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Homecoming effects on football JEREMY DAYS

The week of homecoming is not an ordinary week for the A&T football team. Players will be tasked with balancing football practice with homecoming festivities. The fashion in which the Aggies operate this week could be critical to their chances on Saturday against Virginia University of Lynchburg. Normally, Monday is the day the football team reviews the game plan for the week. “We are going to try to get better and start on preparation for the weekend, hopefully we can get better and play better as a football team,” said A&T head coach Rod Broadway. The team is scheduled to report to the ﬁeld house around

3 p.m. to watch ﬁlm, and end practice by 6 p.m. After practice, the team is introduced to other students who want to enjoy the start of homecoming. The ﬁrst scheduled event for homecoming is the homecoming countdown, which included the gym jam that took place Monday night in Corbett Sports Center. Keeping a football mindset during homecoming week could prove to be a crucial challenge for the coaching staff this week. “We have got to win this game, the main thing for us is to focus and concentrate and play as well as we can play this game. Homecoming will be a lot more enjoyable for us if we can do that,” said Broadway. On Tuesday, the football team digs deeper into understanding the ins-and-outs of the

game plan. “A Tuesday practice is our ﬁrst real workday preparing for our opponent,” said A&T defensive back D’vonte Graham. A Tuesday football practice is the most-physical day at practice for each position. The offense and defense do a lot of hitting and situational drills in preparation for the game on Saturday. After 6 p.m., the football players become students again and are free to experience “The Greatest Homecoming on Earth.” The second event of the week is the comedy show, which is starred comedian Mike Epps. “I don’t think the comedy show will have any effect on our mindset. I think we have guys on our team that know when

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it’s football time and when it’s time to enjoy ourselves off the ﬁeld,” said Graham. Wednesday is referred to as hump day, but for the Aggies, it is working Wednesday. The Aggies will endure one more physical day in the trenches. “Wednesday practices are focus intensive days. They are long days full of adjustments and game plan changes,” said A&T quarterback Lewis Kindle. By Wednesday, everyone on the team should have the game plan down pack. If a player fails to comprehend the game plan, it is possible that coach Broadway will go with another instead. While students enjoy

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AMBRIYA NEAL & ANTHONY FITZHUGH at the coronation before being officially crowned as Mr. and Miss N.C. A&T on Sunday, October 27, 2013. See the online gallery at ncatregister.com

‘G.H.O.E.’ Concert Timeline Editors’ Poll: Some of the best acts in the last two decades Information compiled by Dominique Moody and Photo Illustration by Karmen Robinson & Taylor Wilson

Tupac Shakur, Ice Cube, and MC Lyte were the major performers of the year.

Snoop Dogg, Common, Jagged Edge, and Trina provided us with smooth and sensational hits.

Lil’ Wayne, Keyshia Cole, Young Dro & Flavor Flav all came and sparked the crowd.

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The Fugees along with A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, and Outkast performed at Homecoming.

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Drake, Rick Ross, J.Cole, and Chrisette Michele gave us hit after hit performance.

G-Unit, T.I., and Lil’ John and the Eastside Boyz showed the Aggies how to really get “crunk.”

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Cost increase of stamps could affect students

WEDNESDAY

Pumpkin Carving

MSU— Exhibit Hall 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

THURSDAY

Convocation

Harrison Auditorium 10 a.m. - noon

Halloween Photobooth Memorial Student Union 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Trickin’ & Treatin’

Memorial Student Union 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Haunted House

MSU— Exhibit Hall 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Pep Rally

Corbett Sports Center 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

FRIDAY

NPHC Step Show

Greensboro Coliseum 7:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Homecoming Parade

DOMINIQUE MOODY Register Reporter

The postal service is now considering raising the cost of stamps by three cents. In September, the Postal Board of Governors met to discuss challenges the business has experienced. Stamps currently cost 46 cents. Although the cost is not extremely high for college students, some seniors will still have to mail off resumes, transcripts, and job applications if employers do not provide an online application. An increase could take a toll on their ﬁnancial pockets. Before the price of stamps goes up, the Postal Regulatory Commission has to approve the rate increase. The cost of ﬁrst-class mail would increase to 49 cents. The price of mailing a postcard would rise to 34 cents. Mail being sent internationally would

FOOTBALL From page 1 festivities, how much of a homecoming experience will the Aggie football team have? Quarterback Lewis Kindle says, “For the most part, we don’t get to experience the full effect of homecoming. We still have to sacriﬁce in order to be successful.” Receiver Desmond Lawrence also commented saying, “It’s homecoming. There will be a lot of distractions throughout the week. We are all adults, and it is up to us to stay focused and come to practice.” The physicality level will be at a minimum during Thursday’s practice. “A Thursday practice is more of a focus and mistakefree practice,” said Linebacker Bryan Houston. Thursday is about 70 percent mental and 30 percent physical. The coaches will insert the ﬁnal adjustments to the game plan and emphasize the importance of special teams in the game. On Thursdays, the work-

rise to $1.10 from a previous $1.05. “The increase is required for the postal service to raise prices of the stamps,” said Monica Coachmen who works with Corporate Communications for the United States Postal Service (USPS). “Due to the Postal Service’s financial situation, the business is required to raise the prices.” The post office continues to come up with solutions to help resolve its debt situation. Through the years 2011-2013, post offices have owed 27 billion dollars. During the last fiscal year, the business owed 15.9 billion dollars. Postmaster General, Pat Donahoe has requested that arbitrators take into consideration the USPS’ financial situation. “I feel like everything else is going up, so stamps have to go up as well,” said Latecka Pleasant, a University Mail Center employee. “Everyone is texting load is heavy for punt returners, kick returners, kickers and punters. The team will also be practicing different situations, such as long yardage, short yardage, red-zone offense and defense. This is another crucial practice because these scenarios arise in each game. After a Thursday practice, all the hard work for the week has been completed. For the players, the next period will be getting rested and restored into game form. Following practice, students can look forward to the pep rally. With several A&T students trick-or-treating or going to Halloween parties to celebrate, can football players trust their teammates to do the right thing Thursday night? Houston interjected by saying, “Yes, I trust my teammates believing that together we will stay in Thursday night and get our minds prepared and ready to win a football game for our alumni on homecoming.” Friday is all about the mental state of mind for the Aggies. Linebacker D’Vonte Grant de-

and not mailing letters anymore.” Regardless of whether or not the rates increase, the service is expected to lose $6 billion dollars this year. The postal service has also turned to Congress for help. If the request for the increase is approved, the business would look to bring in $2 billion in revenue. In addition to the rates possibly increasing, Congress has proposed to cut out Saturday mail, a move that would save close to another $2 billion dollars each year. One major factor that contributes to the debt of the postal service is the prefund for health benefits. The prefund provides the ability to pay for employees’ benefits after they retire, which costs the postal service $16 billion. The postal service is the only federal business that pays for employees’ health benefits after retirement. scribed the Aggies Friday practice as “meetings and depth chart corrections along with film study and rest.” On Fridays, the team walks through their on-field assignments to ensure they know what to do on game day. The amount of sleep players get can make or break their game-day performance. The last event prior to the homecoming football game is the step show. Students may believe that the Aggie football team will be distracted by homecoming events, but Grant feels otherwise. “This Friday will be no different because the team is focused, and we know what we have to do to get prepared for the game on Saturday.” As homecoming unfolds, fans will see if the homecoming events are truly a distraction this Saturday at 1 p.m. when the Aggies and the Dragons of Virginia University of Lynchburg square off.

Complaints have not only come from frustrated employees and lawmakers, but also the postal workers unions and college students who use postal services. Some believe that the move to increase prices would be an unnecessary inconvenience for loyal customers. “The Postal Service is trying to get more money. By raising the prices of stamps, it will only create more complaints from customers,” said Qiera Love, an A&T student. If the postal service does not choose to increase prices, the business will suffer ﬁnancially which will indirectly affect customers, workers, and other businesses. Though most American citizens have become accustomed to emails and messaging, older citizens still use mailing services. Small businesses such as print and copy shops that use the postal service would also be affected.

The United States Postal Service has provided a Postal Plan that helps those who live in the rural communities, where the postal service is requested. If it were not for this plan, citizens living in rural areas would have to commute a long distance for mailing purposes. If the postal service loses locations as a result of its debt crisis, it would hurt the rural communities, thus affecting customers. Over the past seven years approximately 202,000 have left the post ofﬁce, not because they were laid off, instead of personal decisions, and retirement. The postal service provides a ﬁnancial incentive for those who are retiring early and want the early retirement offers. That could come to an end if these issues are not resolved. —Email Dominque at jdmoody1@ aggies.ncat.edu and follow The Register on Twitter @TheATRegister

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Matthew Schofield MTC Campus

BERLIN — Michael Goewe was excited when he arrived in his nation’s capital to see the sights. But as he was planning this visit back in his home in Cologne, he hadn’t figured the seemingly boring U.S. Embassy in central Berlin would be among the must-see items. Plans changed over the last week. A steady stream of news reports on how the Americans had been spying on the German political class, including now three-term Chancellor Angela Merkel, pinpointed the top floor of the embassy. “We knew the spy news this summer, but it’s reached a new magnitude when you learn they’ve been spying on the chancellor,” he said. “It’s clear now that something has to be done, and so you want to see where it’s based.” When the new American Embassy opened here five years ago, there was more than a little grousing. The building was boring, critics argued, and looked to be more about keeping the rest of the world away than projecting an image. Locals worried that reopening the embassy in the very heart of a reunified Berlin, in a reunified Germany, would make the iconic surroundings less accessible. And there were fears that mooted plans to shut down the road running along the backside of the embassy would somehow snarl downtown traffic. But there was little talk about the top floor of the embassy, and the antennas atop it. Until now. This weekend, the latest issue of the German magazine Der Spiegel has a cover photo with a creepy Cold War feel to it of what’s atop the embassy, under the headline “Das Nest.” The magazine analyzes the top floor of the building. It focuses on the gray box-like rooms on the top that appear to have stone-colored windows. The magazine found experts and journalists who postulated that such an appearance is likely hiding highly sensitive spy equipment. They note that documents indicate the embassy’s top floors are home to a joint National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency spy program. Berlin visitors say the fact that the embassy rises above the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is a painful

testament to what can happen when a paranoid government moves unchecked. The embassy roof offers an unrestricted view of the Reichstag a block to the north, the seat of the federal government. Two blocks to the south is the futuristic Sony Center, a symbol of reunified Germany’s economic rebirth. The embassy is, without a doubt, a building at the very heart of this nation, residing in an honored place that has made sense to Germans. The United States is considered such a staunch and worthy ally. But then the spy scandal erupted with the release by former NSA worker Edward Snowden of records that indicated the United States was sweeping up hundreds of millions of electronic communications. The documents he released indicated the NSA was studying emails with key words or phrases and recording so-called “metadata” from smart phones, information tracking the movement and actions of phone owners. The embassy became the focus of an occasional protest, the slogan “United Stasi of America” projected from across the street onto its walls. Hans-Christian Stroebele, the longest serving member of Germany’s Bundestag intelligence committee, made a point of saying that Merkel announced, and Germans believed, soon after the scandal broke that this horrible tale had ended. That the scandal instead has intensified is deeply disturbing. He admitted it’s a deep rift. Fixing it would require the Obama administration to “put all facts on the table and put an end to the spying immediately, and rule out a repetition in the future.” In Berlin, a city so recently tortured by the informationstealing Stasi intelligence organization of East Germany, and before that by the Gestapo’s brutal use of information in Nazi Germany, such allegations cut deeply. But in the past week, the anger has increased. The reason is simple: Germans might not appreciate the means but are as anti-terrorism as any people and could understand the motives. But tapping the cellphones of their chancellor and other political leaders clearly has nothing to do with anti-terror efforts. Johannes Thimm, a North America expert at the Ger-

man Institute for International and Security Affairs, a Berlin think tank, said it’s becoming increasingly clear that the NSA is violating a lot of laws around the globe, and for very little _ if any _ worthwhile gain. “This spying cannot plausibly be explained as the prevention of terrorist activities,” he said. “The notion that the ends justify the means is a Cold War mindset, and I would argue this mindset didn’t serve the West well even in the Cold War.” Joerg Wolf, editor in chief and a foreign policy expert at the Atlantic Community, a Berlin-based think tank, said the secondary defense of the American spy policy _ after it became clear that spying on the heads of 35 nations isn’t about anti-terror activities _ is that “everybody does it.” But he said he doesn’t buy that, either. “I am convinced that Germany (since 1945) has never tried to bug a U.S. president,” he wrote in an email. “We don’t have the capabilities. And we are far too cautious to take the risk. Besides, the concrete benefits for us would be limited. And it’s just plain wrong.” Stroebele appeared to back up that idea. He said German foreign intelligence has publicly denied spying on the United States. “The possibility was considered almost a sacrilege,” he said. “I don’t think Germany would dare to spy on the Americans, let alone on a high level.” Wolf went on to note that mistakes have costs. Germans are outraged and saddened that the bad guy here is a long trusted and admired ally. “A lot of trust between our countries has been destroyed,” he said. “The Obama-Merkel relationship might not recover.” Of course, the anger is hardly limited to Germany. Laurence Nardon, a security expert at the Paris-based Institut Francais des Relations Internationales, said she spent the summer dismissing the allegations as unfortunate but the sort of things nations must do in a world dealing with international terrorism. But targeting national leaders so clearly removes this from an anti-terror strategy, and the scope goes so far beyond what other nations would contemplate, that it became impos-

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tHE U.S. EMBASSY is seen in Berlin, October 28, 2013, with the Brandenburg Gate and German Reichstag in the background, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the foreground. The top floor of the embassy has been nicknamed “Das Nest” by the German magazine Der Spiegel.

sible to maintain her professional indifference. Beyond this, the more she learned about what was being gathered, the more she came to believe it was almost entirely useless. What was being gathered appeared to be gathered simply because it was possible to gather that information, not

Palestinian-Israeli tension mounts by the day Batsheva Sobelman MTC Campus

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians are progressing painfully slowly, with few details emerging, and the atmosphere around the negotiations is one of rising tension and frustration. The Palestinians have threatened to pull out of the talks several times over Israel’s continued settlement building in the West Bank and the killing of six Palestinians by Israeli security forces, while right-leaning members of the Israeli Parliament have called for canceling the talks over the recent killing of three Israelis by Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas face enormous pressure from some members of their respective governments, and significant portions of their public, to withdraw from the negotiations. Virtually the only detail about the talks that’s emerged recently came from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday in Rome, where he held a marathon seven hours of talks with Netanyahu. The two men said nothing about the peace talks af-

ter their meeting, which was largely devoted to Iran. But before meeting with Netanyahu, Kerry said there’d been intense meetings between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators over the past several weeks and that the two sides had met three times within five days. Israelis and Palestinians, however, voice little but pessimism. After the killing of two Israeli soldiers and a settler by Palestinians in the West Bank, Housing Minister Uri Ariel, from the Jewish Home party, called on Netanyahu to halt a planned release of Palestinian prisoners that Israel had committed to before the peace talks resumed. The release is scheduled for next week. Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, of Netanyahu’s Likud bloc, has said the Palestinians were unworthy peace partners. Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin, also from Likud, said Palestinians would interpret a peace agreement as a sign of weakness. Enthusiasm for the talks is no better on the other side. Hanna Amireh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee, warned last week that pulling out of peace negotiations was one of the scenarios discussed during a recent

meeting of the committee. Israel, he charged, was benefiting from the prolonged negotiations by expanding settlements in Palestinian areas and dictating the outcome of the talks. There also have been repeated bloody clashes between Palestinians and rightwing Israeli settlers at the Temple Mount, or Al-Aqsa Mosque, in East Jerusalem. The mosque is Islam’s thirdholiest shrine, abutting the Western Wall, probably Judaism’s holiest site. The clashes recently prompted Amos Harel, a columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, to call the Temple Mount “the primary danger” of sparking wider violence. “The increasing frequency of visits by rabbis and Jewish worshippers to the site, as well as the activities of various groups, fuel concern among the Palestinians” that rightwing Jewish groups are trying to upset the status quo, under which the Temple Mount is administered by Muslims, he wrote. Elsewhere, Israeli settlers have increased their “price tag” attacks on Palestinians and their property. Fourteen Israeli yeshiva students, aged 13-14, were arrested recently in Jerusalem on suspicion of vandalizing Palestinian

property. Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths have claimed the lives of six Palestinians during the last two months. At the same time, Palestinians increasingly target Israeli settlers in the West Bank in shooting and stone-throwing attacks, and the domestic Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet regularly reports attempts or plans by Palestinian groups to kidnap and attack Israeli soldiers and settlers. Both sides appear unwilling to back down. Abbas urged the Europeans on Wednesday not to deal with businesses in the settlements. But Netanyahu recently sent a message of support to settlers in Hebron, considered some of the most extreme of the settler movements. The situation recently drew alarm from Yuval Diskin, the former head of Shin Bet. “All of the conditions exist in our situation for the Palestinian masses to rise up. In the West Bank, the intense tension and frustration is worsening among the Palestinians, who feel that their land is being stolen from them, that the state they strive for is getting further away and the economy is no longer something that they can take comfort in,” he said.

because there was a reason to gather it. “It is clear that the American intelligence community became a group of children, unsupervised, in a candy store,” she said. “Each type of information was so easy to grab, and they all looked so tempting, that they grabbed

all they could, simply because they could. “The problem, of course, is that the children soon find that too much candy leads to stomach aches. In this case, the stomach ache came when the world found out what they were doing.”

Storm batters northern Europe MTC Campus

LONDON — A powerful Atlantic storm packing hurricaneforce winds claimed several lives in northern Europe on Monday and caused widespread power and public transport disruptions. The storm devastated parts of Britain, where officials reported gusts of up to 105 miles per hour. Fallen trees caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and blocked roads and railways. Some 130 flights were cancelled at London’s Heathrow airport, Europe’s busiest. Two people died west of London following a gas explosion that was likely the result of a tree falling on their house. Two others died when trees fell on their vehicles. Falling trees also killed two in the Netherlands. A roof tile fell on a man in Denmark, killing him. Across Germany, four people died after trees hit their car. On Sunday, a man died on a lake near Cologne after his boat capsized in the severe weather, while large swells likely also caused a fisherman in western Germany to drown. A French woman in her 50s was believed to have drowned on the island of Belle-Ile, off the coast of Brittany. Electricity workers were racing to reconnect tens of thousands of households in northern

France, while Swedish authorities warned of blackouts. The storm snarled planes, trains and ferries. In addition to Heathrow, there were delays and cancellations at Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Southend airports. Flights in the German cities of Dusseldorf and Hamburg were also scrapped. Train services across southern Britain, from where many London workers commute, were also down. A railroad manager said service would be restored at the earliest by Tuesday. The Eurostar train service between London and the European continent was also disrupted because high winds meant the subChannel train could not move at top speed. A ferry from Newcastle in Britain with 1,000 passengers could not dock at the Dutch port of Ijmuiden as planned, leaving the ship to ride out the storm on the water. After being suspended for several hours, ferry services between Dover and the French town of Calais had resumed Monday afternoon. In Denmark and Sweden, several key bridges were closed due to high winds. Train service in parts of northern Germany and Denmark was halted. The storm was named St Jude after the patron saint of lost causes, whose feast day was Monday.

theBIZ Never too early to plan for college The A&T Register | ncatregister.com | Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Gail MarksJarvis MTC Campus

Look at your cute baby, and imagine the little tyke wearing a high school cap and gown about 17 years from now. Picturing the child holding a diploma, when he or she can’t even hold a rattle yet, is probably next to impossible. But that day will come. And if you are like most parents, as you watch Junior walk across the stage to pick up a diploma, you will be vacillating between feelings of pride and utter fear. At that point, your child will be headed to college, and the price tag will be so shocking you’ll be tossing and turning at night. If college prices continue to climb as they have the past few years, by the time today’s newborns go to college, the sticker price will be about $37,700 for one year of tuition, room and board at a state university and $98,200 at a private college, said Kalman Chany, a college financial aid consultant and author of “Paying for College Without Going Broke.” For a four-year education, it will be about $161,500 at a university in your state or $426,400 at a private college, he estimates. To put that into perspective, many public colleges now run about $20,000 a year, and some private colleges are more than $55,000. So maybe at this point you figure you will stick a bat or ball in the little tyke’s hands the moment he or she can hold it, in hopes they are on the road toward winning an athletic scholarship. But let’s face it: That’s a remote possibility. Should you despair? Remember, you don’t need the entire sum saved for college the day Junior moves into a dormitory room. And during the next 17 years, your salary probably will rise along with college costs, so the numbers won’t look as shocking as they do today. In addition, low- and middle-income families don’t have to pay the full sticker price if they are smart about college choices. But if you want to make paying for college as painless as possible, you are going to have to start planning now. For the next 17 years, you will have to keep your eye on the calendar. Before children are

old enough to get braces, some savvy parents start helping them build the type of resumes that will win scholarships. Still, don’t count on scholarships to do all the heavy lifting. No matter how polished your child turns out to be in high school, the chances are you will have to come up with a good sum of money yourself. So start now by saving as much as you can. Anything is better than nothing. If you start saving $100 a month for college and invest it in a balanced mutual fund that’s roughly divided half and half in stocks and bonds, you should have about $40,000 by the time you pack up the car with junior’s belongings and head to college. But also make sure you have your priorities right. Too many parents — especially those laden with their own college loans — want to spare their children college debt. So they plop money into a college savings account for their children, while neglecting to save for their own retirement. This is upside-down planning. I’ve heard from many parents who can’t retire because they put their child’s education ahead of their own savings, and their child ends up finished with college, enjoying a Wall Street or a law firm salary, and is debt-free. The rule of thumb for saving enough money for retirement is: Start saving 10 percent of pay in a 401(k), IRA or both, beginning in your 20s. If you wait until your 30s, it’s 12 to 15 percent. If you happen to have an employer that offers the typical 3 percent matching money for a 401(k), you can stash away 7 percent of your own pay and — with the free money from your employer — you will hit the 10 percent mark. For college savings, you can make investing easy and the most profitable if you keep Uncle Sam away from taxing your savings. Plop either the $2,000 limit a year into a Coverdell college savings account, or if you can manage to save more, skip the Coverdell and use a 529 college savings plan offered by a state government. Anything you save in these accounts will be tax-free for you and your child if it goes to pay for college. Tell grandparents and other relatives about the child’s 529 plan, so

they can send birthday and other gifts into the college fund. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: Maybe you’ve been saving diligently since you helped the little tyke blow out the candle on that first birthday cake. If you were making life easy on yourself, you evaluated 529 plans and chose one with low fees and solid performance, and you’ve been letting the investment experts at the plan invest your money in the manner that typically is appropriate for your child’s age. Are you satisfied with the 529 plan you chose, and the investments you’ve chosen within the plan? You are allowed to make changes once a year — selecting a plan in another state if you want, or different investments in the plan. Remember, you don’t have to stick with the plan in your state, although many states give you an extra tax break if you do. And you can save money if you go to a state 529 plan directly rather than using a financial adviser. According to Morningstar, the average cost if you do this on your own is about 0.60 percent, but with an adviser it’s 1.5 percent — a much higher amount that will detract from the amount you amass. Say your child received $2,000 from Grandma at birth. In the cheap 0.60 percent-fee fund, the savings would become about $6,680 by college if the investments earned 8 percent. The same investments in the 1.50 percent fund would be $5,720. To identify funds Morningstar thinks are best, find its list of best funds on Morningstar.com or check out SavingForCollege.com. As you evaluate the investments, keep in mind what “agebased” means. With that approach, the plan typically invests for you based on the child’s age. Up to 4 years old, the money was probably invested about 80 percent in stocks and 20 percent in bonds. Between 5 and 10, it was probably 65 percent in stocks and 35 percent in bonds. The idea is to increase the money as much as possible when the child is young by using a significant amount of stocks. Then the closer the child gets to college, the more conservative the investing becomes so there’s less chance of a loss when the first tuition bill rolls around.

You can lose money in 529 plan investments when the stock market goes down, but if investments turn more conservative along the way, you generally have time to recover by college. Many plans offer conservative investments if you can’t stomach stocks. But remember the trade-offs. If you select a money market fund or CDs paying 2 percent interest, your $100 in savings a month would total less than $25,000 by the time a newborn makes it to college. If you have been getting raises every year, consider increasing your contributions to the 529 plan — maybe setting up your account to move money automatically each payday. Also make sure you tell Grandma and Grandpa not to open any accounts in the child’s name under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act or Uniform Transfer to Minors Act. If your child is going to qualify for financial aid when he or she goes to college, a UGMA or UTMA will poison his chances. Want to know if you are likely to get financial aid? For a ballpark idea, try the “estimated family contribution” calculator at the college you think your child might attend or try FinAid.com’s calculator, at http://www.tinyurl.com/finaidest. Meanwhile, now is the time to start looking for college scholarships. You might think that’s crazy, but a few are available for children as young as 6. Among them: Kohl’s Kids Who Care and Doodle 4 Google, an art competition that provides $15,000. FinAid.com has more information at http://www.tinyurl.com/finaid13. STARTING HIGH SCHOOL: Parents often don’t start thinking about college until their children are seniors in high school, and college acceptances start arriving with horrific costs in them. That’s tragic. By senior year in high school, they have missed the greatest opportunities for winning scholarships and adjusting household finances so families are in the best position to maximize the financial aid colleges will give them. It’s critical to get ready to seek scholarships before your child’s sophomore year in high school because many deadlines arrive during the fall of that year. If your baby had no interest in

a bat and ball, you don’t have to worry. Your search for scholarships will reveal that there’s something for everyone who’s willing to work at it — from tall children to left-handed people, bowlers and golf caddies, and David Letterman’s award for average students. Find the most unusual scholarships at Unusual Aid and the most prestigious and high-paying like Intel’s $100,000 at Prestigious Aid. Two valuable scholarships sites are Fastweb.com and Scholarships.com. Along with your scholarship search, start having your child record all activities and honors. Scholarship applications and college applications require a list of activities and references from people who saw your child excel. Read “Secrets to Winning Scholarships” by Mark Kantrowitz and “How to Go to College Almost for Free” by Benjamin Kaplan for strategies on winning scholarships. The same strategies will also help your child write winning college application essays, and scholarships help gain admission to college. Meanwhile, check the 529 college savings plan now to make sure investments are becoming more conservative. The last thing you want is a big loss from stocks when your child is getting close to college. According to a 2011 study by Morningstar, the average 529 plan kept only 33 percent of assets invested in stocks for a 14year-old, and only 11 percent for an 18-year-old. Finally, if your child’s high school offers advanced placement classes and tests, you might be able to have your child master them. Eliminating a semester from college attendance would save you some money. HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR YEAR: This is the most critical year if your family is going to be eligible for financial aid. At some private colleges, a family earning as much as $200,000 might get some aid. At public colleges, it gets unlikely with incomes around $90,000. To understand what’s likely for you, do the “federal” calculation and the “institutional” calculation at http://tinyurl.com/ finaidest, or use the calculator on the site for the college your child

adores. The institutional formula is for private schools, and moderateincome students can sometimes attend private schools for less than the school down the road because private colleges have more aid available. If you think you will be eligible for aid, don’t make the common mistakes that sabotage the possibility. The biggest mistake is keeping savings in a child’s name rather than the parents’, but others can include refinancing a home and saving the money for college, converting a regular IRA to a Roth, using tax strategies that appeal to your tax accountant and destroy financial aid, or selling stocks, bonds or mutual funds in your child’s senior year or thereafter to pay for college. All could result in losing grants — or free money that doesn’t have to be repaid. Before December of your child’s junior year, sell investments that will pay for college. Also, go over every account in your name and your child’s name to make sure the money is in the right place and won’t sabotage your chances of getting grants. Why? Because each year you want aid from a college, you will fill out what’s called a FAFSA form, a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, and at private colleges maybe a PROFILE form too. Embedded in those forms is a quirky formula that says whether you will get aid. To make the determination, colleges will require you to submit the forms and your tax return. You want your accounts and your tax return to be in the best shape for aid, starting with the tax year that begins Jan. 1 of your child’s junior year. By that time, if you are likely to get grants, college financial aid consultants suggest you make sure college savings are in the parents’ name, not the child’s. They suggest that any UGMA or UTMA accounts be closed even before then. The money will be the child’s but can be used by the family for items like computers, prom clothes or class trips — non-necessities. If the money is in a 529 plan kept in the parents’ name, it will reduce financial aid somewhat, but not nearly as sharply as a UGMA or UTMA.

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America Bewithched: Suspicion Persists

Owen Davies MCT Campus

As Halloween approaches, the Salem, Mass., city tourism industry goes into overdrive. “Come to Salem and B-Prepared-2-B-Scared! It’s Halloween City!” runs one current slogan. It is a time of harmless fun for many, but the reason Salem is a center of the Halloween industry is, of course, due to tragic events more than three centuries ago. It was in nearby Salem Village (now Danvers), that in 1692 accusations of witchcraft led to the execution of 19 people, with four other accused witches perishing in jail. Within a few decades Salem had become a byword for intolerance, bigotry, and credulity. Over and over again in the

19th century educators, politicians, historians and novelists portrayed it as a full stop in America’s colonial past. “Remember Salem! Never Again!” became a motto of the country’s promoters of enlightenment and progress. Today, Salem still looms large in America’s historical memory, thanks in part to its place in the curriculum of many schools. It is an episode ripe for illustrating the lessons to be learned from history. American children are far more exposed to the story of 17thcentury witch persecution than their counterparts in Europe. This is commendable. The fear of witches that fueled the Salem trials was no aberration, no popular “panic” or wave of “hysteria,” but a deep, pervasive response to

dealing with misfortune in a precarious everyday world. Two centuries on from Salem and many Americans were still living in an essentially similar social, cultural, economic, and religious environment. The vicissitudes of life on the edge were all too real, and so was the fear of witchcraft as an explanation for misfortune and envy. Over the last three centuries, thousands of Americans, mostly women, have been abused for being suspected witches. Hundreds of court cases arose from accusations of witchcraft. Most startling of all, it is clear now that we know of more people murdered as witches in America after 1692 than were legally executed before that date. So Salem not only marks the

ending of the Colonial witch trials, but also the beginning of a new era of witch hunting, one that was no longer pursued by the authorities but by individuals and communities. It was an age of witch persecution that reflected the development of the nation, fueled by conflict with Native Americans, the rise of slavery, and the influx of millions of immigrants from all parts of Europe. It is no surprise that the epidemics of European diseases that decimated Native American communities were blamed on witchcraft, that plantation owners feared the strange poisons, potions, and spells known to their African slaves, and that Europeans brought with them books of magic to deal with witches in the new land. The numerous new religious

movements and sects that multiplied in America did not escape the atmosphere of fear and denunciation. Several Native American evangelical, prophetic outpourings were fueled by and sparked off concerns over witches. The Christian Science movement was shaken to its core in 1878 by the so-called Ipswich witchcraft trial. This was heard in the courthouse at Salem, Mass., and concerned accusations of “malicious animal magnetism,” an invisible force which caused ill health in a similar manner to bewitchment. In the majority view of the time, Native Americans and African–Americans were considered more inherently prone to such “superstitions” as witchcraft. It was their

“problem,” which the white authorities periodically had to deal with, generating considerable racist condescension in the process. Another comforting tendency was to “folklorize” witchcraft, depict it as a remnant of antiquated beliefs that lingered in the backwoods and hinterlands of America, an eccentricity of the scattered settlers in the Appalachians or the closed communities of the Pennsylvania Dutch. So this Oct. 31, spare a thought that it was only a few decades ago that behaving like a witch could have got you shot dead. And who is to say that those days of persecution may not return in the future? Happy Halloween.

SEX AND ‘THE T’ No permission slips for G.H.O.E. For some of the student body, homecoming is a week for giving up moral standards and making reckless decisions. In a poll I conducted on my personal Instagram account, I asked “Does homecoming negatively impact relationships why or why not?” Current students and an alumnus responded. For those that stated yes, MEAGAN they pointed out the fact that it will JORDAN primarily affect freshman in relationships, especially if the relationship is on the rocks. Homecoming is usually the time that people act out of character.That could either make or break a relationship. Students who did not think homecoming had a negative impact on relationships said that no matter the occasion, students make bad decisions regardless. An alumnus stated that homecoming does not help or harm relationships. Instead, it is the people who partake in the activity that harmed their relationship. He further stated that what is meant to celebrate the university has turned into a week of students acting scandalous and channeling their “inner freak.” I believe that homecoming is the perfect time to see a person’s true colors. With all the activities that will be taking place, it is safe to say not everyone will be sober. I have seen posts about “losing morals” on both Twitter and Instagram timeline. I am not judging. Get it how you live. I find it hard to believe that out of 52 weeks in a year, you only get out of character the week when there are thousands of people who can witness your behavior. With that being said, I do not think that homecoming is responsible for students’ behavior or misbehavior while in a relationship. It is the weak-minded individuals who will let a week of social events dictate a relationship that they have been building for months. People will make mistakes, but if you are premeditating cheating on your significant other and or running your train through multiple tunnels or vice versa, you probably should reconsider your relationship. I am a firm believer in treating others with the same expectations you hold for yourself. However, when in a committed relationship, there are no passes or freebees. Love and affection does not come with coupons, discounts, or vacations. If you are going to be in a relationship, commit to it. Do not waste anyone’s time with your negligence for others’ feelings for the sake of turning up. Do not let a week of “turning up” result in you being lonely. Please know that the club is not the place to find the love of your life, and homecoming is not the time to rekindle old flames. During homecoming, take the time to see who is easily pressured by others, who has a backbone to stand up for what is right, who is responsible, and who is loyal. If you feel entitled to lose your morals for a week of what many deem as bad behavior, then you probably had no morals to begin with. —Email Meagan at theregister@gmail.com and follow her on Twitter @theatregister

Obstacles for sickly in enrolling in Obamacare Doyle Mcmanus MCT Campus

One of these weeks, now that the Obama administration has recruited a SWAT team of computer whizzes, Healthcare.gov will recover from its shambolic debut and turn into, well, just another website. After all, it’s only a website, and websites can be fixed. But that’s when a far more interesting chapter in the life of Obamacare will begin. We’re about to witness a massive experiment in federalism to see whether the Affordable Care Act can succeed in two very different kinds of states: those where governments are actively working to help the law succeed, and those where they’re working to make it fail. Fourteen states, almost all with Democratic governors, are running their own health

insurance exchanges, and in many of those enrollment is already reported to be working just fine _ in New York, Kentucky and Washington, for example. Meanwhile, 27 states, most with Republican governors, opted to back away from the Affordable Care Act and leave it to the federal government to run. In Georgia, the state insurance commissioner, Ralph Hudgens, publicly declared that he intended to be an “obstructionist.” Florida, Missouri and other states imposed regulations to make it harder for Obamacare to attract users. (The remaining nine states are implementing the law in active partnership with the federal government.) As a logical proposition, the Affordable Care Act only has to work in one state to prove its doubters wrong. This is what inventors call “proof

of concept”: If Obamacare can make it in New York (or Kentucky or Washington), then it can make it anywhere. Only it’s not that simple, warns Elaine Kamarck, a former aide in the Clinton White House who’s now at the Brookings Institution studying the management of the federal government. Along with Sheila Burke, a former aide to former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., Kamarck has written a “user’s guide” for citizens who want to figure out whether Obamacare is working or not, and it’s invaluable. There’s already a battle of anecdotes: At the White House last week, President Obama appeared with a lineup of grateful enrollees, while Fox News found victims of “sticker shock” _ higher insurance prices that may or may not be Obamacare’s fault. The biggest danger to

Obamacare all along, she noted, has been the problem of adverse selection. If it’s hard to sign up, sick people will persist but healthy people may stop trying. have embraced the program by then. And that’s why the fiasco of the Health.gov website rollout matters. The website wasn’t the final exam, but it was the first, visible test of whether the Obama administration could get a complex new program to work, and it flunked. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week found that most of those surveyed believed the website glitches reflected “broader problems in implementing the healthcare law.” “The Affordable Care Act is not just a website,” Obama said last week. He’s right. Once the website is fixed, his real problems may have only begun.

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Sports medicine department plays big role Kimberly fields

During football games, spectators typically view the players and coaches. These are the two parts that make a football team successful right? What about the teams behind the football team? One of those teams is the sports medicine department. The Sports Medicine Department’s primary responsibility is to provide the upmost care to student athletes. Nikolas Turner, assistant athletic trainer, says that this department provides care for injuries, distributes general medication, and helps with any medical condition. “Our job is to evaluate and diagnose what is going on and, if not treat [them], refer athletes to our team of physicians or other types of doctors that they need to be referred to,” said Turner. Turner’s responsibility is to handle the “day to day” [athletes], which includes treating injuries and administering rehabilitation to athletes. Turner and his intern work together ensuring football players stay healthy and to get back on the field. This is a two-way street. While Turner may be able to identify if a player is not up to par, it is also the responsibility of the player to seek Turner if they are hurt, sick or do not feel well for any reason at all. A member of a staff of 11, Turner, a 12-month employee, one intern and nine student volunteers, one of who is an athletic trainer enrolled in the master’s program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. The group is also assigned to A&T, working during the season and off-season

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Aggie football players march onto the playing field at Aggie Stadium to take on the Dragons of Virginia University of Lynchburg in A&T’s 2012 season opener. The Aggies defeated the Dragons 38-7.

to assist athletes. Although injuries are more prevalent during the season, injuries occur during the off-season as well. At times, players call Turner when off the clock for assistance. Turner recalls an incident when he waited at the hospital for eight hours as an athlete underwent emergency surgery. Is that his responsibility? In Turner’s opinion, it is. “Do I necessarily have to be there?” said Turner. “No, but is a parent going to feel more comfortable with the person taking care of them and sees them on a regular basis there? Yes. So to me, it is my responsibility as a head football athletic trainer, if not my intern, to be with them at all times to make sure everything is okay.” Being assured that medical bills are covered can provide

an athlete and his parents a sense of security. Turner says that if an athlete suffers from a football related injury, the sports medicine department covers the remainder of the bill, after their primary insurance covers its percentage with its secondary insurance money received from outside resources. “We are really the glue that keeps all of athletics and all of the student athletes together, to be honest,” said Turner. “Athletics wouldn’t be what it is or wouldn’t be able to function or win championships without us.” Without the sports medicine department, Turner says, players will not have success. “Strength coaches do a great job and that is one part of it, but we deal with all the break down,” said Turner. “You can go to a physical therapist, you

can go to doctors, but if there’s nobody there on a day to day basis following up, treating every single day and on a regular basis, to me, it won’t work.” Ronald Canty, a redshirt junior offensive lineman by way of Chester, S.C., agrees. “Without this department… I wouldn’t be able to play at a high level in games or practice,” said Canty. During this year’s game against Hampton, Canty suffered a high ankle sprain that sidelined him for two weeks. During the game, Canty was blocking a player. When the Hampton defensive lineman tried to make a play, he fell on Canty’s ankle. He claims he would not be as healthy as he is without the help, in part, of the sports medicine department. Canty believes that the

sports medicine department benefits all athletes because healthcare is easily accessible. He also stated that athletes have relationships with both the sports medicine and strength and conditioning departments. “We know that regardless of the situation, they will go above and beyond the call of duty for all athletes.” Treating between 100 and 250 athletic injuries per year, Turner says the keys to maintaining healthy athletes and nursing injured ones back to health are education and communication. This process involves the athletes, coaches and staff. Staff should be educated on the courses of action and how the department operates. Each staff member goes through an orientation process where they are educated on the do’s and don’ts, what are expected of them and what their responsibilities are. Players and coached are educated on what needs to be done and why, as well as, maintaining a healthy diet to prevent dehydration and increase their performance on the field. The communication component is making one another aware. They all must work together to make sure players are injury and illness free to perform week in and week out. It also involves letting all parties know about the diagnoses of an injury and progress toward recovery. “It is a big deal to communicate,” said Turner. “And that is something I have learned through my experience as an athletic trainer in this department.” —Email Kimberly at knfield1@ aggies.ncat.edu and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister

AGGIES RUNDOWN football TEAM

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Bethune Cookman Hampton South Carolina State Delaware State Morgan State Norfolk State North Carolina Central North Carolina A&T Howard Florida A&M Savannah State

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THIS WEEK’S GAME: vs. Virginia University of Lynchburg Aggie Stadium (Homecoming) 1 p.m. NEXT WEEK’S GAME: vs. Morgan State Baltimore, Md. 1 p.m. NOV. 16: vs. Savannah State Aggie Stadium 1 p.m.

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(NORTH) Hampton 7-2 Howard 6-2 Norfolk State 5-4 Coppin State 5-4 Morgan State 5-4 Maryland Eastern-Shore 2-6 Delaware State 0-8 (SOUTH) Florida A&M 7-0 Bethune Cookman 5-2 North Carolina A&T 4-2 North Carolina Central 2-4 South Carolina State 2-5 Savannah State 0-7

OVR. 13-10 18-8 9-15 9-15 10-12 3-17 2-18 11-6 6-22 5-20 2-22 3-20 0-26

LAST WEEK’S MATCH: Friday vs. N.C. Central Moore Gym W (3-0) THIS WEEK’S MATCHES: Wednesday vs. Wofford Spartanburg, S.C. 7 p.m. Friday vs. Florida A&M Moore Gym 7 p.m.

Aggies look to tame the Dragons at homecoming Kalyn hoyle

Managing Editor

The N.C. A&T Aggies football team will take on the Virginia University of Lynchburg Dragons in Saturday’s homecoming game. Last weekend the Aggies ended their three-game losing streak when they defeated the Florida A&M Rattlers in overtime 20-13. So far, A&T is 4-3 and are currently 2-3 against Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference opponents. A&T started 2013 with victories over Appalachian State (2421), Elon (23-10), and Howard

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(27-19). The Aggies would go on to lose their next three games by a total of 15 points. The streak began in the 25th Atlanta Football Classic where the Aggies suffered a 29-24 loss to the South Carolina State Bulldogs. They followed loss with a suprising 31-26 loss to the then 0-6 Hampton Pirates. The final leg of the losin streak came against the Delaware State Hornets where A&T ended up on the losing end of the scoreboard after a 12-7 defensive struggle. For VUL, Saturday’s game will be their program’s first

since they announced the firing of head coach Willard Bailey and several members of his coaching staff. Bailey will be replaced by defensive coordinator Luther Palmer this weekend. The Dragons are members of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association and are 1-1. The Aggies won 38-7 against VUL in the first game of the 2012 season. —Email Kalyn at kdhoyle@ aggies.ncat.edu and follow us on Twitter @ATRegister

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iPad Air is as light as a feather: Will it float in the market?

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DOMINIQUE MOODY Register Reporter

Year after year, the same lame costumes make their rounds throughout campuses. The police woman, made even more popular by Lil Wayne’s “Mrs. Officer,” is played out. Second and third place goes to Cat Woman and fairies. Clearly these costumes are an excuse for any girl to put on lingerie. Buyers beware. -K.P.

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“It’s the thinnest, lightest, and also the most advanced iPad we have ever built,” announced Jony Ive, Senior Vice President of design for Apple. The V.P. of design made it clear, if consumers are looking to buy a tablet, this is the one for everyone. Apple wanted to create a name that attracts customers. The iPad is original, but the iPad Air is a gold mine. The iPad Air is set to release Nov. 1, 2013. The iPad Air is the first of its kind. In addition to the new name, the device will tim cook, ceo of apple inc. weigh one pound. Apple wanted to make it cases. The protective cases add easier for customers by trim- the extra bulk needed in case of ming some of the fat off the de- an accident. The Apple device will be vice. The iPad Air is now 28% lighter and 20% thinner. The similar to the iPhone in that it new Apple product will be 7.5 will also have the A7 chip. The millimeters thin. The slogan for chip is expected to be faster the iPad Air is “The power of than previous iPads. In addilightness.” Apple announced tion to the A7 chip, the CPU that the best thing about the de- performance, and graphics vice is that buyers will not real- performance will work just as ize they are holding the device. fast as their predecessors. The A main attraction for the iPad Air is expected to have adiPad Air is the retina display. vanced wireless coverage. The The 9.7-inch display is a huge Air will now have two antenupgrade from the previous nas of MIMO technology that model. The new upgrades were allow users to connect to a Widesigned to work together to Fi connection faster. The iPad Air will include make sure that the customer has iOS 7 software. The software is the best experience possible. Although the iPad Air will the same software that was first not include a variety of colors introduced in the iPhone 5. The like the iPhone 5C has, the Air software holds iWork, iMovie, will have a variety of colorful and iPhoto, which will allow

customers to work on projects. The new software has received backlash from customers. “The new software reminds me a lot of how Andriods are set up, not to mention the amount of space needed to update from the previous software,” said Kelli Best a concerned customer. The iPad Air’s price will range from $499-$929. The main competition for the iPad Air is Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2. The Microsoft Surface Pro 2 is a one of the new products that Microsoft is planning to release in the coming months. The Surface Pro 2 allows customers to tilt, and shift with a dual-position kickstand. The new dual-position will allow users to put the tablet any angle they desire. The dimensions of the Pro 2 will be 10.81x0.53 in and a resolution of 1920x1080. The storage will come in 4 different packages. A main attraction of the Pro 2 will be the Surface Pro Pen, which allows you to write, mark up presentations, and other important documents. The

“Tom Ford” Although we are saying goodbye to one Jay-Z single, we are definitely not through with him yet. We just hope this one will not suffer the same demise of radio overplay. -K.P.

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Classic halloween Slasher film killers get no better than Michael Myers. Trick or treat just took a twisted turn and the kinds of treats Myers is providing can be deadly. Michael Myers is an iconic character of the horror era in the 1980’s. He is relentless in his quest to find and kill not only his sister but his niece as well. Anyone who gets in his path will meet their demise in a sinister way. He is the pinnacle of things that go wrong in the night. “Halloween” is the ultimate thriller.

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Trends come and go as like seasons. Whether it is fashion, slang, or pop culture some habits are hard to break. The staff has decided to put together a list of trends for you all. We just have one question: poppin’ or nah? -

K.P.

1. Ombre hair? 2. Camo pants? 3. Leggings? 4. “YYYYYYAAAAAASSSSS!!!!”? 5. Ghetto nail art? 6. Basketball shorts instead of real pants? 7. Monroe piercing? 8. “You tried it!”? 9. Cornrows with no hang time? 10. Twerking videos? 11. Vine? 12. Uggs? 13. Counterfeit Coach? 14. Rihanna? 15. Jennifer Hudson’s career? 16. Miley Cyrus and her “urban” image? 17. Basketball Wives? 18. Distressed jeans? 19. Jeffrey Campbell? 20. Marley braids?

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Surface Pro 2 will come with an Intel Core i5 processor providing faster performance and longer battery life. The Surface Pro 2 will have a Windows 8.1 software that will allow multitasking with side-by-side apps. The Surface Pro 2 is now available in the U.S. along with 20 other countries, with prices ranging from $449 to $889. Only time will tell on which device will be preferred by consumers. The market is hopeful for what both products have to bring to the table of technology. In the end, who will climb their way to the top?

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Happy Halloween from The A&T Register staff!

Jay-Z ft. Justin Timberlake “Holy Grail”

We immediately fell in love with the killer beat, Hov’s master verses, and JT’s smooth hook but radio overkill has laid this track to rest -K.P.

on DVD insidious 2 This film proves that happy endings cannot exist in horror films. “Insidious 2” picks up where the first film left off, and the plot only continues to twist and turn as turmoil grows within the home of the Lambert family. Will the terror ever end? This film is a great movie for a night of chills and thrills.

best series Paranormal Activity This series takes you beyond knives, slashers, and deranged killers, and into the unseen. “Paranormal Activity” is a horror series that swept the country. Teens, tweens, and all ages in between were on the edge of their seats trying to anticipate what would happen next. Each film is another layer to an intricate story of demons, darkness, and secret covens. Critics raved and many movie viewers found it hard to sleep soundly the next night. “Paranormal Activity” is a series you have to see.

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