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Jim Davis named Golden Eagle women's basketball head coach
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – He holds a master's degree from Tennessee Tech, has led teams to Ohio Valley Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference championships, and has found coaching success on every level from the Tennessee high school ranks to the WNBA.
He's the perfect fit to take the reins of the tradition-rich Tennessee Tech women's basketball program.
Jim Davis was named Wednesday as the next head coach for the Golden Eagles, the announcement coming from Director of Athletics Mark Wilson.
"Jim is a proven winner and we are fortunate to get a veteran coach to lead our women's basketball program," Wilson said. "He is a man of high character, a great educator of the game of basketball, and he is the right fit to lead our program at this time.
"We look forward to him carrying on the traditions of academic excellence and winning championships," Wilson said.
A native of Englewood, Tenn., Davis' coaching resume includes junior high and high school positions, a brilliant six-year span at Roane State Community College, one championship year at Middle Tennessee State, 18 highly successful seasons at Clemson University, a year in the WNBA with the Minnesota Lynx, and the past two seasons as an assistant coach at Young Harris College in Georgia.
Tech will host an official Press Conference and Community Welcome Thursday at 9 a.m. CDT in the Eagles Nest in Eblen Center.
"Being a native Tennessean, I have a feel for the culture and values of the Upper Cumberland, the state and the region," Davis said. "The basis of my coaching philosophy is a result of my relationships and upbringing in that area."
Following 18 successful seasons as head coach at Clemson and two as Assistant Athletic Director, Davis tried retirement but quickly found he still yearned to coach. In 2009, he was contacted about taking an assistant coaching position with the Minnesota Lynx.
In 2011, he accepted an assistant coaching assignment at Young Harris College and helped create a new program. In just one season, he helped take the team from inception to a 23-3 record with a roster featuring only freshmen and sophomores.
"It's been wonderful to be back on the floor teaching, coaching, recruiting and game-planning," Davis says. "That's when I realized I yearned to lead a program again.
"I am very aware of the winning tradition of Tennessee Tech women's basketball under the leadership of coach Marynell Meadors and coach Bill Worrell," Davis says. "Coach (Sytia) Messer did a great job during her short tenure on the plateau. The team is positioned to become champions of the Ohio Valley Conference for years to come."
The majority of Davis' past coaching career was at Clemson, and his record includes a lengthy list of highlights. In 18 years, he led his team to 16 post-season appearances including 14 trips to the NCAA Tournament and two WNIT appearances. While earning 355 victories, he brought the program into national prominence, guiding the Tigers to two championships in the impossibly tough Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). His Clemson teams advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 four times and climbed to the Elite Eight one time, and he posted 51 victories over Top 25 teams.
Clemson made it to the ACC championship game six times, claiming the title in 1996 and 1999. The team achieved 20 wins or more in 11 of his 18 seasons, and earned Top 25 Final National Rankings 11 times. Davis was named the ACC Coach of the Year in 1990 and 1994.
The record book reflects 501 all-time victories in his 25 seasons as a collegiate head coach, and he is the winningest basketball coach – men or women – in Clemson history. He was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.
Even more impressive than his on-court record is the academic success of his student-athletes, a trait that brands him as a natural fit for Tennessee Tech, another program built on high academic standards. During his span as Clemson head coach from 1987 through 2005, Davis saw every single four-year player receive her degree.
Prior to his arrival at Clemson, Davis was a familiar figure with Tennessee Tech fans – if not appreciated –as he served one season as head coach of arch-rival Middle Tennessee State. During the 1986-87 season, he guided the Lady Raiders to a 19-8 record and a share of the Ohio Valley Conference championship. Prior to his stop at Middle Tennessee, Davis spent the 1985-86 season as an assistant coach with the University of Florida Lady Gator basketball program.
A Tennessee native, Davis spent six highly successful years at Roane State Community College in Harriman, Tenn., before moving to Florida. Davis put together one of the most successful stints ever in the junior college ranks by coaching Roane State's Raiderettes to 127 wins against only 35 losses, building a .784 winning percentage. His teams won four Tennessee Junior College Athletic Association divisional championships and one state championship, and were ranked in the Top 10 by the National Junior College Athletic Association three times (1981, 1984, 1985). His biggest accomplishment was the 1984 team's finish of 27-2 and the NJCAA National Championship title.
Before entering the junior college ranks, Davis coached two years at Englewood (Tenn.) Junior High School and 10 seasons in various Tennessee high schools, including stops at Madisonville, Charleston and McMinn high schools. His overall high school record was 197-93, a winning percentage of .679.
Davis graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan College in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in health and physical education. After doing graduate work at East Tennessee State University, he received his master's degree in Educational" Administration and Supervision from Tennessee Tech in 1975.
In 1996, Davis was inducted into the Tennessee Junior and Community College Athletic Association Hall of Fame. In the fall of 1996, he was inducted into Tiger Brotherhood, an honorary fraternity that promotes high standards of social and ethical conduct while recognizing in its members an earnest devotion to Clemson, coupled with the integrity of character commensurate with a typical Clemson gentleman or lady. Davis was also inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2008.
Davis becomes only the fifth head coach in the 42-year history of women's basketball at Tennessee Tech.
"Marynell Meadors and Bill Worrell established a program that is known nationally for excellence," Wilson said. "That tradition was carried on by coach (Amy) Brown and coach Messer, and we expect that coach Davis will not only continue that excellence, but elevate our program to new level."
Davis is married to the former Bobbie Henderson and they have one grown son, Todd, a beautiful daughter-in-law, Rhonda, and two most precious grandchildren, Ansleigh Grace and Jacob Garrett.
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"Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and out of Humanitarian Aid" (Broadway Books,) by Jessica Alexander
A common refrain among humanitarian aid workers, once you get to know them and they let their guard down, is "We can't save everyone." Jessica Alexander starts out more hopeful than that, only to find herself getting sucked into the same cynical trap as so many others in the field. Her journey is chronicled in "Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and out of Humanitarian Aid," an enlightening but uneven memoir.
Alexander writes in an easy, conversational manner. The result is the type of book that can be read in an afternoon. In some ways, this is good — it's more likely to keep the interest of people who are otherwise unfamiliar with the world of humanitarian aid, and there is a great deal in it that will be eye-opening to such readers. In that sense, Alexander has made a helpful contribution. But for those who know about the aid sector, the book isn't particularly meaty, nor does it reveal much that isn't known.
Alexander is quite good at pointing out the many challenges faced by aid workers, such as the danger that their efforts can become a permanent fixture. (The idea that many people in a poor country pretend to be refugees because the camps have better infrastructure and offer more resources than their existing village is deeply disturbing.)
However, Alexander doesn't really propose much in the way of solutions to the many problems in the world of aid, chief among them an unfortunate dearth of accountability and ridiculous levels of redundancy. She even avoids mentioning the names of some of the organizations she worked for, which undercuts her stated concerns about accountability.
In all fairness, "Chasing Chaos" isn't being billed as an academic treatise about the world of aid, but rather as a memoir. So we learn a great deal about Alexander's personal life, especially how much the death of her mother affected her as she traveled to various hot spots, from post-massacre Rwanda to post-earthquake Haiti. (The 2004 South Asian tsunami also makes an appearance, as does the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.) Alexander performed various tasks, from effectively running a refugee camp to acting as an outside assessor of aid programs. Her tale about trying to save an infant girl with hydrocephalus only to run into uncaring bureaucracy is particularly affecting.
But Alexander's "decade in and out of humanitarian aid" has some significant outs. If anything, her experience points to one of the major weak points of aid work, which is that these servants of humanity don't stick around very long in one place. They get burned out, jump at better offers or are simply more interested in getting their next adrenaline rush at the newest world disaster. To her credit, Alexander acknowledges some of these weaknesses in the sector, but one wonders whether 10 years "in and out" of humanitarian work was really enough to write about.
It was nice to see Alexander discuss some of the personal shenanigans among aid workers — she didn't gloss over the sexual flings, the adultery and the partying that's part of that lifestyle. Yet, she could also be downright derisive. Her brief mentions of "humanitarian widows" — middle-aged women who were divorced or unmarried, without kids, who'd given their best years to the world of aid — came across as pure snobbery. Another troubling aspect of the book is that she didn't seem to do enough research on some fairly sensitive aspects. For instance, her description of Islamic law, or Sharia, as making it illegal for a woman to have sex outside of marriage even in the case of rape appears to give credence to one widely disputed interpretation of the rules of Islam.
Overall, "Chasing Chaos" is a solid contribution to what is hopefully a growing genre of writing about a sector that deserves more attention and oversight, not least because it is accessible, easy reading for people not engaged with the subject. Still, it could have been stronger with more research and more years of experience to write about. According to her publisher, Alexander is now pursuing a Ph.D., focusing her research on accountability in humanitarian action, so perhaps we will see more substantive work from her in the future.
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Measure of US home prices rises most in 6 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of U.S. home prices jumped 5 percent in September compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year increase since July 2006. The gain reported by CoreLogic offered more evidence of a sustainable housing recovery.
The real estate data provider also said Tuesday that prices declined 0.3 percent in September from August, the first drop after six straight increases. The monthly figures are not seasonally adjusted. CoreLogic says the monthly decline reflects the end of the summer home-buying season and not a softening in the housing recovery.
Steady price increases should give the housing market more momentum when home sales pick up in the spring. Rising prices encourage more homeowners to sell their homes and entice would-be buyers to purchase homes before prices rise further.
Stocks rise as investors wait for a winner
NEW YORK (AP) — Major stock-market indexes climbed Tuesday as investors waited for the finish of a closely fought U.S. presidential election.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 133.24 points to close at 13,245.68.
Companies that investors believe would benefit under a potential Romney administration surged ahead. They included United Technologies and Boeing, which do substantial business with the Defense Department.
Four financial companies — Travelers, American Express, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America — ranked among the 10 biggest gainers in the 30-stock Dow average.
Strike hits Greece in bid to derail austerity plan
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek trade unions launched a general strike and nationwide protests on Tuesday against a new package of austerity measures, to be voted on this week, which would condemn Greece to more years of hardship in exchange for rescue loans.
Flights to and from the country stopped for three hours at the start of a 48-hour strike that closed schools, halted train and ferry services, and left Athens without public transport or taxis while state hospitals ran with emergency staff.
More than 35,000 people marched in two separate demonstrations in Athens organized by labor unions. Another 20,000 gathered to protest in the country's second largest city of Thessaloniki.
Sandy knocks off big chunk of retail sales
NEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy knocked nearly $4 billion off of retail sales last week in the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, nearly 20 percent of the usual total, according to figures released Tuesday by a retail data service.
MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse said Tuesday that the regions, which account for about 24 percent of retail sales nationwide, typically generate $18.7 billion in sales for the week ended Saturday. But revenue came in at about $15 billion, excluding auto sales.
That dragged down the nationwide sales total for the week ended Saturday. Retailers typically generate $78 billion in sales for that particular week. McNamara estimates the total was about $74 billion.
US employers post fewest jobs in 5 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted fewer job openings in September after advertising more in August than first estimated. The report suggests hiring will likely remain modest in the coming months.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that job openings dropped by 100,000 to 3.56 million, the fewest in five months. August's openings were revised up to 3.66 million.
The number of available jobs has jumped about 63 percent since July 2009, one month after the recession ended. It remains well below the more than 4 million jobs a month advertised before the recession began in December 2007.
Freddie Mac posts $2.9 billion net income for Q3
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mortgage giant Freddie Mac earned $2.9 billion from July through September, its fourth straight profitable quarter. The government-controlled company attributed the gain to rising home prices and fewer mortgage delinquencies.
Freddie said Tuesday that it paid a dividend of $1.8 billion to the U.S. Treasury and requested no additional federal aid.
The increase compared with a loss of $4.4 billion for the same quarter of 2011. It also marked the sixth quarter in which Freddie sought no additional aid since being taken over by the government in September 2008.
CVS Caremark 3Q profit up 16 percent as sales rise
CVS Caremark Corp. said Tuesday that its third-quarter earnings climbed 16 percent. The drugstore operator and pharmacy benefits manager posted revenue increases in both businesses, benefiting from new customers won from rivals. It also raised its full-year earnings outlook.
The Woonsocket, R.I., company said it earned $1.01 billion, or 79 cents per share, in the three months that ended Sept. 30. That compares with earnings of $868 million, or 65 cents per share, in last year's quarter. Adjusted earnings were 85 cents per share, 2 cents better than analysts expected. That excluded $121 million for the gradual write down of acquisition-related assets.
Revenue jumped 13 percent to $30.2 billion, above the $30.09 billion analysts expected.
News Corp 1Q earnings beat Street; revenue close
NEW YORK (AP) — News Corp. said Tuesday that net income for the latest quarter tripled from a year ago, reflecting a one-time gain from the sale of its stake in digital video technology company NDS. Revenue rose 2 percent thanks to growth at pay TV networks such as Fox News Channel.
The company controlled by CEO Rupert Murdoch said that fiscal first-quarter net income came to $2.23 billion, or 94 cents per share, compared with $738 million, or 28 cents per share, a year ago.
Excluding about $1.38 billion in special gains, largely due to the NDS sale, adjusted earnings came to 43 cents per share, beating the 37 cents per share expected by analysts, according to FactSet.
France to give businesses $25 billion tax break
PARIS (AP) — The French government has promised €20 billion ($25 billion) in tax credits to businesses as part of a "competitiveness pact" that it hopes will spark innovation and lower unemployment, but falls short of calls in a recent report for a "shock" to the economy.
The announcement of the plan Tuesday came a day after a government-commissioned report — by Louis Gallois, former head of Airbus parent EADS — said the country's ailing economy needed a big kick to stay globally competitive.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the government's plan, which includes a €500 million fund to help struggling small businesses, would put the country "back at the heart of the world economy."
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The Dow Jones industrial average rose 133.24 points to close at 13,245.68. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.13 points to 1,428.39, while the Nasdaq composite index gained 12.27 points to 3,011.93.
Benchmark crude rose $3.06, or 3.6 percent, to finish at $88.71 in New York. Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, surged $3.34, or 3.1 percent, to $111.07 in London.
Wholesale gasoline rose 8 cents to $2.70 a gallon. Heating oil rose 7 cents to $3.05 a gallon. Natural gas rose 6 cents $3.62 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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Real Housewives of New Jersey is the gift that keeps on giving! Following last week's excoriating Bravo blog, Teresa Giudice is claiming the network edited out a portion of her sentiments and she has released the "pieces" that were cut. The reality star posted the complete, unedited version on her personal webpage for your shock and amusement. Oh, lawdy!
In installment two of Teresa vs. the other Housewives — Teresa continues to call out her cast mates and family members that happen to be cast mates! She definitely wants the public (and Bravo!) to know she is not taking a beating lying down. So, when is Celebrity Deathmatch Jersey Style happening? Oh wait… I think it's already begun!
Teresa starts things off by insisting she is innocent of having a relationship with the tabloids! "I can't believe Jacqueline Laurita thinks I put out a magazine story that says bad things about ME on the cover. How does that even make sense? I'm not even going to try and follow her logic anymore."
She also echos what most of us believe — that Caroline Manzo is a little silly arguing her adult children (who signed releases and received payment from Bravo) did not sign up to be a part of the show. "I can't believe Caroline told the media her 'children didn't sign up for this.' They are grown adults and they actually did literally sign up for it. They have contracts and got paid. What do you call that? And Caroline keeps telling Jacqueline to let Ashley [Holmes] grow up?…" Oooohhhh… sometimes the truth hurts, Mama Manzo!
Accusing Caroline and Jacqueline of being the ones who hold grudges, Teresa brings up She Who Should Not Be Named, New Jersey version: Danielle Staub (her new Twitter frienemy and the reason all this nonsense originally began!) "I know Caroline and Jacqueline obsess about things and people and revenge (What sane person would stalk Danielle's ex-husband? What sane person would be friends with Kim G? That's just ugly.)." Teresa better watch out as she appears to be the next target they have selected to "obsess" over!
Also, hinting that Jacqueline might just be having that rumored breakdown we've been hearing about, she states: "I just hope she gets well… " Well, I just hope Chris Laurita deletes her Twitter! How does girl have time to associate with Kim G when she spends day and night Tweeting the masses?!
Then, Teresa actually makes a fair point (don't hurt me for saying it!) about how reality TV and family may not mix. "Caroline and Jacqueline and Dina [Manzo] signed up for the show TOGETHER AS A FAMILY. It was the first time a family joined any Real Housewives show which I think is what made it so interesting from the beginning. I was just the friend on the sidelines with my juicy husband any my fab-u-lous girls," she explains.
"I thought it was very brave to go on a show with your family, and I wouldn't have done it. Watching what being on TV together did to the Manzo and Laurita family is EXACTLY WHY I didn't want my family on the show with me. Seeing all the hurt they went through, I would be crazy to want the same thing for my family." Except the one thing I will say in the Manzo and Laurita famblees' favors is that they kept their family drama off the air which, as we know, is the opposite of the Gorgadiceakiles!
Teresa point blank accuses Melissa Gorga and Kathy Wakile of coming on the show to "hurt" her! "They didn't come on like the Manzos first did, just to show the world how a real family looks," she argues. "They came on to hurt me, insulting me and my husband and my kids from the very first episode through the last (is there a single episode they didn't say something nasty about me? My own family?)." They insulted her kids?
"I would hope Melissa and Kathy wouldn't have sold their own sisters down the river for a shot at 15 minutes of fame, but I'm not their sister, and I think they don't think they care about the hurt it causes me and my parents because we're not their immediate family."
Explaining she was "worried" about her family experiencing the negative sides of fame, Teresa reveals she attempted to warn them about the tabloids and becoming victims of "made up stories."
"I told them stuff they didn't want to talk about would come up, that people from their past would try and take them down, that journalists would dig through their lives… Melissa told me she didn't care. Then Melissa brings it up at the reunion as if I was trying to scare her off the show? It's just twisted. Sad and twisted."
Teresa goes on to call out her cast mates for having "skeletons" in their closets. "I don't lay in bed at night worrying that my porn past or previous arrests or unstable history is going to come out because I don't have any of those things," she wrote. No names on who has a porn past or an arrest history!
And she insists whatever her family members might reveal about her didn't matter! "I wasn't worried that they would come on and expose me because there's nothing to expose." Ok, Teresa may not have what she considers skeletons – but isn't her husband Jr Mafia Joe Giudice possibly facing jail time for multiple offenses, including a DUI? And then there's that never-ending bankruptcy… And the cheating allegations…
Teresa also points out some of the unsavory behaviors of her co-stars (I think she ignored some of her own déclassé behaviors)! "I didn't expose my daughter's problems to the world, judging her for a difficult time in her life in front of all of America. That was Jacqueline. I didn't make fun of my niece/cousin and criticize her all the time and tell the world I thought my daughter was fat and ugly. That was Caroline and her kids. I don't have a pre-teen son on Twitter using curse words and insulting my own family. That's Kathy. Bravo, ladies! Class acts, all of you!" She forgot to mention: 'I didn't have sex with my husband in a public bathroom on national TV. That was Melissa.' Really though, class and RHONJ do not mix! Isn't that why we watch?!
Reality TV doesn't define me," Teresa concludes, neither do "big fat bullies who puff hot air because no one will listen to them don't phase me, rumors don't keep me up at night. I have my family, we all have our health, we live a very normal, happy life of Sunday school and dance lessons and birthdays and trips to Costco. I am moving on and up to amazing new things." Keep us posted, T!
And in other RHONJ news Teresa nemesis #1 (or 2 or 3…) Caroline, along with hubby Albert Manzo (sure has been doing a lot of appearances to save face with his wife lately), were spotted at Michael's restaurant in NYC meeting with editors from People Magazine and Bravo's SVP of Communication Jennifer Geisser. Which only means one thing – the New Jersey drama isn't ending anytime soon!
I predict a sob-story interview about her feud with Dina and finally breaking her silence about the brawl in Punta Cana involving the Manzo boys, which likely demoted Teresa from "like family" to "acquaintance" status! I wonder if she'll also mention Teresa's – Oops! I mean Jacqueline's – latest financial woes?! Who would have expected NJ Bankruptcy 2.0!
Here's my two cents: Either Teresa knows big controversy brings big ratings (which means big dollars and endorsements for her) or she is just furious, fighting, spitting mad. Either way, Teresa garners a lot of attention and keeps things interesting – whether you like her or not! Admit it, she makes a few fair points in her blog, although she certainly fights dirty!
Don't worry – whatever happens us minions at Reality Tea will continue to work round the clock slaving to bring you the latest gossip. 😉


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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the musicals at the heart of the cancelled TV show "Smash" will get another life.
The nightclub 54 Below said Tuesday it will present two world-premiere concert performances of "Hit List" on Dec. 9 featuring some of the stars from the series, including Jeremy Jordan, Andy Mientus and Krysta Rodriguez.
Later Tuesday, the 150-seat nightclub said both shows had sold out in an hour. Tickets were $55 plus a $25 food and beverage minimum.
On the second season of "Smash," the musical "Hit List" was a gritty, low-tech off-Broadway show that became a theater community darling and later competed with the glitzy Broadway-bound musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe called "Bombshell."
"Hit List" songs were written by Drew Gasparini, Joe Iconis, Andrew McMahon, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and Lucie Silvas.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Police in New Haven, Conn., said Wednesday they were investigating the weekend death of a Yale University assistant professor in a city lockup.
City police officer David Hartman said Samuel See, 34, was found unresponsive in his Union Avenue Detention Facility cell Sunday, the day after he was taken into custody following a domestic disturbance, and later was pronounced dead, the New Haven Register reported. His cause of death had not been determined.
The assistant English professor, who the Ivy League school's website said was on leave this fall, had been arrested after an altercation with his husband at 5:15 p.m. Saturday, the Register said.
The husband, whose name wasn't reported, allegedly had violated a protective order by going to the home where See lived to retrieve some belongings, the Register said.
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Has this ever happened to you? You've got a feverish, uncomfortable baby at 3am; you dig out the Infant Tylenol…and the bottle says to consult a physician for the correct dosage. Not helpful.
Now that might be about to change. An FDA advisory panel has voted to put dosing information for kids under 2 on the packaging of Infants' and Children's Tylenol and other over-the-counter acetaminophen products to help confused parents. Although the FDA is not required to follow the recommendations of its advisory panels, it usually does.
Plus: New AAP Guidelines on Treating a Fever
The FDA says it originally urged parents of children under two to call a doctor for dosing to make sure sick babies got proper care, since a high fever in a child so young can be a symptom of meningitis or other serious illness. But experts agree that this kind of ambiguity leads to confusion and incorrect dosing. Acetaminophen overdoses are most common in kids under 2.
The panel advised the FDA to carefully consider dosing guidelines based on weight rather than age, and market it only as a fever reducer and not pain relief, since too much acetaminophen is dangerous to patients of all ages.
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My colleague Jan Ransom published an article in the Daily News over the weekend that I thought that was both the best and maybe the most important article that's run in the paper this year. The subject was an ongoing pattern of outrageous and unconstitutional behavior by the Philadelphia cops -- confiscating and destroying videos that might (or might not) show police misconduct. During my occasional editing shifts here, I've read several articles in which the police have done this, and I wondered how they get away with iit. The bottom line: They shouldn't.
One other quick note: I can't fathom for the life of me why the Daily News -- the newspaper that won a Pulitzer just last year for its courage in exposing police misconduct -- all but buried this article by publishing it on possibly the lowest circulation day of the entire year, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. I'm not casting aspersions towards anyone -- I've worked here long enough to know that usuallly when things happen here...it's usually just one of those things. That said, it was a big mistake not getting this article to a wider audience, which I hope to do my small part in rectifying.
Here's the story:
TAMERA MEDLEY begged the police officer to stop slamming her head - over and over - into the hood of a police cruiser.
Thinking they were helping, passers-by Shakir Riley and Melissa Hurling both turned their cellphone video cameras toward the melee that had erupted on Jefferson Street in Wynnefield, they said.
But then the cops turned on them.
Riley had started to walk away when at least five baton-wielding cops followed him, he said, and they beat him, poured a soda on his face and stomped on his phone, destroying the video he had just taken.
Please read the whole thing -- and if you have a blog or are on Twitter or Facebook, please get the word out, now that folks are back to work, etc.
Just one added bit of commentary: John McNesby of the FOP claims in the article that citizens exercising their legal right to film arrests are "a recipe for disaster." That's more BS from the guy whose credibility was ripped to shreds in the "Tainted Justice" series. For the most part, the people making these films are on public property and a reasonable distance from the events they are videotaping; the "problem" is not that they are interfering with officers making an arrest, but their film could interfere with officers trying to make an arrest improperl,y with excessive force. In other words, they are not crimninals -- but performing a valuable public service.


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|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Know the risks and potential benefits of clinical studies and talk to your health care provider before participating. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00513591
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : August 8, 2007
Last Update Posted : June 16, 2017
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It is difficult to predict how a women with an autoimmune disease will do during pregnancy. Some women will improve, others will worsen. Some pregnancies progress normally and others become very complicated.
The Duke Autoimmunity in Pregnancy (DAP) Registry will enroll women with autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and Sjogren's syndrome who wish to become, or already are, pregnant. We will follow these women throughout pregnancy to better understand how their autoimmune disease affects their pregnancy, and vice versa.
|Condition or disease
|Pregnancy Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cutaneous Lupus Rheumatoid Arthritis Sjogren's Syndrome Scleroderma
Women with a systemic autoimmune disease that would be followed by a rheumatologist will be included in this study.
All women will be seen every 4-6 weeks throughout pregnancy. At each visit, women will complete a questionnaire, the physician will determine the current level of disease activity, and a blood sample will be taken. For women with lupus and healthy women, and additional visit will occur at the start of the 3rd trimester for a closer evaluation of predictors of preterm birth.
This is not an intervention study. Women will not be given experimental medication. All recommendations for treatment and monitoring will be made based on the best available data with input from the treating obstetrician.
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- Desire for pregnancy within 6 months or currently pregnant
Women with systemic autoimmune disease, including:
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- Antiphospholipid Syndrome or positive antiphospholipid antibodies
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Inflammatory Arthritis (including Psoriatic Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis)
- Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease (UCTD)
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- Positive Ro/SSA or La/SSB antibodies
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- Unable to speak English
- Unable to provide informed consent
- Unable to travel to Duke University for follow-up visits
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
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Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus or cutaneous lupus)
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sjogren's Syndrome
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Autoimmune Diseases
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
Scleroderma, Systemic
Scleroderma, Diffuse
Sjogren's Syndrome
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
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Mouth Diseases
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Law Enforcement Teams Up for Safe Prom Season
It's Prom Weekend for many area high schools. And the Prom season presents the perfect opportunity for law enforcement and school officials to emphasize student safety.
The Illinois State Police were joined by Iroquois County Sheriff's Police and Watseka Police yesterday (Friday) to remind high school students to buckle up and pay attention to their responsibility behind the wheel.
The scene at Watseka High School (Friday) afternoon was also displayed at GCMS in Gibson City and at Manteno -- to get that message out there.
Sgt. Steven Sigler, Safety Education Officer for District 21 of the State Police and M/S Angie Kinstner of the State police say it's all about being safe.
"It's all about education. We want to make sure we educate students and parents and the community about having safe graduations and proms," says Sgt. Steven Sigler of the District 21 state police. Master Sgt. Angie Kinstner also said "we emphasize P. R.O.M., an ancronym for Please Return on Monday. We want all to have fun and be safe so all return to school on Monday."
Officers made their presence known at all exits around the high school as students called it a day. It's Prom Weekend. It's a celebration. It's fun for the young adults.
But it's also time to remember that graduation and Prom calls for a little more responsibility. The students, Sigler says, are receptive.
Tragic accidents involving teens have made the news all too often, recent accidents right here in the WGFA-listening area.


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Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger worked out at the Skate Zone today and answered a few questions (transcript courtesy of the Flyers).
Q: Have you done anything exciting so far this summer?
CP: "I haven't done a whole lot. I was on vacation with my family for about a month. Now I am going to get back into gear and ramp things back up again. I started working out a couple of weeks ago."
Q: What do you think of the Flyers offseason acquisitions so far? (Meszaros, O'Donnell, Shelley and Zheredev)
CP: "I think with Meszaros and O'Donnell, we are obviously trying to shore up our defense pairings and give us a little more depth back there. This will probably take some minutes off Kimmo (Timonen) and I and Coby (Coburn) and Matty (Carle). So it will be able to hopefully roll three sets a little more frequently and keep us a little more sharp and fresh."
Q: There was a lot of talk at the end of the season of you playing too many minutes. Do you feel with the addition Meszaros and O'Donnell, your minutes would decrease to help you conserve energy over the grind of the regular season?
CP: "I think they will help. You have to put Oskars Bartulis into the equation, too, and you have seven quality defensemen. As we know through the course of a long season there are going to be injuries and guys are going to be in and out of the lineup. You need to have that depth so that you aren't skipping a beat and you're not playing 30 minutes a night on defense. You are playing 22-25 minutes a night. It allows you to try and stay a little fresher. It doesn't mean that I am going to change the way that I train and the way I prepare for the season. If you have to play 30, you have play 30. You relish the minutes and you relish the opportunity to play at the competitive level that you are playing. But at the same time, you have to look at the big picture. Obviously, Homer (Holmgren) did by addressing this and acquiring guys at positions that we needed."
Q: Do you think the Flyers have improved themselves?
CP: "Yes, definitely. Whenever you go to the finals and you have success like this, you have to make some tough decisions. There are always guys that will have to come off your team and there are always holes to fill. There year is no different. For the most part, if you look at our team from last year to this upcoming season the nucleus is still there. We have a great core of players and I think we will be that much more ready to take that next step with the run that we made in the playoffs and the experience that we gained. We saw what it is going to take for us to be successful and win a Stanley Cup. We were close but not close enough. That is something that we can build on next season and in the future."


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Adenomus kandianus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Adenomus kandianus (Günther, 1872)
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Although there is a possibility that the newly rediscovered population from Peak Wilderness Sanctuary could comprise a new undescribed species, given uncertainty about the geographic provenance of Adenomus kandianus and the fact that the newly found population has morphological correspondence with this species, it is most parsimonious to consider that A. kandianus has been rediscovered (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered B1ab(iii) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group,
|Pascual Cuadras, A. & Stuart, S.N.
|de Silva, A., Manamendra-Arachchi, K. & Wickramasinghe, L.J.M.
|Angulo, A.
Listed as Critically Endangered given that it is known from a single site and threat-defined location, with an Extent of Occurrence estimated to be 200 m2, and a continuing decline of its natural habitat in the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary of Central Province, Sri Lanka.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is endemic to Sri Lanka, and for the longest time was known only from the general type locality of "Ceylon" (= Sri Lanka). The scientific name appeared to suggest that it might have been collected in the vicinity of the city of Kandy, central Sri Lanka; however, all of the Central Province was referred to as Kandy in the late 19th century, when the species was described (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). More recently, the species was rediscovered in the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary in Central Province, Sri Lanka, at 1,879 m asl (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). The Sanctuary comprises 240 km², of which 211.75 km² comprise natural or semi-natural vegetation (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). Its eastern boundary is adjacent to Horton Plains National Park (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). While there is potential that this toad may have a more widespread occurrence within this area, it is so far only known from a single site and threat-defined location, in an area of 200 m² (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012), which is herein understood as its currently known extent of occurrence (EOO).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Sri Lanka
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|It was previously known only from two specimens (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). There had been no sightings since the original description and the species was believed to be extinct (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda 1998), given that surveys in the the general area of Kandy turned up no new records. It was rediscovered in 2009, when close to 100 individuals were recorded over the course of a two-year study to document amphibian species richness across an elevational gradient (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|It has been found in montane cloud forest, with individuals encountered at night on rocks of river banks close to fast flowing streams (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). It is sympatric with congener Adenomus dasi (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). It is presumed to breed by larval development in water.
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Use and Trade:
There are no reports of this species being utilized.
|Major Threat(s):
Pollution, particularly of streams, has been observed at the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary due to a very high volume of religious pilgrimage (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). During pilgrimage season, which lasts about six months, there is a large accumulation of domestic waste and there is also exploitation of the forest (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). In addition, there is illegal gem mining on river banks within the forest, and tea plantations in the surrounding areas are encroaching natural forests, so illegal tree felling to convert to tea plantations has become a major threat in the area (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012).
A stream at one of the pilgrimage sites, 'Seethagagula', has been blocked in one place by a private company, and the water has been diverted to an artificial tank to facilitate a place for bathing for the pilgrims (M. Wickramasinghe pers. comm. June 2012). Additionally, during the wet season, species such as the Stone Sucker (Garra ceylonensis) travel upstream, and by blocking the stream in several places this has created a barrier for the breeding of these and other aquatic species (M. Wickramasinghe pers. comm. June 2012). Should A. kandianus be a stream breeder (as suspected), this could potentially impact this toad's breeding biology. Downstream from this site large amounts of domestic chemicals (e.g., shampoo) are being disposed of in the stream, and it is suspected that this could negatively impact amphibian populations given that large aggregations of tadpoles (not A. kandianus) were observed at higher elevations of the same stream, but in areas below the polluted site low densities or no individuals were observed (M. Wickramasinghe pers. comm. June 2012). Furthermore, during the dry season the reduced volume of water in the stream may lead to greater concentrations of chemicals in the breeding pools (M. Wickramasinghe pers. comm. June 2012). Invasive plant species are also suspected of causing changes to the understory and canopy cover of the area (M. Wickramasinghe pers. comm. June 2012).
|Conservation Actions:
|Although this toad is found within the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, which has been declared part of the Central Hills World Heritage Sites, its habitat is under severe human pressure (Wickramasinghe et al. 2012). Better site and resource management are urgently needed to protect the only known site where this toad is known to occur. More information is needed on this species' distribution, population status and natural history, as well as the potential effects of some of its additional suspected threats.
Günther, A. 1872. Descriptions of some Ceylonese Reptiles and Batrachians. Annales and Magazine of Natural History: 85-88.
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2012.2). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 17 October 2012).
Manamendra-Arachchi, K. and Pethiyagoda, R. 1998. A synopsis of the Sri Lankan Bufonidae (Amphibia: Anura), with description of two new species. Journal of South Asian Natural History: 213-246.
Wickramasinghe, L.J.M., Vidanapathirana, D.R., and Wickramasinghe, N. 2012. Back from the dead: The world's rarest toad Adenomus kandianus rediscovered in Sri Lanka. Zootaxa: 63-68.
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Getting through the morning after
By Wickham Boyle
We did everything right. We lit candles, we envisioned, meditated, donated money, voted early, called undecideds in Pennsylvania, supported our friends in Wisconsin and attempted in an unwavering way to believe. But now it is the morning after and I can see Kerry has lost.
I say to my daughter, who waited in line to vote for the first time yesterday, that it will all work out. I mutter, perhaps this will make the Republicans take responsibility for what they have wrought. I need to see a reason. But I am crushed and I have very little reserve of belief left.
Bush won an alarming percentage of the popular vote and the country looks as if we are two strange separate lands; one made up of New England and the West Coast and the other, the old America from an early exploration chart. I do not know who we are, where I belong, save that I can drive around my beloved Northeast and fly to California where my son lives, but I need to forget the rest of the country because I do not speak their language and they dont want Berlitz for Democrats.
I reject wrong-headed war, where we invade another country based on lies and imaginings. I embrace the environment of the world, the Kyoto treaty and the ability of birds, fish and frogs to mate in what was called America the Beautiful, but may be renamed America the Denuded for oil, industry and personal gains. I want to pay taxes to support school, healthcare and seniors. I do not want to pay for war, to line the pockets of thieving corporate magnates or mean-spirited politicians.
I waited until I was 43 to get married because; well, it took that long to find my great love. I know how important that moment was for me and I want to live in a country where all the citizens can dream or aspire to be married to the love of their lives as well. I want us to be the helper of the world, not the police. I would love to live in a country where we send assistance to citizens in need and we dont do a check to see how much oil we could co-opt first before assisting suffering children and mothers. I want to see my government share in feeding the poor, and housing the homeless and change their real status by education. I cant be relied upon to feed Joseph who waits outside my market for a sandwich. I cant feed him everyday. I have told him that, and I can see that other neighbors give him sustenance as well, but I am not a country.
I want to live in a place where abortion is available and where a young woman, like I was, who assiduously used birth control and became pregnant anyway, can deal with her situation privately and actually attend college and graduate school instead of becoming a waitress with three children by the age of 29. I want to live where my choices do not brand me as someone who is immoral, sloppy and wrongheaded.
I want to live where my fervent spirituality is valued as much as the men in the mosque, the families at services, those who fast on Yom Kippur and illuminate their Nativity scenes. I want my life with yoga, Buddhism and Christmas to be as important as the fundamentalist Christians. I want to live in a country that leads us to a world where we do not believe that any good person will go to hell because they embrace a different direction. We need, we are all desperate for a world where we embrace rather than build spiritual fences to lock others out.
I have friends who say, O.K., now it is time to move out of the United States. But I say, now is the time to redouble my resolve to forgive, to live out loud with all my hopes and open heart on display. I am crushed, wounded and limping terribly today, but I will rebuild, believe and continue. I want to live to see a path in my country that welcomes me and all my sister and brother citizens to visit, worship, marry and strive to be more; not less.
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Country singer Chely Wright and her wife Lauren Blitzer Wright have two new additions to their family: The couple welcomed identical twins on Saturday.
The singer, 42, gave birth to their baby boys in New York City, her rep told People.
The Wrights named the boys George Samuel and Everett Joseph after their great-grandfathers. The duo was due this summer but were born a little early and are said to be "thriving," the mag said.
"We are grateful for all the amazing medical care and the love and support of family and friends," Wright said.
She and Blitzer, 31, a music exec, married in Connecticut in August 2011, announced the pregnancy in January 2013, and revealed the sex of their twins last March.
In April, the singer had to cancel a show because she believed she was in pre-term labor and was ordered by doctors to rest at home and stop traveling.
Wright burst on the country music scene in 1994, was named top new female vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 1995 and made it big with hits including "Shut Up and Drive" and "Single White Female." In 2010, she was the first commercial country music singer to come out as gay and later allowed herself to be the subject of a 2011 documentary of her life called "Wish Me Away," in which she said she didn't get much support when she announced her sexual orientation.
"Country music would rather an artist be a drunk -- they even encourage and endorse that one," Wright told The Times. "You get good money from Jim Beam to put that emblem on the side of your bus. I was on the Crown Royal tour, and I have to say it was one of my favorite tours. They would rather you were a drug addict than be gay. They will forgive you if you beat your wife, lose your kids to state, get six divorces, make a sex tape, get labeled as a tramp — any and all of it is better than being gay."
"On a human level," she added later. "I wonder why they can't see the value that I told my biggest secret — particularly when you think it might get you excommunicated from your house of worship, your social circles and your industry."
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Aoife McLaughlin celebrates her first St. Patrick's Day Saturday clad in a green shirt that says, "Kiss me, I'm Irish," as well as white leggings covered in shamrocks. Aoife, who is 10 months old, enjoyed a hearty breakfast with her mother Nicole and the rest of their family at Ward's Publick House at 3854 Post Road. According to server Alisa Langley, the breakfast consisted of Irish soda bread, Irish bacon, sausage with whiskey orange marmalade, and, of course, scrambled eggs.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan has launched a massive vaccination campaign to immunize 2.4 million people against an outbreak of yellow fever in the restive region of Darfur, the U.N. said Monday.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Khartoum's health ministry received an initial shipment of 800,000 doses of vaccine on Friday to battle the outbreak, which began in September after a heavy rainy season created additional breeding sites for disease-carrying mosquitoes.
As of Saturday, Sudan had reported 116 deaths out of 459 suspected cases. Health care services are not available to many in the remote Darfur region, where Sudan's government has been battling a rebel group since 2003. More than 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
A U.N. spokesman in New York said Monday that the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Nov. 13 airlifted a dozen injured Sudanese soldiers from the field to medical facilities in el-Fasher, North Darfur's capital. Providing medical assistance is part of their mandate, Eduardo del Buey said.
The U.N. force has in the past provided medical evacuation services for both the Sudanese army and the rebels, he said.
Peter James Spielmann contributed to this story from the United Nations.


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Inspiration can be found anywhere and everywhere. But for graphic designers, it helps when it's right where you need it — at work. That's why we scoured studios across the country to uncover some of the ones with the most creative interiors for their employees.
Each of these featured firms has a different approach to instilling inspiration into their offices: Some stick with a simple color palette, while others opt for bright, sunny hues. Some invite employees to take their work outside with patio conference rooms, while others bring the outdoors in with towering trees. There are quirky elements from phone booths to Astroturf and plenty of tongue-in-cheek artwork.
But what they all have in common is that this collection illustrates how firms can infuse their surroundings with creativity so that it naturally spills over onto the notebooks and computer screens of the designers at work there. Proof that work doesn't always have to feel like, well, work.
Check out some of our favorite offices located throughout the Western United States. HOWdesign.com's Creative Workspaces section is your place to see more roundups and posts about clever interiors in the future, giving you a sneak peek inside some of the most inspirational setups. Check out our roundup of 5 Creative Workspaces in the Eastern U.S., too!
Firm: Traction, San Francisco
Look and feel of the office: Brick and timber meets neo-modern.
Goal of the workspace's design: "It was essential that we had an open space to provoke collaboration," says CEO Adam Kleinberg. "Fifteen years ago, when our creative director, Theo Fanning, and I first worked together on a design team at another agency, we sat back-to-back in an open office configuration. We constantly challenged each other and shared ideas. The result was better work. We wanted to ensure that whatever space we were in helped inspire that same dynamic among our people."
Favorite element of the office: Kleinberg points to the indoor trees. "It feels like you're working in a forest."
Workspace's influence on creativity: "Teams have the freedom to shape their space to their liking. I showed up one morning and one of our art directors, Jon Stepping, had a drop cloth and ladders on the floor and was painting a glazed sunburst on the wall. Our developer team built out a collaboration space in the loft named it Fort Awesome—it's like a pirate ship up there. We believe everyone at the agency should think of themselves as a creative, and our space helps inspire them to do that."
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Firm: Second Story, Portland
Look and feel of the office: Creative director David Waingarten says, "Our space combines great industrial qualities like exposed concrete and timber, with beautifully curated pockets of art and ephemera, tons of books and inspirational materials from projects past."
Goal of the workspace's design: "Collaboration," Waingarten says. "Our individual workstations are fully exposed, with no walls or visual barriers, making communication fluid and easy. On one side of the studio, producers, developers, designers, and content coordinators sit in groups we affectionately call 'pods.' The main impression you get when you come through the door is that this is a space where people work together."
Favorite element of the office: "The space has great high ceilings and very large windows, so lots of air and light."
Workspace's influence on creativity: "When you work in a space that fosters interdisciplinary communication, you're constantly exposed to new ideas, processes, and ways of thinking just by osmosis. The result is lots of talented people who are always learning and experimenting, challenging and inspiring one another. From that, we create things that are greater than the sum of all our individual talents and specialties."
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Photography by Derick Tortorella.
Firm: Excela Creative, Los Angeles
Look and feel of the office: Excela's creative liaison, Michael J. Henderson, says, "Our office is a sprawling mass of mid-century furniture purposefully mismatched with kitschy knick-knacks and vintage signs. The overall goal for the office was to fill it with just enough interesting pieces that it would evoke a feeling of fun and whimsy and not a feeling that we were trying too hard to have a lot of neat stuff."
Goal of the workspace's design: "We tried to make sure every room had it's own feel and look, for instance, the lobby has a '60s Madison Avenue-inspired waiting area. The kitchen, with its artificial turf and summer day walls and ceilings, is a call to an outdoor eating area. The hallway to the restrooms has vintage prints of laxative ads adorned with ornate frames that add a bit of tongue-in-cheek fun."
Favorite element of the office: Henderson most appreciates that the company allowed the creatives to pick out their own furniture and dress up their individual spaces. "Some chose big tanker desks, some chose more modern desks and chairs, and some just wanted a really comfortable chair. Currently everyone is in the process of designing a vinyl covering to liven up the angular partitions dividing their work areas."
Workspace's influence on creativity: "The office is spacious enough that people can truly work in their own cozy little area while still being able to easily communicate with everyone else around. We have ample resources to write down ideas and push our ideas as far as they can go. It's easy to be in a good mood when you are surrounded by interesting pieces and great design."
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Firm: Off Madison Ave, Phoenix
Look and feel of the office: Modern and contemporary with industrial influences.
Goal of the workspace's design: To inspire creativity for employees at every turn, which is why the office features New York City phone booths in the lobby, a second-story loft, a rotating art gallery and floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook Phoenix.
Favorite element of the office: "We're partial to our garage-style conference room which opens and closes with an electric garage door," says co-owner and executive creative director Roger Hurni. "This pays tribute to how we started the business more than 13 years ago, from the garage in my home. Over the years, we have grown but never forget how the business started as two guys with a business plan."
Workspace's influence on creativity: "We wanted to create an office place that fosters and offers a safe place for creativity to flourish. We are really proud of our office's layout because it does maximize creativity. By building out spaces such as mini conference rooms for impromptu meetings, our second-story loft, outdoor balcony and barbecue area, our office gives our staffers alternatives to working at their desks."
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Firm: Hybrid Design, San Francisco
Look and feel of the office: "The office not just a place you work—you live your work while there, so the space needs to be someplace where you can feel at home," says Hybrid's husband-and-wife founders, Brian Flynn and Dora Drimalas. "We designed the space to be inviting and pleasant to be in, since we would be there for large portion of every day."
Goal of the workspace's design: "The space itself needed to be simple so that it could properly contain our crazy design world within it. If the space was overdone architecturally, it would affect the atmosphere of the studio. This was an intentionally minimal palette, with very few colors and simple, modern architectural gestures. The project took three years, start to finish, but it was well worth it."
Favorite element of the office: Drimalas points to the practical, such as the kitchen and outdoor meeting area. "It's nice to walk away from the machine and see the sun. We all spend so much time at the office that having a space with a full kitchen and a relaxed atmosphere was important." Flynn appreciates the building's angled, cedar ceiling. "It just opens everything up, lets a ton of light in, and you immediately feel relaxed just walking up there."
Workspace's influence on creativity: "It's really important that a space be neutral enough that it allows you to creatively go anywhere. I think an office should be part home, laboratory, art gallery, library, gym, bike shop, and—if Brian had his way—part skate park. It needs to be a space that feeds and nurtures creativity."
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