios and other gear, but

decided against buying a vacuum truck or other ex-pensive equipment. City Clerk David Kolf said lo-cal officials trusted BP’s word it would handle all the cleanup, so they didn’t see a need to buy a “bunch of new toys.”

“They had a lot of heavy equipment already staged here,” he said. “We don’t have the training. We don’t have the personnel.”

Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama each got an initial $25 mil-lion from BP, followed by the array of payments for tourism marketing, seafood monitoring and cleanup programs.

More than $300,000 of BP money went to Kenny Loggins, the Doo-bie Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd for a pair of rock shows to promote the state’s oil-free beaches; BP shelled out another $260,000 in concert-relat-ed costs.

In Alabama, the state Emergency Management Agency distributed $30 million to local govern-ments without rejecting a single request.

Mississippi gave mon-ey to 14 counties and cities along the coast, which was dotted with tar balls but never saw the heavy bands of oil that choked south Louisiana’s marshlands. In early August, after the well

was capped and the oil threat seemed to abate, the state instructed counties and cities to stop spending BP’s money without prior approval from state offi-cials.

“We were trying to make the change from pro-tection to restoration and recovery, and that’s where we are now,” Walker said.

Louisiana doled out its initial $25 million to state agencies, including $10 million for the attorney general’s office to devise its legal case against BP and the companies in-volved in the spill. State agencies spent nearly $9 million more on equip-ment, including boats, air monitoring units, mobile radios and life vests.

Local government lead-ers in Louisiana were left to lodge their requests for money directly with BP. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s top budget adviser, Paul Rainwater, said the state’s deal with BP specified that the money Louisiana got wasn’t meant to replace anything that was sup-posed to go to the parishes.

B l u e - c o l l a r Plaquemines Parish, which has absorbed some of the spill’s worst envi-ronmental damage, has re-ceived slightly more than $1 million in BP money, of which $998,405 went to

police discovered them trying to breach a govern-ment building.

Similar to this, follow-ing a 2:00 a.m. protest in the nearby city of Hudaida, police attacked protesters heading to the presiden-tial palace. Consequently, three people were struck by bullets, 30 were stabbed by knives, and 270 others were harmed from the in-halation of tear gas. “The

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regime has surprised us with this extent of killing. I don’t think the people will do anything other than come out with bare chests to drain the government of all its ammunition,” par-liamentarian Mohammed Muqbil al-Hamiri told Al Jazeera TV.

With the rebellion giv-ing way to social and polit-ical upheaval, many cities in the south of Yemen have generated strikes which

have shut down schools, shops, and many state of-fices. And because Yemen has a large presence of Al-Qaida forces present, there is also the concern that continual mutiny will allow for Al-Qaida to rise in power and give way to more terrorist attacks. Since protests started in mid-February, more than 120 people have died.

Debris, Challenges Pile Up in Japan 1 Month Later

By JAY ALABASTER & TOMOKO A. HOSAKAASSOCIATED PRESS

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NATORI, Japan – A month after Japan's earth-quake and tsunami, the challenges seem as daunt-ing as ever: Thousands are missing and feared dead, tens of thousands have fled their homes, a leak-ing nuclear plant remains crippled and powerful af-tershocks keep coming.

Vast tracts of the north-east are demolition sites: The stuff of entire cities is sorted into piles taller than three-story build-ings around which dump trucks and earth-movers crawl. Ankle-deep water stagnates in streets, and massive fishing boats lie perched atop pancaked houses and cars. The oc-casional telephone poll or bulldozer is sometimes the only skyline.

"It's a hellish sorrow," said Numata Takahashi, 56, who escaped his home in Natori just before the waters came. "I don't know

where we'll go, but I'm not coming back here. ... We'll go somewhere where there are no tsunamis."

Two strong aftershocks have killed people and sunk thousands more households into darkness, while also delaying prog-ress on restoring power to those in darkness since March 11. Facing the pros-pect of massive shortfalls in the hot summer months, the government is ask-ing companies to cut their consumption drastically or face mandatory energy caps.

Over this destruction and deprivation, the fear of radiation hangs. The tsu-nami knocked out power at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and reactors have been overheating since.

Progress in stabilizing the complex comes slowly most days, or not at all, as the new tremors and radia-tion repeatedly halt work. Monday's aftershock briefly cut electricity to the plant and halted work while technicians took

cover, but did not endan-ger operations, according to officials.

The government, mean-while, added five commu-nities Monday to a list of places people should leave to avoid long-term radia-tion exposure. A 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius has been cleared around the plant already.

"I am speechless over the uncertainty that our people must face each day," said Yuhei Sato, the governor of Fukushima prefecture, which is home to the plant.

"Once we get over one mountain, we just see an-other rise up in front of us. We must find the end of the tunnel, but we haven't, and that is terribly difficult to bear," Sato told report-ers minutes after commu-nities across the northeast marked the moment the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck.

At 2:46 p.m., sirens wailed, and firefighters and soldiers removed their hats


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Walk a Mile in Her Shoesof other issues that women have to go through. After walking the mile, Farmer was surprised because the walk was not as bad as he thought it would be. He also commented that this walk will raise more awareness to the issue, and that those who saw the big group pass by within the town of Milford will hope-fully choose to walk next year and increase aware-ness.

UNH campus police participant, Sgt. Kevin Holster was seen at the

walk with a pair of vibrant pink platform boots to help raise awareness against domestic violence. Hol-ster has participated in this event since it first started. It was his friend who had originally talked him into joining the walk.

Holster said that he thinks it is very important that people participate in walks like “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” because it helps promote awareness for domestic violence, raise money for the Rape Crisis Center of Milford, and help support those sur-

vivors of sexual assault. Holster also comment-

ed on how he was going to maintain his stamina throughout the walk. “I just want to keep my heels on the ground and take it one step at a time,” Holster said.

Participant Peter Ber-ube said he was forced to walk in heels because his wife is on the board of the Rape Crisis Center of Milford. Berube said he thinks it is very important that there are walks like the one held because it creates awareness. He also

commented that it was his fourth year joining in the walk against domestic vio-lence, but this year it was hard to find shoes to fit his size 13 feet.

Assistant Director of Student Activities, Lisa Saverese said Jes Cham-pagne, who works with the Rape Crisis Center of Milford, was the one who helped get UNH involved with the walk. Ever since, there have been students involved in the walk and students from the Victi-mology Club have helped provide parking and vol-

unteering their time with set up.

Saverese said the Rape Crisis Center of Milford has done a lot for the com-munity and the university throughout the year. The Rape Crisis Center of Mil-ford has provided students with education in relation-ship violence, sexual as-sault, and how to be aware and safe to prevent those from happening.

“It is very important that students participate in events like this,” Saverese said, “because it shows that they are involved in

the community and are aware of the issues. By giv-ing back, it shows that the students appreciate what the community has done for them” She hopes that students will learn about the different organizations involved in this event and how important it is to raise awareness within the com-munity. “I hope that it will educate our students what these organizations do and how we can be support to them as much as they are to us.”

Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors

DEN BOSCH, Nether-lands – Farming is mov-ing indoors, where the sun never shines, where rain-fall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right.

The perfect crop field could be inside a window-less building with meticu-lously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise, a Siberian bun-ker, or a sprawling com-plex in the Saudi desert.

Advocates say this, or something like it, may be an answer to the world’s food problems.

“In order to keep a

planet that’s worth living on, we have to change our methods,” says Gertjan Meeuws, of PlantLab, a private research company.

The world already is having trouble feeding it-self. Half the people on Earth live in cities, and nearly half of those — about 3 billion — are hun-gry or malnourished. Food prices, currently soaring, are buffeted by droughts, floods and the cost of ener-gy required to plant, fertil-ize, harvest and transport it.

And prices will only get more unstable. Climate change makes long-term crop planning uncertain. Farmers in many parts of the world already are draining available water

resources to the last drop. And the world is getting more crowded: by mid-century, the global popu-lation will grow from 6.8 billion to 9 billion, the U.N. predicts.

To feed so many people may require expanding farmland at the expense of forests and wilderness, or finding ways to radically increase crop yields.

Meeuws and three other Dutch bioengineers have taken the concept of a greenhouse a step further, growing vegetables, herbs

to question the accused bomber when he landed in Detroit — but that turned out to be too late.

“We had the skill set, the systems and the tech-niques, and we needed to move backwards in time,” McAleenan said.

Since the Sept. 11 at-tacks, the terror watch list and its derivative, the no-fly list, became some of the government’s best-known counterterrorism tools. They also became some of the most criti-

U.S. Blocks 350 With Sustpected Ties To Terroristscized, as innocent travel-ers were inconvenienced when they were mistaken for terrorism suspects. Outrage forced the gov-ernment to pare the lists, which airlines checked be-fore allowing people to fly.

After the attempted Christmas attack, the intel-ligence community took a closer look at the names on the terror watch list and set new standards for adding names. The watch list and no-fly list are constant-ly reviewed, and names are added and removed

each day. There are about 30,000 people on the no-fly list and a companion list for people who must receive extra screening at airports, a counterterror-ism official told the AP.

The more expansive terror watch list includes about 450,000 names of people the U.S. intelli-gence community believes are, or could be, a threat to national security because of terrorist ties. Some of the people on the watch list are still being inves-tigated, and there is not

enough information for the government to arrest them.

The new policy has not turned the 450,000-per-son terror watch list into the no-fly list. Simply be-ing on the terror watch list does not mean a person won’t be allowed to enter the U.S., McAleenan said. When CBP reviews pas-senger lists and matches someone on the terror watch list, CBP will re-view information avail-able on the person before it recommends to the airline whether the person can

board the plane, McAleen-an said. In most cases, if CBP recommends against allowing the passenger to board, it’s because the per-son would be turned away upon arrival inside the United States due to secu-rity concerns.

Most people on the watch list are foreigners. About 6,000 are U.S. citi-zens.

American citizens who are not considered threats to aviation but are on the terror watch list cannot au-tomatically be prevented

from flying to the U.S. Customs officers will

likely question a U.S. citi-zen who is on the terror watch list when he or she comes into the country. But without grounds for arrest, the officers must let them arrive. This also ap-plies to a U.S. citizen who is on the no-fly list but who walks or drives back into the U.S. through land-border crossings.

and helmets and joined hands atop a small hill in Natori that has become a memorial. The clatter of construction equipment ceased briefly as crane op-erators stood outside their vehicles.

The disaster is believed to have killed more than 25,000 people, but many of those bodies were swept out to sea and may never be found. Others lie near the nuclear plant, where radia-tion has slowed recovery efforts. So far, more than 13,000 deaths have been confirmed, while 13,700 names are still on the miss-ing list.

The aftershocks have taken more lives. In Iwaki, a city close to the epicen-ter of Monday's tremor, a landslide brought down three houses, trapping up to seven people. Four were rescued alive, but one of those — a 16-year-old girl — died at the hospital, a police official said. He

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citing policy.The bustle of the clean-

up still hasn't reached some places. Several miles (kilometers) north of the industrial city of Kamai-shi, crumpled cars sat in living rooms and atop buildings. Houses washed from their foundations tee-tered on their sides.

Around 210,000 people have no running water and, following Monday's after-shock, more than 240,000 people are without elec-tricity.

The government has not said how long it will take to clear areas crushed by the wave, which is thought to have caused as much as $310 billion in damage.

It's unclear how the re-building will be funded since the disaster slammed Japan's economy just as it was beginning to emerge from a downward spiral. The International Mon-etary Fund's World Eco-nomic Outlook released

Monday forecast 1.4 per-cent economic growth this year, down 0.2 percent-age point from the Janu-ary forecast. Rebuilding should eventually spur growth, though, the fore-cast said.

With the school year starting this month and most of the homeless liv-ing in gyms, officials are facing pressure to move people quickly into tem-porary housing. But in places, temporary hous-ing is a distant dream. And sometimes, even the shel-ters provide no haven.

At one dilapidated high school, the mayor of Minami Soma — a city pummeled by the wave and straddling the nuclear evacuation zone — told those sheltering there they would have to leave next week because of concerns about the soundness of the building.

Most took the bad news with resignation, but they know it means they'll have

to move farther away from their homes. For some, it feels like moving back-ward, rather than forward.

"I have a baby, and this is really hard on us," said Aya Satake at the girls' high school in Soma, which neighbors her hometown.

"I'm afraid of staying here, but I'm also nervous about leaving and starting over in a new place with strangers," she said as she cradled her 1-year-old.

In all, nearly 190,000 people have fled their homes, the vast major-ity of whom are living in shelters, according to the national disaster agency. About 85,000 are from the cleared zone around the nuclear plant; their homes may be intact, but it's not known when they'll be able to return to them.

Yutaka Endo said he feels like his life has been put on hold because of the nuclear crisis.

He fled Minami Soma and has been living in a

shelter in Fukushima city for three weeks with his family.

"I can't make any plans because of the nuclear cri-sis. My home was fine, but I can't go back there because it is in a restricted area," said the 32-year-old who used to tend bar. "I need to find a new job and a place to live so that we can get out of here. But I can't do anything until these zones are lifted."

Ryokou Sasaki said he and his elderly parents are in the same position. They've applied for tem-porary shelters, and are waiting to hear back.

He recently moved back home — to the north-eastern port city of Kamai-shi — to help his parents' with their fishing business.

"We're not in a place yet where we can even think about rebuilding the busi-ness yet," said the 40-year-old. "They seem to have given up."

and house plants in en-closed and regulated en-

vironments where even

natural light is excluded.In their research station,

strawberries, yel-low peppers, basil and banana plants take on an eerie pink glow under red and blue bulbs of Light-Emitting Diodes, or LEDs. Water trickles into the pans when needed and all ex-cess is recycled, and the tempera-ture is kept con-stant. Lights go on and off, simulat-ing day and night, but according to the rhythm of the plant — which may be better at shorter cycles

than 24 hours —

rather than the rotation of the Earth.

In a larger “climate chamber” a few miles away, a nursery is nurtur-ing cuttings of fittonia, a colorful house plant, in two layers of 70 square meters (750 sq. feet) each. Blasts of mist keep the room humid, and the tem-perature is similar to the plants’ native South Amer-ica. After the cuttings take root — the most sensitive stage in the growing pro-cess — they are wheeled into a greenhouse and the chamber is again used for rooting. The process cuts the required time to grow a mature plant to six weeks from 12 or more.

The Dutch researchers


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Impact of Oil Prices on Your Walletvantage of what they per-ceive to be a real risk in supply. It’s a marketplace that I argue should not be allowed to be wagered on like a stock or bond.” Dicker also argues that if the government regulated oil trading to only include airlines and heating oil companies, “then the price of oil would fall by 50% overnight and our econo-my would be much better off.” Undoubtedly, U.S. government intervention is needed to some extent in order to regulate the price of oil and, subsequently, gas prices throughout the nation.

The national average of gasoline is now $3.662 per gallon, reports USA Today, but many gas sta-tions retain higher prices. The Mercury gas station adjacent to the University of New Haven campus is an ideal example. Its price increases on gasoline have been rising for the better part of a month. Towards the end of March, a week-long stability (and even a slight decrease) in prices

brought the cost to $3.62 per gallon of regular gaso-line. This false sense of se-curity shortly ended, with regular gas prices soaring to $3.81 by the beginning of April. Plus, Premium, and Diesel fuels are even higher than that, reaching almost $4.00 or more.

Traveling from point A to point B has not been this difficult since 2008, and Americans’ wallets are feeling the pressure at the pump. UNH Commuter Justin Bussell commented on the negative impact of the gas prices. “Even though I only live six miles away from the uni-versity, there is a notice-able change in the amount of money I am spending on gas,” Justin said. “I noticed myself eating out less often, and bringing food to college from home in order to save some mon-ey for gas.” Using alterna-tively fueled vehicles, Jus-tin believes, is something the U.S. should invest in, so that the country can de-pend less on foreign oil.

As citizens prepare for that $4/gallon price to

creep up, the government must also consider their role in oil trading. The ap-prehension felt by traders as a result of African and Middle Eastern hostili-ties is leading to unneces-sarily high prices. Small businesses are also at risk; high gas prices result in less spending, which may force some businesses to increase prices. How-ever, many are reluctant to charge more for fear of losing customers.

While minimal govern-ment regulations would easily fix the oil trading problem, Dicker explains that financial firms prevent the government from im-posing limitations. “Large financial firms with a di-rect interest in oil trading have made so much mon-ey with oil that they can afford to lobby Congress to block any significant re-forms.” Whatever the is-sue at hand, it is clear that some financial reform is needed in order to balance oil trading and make gas prices more affordable.

trial plans were changed. While the Attorney

General has voiced his opinion about the change, so have others. The fami-lies of 9/11 victims ap-plaud the change. Nancy Nee, sister of a New York City Firefighter, said that the five men are, “war criminals as far as I’m concerned and I think that a military trial is the right thing to do.”

The problem with a military trial is that many people do not consider them legitimate, or fair. The American Civil Liber-ties Union (ACLU) criti-cized the change saying, “the military commission

system is not about seek-ing justice as much as it is about obtaining convic-tions.” The ACLU brings up a good point, because military tribunals will not have to follow all of the procedures that the U.S. courts system do. They do not have to adhere to the constitution and this could cause an unfair trial.

Now that a change has been made, there is more uncertainty about what will happen to the detain-ees. Holder said that he does not know if they will face the death penalty if they plead guilty or where the trials will even be held. He said that it would be up to the Pentagon to have the

trial at Guantanamo. In ad-dition, there is still debate about whether there will be one trial, or five sepa-rate ones.

The change makes one thing evident; the families will need to wait longer for justice. It has been almost a decade since the attacks, and many have made it clear that everything needs to come to a swift end. Holder says, “we cannot simply allow a trial to be delayed any longer for the victims of the 9-11 attacks or their family members who have been waiting for nearly a decade for jus-tice.”

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BP Buys Gulf Coast Millions in Gearcover oil-related overtime and other payroll expens-es.

“I didn’t run up bills. I treated their money like I treated our own,” said Plaquemines Parish Presi-dent Billy Nungesser, an outspoken critic of BP and the federal government’s response to the spill. “Maybe down the road I’ll look and say we should have stockpiled.”

When BP was heavily under attack from the top down for its response to the rapidly growing en-vironmental disaster, the company started throwing huge sums of money at the problems it had in the water and on land. Cutting checks to governments along the coast addressed both issues, even if it meant waiting until later to figure out details like how officials would have to ac-count for the cash.

“We recognized the im-portance of getting fund-ing to the states, parishes and counties quickly, and therefore provided ad-vance funding to help kick start their emergency response,” Feick, the BP spokeswoman, said in an email.

The payments to gov-ernments gave BP the kind of good PR it desperately

needed, said Daniel Kee-ney, president of a Dal-las-based public relations firm. By giving money to communities and allowing them to spend it largely as they saw fit, BP also put a buffer between itself and any questionable spend-ing.

“Whether the funds could be perceived as be-ing wasted or not really re-flects on the organization accepting the money rath-er than BP,” Keeney said.

Louis Skrmetta, one of the tens of thousands of business owners and in-dividuals still waiting to get a share of a $20 billion claims fund established by BP, finds the state and lo-cal governments’ spending galling, even if it’s almost all BP’s money.

Skrmetta runs a three-boat fleet that has a con-tract with the National Park Service to ferry day trippers to Ship Island, a recreation area about 10 miles offshore from Gulfport, Miss. He can’t understand why BP paid so much to governments while businesses were suf-fering.

“I didn’t think there was much logic in it,” Skrmetta said. “Now, looking back in retrospect, it was a way to win over politicians, a way to win over the me-

dia.” In February, BP asked

Louisiana parishes that re-ceived up to $1 million in advance payments in May for a detailed summary of how that money has been spent. Parishes were warned they must exhaust the advance money before they can make any new claims.

Some parishes, how-ever, have banked that money and already billed BP for expenses on top of it. Terrebonne Parish says it hasn’t spent any of its $1 million advance, yet BP has paid it an additional $927,842, mostly for con-tractors and payroll costs.

Parish President Michel Claudet said he isn’t con-cerned that BP will try to recover unspent advance money.

“The agreement from the beginning was that it was nonrefundable,” he said.

The oil spill drove away tourists and sapped tax revenues, but it was a boon for private contractors and consultants. Governments have spent more than $19 million of BP’s money to hire contractors, according to the AP’s review.

The Louisiana attorney general’s office has spent $4 million and counting of BP’s money to hire outside

lawyers and accountants to help piece together litiga-tion against the company. Five of the seven law firms hired and their attorneys have poured more than $80,000 total into Attorney General Buddy Caldwell’s campaign coffers in recent years.

Amber Davis, who lives with Gulf County, Fla., Commissioner Bill Williams, incorporated Statecraft LLC less than a month after oil began streaming into the Gulf. Three months later, State-craft won a monthlong, $14,468 contract to per-form public information and government liaison work for the county of about 15,000 people.

Davis, who has worked in marketing and commu-nity relations, said she had planned to form her com-pany before the spill. She also had volunteered for the county’s emergency operations center for three months before she was given the contract.

“There is a perception of a conflict of interest in just about anything that anybody does,” Davis said. “I guess my state-ment to that was that I vol-unteered anywhere from 15 to 18 hours a day for three months and never re-ceived a penny.”

Williams said he con-sulted the county attorney and an ethics commission, and neither saw a problem with awarding the contract to Davis.

Gulf County awarded an identical one-month, $14,468 contract — this one for monitoring beach pollution — to Florida Eco Services, a company founded days after the rig explosion by Patrick Far-rell, whose wife is on the board of the local Cham-ber of Commerce. Farrell says he has a background in managing and maintain-ing properties, as well as beach restoration.

County Attorney Jer-emy Novak, who also is an attorney for Florida Eco Services, said it was a matter of giving business to locals rather than out-of-state contractors.

“It sounds like a bias, and it is, but I’m glad people in Gulf County got work and actually had the ability to feed their fami-lies,” Novak said. “I don’t see it as profiteering. I see it as obviously doing what you can because what you’re doing for a living isn’t available to you.”

Local authorities could have taken even fuller ad-vantage of BP’s largesse had the company or state officials not nixed some

requests that had no clear connection to the oil. Po-lice in D’Iberville, Miss., for instance, were denied a $245,000 mobile com-mand unit, a $140,000 hazardous materials vehi-cle and a $19,000 Harley-Davidson.

“If we had to establish barricades, they thought it would be more maneu-verable,” City Manager Michael Janus said of the motorcycle. “It was a bit of a reach, obviously.”

Although BP footed the bill for other pricey acqui-sitions, some officials con-cede they may have to use taxpayer money to main-tain them.

The Louisiana Depart-ment of Wildlife and Fish-eries spent $5 million for 22 boats and the accom-panying trawls, nets and hauling vehicles.

“Nobody asked me for a space shuttle or anything,” said Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham.

BP money will cover the costs of maintaining the vessels, leasing dock space and buying fuel for at least three years, he said. Whether taxpayers will be forced to pick up these costs after that hasn’t been decided.

“They don’t run for free,” Barham said.

say they plan to build a commercial-sized build-ing in the Netherlands of 1,300 square meters (14,000 sq. feet), with four separate levels of vegeta-tion by the end of this year. After that, they envision growing vegetables next to shopping malls, super-markets or other food re-tailers.

Meeuws says a building of 100 sq meters (1,075 sq. feet) and 14 layers of plants could provide a daily diet of 200 grams (7 ounces) of fresh fruit and vegetables to the entire population of Den Bosch, about 140,000 people. Their idea is not to grow foods that require much space, like corn or potatoes. “We are looking at the top of the pyramid where we have high value and low volume,” he said.

Sunlight is not only unnecessary but can be harmful, says Meeuws.

con’t from page 6 Plants need only specific wavelengths of light to grow, but in nature they must adapt to the full range of light as a matter of survival. When light and other natural elements are manipulated, the plants become more efficient, us-ing less energy to grow.

“Nature is good, but too much nature is killing,” said Meeuws, standing in a steaming cubicle amid racks of what he called “happy plants.”

For more than a de-cade the four researchers have been tinkering with combinations of light, soil and temperature on a vari-ety of plants, and now say their growth rate is three times faster than under greenhouse conditions. They use no pesticides, and about 90 percent less water than outdoors agri-culture. While LED bulbs are expensive, the cost is steadily dropping.

Olaf van Kooten, a professor of horticulture at Wageningen Univer-sity who has observed the project but has no stake in it, says a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of tomatoes grown in Israeli fields needs 60 liters (16 gal-lons) of water, while those grown in a Dutch green-house require one-quarter of that. “With this system it is possible in principle to produce a kilo of tomatoes with a little over one liter of water,” he said.

The notion of multisto-ry greenhouses has been around for a while. Dick-son Despommier, a retired Columbia University pro-fessor of environmental health and author of the 2010 book “The Vertical Farm,” began working on indoor farming as a class-room project in 1999, and the idea has spread to sev-eral startup projects across the U.S.

“Over the last five year urban farming has really gained traction,” Despom-mier said in a telephone interview.

Despommier argues that city farming means producing food near the consumer, eliminating the need to transport it long distances at great costs of fuel and spoilage and with little dependency on the immediate climate.

The science behind LED lighting in agricul-ture “is quite rigorous

and well known,” he said, and the costs are drop-ping dramatically. The next development, organ-ic light-emitting diodes or OLEDs, which can be packed onto thin film and wrapped around a plant, will be even more effi-ciently tuned to its needs.

One of the more dra-matic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA, which installed them in the space Shuttle and the space station Mir

in the 1990s as part of its experiment with micro-gravity.

“This system is a first clear step that has to grow,” Van Kooten says, but more research is need-ed and people need to get used to the idea of sunless, landless agriculture.

“But it’s clear to me a system like this is neces-sary.”

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Hopefully by now, ev-eryone who is interested in student government is aware that every Thursday at 11:00 a.m. the Under-graduate Student Govern-ment Association (USGA) meets in the Alumni Lounge. The crowd ranges from the House, composed of representatives for the top twenty clubs and or-ganizations, the Senate, students elected by USGA or the entire undergraduate student body, other gold and blue club representa-tives, and general mem-bers of the student body. With such varied groups in one room there must be a set of rules to keep

This past week I ob-served a disturbing trend as I sat at club tables in Bartels throughout the week. Every day I noticed that many of the trash cans where full. Most of you probably think that the problem is that the trash cans do not get emptied nearly fast enough. That is not, however, where I am going with this. What I no-ticed is that the trash cans were always stuffed to the brim with cans and bottles that people threw out after they finish their beverages. Why doesn’t anyone seem to notice the recycling can which is right next to most of the trash cans in the

Jazzman’s area? The most annoying as-

pect of this whole situation is the laziness. Many peo-ple would rather stuff an already filled trash can with recyclables than walk a few extra steps to the recycling can to place their re-cyclables in there. (And when I say a few extra steps, I literally mean only about three or four in most cases.) Wouldn’t that make more sense than just throwing them out? They are there after all for a reason. How-ever, as the week con-tinued, my annoyance continued to grow. Not only do students on this campus throw recy-clables in the trash cans,

they also throw trash into the recycling cans. Nu-merous times I witnessed someone throw out their

food or other trash into the recycling can, because the nearest trash can was

too full. Honestly, do the cans need to be labeled so everyone knows what they are used for, because

I thought it was self-explanatory?

Being an observant person, I also noticed that many people will stuff the trash cans to the max, and then more people will come along and attempt to put their trash in an already overflowing can. The two minutes it takes to make sure your trash is in securely in the over-flowing trash can can be better spent walking over to an empty trash can a few feet away. Be respectful ladies and

gentleman. You wouldn’t want to empty out a dis-gusting trash can that had

food all along the top and was filled to the brim so that the bag won’t even close. If you wouldn’t like the job, then please do not create these situations for those who do empty out your garbage.

Along with overflowing the trash cans obnoxious-ly, I also notice that a few people tend to leave their trash lying around in cer-tain places. These places include on tables, on the floor around tables, and on the floor around trash cans. It’s all a matter of respect. Clean up after yourself af-ter you eat, and if you drop something please pick it up. If your trash falls out of the trash can, and there is only one reason that it would fall out, then pick it up and take it to an-

everyone orderly, and for USGA, Robert’s Rules of Order are used. (For more infor-mation on Robert’s Rules, go to http://www.robertsrules.com.) Despite the organization that Robert’s Rules pro-vide, there are still plenty of issues that can come up during meetings, and fortunately, that is where the USGA Execu-tive Board comes into play. While the president, vice president, sergeant at arms, treasurer, and ex-ecutive assistant do a great job of controlling meet-ings, I figured I’d do them all a favor and point out a

few meeting no no’s! Cut the chit chat! I

think that the biggest is-sue at USGA meetings is the number of side con-versations that happen throughout the meeting.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you need to

sit perfectly still and not make a sound, but there is a line that needs to be respected. Need to get someone’s attention to hand them something? Go ahead and do so qui-etly and then refocus on the meeting. Even if you have a quick ques-tion for someone sitting next to you, that’s not so bad; it’s when lengthy noisy conversations are going on all around the room. That when it’s a problem! I know that sometimes meetings run a little long and people

start to get antsy, but talk-ing isn’t the solution, and neither is playing with your phone!

Check your bias at the

door! I know it can be hard to be unbiased especially when someone is passion-ate about the issue at hand, but it isn’t fair to speak or vote based on personal in-terests or feelings. Discus-sion and voting at USGA should be based on facts presented on the issue and directly related informa-tion. USGA is designed to make decisions that will benefit the undergraduate student body overall, not just a specific club/orga-nization or person. When bias is a factor, it can hin-der the effectiveness of de-cision making at USGA. A slight off shoot of remain-ing unbiased is remaining civil. There is no reason for discussion to get out of hand and let emotions gain the upper hand. Any-

one can have their turn to speak, so don’t abuse that power and freedom by not thinking and recklessly speaking.

Pay attention! Nearly every time there is discus-sion at USGA, it starts off great, but then people be-gin to repeat each other. An occasional repeat to show support is one thing, but it is frustrating to a lot of the meeting attend-ees particularly when the meeting is lengthier than usual. Everyone is entitled to speak, that is one of the best parts of USGA; but there is no reason to say the same thing ten times!

other trash can. You’re in college, not elementary school. No one should have the job of cleaning up after you. It’s now your re-sponsibility; so be respon-sible for yourself.

To sum up all of my an-noyances for this week, let’s recap shall we. Every-one should place recycla-bles in the recycling can and trash in the trash can. If a trash can is too full, find another one to use. Lastly, clean up after your-self if you make a mess. In student areas, other people use the space directly after you. Be respectful of the staff that helps keep these locations clean, and be re-spectful of other students who use these locations.

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During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?”

Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade.

“Absolutely,” said the professor. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say “hello.”

I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.

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I don’t know about everyone else, but I know I am excited for Easter to be here. Though I may now be an adult at the ripe ol’ age of 21, I still hold onto the traditions of my youth, especially everything from dying eggs and doing Easter egg hunts to the traditional family bunny cake (a cake shaped like a bunny and not a cake made from a bunny). The only disappointment this year is that I can’t make it look like a zombie, because we have guests coming over.

One positive thing that I see from a day to day basis is my friends and family, and I think it’s a high time that you go and tell someone that you appreciate them. I’ll tell you one thing for sure; it will make their day 100% better.

NegativePositivesI have been hearing a lot of people playing the victim, even when they have

done something wrong. So, I want to give a short list of things that you should not play the victim about, and in fact, you should feel bad about doing: cheating on someone, leaving someone in a different state over spring break, getting in trouble for breaking the rules, cheating on a test, etc.

If someone breaks the rules, that person is going to suffer the consequences. It’s not anything personal, and it’s not because the person giving the consequenc-es is a jerk. They are just doing their job. If a cop pulls you over, it’s not because he doesn’t like you personally; it’s because you’re breaking the law. He has the option to write you a ticket or not. Just because he doesn’t write you a ticket the first time, does not mean that if he decides to give you one the next time you can just decide not to pay it. So let’s try to take some responsibility for our actions.

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At this point, I have heard a couple of different stories about people being left places at one point or another. That is totally unacceptable. I don’t care how mad you are at someone; you don’t just abandon them. There are very few things that would warrant that, the majority of

which would require you being in direct physical danger. What irks me the most is that these people then have the gall to act the victim after-wards saying “oh, but they where mean to me.” It doesn’t matter, because you were the one that abandoned them! If anything had happened to

them, it would have been your fault. Quite frankly, you owe them an apology and a nice dinner at the Olive Garden.

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3: bombastic, turgid. [from Latin tumidus, from tumere “to swell.”]

Fact of the week: The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in If I Ran the Zoo.

Did they seriously just say that? “Better make it six, I can’t eat eight.” - Dan Osinski, Baseball pitcher, when a waitress asked whether he wanted his pizza cut into six or eight slices.

Weekly Thought: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”-Theodore Roosevelt

By Courtney Faber

Edible OpinionsLast week was a delicious tradition for people in and around the Elm City; it was New Haven Restaurant Week! Every April, some of the city’s best restaurants put together

a special menu with lunch priced at $16.38 (for the year New Haven was founded) and dinner priced at $29. It’s a great way to try a new restaurant and get some of their specialty dishes at a discounted price.

This year, I went to Consiglio’s on Wooster Street. Most people head to that area for pizza at Pepe’s or Sally’s, but I wanted to try another New Haven staple. It was Wednesday evening, so it wasn’t too crowded, which would have probably been annoying since it’s very small and there isn’t much space to wait other than outside. We got there a little early and were able to sit at the bar while we waited for our table. There were only about four seats at the bar and a couple of high tables, but it was stocked with all the necessities. There was also an impressive wine list as well.

Once we were seated, there were three appetizers to choose from: stuffed mushrooms, Caesar salad, and fried calamari. I decided to step out of my comfort zone and tried the mushrooms. I’ve never had mushrooms before, but I figured if they were going to be made the right way, it would be at Consiglio’s. Plus, they were stuffed with sausage, roasted red peppers, spinach, and mozzarella cheese. The plate came out, and there were only two, but I was so happy with how good they really were. My mush-room standards are pretty high now. I also had a bite of the Caesar salad; it was good, but nothing to write home about.

For dinner, I had chicken amalfi. It’s a fabulous dish comprised of chicken breast, sundried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, balsamic reduction sauce, and linguine. This was something to write home about. I was especially happy with the tomatoes and artichoke hearts, because they tasted fresh and were prepared correctly – I wouldn’t trust a meal like this at a chain restaurant. I was hesitant about the meal when I ordered because I don’t like balsamic too much, but I never realized there was such a difference when it’s reduced. Overall, it was a light dish that left me feeling satisfied.

I also tried the homemade cavatelli and braciole; apparently, a specialty of Consiglio’s. It is hand-rolled pasta and thinly sliced beef, served with tomato sauces. It’s rolled in parmesan and some spices, which give the dish its flavor. I liked it a lot, but was glad I didn’t order it because it wasn’t something I could’ve eaten more than three bites of without feeling full.

Then came dessert. The restaurant week menu had Godiva tiramisu or chocolate mousse cake, so we got one of each. Tiramisu is not my thing, but the cake was amazing. The only way I would’ve enjoyed it more would have been if I were a little less full (but I’m not complaining).

My restaurant week experience was awesome. I left feeling so happy because I tried new things and felt good about what I ate. However, I’m not totally sure when I’ll go back because without the restaurant week specials, the dishes at Consiglio’s are very expensive. It’s definitely a restaurant to go to for a special occasion; graduation isn’t too far away! Just be sure to make reservations, because it’s a small place and something tells me it fills up fast.

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 starsCategory: Italian, UpscaleService: Not bad, not greatAesthetics: Minimal, homeyAtmosphere: This place is about the food, not the atmosphere. Trust me; it won’t be on your mind!

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Softball Suffers Two Tough Losses at Merrimack, 1-2 and 7-9

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – The University of New Haven softball team was upended twice by Merrimack College on Sunday afternoon, as the Chargers dropped a 2-1 decision in game one, followed by a 9-7 loss in the night cap. With the re-sults, UNH descended to 18-11 overall and 8-6 in Northeast-10 Conference competition. The Warriors hopped back over the .500 mark at 12-11, 7-3 in the league.

Game OneThe first game of the

twinbill featured a fan-tastic pitchers dual be-tween the Chargers’ Micah Stonesifer and the War-riors’ Kelli Jo Deardorff. Stonesifer allowed two runs (one earned), scat-tered four hits over six in-nings and struck out three of the 30 batters she faced. Unfortunately, Deardorff was just a tad bit better, allowing just one run over seven innings. She al-lowed five hits and struck out six in the outing.

The Chargers opened the scoring column in the very first inning when Chelsea Harold came around to score the game’s first run. Harold reached on a single, stole second

and then advanced to third on a wild pitch. Christina Gelardi stepped into the batters’ box and laced a single that allowed Harold to trot home from third for a 1-0 lead.

However, the Chargers’ bats went quiet, allowing the warriors to get back into the game. Merrimack took advantage of an error in the field in the third in-ning and then produced the go-ahead tally in the bot-tom of the fifth. Monique Gosselin came through with an RBI single to take a 2-1 advantage. New Haven couldn’t find the equalizer and suffered its third straight loss.

Game Two

In the second game of the afternoon, runs came early and often for both squads. New Haven mus-tered four runs on five hits and two errors for a prom-ising start to the contest. Harold worked her way around the bases after a walk, a wild pitch and an error for the game’s first run. The second run came off the bat of Shannon Angehr, who launched her third homerun of the season. Allison Vaughan and Courtney Garland ac-counted for the next two runs, each blasting RBI doubles to extend the early lead.

The Warriors bounced back with two runs in their

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first at-bats, but the Char-gers answered quickly in the second. UNH took ad-vantage of poor execution in the field, scoring two more runs on two hits in the frame. Angehr crossed the dish on back-to-back errors and then Gelardi came around to score on an RBI single from Gar-land.

In the bottom half of the frame, Merrimack mus-tered another run to cut its deficit to three runs. The teams played a scoreless third and then each added one run in the fourth, leav-ing the Chargers ahead by three heading into the final three innings.

However, the Warriors’

bats came to life, as they tied the score in the fifth and then added two more in the sixth. Their final two runs proved to be the difference granting Mer-rimack a 9-7 victory and a two-game sweep of the reigning NE-10 champi-ons.

New Haven will look to bounce back against C.W. Post on Wednesday, April 13 with a double-header at the UNH Soft-ball Field. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. with all of the action live on www.Ne-wHavenChargers.com.

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Baseball Suffers 4-0 Loss to Nationally Ranked Owls

WEST HAVEN, Conn. - The University of New Haven baseball team fell 4-0 to Southern Connecti-cut State University Sun-day afternoon at Frank Vieira Field. The Chargers fell to 16-11 overall and 5-6 in the Northeast-10 Conference with the loss. The nationally ranked No. 5 Owls improved to 27-1 overall and 12-1 in the NE-10.

The Chargers were the first to get a runner on base as Stephen Clout reached on a dropped third strike in the bottom of the first in-ning. Southern Connecti-cut was the first and only team to score a run, how-ever. The Owls birggest

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inning was the second as they combined four hits for three runs in the top of the inning. SCSU’s first two batters got on base, while the fourth batter drove in two with a triple to deep right center field. A single to the pitcher later in the inning gave the Owls a 3-0 lead after one 1/2 innings.

New Haven then load-ed the bases in the bot-tom of the second and put two runners on base in the third inning, but Southern Connecticut State would not give up a run as the Chargers left six runners on base in the first three innings.

The Owls final run of the afternoon was scored in the top of the fourth in-ning off a wild pitch. New Haven managed base run-ners in the fourth, fifth,

sixth, seventh and ninth in-nings, but could not mus-ter a run.

Cory Carr, Brendon Buckley and Stephen Clout led the UNH bats with two hits each. Kyle Cullen added one hits, while Tom Rombilus earned two bases on balls.

Starting pitch Mike Aq-uilino threw three 1/3 in-nings, while Henry Hirsch pitched the final five 2/3 innings in relief. Aquilino suffered his third loss of the season, while allowing four earned runs.

New Haven will return to action on Wednesday, April 13 when they travel to Southern Connecticut State. Game time at the Ball Park at SCSU is set for 3:30 p.m.


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WEST HAVEN, Conn. - The University of New Haven women’s lacrosse team overcame an early 4-0 deficit as they came back to defeat Bentley on Sunday by the score of 18-13. The Chargers were led by Sarah Magnone and Alexis Gabbe as they accounted for 12 of the team’s 18 goals, recording six each.

With the win, New Ha-ven is now 6-5 overall and 4-2 in the Northeast-10

Conference. The loss drops the Falcons to 5-6 and 3-3 in league play.

Back-to-back goals by Megan Wiggins put Bent-ley ahead 4-0 with 22:34 remaining in the first half. However, their lead would not last much longer as Magnone tied the game 10 minutes later then gave the Chargers a 6-5 lead at the 11:17 mark.

With just three seconds remaining in the first half, Natalie Lieberman split the defense to record a goal and give New Haven an 11-7 lead at the break.

The momentum re-

mained in the Chargers favor in the second half. After two consecutive goals from Magnone and Gabbe, they quickly held a six goal lead and never looked back. New Haven would go on to take the game, 18-13.

Maureen Spellman was great in the net, recording 11 saves. Carolina Mar-rero tallied two goals and Marissa Fisher, Ashley Ferrandiz, Kristina Curry and Lieberman all notched a goal each.

New Haven returns to the field on Tuesday, April 12 to host AIC at 4 p.m.

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LOWELL, Mass. – Shannon Gagne won three events on Saturday as the University of New Haven men’s and women’s out-door track and field teams competed at the George Davis Invitational, host-ed by the University of UMass Lowell.

Gagne won the 400 me-ter dash, 200 meter dash and the long jump with marks of 57.21 seconds, 24.21 seconds and a leap of 5.95 meters respective-ly. Ada Udaya also won

an event on the day as she claimed the 100 meter dash in 12.26 seconds and finished second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 24.80.

The Chargers claimed three top-five finishes in the long jump. Gagne won the event followed by Alissa Howell in second with a leap of 5.50 meters and Calista Hutchinson in fifth with a jump of 5.15 meters.

The field events were highlighted by Shraya Manick’s second place fin-ish in the hammer throw with a toss of 46.38 me-ters.

The men’s team took home two more first place finishes. The 4x100 relay team consisting of David Thomas, Kevin Downing, Winston Reid and Mark Kichar won the event with a time of 42.98 seconds and Downing also claimed first in the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.04 sec-onds. Thomas finished right behind him to take second overall with a mark of 11.23 seconds.

New Haven returns to action on Saturday, April 23 as they are set to com-pete at the Springfield Col-lege Invitational.


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Jered Weaver Fans 15 Blue Jays in Angels' 3-1 Win

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Jered Weaver kept mow-ing 'em down, even as he grew wearier with each pitch.

Weaver struck out a career-high 15 and the Los Angeles Angels took ad-vantage of a costly error by Toronto center fielder Rajai Davis to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 on Sunday.

"I'm pretty sure a pitcher can get in a team's head," Angels teammate Torii Hunter said. "I've seen it happen. But I think anybody that he faced to-day, he probably would have had their number."

Less than 24 hours af-ter using all seven of his relievers for the second time in four games to grind out a 14-inning victory — with starter Dan Haren as

his last pitcher — Angels manager Mike Scioscia needed Weaver to pitch deep into the game in his first home start of the sea-son.

The ace right-hander more than obliged. Weaver allowed a run and four hits while throwing 125 pitch-es in 7 2-3 innings.

In the eighth, it came down to a showdown be-tween Weaver and Jose Bautista, last year's major league home run leader. Bautista represented the go-ahead run at the plate after a pair of one-out walks, but Weaver struck him out with his final pitch of the day.

"I'm not going to lie. I was obviously getting a little tired," Weaver said. "I had too many walks again (four), but I was still able to extend myself as much as possible. ... That 3-2 pitch to Bautista was a slider — and thank God

he swung at it, or else it would have been bases loaded."

Hisanori Takahashi came in to retire cleanup hitter Adam Lind on a comebacker and Fernando Rodney pitched a perfect ninth for his second save.

"I just wanted to go out there, knowing that we had a long one last night, and I wanted to try to extend it as much as possible," Weaver said. "We were able to get three runs, and that was enough to work with.

"It's a tough lineup to face, but I had my fast-ball command early and my slider was as good as it's been in a long time. So I matched up pretty well with a bunch of righties in the lineup."

The Angels got some additional help from a costly error by Davis, To-ronto's center fielder, that


James’ 27 Lift Miami Past Boston, 100-77

MIAMI – If this was an Eastern Conference semi-finals preview, then the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics showed what to expect.

Few pleasantries.Pushing and shoving.And maybe a Game 7 in

Miami.LeBron James scored

27 points, Dwyane Wade added 14 and the Heat moved closer to the No. 2 seed in the East play-offs Sunday by beating the sliding Celtics 100-77.

“It was a playoff-atmo-sphere type of game, from the fans to both teams’ ap-proach to what the game meant,” Wade said. “It had that feel.”

Miami moved a game ahead of Boston, trimming its magic number to clinch the second seed to two. The teams will finish sec-ond and third in some or-der behind Chicago in the East, slotted to play in the conference semifinals.

“We’d like to play them, I can tell you that,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “And we may have to if we want to go some-where.”

Chris Bosh added 13 points and eight rebounds

for Miami, which had been 0-3 against Boston this season, though Heat coach Erik Spoelstra cau-tioned against overstating the win’s importance.

“We proved we can beat them tonight,” Spoel-stra said. “That’s about it, in my mind.”

Paul Pierce scored 24 points and Kevin Garnett added 21 for Boston, which lost for the 10th time in its last 19 games. The Celtics were outrebounded 42-26, and outscored 44-26 in the paint.

“What else do you ex-pect? It’s Boston-Miami,” Garnett said. “Supposedly it’s two of, if not the top two, teams in the East. You have to expect that. You have to expect that coming in here you’re not going to get the call. You had to expect their passion — a team you have beaten three times.”

The Heat finally solved the Boston hex, beating the Celtics for the third time in the last 21 meetings. Bosh had been 1-13 against Boston since March 2007, and the Celtics ended both the 2009-10 seasons for Wade (in the first round) and James (in the second round).

Miami won for the 13th time in its last 16 games, and its bench — maligned

for much of the season — outscored Boston’s 32-12.

“What worked for us today is, offensively we played together,” Wade said.

Ray Allen scored 13

points for the Celtics. Ra-jon Rondo was held to just seven points and five as-sists on 3 for 8 shooting.

“Frustration is high on our team right now,” Riv-ers said.

Miami’s role players were huge.

Mario Chalmers had nine points in the second quarter, when the Heat took the lead. Joel Antho-ny had eight rebounds in

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the first half, two less than the entire Boston roster. Zydrunas Ilgauskas scored six quick points early in the third as the Heat re-mained in control, and An-thony took advantage of a

triple-team on James for a dunk and a 74-59 lead on the final play of the third quarter.

Of course, this be-ing Celtics-Heat, nothing would come easily for Mi-ami.

Down by 22, Boston ran off 12 straight points, Al-len starting it with a four-point play, and Pierce add-ing both a 3-pointer and a three-point play to get the

Celtics within 85-75. It was the last gasp.

Mike Bibby’s 3-pointer with 4:49 left, followed by Bosh’s follow of James’ miss, sent the lead back to 15.

“We built that lead by just keeping guys in front of us, contesting shots and flying around defensive-ly,” James said.

Boston scored the game’s first eight points and hit eight of its first nine shots. The Celtics were making it seem easy, especially when Garnett — who hadn’t made a 3-pointer all season — stepped into one from the left wing and connected for a 22-15 lead.

“It looked like the same old song,” Spoelstra said.

It didn’t stay that way. Boston went scoreless for the next 6:17, and Miami took the lead for good on the opening possession of the second quarter.

Tensions were already high, and emotions soon boiled over.

Jermaine O’Neal — who had just been eas-ily scored on by James 27 seconds earlier in transi-tion — tried to stop an-other drive by the two-time reigning MVP with a shoulder check with about 4 minutes left in the sec-ond, making no play on

the ball. A scrum quickly

broke out under the bas-ket. O’Neal earned a fla-grant-1, James got a tech-nical for throwing the ball back at O’Neal, Wade and Pierce also got technicals for some pushing and jos-tling, and a small amount of debris flew from the stands onto the court.

“I thought it was all theatrical, all the crap. I guess that’s called tough-ness these days,” Rivers said. “Two guys run into each other, we’ve got to call a flagrant foul, which I thought was a joke. And I thought the reactions by both were a joke.”

Bosh earned another technical 2 1/2 minutes later for arguing he tied up a loose ball with Ron-do, only to have referees award Boston a timeout. But the Heat kept their composure, kept pouring it on after halftime, then turned their eyes toward road games that loom large at Atlanta on Monday and Toronto on Wednesday.

“This is cool and all,” Bosh said, “but we still have two more games.”

Jered Weaver Fans 15 Blue Jays in Angels’ 3-1 Win

led to a pair of unearned runs in the fourth. Peter Bourjos drove them in with a triple, helping Los Angeles take two of three in the series.

Weaver became the first Angels pitcher with 15 strikeouts in a game since May 23, 1995, when Chuck Finley fanned 15 Yankees and pitched a two-hitter in a 10-0 win at the Big A.

"I'm not going out there trying to strike everybody out," Weaver said. "I'm just trying to get a first-pitch fastball over for a strike and trying to get ahead in the count and trying to keep my team in the game. And if it takes a couple of strikeouts here and there, then that's what it's going to take."

Weaver, whose 233 strikeouts last year made him the first Angels pitch-er to lead the big leagues in that category since No-lan Ryan in 1977, faced a team that produced a ma-jor league-best 257 home

runs and fanned seven of his first 10 batters. He beat the Blue Jays for the fifth straight time, improving to 7-1 against them with a 2.68 ERA.

"He hit his spots in and out, hard and soft, and he was hitting the cor-ners with his changeup," Hunter said. "He had 15 strikeouts, so not too many people were going to hit him today."

This is the first time Weaver has won his first three starts of a season since his 2006 rookie cam-paign, when he won his first seven outings and his first nine decisions overall. The six-year veteran has allowed just two earned runs in 20 2-3 innings this season. In 2010, he led the majors with a 1.86 ERA in home games.

The Blue Jays had no hits and two walks through the first 4 1-3 innings be-fore Travis Snider beat out an infield single to the right of second base.

Jo Jo Reyes (0-1) gave up three runs — one earned

— and six hits in seven in-nings with six strikeouts.

Hunter opened the scor-ing with an RBI single in the first. Alberto Callaspo led off the fourth with an infield single back to the box that was too hot for Reyes to handle cleanly, and Mark Trumbo fol-lowed with a fly to center that Davis dropped. Two outs later, Bourjos hit a liner toward the wall in right-center that increased the lead to 3-0.

Davis left in the fifth because of right ankle ir-ritation from a previous injury.

"He's dealing with some lingering effects of the ankle and he's probably going to need a couple or three days," manager John Farrell said. "We need to give him a little time to try to get ahead of it. I don't necessarily think the soreness in the ankle led to that particular play, just because he was able to get himself in position under-neath the ball."

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Crispy GamerSeveral modern shoot-

ers like the “Call of Duty” series, the latest “Medal of Honor,” and now “Battle-field 3” market themselves as the real hardcore deal, as immersive experiences reminiscent of cordite-choked sands.

I spent some time at a firing range with real-life weapons to see how they buck up to their video game counterparts in terms of measurable stats.

AMMO ORGANIZA-TION AND RELOADING

Yes, for obvious reasons auto-ammo organization is just one of those evils needed for gameplay. Is it as easy to reload an actual weapon under fire? In a nice quiet room? Yes. Under normal combat conditions? No.

Even expecting the re-port of a blast, I was still flinching a bit, and that was knowing no one was shoot-ing at me. I know rage (or panic) would be imminent in the case of a jam. Under fire is definitely not the time you’d want anything to stop working.

Picking up extra ammo would be pretty exciting. It would be fantastic to be able to run over a corpse and have those extra maga-zines Velcro onto you au-tomatically. No, this would mean running out into the enemy firing zone (how else did they get hit?), dropping your weapon and rummag-ing through straps and bags for extra ammo. So, no, it’s not as easy.

AIMINGWe really take for grant-

ed the multivariable process undertaken by the left trig-ger (L2 for you PS3 guys).

I especially love the “COD” mechanic of aim-and-re-lease, where aiming is pret-ty automated one target af-ter another. I’ve taken down whole squads in a matter of seconds using that, and I even kind of feel bad when they’re roping down from a helicopter.

On some factors, aim-ing can be easy in reality as well. Opposite the Garand, firing the AR-15 (M16) and AK-47 Tactical (Kalash) - the difference between hard plastics versus solid wood and steel - was a breeze! They’re light and the M16 had a red dot sight while the Kalash had an ACOG.

I even had a mildly ba-dass moment when I blew apart two targets with the Kalash. I can imagine, though, that after hold-ing any heavier weapons awhile and factoring in things like combat fatigue, heat and, of course, being shot at, aiming might not be as easy anymore.

Aiming with pistols was also comparatively as easy. With low kickback and considerably less weight, a steady hand can definitely knock some impressive shots. Though hitting the same spot in succession while rapid firing isn’t quite as easy, though. And yes, I had the chance to fire a Des-ert Eagle. No, I did not du-al-wield them like “COD” because I like my wrists, and no, they’re not practi-cal. It was like shooting the Garand one-handed.

FIRINGAgain, on some points,

shooters were actually accu-rate. Modern weapons have minimal kickback, not like the manhandling Garand.

That results in being able to mark another target quickly after a shot. This also means you can still maintain effec-tive fire at increased rates even on burst firing.

But in terms of firing proficiently, that’s when the details really start to count. You have to main-tain several variables at a constant - at this point, R2 and L2 start to look attrac-tive. Even with experience, I would imagine maintain-ing laser-precise aim in full

auto would be more than a challenge.

The most egregious in-accuracy that occurs in all shooters, though, involves shotguns. There’s a whole generation of gamers who think shotguns are only ef-fective within 10 feet of your target; a weapon only to be used for intimate can-dlelit moments with the en-emy when things get really close and messy.

I’ve been disappointed several times in “Modern Warfare 2” online when getting a clean mark on a target with my Striker, and having it be as effective as a confetti cannon outside a range of about 10 feet. I know buckshot spreads -

but it doesn’t turn into fairy dust, either.

When firing a Mossberg 590 on the range, I was even hitting targets at around 70 feet out. So, yeah, shotguns will hurt and kill at long distances.

The most interesting piece that I came across in researching for this article was a combat firearms re-port card from a Marine named Jordan stationed in Iraq. (The whole report card is available at http://

bit.ly/crispyguns.) The M16 and more recently, the M4, tend to have star-ring roles in most modern shooters, but they really do lack something, according to the report. The M16’s initial jamming problems back in the 1960s are com-mon knowledge now, but it seems those problems have returned with the “talcum powder-like sand” in Iraq. The M4 also suffers from these jamming problems.

Maybe shooters should consider portraying this problem a little more since it is a reality.

COMBATThe technical aspects of

combat, such as the weap-ons themselves and all their

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Pixels and Sandminutiae, were easy enough to research, but when it came down to how actual combat occurs, it was sur-prisingly difficult to find sources at first.

In games, combat takes place on the invisible linear path chock-full of bad guys in large standoffs. It wasn’t until I thought to type in “firefight” in YouTube that I got a real look at honest combat.

Under fire in these vid-eos, troops were always safely in cover and shoot-ing back while calling in support from fly-bys or armor. In video games you see several of your NPC buddies get shot down run-ning from cover to cover. In real-world videos from the front, preserving life seems to be the priority, with ev-eryone safely in cover.

Notable, as well, is the lack of movement. There will be 10-minute spans of video where troops are just hunkered down, safe-ly providing suppressing fire. When have you ever stood in one spot in a FPS for more than two minutes? There is, however, one ex-ceptional video (http://bit.ly/crispyrocket) where a troop runs out of cover to fire a LAW rocket (Note: This video contains actual war footage and may not be for the faint of heart). With frightening joy, when com-pared to the majority of vid-eo, you’ll see this is a very exceptional case, reminis-cent more of online antics than actual trained combat.

On the report card, Jor-dan notes that in the odd large-scale infantry engage-ment, insurgents always get beaten down. Most combat

really occurs in true guerilla tactic, and is the one most responsible for casualties. The most common cause of these is the IED (impro-vised explosive device).

As opposed to the mass organized engagements we see in “Battlefield” and “COD,” actual combat overseas seems to be much more constrained. If any-thing, what we’re presented with echoes more the tradi-tion of large-scale WWII engagements. And no, not once did I see someone jumping onto a helicopter at the last second.

CONCLUSIONAlthough I have sug-

gested that developers take some of these realities into consideration, by no means would I want them to try to get every detail of war ren-dered into 1080p. The core aim of a game is to be a game and provide entertain-ment, and this will always take priority.

War and combat aren’t pretty at all. Shooters some-times like to play on themes of patriotism to add poi-gnancy to the experience, but from what I’ve read and seen from troops, their pri-mary goal is to survive. War has been a necessity in the past, but it also involves a lot of kids dying, so, I’m not sure just how real we’d want our games to get.

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In Theaters: Your HighnessBig budgets and costumes in service of scata-logical jokes may seem funny on paper, but in execution this is a highly monotonous romp

that registers only occasional laughs.

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Dave’s Music ReportIn an era where it is par-

ticularly difficult (nearly impossible) for older acts to maintain any sense of relevance, it seems that touring on a grander scale has become the best way to keep everyone aware of their worth. Sure, album sales can always keep an act in the headlines, but touring is where the money is, and in all honesty, some older acts are outselling current ones by alot.

This past week it was announced that Prince would be continuing his sell-out Welcome 2 Amer-ica tour by adding an un-precedented 21 dates in

Los Angeles (with a major-ity of shows at the Forum). In even bigger news, with a date in Sao Paulo this past Sunday, U2 will offi-cially claim the title of “High-est Grossing Tour of All Time” with their 360 Tour, a record once held by anoth-er old act, the Rolling Stones. With about 20 more shows to go, this re-cord will most likely not be broken again for a long time. Last year, even, the

highest biggest tour was Bon Jovi followed by U2 and AC/DC. Also included in the top-10 were James

Taylor and Carole King, The Eagles, Metallica, Dave Matthews Band, and Paul McCartney. Even in

recent years, Madonna claimed the title of biggest solo tour with her Sticky & Sweet Tour, and Mi-

chael Jackson was gearing up to make serious history with his This Is It Tour.

While artists such as Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, and Katy Perry have been embarking on highly pub-licized world

tours, it seems that they are no match for their legendary peers. In many ways this makes alot

By Dave IannaconeOne for the Old Guysof sense. These other acts have been around longer and have built up huge fan bases. But then again, it’s hard to argue with Lady Gaga’s success and her ability so sell out any ven-ue anywhere. Certainly it’s not the scale of the shows, either. Prince, for exam-ple played four massive sold out dates at Madison Square Garden, and U2 have pretty much played every major venue in the world! So what sets these guys apart? Quite sim-ply, they’re just that good. Even acts such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue, who have maintained relevance

well into their 40’s and be-yond, are still dwarfing the competition with elaborate and show-stopping shows. People just know what’s good.

While many of these art-ists pretty much don’t have a prayer when it comes to top-40 radio (outside of one or two exceptions), with all of their energy fo-cused in touring, it seems that the “old guys” are get-ting the last laugh. They’ll always be big album sell-ers, but when it comes to touring, they’re running away with it.

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Based on the true sto-ry of a young girl named Bethany Hamilton comes an unbelievably motivat-ing film that tells the story of the girl surfer who was attacked by a shark while surfing in the ocean. Only thirteen years old, the main charac-ter, Bethany, overcomes her great fear, af-ter having her arm torn off of her body, just as Hamilton had in 2003, and learns how to do ev-erything all over again.

Working hard at surf-ing up until the accident happened, Hamilton had been training to become a pro-surfer. However, after her arm was removed, she had to face the hard truth. Hamilton then learns how to cope with what she was dealt in life. Though this was a major challenge,

nothing stopped her from doing what many thought was the impossible.

With her caring and supportive family by her side and the many letters written to Bethany from kids all over the country

with the same problem, Hamilton was inspired to get back up and do what she was naturally born to do: be a surfer. She knew that the whole process would not be easy, but she also knew that it needed to be done. As Bethany stated in the film, “I don’t need easy. I just need pos-sible.” This shows how tough she really was and that she wasn’t going to let this hold her back.

Returning to the ocean, Bethany realized how dan-gerous it would be with her condition, but she challenged herself to be-come one of the greatest girl surfers out there once again. Having only one

arm proved to be risky, but she was willing to take that chance once again in order to complete in the regional competition she had previ-ously signed up for.

Though in the movie it only took a few falls and attempts to try again for Bethany to get back on her board and really pull through with those waves; in reality, the real Bethany Hamilton spent a few months learning how

to do everything all over again. During all of the time spent training and re-learning how to manage with only one arm, Ham-ilton learned more about herself and grew as a surf-er and a person.

Hamilton’s youth leader, Sarah Hill, gave Hamil-ton some per-spective and questions to think about, especially the question of “why this had to happen to her?” When Bethany later goes on a trip to Thailand to

help with the tsunami relief and to teach the children there how to surf, she realized that she did not lose everything; in-stead she still had a fight-ing chance.

87% of viewers who voted on rottentomatoes.com enjoyed the movie, many saying that it was an amazing true story and heartwarming. Soul Surfer is a movie for all to enjoy.

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Liana’s Literary CommentaryEveryone has secrets

at Hillcrest Board-ing School. Stacey Brown, however, has the strangest secret of all. Each night, Stacey is afraid to sleep; her recurring nightmares have her waking up in the middle of the night. But these nightmares aren’t just any kind of nightmares…they al-ways involve her room-mate Drea. Stacey has a strong feeling that something terrible is headed Drea’s way, but she has no idea how to stop it, nor can she fig-ure out how to stop the most puzzling effect of her nightmares--the

fact that she wets the bed each time she has them.

Besides her night-mares, Stacey is differ-ent than most 16-year old girls for another reason; she’s a practicing Wiccan. She learned everything from her grandmother; this included everything from spells to potions to card interpretations. But ever since her grand-mother passed, Stacey has felt more alone than ever. She must now rely on her own senses and powers, something she has been very hesitant to do in her life, especially since the last time she ig-nored her dreams, a little girl ended up dead. Now

Stacey is faced with a similar problem, except she’s not quite sure how to handle it.

Creepy messages, strange emails, and phone calls to Drea make Stacey more worried than ever. When Stacey dreams of white lilies and then finds the same lilies in the girls’ bathroom, both girls realize that the stalker is closer than they think. ut while their am-ateur investigations lead them nowhere, another classmate named Veroni-ca ends up getting killed. The girls are now afraid for their lives; Drea can-not help but think that Ve-ronica’s killer was trying

to get to her. At this time, Stacey’s dreams become more intense than ever; she knows the killer is closing in, and she still does not know who it could be. Too many sus-pects, all with aliases or unclear motives, are in question. Their closest friends seem to be hiding something crucial, but are reluctant to say any-thing.

When Drea goes miss-ing, Stacey realizes that she must use her gift and dreams to stop Veronica’s fate from repeating itself. Stacey must suspect ev-eryone, no matter what--even Drea’s boyfriend, Chad, for whom Stacey

By Liana TeixeiraBlue is for Nightmares By Laurie Faria Stolarzhas fostered a passionate crush for years.

The novel truly leaves you in suspense until the very last chapter. You will be question-ing every character, ev-ery sentence, every syl-lable, wondering if it is truth or danger lurking in the shadows for Stacey. Those who enjoy mysti-cal fiction, magic, and mystery will adore this spellbinding novel. The suspenseful plot of the author will leave read-ers learning and guessing until the very end, want-ing to know more beyond the final page.

Stolarz sheds new light on the Wiccan cul-

ture, exposing its his-tory and connections to nature. Those unfa-miliar with Wicca will learn much from this novel in addition to reading its stellar story. Luckily for Laurie Far-ia Stolarz fans, Stacey’s story continues weav-ing this magical dream-filled world through the three sequels: White is for Magic, Silver is for Secrets, and Red is for Remembrance. Read-ers will be pleasantly entertained by these novels.

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