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Lecture: “Gender Circuits”12 to 1:30 p.m.
Student Union, 403
This talk explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals.
Lela Lee Lecture4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Student Union Theater
Lela Lee, creator of Angry Little Girls, will speak about how her books and cartoons were used to address rac-ism and stereotyping.
Building the Leaders of Tomorrow7 to 8 p.m.
School of Business, 106
Vanessa Greaves, SEO Program Manager & Campus Recruiter, gives a lecture on leadership.
The Great Pie Race 5k3 to 5 p.m.
Student Recreational Facility, Front Lawn
All participants will receive a free pie after running this 5k race.
What’s on at UConn today...
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INSIDE NEWS: TEACH FOR AMERICA
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FOCUS/ page 7
No. 4 Huskies host Terriers, look to improve to 14-1 on the season.
EDITORIAL: UCONN STAMFORD BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS BENEFIT ALL
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University pairs students with businesses.
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Matt Gross speaks to stu-dents and faculty about inexpensive travel.
‘A SENSE OF PLACE AND FRUGAL TIPS’
Movie night highlights the problems with public education.
PICK OF THE LITTER
On Oct. 1, the University of Connecticut’s School of Nursing honored seven alumni for their exceptional contributions to the future of human health through their endeavors in the field of nursing.
The alumni were honored at the UConn School of Nursing’s annual Reflections of Excellence dinner and awards ceremony.
“All of our award recipients have demonstrated academic and clinical excellence,” said Regina Cusson, interim dean of UConn’s School of Nursing, in introducing the awardees. “But this excel-lence is only one aspect of the accomplishments of these multi-talented people.”
The awards recipients had a wide and diverse variety of accomplishments across the nurs-ing field.
Christine Walsh Meehan received a Carolyn Ladd Widmer Outstanding Alumni for Leadership in Nursing Award. Walsh Meehan is the CEO and founder of CADImplant, Inc,
which is a minimally invasive alternative to dental implant sur-gery. Walsh Meehan is also on the Board of HealthTalker LLC, and is an “angel” investor in medi-cal device companies and with GoldenSeeds, an investor group that provides growth capital to women entrepreneurs across all sectors.
Also among the honorees was Patricia Bouffard, who received a Josephine A. Dolan Distinguished Service Award. Bouffard is the Chief Academic and Student Affairs Officer for Northwestern Connecticut Community College and Chair of the Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing. Bouffard is a board mem-ber of the Connecticut Nurses’ Foundation and a member of the Connecticut Nurses’ Association Finance Committee. Dr. Bouffard received her MS from UConn in 1979.
Nancy Fishman, who received her B.S. from UConn in 1981, also received a Josephine A. Dolan Distinguished Service Award. Fishman is the Senior Program Officer in the Research and Evaluation Unit of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. Fishman is the program offi-cer for many different grants focused around increased com-munity capacity for long-term care for the elderly. She formerly served as a research specialist at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health.
Dorothy Trebisacci was also among the awardees, receiving the Eleanor K. Gill Outstanding Alumni Award for Clinical Excellence in Nursing. Trebisacci recently retired as the nurse consultant in the Newborn Genetic Screening Program at the Connecticut Department of Health. Previously, she served as the clinical coordinator at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Unit at Middlesex Hospital. Trebisacci made an impact as the director and coordinator of the Connecticut Child Care Health Consultants, as well as a Healthy Child Care America contact. She is renowned and highly regard-ed for ensuring proper protocol during the process of newborn
By Cara HarveyCampus Correspondent
UConn School of Nursing honors seven alumni
At noon on Tuesday, a room full of faculty and undergradu-ates were treated to lunch and a discussion with Victor Schacter, noted expert on alternative dispute resolution, and Laila Ollapally, mediator and senior coordinator at Bangalore Mediation Center in Bangalore, India.
The lunch, presented by the University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute and UConn’s India Studies program, discussed bur-geoning internship opportunities in addition to presenting mediation – a method of resolving disputes through third-party negotiation – as a concept at the forefront of a national human rights initiative.
“These are basic, fundamen-tal human rights issues,” said Schachter, a UConn alumnus.
The Bangalore Mediation Center, for which Schachter served as project director, helps Indians rectify quarrels in mat-ters of family, property, and business, among others. Arising
from a national necessity to set-tle more than a quarter-century’s worth of backlogged legal bat-tles, Indian legislators ruled in favor of institutionalized media-tion some years ago.
“So many judges believe justice is only served [in terms of] right and wrong,” Ollapally said.
This judicial paradigm, imposed upon a radically diverse India dur-ing British Colonial rule, is not in keeping with the traditional Indian way, insisted the two mediators. Both have decades of experience as successful attorneys.
“Interesting solutions come only when there is no adjudication,” Ollapally said. She later lament-ed the fact that so many lawyers “only see the facts of [their] case.”
In the interest of illustrating her point, Ollapally relayed two para-bles. In one, three boys fight over a flute – one made the flute, the other can play it beautifully, and the third simply does not have a toy of his own. Ollapally outlined a Western judicial conception of the issue – in terms of libertarian, utilitarian and egalitarian view-
points – before revealing an alter-native perspective.
“There is no right or wrong answer,” she said. The mediator was adamant that compromises could be made with more insight.
In another parable, two girls fight over one orange, and their mother cuts the orange in half. It seems fair, but Ollapally argues otherwise. If the mother had explored the real interests of the girls, she may have found out that one wanted only the skin, and the other wanted the juice. In situa-tions like this, both parties would have left completely satisfied.
Schachter recounted one of their center’s most impressive real-life victories – resolving a 24-year marriage dispute in a matter of six hours.
“We bring parties together to find solutions,” he said, to sum-marize. “That’s the beauty of the system.”
When describing the BMC internship program, which has yet to begin taking applications, the mediators presented the positions as invigorating and vital to the
center’s progression.“This is for someone want-
ing more than just work and the almighty buck,” Schachter said. “There’s no more powerful way [to fight for human rights] than by helping to resolve such per-sonal disputes.” He later stated that acceptance this process was almost certainly “the only way peaceful resolution can be
reached” in a global context.“The mediator plays many roles
– as maverick, doctor, police-man…” Ollapally said.
Richard Wilson, UConn HRI director, seemed to agree.
“I think [what we really need is] a TV show called ‘Maverick Mediator,” he said, to laughter.
Human Rights Institute and India Studies program host lunch
Students will have the opportu-nity today to donate one or two flex passes at any of the eight dining hall units from 4:15 to 7:15 p.m. to help local causes through the Give-A-Meal program sponsored by UConn Dining Services, UConn PIRG and Community Outreach.
Dining Services will donate $2.50 for each swipe, the estimated raw cost of food for a meal. The proceeds will be donated to the local Covenant Soup Kitchen, the No Freeze Project in Willimantic, and the UConn Community Outreach Alternative Winter Break.
Forty percent of the funds will be donated to the Covenant Soup Kitchen to help feed the impover-ished, 30 percent will be donated to the No Freeze Project to offer shelter to the homeless and 30 percent will be donated to UConn Community Outreach to help fund transportation for their winter relief alternative break trip.
“They [the causes that receive donations from Give-A-Meal]
rely so much on this and they always express their gratitude,” said Dennis Pierce, director of the UConn Department of Dining Services. “These guys are really counting on it.”
During the spring 2011 semes-ter, the Give-A-Meal program raised $12,775 to aid earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan and typically raises about $25,000 annually, Pierce said.
“Our primary concern is to help the local community, and only when a major catastrophe occurs do we sway from donating to the community,” Pierce said.
The Covenant Soup Kitchen provided 120,000 meals with the proceeds from Give-A-Meal last year, said Paul Doyle, director of the Covenant Soup Kitchen. 55,000 meals were used in the soup kitchen program and 65,000 were used in their emergency pantry program. The soup kitchen program provides breakfast and lunch seven days a week and the emergency food program supplies families with food to prepare at home.
UConn Community Outreach is partnered with the Covenant Soup Kitchen and students from Community Outreach regularly volunteer there. Community Outreach promotes the Give-A-Meal program by creating posters around campus and alerting the student body of the event.
“The program [Give-A-Meal] is a great way to give back to the community by support-ing students getting involved in community projects and helping low-income families,” said Gina Devivo Brassaw, senior program coordinator of UConn Community Outreach.
The donations from Give-A-Meal help offset the cost of the Community Outreach winter relief trip to Birmingham, Ala. where students and staff will provide ser-vices to aid in the relief of low-income families affected by torna-dos and other disasters.
Between 15 and 20 ConnPIRG volunteers will be located at the dining halls tabled in the lobbies and working with the dining hall staff, according to Marc Walsh,
ConnPIRG campus coordinator. Students will be offered the oppor-tunity to donate one or two flex passes when they are swiped into the dining hall.
UConn Dining Services operates as a separate entity from UConn and does not receive funding from the university or the state. The flex pass system employed in the Give-A-Meal program serves as a ‘coun-ter’ with each flex alerting Dining Service to donate $2.50, Pierce said. More students donating their
flex passes means more money donated to local community relief efforts by Dining Services.
By swiping your card one or two extra times at one of the dining halls between 4:15 and 7:15 p.m. you can contribute to legitimate relief causes, assist in the aid of families whose homes have been destroyed by natural disasters and help provide meals to local low-income families.
A student swipes into the Northwest Dining Hall. Swipes such as these will now donate $2.50 through the Give-A-Meal program.
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By Kimberly WilsonStaff Writer
By Joe KatzCampus Correspondent
Laila Ollapally, mediator and senior coordinator at Bangalore Mediation Center, gives a speech to UConn students on Tuesday.
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Give-A-Meal program donates money
» ALUMNI, page 3
Residence halls across cam-pus will be participating in “Eco-Madness” for the next four weeks. Students living in Buckley, Shippee, Northwest, Towers, West and East will compete until Nov. 13 to con-serve energy and water. Other residence halls, however, don’t have the resources needed to participate.
Individual buildings will compete separately to win a free ice cream party, and a water or energy offset certifi-cate.
The competition is broken down into four categories: the highest reduction of energy, the highest reduction of water, the lowest per capita usage of energy and the lowest per capita usage of water. Eco-Madness Coordinator and Office of Environmental Policy intern Katie Kelleher antici-pates “Eco-House,” which is West Campus’ Hollister Hall,
will thrive in the competition, but still encourages other halls to step up to the challenge.
This is Kelleher’s first year organizing the competi-tion, but it has been an annual occurrence at UConn since 2006.
“It’s expanded since then,” Kelleher said.
Last year, a fifth category was added: the lowest overall usage of water and energy.
Data on participating build-ings’ daily water and energy consumption was collected before the competition began on Monday. The normal daily usage per person was averaged and will be compared to the daily usage during competi-tion. Statistics will be updat-ed regularly to keep students motivated.
Last year, Eco-Madness saved approximately 294,298 gallons of water and approxi-mately 19.3 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being
By Elizabeth BowlingCampus Correspondent
» ECO-CAPTAINS, page 2
Eco-Madness comes to UConn
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(AP) — As of Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at least 4,478 mem-bers of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action.At least 3,525 military personnel died as a result of hostile
action, according to the military’s numbers.The AP count is three fewer than the Defense Department’s
tally, last updated Monday at 10 a.m. EDT.Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 32,213
U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department’s weekly tally.
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,478
MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said Tuesday his agency deported nearly 400,000 people during the fiscal year that just ended in September.
Morton announced the numbers in Washington, saying they were the largest in the agency’s history.
ICE said about 55 percent of the 396,906 individuals deported had felony or misdemeanor convictions. Officials said the number of individuals convicted of crimes was up 89 percent from 2008.
Officials could not immediately say how many of those crimes related just to previous immigration violations. Individuals can be convicted of a felony just for returning to the U.S. or being found in the U.S. after the government orders them to leave.
Among those deported were more than 1,000 people convicted of homicide. Another 5,800 were sexual offenders, and about 80,000 people convicted of drug related crimes or driving under the influ-ence.
US deports record number of immigrants in year
GREENWICH (AP) — More than 100 students at a Greenwich middle school are stepping forward to support their principal, who is off the job while administrators review allegations she faced 15 years ago as a daycare provider.
Shelley Somers surrendered her daycare license and closed her Granby facility in 1996 after she was accused of leaving a sleeping toddler alone in a van for 45 minutes.
The incident came to light when the Greenwich Time forwarded an old article to administrators, who placed Somers on paid leave from her job at Central Middle School.
More than 150 students recently signed a letter and online petition supporting Somers, and a few dozen staged a walkout Tuesday morn-ing at the school. They say the old incident has no bearing on her performance today, which they highly praised.
Greenwich students support embattled principal
MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent cell phone bill: she owed $201,000.
It was no mistake.Celina Aarons has her two brothers on her plan. They are deaf
and cannot speak, so the easiest way for them to communicate is by texting. Normally, that’s not a problem. Aarons has a data plan that usually costs about $175.
But her brothers spent two weeks in Canada and Aarons never changed to an international plan. Her brothers sent over 2,000 texts and also downloaded videos, sometimes racking up $2,000 in data charges.
T-Mobile told Aarons the bill was correct. She called Miami TV station WSVN, which contacted T-Mobile. The station reports that T-Mobile cut Aarons’ bill to $2,500 and gave her six months to pay.
Fla. woman shocked by $200,000 cell phone bill
Alleged drug gang leader arrested in Acapulco
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican federal police say they have detained the leader of a drug gang locked in a bloody battle for control of the resort city of Acapulco.
The Public Safety Department says Christian Arturo Hernandez Tarin was detained Tuesday in the central state of Mexico. The department says in a statement that Tarin led a gang known as “the street sweeper.”
Hernandez’s gang has been fighting against the local Independent Cartel of Acapulco for control of the Pacific coast city since the 2010 arrest of suspected drug capo Edgar Valdez Villareal, known as “La Barbie.”
The department said both groups broke away from Valdez’s orga-nization because they didn’t like the group’s new leader, sparking a wave of violence that has terrorized people in Acapulco.
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Both UConn and local librarians filled Konover Auditorium as Char Booth, scholar- l ibrar ian and Instruction Services Manager at Claremont Colleges, lec-tured on “The Library as Indicator Species: Evolution or Extinction,” yesterday.
Booth’s presentation focused on the evolution of libraries, the effects of today’s tumultuous economic climate and rapidly chang-ing technology as indicators of a library’s changing role. The lecture, sponsored by the UConn Libraries Forum, allowed attendees to engage in conversation about the changing meaning of libraries and their evolving role in the digital era.
“I would like to thank the libraries forum team for this presentation today,” said Brinley Franklin, Vice Provost of UConn Libraries. “It is really a pleasure to wel-come Char Booth to UConn today. She gives a lot of pre-sentations and is definitely ahead of her time.”
Booth opened her lecture with a question.
“What do libraries mean nowadays and how are they evolving?” Booth asked.
She addressed some of the issues affecting libraries under the present economic
and technological climate. She emphasized the current economic disparity as having a negative impact on libraries in recent years, and how the internet has forced libraries to evolve.
“For all libraries it is a time of budgeting shortcuts, layoffs and closings, but also a time of profound creativ-ity and innovation in trying to deal with these changes,” Booth said.
She then gave a brief intro-duction on the actual defini-tion and the core concept of a library. Booth argued that although the definition of a library is a “building or room containing information,” it is much more than that. Booth said that libraries are defined by their content and are only useful when used. That being said, libraries become cultural institutions and not just col-lections of information.
“Libraries serve communi-ties and institutions, and act as a learning process by engage-ment through continued use. They are cultural icons that give us profound memories,” Booth said.
She proved this concept by engaging the audience with a series of questions.
“Close your eyes and remem-ber your first experience in a library. What did you see and how did you feel? Booth asked. Also, what is your first memory of a librarian?”
Many in attendance vividly
recalled their childhood expe-riences in their local libraries and their memories of their first librarian. Booth empha-sized the importance librar-ians have on children and how libraries can have an impact on youth. She also said that libraries become the staple of a community and are the cul-tural heart of any large city.
“My first experiences in a library, like many of you, were when I was really young, and those experiences fos-tered my continued interest in libraries,” Booth said.
She then discussed how librar-ies have evolved because of tech-nological innovations and the means through which informa-tion can be stored and received.
“The first biggest change to libraries was the evolution of the catalog card to a digital database,” Booth said. “The old catalog system is no longer even a memory for younger users. Also, when microfilm first came out, many said it would be the downfall of librar-ies, now it has already been replaced by digitalization.”
Booth then referenced an article entitled, “We Lose Libraries at Our Peril,” which she attested to be wholeheart-edly true. She mentioned the three biggest library losses: destruction, decline and dis-placement, as having the larg-est impact affecting libraries.
“The 20th century was the most destructive century for libraries, mostly due to WWI
and WWII,” Booth said.She ended her lecture by
arguing that although some libraries might be closing, they are not becoming an ‘extinct species.’ Booth said that much like an ‘Indicator Species’ in science, which is defined as any organism that indicates a trait or charac-teristic of the environment, libraries are also a telling sign of the times. She stressed that the meaning of librar-ies is changed and offered some creative ideas to help re-define the role libraries have.
“None of this is rocket sci-ence, but the accumulation of different innovations and creative ideas on engaging as many people as possible, are trying to re-define the librar-ies role,” Booth said. “Right now we are in a financial downturn. However, we are also in the midst of a revo-lution on how people view libraries. The important thing to realize is that libraries have always adapted and will con-tinue to evolve to the chang-ing times.”
“The presentation today was a very passionate, heart-felt talk on why libraries matter,” said Joel Atkinson, Evening and Weekend Librarian at Homer Babbidge Library. “It drew a good combination of librarians with a vision for the future.”
By Stephen UnderwoodCampus Correspondent
Lecture explains evolution of libraries
Yesterday, Teach for America, in coordination with UConn Career Services, held an evening event in the Center for Undergraduate Education. From 6:30-7 p.m., there was a meet-and-greet in the atrium of CUE, immedi-ately followed by a showing of the movie “Waiting for Superman” and a discussion of the movie until 8 p.m.
The movie demonstrat-ed well the serious ways in which the American public education system is failing the children of this country. “Waiting for Superman” also explores the possibilities for the future that charter schools and education reformers may offer. The documentary was created by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim to reveal the obvious shortcomings – stu-dents dropping out, test scores falling in math and science, and schools closing because of lack of funding – of the public school system. The movie stressed the fact that America used to be a model for education, but has since
been surpassed by many other countries.
“Waiting for Superman” focuses on five students who deserve an education that right now they do not have. Guggenheim reveals the prob-lems and also offers possible solutions that could lead to improvement and reforma-tion.
The documentary was a per-fect advertisement for Teach for America, a nonprofit, philanthropic organization that works to raise awareness of the inequity in the pub-lic school system. It believes every child deserves a great education and works to pro-vide an excellent education for children in low-income communities.
Teach for America was cre-ated 20 years ago and now has over 33,000 teachers employed around the coun-try. The program offers the opportunity for recent gradu-ates looking for alternative options in education.
“They are trained over the summer as teachers and are placed for two years in areas around the country,” said Laura Newbury from Career Services.
Career Services co-host-
ed the event with Teach for America, introducing the organization and opportunity to students on campus.
“I’m an intern for Teach for America; we’re officially called campus campaign coor-dinators, and we’re always trying to raise awareness,” said Jen Vitkus, a senior who attended the event. She and two other campus campaign coordinators, Brenda Rivera and Grace Collins, also seniors, are all in the appli-cation process for next year, when they will become teach-ers in impoverished areas around the country.
“Once you find out about the achievement gap, it’s hard not to get involved,” Collins said.
“We can’t teach right now, but being interns is a great way to be involved,” Vitkus said.
A representative from the Teach for America branch on campus who ran the event shared more information about the organization.
“I taught English for two years in Houston, and joined [Teach for America] three months ago,” said Anthony Wilson, a recruiter with Teach for America. “I’ve been meet-
ing amazing students who are doing crazy, great things.”
“We’re trying to create a new curriculum, where the bottom third of the class can become the top third,” Wilson said.
On Oct. 28 and Nov. 9, there will be panels featuring the Peace Corps, City Year and Teach for America, where alumni will talk about their experiences in the programs and how they helped their current work. The panels will also discuss how students can access other such philanthrop-ic programs.
The documentary shown exemplified the work being done by Teach for America. The program offers the oppor-tunity to a very diverse group of graduates who wish to help, while at the same time creat-ing future leaders.
Evidence has shown that over 15 million children suf-fer from the challenges of poverty, but at the same time, it shows that they can excel if given the chance. Teach for America simply wants to offer them this chance.
Teach for America hosts movie nightBy Christine PetersonCampus Correspondent
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emitted.Kelsey Jones, a senior liv-
ing in Northwest Quad said, “I’m excited for the events this month.” She, as well as
all other Northwest residents, received an e-mail titled, “Can You Do It In The Dark???” prompting students to turn off their lights as often as possible in an effort to conserve energy.
In addition to the upcoming
events, “Eco-Captains” will help keep students motivated. Each hall will have a leader whose job it is to encourage residents to continue conserv-ing. Anyone can apply to be an Eco-Captain by e-mailing
[email protected] with their interest. More information on this year’s Eco-Madness can be found at www.ecohusky.uconn.edu.
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UConn students participate in Eco-Madness
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BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO said Tuesday it is considering ending its bombing campaign in Libya but the decision must consider the threat pro-Moammar Gadhafi fighters still pose to civilians.
Some have speculated that the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s top decision-making body, will declare an end to the 7-month-old Libyan operation when it meets Wednesday.
But a diplomat said France and Britain have insisted that the bombing campaign continue until Libya’s new authorities are able to assume responsibility for security nationwide. The diplomat spoke on condition of ano-nymity, given the sensitivity of the matter.
“We are very close to the end, but there are still threats to the civilian population,” NATO spokesman Carmen Romero said Tuesday.
NATO warplanes have flown more than 9,500 strike sorties since the air attacks began March 19. They were initially conducted by a U.S.-led coalition, including
France and Britain, but were taken over by the alliance at the end of March.
Still, only eight of NATO’s 28 states took part in the actu-al strikes. Some diplomats expressed frustration at what they saw as an unnecessary dis-traction from NATO’s main mis-sion — the war in Afghanistan.
Western leaders initial-ly expected the Libyan air campaign to last just a few weeks. But despite being con-stantly pummeled from the air, Gadhafi’s forces demon-strated unexpected resilience, forcing the alliance to repeat-edly extend the campaign.
With armed opposition to the new Libyan authorities now limited to only a few towns, the alliance has scaled back the airstrikes, conduct-ing an average of 15 a day in comparison to about 70 to 80 a day at the height of the campaign this summer.
Romero said the decision on ending the operation will be taken after the North Atlantic Council conducts a “careful and comprehensive” political and military analysis of the security situation.
NATO nearing decision to end Libya operation
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) — A judge on Tuesday agreed to let an accused Syrian spy serve home detention while he awaits trial, despite vigorous government objections that the man is a flight risk and a danger.
Mohamad Soueid, 47, of Virginia, was arrested last week on charges that he illegally moni-tored the activities of Syrian dis-sidents in the U.S. who oppose the regime of President Bashar Assad. The Assad government has been brutally suppressing a popular uprising in the country over the past several months.
Also on Tuesday, Soueid’s lawyer he misspoke when he said in court on Monday that Soueid traveled to Syria as part of a del-egation led by Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
The magistrate judge’s ruling in U.S. District Court does not mean that Soueid will immedi-ately go free. Prosecutors gave immediate notice of their plans to appeal, and the magistrate delayed implementing his order so that a district court judge can make a final decision.
U.S. Magistrate Judge T. Rawles Jones also expressed doubts about the significance of the government’s case, say-ing that at worst Soueid is “the lowest of low-level operatives.”
“There is no evidence that he is a trained operative,” Jones said.
During a hearing Monday,
Faraj had told the judge in court and reporters outside the court-house that Soueid was a mem-ber of Kucinich’s fact-finding mission to Syria. Kucinich immediately denied it, and said he doesn’t know Soueid.
“I do not know who he is. Whoever he is, it sounds like he has a serious problem with the truth,” Kucinich said Monday in a statement.
Prosecutors also said Tuesday that Soueid was not part of that delegation, which Faraj con-firmed.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, asserted in Tuesday’s hearing that Soueid is a skilled Syrian operative who could easily flee the country despite a require-ment that he submit to electron-ic monitoring while on home detention.
Prosecutor Dennis Fitzpatrick said Soueid has been caught in multiple lies, denying to the FBI that he met with Syrian offi-cials even when they had pho-tographic evidence of Soueid shaking hands with Assad.
Fitzpatrick said the surveil-lance conducted by Soueid is a real danger to the dissidents who are monitored, because the Syrian government regularly exacts revenge on its opponents and subjects them to intimida-tion.
“I think we need to assume he is an arm of that government,”
Fitzpatrick said.Faraj, meanwhile, argued
that it’s ludicrous to think that Soueid’s alleged activi-ties, which consisted primarily of videotaping and recording anti-Assad protests in the U.S., would be of any value to Syrian intelligence. Such videos are readily available on YouTube, Faraj said, so the Syrian gov-ernment would not need to send one of its spies out to retrieve the same information.
Prosecutors also presented
testimony from FBI agent Rick Evanchec, who said a confi-dential source in the Syrian embassy reported that Soueid received a payment from the embassy in August.
Faraj said the allegation comes from a paid FBI infor-mant and is unreliable.
Faraj acknowledged Tuesday that Soueid has generally pos-itive views about the Assad regime, but said that doesn’t equate to him being an agent for Syrian intelligence.
Accused Syrian spy free on bail
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Attorney, depicts Mohamad Soueid, left, of Leesburg, Va., meeting this summer with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
AP
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Kristine Nordlie Williams is the current Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Nursing and associ-ate scientist in the Gerontology Center at the University of Kansas’ Life Span Institute. Dr. Williams received the Marlene Kramer Outstanding Alumni Award for Research in Nursing. Dr. Williams recently complet-ed an NIH study, “Elderspeak: Impact on Dementia Care,” which analyzed the communi-cation between residents with dementia and the nursing staff.
Jeanne Watson Driscoll, the most recent graduate of the honorees, receiving her Ph.D. from UConn in 2004, received the Beverly Koerner Outstanding Alumni Award for Education in Nursing. Jeanne Watson Driscoll is president and owner of JWD Associates, Inc. and a mem-ber of the Mica Collaborative in Wellesley, Mass. She is the co-author of Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide, which received Book of the Year in 2006 from American Journal of Nursing. She was also appoint-
ed to the President’s Advisory Council of Postpartum Support International.
Marylouise Welch has received multiple degrees from UConn, including her M.S. from UConn’s Nursing School in 1980, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1990. Dr. Welch received a Beverly Koerner Oustanding Alumni Award for Education in Nursing. She is heav-ily involved with global health curricula and study abroad experiences, and has received numerous awards from other organizations. Most recently, she was named the 2010 Health Care Hero from the Hartford Business Journal. Dr. Welch is the Professor Emerita of Nursing at St. Joseph College in West Hartford.
“While we have come to expect academic excellence, let us not forget that it is total excellence, or the well-round-ed individual, who potentially brings those accomplishments for the betterment of society,” said Regina Cusson, interim dean of the UConn School of Nursing.
Alumni recognized by School of NursingMITZPE HILA, Israel (AP)
— Gaunt and pale, Israeli sol-dier Gilad Schalit returned home Tuesday after more than five years in captivity, freed in a lopsided exchange for hun-dreds of Palestinian prisoners that could greatly complicate Mideast peace prospects and strengthen the Islamic militant Hamas.
The swap set off massive celebrations in Israel and the Palestinian territories, where crowds in Gaza called for more kidnappings of soldiers, chant-ing: “The people want a new Gilad!”
The 25-year-old Schalit’s poor condition, a jarring appear-ance by masked Hamas men during his release and the pros-pects of a strengthened Hamas bode poorly for future rela-tions between Israel and the Palestinians.
By winning the release of hundreds of militants accused in notorious suicide bombings of the Palestinian uprising a decade ago, Hamas reinforced its message that Palestinian goals are advanced most effec-tively through violent struggle, and not the moderate approach of diplomacy favored by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
“Israel was forced to pay the price,” Hamas’ supreme lead-er, Khaled Mashaal, boasted in a meeting in Egypt, where he greeted 40 freed prisoners who were immediately sent into exile under the terms of their release.
To Israelis, the return of a young man whose plight had become a national obsession brought a welcome lift. But for many, especially the family of victims who had lost relatives in Palestinian violence, it carried a bitter taste of justice denied.
After being hidden from pub-lic view since his capture five and half years ago, Schalit — the first captive Israeli soldier to return home alive in a generation — was whisked early Tuesday across Gaza’s border by a group of armed Hamas militants.
A brief video released by Egyptian TV showed the young sergeant wearing a baseball cap and gray shirt, surrounded by Gaza militants with black face masks and green headbands who then handed him over to Egyptian mediators.
Before he was turned over to Israeli officials, Schalit spoke to Egyptian TV in an interview while masked militants milled around and Hamas’ No. 2 leader, Musa Abu Marzouk, hovered nearby.
Israeli officials called the
interview “shocking.”Looking wan and uncomfort-
able, Schalit appeared to struggle to speak at times, and his breath-ing was noticeably labored as he answered questions asked through an interpreter.
Stumbling over his words, he spoke in Hebrew of missing his family and friends, said he feared he would remain in captivity “many more years” and worried that the deal might fall through after learning about it last week.
At times, the questions seemed awkward and even inappropri-ate.
Noting that more than 4,000 Palestinians are still imprisoned in Israel, the interviewer asked: “Will you help campaign for their release?”
After a long pause, Shalit replied: “I would be really happy that (Palestinian prison-ers) are freed, but they shouldn’t go back to fighting Israel.” Then he added: “I really hope that this deal advances peace and not more military conflicts and wars between Israel and the Palestinians.”
Later, video released by the Israeli military showed Schalit being helped into a military vehicle for the crossing into Israel, then exiting after chang-ing into a fresh army uniform
with the newly promoted rank of sergeant first class.
Military officials said a physi-cal exam had found him to be in “good” condition, though he showed signs of malnutrition; his father later said his son was suffering from shrapnel wounds apparently sustained during his capture as well as psychologi-cal scars.
In Schalit’s hometown, the tiny village of Mitzpe Hila in northern Israel, thousands of people filled streets and roof-tops to welcome him home, waving flags, uncorking cham-pagne, singing and dancing.
“This is so exciting it warms the heart. No one could imag-ine such a happy ending,” said Atalia Rosenfeld, a well-wisher. “It reinforces my faith in this country.”
Schalit was captured by Hamas-linked militants in a cross-border raid in June 2006, then dragged to the Gaza Strip. He was kept in isolation, barred from having visitors and seen only once, in a scripted video released by his captors two years ago to prove he was alive.
Israeli pressure, including an economic blockade and a fierce military offensive in the weeks after his capture, failed to win his release.
Israeli soldier emerges from 5 years of captivity
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According to President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
every American now has the right to “preventative” health care, which includes contraceptive services and sterilization. Even if one ignores the perverse treatment here of newly created life – that it’s being
considered a health prob-lem requiring prevention – this provision
of the law does not hold up to constitutional scrutiny.
Per new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, private insurance plans will soon be required to provide contraception and sterilization coverage without co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible. Plan B and ella, drugs that can induce abortion, are also mandated under the law. The changes will shift the entire cost of those services to the employer, irrespective of any objec-tions that organization might have.
The problem is that some employers, like the Roman Catholic Church, have very real and princi-pled objections to abortion and the use of artificial birth control. They consider both to be violations of natural law – abortion the destruc-tion of a unique human life, and
artificial birth control a splintering of both the unitive and procreative dimensions of sexual morality. By imposing on the church a forced purchase of services it deems incompatible with God’s wishes; the Obama regime is disrespecting the fundamental right of religious liberty.
Religious liberty is enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and in the Declaration of Independence. “Congress shall make no law…prohibiting the free exercise” of religion. In the Declaration, man is endowed by a creator with the unalienable right of liberty, best defined by John Stuart Mill as freedom from coercion. The Affordable Care Act is a coercive measure; it forces churches and other groups to shun their own consciences or face oppressive pen-alties. If a Roman Catholic hospital decides to stop offering insurance as a result of the birth control order, it will be fined $2,000 per employee by the regime.
John Locke, an Enlightenment writer whose ideas inspired the American founding, once wrote of government meddling in religion that “to impose such things, there-fore, upon any people, contrary to their own judgment, is in effect to command them to offend God, which, considering that the end of all religion is to please Him, and
that liberty is essentially necessary to that end, appears to be absurd beyond expression.”
Locke knew it was wrong for the state to endorse a religion, and just as wrong for the government to cur-tail conscience and religious liberty. Thomas Jefferson, who was influ-enced by Locke’s philosophy, also had strong opinions on the matter. He authored the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in 1786, and lambasted the authorities who assumed power over the faith of others.
One need not wonder how Jefferson would have felt about the Affordable Care Act clause mandat-ing that employers – even churches – now have to pay for contraceptive counseling.
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyranni-cal,” he wrote.
The Affordable Care Act does have a narrow religious exemp-tion from the mandates, but it is weak and incapable of protecting conscience rights. Unlike the IRS, which offers a broad exemption to churches, Obama only exempts organizations that employ and serve people who share their own religious values. His law places undue constraints on religious groups that pride themselves on
helping not just their own mem-bers, but people from different faiths as well. This toothless exemption encourages religious discrimination by creating internal debate where none would other-wise exist.
A Jewish community center must now consider the question, “Do we stop letting people of other faiths swim in our pool, or agree to fund sterilization in our health plans?” This question isn’t absurd; it is the new reality made pos-sible by Obama’s insistence on encroachment of religious liberty.
Thankfully, at least one promi-nent religious leader is pub-licly objecting to Obama’s lib-erty-depriving health care policy. Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has formed an ad hoc committee on religious liberty in order to “form a united and forceful front in defense of religious freedom in our nation.”
Dolan gets it. Obama does not. The fate of religious liberty in America will depend on whether foundational freedoms retain their special place in our national identi-ty. Citizens must say no to the over-reach, and yes to first principles.
Editorial Board Melanie Deziel, Editor-in-Chief
Arragon Perrone, Commentary EditorRyan Gilbert, Associate Commentary EditorMichelle Anjirbag, Weekly Columnist
Tyler McCarthy, Weekly ColumnistJesse Rifkin, Weekly Columnist
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This weekend’s lesson: trash can fires are a great hindrance to watching “South Park.”
Thus began the first-ever InstantDaily.
That one-liner greeted UConn in The Daily Campus com-
mentary section on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004. The newspaper was never quite the same again.
By anony-mously publish-ing instant mes-sages submitted by students, the InstantDaily has since skyrocketed to being the news-
paper’s most popular feature. While trac-ing its history, I learned a valuable lesson: never fear creating something unique in life, no matter what the risk.
The feature’s concept originated from Commentary Editor Daniel Maxwell and Associate Commentary Editor Colin Megill. Since attending UConn, their paths diverged. Megill is now a high school social studies teacher in Washington and Maxwell is now an Army 1st Lt. stationed in Afghanistan. Last week, I spoke to both.
“The popularity of instant messenger exploded for virtually every college stu-dent at that time,” Maxwell said. “I’m from Newtown, which falls under the local newspaper the Danbury News-Times. They had a column called ‘What Do You Say?’ It printed what callers said on an answering machine at the newspaper.”
However, transcribing phone messages seemed inefficient. “The idea to pair up phone messaging with instant messages
came from photographer Brett [Mickelson]. Going through the copy editing process, it was totally easy to just copy and paste mes-sages right into that box.”
All that remained was the title. “[Editor-in-Chief] Diana [Flynn] had the idea for the name itself. I was going for something more along the lines of ‘Husky Talk,’” Maxwell said. “I never thought the name flowed very well. But it caught on, so I didn’t really care.”
On Monday, Sept. 27, 2004, the news-paper introduced the feature alongside an explanatory message entitled “What am I seeing on page four? A note from the edi-tor.”
“Welcome to the new appearance of the Commentary Section, which includes an experimental addition called the ‘InstantDaily’ column,” the message began. “The InstantDaily is The Daily Campus’ adaptation of a message board for all those readers either too timid for an all-out letter to the editor or simply with a short, random thought on his or her mind. Whereas letters to the editor should be considerably longer in length and reflect upon recent mate-rial in The Daily Campus, the InstantDaily should be concise. It can be witty, sarcastic, insightful or serious – and pertain to any-thing out of the blue.”
That initial day’s entries were by Daily Campus staff to exemplify desired submis-sions. The opening line spoofed the upcom-ing presidential election – “John Kerry is a lot like Budweiser: not the best beer money can buy, but certainly better than Bush.”
“At first, people didn’t necessarily get the formatting. The things they put in were too long,” Megill said. “Also, it didn’t really catch on that you could do it yet, or that yours would be accepted.” What changed? “There came pretty quickly a general pres-tige of getting one in, and that was fun.
Once that happened, it took off.”Megill became commentary editor the
following year and recognized the feature’s power. “What I thought at the time was the great potential of the InstantDaily as an outlet, because we got a lot of venting,” Megill recalled. “For me, it was a privilege to be able to publish [such comments]… because it was demonstrative of public opinion at that time, and it felt good to get that out there.”
Maxwell echoed this sentiment, recall-ing one incident in particular. “[Dining Services] started changing meal plans, tak-ing away basic rights that everybody had taken for granted. Students were so angry that we actually ran a full page text window to print the responses in.”
I find profoundness in Maxwell and Megill’s recollections. Intended as merely light-hearted amusement, their creation snowballed beyond their wildest imagina-tions. When the feature began, less than a dozen submissions arrived daily. Now, several dozens do. What was intended as “basically another comic strip” (Megill’s words) became utilized for student protest. The voiceless had gained voices.
The moral: never fear creating something unique in life, no matter the risks. The InstantDaily has transcended mere enter-tainment. It has become a necessity.
“So that should explain our newest addi-tion,” concluded the 2004 introductory message. “Please, feel free to send your thoughts at any time. The column will print as often as possible, and with the support of our loyal readers, it will overflow every morning with your ideas for the eyes of all.”
InstantDaily: A risk that paid off
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
UConn Stamford business partnerships benefit all
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These new student section basketball shirts are the BOSOMS.
To the 60% of UConn students who don’t think the NCAA Tournament is the best sports championship event: Did you not watch March Madness this year?!
Out of all the inspirational messages written on the Monteith bathroom stalls, the one that says DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY really hits home.
Is anyone else considering proposing to that insanely hot hipster chick who always drives Green Line?
Do you think Willow Smith ever starts rapping parents just don’t understand when she gets mad at her dad?
Quote from my sociology professor: “For a man to cre-ate a child doesn’t take much time and is kind of fun.”
That awkward moment when your old professor is pee-ing next to you.
A bit delayed, but that girl who was out first in the free throw contest at First Night? You were KILLING those leggings.
That awkward moment when you’re running late to class and you fling open the door to what you think is the CLAS hallway and its actually a lecture hall full of people who all look at you.
The University of Connecticut Stamford campus recently announced a partnership program pairing students with major businesses in the area. This is a positive development resulting in a win-win situ-
ation for all parties involved.Under the agreement, several companies will connect
with UConn students, allowing them to work on projects while receiving course credit. These companies are hardly small businesses. Participating businesses include General Electric (GE), International Business Machines (IBM) and UBS. More partnerships could be announced soon.
The fact that such large and respected businesses are on board is an added advantage, providing legitimacy to the project while permitting students to affiliate with the most powerful organizations in the area.
An article for the Associated Press recognized that the students’ work “won’t be akin to entry-level internships or part-time work making photocopies and fetching coffee.” Rather, tasks will include “projects ranging from marketing and communications strategies to budget analysis, risk man-agement and financial modeling.”
Several high-level officials have expressed enthusiasm for the announcement, including UConn President Susan Herbst, Connecticut Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia.
Herbst was quoted in the Danbury News-Hour explaining the benefits of the deal. “In these very difficult times, we’re committed more than ever to help Connecticut industry thrive, through the Stamford campus and through all our regional and main campuses, and this accelerator is a great example of our commitment.”
Moreover, participating students are not limited to certain areas or majors. Current participants are affiliated with busi-ness, liberal arts and engineering programs.
Could a similar program be instituted here on the Storrs campus? The benefits for students and local businesses would be valuable for all. Granted, the location may pro-vide obstacles in recruiting larger businesses to the cause – Stamford is the fourth-largest Connecticut municipality by population, while Mansfield is 44th. Still, if a comparable arrangement could be introduced here, that would be for the best.
Perhaps the AP best summarized why such an agree-ment is desirable. “The partnerships will benefit both sides: UConn students will get real-world business experience to build their skills and resumes, and the companies will get research and other projects they otherwise would have to shoulder themselves.”
Indeed, this appears to be a step in the right direction for UConn’s outside involvement with the community, while offering students impressive extra-curricular opportunities. The only question remaining is: why stop at the Stamford campus?
By Nicolas TomboulidesStaff Columnist
By Jesse RifkinWeekly Columnist
Obama’s healthcare plan violates religious liberties
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themed landmark, california.” –Jimmy fallon
ComicsWednesday, October 19, 2011 The Daily Campus, Page 5
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Home replenishes. Make household improvements that feed your spirit. Exercise your blood flow and express your love. Put that creative energy to good use.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Play isn’t just for children. It’s a great way to learn, and there’s education happening today, especially when you least expect it. Find pleasure in the mundane.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re better off working for a bonus than spending what you have. Don’t dip into savings unless you really have to. Explore all the possibilities and add patience.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re attracting attention, and your luck is turning for the better. Keep saving up; it’s working. A quiet evening rejuvenates. Kick back with a movie and a friend.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- Love shines through today, illuminating some perfectly gorgeous moments. Your conscience keeps you on the right path. Tell fears you’ll get back to them later.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- The more you get to know a friend, the better you get along. The right words come easily now. Love puts color in your cheeks and a spring in your step.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Your friends are looking for your peacemaking skills. Your balanced view and strong sense make a difference now, especially at work. Use your diplomacy judiciously.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Explore new ways of creative expression. Avoiding trouble could cost you rewarding experiences as well. Go ahead and risk failure. You’ll never know if you don’t try.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- A lack of funds may threaten your plans. Start saving up for the key ingredients. Don’t lose sight of what you’re committed to. The most direct path saves time and money.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Take positive action in the morning for maximum productivity. Afternoon chaos could thwart plans, so leave free time in the schedule. A quiet evening is just the thing.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Obstacles and limitations could seem more apparent than the road they obscure. Focus on the direction forward, and sidestep. Quiet time provides peace.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Follow love but not necessarily romance. Professional passions call to you. Your path may not be clear, but take slow steps forward anyway.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Higher bank fees are here to stay.
The latest third-quarter earnings reports from this week confirm that banks are struggling to make money the old-fashioned way, by lend-ing money to consumers and businesses. The main reason: interest rates are at historic lows. That makes it harder for banks to charge high rates on loans.
New rules have also cur-tailed various kinds of tra-ditional fees, costing banks billions in lost income. These fees include overdraft charges on checking accounts and fees for making late payments on credit cards.
So, many of them are mak-ing up the difference with fees that aren’t covered by the new rules. Bank of America Corp., which reported results Tuesday, has set off a fire-storm over its plan to charge customers $5 a month for using their debit cards. Even President Barack Obama has taken the bank to task.
On Tuesday, Consumers Union became the latest to express outrage. The group urged customers to switch to other banks or credit unions if big banks refuse to drop the fees.
“This debit card fee just adds insult to injury,” Norma Garcia, director of Consumers Union’s financial services program, said. “It’s unfair for the banks to stick consumers with a monthly fee just to use their own money.”
Making money in the tradi-tional way is becoming tough-er for banks. In an effort to make up lost revenue, banks are rolling out new fees across the board:
— Citi will charge $20 a month starting in December to some customers who don’t keep a balance of $15,000 or more in their combined check-
ing, savings and investment accounts or loan balances
— Wells Fargo & Co. start-ed testing a $3 monthly fee for debit cards Friday in New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Georgia
— JPMorgan Chase & Co. tested a $3 monthly debit card fee in February in Wisconsin and Georgia
— SunTrust Banks Inc. of Georgia introduced a $5 debit card fee for customers with basic checking accounts in June, and
— Regions Financial Corp. of Alabama introduced a $4 fee for debit cards in October.
The fees have become a flashpoint of anger and frus-tration among the growing numbers of anti-Wall Street protestors. They come in the midst of a tough economic cli-mate where millions of people are unemployed. Some say the fees are a callous response by banks that were bailed out dur-ing the financial crisis.
On Monday, activists gath-ered in Burnside Park in down-town Providence, R.I. called on residents to close their accounts at Bank of America. They accused the bank of “immoral” banking practices.
“They’re cheating the American people,” said Patricia Phelan, 28, of Providence, who closed her two Bank of America accounts. “They’re sneaking fees in.”
Banks say the latest round of fees was triggered by a new fed-eral law championed by Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. The law caps the amount banks can charge merchants for debit card usage at about 24 cents per transac-tion, down from an average of 44 cents.
The rule went into effect Oct. 1 and will whittle down revenue even further starting in the fourth quarter of this year. JPMorgan said it would lose $300 million each quar-ter in income, Wells Fargo warned it would lose $250
million a quarter.“It’s a significant loss in
revenue and income and banks have to recoup that some-where,” said Ron Shevlin, senior analyst at research firm Aite Group.
The results this week also reflect the strain of operat-ing under the new rules in a slowing economic environ-ment. On Tuesday, Bank of America’s $6.2 billion earn-ings in the third quarter came from accounting gains and the sale of a stake in a Chinese bank, but its revenue and income was lower in almost all its business lines — credit cards, real estate and invest-ment banking businesses.
On Monday Wells Fargo said its income from fees and charges plunged 7 percent in the third quarter, largely due to new regulations that limit overdraft fees and make it harder to raise interest rates on credit cards. Citigroup Inc.’s revenue dropped 9 per-cent from its North American consumer business because of fee curbs from new regula-tions.
“It’s a tough, tough envi-ronment to turn a profit,” said Paul Miller, bank analyst at FBR Capital Markets.
Nancy Bush, banking ana-lyst at NAB Research, says the fees may have gone too far and are hurting the banks’ public image. After all, most large banks have already elim-inated free checking accounts and instituted fees for every-thing from bank statements to using tellers.
“Banks have been blud-geoning their customers in the past year with fee after fee, only adding to a tough envi-ronment,” said Bush, who is also a contributing editor at SNL Financial. “It’s time for banks to reward customers a little bit and send a message that they realize times are tough.”
Higher bank fees are here to stay
NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs, the banking industry’s perpetual winner, was this quarter’s loser.
The storied investment bank lost $428 million in the third quarter, driven by sharp drops in underwriting and trading rev-enue brought on by the wild swings in markets this summer. Goldman also had losses from souring investments in stocks, bonds and other holdings.
The loss announced Tuesday, which was worse than analysts expected, marked just the sec-ond time that Goldman has post-ed a quarterly loss since going public in 1999. Other Wall Street banks also had trouble in their investment banking divi-sions, but Goldman fared worse.
It’s too early to tell if the loss at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is a temporary blip driven by a wild period in the markets or a sign of cracks in the bank’s long-held business strategies. Whatever the case, the results of the bellwether company suggest that big banks are still struggling to figure out how to navigate a new world of weaker economies and tighter govern-ment control.
“This is the best proof that the financial crisis is far from over,” said Ken Thomas, a Miami-based banking consultant.
Analysts point out that Goldman is naturally more susceptible to swings in the stock market, which has been under pressure because of fears about weak European banks and the losses they could suffer if the Greek government goes through a messy default. Those banks have large holdings of Greek bonds.
Goldman relies heavily on market-driven investment banking services, such as trading bonds and underwriting companies’ stock offerings, for its revenue. It doesn’t have the same level of plain-vanilla borrowing and lend-ing to fall back on when the invest-ment banking operations falter.
Chief financial officer David
Viniar said on a conference call with analysts that he’s confident the economy and markets will improve, eventually.
“Last week, big market rally; yesterday, big market decline,” Viniar said. “So I think there’s still a lot of uncertainty and a lot based on who says what on what day.”
Goldman Sachs is known for beating the pack of other Wall Street banks. That didn’t happen this time. Bank of America’s investment banking and trad-ing business reported a loss of $302 million, on a 26 percent decline in revenue. Goldman’s overall revenue fell 60 percent. Citigroup Inc. reported a 12 per-cent decline in its securities and banking division, excluding an accounting gain.
Goldman’s losses in the third quarter included losses of $1.1 billion on its stake in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, $1 billion on other stock holdings and $907 million from bonds and loans.
Despite the latest quarterly losses, Viniar indicated Goldman wasn’t planning to change its long-term strategy. The bank has “a strong track record” for making investment decisions, Viniar said.
Goldman also has a long his-tory for standing when other banks fall. It safely weathered the finan-cial crisis that crippled or killed many of its competitors, posting only one quarterly loss, at the end of 2008. Bank of America and Citigroup have each lost money in six quarters since the beginning of 2008.
Goldman has also churned out a number of senior government offi-cials, including former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.
At the same time, Goldman has become a lightning rod for the wrath of regulators, law-makers and protesters. Some have come to view the bank as the epitome of the greed and risky practices that led to the financial crisis. Goldman, which
set aside $59 million in the third quarter for litigation and regula-tory proceedings, has been sub-ject to regulatory fines, probes and other headaches.
The bank has been retrench-ing in some areas. In July it said it would eliminate as many as 1,000 jobs to shore up cash. Tuesday it said had 34,200 employees, down 1,300 from the previous quarter.
The loss of $428 million was equivalent to 84 cents per share. The bank earned $1.7 billion, or $2.98 per share, in the same period a year ago.
Revenue slumped 60 percent to $3.6 billion, missing ana-lysts’ estimates. Year-over-year revenue has fallen for each of the past six quarters, and in the second quarter, Morgan Stanley took in more revenue than Goldman.
Some observers have ques-tioned whether Goldman will try to shed its status as a bank holding company, which could free it up to make more money in certain investment bank-ing services. Goldman and Morgan Stanley both converted to bank holding companies in September 2008, which gave them easier access to capital but also placed them under stricter federal regulations.
“If they remain a bank hold-ing company, the future for them is not as bright,” said Mark Williams, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner. Bank spokesman Stephen Cohen said Goldman has “no plans” to change its status as a bank hold-ing company.
Investors were unfazed by the quarterly loss, which had been widely expected due to the tur-moil in financial markets this summer. Goldman’s stock rose 5.5 percent to close at $102.25.
Analysts said the stock, which is down from more than $128 when second-quarter earnings were reported, had already priced in Tuesday’s dismal earn-ings report.
Goldman Sachs loses $428 million in third quarter
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate jumped to a three-year high of 5.2 per-cent in September, a bigger than expected increase driven by rising costs for electricity and gas, official data showed Tuesday.
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said he believed inflation was at or near its peak after 22 months of over-shooting the official target of 2 percent.
The consumer price infla-tion rate announced by the Office for National Statistics was a big jump from the 4.5 percent reported a month ear-lier and beat the market con-sensus of 4.9 percent.
At a time when average weekly earnings are just 1.8 percent higher than a year ago, household electric costs rose
7.5 percent and gas leaped 13 percent in one month, the agen-cy said. Clothing and footwear prices rose by 4.4 percent.
The main downward pres-sure came from a decrease in air fares.
Inflation last hit 5.2 percent in September 2008. The Bank of England has forecast that inflation would peak above 5 percent before reversing toward the target.
Gerard Lane, equity strate-gist at Shore Capital, said inflation for household essen-tials — food and nonalcoholic beverages, housing and utility bills, transport fuels, housing and motor insurance, and tele-phone service — is now rising by 8.8 percent a year.
That, in turn, has depressed consumer spending.
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high inflation, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has been more concerned about subdued growth in the economy — just 0.2 percent in the second quarter — and has resumed a program of massive stimu-lus which poured 200 billion pounds ($315 billion) into the economy between March 2009 and January 2010.
Last month the MPC decid-ed to spend another 75 bil-lion pounds ($118 billion) on quantitative easing, a program that hopes to stimulate the economy through asset pur-chases.
King said stimulus would not solve underlying problems of indebtedness and an over-large public sector.
“Providing liquidity to buy time to devise and put in place
a coherent response to the underlying problem can be not only valuable but neces-sary,” King said in a speech in Liverpool.
“Without monetary stimulus — low interest rates and large asset purchases — there is a risk that growth will stall and inflation fall below our sym-metric 2 percent target,” King added. “But easy monetary policy, by bringing forward spending from the future to the present, means that the ultimate adjustment of bor-rowing and spending will be even greater.
Tuesday’s inflation data will be unwelcome to the govern-ment just as unemployment has reached a 17-year high, because the September rate customarily is used to adjust benefit payments.
UK inflation hits highest rate in 3 yearsNEW YORK (AP) — Oil
prices climbed Tuesday on expectations of a slower — but still growing — global economy.
Benchmark crude rose $1.96, or 2.3 percent, to end the day at $88.34 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price many international kinds of oil, rose 99 cents to finish at $111.15 a barrel in London.
Oil fell early in the day after China said its surging econo-my cooled slightly in the last quarter. But prices rebounded by midday, following a broad rally on Wall Street.
Analysts pointed out that even though China’s econo-my slowed a little from July to September, its 9.1 percent growth rate was still red hot when compared with the
West. China is the second big-gest oil consumer in the world after the U.S.
Meanwhile a U.S. trade group said homebuilders are less pes-simistic about the struggling housing market. The National Association of Home Builders reading wasn’t high enough to signal a recovery, but it was still good news for the belea-guered housing industry.
In Libya rebels strengthened their control of the country. That raised expectations that Libya soon will be able to sup-ply oil to world markets again. A return of Libyan exports would lower oil prices as sup-plies increase, but some think it will be a while before Libyan oil returns. “We’re still waiting for those exports,” independent oil analyst Andrew Lipow said. “I’ll believe it when I see it.”
Oil prices rise by 2.3 percent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says a key lesson learned from the 2008 financial crisis is that central banks must have a dual goal of controlling inflation while supporting the banking system.
During a speech Tuesday in Boston, Bernanke said the steps the Fed took during the crisis proved to be successful. The Fed lowered short-term interest rates to record lows and expanded its portfolio of Treasury and mort-gage-backed securities to push long-term rates lower.
Bernanke also noted that the Fed helped calm markets by being more explicit about its interest rate policy. He said it’s a trend that will increase in the future.
The Fed has been criticized by those who say keeping rates too low for too long could fuel higher inflation later.
In September, the Fed voted
to shift $400 billion of its invest-ments to try to lower long-term interest rates. That followed the Fed’s announcement in August that it planned to keep short-term rates at record lows until at least mid-2013, assuming the economy remains weak.
Both steps were approved on 7-3 votes. That represented the highest level of dissent at the Fed in nearly 20 years.
Bernanke did not address the current state of the economy or possible future moves on inter-est rates during his speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He also did not take questions from the audience.
He used an entrance to the building that was not near an Occupy Boston protest group that has been camped in Dewey Square, across the street from the Boston Fed.
Earlier this month, Bernanke told members of Congress that
the economy “is close to falter-ing.” He assured lawmakers that the central bank was prepared to take further steps to try to bolster economic growth.
Fed policymakers meet next on Nov. 1-2. Many economists expect the central bank to hold off on further action, allowing more time for the previously adopted steps to have an impact.
Minutes of the Sept. 20-21 meeting reflected the policymak-ers’ uncertainty over why the economy is struggling to grow and create jobs more than two years after the recession has ended.
Some members said they favored taking bolder action to boost growth because the unem-ployment rate has been stuck at about 9 percent, according to minutes from the September meeting. But others have argued that the central bank has done all it can and that further action
could increase the risk of infla-tion.
The three regional bank presi-dents who have oppose further action have argued any further moves by the central bank run the risk of making inflation worse when the economy does rebound.
In September, employers added 103,000 net jobs. While that was enough to ease recession fears, it’s well below what’s needed to lower the unemployment rate, which stayed at 9.1 percent for the third straight month. It takes about 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth.
Without more jobs and higher pay increases, consumers are like-ly to keep spending cautiously. Many have already cut back on spending in the face of steeper food and gas prices. Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
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I have recently entertained the thought of a “dating and sex” resume. What if every person could create a resume stating their relationship history, the lengths of their past relationships and highlights of the skills they might have that could help them find a mate? I soon realized that is what most dating websites are about, so that is not what this article is going to be about. On a similar note, here is a list of some basic dating etiquette tips, so you can avoid those faux pas that would ruin your proverbial resume:
Plan ahead when sexiling your roommate
For those who do not know, “sexiling” is when you exile your roommate from your room so that you can hook up with some-one. It’s crucial to be polite and considerate when going about this, because you are essentially kicking your roommate out of his or her own space just so you can get your transitory jollies. Try to send a text at least 30 minutes beforehand, specifically telling them you are having someone over, and request their absence for the necessary amount of time. Don’t sexile your roommate at a completely outrageous time, like 10:30 a.m. on a Monday when they have just emerged from the shower and need to get ready for class. I speak from personal expe-rience on that one.
Don’t be part of the 99 per-cent of people at the bar
I went to a bar near campus last weekend, one that is known for its rowdy patrons and their proclivity for grinding on one another and flailing around. My roommate and a male friend accompanied me to this estab-lishment. Upon arrival, we felt like we were among the 1 percent of people who were not commit-ting one or more of the following social gaffes: (a) misusing hair gel to over-coiff one’s ‘do, (b) puking on the stairs, or (c) flail-ing one’s arms around to the song that instructs listeners to put their hands in the air. The original sin of the crazy barfly is not dancing with the few normal people who ask you to dance. My guy friend who attended the bar with me asked two girls to dance (one of which he knew in real life), both of which turned down the offer. I do not understand why this happened to my friend, because there are only three really obvi-ous instances in which you can turn down a dance partner: if there is an awkward height dif-ference, if they pose a threat to your safety for any reason or if they possess a foul odor. I could go on about how I feel about the bar and how I aim to improve bar situations for the 1 percent, but I will leave you with this: the 99 percent needs to be nicer to the 1 percent.
Don’t linger when it’s a one-night stand or a new hookup
This sends the wrong message. It says that you don’t have a life. It is much better to make the person think you can’t stick around because you turn into a superhero after hours. Maybe even put on a cape as you walk out the door. The ball’s in your court. Seriously though, if you have the option of leaving, stay just long enough for social for-malities such as smoking a bloke (that means a cigarette). Do not – I repeat, do not – assume that the two of you are going to watch “Team America,” cuddle and then go eat brunch at South Dining Hall in the morning. It might be a bit more awkward by 11 a.m. tomorrow when all you have to discuss is the mealy qual-ity of the pre-sliced watermelon. Just remember: when in doubt, just peace out.
By Holly BattagliaCampus Correspondent
Proper sex etiquette
‘A sense of place and frugal tips’
New York Times travel writer Matt Gross speaks in the Stern Lounge of CLAS. Since joining the New York Times travel section in 2005, Gross has written 150 columns, going to different towns, cities and countries writing about how a person can enjoy each place on a budget of about $100 per day.
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The managing editor of The New York Times’ travel section emphasized two vital things to columnist Matt Gross; a sense of place and frugal tips. There was such an emphasis in his writing that Gross repeated it – “a sense of place and frugal tips” ¬– over and over. As Gross sat before a room overflowing with students and faculty in the Stern Lounge of CLAS, he told stories of his experiences and difficul-ties as a traveling reporter for a major publication.
During his inaugural trip for his column, “The Frugal Traveler,” Gross spent 14 weeks traveling through Western Europe and the Mediterranean coast. Gross explained his familiarity to constant travel, “from the north-east coast of Jamaica to the island of Java.” The trouble for Gross came as deadlines approached and he needed to transfer the looks, smells, tastes and feelings of the places he had visited into words.
Sponsored by the Aetna Chair of Writing and the UConn English
Department, Gross shared his stories about food, traveling and his experi-ences with world cultures as a journal-ist. Graduating from Johns Hopkins University with an undergraduate and a graduate degree, Gross traveled to Vietnam with no plans, but eventually taught English and wrote for a promi-nent English-language publication.
“I don’t care about the idea of home. It’s nice to have a place to put my stuff, but it makes people do stupid things,” said Gross, 37, who resides in New York City with his wife and child when he is not traveling. Since joining The Times’ travel section in 2005, Gross has written 150 columns as the “frugal traveler,” visiting dif-ferent towns, cities and countries, writing about how a person can enjoy each place on a budget of about $100 per day.
“Every paper is looking to attract a younger audience,” said William Lewis, a UConn journalism professor. “Many readers are over the age of 50, but The New York Times does a great job. It’s why they’re called ‘the news-paper of record.’”
Gross said his career started as a
failure. Moving to Cambodia as an aspiring writer, he saw an opportunity to travel and make a living by docu-menting his experiences abroad.
“Travel writing is all I know how to do, other than delivering pizza, which is a great job by the way,” joked Gross. After initially pitching his idea to The New York Times and being rejected, he received an email six months later from the editor, who was looking for some new ideas and material.
Four years and 150 articles later, Gross became tired of the idea of being the “frugal traveler.”
“If you want to be a frugal traveler, then don’t spend money and don’t care about where you’re staying,” he said.
About 18 months ago, a new editor in the travel section came to Gross and asked him to pitch a new idea for a column. “I like the idea of getting lost, both geographically and meta-physically,” Gross said to the attentive audience. “I get off the plane and have to figure it out, from Ireland to the island of Java.”
Gross is heading to Jerusalem for the first time for his next “Lost In…” column, but for not knowing anything
about where he is going, he seems confident. “I don’t do research. I’ve never wanted to go, so I don’t know anything about it,” he said.
Although many journalism jobs seem to be diminishing, Gross was able to find a niche and fulfill the needs of loyal newspaper readers.
“You’re in better shape to go in dif-ferent areas,” Lewis said. “It’s not a bad way to make a career. You have to sell yourself, but it’s not out of the question.” Although his approach was unconventional, Gross has become a successful writer, traveler and jour-nalist, and is soon making a second attempt as a novelist. He plans to release a book in 2013.
“Most professional writing will fol-low a formula, but it works in convey-ing information,” Gross said about his writing. “It’s easier to figure out what doesn’t belong when you have a word limit. I like restraints. I like formulas. They work.”
It seems Gross has figured it out, and it’s as simple as a sense of place and frugal tips.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nine women were honored at the annual Women in Hollywood event, yet two ladies in particular stole the show.
Viola Davis surprised her fel-low honorees and an audience of Hollywood insiders Monday night by announcing she had adopted a baby girl.
And Barbra Streisand was repeatedly credited by fel-low honorees such as Michelle Pfeiffer, Evan Rachel Wood, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts and Davis for being the inspiration for their success.
It was a love fest that con-tinued throughout the evening at the 18th annual celebration of the industry’s leading ladies sponsored by Elle magazine at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Jennifer Aniston told the 69-year-old Streisand that she loved her, and Pinto said onstage that “sharing the same oxygen” as Streisand was an incredible birthday gift. The actress turns 27 Tuesday.
“You’re a legend not only in Hollywood but literally all over the world,” the “Slumdog Millionaire” star told Streisand. “I can say that because I come from India.”
She said Streisand’s song “Putting it Together” is “like a reality check that every girl that wants to get into this big enter-tainment industry needs to listen to.”
“That was a truly inspirational song, so thank you so much for
that,” Pinto said.Oscar-winning director
Kathryn Bigelow introduced Streisand as “a world icon” and “somebody who has mastered virtually every art form imagin-able: directing, acting, compos-ing, singing, producing, writ-ing.”
Streisand returned the love in kind, congratulating her fellow honorees, which also included actress Elizabeth Olsen and DreamWorks Studios chief Stacey Snider.
“They’re all so charming, so well spoken, and so thin,” Streisand said, adding, “I ate the chocolate cake.”
(Also on the menu: Alaskan halibut and a roasted peach salad.)
Streisand said that only seven percent of the top 250 films were directed by women and she urged her colleagues to be fear-less about moving forward in the entertainment industry.
“Let’s be bold and don’t wait for the phone to ring,” she said. “Create your own material. Tell me a story.”
The love didn’t stop with Streisand. Olsen said Pfeiffer inspired her to become an actress, and Reese Witherspoon said Aniston had “sex appeal and complete lovability.”
“You just want to get your nails done with her and you want to make out with her at the same time. At least I do,” Witherspoon said. “And that’s what we do sometimes on Saturdays.”
Streisand and others honored at annual awards event; Davis has baby news
Barbra Streisand, right, and James Brolin arrive at the 18th Annual ELLE Women in Hollywood celebration in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday. The dinner celebrates women’s achievements in film.
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As a fan of both anime and video games, it’s always great when I witness a crossover that works. Though terrible anime-based games are a dime a dozen, there’s always a “Jump Ultimate Stars” or “Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm” to provide salvation. The same applies for anime series that are based on games: many are ter-rible, but some are actually great.
I bring this topic up because one of the standout new anime of this season is “Persona 4: The Animation”. There are currently only two episodes out, but so far it’s pretty good. It succeeds by fol-lowing the plot of the game very well, with well-choreographed fights that replace the gameplay portions. The only real problem I find is that it’s a bit too faithful to the game at spots. The silent protagonist is now given a voice and a name in the anime, yet his lines are so dull and uninteresting, he might as well be a mute like in the RPG. Otherwise though, it’s definitely worth checking out on Hulu.com every Thursday.
Unfortunately, most other video game based anime isn’t as lucky to adapt the script like in Persona 4. Like the hilariously terrible U.S. shows based on Super Mario and Legend of Zelda, creating new televised storylines is also largely a misfire for anime. Studio Madhouse is superb when adapt-ing manga to anime form like for “Death Note” and “Nana”. But then they made a Devil May Cry anime with subpar results. Not only was it a bunch of generic, episodic demon missions, it also failed to capture what made the cutscenes in the DMC games so entertaining: Dante acting like a chauvinistic buffoon while van-quishing foes. In the anime, all he seems to do is whine about getting pizza and ice cream while acting as a disinterested detective.
For the rest of the other adap-tations, it’s a mix. “Sonic X” took some influence from the Adventure games, but took itself far too seriously. Finding the good movies and TV series among the many based on Street Fighter is like finding a needle in a hay stack. And the Kirby show was…weird. Even so, there are a few gems. The alternate-story anime version of “Sands of Destruction”, for example, was a fun romp that had some heart to it.
But, of course, I can’t do an article like this without referenc-ing the king of anime-based video games: Pokemon. I mean, what else could I say here that Youtube videos have already jokingly criti-cized to death. It continues its onslaught of countless mediocre episodes, with a long syndica-tion that competes with far-supe-rior series like “One Piece” and “Detective Conan”. But despite its countless faults, it’s also sim-ple and innocent enough of an anime to be a gateway for the younger crowd, before advanc-ing to the older crowd stuff like “Durarara!!” and “Eden of the East”. It was for me, anyway. And if you think about it, the series does adapt the ebb and flow of the Pokemon battles from the video game splendidly.
It remains debatable if video games are considered a true art form, but that never stopped developers from trying to prove the notion true. The advent of low-cost, downloadable games has been reminiscent of thought-provoking and aesthetically pleasing titles like “Flower and Limbo,” but artful games have indeed existed before the days of $15 titles. This HD re-release of Team Ico’s current game library is an example of such insightful experiences, capturing the hearts of many PS2 owners and onwards with this PS3 collection.
The first game, “Ico,” is the both the oldest and, sadly, the most dated of the two. The setting and conflict is as simple as games come: a boy must help himself and a mysterious girl escape a cas-tle imprisonment. But what stands out about the experi-ence is the bond between the two characters.
The fact that you must have the two hold hands as they rush through the puz-zling perils brings a sincere form of empathy and bond that games are still strug-gling to replicate to this day. The whole experience is a heartwarming one, making it all the more unfortunate that the gameplay itself doesn’t hold it.
A majority of the chal-lenge is just dealing with the horrendous A.I. of the girl. Fighting the shadowy appari-tions is always a chore, and the game only checkpoints at the rare save spots. Playing this game is a reminder of how hard it is to make a truly “classic” video game.
Thankfully, the years have been kinder for Team Ico’s second game: “Shadow of the Colossus.” The beauty of SotC is the way the whole game is constructed: it’s a game entirely consisted of boss battles.
To save his special lady, a young man sets out to defeat twelve colossi to enact a spell for her recovery. From there, the game is all about traveling the grand landscape to track down the omnipotent beings and strategically bring them down.
Defeating them with the small means of such a frail human is such an engag-ing experience, but it’s also depressing at the same time. These brilliantly designed giants truly mean no harm, yet you must defeat them for one man’s love-driven ambi-tion. It’s one of the most pow-erful tests of one’s morality in a video game. Fortunately, the flawed camera system doesn’t hurt it as much as the problems in Ico do.
With ambient, enchanting visuals and music, these two games are an artistic tour de force. Plus, with the HD conversion to PS3 that is one of few to be shown in 1080p on the system, they look better than ever. To every fan’s delight, the framerate has also been substantially improved for each game.
With this stellar treatment, experiencing both of these masterpieces has never been better than in this collec-tion. It’ll remind everyone to look out for Team Ico’s third game, “The Last Guardian,” set for release next year.
If you’re a basketball fan like me, you’re desperately looking for something to keep you occu-pied while the NBA passes its 100th day of the lockout. If you’re also like me, you don’t have $60 to drop on “NBA 2K12.”
The answer to our basketball prayers, though, has arrived in the form of “NBA JAM: On Fire Edition,” downloadable for the Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s basically a glorified update of last year’s $50 retail release “NBA JAM,” but at only $15 and an 800-mega-byte download, it’s the best sports arcade game available today.
The game plays like the classic “NBA JAM” always has: all 32 NBA teams are selectable, and each is represented by its biggest stars, two of which represent the team on the court. With only two players per side, gameplay puts a lot of emphasis on teamwork. Sure, you can fight your way past your opponents and try to take a shot, but when your teammate is waiting in the wings to go up for an alley-oop or to shove your opponent to the floor, there’s real-ly no point. Games devolve into a competition of dunks, wild threes and tackles, but as the madness grows, so does the fun.
The graphics are great for a downloadable title; each player’s body is fully rendered, while heads are 2D and flat. The heads turn direction and sometimes change expression, but they add a strange, appealing bobble-head effect, perfect to set up the unre-alistic arcade action.
The game’s got a basic “play now” option for one-on-one or two-on-two multiplayer match-es, but “JAM” shines in its Road Trip and Online Arena modes. The former has 106 challenges, three against every team, with tons of special modes and chal-lenges, while the latter has some of the most addictingly fun online play I’ve ever experienced in any sports game. No matter what, the game does not let up; sink-ing a game-tying three to head to overtime’s a little bit tougher when you’re playing against a team of mascots who specialize in blocking.
Another great aspect of “On Fire Edition” is its achievement system. Instead of simple mile-stone achievements as you play through the various modes, the game has an overarching shell that rewards you for various accomplishments with an in-game money system. Classic players like Larry Bird, new fea-tures including funny basketballs and graphics filters (including a great 8-bit mode that resembles the original Genesis classic), and teams full of mascots and celeb-rities are all able to be unlocked the further you delve, giving “JAM” tons of replay-ability.
For a mere $15, “JAM” is a steal. Its gameplay can get repetitive or frustrating in some key points of the game (the more difficult computers will destroy you), but it’s packed with fea-tures and has multiplayer that can’t be beaten. You’ll be sucked in before you can say “Boomshakalaka!”
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This week marks the 10-year anniversary of Rockstar North’s masterpiece, “Grand Theft Auto III.” A decade later, its influences on the gaming industry are still substantial. With various missions to choose from, and a big city that provided hours of exploratory mayhem, it was the first game that truly brought a sense of freedom to the player. The formula has definitely been improved over the years, whether it was the GTA games that came after it or games like “Red Dead Redemption” and “Saints Row.” But GTA III will always have the honor of being the first. For those who missed out on this piece of gaming history, it was recently announced to be ported onto iOS devices, in honor of the anniversary.
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Anime joins the ranks of video games crossovers
By Jason BogdanSenior Staff Writer
‘Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection’ rerelease rejuvenates two classic PlayStation 2 games
“The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection” brings PlayStation 2 classics to the next generation of gaming on the PlayStation 3.
By Jason BogdanSenior Staff Writer
‘NBA Jam’ proves to be a gem of a download
Varied gameplay and graphical twists keep NBA Jam enjoyable and attention-grabbing for hours at only $15.
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NBA Jam: On Fire Edition
8.0/10The Good-Classic gameplay is back, at a low pricetag.-High quality graphics for a downloadable title.-A wide range of multiplayer options abound.
The Bad-Some repetitive and frustrating sections to the gameplay.
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Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
8.5/10The Good-Both of these artful games look astounding with the 1080p treatment-“Shadow of the Colossus” plays better with a superior framerate than the slow speed that set the original version back.
The Bad-“Ico” is held back in 2011 with abysmal A.I., clunky combat, a frus-
trating checkpoint system, and other technical misfires
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica on Monday awarded the late reggae singer Dennis Brown with one of its highest civic honors, a fitting tribute for a musician who is more beloved than Bob Marley among many Jamaican reggae fans.
Some 12 years after his death, the former child star who became known as the Crown Prince of Reggae was posthumously conferred with the Caribbean island’s Order of Distinction for his contri-butions to reggae, which has played a huge role in Jamaica’s culture and economy.
Brown’s widow, Yvonne, attended the National Honors and Awards ceremony in Kingston, where the late enter-tainer was honored along with living awardees, including singers Millie Small and Ralph “Dobby” Dobson.
Junior Lincoln, chairman of a charitable trust named after Brown that is devoted to pre-serving his work and memory, said the late singer from gritty downtown Kingston is revered by Jamaicans due to his warm personality and honeyed sing-ing voice with a unique vibra-to.
“We’ve spent about 10 years trying to get him honored in this way,” said Lincoln, a veteran of Jamaica’s music
industry who helped promote Brown’s music in England.
Brown, who died at 42 of respiratory ailments, rose to prominence during the 1970s wave of reggae singers that included Marley, whose music introduced the Jamaican genre to listeners worldwide. He released more than 50 albums and a long string of hits, beginning with “No Man is an Island,” which he recorded in 1969 at the age of 12.
Roger Steffens, a reggae archivist, said Brown was “seen as truly one of the mass-es, born and raised in the heart of the downtown Kingston ghetto.”
“He grew to maturity with the country itself, and many people saw themselves in Dennis, especially in the light of his struggles with drugs, which were well known in the reggae world,” Steffens said in an e-mail.
He recorded his first work at Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd’s famed Studio One, the island’s first black-owned music stu-dio which launched the careers of dozens of reggae leg-ends, including Marley, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Freddie McGregor.
By the mid-1970s, Brown had become one of the island’s most popular performers.
His hits include ‘Wolves and Leopards,’ ‘Here I Come,’ and ‘Revolution.’ He worked with a who’s who of Jamaican pro-ducers during reggae’s 1970s and ‘80s golden age, including Joe Gibbs, Sly & Robbie, and Derrick Harriott.
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‘Sister Wives’ describe harm of
bigamy probeSALT LAKE CITY (AP) —
The family from cable tele-vision’s polygamous “Sister Wives” reality show has told a federal judge in Utah how much they’ve been hurt by the threat of prosecution under the state’s bigamy law.
Kody Brown and his wives wrote in new court papers that they’ve lost jobs, were forced to move to Nevada and suffered harm to their reputations after police launched an investiga-tion last year after the fall 2010 launch of their TLC show.
In July, Brown and wives Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robin, filed a lawsuit challeng-ing Utah’s bigamy law in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court. They contended that the law is unconstitutional and unfairly applied to polygamists.
“Because the Browns are open about their polygamist lifestyle, the criminal bigamy statute has the effect of publicly label-ing them as presumptive fel-ons,” the Brown’s Washington, D.C.-based attorney, Jonathan Turley, wrote in court papers filed Monday. “The statute fur-ther brands them as immoral and societal outsiders.”
The court papers were a response to petition filed by the Utah Attorney General’s Office asking a federal judge to dis-miss the case. It wasn’t clear on Tuesday whether a judge would issue a decision based on the court pleadings or schedule a hearing for oral arguments.
State prosecutors contend the Browns — who haven’t been charged — aren’t facing any real harm and won’t likely face prosecution, because the state has rarely prosecuted individu-als for bigamy without also prosecuting underlying crimes, such as underage marriages, abuse or welfare fraud.
But the Browns said the harms to their family are real and that the public statements of Utah County prosecutors actually support their conten-tion that prosecution remains a threat. In one magazine article, for example, Deputy Utah County Attorney Donna
Kelley said “the Browns have definitely made it easier for us by admitting to felonies on national TV.”
Turley contended that such statements have had a “chill-ing effect” on the family’s right to free speech, influenc-ing what they can say publicly or on their television show, and curtailing their ability to practice their religion.
Affidavits from Kody, Meri and Janelle Brown detailed the financial impact on the fam-ily. Those included a loss of sales accounts for Kody Brown and the termination of Meri Brown’s employment because her bosses were concerned about the criminal investiga-tion and the public statements suggesting she was a felon.
“Our continued labeling as presumptive felons has prov-en a barrier in finding new positions for the adults in Nevada,” Kody Brown stated in his affidavit.
Other financial impacts includ-ed a loss of health insurance, moving expenses, increased housing expenses and travel expenses because the Browns must travel back to Utah if they want to attend their church.
The Browns also stated that their children — more than a dozen of them — have also suffered at school, where some of the children have endured remarks about their family being labeld as criminals.
“We literally live day to day without knowing whether our family will be destroyed by a decision of some prosecutor in Utah to charge us,” Janelle Brown’s affidavit stated.
Under Utah law, it is ille-gal for unmarried persons to cohabitate, or “purport” to be married. A person is also guilty of bigamy if they hold multiple legal marriage licenses.
The third-degree felony is punishable by up to five years in state prison. Both men and women can be pros-ecuted under the law, which also applies to unmarried, monogamous couples that live together.
Some sales from Bieber’s new CD to go to charity
NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Bieber is in the holiday spirit: The singer says he’s the first artist on the Universal Music roster to have part of his album sales benefit charity.
Partial sales from “Under the Mistletoe,” his Christmas album that is out Nov. 1, will go to various charities, including Pencils of Promise and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
“Universal never actually allowed money from the album to go to charity, so it’s kind of a unique thing and I’m very happy and proud of what we’ve done,” the 17-year-old said in an inter-view from Lima, Peru, on Monday.
Universal Music Group is the parent company to labels like Interscope Records and Island Def Jam Music Group, where Bieber is signed to. Universal is also the home to acts like Eminem, Rihanna, Kanye West and Lady Gaga.
Bieber said he isn’t sure how much of the sales will go to charity, but thanks his team for helping him achieve his goal of wanting to help others during the holiday season.
“I tell them basically what I want and they kind of go and help me get it done,” said Bieber, who will also donate money to various food banks.
“Under the Mistletoe” features collab-orations with Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, among others. He said he wanted to “work with people who had great experi-ences with Christmas albums.”
“They were all great people and fun to be around,” said the Canadian-born entertainer, who appears on a “super fes-tive” version of Carey’s classic song “All I Want for Christmas.”
Chris Brown co-wrote and co-pro-duced the song “Christmas Eve,” which Bieber says “all the ladies will like.” And there are also tunes featuring Usher and
the country trio the Band Perry.“They’ve been really successful and
great in the country world, so I wanted to get them on my Christmas album and cross some barriers and try to get some different audience members to listen to my music,” he said.
Bieber, who also raps on the Busta Rhymes-assisted “Drummer Boy,” said he enjoys performing different styles of music.
“I guess I can be pretty versatile — being able to do country music and put out a record of me rapping on the Internet,” he said. “I just think that with the Internet, not a lot of artists can be taken seriously if they try to change lanes and so I made it kind of apparent at first that I love to do everything and people kind of take me seriously when I switch over, so I’m really lucky to be able to have that.”
Singer Justin Bieber performs during his My World Tour concert at the National Stadium in Lima, Peru, Monday. Partial sales from Bieber’s Christmas album, “Under the Mistletoe”, will go to various charities, including Pencils of Promise and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Jamaica awards Dennis Brown with its highest national civic honor
In this Dec. 12, 1998 file photo, the late reggae musician Dennis Brown performs at the Countryside Club in Kingston, Jamaica.
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LONDON (AP) — It was fourth time lucky for British writer Julian Barnes, who won literature's Booker Prize on Tuesday after a contest that had as many insults, rivalries and bitter accusations as a paper-back potboiler.
Barnes, a finalist on three previous occasions who once described the contest as "posh bingo," finally took the 50,000 pound ($82,000) prize with "The Sense of an Ending," a memory-haunted novel about a 60-something man forced to confront buried truths about his past after the unexpected arrival of a letter.
Former British spy chief-turned-thriller writer Stella Rimington, who chaired the judging panel, said the 150-page novel "spoke to humankind in the 21st century."
She said it was "almost an archetypal book of our time" that examined the unreliability of memory and how little we know ourselves.
"It is exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading," she said.
Barnes, one of Britain's most critically acclaimed novelists, was previously nominated for "Flaubert's Parrot" in 1984,
"England, England" in 1998 and "Arthur and George" in 2005. The 65-year-old writer conced-ed that "in occasional moments of mild paranoia" he had won-dered if forces were working against him ever winning.
"I'm as much relieved as I am delighted to receive the 2011 Booker Prize," he said, thanking his publishers "for their wis-dom and the sponsors for their check."
Barnes had been the strong favorite to win the award, attracting half of all bets laid through bookmaker William Hill.
He beat five other finalists. Three were British — Stephen Kelman for "Pigeon English," A.D. Miller for "Snowdrops" and Carol Birch for "Jamrach's Menagerie." Two Canadian novels rounded out the short-list: "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick deWitt and "Half Blood Blues" by Esi Edugyan.
One of the English-speaking world's most high-profile liter-ary prizes, the Booker is open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the 54-nation Commonwealth of former British colonies. Founded in 1969, it is officially called the Man Booker Prize after its sponsor, financial ser-vices conglomerate Man Group
PLC.It always attracts colorful
commentary and controver-sy, but this year's contest has been particularly combative, with critics accusing the five judges of dumbing-down after Rimington said the finalists had been chosen for readability.
The shortlist drew criticism for excluding some of the year's most critically lauded books, including "On Canaan's Side" by Ireland's Sebastian Barry and "The Stranger's Child" by Britain's Alan Hollinghurst.
And a group of writers, pub-lishers and agents announced it was setting up a rival award that hopes to supplant the Booker as English literature's premier prize.
Literary agent Andrew Kidd, spokesman for the new Literature Prize, said the goal was to create an award "where the single criterion is excellence rather than other factors."
The new prize will be open to any English-language writer whose work has been published in Britain — unlike the Booker, which does not allow American entrants.
On Tuesday, Rimington accused the Booker's critics of patronizing and insulting both authors and judges.
British author Julian Barnes with his book 'The Sense of an Ending' , winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction poses at a photocall in London on Tuesday.
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Julian Barnes wins prestigious Booker Prize in English language writing
LONDON (AP) — The Stone Roses, one of the best-loved and most influential bands to emerge from Britain's "Madchester" scene, announced Tuesday that they are reuniting and working on new material.
The band members, who split in 1996 after releasing two albums, said they will play two shows in their hometown of Manchester on June 29 and 30, followed by an interna-tional tour.
"Our plan is to take on the world," said singer Ian Brown as the band announced its
reunion at a London news con-ference.
"It's not a trip down memory lane," he added. "We are doing new songs."
Formed by Brown and gui-tarist John Squire, the band's self-titled 1989 debut album was a huge British hit. But fans waited five years for the fol-lowup, "Second Coming," and the group soon split up amid internal wrangling and legal disputes.
The band members insisted for years that they would not get back together, but Squire said
he and Brown had met recently at the funeral of bass play-er Gary "Mani" Mounfield's mother and "in some ways it felt like 15 years ago was yes-terday."
The band's blend of rock, pop, psychedelia and dance influences made it one of the biggest acts to emerge from the "Madchester" scene in the late '80s and early '90s in and around the northwest England city of Manchester.
Other bands grouped under the label include Happy Mondays and The Charlatans.
UK 'Madchester' band Stone Roses to reunite after 15 years of seperation, no new material
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Prosecutor to call for jail time for LohanLOS ANGELES (AP) —
A city prosecutor will ask a judge to find Lindsay Lohan in violation of her probation and order her to spend time in jail, a city attorney's spokes-man said Tuesday.
The move is based on the actress' most recent proba-tion report that states she was terminated from a women's shelter where a judge wanted her to serve most of her com-munity service, city attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan said.
Mateljan said Deputy City Attorney Melanie Chavira would recommend at a hear-ing Wednesday that Lohan be sentenced to jail if the judge agrees she violated her proba-tion in a 2007 drunken driving case and a misdemeanor theft case earlier this year.
Lohan is due to appear in a courtroom to update Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner on her progress. The judge in April sentenced her to serve 480 hours of community service, most of which she
said should be served at the Downtown Women's Center.
Mateljan said he had not personally reviewed the pro-bation report and did not know why Lohan was booted from serving at the center.
"We feel that her being ter-minated from it is a viola-tion," Mateljan said.
Lohan's spokesman Steve Honig declined comment beyond noting that it will be up to Sautner to decide if Lohan has violated the terms of her release.
He said Lohan has been doing community service daily at the American Red Cross for several days, and that she has also been working to complete two other aspects of her probation — complet-ing a Shoplifters Anonymous course and undergoing psy-chological counseling.
Sautner ordered Lohan to complete 360 hours of her service at the Downtown Women's Center, a shelter and advocacy group for homeless women. The judge praised
the center's mission and said during one hearing that she thought being at the facility would do Lohan good.
If Sautner determines Lohan violated the terms of her release, the judge would have to conduct a separate probation revocation hearing at a later date before deciding on whether a jail term is war-ranted.
The judge warned Lohan at her previous court appearance that she needed to speed up the pace of her community service, and told the actress she wouldn't listen to excuses or grant any extensions.
Since May 2010, the "Mean Girls" star has lived with the constant threat of jail. Her actual time behind bars has been cut short because her convictions are for misde-meanors and because of jail overcrowding.
She served 35 days of house arrest earlier after entering a no contest plea in May to tak-ing a $2,500 necklace without permission.
Actress sues Amazon for revealing damaging info on IMDb: her age
SEATTLE (AP) — An anonymous actress claims in a million-dollar federal lawsuit that her offers for roles dropped sharply after the popular Internet Movie Database published damaging personal information: her age.
The actress, identified as a Texas resident of Asian descent, claims she looks a lot younger than she is, and so she had always been care-ful about keeping her given name and birth-date confidential. As an unknown, she used an Americanized stage name in 2003 when she first listed herself on imdb.com, a listing which she said brought her several jobs.
But in 2008, she tried to advance her career by signing up for a subscription service with the website called IMDb Pro. The service is designed for entertainment industry profes-sionals. It provides contact information and other details for the actors, actresses, directors and others listed.
She provided credit card information — and her real name — when she bought the service, according to the lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court against Seattle-based IMDb and its parent company, Amazon.com. IMDb used that information to uncover her date of birth, which also isn't disclosed, and added it to her profile on the website, "revealing to the pub-lic that Plaintiff is many years older than she looks," the lawsuit says.
"If one is perceived to be 'over-the-hill,' i.e., approaching 40, it is nearly impossible for an up-and-coming actress, such as the plaintiff, to get work as she is thought to have less of an 'upside,'" the claim said.
She claims she never consented to having the personal information she provided used for anything but the commercial transaction. IMDb refused to remove the reference to the woman's age from her profile when asked, the lawsuit said.
Through spokeswoman Mary Osako, Amazon declined to comment, saying it never discusses litigation. An email seeking com-ment from IMDb wasn't immediately returned Tuesday.
The profiles of many actors and actresses on the website list their dates of birth.
The lawsuit claimed the woman wants to remain anonymous "based on fear of retali-ation from defendants that would result in further damage and economic injury." John W. Dozier Jr., a Glen Allen, Va., attorney who represents the actress, said Friday that Amazon and IMDb know who she is based on prior communications from her. He declined to pro-vide further identifying details.
IMDb claimed to have obtained the birth-date from the actress's agent, Dozier said, but "we're comfortable they didn't get it from the source they say they got it from."
A key issue in the case will be whether IMDb is immune from liability under the Communications Decency Act, Dozier said. The act ensures that providers of interactive computer services — think Google — will not be liable for defamatory information published by another content provider.
If IMDb is publishing research it itself has done on the personal details of actors and actresses, it should not be immune from law-suits, he said.
"The implications of this are that it may put at risk the very existence of the database," he said. "The number of claims that could be asserted against them would overwhelm them."
While the actress is losing opportunities because of her age, she's also missing work because of her youthful appearance, the law-suit says.
"Plaintiff has experienced rejection in the industry for each '40-year-old' role for which she has interviewed because she does not and cannot physically portray the role of a 40-year-old woman," the lawsuit says.
The actress is seeking $1 million or more in punitive damages as well as $75,000 or more in compensatory damages. She accuses Amazon and IMDb of breach of contract, fraud, and violation of privacy and consumer protection laws
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Raiders acquire Carson Palmer from Bengals ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) —
The Oakland Raiders made a bold move to replace injured quarterback Jason Campbell on Tuesday, trading two high draft picks to the Cincinnati Bengals for Carson Palmer.
Coach Hue Jackson paid a high price to acquire a quarter-back he knows well but who has struggled in recent years and refused to report the Bengals this season despite being under contract through 2014.
The Bengals had been ada-mant about not trading Palmer, who wanted to be dealt from a team that has had only two win-ning records in the last 20 years.
Owner Mike Brown repeat-edly insisted he wouldn't con-sider Palmer's request for a trade because he didn't want to reward him for holding out. He changed his mind after the Raiders offered a 2012 first-round pick and a second-rounder in 2013 for the 31-year-old quarterback.
The Raiders (4-2) became desperate for a quarterback after Campbell broke his collarbone during a win over the Browns on Sunday. Campbell had sur-gery Monday and was expected to miss at least six weeks, leav-ing the Raiders with only Kyle Boller and Terrelle Pryor on the roster.
Jackson's mantra all season has been "the time is now," and he backed that up by dealing for Palmer, who is coming off a 20-interception season last year with the Bengals.
Brown said the play of rookie quarterback Andy Dalton made it easier to trade Palmer.
"We also find ourselves rather suddenly in position of being able to receive real value for Carson that can measurably improve our team, which is per-forming well and is showing real promise for this year and years to come," he said in a statement. "When this opportu-nity arose, we felt we could not let it pass and needed to take a step forward with the football team if we could."
Palmer, who had been work-ing out in Southern California, already reported to the Raiders' facility and will immediate-ly start learning the offense. Oakland hosts Kansas City on Sunday and then has a bye week.
While Palmer has not played or practiced since last season, he has a history with Jackson, who was his offensive coordinator for two years at USC and the wide receivers coach for three seasons in Cincinnati.
Jackson was with the Bengals when Palmer had his best sea-son in 2005 when he threw for 3,836 yards with 32 touchdown passes and a 101.1 rating while leading the team to an AFC North title. Palmer tore up his left knee during a playoff loss to Pittsburgh that season.
He came back and had two solid seasons before partially tearing a ligament and tendon in his passing elbow during the 2008 season. He has not been an elite quarterback since, despite getting back to the playoffs in 2009.
Over the past two years, Palmer completed 61.2 percent of his passes for 7,064 yards, 47 touchdowns, 33 interceptions and a passer rating of 82.9 while posting a 14-18 record. Those numbers are comparable to what Campbell has done since the start of the 2009 season.
But the Raiders were not will-ing to trust their playoff chances with Boller, who had not started a game since 2009 and had lost his previous 10 starts since October 2007, or Pryor, a proj-ect who will need time before he can be an NFL quarterback.
"It'll be a learning curve for him because he hasn't played football in a while but I'm excit-ed to have a leader on that side of the ball of his cali-ber," Raiders defensive tackle Richard Seymour told SiriusXM NFL Radio. "Anytime you have an opportunity to acquire some-one of Carson's pedigree I don't think it's something that you can pass up on."
This is the second trade the Raiders have made since the death of longtime owner Al Davis, who also served as general manager and oversaw the entire football operation. Jackson dealt last week for for-mer No. 4 overall pick in 2009, linebacker Aaron Curry from Seattle.
The trade leaves the Raiders with picks only in the fifth and sixth round in next year's draft. They traded their second-round-er during April's draft to New England for the picks to draft offensive lineman Joe Barksdale and running back Taiwan Jones. They used their third-rounder to take Pryor in the supplemental draft in August. They traded their fourth-rounder in 2010 to get Campbell and the seventh-rounder for Curry.
Oakland is expecting to get compensatory picks after los-ing Nnamdi Asomugha, Zach Miller, Robert Gallery, Thomas Howard and Bruce Gradkowski in free agency.
The Bengals (4-2) have started well with Dalton tak-ing Palmer's place. The message board by the entrance to the Bengals' locker room Tuesday had an anonymous scrawled message: "Let My People Goooooo!" Otherwise, there wasn't much reaction from a team that had moved on from Palmer a long time ago.
"I don't think even one play-er in this locker room's even thought about that," left tackle Andrew Whitworth said. "We haven't worried about it. We've gone forward with the guys we have and tried to play as good as we can and that's all we can do."
The Bengals severed ties with Palmer when the season started and he didn't show up, giving his locker to Dalton, a second-round draft pick.
As recently as Monday after-noon, coach Marvin Lewis reit-erated there was no change in the team's position regarding Palmer. Then came the offer from the Raiders. Quarterback Carson Palmer answers questions after signing with the Oakland Raiders at the team's NFL football headquarters.
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With expansion looming, Big East stability tied to MissouriNEW YORK (AP) — The
Big East wants to expand to 12 football teams and "the sooner the better."
The problem is the Big East can't be sure if its current members are staying put until Missouri, the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference figure out what their next steps will be in the ongoing drama of confer-ence realignment.
"The overall landscape is still so very unsettled," Big East Commissioner John Marinatto said Tuesday during a confer-ence call with reporters.
"We're not going to pause until the Missouri situation is settled because it might not be settled for a while."
The Big East's presidents unanimously voted Monday night to increase the league's withdrawal fee from $5 million to $10 million when an expan-sion plan is executed, Marinatto said.
Marinatto declined to talk about specific schools the Big East wants to add, but did say the Big East has "identified spe-cific teams, and if any one of those teams commits (to join-ing the league), the exit fee increases."
A person with knowledge of the Big East's plan told The
Associated Press that the addi-tion of Navy or Air Force would trigger the increase in the exit fee. The person spoke on condi-tion of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk pub-licly about which schools the league is targeting.
Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said in a phone inter-view Tuesday the Big East and the academy have been in con-tact, but he was unaware of the league's most recent move.
"Certainly a reconfigured Big East with stable core members is something the Naval Academy needs to consider," he said.
Air Force spokesman Troy Garnhart said in an email school officials would not comment.
Gladchuk said the two acad-emies communicate, but will make decisions independently.
"I'm not convinced that it needs to be a package deal," Gladchuk said.
The conference's plan to get to 12 members includes Navy, Air Force and Boise State as football-only members and Central Florida, Houston and SMU for all sports, though that has not been made public by the league.
Navy is an independent. AFA and Boise State play in the Mountain West Conference.
UCF, Houston and SMU are in Conference USA.
Marinatto said no invitations have gone out and he could not give a timetable for when the Big East hopes to complete its expansion work.
"Stay tuned, we're working diligently," he said. "We're not going to rush ourselves. The sooner the better."
The Big East currently has six football members committed to the conference beyond this season, and eight schools that do not compete in the league in football, including Notre Dame.
Pittsburgh and Syracuse have accepted invitations to join the Atlantic Coast Conference and TCU, previously scheduled to join the Big East in 2012, instead will join the Big 12.
And the Big East is in dan-ger of losing more members. Officials from Boise State, Air Force and Navy have all expressed concerns about that.
"When you go from nine schools to six ... we need to do our due diligence to ask how stable are the remaining six," Gladchuk said.
Marinatto said the current Big East members are operating in "good faith" with one another.
"The exit fee it a sign of stability, but it's not the only
thing we're looking at," he said. "Everyone, given the environ-ment that we're all in is looking for one thing: stability."
Including Missouri, which is considering leaving the Big 12 for the SEC, a move that would leave the Big 12 in need of at least one more member.
The Missouri board of cura-tors will meet Thursday and Friday in Kansas City, though it has not announced whether a decision about a conference will be made then.
Big East members West Virginia and Louisville are potential Big 12 replacements for Missouri.
An even worse scenario for the Big East has the Big 12 taking Louisville, West Virginia and Cincinnati from the Big East to get back to 12 members if Missouri leaves.
Marinatto said Big East offi-cials have not discussed the pos-sibility of being whittled down to a point where it would have to give up football.
The league has made pro-tecting its status as an auto-matic qualifier in the Bowl Championship Series a priority.
"We're designing a plan that would include schools that would help us to do that," Marinatto said.Big East commissioner John Marinatto speaks to the media on Aug. 2, 2011.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The coolest person at the World Series is C.J. Wilson.
The Texas Rangers pitcher chilled out as he prepared to face the St. Louis Cardinals in Wednesday night's open-er. He spent 2½ minutes in a Dallas cryotherapy chamber, where liquid nitrogen lowered the temperature to a frosty 295 degrees below zero in an effort to speed body recovery.
"So 35 degrees should be no big deal, right?" Wilson said Tuesday after examining the frigid forecast for Game 1 at Busch Stadium, where he starts against the Cardinals' Chris Carpenter.
Wearing a dark ski cap, dress shirt and vest in the interview room, Wilson said he read about the Dallas Mavericks trying out cryotherapy last season, when they won the NBA champion-ship, and had Rangers head ath-letic trainer Jamie Reed check out the relatively new treatment with Casey Smith, his Mavs' counterpart.
"I'm kind of an experimental guy. I'll go for the hyperbaric chamber, drink a new type of sports drink that's supposed to keep your blood sugar regu-lated. I'll do whatever," said Wilson, one of baseball's best talkers.
Eric Rauscher, managing
director of the Millennium Ice facility that Wilson uses, said the treatment has been avail-able in the U.S. for about three years. It's an improvement over an ice bath, which lowers the skin-surface temperature to about 48 degrees.
"The body goes into fight-or-flight syndrome, and surrounds the major body organs with enriched blood," Rauscher said.
Preparing for the treatment, Wilson stripped down to his shorts, and put on special gloves and socks to keep his fingers and toes from getting frostbite. The rest of the body can tolerate the extreme tem-perature for that brief period.
"Basically you stand in this freezing can and cold air cir-culates around you. I did it a couple days ago," Wilson said.
Wilson said he'd like to get to 300 below zero. Rauscher said there's not much additional benefit, if any, at that point.
"Being competitive athletes, they want to outdo each other. I think it's more of an ego thing," he said.
For someone coming in off the street, a single treatment would cost $85, according to Mark Murdock, Millennium's contact person with the Rangers. For packages of mul-tiple treatments, the rate drops to about $75.
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with charities and constantly gives back to the commu-nity. He is still based in New Haven and as of last summer lived in Hamden. In August 2010, Dawson was destroyed by Pascal and lost his IBO light heavyweight title. His career seemed to be at a standstill.
He switched trainers and bounced back with a victo-ry over Adrian Diaconu last May. With this week’s win
over the ageless Hopkins, “Bad” Chad is “The Ring” and WBC light heavyweight champion of the world.
Although the title bout spawned more questions than answers, Dawson, who sports a 31-1 professional record, is back where he belongs. He has a legitimate win over a quality opponent and another title to show for his hard work.
As Chris Mannix of Sports I l lus trated ment ioned, Hopkins may be headed for
retirement. The cloudy end-ing to a brief fight people paid $50 to watch is another controversy added to a sport that isn’t short of shadiness.
But I don’t care how Dawson won the fight. I don’t care that I couldn’t watch it. “Bad” Chad is back at the top.
And that gives me a hellu-va good feeling.
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After a disappointing start in Denver, pan-demonium has set in for Broncos fans, as their beloved team boasts a wimpy 1-4 record. Only five weeks into the season fans have already turned their backs on starter Kyle Orton, and made their desire to see Tim Tebow play quarterback very clear. With chants reigning down from the stands in the fourth quarter of their matchup with the Chargers in Week 5, the Broncos sent Tebow under center. The crowd was certainly energized, and Tebow was able to make things interesting by leading the Broncos back to within one score of vic-tory. Although he was not able to complete the comeback, talk of Tebow getting the starting position came to an end when coach John Fox officially declared that he would be handed the starting position. While Broncos fans seem to be enthralled with their new starter, questions have to be asked as to whether or not Tebow is actually ready to command an NFL offense.
It is hard to immediately give up on Orton and jump on the Tebow bandwagon. After all, just last season Orton had a solid year. He threw for 20 touchdowns with just nine inter-ceptions. While the team held an ugly 4-12 record, Orton was not to blame. In 11 of their 16 games, the Broncos’ defense surrendered more than 25 points. Orton also held a 90 quar-terback rating while throwing for over 3,500
yards. While the Broncos may be looking for fresh start, Tebow may not provide for them as they might hope.
Everybody understands the success that Tebow had in his career at Florida. However, since being in the NFL, Tebow has had very little time to show his skill set. In his two sea-sons, he has played in 12 games, but has not started any. In the games that he has played in, his stats are very underwhelming. He has completed fewer than 50 percent of his 92 passes. He has only been asked to take snaps in specific formations, which were designed for him. For most of the time that Tebow has been on the field, he has been used as a mobile quarterback who can pick up a first down in short- yardage situations. It is hard to say that Tebow will be able to succeed as a full–time quarterback because he simply has not shown he can do so yet. Even in his last game against the Chargers, Tebow did not have as good a game as he is credited for. He completed only four passes, and was helped out greatly on one of them by Brandon Lloyd, who made an incredible catch.
This is not to say that Tebow cannot succeed in the NFL. However, it is difficult to com-pletely disregard Orton’s abilities and replace him with a player who has not yet proven he can succeed.
Plenty of drama has unraveled during this NFL season. Currently one of the most talked about situa-tions is without a doubt the quarterback scenario for the Denver Broncos. During the preseason, there were many questions regarding whether Kyle Orton or Tim Tebow would emerge as the starting quarterback. As many predicted, the returning starter Orton won the spot and Tebow was demoted to third string. In the first five weeks of the season, Broncos fans grew tired of the turnover-prone Orton and began chants in support of Tebow. The fans got what they wanted at the end of Denver’s Week 5 matchup against the San Diego Chargers. Coach John Fox inserted Tebow for Orton in the fourth quarter of the game. Tebow responded by leading a fourth–quarter comeback, only to come up just short. He cut a 16-point deficit to five points, but the Broncos ended up losing 29-24. The team seemed to rally around Tebow and believe in him more than they did with Orton.
Tebow was named the new starting quarterback for the Broncos about a week ago. Many are anticipating his first 2011 start, which will take place in Miami, where he made a name for himself in college.
One thing that cannot be questioned when talking about Tebow is his heart. The guy was a legend in college and seemed to do everything correctly. In his four years at Florida, he threw for 9,285 yards and 88 touchdowns (while only throwing 16 interceptions) as well as posting 2,947 yards rushing and 57 rushing touchdowns. In addition, he won two national cham-
pionships and became the first sophomore ever to win the Heisman Trophy. Without a doubt, Tebow was an all-time great player in college. Now, questions are asked as to whether he can continue that momentum and have success in the pros. He showed his heart and grit against the Chargers, and that’s what you can expect from him every single game. He may not be the most accurate quarterback, and he may never turn into a superstar, but it would be foolish to assume that with all of these great qualities as a leader and as a winner, he won’t have success.
The players and fans of the Denver Broncos seem to support Tebow. As such a popular figure in college, he had immediate popularity when he was drafted. Miami Herald reporter Israel Gutierrez described Tebow as unconventional, wholesome and always living up to hype, which “has made him one of the most beloved and hated NFL players in memory even though he’s barely played.” This weekend, we’ll see him take on the Miami Dolphins in his first start in the NFL. Miami has had a rough season thus far, sitting at 0-5. In a game that will be a sort of homecoming for Tebow, expect him to excel. The Dolphins rank 29th in opponent passing yards per game, so Tebow seems to be destined for a solid first outing as a starter. Through leadership, heart and flat out smart football, Tim Tebow can rally this Broncos team and lead them to a victory this Sunday. A successful Tebow could very well lead to a resurgence of the Broncos this season. Throughout all the speculation, all we can do is sit and watch Sunday, waiting for Tebow to do what he’s always done: win.
By David MarinsteinCampus Correspondent
By Ryan CurtoCampus Correspondent
[email protected]@UConn.edu
Toss Up? Will Tim Tebow succeed as the Broncos' QB?
The UConn golf team took home second place in this past weekend’s Classic at Shelter Harbor, which was played at the Shelter Harbor Golf Course in Westerly, RI. The field consisted of 15 teams and a total of 84 golfers. This was UConn’s third top-five finish of the year and fifth top-10 finish. The course at Shelter Harbor had a yardage of 6,695 and a par of 71.
Senior Matt Dziubina placed third overall in the tournament by shooting a first-round score of 71 and a final round score of 73, which put him at +2. Dziubina missed a playoff for
individual medalist honors by just one stroke. Other Huskies in action at Shelter Harbor were senior Jeb Buchanan, who finished in a tie for seventh, and freshmen Chris Wiatr, who finished in a tie for 12th. Part of the Huskies' success on the course can be attributed to the amount of birdies they have had this season. UConn has recorded 191 birdies, which places them in eighth place out of 191 other schools.
Dartmouth College captured the title by finishing with a combined score of 594, or +26. UConn followed with a score of 600, or +32. Columbia University, Princeton University and Central Connecticut State
University rounded out the top five. The tournament featured every Ivy League school except for Harvard University.
UConn will play its last match of the 2011 fall sea-son when it competes in the Kiawah Island Intercollegiate, hosted by the College of Charleston. The match will be played at the Turtle Point Golf Course in Charleston, SC, which will also be the home of the 2012 PGA Championship. The Huskies will tee off on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1.
Golf takes second at ShelterBy Tyler MorrisseyCampus Correspondent
The sports world lost a great individual this weekend. We pray for Wheldon’s friends, family and the shaken racing community. But most of all, we all owe Wheldon a “thank you,” as he embodied a truly complete athlete on and off the track. Most importantly, Wheldon taught us all to always chase what you love, to always remember those who were there for support and to share the journey.
“Chloe has been the beneficiary of playing alongside six seniors, and we have been the beneficiary of her ability to score from both the corner set piece and the field of play,” Stevens said. “I feel she has made a smooth transition to playing in America because she is surrounded by an experienced and talented team.”
Hunnable echoed the sentiment that her success is due largely to her teammates.
“All the girls in the team were so welcoming that I instantly felt
at home,” Hunnable said. “I was worried I would be homesick, as I live so far away, but the girls really helped the transition and made UConn feel like home.”
Although Hunnable has pro-vided a goal-scoring spark, the Huskies have used a truly bal-anced offensive attack to climb the national rankings. Six Huskies have recorded at least 10 points on the season, led by Hunnable (28), MarieElena Bolles (28) and Jestine Angelini (25). Bolles, a former high school track star, is 13th in the country with .81 assists per game.
Since 2006, the Huskies have accumulated a 59-5 record on their home turf, a statistic that is even more impressive considering that many of those wins have come against nationally ranked oppo-nents. They hope to continue that trend tonight.
“In order to beat Boston University, we need to play with intensity and passion,” Hunnable said. “Our team has such great chemistry that we work as a unit and that is what beats good teams.”
Zielinski: Sports lost a great manfrom DAN, page 14
Stevens: Hunnable can score from both sidesfrom STEVENS, page 14
Capitals beat Panthers 3-0 WASHINGTON (AP) —
Tomas Vokoun blanked his for-mer team with a 20-save per-formance, and the Washington Capitals beat the Florida Panthers 3-0 on Tuesday night to improve to 5-0, the best start in franchise history.
Marcus Johansson, Alexander Semin and Jason Chimera scored for the Capitals, who led 1-0 heading into the third period.
Washington and Detroit are the only NHL teams to win all their games thus far. The Capitals' four-game winning streak at home to start the sea-son is also a club record.
Vokoun was rarely tested, but he couldn't afford a slip-up in a
tightly played defensive strug-gle. It was the 45th NHL shutout for the 35-year-old goalie, who played the previous four seasons with Florida. He left for the Capitals after failing to reach a contract agreement with the Panthers over the summer.
Pressed into extensive action while Michal Neuvirth works to return from a foot injury, Vokoun improved to 4-0 this season.
Vokoun wasn't the only player matched up against his old team. Florida's Matt Bradley and Tomas Fleischmann are former Capitals, along with goaltender Jose Theodore, who watched from the bench for the first time this season.
Florida's Jacob Markstrom stopped 29 shots in his first NHL start, but was victimized by Johansson in the first period and by Semin at 1:49 of the third period. Chimera scored into an empty net.
That was more than enough to provide the Capitals with their first 5-0 start. Each of their pre-vious four games were decided by one goal, and three of those went to overtime.
Washington outshot Florida 11-2 in the first period and took a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal by Johansson, whose shot from the right side slipped through Markstrom's pads. Nicklas Backstrom and Alex Ovechkin earned assists.
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Washington Capitals goalie Tomas Vokoun deflects a shot by Florida Panthers center Stephen Weiss during the first period.AP
do, then a clear strategy is needed. Instead of utilizing the “quick-fix” mentality, both sides must con-sider the goals of the other side. More importantly, both sides need to commit to the big picture. As it goes, the devil is in the details, and such a sentiment precisely reflects the current struggles of the labor negotiations. The creation of a unified vision provides an out-let for relationship building and, a renewed trust between the owners and players. The need for a unified vision plays directly into the hands
of the federal mediator, who may not provide a new solution, but can encourage both sides to adopt a new mindset for negotiations. A fresh perspective would prove to be greatly effective, as the players and owners don’t need to reinvent the wheel so much as they need to just make it run again. Unquestionably, the labor negotiations will not end immediately, but the end may be closer than expected. Keep your fingers crossed, but rest assured: cooler heads will prevail.
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Federal mediator can encourage both sides to adopt new mindset
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76ers officially sold to new owners PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In
the end, the scene looked straight out of an ultimate Broadway encore. One and two owners on the stage turned into seven, eight, nine, all single file and holding enough personalized 76ers jerseys to fill a few racks at the merchan-dise store.
All that was missing was a bow.The Philadelphia 76ers are
under new management — lots and lots of management, that even includes a dose of Hollywood star power.
New York-based leveraged buy-out specialist Joshua Harris and the rest of his ownership group completed the deal to buy the Sixers from Comcast-Spectacor and wasted little time Tuesday making a splash on their first day in power.
Ed Stefanski is out as general manager and team president Rod Thorn will assume greater day-to-day control in running the fran-chise.
Doug Collins will not only remain the coach, but was asked to stand at the Palestra and was publicly heaped with praise from his new bosses.
Adam Aron, the former chair-man and CEO of Vail Resort, is the Chief Executive Officer and prom-ised cost-saving changes for fans. The announced ticket prices for nearly 9,000 seats, yes, even the good ones, will be slashed. Tickets priced at $101 and $54 plum-
meted to $54 and $29. The Sixers also launched NewSixersOwner.com to solicit fan feedback in an attempt to energize one of the weakest and passionless fan bases in Philadelphia sports.
Harris and Co., who could have used name tags, did everything but address the roster. The linger-ing NBA lockout banned specific talk about players and a blueprint to build a championship team off limits.
Among the lengthy list of new owners and investors include co-managing owner David Blitzer, former NBA player agent and Sacramento Kings executive Jason Levien, GSI Commerce CEO Michael Rubin, real estate investors, film producers, and Hollywood power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
"At the end of the day, Josh is the managing partner," Blitzer said. "He's actually a great lis-tener. He'll take in lots of great opinions. But at the end of the day, Josh gets to make the call. It's not like there's 15 people that all have rights to vote and say this and do that."
Harris is one of three founders of Apollo Global Management, a publicly listed alternative investment manager. He co-founded Apollo Global Management in 1990. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business
and a master's degree from the Harvard Business School. Harris' investment is a personal one and Apollo Management, LP is not involved in the trans-action.
The 46-year-old Harris was worth $1.45 billion, according to Forbes, as of September.
Apollo invests heavily in distressed properties — which one could argue would include the Sixers. They can't fill their arena, haven't won a playoff series since 2003 and have gone years without turning a prof-it. Comcast-Spectactor chair-man Ed Snider, who called the shots the last 15 years, told The Associated Press last month that massive financial losses led the company to strike a tentative deal to sell the team in July.
"I wouldn't call the 76ers dis-tressed," Harris said.
But they are in financial dire straits.
A person familiar to the sale, who talked to The Associated Press on the condition of ano-nymity because the numbers are not public, said the Sixers lost around $15 million last season and have not turned a profit since 2001-02, the year after they went to the NBA finals.
Comcast-Spectacor bought the Sixers from Harold Katz on April 24, 1996. Comcast-Spectacor also owns the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers.
McDonough: Although match ended in chaos, Dawson's title win still a reason to celebrate
SportsWednesday, October 19, 2011 The Daily Campus, Page 13
TWOPAGE 2 Q :A :
“Who will win the World Series?”
“Cardinals. They basically haven’t lost a game since August.”
–Dan Seara, 3rd-semester history major, answered via Twitter.
Tweet your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to @DCSportsDept. The best answer will appear in the next paper.
“Will the UConn football team make a bowl game?”
The Daily Question Next Paper’sQuestion:
» That’s what he said “I am not worried about it. I will be back when I need to be back.”
-New York Giants’ running back Brandon Jacobs on his injured knee.
It’s showtime.
Freshman center Andre Drummond attempts a dunk from behind the foul line at First Night at Gampel Pavilion last Friday. Although Drummond missed the dunk, the blue chip recruit came in second in the dunk contest.
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CHICAGO (AP) — There is still no sign of Theo Epstein in Chicago.
It has been more than a week since word leaked that Epstein was headed to Chicago to join the Cubs after nine years with the Boston Red Sox.
It may take even longer for an official announcement.
Major League Baseball prohibits major news announcements during the World Series, which kicks off Wednesday in St. Louis as the Cardinals host the Texas Rangers in Game 1.
A person familiar with the negotiations has told The Associated Press that Epstein has agreed to a contract with the Cubs with a year left on his general manager contract in Boston. The person says compensation issues must be worked out, speaking on condition of anonymity because there has not been an announcement.
Two years ago, a news conference was held to announce that the Ricketts family had acquired the Cubs from Tribune Co. But even that came on a travel day for the World Series teams and it involved a multimillion-dollar deal.
On a cloudy Tuesday near Wrigley Field, the grounds crew was readying the playing field for the winter ahead while other workers repaired lights in the grandstand. No news conference, and no word on Epstein.
The Cubs have declined comment. Red Sox owner John Henry said last week that he wanted Epstein to stay with the Red Sox, while acknowl-edging the stress of being the Red Sox GM.
If and when Epstein arrives in Chicago, he will have his work cut out for him. The club has chewed up and spit out managers and general managers for decades.
Can Epstein be the guy to end the mind-boggling run of mediocrity, ineptitude, bad luck, strange karma and missed chances, one that has reached 103 years without a World Series win-ner? Chairman Tom Ricketts apparently thinks so and is ready to hand the 37-year-old Epstein a five-year deal reportedly worth $15 million to $18.5 million.
Epstein was running the Red Sox when they won it all in 2004 to end an 86-year World Series championship drought. And Boston added another title, with Epstein at the helm, three years later.
Once Epstein departs, the Red Sox are expect-ed to announce assistant GM Ben Cherington as his replacement. The Red Sox, who collapsed in September and missed the playoffs for a second straight year, must also find a new manager to replace Terry Francona.
One of the first chores in Chicago is the future of manager Mike Quade, who piloted the team to a 71-91 record in his first full season. He has another year left on his deal.
Still No sign of Epstein in Chicago
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Pro SideTHE Storrs SideTHE Defense reigns supreme on
Homecoming weekend at UConn
The old adage that “defense wins” may not hold much water except in the world of cliché, but it was everywhere in a weekend flooded with wins for UConn sports.
Beginning last Friday night, senior goalkeeper Jess Dulski led the women’s soccer team to a 1-0 shutout of Pittsburgh at Morrone Stadium. Dulski and the Connecticut backline of Danielle Dakin, Karen Gurnon, Courtney Wilkinson-Maitland and Gianna Roma held the Panthers to just five shots on net. It was the Huskies’ fifth shutout of the year.
Farther west that evening, the men’s hockey team stuck their flag in the ground at Army with a 5-0 shutout victory of the Black Knights. As teammate Cole Schneider netted two goals at the other end, junior goalie Garrett Bartus stopped 47 pucks sent his way over 60 minutes. Bartus recorded the second most saves in the nation a year ago and boosted his current save percentage to 95.4 percent on the season.
Sixteen hours later on a blustery
afternoon at the Rent, the foot-ball team came home victorious thanks to a dominant defensive effort. With the offense unable to produce a touchdown, Twyon Martin punched the ball out for a fumble in the fourth quarter that was scooped and scored by Byron Jones. The score put UConn up for good, 16-10, as they held South Florida to just 165 yards passing.
Back in Storrs, the men’s soccer team did their best impersonation of their female counterparts, by beating the Pittsburgh men’s club 1-0. Freshman goalkeeper Andre Blake began another scoreless streak by knocking away two shots on net over a scoreless 90 minutes. The team maintained its No. 1 ranking into this week.
The other top-five squad in town, the No. 4 field hockey team, rounded things out with a 3-1 vic-tory over Princeton on Sunday. The Tigers were held to eight shots overall. Meanwhile, the Huskies have now allowed just two scores in their last four matches and con-tinue riding a season-high seven-game win streak.
By Andrew CallahanSenior Staff Writer
Avalanche halt Maple Leafs’ hot start as NHL is underway
The NHL season is under-way, and with the end of mean-ingful baseball near, the new hockey season is a welcome alternative to football. While most teams have only played a handful of games, this young season has already seen its share of exciting matchups and teams asserting early domi-nance on the ice. Continuing Monday’s Pro Side theme, here’s a game to look forward to, and one you shouldn’t have missed:
Game of the Week: Washington at Philadelphia,
Thursday, 7p.m. While the season is still
too young for statistics to tell much of a story, Washington’s offense has been putting up nearly four goals per game to come out of the gate at 4-0-0. Philadelphia’s big free agent signing, Ilya Bryzgalov, has held opponents to under two scores per game, and the Flyers just lost their first game of the season, 3-2 to Los Angeles in overtime on Saturday. This will
be an exciting early matchup between two fast teams.
Wish We Were There: Colorado 3, Toronto 2 (OT).
With an overtime victory against the Maple Leafs, the Avalanche won their fifth straight game to move to 5-1-0. It was a return to Toronto for former Leafs goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who lost his starting position to rookie James Reimer late last season. After a scoreless first period, Toronto struck first in the sec-ond, but Colorado answered with two goals to take a 2-1 lead at the second intermission.
A goal by Toronto wingman Nikolai Kulemin with under five minutes remaining in the third period sent the game to overtime, but Colorado scored just over a minute into over-time to hand Toronto (3-0-1) its first loss of the season. The Maple Leafs stay home, taking on the Winnipeg Jets tonight at 7:30 p.m. The Jets, former-ly the Atlanta Thrashers, are 1-3 since moving to Manitoba, Canada this summer.
By Jimmy OnofrioStaff Writer
The Daily Roundup
The No. 4 UConn field hockey team will put its seven–game win streak on the line tonight when it hosts No. 15 Boston University under the lights at the George J. Sherman Complex. The Huskies have dominated opponents during their win streak, outscor-
ing them 28-5.The Terriers are also
putting together an impressive season, post-ing an 8-6 record despite a very challenging schedule. They are coming off of a heartbreaking 4-3 over-time defeat at the hands of No. 8 UNH Monday, a game that spanned a total 70 hours from start to fin-ish because of a midgame rain postponement on Friday evening.
“B.U. has outscored their opponents 33-13, so they will provide a good challenge for our defense,” said head coach Nancy Stevens. “A chal-lenge that we are looking forward to meeting. BU has outstanding corner
options, so we will look to limit their opportunities on the attack penalty corner. They are ranked among the Top 15 teams in the nation, so we expect a close and hard–fought battle.”
Leading the Huskies will be freshman sensation Chloe Hunnable. The Chelmsford, England native is the highest scoring freshman in the country and is currently leading the Huskies with 12 goals. The forward has eased into both college and a new country with grace.
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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAYP.13: Still no sign of Epstein in Chicago. / P.12: Golf places second at Shelter Harbor. / P.11: Carson Palmer traded to Oakland.
“Bad” Chad is CT’s own
I don’t pay much attention to boxing. I don’t know of many people who do.
It’s too much trouble. Fans spend money to follow a sport. They spend money to support their team or watch games in person. But, for the most part, they don’t need to spend a lot of money to watch a game from the comfort of their own home. Aside from forking out a few bucks for chips and dip, watch-ing a game from the living room sofa is pretty cheap.
But boxing matches are for an exclusive audience. The best matches are pay-per-view. The bout between Chad Dawson and Bernard Hopkins on Saturday at 9 p.m. was available on HBO Pay-Per-View for $49.95. Needless to say, my “Helluva Good!” French onion dip is still sitting on the second shelf of my fridge.
Nobody cares about box-ing because nobody can watch it. What once was a kingpin sport for decades is now large-ly unavailable to the masses. Boxing’s market is lost some-where in Don King’s hair fol-licles.
In another world, I would be a boxing fan. I respect the sport’s history and envy the athletes’ athletic ability and training regi-men, but because of the lack of exposure and the fact that I can’t take a punch, I will never be a boxing fan. I will, however, always be a “Bad” Chad Dawson fan.
Dawson regained the WBC light heavyweight title belt after knocking out the 46-year-old Hopkins in the second round Saturday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The end of the LL Cool J diss, “Second Round K.O.” by Canibus, may be more of a legitimate knockout in the second round than Dawson’s. Mike Tyson punching out Alan in “The Hangover” was a fairer TKO.
With 20 seconds remaining in the second round, Dawson wrapped his arms around Hopkins’ torso and briefly lifted him up before dropping him below the ropes. Half of Hopkins’ body was hanging over the side of the ring. The announcers dubbed the move a “tackle.” Much to the dismay of the rowdy crowd, Hopkins, who has a long history of faking injuries, didn’t get up for a while and was indicating his left shoul-der was badly injured. Referee Pat Russell, who did not call the body slam a foul, called the fight after Hopkins said he could not continue. Dawson regained the title.
As controversial as the end-ing was, and as sketchy as the circumstances around the injury sound, the win by Dawson should be celebrated in Connecticut. The 29-year-old southpaw was born in South Carolina, but grew up in New Haven. He went to Hillhouse High and started his career in the Elm City. He’s fought all over the world, but has won bouts at the New Haven Athletic Center, the XL Center in Hartford and the Mohegan Sun Arena in southeastern Connecticut. “Bad” Chad started his professional career with a 29-match winning streak.
I had the pleasure of inter-viewing him in the summer of 2010 in New Haven, a couple months before his fight against Jean Pascal in Montreal. He and his wife were a pleasure to be around. “Bad” Chad is just a nickname. The event I met him at was a fundraiser. It was no surprise, as Dawson is involved
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Matt McDonough
PICK OF THE LITTER
By Peter LogueStaff Writer
Allison Angulo looks upfield in UConn’s 3-1 win over Princeton on Oct. 16. The Huskies take on Boston University tonight in Storrs.
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No. 4 Huskies host Terriers, look to improve to 14-1 on the season
Heading into critical meetings with federal mediator George Cohen, the writing is officially on the wall for the NBA players and owners. No longer are we in the preliminary stages of lockout talks. No longer is shaving mere percentage points off of revenue sharing a feasible solution to end the current stalemate. Rather, with the first two weeks of the season already cancelled, and the sym-bolic Christmas Day matchups in grave danger of following suit, the time for both sides to act is now. However, although imme-diate action is needed, the solu-tion to the NBA’s ailments and the eventual panacea to the entire labor problem is a simple one: closing the gap.
Although the lockout has per-sisted, negotiations have been far from uneventful. Throughout the negotiations, both sides have
made concessions. It’s notable that the players decided to will-ingly decrease their revenue share from 57 percent to 53 percent. Along the same lines, the owners agreed to cease their pursuit of a “hard” salary cap, instead settling for a few changes in the future collective bargaining agreement. Clearly, those changes exemplify the efforts of each side to reach a resolution. Yet deeper analysis demonstrates that these conces-sions are shallow (quick fixes, if you will), and in the grand scheme of things have no shot of rectifying the current situation.
Identifying the ultimate goal of the labor agreement sheds light on why the negotiations to date have been futile. In short, both owners and players desire an agreement that evenly distributes revenue, protects owners from financial risks, helps small-market teams and fosters successful revenue generation and growth for years to come. It takes no expert (or federal mediator) to understand
that long-term success stems from a beneficial agreement for both sides. To a greater extent, a suc-cessful outcome demands com-mitment to a greater good – the good of the NBA at large. As previously alluded to, both sides have compromised to an extent, but on isolated issues. Instead of compromising on the state of the NBA at large, these isolated negotiations have detracted from progressive movements between the players and owners. Actions such as the players suggesting 53 percent of the revenue share, which initially aimed at bringing the two sides closer, have worked to the contrary, serving as a divi-sive force rather than a unifying one.
All in all, considering the flawed negotiations to date and those looming in the future, one glaring conclusion exists: If the players and owners aim to save the NBA, which presumably they
By Chris ZielinskiNBA Columnist
In a tragedy that sent shock-waves through the entire rac-ing and sports community, Dan Wheldon was killed this past weekend at the IZOD IndyCar World Championships at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Wheldon’s death occurred on Lap 11 of the race, when a 15-car crash occurred, leaving cars in flames and several drivers injured. However, the true severity and culmination of the event was exemplified through Wheldon’s death, which was remorsefully announced to an outpouring of emotion and sadness by fans and racers alike. Experts agree
that further analysis is needed to determine if conditions at the track, especially the surrounding fence barrier, were responsible for Wheldon’s death. However, to shift the focus to the potentially faulty track design detracts from Wheldon and his career – some-thing none of us should do.
Instead, Wheldon should be remembered for his passion and ambition as a racer. In a sport defined by one’s ability to con-tinually push the envelope search-ing for the fastest possible speeds, Wheldon was rivaled by few in his quest for perfection. His career speaks for itself: 16 series wins, highlighted by victories at the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011. Beyond being successful on the track, Wheldon was an
equally important presence within the racing community. He was characterized as having a per-manent smile on his face, often noted for his approachability and interaction with his adoring fans. Simply put, he is the athlete every sport hopes to have – not just a successful competitor, but a great ambassador as well.
Typically, it’s right around here where the “usual death comes for us all,” “life is short,” “only the good die young” metaphor finds its way into an article like this. However, compartmentalizing Wheldon’s death into a simple phrase does nothing but tarnish his life and career, and is a far cry from the reflection he deserves. On the contrary, Wheldon should be remembered for the abundance
of excitement he fostered with-in the sport. He possessed both the obsession and success that is all too common with athletes in today’s generation, and added his own spin to it. Instead of letting sports define him, Wheldon was able to incorporate his personality into the world of racing, provid-ing a sense of humor and per-sonality to a sport that frequently lacks it.
In sum, regardless of the per-spective taken on Wheldon’s death, the sports world lost a great member in this weekend’s trag-edy. Yet, if Wheldon can teach us anything, it is to find something we love and never let go. For all his ups and downs, Wheldon’s marriage with IndyCar racing was unwavering. Aside from his suc-
cess, especially at Indianapolis, he was loved more so for the man he was off the track than the racer he was on it. As many of us come to realize, there is life beyond a career, and it is crucial to bal-ance our chase for success with humility, respect and love for those around us. Wheldon has been called many things in light of his death – a racer, a friend, a father, a husband – but arguably the stron-gest description, and one that has often gone unsaid, is an obvious one: a role model. Wheldon epito-mized the true balance of sports and life, as his passion for racing was never lost in translation to the individual he was in real life.
By Chris ZielinskiSports in Society Columnist
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