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Northern Iowa's last two games ended in agonizing losses that sent the once-promising Panthers back to .500.
On Saturday, they finally did all the right things down the stretch.
Anthony James scored 16 points and Northern Iowa beat 15th-ranked Wichita State 57-52, sending the Shockers into their first losing streak of the season.
Seth Tuttle had eight points, eight rebounds and four blocks for the Panthers (12-11, 5-6 Missouri Valley Conference), who snapped a two-game losing skid of their own. They took control with a 14-0 run in the second half and became just the fourth Valley team in the last 23 games to beat Wichita State at home.
The Shockers (19-4, 8-3) pulled within 52-50 on Carl Hall's steal and bucket with 1:18 left. But Tuttle blocked a Nick Wiggins try that would have tied it and then sealed the win with a breakaway dunk.
"That's as happy as I've been for a group of guys in quite a while because of what happened last week," Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson said. "I kept asking them to get over it, and they did."
This was the first win over a ranked opponent for the Panthers. They earned national acclaim with their stunning upset of top-seeded Kansas in the NCAA tournament in 2010, but they will almost certainly miss the tourney for the third year in a row.
Northern Iowa played a brutal non-league slate that included losses to Louisville, Stanford, Memphis, Iowa and UNLV, and it opened Valley play with a 25-point loss at Wichita State.
But the last two games were the worst of all.
They lost their last home game when Indiana State drew contact on a desperation heave and hit free throws just before the final buzzer. They also lost in overtime at Evansville, 54-51, on Tuesday.
Northern Iowa didn't need much luck against the Shockers, whose offense went into a funk for the final 12 minutes.
"It can turn fast after what's happened in the past week. I think the reason it didn't is the way these guys handled themselves between Indiana State and Evansville and the way they handled themselves between Evansville and (Saturday)," Jacobson said. If they had handled themselves differently, if they had let themselves get down. I think that would have affected that last minute."
Hall led Wichita State with 20 points. The Shockers, who lost to Indiana State on Tuesday, have dropped a game behind league-leading Creighton in the Valley race.
The Shockers gave up sole possession of first place in the Valley when they lost to the Sycamores, snapping a 19-game home winning streak.
Wichita State started and finished this one in much the same manner.
The Shockers went over seven minutes without scoring in the first half, allowing Northern Iowa to take an early edge. But Wichita State steadied itself long enough to pull even at halftime, 23-all.
The Shockers then jumped on the Panthers with seven quick points, which can be huge against a slow-paced team such as Northern Iowa. But the Panthers responded behind a pair of Marc Sonnen 3s, jumping back ahead 37-36.
Sonnen had three 3s for Northern Iowa, which scored 23 of the game's next 29 points after falling behind 30-23.
"We're hoping that we can get a spark going right now," Tuttle said. "It's not going to be an easy road now that we beat Wichita. But that's a really good basketball team. That's a really physical basketball team."


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Situated between glistening Surfers Paradise and laid back Coolangatta, Burleigh Heads is famous for pumping surf breaks, towering pine trees and 'to be seen' hip dining.
Hit the Burleigh foreshore any day of the week, a hive of families and roaming entertainment, to make use of the water's edge barbecues with fresh produce from the farmers' market. You could also spend sunset at an alfresco restaurant people-watching or from a luxurious apartment perched high on the hill.
Spot the endless stream of surfers and fishermen day and night walking through the Burleigh Heads National Park, from The Cove to Echo Beach. Rise early and join them for a paddle in a protected corner of swell.
A visit isn't complete without meandering the James Street shopping strip with a freshly squeezed juice in hand while admiring the handmade bespoke pieces, and The Village Markets featuring over 100 chic local designers.
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Capital Obscenity!
Back in February I wrote about the circuit split between the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits over the application of federal obscenity laws in the Internet age. This is a major issue of law that a majority of the Court, in concurring and dissenting opinions of 2002's Ashcroft v. ACLU, first telegraphed its interest in updating, revisiting, or outright abandoning.
This week, another obscenity trial begins in Judge Leon's federal district courtroom here in DC. Via Mike Scarcella of the National Law Journal:
Stagliano and two of his companies were indicted in federal district court in Washington in April 2008 on seven counts of distributing obscene, sexually graphic videos that U.S. Justice Department prosecutors allege have no artistic or scientific value and cut against the community standard of what is acceptable. He faces up to 32 years behind bars if convicted.
Jury selection is under way and opening arguments are expected to begin this week in the first adult porn obscenity case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in more than 20 years. "There won't be any falling asleep in this courtroom," Judge Richard Leon said at a hearing in the case June 14. "I can assure you of that." […]
[Stagliano's lawyers are] arguing that Stagliano has a right to possess and to distribute sexually explicit material. The lawyers contend federal obscenity standards are too vague to govern Internet speech. The sexual acts in the movies were lawful, the lawyers said, and the participants were consenting adults. "The right of sexual privacy has evolved as society's attitudes about sexuality have evolved," Corn-Revere said in court papers in July 2008. "Liberty now gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in matters pertaining to sex. This protection is broad enough to encompass a right to buy and sell obscene materials."
In declining to dismiss the indictment earlier this year, Leon said the federal obscenity statutes are not unconstitutionally vague as applied to Internet speech. "Although public morality may be an insufficient justification for regulating private conduct in some cases, it is certainly a sufficient justification for regulating the sort of public conduct at issue here," Leon wrote.
Beyond the racy subject matter and evidence to be presented to the district court this week, we will also witness some scintillating constitutional law discussions. The above passage points to Stagliano's use of Lawrence to argue invalidation of federal obscenity laws under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment's right to privacy.* This argument worked in the Western District of Pennsylvania in 2005, but ever since the Third Circuit rebuked and reversed the district court and the Supreme Court denied certiorari, appeals to Lawrence have gone unheeded.
So to further push the issue of federal obscenity laws before the Supreme Court, expect also to see attacks on the "community standards" prong of the Miller test, which courts use to determine whether material is obscene:
Lawrence Walters, a First Amendment lawyer who specializes in representing clients in adult entertainment, said obscenity cases have historically been filed in districts that are generally viewed as conservative. "It may result in one of the first cases where a more cosmopolitan jury has made a determination of obscenity with regard to adult material," said Walters of Walters Law Group in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Although the Supreme Court and lower courts ultimately came to implicitly interpret "community standards" to be those of the location in which the material was sent, the Ninth Circuit in late 2009 stated that national community standards should apply in a jury's determining Internet obscenity.
Depending on how this jury rules, the inevitable appeal will likely feature an attack on local community standards – either as too permissive in a big city should Stagliano get acquitted or too arbitrary should he get convicted. Either way, however, the recent circuit split over the community standards prong will be made more ripe for Supreme Court review.
The question, then, becomes whether the Court will conform to its opinions in Ashcroft I or not. Thomas, Scalia, and Rehnquist were perfectly satisfied with local standards. Might Roberts, given his First Amendment protectiveness this term, deviate from his predecessor's vote? In refusing to extend the Court's obscenity jurisprudence to dogfighting in United States v. Stevens, Roberts said nothing of material that actually does fall within the Court's sex-tethered definition of obscenity. But in siding with the government in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project for national security concerns, the Chief showed himself willing to favor traditionally conservative concerns–of which the protection of morals-based laws have long figured–over First Amendment absolutism.
Meanwhile, O'Connor wrote in favor of a national standard, but her successor, Alito, will likely go with local standards, given his lone Stevens dissent this term.
Kennedy wrote for Ginsburg and Souter suggesting that the local standards should be reconsidered, but didn't tip his hand on what side upon which he'd come down until he had more evidence to make such a determination. Adding uncertainty upon that concurrence's uncertainty, we don't know how Sotomayor would have voted then or now, and Ginsburg may not even be on the Court by the time this case may make it up there.
And finally, Justice Stevens, the lone dissenter in Ashcroft arguing to toss community standards altogether as applied to the Internet, may not have as zealous of a successor in Elena Kagan.
This trial, and its aftermath, will surely be something worth watching.
*Lawrence concerned state laws, so the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause governed; this case tests federal obscenity laws, which implicate the Fifth Amendment's analogous language securing against deprivation of liberty without due process of law.
UPDATE: 7/13 – Scarcella provides a report from today's introduction of evidence to the jurors.
Supreme Court bar, start your search engines and take off the SafeSearch: the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits have split over how prudish First Amendment law must be towards Internet obscenity.
The Court's obscenity jurisprudence has stood largely frozen and rigid since 1973, when, in Miller v. California, it resolved its previous fifteen years of doctrinal disarray into a three part test to determine whether material is obscene:
The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest [citation omitted]; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
The Miller test's first prong has since been interpreted as requiring juries to apply local community standards. Although this test was more conservative than the Court's pre-1973 obscenity jurisprudence–see, e.g., Justice Potter Stewart's "I know it when I see it" test–it was tailored to the times: a pornographer would send a film reel or a magazine by the mails to a particular recipient in a particular district.
Problem is, in the Internet age, speakers post their thoughts on the Web and then relinquish control over where the material is delivered. Yet under Miller's extant local community standards prong, prosecutors may charge Internet pornographers in federal courts in districts where communities are more likely to rule indecent material criminally obscene.
The Bush Administration took full advantage of such forum selection when it chose to resurrect federal obscenity prosecutions after two terms of Clinton-era desuetude. There have been four big cases to rise out of the Bush-era prosecutions. One recently yielded a guilty plea after protracted litigation in the Third Circuit. Another may be coming to trial in the D.C. Circuit. The Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, however, have made their decisions, forcing a circuit split over community standards for the Internet–a topic to which the Supreme Court in 2002 signaled its receptivity.
In late October, the Ninth Circuit, in United States v. Kilbride, held that juries must apply national standards when assessing Internet obscenity, even for the sexually explicit spam emails sent by the defendants. To reach this determination, the panel relied on the separate opinions of six justices in the Supreme Court's 2002 Ashcroft v. ACLU decision. In dicta, Justices O'Connor, Breyer, Kennedy (joined by Souter and Ginsburg), and Stevens all took turns expressing their doubts about the constitutionality of requiring juries to apply local community standards. O'Connor and Breyer went so far as to endorse the use of national standards. Here's O'Connor:
To be sure, the Court in Miller also stated that a national standard might be "unascertainable," 413 U.S., at 31, and "[un]realistic," id., at 32. But where speech on the Internet is concerned, I do not share that skepticism. It is true that our Nation is diverse, but many local communities encompass a similar diversity. For instance, in Miller itself, the jury was instructed to consider the standards of the entire State of California, a large (today, it has a population of greater than 33 million people, see U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States 23 (120th ed. 2000) (Table 20)) and diverse State that includes both Berkeley and Bakersfield. If the Miller Court believed generalizations about the standards of the people of California were possible, and that jurors would be capable of assessing them, it is difficult to believe that similar generalizations are not also possible for the Nation as a whole. Moreover, the existence of the Internet, and its facilitation of national dialogue, has itself made jurors more aware of the views of adults in other parts of the United States. Although jurors asked to evaluate the obscenity of speech based on a national standard will inevitably base their assessments to some extent on their experience of their local communities, I agree with Justice Breyer that the lesser degree of variation that would result is inherent in the jury system and does not necessarily pose a First Amendment problem. See post, at 2. In my view, a national standard is not only constitutionally permissible, but also reasonable.
The Ninth Circuit determined that Ashcroft's concurring and dissenting justices' dicta on community standards were enough guidance to blaze new constitutional ground.
Today, however, in United States v. Little, the 11th Circuit disagreed:
Appellants argue that the district court should have applied a national or Internet community standard rather than the local community standard of the Middle District of Florida. In support of this argument, Appellants rely heavily on the concurrences and dissent in Ashcroft, 535 U.S. 564, 586-612, 122 S. Ct. 1700, 1714-1728 (2002). Recently, the Ninth Circuit interpreted Ashcroft in such a way as to mandate a national community standard for Internet-based material. United States v. Kilbride, 584 F.3d 1240, 1252-54 (9th Cir. 2009). We decline to follow the reasoning of Kilbride in this Circuit. The portions of the Ashcroft opinion and concurrences that advocated a national community standard were dicta, not the ruling of the Court.
As a result, the Miller contemporary community standard remains the standard by which the Supreme Court has directed us to judge obscenity, on the Internet and elsewhere. The district court did not err when it instructed the jury to judge the materials on the basis of how "the average person of the community as a whole—the Middle District of Florida—would view the material."
With the split now wide open, one could safely assume that at least four of the still-sitting, separately-writing Ashcroft justices would vote to grant certiorari so to align the Court's obscenity doctrine with the times. Still, even if the Court would grant certiorari and resolve the split in favor of the Ninth Circuit's national community standards for Internet obscenity, it is not at all fait accompli that the Court will endorse the Ninth Circuit's reasoning. The panel employed what may be considered overzealous methodology in gleaning conclusive guidance out of concurring and dissenting dicta. Further, the panel lumped email, which is sent by specific distribution analogous to that of Miller's time, into Ashcroft's concern about the Web's indiscriminate dissemination.
Nevertheless, I predict that these cases are ripe for Supreme Court review. Now which one of you Supreme Court advocates needs help with the cert petition?
UPDATE: Aw shucks. The Eleventh Circuit's opinion possesses the header that "This case was not selected for publication in the Federal Reporter." Boooo! If the Eleventh Circuit was trying to dodge the cert process, there still remains hope. The Ninth Circuit may still find itself sufficiently split with 2005's Extreme Associates in the Third Circuit, 1996's United States v. Thomas in the Sixth Circuit, or perhaps the pending case at the D.C. District Court if it makes its way up to the D.C. Circuit.
UPDATE II: Prof. Eugene Volokh wonders why the Eleventh Circuit chose to keep Little unpublished and whether it or Kilbride may still go up to the Court:
[I]t seems odd that the Eleventh Circuit's opinion — which apparently considered this argument for the first time in that circuit, and which expressly rejected the reasoning of the one precedent on the subject from another circuit — was unpublished.
Unpublished opinions deliberately lack binding precedential value, and are generally intended to limit their own value as persuasive precedent as well (though the ultimate estimation of such persuasive value is of course in the eyes of a future court). It seems to me that they should be reserved for areas where more precedent is unhelpful, chiefly because there already is plenty of precedent in the jurisdiction on the subject. So it's hard for me to see why this opinion, which is certainly quite detailed should be unpublished.
Note that there won't be a cert petition from the government challenging the Ninth Circuit's national-standard holding in Kilbride, since the conviction there was affirmed on harmless error grounds. The government won on the bottom line, and thus can't petition for certiorari, even if it dislikes the court's reasoning. (It could have petitioned for rehearing en banc, but despite two requests for extension of time to file a petition for rehearing, the government ultimately decided not to petition.)
There might well be a cert petition in the Eleventh Circuit case, though. I wonder to what extent the Court will see this case as practically involving a circuit split, even though technically there is no disagreement between the precedent in the two cases. Supreme Court Rule 10(a), for what it's worth, notes that one important factor in favor of granting certiorari is that "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States court of appeals on the same important matter."
UPDATE III: Scott Gant, partner at Boies Schiller and author of We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age, passed along a 2006 Boston College Law Review article he wrote on unpublished circuit court opinions. On page 729, he writes of Supreme Court review:
One might also expect unpublished opinions rarely, if ever, to be the subject of Supreme Court review. Yet the Court has elected to review dozens of unpublished appeals court opinions, in many cases reversing the court's decision. Still other cases involve circuit splits, where at least one of the court of appeals decisions addressing the disputed issue was unpublished.
In his footnotes to the above text, he lists twelve cases, many of which from the past ten years, to support his assertion. So my offer is back on: any Supreme Court advocates want some help writing a killer cert petition?


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Oh, Boyd: Solo album gets thumbs down
If Boyd Tinsley's new CD is a "true reflection" of his merit as a solo artist, the violinist might best keep his strings attached to the Dave Matthews Band. So say several scathing reviews of Tinsley's first solo effort, True Reflections.
While DMB has always had its share of detractors (who will likely transfer their distaste to Tinsley's release), one critic of True Reflections is unexpected: Waldo Jaquith, a founder of the award-winning DMB fansite, nancies.org.
While Jaquith praises Tinsley's groundbreaking work as a solo artist Tinsley is the first DMB member to put out his own album he quickly tempers that praise.
"Such creativity and independence should be rewarded," Jaquith writes, "as with any time that a band or its members branch out and try something new. In the case of True Reflections, however, this is simply not a behavior that should be reinforced."
What's a fawning fan doing dissing an idol?
"As a fan, it's your job to try to promote the band," Jaquith acknowledges, " but you can't always be a cheerleader if they do something that's not cheerworthy."
Jaquith says he "feels terrible" about the review, but explains that nancies.org "wouldn't have any credibility if we said only good things."
Well known music sources seem to agree with him, as Rolling Stone online has joined Jaquith in the Boyd-bashing.
"Aside from a simmering version of Neil Young's 'Cinnamon Girl,'" writes Andrew Strickman, "and the richness that Matthews and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band add to the title track, Tinsley's debut falls short of even minimal scrutiny."
Double ouch!
The element of the album that irks both Strickman and Jaquith the most: Tinsley's simple lyrics.
For instance, from "Perfect World":
It's not a perfect world,
I don't want to lie.
Sometimes it makes me laugh,
Sometimes it makes me cry.
I'm beginning to wonder why,
I won't tell no lies.
I just don't know why,
No matter how I try,
I wonder why,
I wonder why.
"Cringeworthy," writes Jaquith.
"Tinsley's lyrics sound ripped out of a high schooler's poetry notebook," rails Strickman.
And even student newspapers at typically DMB-crazed universities aren't being too kind.
"Tinsley's true gift, his string-playing, is reserved for similarly predictable bridges and buried under meandering guitar effects," writes Adam Blum for the Daily Californian, a student paper at Berkeley.
But some locals say the effort is more than worthwhile. Emmett Boaz, who frequented Miller's during Dave Matthew's bartending days, thinks Tinsley's solo debut "is an excellent idea." Though Boaz hasn't listened to the album yet, he believes Tinsley is "first rate."
Does anyone who's actually heard the album love it?
One need look no further than Amazon.com, where of the 20 reviews posted, nine adored the CD, while only six loathed it.
"Tinsley has broken out of the DMB mold, crafting his own songs that are much more country-flavored in style. Tinsley [has] a unique voice that will pleasantly surprise many who expected this album to be mostly instrumental fiddling songs," writes a music fan from Virginia.
"This new CD is awesome!! Beside, he's from the Dave Matthews Band, it has to be good!" says a music fan from Uranus, Massachusetts.
And finally, "Boyd's undeniable talent shows its majestic head and you really get a glimpse at the beautiful and perfect things that there are in the world," writes Kyle from New York.
Unfortunately for Tinsley, more people agreed with Jaquith. Though Tinsley's CD debuted at the end of June at number 97 on the Billboard top 100 albums chart, by the second week it was nowhere in sight.


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It's been a while since I've posted, but I have 3 quilts to show you. It's been slow going lately with cutting and quilting, but I think I'm getting caught up!
What a cute quilt! We used 2 charm packs and a little extra yardage to make this one. Put the extra on the back as usual.
This one sewed up quickly with the large blocks.


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When you first pay a visit to UP, a dining establishment located in Highland Village, it's possible you'll assume Haidar Barbouti gifted the dining establishment this name due to the third floor position as well as the fact you must choose the up option within the elevator to get to it. That is not where this name came from, however. states – named the restaurant UP because Barbouti merely provides upscale meals to high end clients and also the entire mood of the restaurant follows this pattern. Guests receive straightforward, honest dishes, which is basically American foods with a few Italian meals included. This food isn't overly bold, but it is lavish and guests will be required to dress to have a meal at this dining establishment. UP provides limitations on hats, shorts, along with shirts.
The dining establishment is well known for its airy space which happens to be both cool and warm. It features white marble surfaces on the restaurant tables as well as the bar, a terrazzo floor covering finished in cafe-au-lait plus walnut paneling. Furthermore, the leather like upholstery is going to be cream colored and certain components are done in burnished metal. This mixture is pleasing to the eye and it's just what guests might anticipate within a restaurant of this sort. The setting isn't the primary attraction nevertheless, given that the food is offered in sizable portions, is delicious, and the selection will certainly delight a picky guest. Make sure you visit this eating venue as Haidar Barbouti now has yet another hit on his hands.


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EGAP has endorsed the idea of research registration in its statement of principles. The basic idea is that registration of research designs limits the scope for "fishing" and provides a tool for assessing the scope and effects of publication bias. Go fishing yourself.
But while there is growing momentum towards the adoption of registration as a standard, currently there are few options for social scientists to register their designs. Important options include the AEA trial registry (open only to RCTs) and the RIDIE registry (open to experimental and observational studies assessing the impact of development programs). The EGAP registry is providing an unsupervised stopgap function to store designs until the creation of a general registry for social science research.


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Handel's Messiah is known primarily for the "Hallelujah" chorus. But Messiah has many other wonderful solos and choruses. One of my favorites is "The Trumpet Shall Sound."
Here is a video of this section performed with a copy of a Baroque trumpet (the type of trumpet Handel would have used in 1742, when Messiah was premiered.)
What's the difference between a modern and baroque trumpet? The most obvious difference is there are no valves in the earlier instrument, so many of the notes must be produced by the performer adjusting the pitch with only their lips. The Baroque trumpet is less forceful and can play higher notes with less fatigue. The trumpet in the video had two finger holes to adjust pitch. The Baroque trumpet is a LOT HARDER to play than its modern version!
The San Antonio Symphony will be using modern instruments this weekend in our Messiah productions.
Our performances are:
December 4, 5 & 6, 2009
Ken-David Masur, conductor
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers
University United Methodist Church Choir (UUMC performance only)
Linda Poetschke, soprano
Susan Olson, alto
Derek Chester, tenor
Chia-Wei Lee, bass-baritone
Friday, December 4 performance at 8 pm at University United Methodist Church
Saturday, December 5 performance at 8 pm at Coker Methodist Church
Sunday, December 6 performance at 3 pm at Steele Auditorium in Cibolo
For tickets call (210) 554-1010 or visit www.sasymphony.org.
We also have four performances of The Nutcracker remaining at the Municipal Auditorium:
Friday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 5 at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 6 at 2:00 p.m.
For tickets to The Nutcracker call (210) 226-2891 or visit http://www.artssanantonio.com/.
The San Antonio Symphony is also performing our annual Holiday Pops on December 18 & 19 at the Municipal Auditorium, and a Family Holiday concert on Sunday, December 20 at Trinity University.
Jack Fishman
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Gov. Jerry Brown faces a tough challenge merely getting the legislature to put elements of his budget plan -- including extensions of temporary tax increases -- on the ballot. But even if he succeeds with the legislature, winning voter approval will be even harder -- through no fault of his own.
Two ballot initiatives that could be unhelpful to Brown's political goals are scheduled to appear on the next statewide ballot. If there's a special election in June for Brown's proposals, these measures would automatically appear on the ballot.
What are those measures? The first is a $1 tobacco tax increase to fund cancer research. (The new leader of that campaign is Lance Armstrong). The other would extend legislators' term limits. Both measures are susceptible to populist campaigns -- how can you raise taxes now? how can we can give legislators longer terms when they're not doing a good job? -- that could take Brown's measures down with it. Tobacco companies might run smart, well-funded ads that would attack the government and taxes in the service of beating the tobacco tax -- and poison the well for Brown's tax extensions.
U.S. & World
If you want to learn more, Capitol Weekly has a piece out today that looks at the possible interplay between these measures and Brown's.


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Yesterday, I posted the videos of me as a contestant on "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" a few years ago. That episode aired in April 2008, and I don't think I've watched it since then. Granted, I watched it a bunch of times in the month after it aired, with various friends who wanted to watch with me.
I couldn't even watch all of it yesterday, as I was assembling that blog post. I watched the first part of the first segment, and I had to turn it off. I just had to. It's really tough for me to watch myself on video, and it always has been. I think there are two reasons for this:
- It's hard for me to see myself at that weight (probably just under 400 pounds), because I'm reminded of all the unhappiness that accompanied it. Everyone has good and bad times, but I see that video and think about how my weight probably (and frequently) was limiting in so many ways. I know I'm more confident now than I was then. I know my self-esteem is higher now that it was then. I know that then, I had simply accepted some things as fact that certainly weren't fact: that I was going to be obese for the rest of my life; that I'm incapable of improving my health; that I would probably go through life alone. I'm not making the claim that my weight loss has resulted in all my issues and problems disappearing, because that's not the case, and I still have good times and bad times, and that will never end, no matter what I weigh. But now, at least, I feel a lot more in control of my health and well-being, and as a result, other elements of my life seem like they may be beginning to fall into place.
- You know how when when you hear your own voice on your outgoing message or answering machine (if anyone still has one of those), it sounds totally different than what you think your own voice sounds like? I feel the same way about video, ten-fold. I look at it, and think, "Is that what I look like? Is that how I move, appear, smile, gesture?" It's different from how I perceive myself, and it makes me uncomfortable and self-conscious. This, by the way, hasn't changed since I began losing weight – I'm just as uncomfortable watching my recent appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" as I am watching on "Crosswords." And yet, it hasn't stopped me from pursuing television opportunities – I've been on national TV 5 times in my life, and the thought of opportunity #6, whatever that may be, doesn't frighten me. Johnny Depp, by the way, doesn't like watching himself either. So I'm in good company!
I also thought I'd share a little bit of what the whole experience was like.
The Audition. I had read that Merv Griffin was creating a new crossword-based game show, and since Merv's other shows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, were so good, I thought this one would be good, too. I also thought there'd be the potential to win a lot of money, which is always a perk. After some digging on the interwebs, I found audition information, and called and made an appointment. My audition was set for July 26, 2007.
The audition was held at the studios where they were going to tape the show. About 60-70 people piled into a big tent set up in the parking lot, and we got an application to fill out. In addition to contact info and questions about our occupation, age, and so on, there was also a questionnaire about crossword puzzles. Now, I'm not a regular crossword puzzle solver, and never have been. I like word puzzles, but I've never been into crosswords. There was questions about how often we did crosswords, and what crosswords we did, and I remember seeing the guy next to me writing about how he did the New York Times puzzle every single day, including the Sunday one, plus he bought crossword books all the time. I decided to be honest, so I wrote I did a crossword maybe twice a year, and it was the one in TV Guide magazine, where the clues are like "Last name of Canadian singer Celine" and the answer has 4 letters.
Then came the test. We had to answer about 40 crossword-based questions, with only about 20 seconds to answer each one. It was hard, but I felt pretty good about it. We turned in our tests and applications, and waited for 20 minutes while they graded the tests. They didn't say how well we had to do, but when they announced the 15 or so people that passed the test, they called my name! Everyone else was thanked for coming, and the 15 of us were invited into an office, where we had to do an on-camera interview. The interview was short and sweet: what's your name, where are you from, tell us something we wouldn't know by looking at you (I told a story about how I once mooned a theater full of people). Basically, they wanted to make sure we didn't freeze up on camera, that the host would be able to interact with us, and that we had some semblance of a personality.
A few days later, I got the call: they wanted to book me as a contestant! Woo-hoo! At this point, I still didn't know exactly what the show was. It had yet to air, so I didn't know how the game was played, how much I could win, none of it (the show ended up premiering 1 week before my taping, so I eventually was able to see a few episodes before my taping). I read in a press release that the show had hired the guy who edits the USA Today crossword puzzles to produce all the puzzles used on the show, so I started doing the USA Today puzzles every day to practice, and learn crossword clue lingo. I arranged to take the day off of work, and on September 17, 2007, I drove to the studio for the taping.
The Taping. Like most game shows, "Crosswords" taped 5 episodes in one day. Since each episode has 5 contestants, they had to book 25 contestants for each tape day, plus a few alternates, in case people get sick, have car troubles, family emergencies, or whatever. We were all crammed in one big room, where they set up a few curtained off areas as 'dressing rooms.' They had asked all of us to bring 3 suitable outfits, so everyone had options, and so the 5 contestants on any given show wouldn't all be wearing the same color.
The day started with a few long presentations by various producers. They went over the releases we had to sign, which basically said that consent to be on TV, won't sue as a result of the taping, and that they can use this footage and our likeness in any way they want, "throughout the universe in all media now known or hereafter devised in perpetuity" – so, really, they hold all the cards. Then there was an extensive explanation of the rules, which, if you watched the show, gets really confusing, with the spoilers and all.
Then came the waiting. They announced the five players for the first show they were taping, and I wasn't one of them. An hour later, they announced the second set of contestants, including me! I started getting really nervous. They put some make-up on me, and I met with a producer to quickly discuss what I should talk about when the host interviews me, and they took us down to the stage.
The stage was small. I work in television, and it's pretty much true that everything seems bigger on screen than it really is. The studio was tiny. There was no studio audience (so the applause you hear during the show is canned) – just the set, a bunch of cameras, and that's about it. We all had the chance to test out how the buzzers worked, and they had us rehearse how to move from podium to podium, so no one collided with anyone. The spoilers had to practice their entrance down that plexiglass ramp. They checked in with us, to see if we had any questions, and then the cameras started rolling.
The taping itself is a bit of a blur. My nerves went away, though, as soon as the show started – that's the thing with game shows, you really have to focus and concentrate, because things happen quickly. Before I knew it, I was being led away to the corner with the other 3 losers to watch the winner do the bonus round. I'm a competitive person, and was annoyed and disappointed that I didn't win, but I was also secretly happy that Mary didn't win the bonus round.
Final Thoughts: Here's the thing: "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" was a pretty dumb show. I auditioned before I had ever seen it, which is a smart move, because I had a better chance of getting booked (once a show starts airing, the contestant department gets flooded with audition requests). Had I seen an actual episode first, though, I wouldn't have auditioned. I don't like that the game required obvious word and puzzle skills, but ultimately relies heavily on luck to win. I was also hoping more money would be at stake. Oh well. It was a fun experience, and everyone there was really nice. I didn't get to meet Merv Griffin (he actually passed away a few weeks after my audition, before my tape day), but I did get to be a smarty-pants on TV. So if I ever create a bucket list, I can add that to it, and cross it off.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading! This turned out to be pretty long post, but this is the sort of behind-the-scenes stuff I love reading about, so I though some of you might enjoy it too. Time, though, to wrap it up!
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Pebble Creator on How He Closed $10 Million on Kickstarter: Build for Mom
How do you build a tech product that sells out before it even really exists?
Build it with your mom in mind.
That's according to Eric Migicovsky, the 25-year-old creator of the Pebble watch that shot to time-telling fame in no time and has smashed records on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding Web site through which people make pledges to projects in the works.
The watch just surpassed $10 million in pledges from nearly 66,500 backers, with eight days to go before the campaign was set to close. The Pebble, which is expected to ship this fall, is now "sold out."
So what's the big deal about the Pebble watch? AllThingsD's Ina Fried covers this quite well here, but in short: It's a Bluetooth 4.0-enabled wristwatch that integrates with iPhone and Android smartphones to show app updates and other data on its E-Ink (so, sun-friendly) screen.
The idea of a "smart" watch, with some computing functions or the ability to pair with a smartphone, is hardly a new thing. Here's my recent review of Sony's latest SmartWatch, to give you an idea of how some of these watches work.
But Migicovsky, who sat down with me a few weeks ago to talk about the project, thinks he's hit on something different. Prior to the Pebble, he created three watches, including a BlackBerry-friendly watch called inPulse; none of them took off the way this one has.
"When you make something that your friends say is amazing, and not just because they're being nice, that's when you know you've hit on something," Migicovsky said.
He added, "I definitely have my mom and dad in mind when I build something." Migicovsky said his mom isn't particularly tech-savvy, but even she has taken to his Pebble project, to the point where she's helping him with media outreach. She even threw a party to celebrate the success of the gadget.
And speaking of friends, Migicovsky hasn't gone far in his search for the handful of new employees he's hired over the past few weeks.
"I'm basically hiring all my friends," he said.


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Marvin Suggs and his Muppaphone were one of the first recurring acts on The Muppet Show. Marvin is the world's only known player of the famed Muppaphone instrument, which consists of a group of furry pink and orange creatures who make the most beautiful yelping sound when struck just the right way with a mallet. Marvin is well-known for his performances on the Muppaphone of such timeless classics including "Lady of Spain" and "Witch Doctor."
Although most often seen with the Muppaphone, Marvin Suggs is a multi-talented individual as can be seen in the Steve Martin episode of The Muppet Show when he performed "Yes, We Have No Bananas" with his All-Food Glee Club. However, Marvin's true passion seems to rest with his beloved Muppaphone, considering his leafy-green show choir never appeared again. (Or perhaps they broke up when Marvin threatened to turn them into a salad... the world may never know.)
Oddly unseen since the days of The Muppet Show, Marvin's most recent appearance was a very brief cameo in Muppets From Space. He is presumably on tour (or off the grid) with his Muppaphone, entertaining the masses with his inhumane exploits.
Although Marvin has been largely absent, an action figure was made of Marvin in 2004 as part of Series 8 of Palisades Toys line of action figures. Marvin came packaged with two mallets, a musical wall, and six Muppaphones. Series 8 also included a variant figure of Marvin, dressed in black and silver attire.
Although Marvin Suggs is a very obscure character, Frank Oz still talked about and developed a backstory for Marvin, which was expanded upon in the liner notes for the 2002 CD "Muppets: Music, Mayhem and More." When asked about Marvin, Frank said,
"I don't recall where Marvin Suggs came from... probably from one of the writer's meetings. But the accent came from my French friend Phillippe Gentry -- I just exaggerated it and made it really annoying. I've always felt Marvin lived in a scuzzy trailer park with his put-upon wife, and he kept the Muppaphones in a cage and would beat them regularly."
Quite frankly, they might not need him, really. After all, the Muppets already have multiple counts of animal abuse (read: karate chopping pigs, sexually harassing king prawns, bears with tomatoes hurled at them), so tossing Marvin Suggs back in the mix will surely do nothing to get PETA off of their furry backs.
However, Marvin was always very funny and his over-exaggerated performance by Frank Oz was a hoot. That voice is still something I try to imitate (it ain't easy) and I find myself quoting Mr. Suggs often, saying, "I am not a CRUEL man!" So... the Muppets might not need Marvin, but wouldn't it be fun to see him smacking those whiny balls of fur again?
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Eric's also reported big breaking news stories domestically from mass shootings to wildfires, helped launch NPR's innovative, award-winning education platform NPR Ed, and serves as an occasional guest host for NPR shows.
He recently switched beats again to help build a collaborative team that covers America's criminal justice system including state and local courts, prisons, juvenile justice and policing.
After nearly a decade with NPR's International Desk, Westervelt returned to the U.S. and was awarded a prestigious John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.
The breadth and depth of Westervelt's work has been honored with broadcast journalism's highest honors including the 2002 George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath; the 2003 Alfred I. duPont - Columbia University award also for 2001 terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan; 2004 and a 2007 duPont-Columbia Awards for NPR's in-depth coverage of the war in Iraq and its effect on Iraqi society. Eric's 2009 multi-media series with NPR photojournalist David Gilkey won an Overseas Press Club award. He shared an Edward R. Murrow RTNDA award with NPR Ed for his education coverage.
As a foreign correspondent for NPR based in the Middle East, Westervelt covered numerous conflicts and their repercussions across the Middle East. He spent several years living in the reporting on the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Jerusalem Bureau Chief he covered 2006 Second Lebanon war between the Israeli military and Hezbollah, turmoil and combat in the Gaza Strip and the political and social issues across Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Westervelt was one of the first reporters into Baghdad during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 embedded with the lead elements of the U.S. Third Infantry Division which fought their way into capital. He later helped cover the troubled occupation, the Iraqi insurgency, sectarian violence and the on-going struggle to recover in the post-Saddam era.
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For one period, Michael Collins and the Darien boys ice hockey team were able to keep Fairfield Prep's offense at bay.
But in the final 30 minutes, the Blue Wave were no match for David White and the high-powered Jesuits.
White recorded a hat trick, leading the state's No. 1 team to a 6-0 win over third-ranked Darien at Darien Ice Rink Wednesday night.
"It's a big win to come down to Darien, in their barn," White said. "They were really psyched to play us ... it's really big for us."
Junior forward Dean Lockery scored twice, Matt McKinney netted a goal, and Matt Wikman and Connor Henry each had two assists, as the Jesuits improved to 15-0.
"The win was well-earned," Prep assistant coach Rudy Mauritz said. "I'm really proud of that effort tonight."
Chris Gutierrez also stopped 12 shots, pitching his second shutout this season. Gutierrez's top stop came when he snatched Dana Wensberg's third-period snap-shot with his glove.
"Gutierrez came up big in some key spots," Mauritz said. "He showed an intensity and a focus that he hasn't shown this year."
The Blue Wave had their 11-game unbeaten streak snapped, falling to 13-2-2.
"They're undefeated, and No. 1 in the state for a reason, and we found that out tonight," Darien coach Chris Gerwig said. "It's a great learning tool for us going forward."
Collins made 12 of his 31 saves in a scoreless first period. The senior goaltender was tested from the get-go, stopping Nick Bargiello just 28 seconds into the game.
Collins made his best stop on Wikman late in the frame, kicking out his left leg to stop a low shot at the side of the net.
"I thought he was outstanding," Gerwig said of Collins. "I think Mike had his `A' game the whole game."
But the Blue Wave took their first penalty 41 seconds into the second, and White made Darien pay. Sean Henry's point shot was blocked by Darien's defense, but the puck fell on White's stick and the senior found a vacant net, putting Prep up 1-0 just 56 seconds into the second.
"Sometimes that's all you need," Gerwig said. "They never looked back after that goal."
"Sean took a great hard shot, and I got a lucky bounce," White said.
White dug for a loose puck in the crease six minutes later, beating Collins and lifting Prep's edge to two. He capped the hat trick at 8:35, making it 3-0.
Darien -- which had averaged almost seven goals per game in its lengthy unbeaten streak -- was limited to just three shots on goal through the first two periods.
"Our defense hasn't gotten the credit it deserves," White said. "They play hard every night, and they keep a lot of shots out of the way."
Lockery and McKinney each scored goals in the third period's first five minutes. Lockery flicked a rebound over Collins' shoulder at 2:05, and McKinney dug out a rebound before beating Collins, making it 5-0 at 4:54.
"Those were just grind-it-out hockey goals," Mauritz said. "It was great that we were able to show that we could do that tonight -- that we could grind it out, get some rebound goals and keep the pressure on."
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Records: FP 15-0; Darien 13-2-2; Goals: FP-- David White 3, Dean Lockery 2, Matt McKinney; Assists: FP-- Connor Henry 2, Matt Wikman 2, Sean Henry, Nick Bargiello, Kenny Kochiss, Andrew Hatton; Goalies: FP-- Chris Gutierrez (12 saves); Darien -- Michael Collins (31 saves); Shots: FP 37, Darien 12.


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A masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci that was lost for centuries has been verified and could be worth as much as $200 million will go on display in London this fall.
"Salvator Mundi," an oil-on-wood work depicting Jesus Christ raising his right hand in blessing had been in a private collection and turned up six years ago in an estate sale, according to ARTnews.com. It is now in the hands of a consortium of dealers which has already turned down an offer of $100 million, according to the art magazine.
"I was told they're asking $200 million for it," an art expert told the magazine.
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The painting, which was once owned by King Charles of England, was verified by art experts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It had been poorly restored and painted over in the centuries that it was missing, and required careful restoration.
The painting's ownership is undocumented from the 17th to 19th centuries. In the 1940s, it was exhibited in England, though it was attributed merely to "Milanese School, (c. 1500). In 1958, it was sold for 45 pounds by Sotheby's, attributed mistakenly to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, who was considered Da Vinci's best student.
Now that it is known the work is by one of the greatest artists of all time, it will be exhibited at London's National Gallery as part of a Leonardo show that opens in November, ARTnews reported.
"It's up there with any artistic discovery of the last 100 years," said one scholar.


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It will be a New Year, and with it will come more local economic turmoil, as one of the biggest, longest standing real estate companies on the North Shore will close its doors this week amid a poor economy and an unprecedented, industry-wide decline in sales.
It will be a New Year, and with it will come more local economic turmoil, as one of the biggest, longest standing real estate companies on the North Shore will close its doors this week amid a poor economy and an unprecedented, industry-wide decline in sales.
Carlson GMAC Real Estate, in Beverly is one of five company-owned North Shore GMAC offices that will shut down. Offices in Marblehead, Gloucester, Natick and Newburyport will also close. According to the New England-based company's official statement regarding the closures, about two dozen employees will be affected, along with about 200 sales associates.
"I think this was precipitated by bad management," said longtime Marblehead resident Richard Carlson, who started the company in 1968, yet sold it, first to Better Homes and Gardens and later to GMAC, about 30 years later, in order to retire.
When he left, Carlson had 51 offices throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and close to 1,500 employees. It was a private, family-run business.
Yet after changing hands, the number of Carlson offices has dwindled. Just last December, Carlson GMAC closed its Woburn-based headquarters, shutting down more than 10 offices and laying off 50 employees. This year, GMAC Carlson was sold to Canada-based Brookfield Property Services.Carlson called the Marblehead closure shocking.
"It doesn't feel good. You spend most of your working life building a company, and in 10 years they virtually destroy it," he said. "They have no sensitivity toward the people. They ran it corporately, and squeezed and squeezed."
According to the GMAC statement, the closures are a result of the ongoing economic downturn and a continued housing slump.
"GMAC Real Estate is fully committed to ensuring a seamless transition for its sales associates, employees and customers," stated the company.Others place more of the blame on the company.
Sean Gildea, son of founder Richard Carlson among them.
Gildea worked for his father's former company before moving to competitor William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage, and Insurance Co., whose local office is just across the street from GMAC's Marblehead office.
"Companies that carried a lot of debt are being forced to consolidate," said Gail Tarmey, team leader/branch manager, for the Keller Williams at 500 Cummings Center, Suite 1550.
Tarmey's office will be adding seven former Carlson Realtors, bring the number of Realtors to 117.
Gildea, who manages the Raveis office, has worked in the real estate business for more than 20 years. He said the closures are indicative of private equity firms and their "thirst" for profits. He said things within the industry have changed dramatically over the last 10 years.
"Real estate is a very local business and you can't implement a large business model over such a unique industry," Gildea said.
Tarmey, who's been in real estate since 1986, said she had to go back to the '80s and early '90s to find a comparably bad market.
"This is a cycle in the real estate market," said Tarmey. "It will turn around. It always has. A house has to be priced right today to sell. When it becomes a buyer's market people have to be realistic."Dan Mac Alpine contributed to this story.
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text: We've previously mentioned Baltimore's affinity for the deep ball and here is Joe Flacco, once again, successfully going long. He may have underthrown it just a bit (give him a break though, he did throw it 50 yards downfield), but Jacoby Jones helped his quarterback out. He caught the ball as he fell on his ass, rolled over and realizing he had not been touched down, got back up and deked his way into the endzone. It was Flacco's third touchdown of the game and the Ravens lead San Francisco 21-6 at halftime.


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After a fallout with her employer, she packed everything in her red 1967 Volkswagen and headed out of Boulder for more woodworking education in Boston.
Until she hit Davidson Mesa overlooking the city.
"My dad was a military contractor. So at the end of every school year, when we got our report cards, we moved," Rose (Peeler) Murphy said. "When I got to the mesa, and I looked back, I knew it was time to stop moving."
So, she turned around that morning in 1980 and within a few days got hired by a former competitor, John Murphy, to be a finisher at Boulder Wood, the woodworking shop he and his father established in 1978.
He needed her badly.
Murphy's other finisher kept walking off the job in tears as a project deadline loomed.
So Rose got right to work in the shop full of men for the next six months until she nearly sliced off her dominant left hand on a table saw.
"That accident sent me from the shop side to the office side," she said.
Of course, Rose and John, now both 60, still ran into each other all of the time.
But they kept everything all business until his annual spring pig roast in 1981 for Boulder Wood employees, vendors, customers, friends and family.
The party sent both into their cups, and the evening remains hazy but for one detail: He proposed, and she accepted.
They enjoyed their official first date the next week, and by Christmas he had built her a cherry captain's chest complete with a coopered top and nautical brass hardware to present the engagement ring.
Never mind that John sold his white 1960 Triumph TR3 to buy the ring.
The chest, which is 40 inches tall, 36 inches wide and 24 inches deep, captivated Rose so much that she overlooked the diamond inside until her father-in-law cued her to look again before she moved onto the next present under the tree.
John later made a tiered maple cupcake holder for their April 3, 1982, wedding day after she bartered an oak mirror frame she made to secure the cupcake decorator's services.
The couple still sleeps in the four-poster bed he fashioned from pine in the summer of 1974 after spotting one at an on-campus art show in Gunnison, where he graduated with a degree in geology from Western State College.
Today, he owns 49 percent of John Murphy Millworks in Erie, and she — who graduated with a degree in early childhood education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro — owns 51 percent.
But it took being 100 percent committed to each other and their shared love of woodworking to stay in love and in business, they said.
The 1982 recession forced them to close Boulder Wood the next year, and each of them left to manage woodworking shops for different companies.
But by 1984, they began moonlighting out of the 1,300-square-foot pole barn in their Lafayette backyard, and they grew and grew."She'd get work for us, and I would buy new equipment. She would panic about paying for it and would go out and get more work," John said.
"By 1986, one of the contractors said, 'I just can't write you a check. I need to write it to a company. So, I said, 'All right. John Murphy Millworks.' And that name stuck."
They rented commercial space in Lafayette in 1991 and in 1996 settled in Erie at the northwest corner of Telleen Avenue and County Line Road when there were no subdivisions and mostly dirt streets.
"We called the Conoco station 'The Mall' then," Rose said.
They sold their business in 2002, but bought it back in 2004 as part of a bankruptcy deal.
Since then, they've grown revenues every year and stayed happily married despite the stress of rebuilding the business from scratch instead of retiring as planned.
"On the personal level, I call (our success) the 'third date theory.' If you go through marriage every day with a third date mentality — with a sense of being intrigued and putting extra effort into making it special for the other person — you treat each other better," Rose said. "At work, I just respect what he does, even on his worst day, and I just respect who he is and what he brings. And I think he really does the same for me."
The Murphys' son, Darshan Murphy, whom they adopted when he was 12, lives in Massachusetts with his wife and their two children.


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When the Sabbath-observant passengers on El Als Flight #02 from New York were informed that they would be arriving in Israel at 3:30 on Friday afternoon rather than 1:00 as scheduled, they began worrying about where they would spend the holy Day of Rest. This delay, resulting from inclement weather on the East Coast, meant that they had only one hour and ten minutes until the beginning of the Sabbath.
Their problem was solved thanks to two airline rabbis and scores of generous hosts. Rabbi Yochanan Chayot, El Als Director of Religious Passengers Services, and El Al Rabbi Avshalom Katzir set up an emergency service for the 50 passengers who requested it. They were rushed off the plane on a special staircase and hurried through two special border-control lines. In the meantime an appeal was made on a religious radio station for families to host passengers for the Sabbath. Some 80 calls came in response, many more than were needed.
In a matter of minutes those who lived nearby were on their way home while the others enjoyed the hospitality of families in Bnei Brak, Elad, Kfar Chabad and Shoham. Two other passengers who arrived on another flight only 20 minutes before the holy day began spent the Sabbath at the airport, courtesy of El Al.


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Prompong Hakk-Cvision Mbas 1 Automated Immigration Terminal
At Design Interviews
(Excerpt) Interview with Prompong Hakk : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Prompong Hakk : In order to create a better user experience our external Design language was defined by two contrasting values: sturdy but soft. We wanted users to feel at ease when being asked to use a security device without human operators. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Prompong Hakk : In contrast to MBAS2, MBAS 1 was designed as a more advanced looking terminal that could have a place at international border crossings such as airports. Its unibody Design keeps everything compact and utilitarian without looking too intimidating. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Prompong Hakk : With MBAS2 currently in development stage, MBAS1 will soon be put for consideration due to its award winning status. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Prompong Hakk : The Design project lasted for 3 months. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Prompong Hakk : The Design was commissioned by our client Chanwanich Company Limited. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Prompong Hakk : The Design will be produced and managed by Chanwanich Company Limited. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Prompong Hakk : Chanwanich is one of Thailand silent leaders in technology which naturally inspired is to work with them. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Prompong Hakk : I'd say that for this Design I was probably most inspired by Dieter Rahms whom I met at a Design Conference in Bangkok. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Prompong Hakk : This is a business to government or private security product. Of course it will be used by all sorts of travelers which is why it is equipped with multiple language options. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Prompong Hakk : It's milestone in Design when it come to this industry's Design choices. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Prompong Hakk : MBAS stands for Multi-Biometric-Aquisition-System. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Prompong Hakk : Sketching and CAD. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Prompong Hakk : The integration of all technical components in this unibody cut out Design that also features a removable fingerprint unit for easy maintenance or other attachments. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Prompong Hakk : All internal engineering was developed in house at shakes. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Prompong Hakk : MBAS1 utilizes modern technology to transform the way we cross borders. In this case technology provides the means to make that change. However, it's also technology that often scares us from understanding it fully. This is why we took to designing a terminal that looked welcoming and friendly. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Prompong Hakk : Partly, we conducted a survey to determine the right angle for the display. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Prompong Hakk : The product is in its development stage still. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Prompong Hakk : We came across the A' Design award by accident while looking at an affiliated Designer. .Frank Scott: What did you learn .[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with Prompong Hakk on Cvision Mbas 1 Automated Immigration Terminal at design-interviews.com ]
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Best of 2010: Songs
10. Rihanna – Only Girl in the World
A huge radio hit for a reason, this song features a colossal beat and fantastic production, just like most of Rihanna's songs. What separates it from her previous work is the strength of the vocal, which is a lot more raw and forceful than on something like "Umbrella." There were a lot of big synth pop songs this year, but none was as huge as this one. Particularly notable is the techno influenced addition and removal of the bass line to make it even more impactful.
9. My Chemical Romance – Na Na Na
A lot of the track's initial appeal came from its stylish, Grant Morrison starring video, but the song itself more than holds up as a standalone entity. The anthemic chorus and massive riffs aim big, and give the track a very epic feel. The sheer amount of changeups, catchy pieces and two great guitar solos make it a world unto itself.
8. Goldfrapp – I Wanna Life
This track juxtpaosesAlison Goldfrapp's unique voice and great synth production in a way that makes it sound simultaneously 80s and utterly timeless. It's a haunting plea for excitement that doubles as a great dance track. The mid track keyboard solo is a particular highlight.
7. Chromeo – Don't Turn the Lights On
Chromeo's Hall and Oates meets French nightclub aesthetic finds a perfect balance here, with a track full of retro atmosphere, lush synths and a bubbling bass line. It's a great slow build that lets you just get lost in a moody disco world. The juxtaposition of the chorus with a subtle guitar line puts the song over the top, creating a great call and response feel. Throw a cheeseball talkbox sounding guitar solo in the mix and you've got a great song.
6. Bryan Ferry – Song to the Siren
"Song to the Siren" is already a modern classic, with an absolutely haunting version by This Mortal Coil. But, Bryan Ferry takes hold of the song with his dreamy, enveloping take. It's a song that feels absolutely transporting, a soundscape that draws you in and serenades you with his trademark silky smooth vocal, subtle strings and some great saxophone. I've been listening to a lot of Roxy Music this year, and this song recalls the absolute best of their output, from the Avalon era in particular. It has something of an 80s feel, but his vocal has the feel of a classic 40s crooner. To take a song that seemed to be definitively covered and just totally own it is quite a feat, but Bryan Ferry now owns this song.
5. Usher – Lil Freak
On the surface, this doesn't seem like a particularly notable song, and the first verse seems like fairly standard Usher stuff. Then, it goes to the chorus, backed by a huge orchestral sample, and this tale of trying to have a threesome becomes an epic saga. The Nikki Minaj verse is not "Monster" level, but still great, particularly the ending transition back to the chorus. Then, rather than a typical midsong slow down, everything gets dirtier with a clapping/bass breakdown and things close out with a string outro that I wish would go on and on.
4. Kanye West – All of the Lights
It's hard to pick one track as a high point of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy since it's such a cohesive work, and each piece gains a lot from its context in the album. But, I think the highlight for me is this epic song. It features perhaps the most ridiculous guest list of any single song in history, and everybody gets a nice moment to shine. But, what jumps out at me is the horn line and marching band drums, calling back the imagery of the "Runaway" short film. The best moment of the song is the breakdown with Elton John's piano work and the "Getting mine..." vocal a great contrast to the more triumphant opening of the song. Throughout, it's an epic with some of the biggest samples I've ever heard in a hip hop track, and is absolutely bursting with amazing moments. On the biggest hip hop album of all time, this track still jumps out as absolutely colossal.
3. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Most of the Arcade Fire songs I really love are the huge, anthemic epics. This one's a bit more low key, fusing the traditional Arcade Fire aesthetic with an Abba influenced symphonic pop sound that shows off Regine Chassagne's gorgeous voice like no other song in their catalogue. The instrumental backing is lush and the repeating synth line propels the song forward through dreamlike motion and a fantastic instrumental breakdown. It's a great testament to the band that they can break out of their comfort zone and still produce a fantastic song that's uniquely Arcade Fire.
2. Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light
On an album filled with great songs, this one leaps beyond everything the band has done to date for a song that's simultaneously bringing the same danceable 70s influenced pop rock style as their best work and adding a veneer of mystery and intensity that turns it into something altogether different and strange. The video is a standout, but the song itself already had a mysterious, dark magic world on its own, aided by the fantastic Ian McKellen voiceover. It's amazing that the song can be creepy, intriguing and still be as exciting a pop song as anything they've ever done. A career high point for one of the best bands out there today.
1. Robyn – Dancing on My Own
I'm always partial to songs that combine huge dancefloor sounds with big emotional hooks, and this track is one of the best I've heard. The bass is massive, and contrasts with Robyn's high pitched, fragile vocal to create a song full of a tension between the emotions she's feeling and the surrender she wants. It's about the nightclub as emotional gauntlet, the desire to surrender to the music versus the pain she's feeling. All that emotion is conveyed not through the words, but through the music, and the end of the song feels triumphant, a pass through the night and emergence back into abandon.


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Established in 1991 as the North Street Aquarium, which became the first public aquarium chartered by the State of South Carolina in 1993.
The mission of the Lowcountry Estuarium is to instill a public sense of stewardship
for the marshes, creeks, rivers and sounds that make up our unique Port Royal
Sound estuarine system by fostering conservation through education, enhancing
the area's economy by attracting visitors to our facility, and by partnering with
other venues and attractions in promoting the region as a destination.
History to Date
In 1998 the Town of Port Royal began making overtures proposing the relocation
of the North Street Aquarium from the City of Beaufort to Port Royal. In 2000 an
ad-hoc committee of interested citizens began meeting to explore the possibility
of establishing a permanent stand-alone facility on Beaufort's waterfront. Beaufort
Aquarium Inc. (BAC) was formed and granted 501(c) (3) tax exempt status in
At about the time it became apparent that efforts to find a home in Beaufort
would come to naught, the town of Port Royal stepped in with the offer of help
in establishing a future permanent facility and an interim location to be housed
in a portion of their former town hall. The offer was accepted and the space was
renovated and provided rent free from October 2002 to May 2005 when the
building was sold to a private developer. After the sale the Estuarium began paying
a monthly rent of $1,000 plus utilities to the building's owner.
Funded primarily by grants and with a very limited budget, the Estuarium, in its
first nine years, became recognized state wide for the quality of its programs in
environmental education. Its school outreach programs covered a four county area
and school groups traveled from throughout the state and beyond to participate
in half day learning adventures. With a half day tour designed specifically for the
group tour market, the Estuarium established a partnership with the Beaufort
Regional Chamber of Commerce to promote the area as a point of destination for
the group tour industry.
The cramped quarters of the original facility and lack of funding for museum quality
exhibits severely challenged the Estuarium's effectiveness as an attraction. The
2008 award of a State Budget and Control Board Competitive Grant provided
funding for the expansion of the existing space and an upgrade of its displays. The
Estuarium re-opened after renovations with its inaugural Critter Fest – Celebrating
Creatures of the Estuary on May 30, 2009.
Also in 2008 The Town and the Estuarium negotiated a memorandum of
understanding which was adopted by Town Council to establish a public/private
partnership for the construction of a permanent state- of-the-art Estuarium facility.
After a steady two year increase in annual visitation numbers the Estuarium was forced to close at the end of July, 2011 as a result of a decline in funding from the public sector and nearly total loss of public school programs revenue due to Beaufort County School District cutbacks.
The Lowcountry Estuarium was recruited by the Town of Port Royal as both a
community resource and as an economic stimulus attracting regional residents and
visitors to its core commercial district.
Estuarium staff and board members played an active role in promoting economic
redevelopment in the town's core commercial district with the founding of the
Old Village Association along with spring and fall festivals which draw thousands of
visitors to the town annually.
Of note is the fact that as a result of two years of PUD and development agreement
negotiations between the Town of Port Royal and the State Ports Authority for the
redevelopment of the Port of Port Royal property was the designation of a .24 AC
parcel within the town's Civic Open Space on Battery Creek to be the site of the
future permanent Estuarium facility.
Building upon its strong record of community service and solid reputation for
innovative and entertaining educational and recreational offerings within the area's
education, residential and tourism communities; the Estuarium is now evolving
in ways that will allow it to fulfill the promise that has been twenty years in the
making. It is the promise of a state-of-the-art aquarium facility and permanent
home on the shores of Battery Creek in Port Royal that is in the balance. The Board
of Directors of the Lowcountry Estuarium extends an open invitation to any and all
wishing to take part in the ongoing effort to one day reach that ultimate goal.


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Over the last 155 years, Hanger has successfully grown into a thriving national organization with 4,900+employees who collectively help those with many different types of physical challenges overcome obstacles and lead productive, independent lives.
James Edward Hanger never saw it coming during the early hours of June 3, 1861, as he stood guard in Philippi, Virginia, just before the first land battle of the American Civil War. He didn't know it then, but a devastating injury and excruciating leg amputation would be the start of a grand legacy of revolutionary healthcare innovations and therapeutic solutions.
Many know of the iconic inventions that came out of the Civil War, including the telegraph, the first aerial reconnaissance in the form of hot air balloons, long-range weaponry and iron clad ships. But it's a lesser-known medical advancement that paved the way for the restoration of mobility to millions – the first articulating prosthetic knee joint.
More than 155 years ago, Hanger, Inc. was founded by the first above-knee amputee of the Civil War as a local company specializing in prosthetic devices.
Learn more about the history of Hanger, Inc., from acknowledging our progress to innovating our future:
Who was James Edward Hanger?
Acknowledging our past. Innovating our future.
A lot has happened in the past 155 years. To our country. Our industry. And our company. Looking at the arc of Hanger's history is like reading the tale of a nation.


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