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Any man would need an ocean of inner strength to survive arrest, conviction and hard prison time for a crime he did not commit. It takes even more strength to cling to hope that someday, the system will make things right so he can clear his name and walk free.
Rare is the man who emerges from the ordeal without bitterness and a hunger for revenge against those who wronged him. Then there are the temptations that come with huge compensation checks from the state for wrongful imprisonment. The opportunities for bad choices are too many to count.
Some resist all that and choose a higher path. Two such individuals, Christopher Scott and Michael Morton, opted this year to commit their time, fame and money to fixing the flawed justice system that came close to destroying their lives.
Their ongoing work to expose and fight injustice and help end this state's embarrassing record of wrongful convictions goes beyond exceptional. For that reason, Scott and Morton — who once were doing life sentences despite their innocence — are the 2012 Dallas Morning News Texans of the Year.
By singling out Scott and Morton, this newspaper doesn't overlook the efforts of other exonerees who have rallied to calls for reform or to help one another. Some work closely with Scott and his Carrollton-based House of Renewed Hope nonprofit, dedicated to helping innocent prisoners clear their names. But the leadership of these two men stands out among extraordinary work by many — including defense attorneys, student investigators and even crime victims' families — to fix a system that has sent too many innocent people to prison while the real criminals walked free.
"I don't want to be misunderstood," Morton told this newspaper. "The police and the prosecutors are not the bad guys. They perform crucial jobs. We want them to have the tools they need. On the other hand, we don't want them running amok, crushing our liberties and making preventable mistakes. We can do better."
Like Morton, Scott sees his mission as leveling the playing field for defendants to "help people who can't help themselves. … Because I know the horrific feeling it is to sit in a courtroom and listen to a bunch of people tell a bunch of lies on you."
Both men know too well that when an innocent person goes to jail, that leaves a dangerous criminal free to roam and kill again — which authorities now allege happened in the Morton case.
Morton, 58, served nearly 25 years in prison after he was railroaded in the killing of his wife, Christine, in Williamson County, north of Austin, on Aug. 13, 1986. The only thing he did wrong that morning was to slip out of the house and head to work so Christine and their son could sleep late.
Sometime after he left, perhaps as Morton punched in at his job as a grocery store manager, Christine was bludgeoned to death in the couple's bedroom while their 3-year-old son watched.
From the start, the justice system failed at nearly every turn. Morton became the one and only suspect despite leads that pointed elsewhere. Investigators turned a blind eye to key evidence. The prosecutor concocted a bizarre scenario to explain his entirely circumstantial case. Worse, he apparently hid evidence and statements that would have blown big holes in the case against Morton. It was a shameful miscarriage of justice that, in 2012, Morton began working in earnest to fix.
One of the most effective ways he resonates with audiences, including legislators, is to outline how his previous life matched theirs. He was just a working guy, with a college background, in a nice suburban neighborhood, trying to support his family.
If it could happen to me, he warns, it could happen to you.
The double injustice of the Morton case is that a second Central Texas woman was later bludgeoned to death, allegedly by a man, Mark Alan Norwood, who has been linked to both crimes by DNA evidence that sat untested for 25 years.
Because authorities were focused on the case against Morton, they failed to follow up on tips like one about a suspicious van that had been parking in his neighborhood. Norwood, who had been in and out of prison, was never tracked down for questioning. Sixteen months after Christine Morton's slaying, Debra Jan Baker was beaten to death in bed in her Travis County home.
Norwood wasn't arrested and charged with Christine Morton's slaying until Nov. 9, 2011, about a month after Michael Morton gained his freedom. Norwood's capital murder trial in that case is scheduled for March. A trial date has not been set in the Baker killing.
There is more fallout from the Morton debacle. State District Judge Ken Anderson, the former Williamson County district attorney who prosecuted Morton, will face a court of inquiry and potential prosecution for any role he played in hiding evidence that could have helped Morton's defense.
Anderson has apologized for "the system's failure." Morton says that's not enough.
In an October speech in Austin, Morton acknowledged that his celebrity status won't last long. "I understand that I'm the flavor of the month, the guy that was on TV," he said. While he's the focus of attention, Morton wants to get as much mileage as he can to promote legislation aimed at curbing prosecutorial abuses.
In 2012, despite a strong yearning to recover lost years, reconnect with his son and savor his freedom, Morton has devoted time in Austin to lobbying for change at the highest levels.
He wants to see reforms such as tightened requirements for prosecutors to turn over potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense. And when prosecutors or other officials abuse their offices and send innocent people to prison, the counties that employ them should be forced to foot at least some of the bill for the exonerees' compensation, he says. Morton also would like a stronger law that forces bad prosecutors to account for their actions.
"Accountability is all but universal in our society," he said. "Prosecuting attorneys should operate on the same level playing field as everyone else."
In October, on the first anniversary of his release from prison, Morton went to Austin to address a closed-door gathering of key stakeholders interested in crafting reforms ahead of the 2013 legislative session. Attendees included senior aides from the offices of Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and key senators and House members. Associations representing prosecutors and defense attorneys also sent representatives.
It's no easy task mustering that much political power in one room. Even more daunting is the challenge that a former grocery store employee faced convincing them that the law needs changing. Yet Morton held the room rapt, according to some who attended.
It was clear to the politicians there that running afoul of Morton's cause has consequences. In May, Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley was voted out of office. He had succeeded Anderson as district attorney and defended Anderson's handling of the Morton case. Bradley also repeatedly tried to block re-examination of the DNA evidence that ultimately cleared Morton.
"John Bradley lost his primary because of Michael Morton. Everybody knows the implications," said an attendee at the Austin stakeholders' meeting. "You don't want to be on the wrong side of this issue."
Michael Morton is no politician. He never chose to be a public figure. For someone to emerge from the obscurity of prison to confront the Austin political elite on their own turf about the flaws in their justice system is nothing short of extraordinary.
"If he's ever been intimidated, I haven't seen it," said State Board of Education member and lobbyist Thomas Ratliff, who organized the stakeholders' meeting. "I've never met anybody more at ease, more comfortable in his own skin than Michael Morton."
One person attending one of Morton's presentations that day was Christopher Scott, the Carrollton resident who spent 12 years and seven months in prison for a 1997 murder that someone else committed. In 2010, Scott and a friend who also was wrongfully convicted in the case, Claude Simmons, won non-DNA exonerations based on another man's detailed confession.
Lacking DNA proof, they faced a much steeper challenge of convincing outsiders of their innocence, getting defenders to reinvestigate the case and then proving to a judge that they had been wronged.
Scott could have disappeared with his nearly $1 million state-mandated compensation and declared that Texas and its justice system could go to hell. Who would've blamed him? He owed nothing more to a society that stole a big piece of his life.
Instead, he says he saw it as his mission not to leave other inmates behind if they have convincing claims of innocence. Like Morton, Scott is pressing for laws designed to stiffen punishments against wayward prosecutors, even if it means sending them to jail.
"That's why we go to Austin," Scott said. "That's why, every time a session is ready to end [without a significant exoneree-related reform], we're going down there.
"We're a group. We make things happen."
The House of Renewed Hope operates out of Scott's house. Really, it's nothing more than a table, a computer and lots of files. He and other exonerees have obtained private investigator licenses, which makes it easier for them to obtain court records and visit inmates in prison to research their cases.
Scott says he is inundated with mail from Texas prisoners seeking help. Requests have come from as far away as Brazil and China.
A single case can take years to investigate. So Scott makes no promises that the House of Renewed Hope can deliver quick results. He derives comfort from being the person on the outside who listens when no one else will. And he provides comfort to inmates who are convinced they've been forgotten. He has been there.
Scott, 42, grew up in Oak Cliff and attended Adamson High School before dropping out his junior year. At age 27, he was supporting his two sons while working at an upscale clothing store in Oak Lawn. On the night of July 11, 1997, he and Simmons were leaving a 7-Eleven when they saw police cars racing through Simmons' neighborhood. It was obvious something bad was happening, and they knew it was best to get off the streets. A neighborhood man, Alonzo Aguilar, had been shot dead.
They drove to Simmons' house. Shortly afterward, police burst through the door, guns drawn. Outside, the two were told to join roughly a dozen other suspects — all black — sprawled on the ground for questioning.
The police "picked me out of everybody," Scott recalled. "What's so cold about it is the people that actually committed the crime was right there" on the ground beside him, even though Scott didn't know it at the time.
Scott and Simmons had no idea that a robbery-murder-sexual assault had just occurred and that they were prime suspects. An officer pointed to a detective, nicknamed "Columbo." The officer asked Scott if he knew the significance of Columbo's arrival. "That means you're already guilty," Scott quoted the officer as saying.
The remark was prescient. At the county jail, the murder victim's wife, Celia Escobedo, failed to identify Scott or Simmons in a lineup. But when later prompted by Columbo to look at them through a window in a holding cell, she identified Scott as the killer.
Scott became another victim of erroneous eyewitness identification, the most common cause of false convictions. No other evidence or witness account placed Scott and Simmons at the murder scene or linked them with the murder weapon. A gunpowder test on Scott's hands showed he had not recently fired a weapon.
The two were eventually indicted on charges of capital murder and aggravated sexual assault. Neither could afford the $1 million bail. In a flash, they went from unsuspecting 7-Eleven customers to prisoners, locked up for the next 12 years and seven months.
"I can't believe this is happening," Scott recalls thinking. "Is this a dream or a nightmare or what?"
At trial, the judge repeatedly blocked exculpatory evidence from being introduced. Michelle Moore, a defense attorney who later took up Scott's case and won his freedom, reviewed transcripts and said the judge behaved "as if she were another prosecutor."
A prosecution witness recanted, but the judge wouldn't allow the jury to hear it. One of the real killers had been wounded during the crime, yet neither Scott nor Simmons bore any wounds when they were arrested.
It took Simmons' jury six minutes to return a guilty verdict. Scott's jury took less than two days.
Students from the University of Texas at Arlington innocence network took up their cases in 2005 and later got a confession from a man, Alonzo Hardy, who was in prison for aggravated robbery.
Scott says Hardy and the man who fired the murder weapon, Don Michael Anderson, were among the dozen on the ground during the search outside the Simmons house. Anderson, originally charged with capital murder, was convicted in March. His attorney negotiated the charge down to aggravated robbery and a sentence of only five years.
The irony isn't lost on Scott that he served nearly 13 years of a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit, while the real killer got only five years. Scott painfully recalls the courtroom theatrics from the prosecution team working so hard to convince the jury of his guilt and the imperative of putting him away for life.
It's easy to be lulled into a false sense that cases like Morton's and Scott's are vestiges of a bygone law enforcement era. Many of the 87 confirmed wrongful imprisonment cases in which Texas is paying compensation date back to the 1980s, when DNA forensic science was in its infancy.
The overly aggressive prosecutors who forced many of these cases, such as Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, and swaggering investigators such as Jim Boutwell, the Williamson County sheriff who helped put Morton away, are largely gone from the scene. Many of their outdated methods have been replaced by modern scientific procedures and safeguards in court.
So aren't reformers chasing ghosts from the past? Why encourage the efforts of Morton and Scott to fix a system that might already have fixed itself?
Because it's far from airtight, says veteran state Sen. Rodney Ellis, who serves as chairman of the New York-based Innocence Project. "Every year, I've heard people say: It's gonna bottom out," he said. And yet, "they're still coming in."
The need for reform won't end, added the Houston Democrat, "as long as you have a criminal justice system like we have in America, where we are incarcerating such large numbers of people on a very unequal playing field, where there are tremendous resources on the side of the state to prosecute you and very limited resources on the side of the accused to defend themselves."
Every legislative session, Ellis said, there's a new push to tighten laws aimed at curbing prosecutorial misconduct or to ensure that defendants have adequate access to evidence that can prove their innocence. At the end of every session, there's pushback from critics who worry that such measures will "tie the hands of law enforcement," he said.
That's why he needs exonerees like Scott and Morton to stay active and visible. Nothing drives home the point more effectively when arguing the need for a law than pointing dramatically to living examples of just how overdue reform is.
At the beginning of this essay, we talked about bitterness. When Morton and Scott were in prison during those early days, they were most certainly bitter.
Morton has admitted he spent long days "planning — how shall I put this? — the early demise of a number of people responsible for my incarceration."
He worked out detailed plans for revenge. "Each one was going to go in a different way. I hated them for a long time," he told an Austin audience recently.
Any normal person would have such feelings. Yet both Morton and Scott acknowledge they left the anger behind long ago and accepted what happened for what it is: a horrible, but entirely avoidable, mistake.
Morton traces the moment he could let go of the hate to one night in his prison cell when he felt the presence of God, after crying out for so many days. As he told Austin radio station KUT, "I felt this immeasurable, limitless, just phenomenal, gigantic love or infinite compassion aimed right at me."
Neither man wants his efforts misconstrued as being soft on crime, because they know real criminals who belong in prison. Still, they want the public to understand the significance of our state's growing exoneration list and be outraged at the injustice behind it.
Christopher Scott and Michael Morton want you to channel that outrage. They want you to pressure elected officials to take action on much-needed criminal justice reforms and remind them of John Bradley's fate.
If lawmakers still need inspiration, our 2012 Texans of the Year stand ready to show them the way.


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June 26. 2012
April 17th was the day my manager informed me that there was "no position for me going forward." And with that I became one of the thousands of people across the nation laid off. Let's face it, it stinks to be laid off. In one sense, it's comforting to know I am far from the only person in this boat. In another sense it is disheartening. While I am not alone, the fact that I am not alone shows just how unpredictable the corporate world is right now and how cold hearted it has become. Eventually I need a job but first I need a some evidence that the world is not as cold nor as unpredictable as the corporate environment I have been living in for some time. Along with dusting off my resume I have decided to spend some time to renewing my optimism. I need to zoom out, so to speak. I need to put this disappointment into a larger context and rediscover the kind of faith and hope that feels very hard to grasp and hang on to these days.
So I decided to take a road trip. And not just any road trip. I decided to take my DeLorean and drive off into the sunset to visit places I have never been, see some people I never see and find out just how far I can get in this unreliable but beloved vehicle. Everyone loves the DeLorean and DeLorean lovers do what very few people, institutions or workplaces do....they help each other out with no financial incentive and no other pay off other than the satisfaction of helping a friend and maybe sharing a beer. Ever where I go people ask about this car so we decided to invite people to join me in my journey by posting pictures of people with the car, taking pictures of the car. Now the wide open road in front of me and thanks to a very nice severance package I can pause and consider my next move because sometimes you just gotta hit the road.
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For generations, America's presidents have escaped their terrible lives with weekends at Camp David, the luxurious McMansion retreat set "atop" central Maryland's tumbling Catoctin Mountains, overlooking the beautiful death fields of Antietam. George W. Bush, for example, spent most of his presidency there, or in Texas, and Jimmy Carter even used the location to negotiate a peace between Israel and Egypt, who had been fighting for some time.
But it seems that the current president, Mr. Barack Obama, thinks he's too "good" for Camp David, just like he thinks he's too "good" for America. He has not visited this famous jungle cabin since May, and America deserves a president who goes to his vacation home more often than once every two months.
The Baltimore Sun, which held an interview with Obama today along with "five other newspapers," pressed the Democrat hard about why he refuses to take more days off at "America's Vacation Home." Being the mean person that he is, Obama of course blamed it on his daughters and World War II.
"You know, we had travel. I had to go to Normandy. And then the girls had, Sasha had her birthday party here, and she was flying folks in for a pool party. So, really, it revolves around the girls' social schedule.
"If Michelle and I had our way," he said, "we'd go there every weekend."
TMI, Mr. President. We don't need to hear about your love life, in the mountains.
How much longer will America sit back and watch its president not go to Camp David, in Maryland?
Jim Newell writes for Wonkette and IvyGate.


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ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — I spent the last week on vacation, which means I very purposely did not open my laptop or dip into any NBA news. I also did not exercise, nor watch what I eat, because it was a vacation and I needed a break from life. Yet NBA players get no such vacations — they must be on guard year-round, constantly keeping on a eye on their fitness and health.
This all dovetails nicely with MUSCLEWATCH 2013. We talked about it briefly two weeks back: MUSCLEWATCH is our in-depth look at the weight gains and losses of NBA players as the season starts. And since the last update, there have been a few occurrences for us to keep at eye on. And don't forget, if you see any MUSCLEWATCH news, let us know via email or Twitter!
To the news!
• According to Minnesota VP Flip Saunders, Kevin Love is about 240 pounds and will be at the lowest weight of his pro career. "He's lost weight in his face," Saunders said, "and his body looks leaner with muscle. He's really committed." He must have been doing a lot of face exercises in order to hit that rare target of facial weight loss.
• Down in New Orleans, big man Anthony Davis has gained between 10-12 pounds, mostly by eating a lot. "I want to gain at least five more before training camp starts," Davis explained. "They have me lifting weights. I've been staying on top of it, eating more, making sure I'm eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. Everything helps. It's showing." I am no expert here, but it seems to me that if the goal is gaining weight, eating a lot of food could be a helpful plan.
• An early favorite for MUSCLEWATCH 2013 has to be Cleveland big man Tyler Zeller, who claims to have added almost 20 pounds in preparation for this season by going on a Krispy Kreme diet. As he told the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "They're so good. If you get them hot…"
(PRO TIP FOR TYLER: When the Krispy Kreme sign is flashing, the doughnuts are hot!)
What's really amazing is that Zeller added 20 pounds from the end of last season, but considering most of that was doughnut weight, it wasn't necessarily the best kind of weight for him to put on. "I had to transfer that into 'good' weight and muscle," Zeller explained. "Now I'm between 255-260, and I'm pretty happy with that, although I'm trying to gain more."
So if I'm reading this correctly, Zeller managed to eat his way to adding 20 pounds of doughnuts, and then he somehow transformed that extra weight into "good" weight, or muscle. Seems to me like this is a trick a lot of people would love to know about.
Could Tyler Zeller have accidentally invented the greatest diet known to man? I say yes.
• And finally, Zeller's teammate Kyrie Irving is trying to take of his weight the old-fashioned way: By working out…


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I have configured the Mail Watcher plugin for my POP3 account. After the first check it find few hundreds new messages on my account and the indicator shows "new mail" icon (the yellow one). This is fine, as for the first run it should detect all messages as new. However the yellow icon never goes back to gray. It's stuck in this state forever.
What am I doing wrong? There is almost no options in the plugin, so I don't think I've missed something. Where is my mistake?
This is a temporary account. It may go inactive after this issue is resolved.
Did you mark each and every one of those hundreds of emails as "read" - or delete them - before that panel applet performed another check? My first guess is, "No, and so the applet still considers them to be 'new' emails."
But I could be wrong; it's been a while since I've dealt with POP3 accounts, because I've been known to use multiple devices for email.
Btw, feel free to make your "temporary"account "permanent," and stay a while.
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POP3 doesn't support read status. Unlike with IMAP it's only client-side. However, just to make things clear: all of the mails were read before I've first run Mail Watcher. And new mails are read too.
None of the mails is removed from the server, but this should not affect anything. However, when you have mentioned this, I've realized that I can't even find any means of marking the mails as read in Mail watcher. How to do this? In mail-notification it was enough to click notification icon. In Mail Watcher I see nothing that does that - I've tried clicking, searching through the menus... nothing.
Also when I remove an email... the applet detected this as a new mail too.
Thanks for the invitation. Be sure that if I'll consider joining the forum for longer, I'll make a permanent account.
This is a temporary account. It may go inactive after this issue is resolved.
I've checked the sources and the mystery is solved.
If anyone got stuck with the same problem, here is the answer: there is no POP3 support at all. The implementation fakes it by returning total number of messages in the mailbox. Hence on the first run Mail Watcher reports proper value (all messages are new) and it looks like it is working. But then it will be stuck in this state forever, occasionally reporting new mails every time number of messages changes because actually a new mail has arrived or old one was deleted.
This is a temporary account. It may go inactive after this issue is resolved.


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Lance Armstrong says he is done with competitive racing.
The seven-time Tour de France champion finished 65th in his last competitive race a month ago, and told The Associated Press he has no regrets about calling it quits.
"I can't say I have any regrets. It's been an excellent ride. I really thought I was going to win another tour," Armstrong said about his comeback attempt in 2009, four years after his first retirement. "Then I lined up like everybody else and wound up third.
The retirement ends his quest for an eighth title, but will not quell talk that he used performance-enhancing drugs. A federal investigation into the sport was launched after accusations by former teammate and disgraced 2006 tour champion Floyd Landis that Armstrong used drugs and taught other riders how to beat testing. The probe is ongoing.
"I can't control what goes on in regards to the investigation. That's why I hire people to help me with that. I try not to let it bother me and just keep rolling right along. I know what I know," Armstrong said. "I know what I do and I know what I did. That's not going to change."
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Carnival Musical: A Showcase for Muppets
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Brian Stokes Mitchell was standing in a workshop on East 67th Street with the head of a fox on his hand. "That feels good," he said, as a pair of puppet makers hovered, wearing the hopeful looks of eager shoe salesmen. "So you're fitting in there?" one of them asked. "Are you as deep as you can go?"
Mr. Mitchell wiggled his fingers inside the unfinished head, carved from foam rubber. The fox's mouth moved. So, reflexively, did Mr. Mitchell's.
"I'll bring out the eyes more," one of the puppet makers, Larry Jameson, said to the other, Ed Christie.
"They're a little too deep-set," Mr. Christie replied.
As a Broadway musical star, Mr. Mitchell ("Ragtime," "Kiss Me, Kate") has been through his share of fittings, but never one so obsessed with the dimensions of his fingers. It was a novel experience, too, for the designers in the workshop, home to perhaps the most famous name in puppeteering: the Jim Henson Company, creator of the Muppets. Just as Mr. Mitchell was a newcomer to working in the Muppet mode of hand-into- mouth, the Muppeteers had never before ventured so completely into Mr. Mitchell's world.
The occasion of their paths crossing was a new production of a musical that calls on the talents of man and marionette: "Carnival," the 1961 show about a puppeteer on the midway who falls in love with a young woman adrift and alone. It is being revived as the first offering of the ninth season of Encores!, the popular series at City Center that each year presents three long- neglected musicals in concert form.
This new "Carnival," which began performances last night and runs through Sunday, features Mr. Mitchell as the puppeteer, Paul; Doug Sills as a magician, Marco the Magnificent; and Anne Hathaway, who played the reluctant princess in last year's Disney hit "The Princess Diaries," as the girl, Lili. It also features four puppets that were designed and built for the show under Mr. Christie's guidance in the Jim Henson Company's New York Muppet Workshop, a five-story building just off Third Avenue where Kermit, Miss Piggy and Big Bird have long been in residence.
While television and film have embraced puppets for eons, Broadway musicals have always been a less fruitful venue for inanimate actors. "Carnival," based on a 1953 movie, "Lili," which starred Mel Ferrer and Leslie Caron, is one of the few musicals in which puppets the traditional kind, manipulated and "voiced" by trained puppeteers can count on work.
It is only through the four puppets, Carrot Top, Marguerite, Renardo the Fox and Horrible Henry, a walrus, that the embittered Paul, a dancer hobbled by a war injury, can meaningfully communicate with the dispossessed Lili.
Seizing the Day at Once
Mr. Christie decided the Muppets had to be part of the production the minute he heard about it. A longtime theater fan, he had been looking for new projects for his staff of 18. "He called and said, "I'm from the Muppet workshop and we want to do your puppets,' " recalled Judith E. Daykin, City Center's executive director. He had not waited long to make his pitch: the call came on the day in November on which the production was announced.
"The puppets," said the show's director, Kathleen Marshall, "were the first ones cast." Mr. Christie, a veteran Henson hand, has long envisioned the theater as a creative outlet for the Muppets. In the theater world, the ascendancy of the Walt Disney Company (which, incidentally, held the stage rights to "Carnival" for several years) and the success of "The Lion King," with its abundant use of masks and animal figures, reaffirmed his intuition. The challenge was finding a show to use as a steppingstone to Broadway.
"We didn't have a strong theater division," Mr. Christie said of the workshop, best known for its 33-year involvement with "Sesame Street." (The company that produces the television show recently purchased the "Sesame Street" characters from EM.TV, the German media concern that bought the Jim Henson Company a few years ago.) Yet many in the Muppet workshop had theater backgrounds, having worked in costume departments or earned degrees in set design. "We thought that this could be an opportunity to see how we could work in this arena," Mr. Christie added.
One-Sided Relaxation
An issue for Encores! was what you might call the Miss Piggy factor: would the Muppets hog the spotlight? Although the nonprofit series has had its hits the blockbuster Broadway revival of "Chicago" was a product of Encores! the concerts were intended primarily to showcase the music and lyrics, in this case, a score by Bob Merrill and a book by Michael Stewart. No one at City Center wanted to produce "The Muppets Take Over a Musical." In fact, one of Mr. Christie's initial thoughts was to use Kermit and Miss Piggy as two of the "Carnival" puppets, an idea that was quickly shot down.
"I was concerned only until they talked to us and told us that they wanted direction on how Muppet-like we wanted it to be," said Jack Viertel, the artistic director of Encores! "Knowing that they can do anything, I just relaxed."
For Mr. Christie, however, relaxing was out of the question. Having won the job over several other puppet makers, he was now faced with the daunting task of conceiving, designing and rigging four new puppets.
"It usually takes us five, six weeks to build a character," he explained one day in January. For "Carnival," they would have to build four characters in three weeks. Given the production's compressed schedule, providing only 10 days of rehearsal before the first performance, the actors would have to learn the art of puppetry practically overnight. A pair of professional puppeteers also had to be hired.
"This," Mr. Christie said, betraying a trace of anxiety, "is a crunch."
A Shrimp Is a Beefeater
The Muppet workshop is in a building so low key it doesn't even have a lobby. There are no banners outside the door emblazoned with the profiles of Bert and Ernie, no illuminated signs bearing the likenesses of Oscar the Grouch or Cookie Monster. One has the impression that if word got out, the place might be overrun by toddlers, a kind of MTV studio mob scene for the 5-and- under set.
On the various floors, the Muppet builders, costume designers and mechanization experts work on a wide assortment of projects. In one corner, a torso for Big Bird, made of 4,000 turkey feathers, dangled like a vast hoop skirt; at a nearby work station, one of the costume makers, Polly Smith, was creating a Beefeater's uniform for a shrimp puppet that appears in television commercials for a seafood restaurant.
Ms. Marshall, the director, decided early on that while many bits of business in the carnival scenes could be jettisoned the Encores! process mandates that the actors perform with scripts in hand the puppets were central to the plot and had to be utterly convincing. "They have to enchant us, not just Lili," she explained.
In early January, Ms. Marshall and members of her design team, including John Lee Beatty, the set designer, and Martin Pakledinaz, the costume designer, met with the Muppet makers. "We talked a lot about scale how will their features read, what they'll look like in the spotlight," said Mr. Christie, who had already gone to the drawing board.
What he developed were sketches reflecting both the musical's setting mid-20th- century Europe, which meant the puppets at least had to seem to be cut from wood and the puppets' personalities, as dictated by the script. Marguerite, for instance, is a plus- size diva, with luscious lips and an immaculate hairdo; Carrot Top, the red-headed boy puppet, is a lovable urchin, a cross, in Ms. Marshall's words, "between the young Mickey Rooney and Dondi."
Divided Task, Unified Look
Still, Mr. Christie wanted audiences to know their full pedigrees. (While Encores! paid for materials, the workshop provided the labor free.) "These are muppety-looking puppets," he said. "They definitely will have a Muppet sensibility." Most of all, though, the puppets had to seem as if they belonged in this particular "Carnival." "You have to balance how good this puppet is going to look," he added, "without stealing attention from the actors."
Mr. Christie doled out assignments: he would build Carrot Top; Mr. Jameson would be in charge of the fox; two other workshop stalwarts, Tom Newby and Tim Miller, would tackle Marguerite and the walrus. The boy, fox and diva were to be lightweight hand puppets, sculptured out of cubes of white foam that had to be dyed to approximate flesh tones. The walrus was to be a sack puppet, which is designed to have two hands inside the puppet. To clothe the four characters, Ms. Smith would work with another workshop designer, Jason Weber.
The four builders worked independently, with Mr. Christie shaping the overall look: in the show, they had to appear to be made by one person. The walrus, for instance, could not be so voluminous as to dwarf the others. "He's building a spiral, boned neck on which he will drape the wool fabric that we're still shopping for," Mr. Christie explained, guiding a visitor to Mr. Miller's walrus in progress.
It was Jan. 15, just two weeks until the puppets had to be presented at an Encores! rehearsal, and the builders were trying to pick up the pace. For Renardo the Fox, Mr. Jameson had to abandon the first head: it was too small to be viewed from the back of the City Center auditorium.
Mr. Christie was also fretting about the strawlike raffia in vibrant reds and oranges that he had decided to use liberally, to simulate puppet hair. "It's noisy," he said. "I'm worried, but we'll settle it."
A Dividend From Voiceovers
A week later, Mr. Mitchell arrived to advance his whirlwind indoctrination. Mr. Christie had already given him a generic Muppet body to practice with at home. Now, with rehearsals a week away, he was meeting the three characters for whom he would have to supply voices. The voice for the fourth, Marguerite, would be provided by David Costabile, the actor cast as Paul's assistant, Jacquot.
"I spent years doing cartoon voiceovers," Mr. Mitchell said a bonus as far as Ms. Marshall was concerned; she did not know about that when he was cast. "I'm thinking of ways to go with the voices."
This was a bit more complicated than it sounded. Because of the complexities of scenes in which all four puppets appear together, the two professional puppeteers hired for the show, John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo, would at times have to synchronize the manipulation of the puppet mouths with the rhythms of Mr. Mitchell's delivery.
The eyes, too, were a worry. Not Mr. Mitchell's; Carrot Top's. Would he, the actor wondered, become proficient enough to create the illusion of the puppet making eye contact, a behavioral detail that is a point of pride with the Muppet workshop? "Our mantra is the magic triangle, the eyes and the nose," Mr. Christie said. Later, he told Mr. Mitchell, "Our job is to teach you as many tricks and bring as much comfort to you in this discipline as possible."
Mr. Mitchell was particularly taken with the walrus. "I think it's my favorite character," he said, which seemed to deflate Mr. Christie ever so slightly. He, after all, had built Carrot Top. "Everyone always likes the big dumb one," the Muppet maker said.
Straight to the Stage
On Jan. 30, Mr. Mitchell met the puppets again, in a rehearsal room at City Center. Mr. Christie and Fred Buchholz, who cares for the puppets during the run, had delivered the finished characters to Ms. Marshall and company. Immediately, the puppets were on, singing and swaying in numbers like "Yum Ticky Ticky Tum Tum" and the signature song, "Love Makes the World Go Round."
Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Costabile stood next to the puppet theater, designed by Mr. Beatty as a clever parody of City Center's gold- rimmed proscenium arch, and added their sounds to the sight of the four new cast members. Mr. Christie sat to the side like a well-behaved stage mother. The peak had been scaled, the assignment completed. When exactly had work stopped? Wearily, Mr. Christie glanced at a clock. "About 10 minutes ago," he said.
Shows Until Sunday
"Carnival," a City Center Encores! production of the musical, is at the City Center, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan, through Sunday. Performances are tonight at 8, tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Limited tickets: $25 and $45. Information: (212) 581-1212.


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Yes, you.
As much as I appreciated your request to remove my blouse, climb over the driver's seat, into the back seat, and press my mammary glands to the rear window, I had to decline. You see, although I was at the light, I knew it would change soon and I simply didn't have enough time to accomplish your request and still remain a courteous driver.
I wasn't exactly sure where the extremely loud voice originated as I pulled up to the light. I heard a massive voice snicker, "How was the Slipknot concert?" followed by an oblique reference to a male appendage. I assumed you meant to address the skinny, dejected kid with the black shirt and shoulder length hair that had recently walked past my car. There all four of you were, in your sad, late model Nissan, clad in primary colored polos and sporting slick hair, right behind my car. I heard another disparaging remark tossed at a grandfather in another car.
"HEY, are your windows down?" One of you wearing white aviator glasses boomed in my direction, followed by the request to doff my duds. It's no exaggeration to say that I was rapidly descending into an overwhelming fury.
I contemplated the situation: there was always a bird or two to flip. However, upon further review, I determined that extending that finger would simply please you. If it came to a battle of verbal acuity, you would lose. I may not appear to have mastered the vocabulary of a stevedore, but I worked in kitchens, and have an expansive library of barbed insults at my employ that would leave you gasping with fear and shock. But no, words were not enough. The light changed, we all advanced, and my plan was set.
You see, you harassed the wrong girl.
Don't worry, it happens sometimes.
You think you can toss out such remarks with impunity, and perhaps with any other girl you could. But you don't know me, and you don't know how I despise the kicking of the weak by bullies of any stripe, let alone the disgusting harassment of my gender. You see, I'm not 14 anymore. Nor am I 19. In fact, I'm at an age and of a mind that no one can tender such offensive nonsense in my presence or in my society.
And that is why I called the police.
And why I told them you were driving with the bullhorn out the driver's side window. And why I gave them your license plate, and yes, I did it while boxing you in to your lane. And as you turned into the gas station while informing another girl, this one younger and far more intimidated than I was, that she, too, should consider her clothing optional and her body public property, I told the dispatcher exactly where you were.
Can you imagine my sense of satisfaction to see that cruiser turn left into the parking lot? Probably not. It's probably beyond your ability to comprehend. I can't wait until you have to explain to your mother what happened, because your shame will be overwhelming. And if it's not, maybe you'll just think twice about casting stray comments in the direction of women, because we're not all nice, and we're not all doormats, and we won't all ignore your depraved ilk.
If I'm telling the total truth, it's not just about your callous lack of respect for my gender (which is abhorrent enough,) it's not just that you're yelling at elderly people, it's about that kid.
Oh, you remember, the skinny kid who looks like he doesn't have a friend in the world. Yeah, that kid, because that kid looks like he's been on the receiving end of your punches, your insults, and your jackhole-ness, and you know what? He doesn't deserve that. You're the disparaged male appendage because you use your popularity and social advantage as a cudgel, and I won't have it.
So suck on that, you popped-collar failures of hooligans, I can't wait to meet you at a light again.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Dear Gentlemen in the Nissan with the Bullhorn,
Yes, you.
Posted by Azúcar at 6/30/2009 11:00:00 PM
Labels: all bra burnin' and stuff, how distasteful, I Will Destroy You, people are stupid, stories of NO
71 comments:
- Kalli Ko said...
Jack-hole, it just describes them so perfectly doesn't it...
and this is why I have my local police programmed into my phone, and also the highway patrol. Because I'm like that too.
- June 30, 2009 11:11 PM
- Cafe Johnsonia said...
I must say this is one of your very best. Oh to have been there.
People need to learn not to mess with you. It never ends in their favor.
- June 30, 2009 11:51 PM
- TheMoncurs said...
You have a standing ovation coming at you from AZ. Bravo!
- July 01, 2009 12:01 AM
- Mrs. Organic said...
It would've felt great to pull and snap their photos. Post it for posterity.
- July 01, 2009 12:03 AM
- cyndie said...
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for calling the cops. I feel like too often people don't - and I really SO appreciate the people who step up and say that things like that are not ok.
Honestly, you are the type of person who makes the world more ok than it would be otherwise. And everybody owes you for that. Thank you.
- July 01, 2009 12:03 AM
- Colleen said...
Nice work! And awesomely funny post.
- July 01, 2009 12:10 AM
- acte gratuit said...
I'm not sure I spelled that right, but you get the drift.
So, I'm coming to Utah Valley in 11 days, and I need a fashion consultant. Wanna take me to the mall and help me buy something super hot (and really cheap) to wear to my mom's farewell? Do ya? huh?
(I'm planning to go to Spark and Rooster while I'm there...thanks to you and CJane.)
- July 01, 2009 12:29 AM
- hannah said...
You are my hero.
- July 01, 2009 12:37 AM
- Geo said...
Pedro offers you his protection.
Popped-collared failures of hooligans! You are an avenging angel, first class.
- July 01, 2009 2:08 AM
- ~j. said...
Heh heh...Gentlemen.
- July 01, 2009 5:45 AM
- Miggy said...
What a great story. I'm beaming with pride.
- July 01, 2009 6:04 AM
- Annie said...
Okay, I never comment & always lurk, but hoorah to you. {I'm a little disappointed the didn't get the high octane version of the kitchen vocabulary. Next time.}
- July 01, 2009 6:08 AM
- Lauren said...
that is just awesome. thank you for sharing, and for speaking out!
- July 01, 2009 6:24 AM
- mandy said...
- July 01, 2009 6:54 AM
- soybeanlover said...
You're my new hero
- July 01, 2009 7:10 AM
- Vanessa said...
I feel like this needs to be reinacted for cops or...reno 911 either way
vanessa from inevergrewup
- July 01, 2009 7:16 AM
- Deb said...
You are a rock star. Way to go!
- July 01, 2009 7:18 AM
- Mary said...
hilarious story!
I'm sorry but they deserved to have the cops called on them!
- July 01, 2009 7:30 AM
- Jen said...
oh ya. let em have it!
- July 01, 2009 7:40 AM
- lisa said...
Can you hear the applause from there? If not, listen harder, because it's deafening!
- July 01, 2009 7:47 AM
- Jane of Seagull Fountain said...
Woo-hoo!! Go Carina!
- July 01, 2009 7:51 AM
- Sean and Steph said...
Greatest thing ever :) You rock!!
- July 01, 2009 7:53 AM
- the emily said...
The best thing about getting older is no longer being afraid to stand up to doofus's like that. Nice work.
- July 01, 2009 8:13 AM
- brinestone said...
You are my hero. Next time I'm in a similar situation, I will think of you and stand up to the idiots too.
- July 01, 2009 8:19 AM
- janaya said...
you go girl! i'm punching the air with my fists.
- July 01, 2009 8:55 AM
- ktb said...
I really like this post.
- July 01, 2009 8:55 AM
- topher clark said...
jeez, lady we were just having fun. RELAX!
- July 01, 2009 9:25 AM
- La Yen said...
- July 01, 2009 9:30 AM
- Marianne & Clayton said...
Has anyone seen the new MTV show called "Hot Chicks With Douchebags"? No? Just me? Noted.
- July 01, 2009 9:34 AM
- db said...
I thank you from the bottom of my heart. If I ever need a body guard, I'll give you a call.
- July 01, 2009 9:40 AM
- Adriel & Tierra Wakefield said...
Love it
- July 01, 2009 9:43 AM
- Azúcar said...
DB- Didn't you used to say that you were terrified of me?
That's one of my fondest memories.
- July 01, 2009 9:48 AM
- Capree said...
Are your services for hire? I could use a gal like you.
- July 01, 2009 9:49 AM
- Stephanie said...
i worship. i worship at the shrine of carina.
- July 01, 2009 10:11 AM
- DrJudd said...
Brava, Azúcar. Brava!
- July 01, 2009 11:24 AM
- taradise said...
Initially I thought, I wish I could be asked more often to "doff my duds" so that I could be on the next Girls with Low Self Esteem videos.
Then I thought, My immaturity would hinder me in calling the cops as I would probably "Tawanda!" their car. So thank you for teaching me a lesson in womanly righteous indignation.
- July 01, 2009 12:32 PM
- Barb @ getupandplay said...
HOORAY!! I'm so proud of you. What an appropriate response. I hope they learned a lesson.
- July 01, 2009 12:42 PM
- Sue said...
I'm in awe.
- July 01, 2009 12:50 PM
- April said...
Maybe I'm overly emotional these days, but your post brought tears to my eyes. So many people can't fight back; they don't have the self-assurance or the wit. And so that kind of abuse continues without repercussion.
Sure, your post has its humor, but the /rightness/ of you calling the police and forcing those creeps to face the consequences of their horrendous actions is what makes this story worth telling.
- July 01, 2009 1:51 PM
- BrettM said...
Amelia called the cops on some really inappropriate and aggressive panhandlers the other day and I was proud.
I so enjoy brave ladies. AWE. SOME.
And yes the Slipknot concert was great.
- July 01, 2009 2:21 PM
- Sarah said...
Bravo! Bravo! Oh I love it. I hope that now I remember this instead of feeling slimy by the comments made.
- July 01, 2009 2:26 PM
- undefined said...
I wish I could express how utterly and completely pleased I am by this. Just. So. Satisfied.
- July 01, 2009 2:32 PM
- Lucky ♥ Holly said...
I can't stand a jumped up bully.
Love you more today than yesterday.
- July 01, 2009 3:38 PM
- Rebecca said...
I saw your tweet about this and was dying to know the details. I'm so glad you did what you did. And then shared it here, so more people will do the same.
- July 01, 2009 4:16 PM
- The Rookie said...
This would be me giving you a standing ovation. Nicely played.
- July 01, 2009 5:11 PM
- Fig said...
DB wasn't the only one terrified of you ... I was too.
Now I just love you.
Carry on.
- July 02, 2009 8:13 AM
- Kaerlig said...
As I read this I was saying yes! Yes! YES! YES! YES!
So cool that you called the police. Love it.
- July 02, 2009 9:33 AM
- Rhonda said...
Oh my gawd. I just about fell out of my chair from laughing so hard!! That is priceless. Good for you. SO many people now a days just amaze me at how stupid they can be!!
- July 02, 2009 1:20 PM
- Jen, RN said...
Kudos to you! I love it! And after finishing 'NINETEEN MINUTES' this morning (hence I have yet to dress for the day) I applaud your efforts to stand up for the kid who doesn't have it in him to stand up for himself.....
- July 02, 2009 1:29 PM
- Marge Bjork said...
thank you. you will be my hero forever and ever and ever.
- July 02, 2009 3:38 PM
- Rynell said...
I'm so proud of you.
- July 02, 2009 4:26 PM
- Shawn said...
A-ss-holes. Whoops, did I write that out loud?
Yeah for you---you rock!
- July 02, 2009 8:37 PM
- fijiangirl said...
You are awesome! I would have loved to see their faces when the popo arrived!
- July 02, 2009 9:48 PM
- EatMeat said...
I wrote and deleted about three different things in this comment box. Basically because no words can properly convey how enraged I am at those pastel hooligans, and how simultaneously awestruck you leave me. Thank you.
- July 03, 2009 5:16 AM
- The Parks said...
Okay, I just about fell out of my chair when I read Topher's comment!
- July 03, 2009 2:42 PM
- Sister Pottymouth said...
Yet another reason why I would vote for you to be President.
- July 04, 2009 2:36 PM
- Leanys said...
Great post! I love it, this has to feel much better than giving the finger.
- July 05, 2009 1:14 PM
- KLS said...
"And that is why I called the police."
Good for you.
I would have been disgusted as well.
- July 05, 2009 7:54 PM
- girlsmama said...
You rock my world. Thanks. And the skinny kid thanks you too.
- July 06, 2009 10:29 AM
- Mimi said...
Here Here!!! Your response showed a rising to the occassion that I only hope to impart on my own children when they see a wrong-doing!
- July 06, 2009 1:34 PM
- JMadd said...
I'm glad to know that there are people out in the world who don't let stinkin' popped-collared jackholes get away with crap. Thanks for calling the police. I would have given them the 1 fingered salute, but your way was much better.
- July 06, 2009 4:24 PM
- Ashley and Caleb said...
When my sister was in elementary school she got together all the skinny picked-on girls that this older boy tortured and they beat him up. (Not bad, just to get the point across.) I think you two would be friends. Thanks for standing up for the skinny kid. I think it's funny that morons with slicked hair and pastel popped-collar shirts think they're bad a's...? What the what?
p.s. You have inspired me to program the local police station and highway patrol into my phone.
- July 06, 2009 9:02 PM
- Amy said...
RIGHT ON SISTER!!! You have just made my day. In fact, I think I might print this post out so I can show it to my kids when they turn teens. My girls, so they can stand up for themselves like you, and my son, to give him another example on how not to be a pig.
Now, if only, IF ONLY I could be in the room when their parents found out.
- July 06, 2009 11:37 PM
- Mak said...
Woo Hoo- Go you! (insert standing ovation here)
- July 07, 2009 10:28 AM
- Andrea said...
I never know what to do in such instances but burn with rage. I always wonder, "Is it cop-calling worthy?" and always answer, "Naw," but no more! Although I'm pretty sure one good look at me, disrobed, would have been punishment enough for any teenage boy. Maybe I could get a job on the force.
- July 07, 2009 2:25 PM
- makeitworkmom said...
I vote you for President!
Well done! (and very well written!)
- July 09, 2009 1:27 PM
- marshall p said...
I am so effing glad that I know you.
- July 10, 2009 7:02 AM
- Erinello said...
You rock.
Tonight I was line dancing at a bar in Indiana. There was a Goth kid there looking very out of place. A band member singled him out, and I thought "Oh no, I can't handle it if they tease him." But the band member welcomed him, gave him a free tee shirt, and said he was glad he was there and to get his redneck on. Everyone cheered, and I thought of your post. I hope the skinny kid gets to feel included like that to balance out the pastel-wearing jerks.
- July 11, 2009 11:43 PM
- Ashley Thalman said...
- July 19, 2009 12:05 AM
- Petit Elefant said...
And this, this is why I love you.
- July 21, 2009 5:05 PM
- Jenn said...
I feel empowered just reading this.
- August 03, 2009 4:33 PM


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Dec. 2, 2003
Despite winning the foil by the score of 6-3, the women's fencing team was narrowly edged in overall points by NYU, falling 14-13 in New York City.
The Violets bested Yale 6-3 in the sabre and earned a slight 5-4 victory in epee to gain enough points to win the meet.
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NBC's Thursday night block of comedy is home to one of the most magnificent mustaches ever seen on television. That mustache, of course, belongs to the character of Ron Swanson, head of the Parks Department in Pawnee, Indiana, on the sitcom Parks and Recreation. Swanson, played in real life by actor Nick Offerman, is a burly stereotype of masculinity and creator of the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness. When describing the perfect office atmosphere he states, "The less I know about other people's affairs, the happier I am. I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes."
But epic mustachery aside, actor Nick Offerman has pledged to utilize his most prominent feature for the good of mankind: to encourage water preservation. Offerman is teaming up with Budweiser, the famed beer company, for its "Grow One. Save a Million" campaign, which began on May 17. On average men use between 3-10 gallons of water every time they shave. So, in preparation for World Environment Day (this Sunday, June 5), Offerman is encouraging all men to drop the razor and save water. Budweiser's goal is to conserve at least a total of 1 million gallons (or roughly 5 gallons per person) of water by June 5 through this program.
In a press release Offerman stated: "The only thing manlier than growing a big, burly beard is ripping a big, burly beard off of a charging grizzly with your bare hands. That, and saving the planet. Since no grizzly has had the balls to charge me since I went through puberty, I've decided to focus on saving the planet by joining with Budweiser to promote the 'Grow One. Save a Million' campaign.
Men, if you want to look manly and feel good about conserving water, join me and take the pledge on Budweiser's Facebook page. And grizzlies, charge me. Just do it. I'm waiting, you babies."
Every strand of hair left on your face is one drop of water not wasted. So, this weekend start growing the beard you knew you were always capable of…for a good cause. And while you're at it read about several water conservation breweries.


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White has arranged a combination of government and private funding, company officials said, noting AeroTwin has no ownership in Aeromotors.
"There is vastly more business assistance for manufacturing available in New Zealand," said Dwaine Barnes, president of AeroTwin. "The regulatory and legal environment in the United States is not conducive for manufacturing aeronautical products. We determined that the transfer of production, while retaining exclusive sales agency rights for North America, was the best strategy to realize return on our investment."
The license, royalty and sale agreement terminates the 2003 manufacturing license originally granted by Pearson Motor Company Ltd. and held by AeroTwin related to base AT972 technology licenses AeroTwin-financed improvements to Aeromotors in exchange for future royalties payable to AeroTwin for 10 years and transfers tooling and certain inventory for consideration, including $200,000 payable to AeroTwin as new engines are produced.
"We have retained finished engine inventory to continue business in North America while production in New Zealand is established," Barnes said. "Launching a new engine in this economy is a challenge and we are responding by working with customers in both the sport aircraft and hovercraft markets on product partnerships to gather operating data and seed the market. Now that we are no longer responsible for production we can focus on these activities."
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"Looks like Mom forgot to pack the plastic forks."
"So. How are we gonna eat the potato salad?"
"Well. She didn't forget the plastic knives. We can use those."
"Sounds good to me."
Yawning, I couldn't have cared less how my brother and dad were going to eat that potato salad. I hated potato salad. I didn't give 2 hoots about anything that had mayonnaise, eggs, onion, and celery. The only things it really had going for it, in my 10-year-old opinion, were the mustard, potatoes, and bacon. In fact, the only thing it was missing from my "There's-no-way-I'm-gonna-eat-that-crap" list was tomatoes. Yuck.
"Caroline, do you want some potato salad?"
"Nope. Just baked beans and my chicken leg. Please."
God, how I loved my mom's fried chicken. Especially when we'd been fishing all morning from dawn until just after noon. Those donuts we had back at 4 o'clock this morning before putting the boat in the bay hadn't been intended to last that long and my tummy was growling.
"Caroline? I don't think you're gonna be able to eat those baked beans with a knife." How about 2 chicken legs and some potato salad?"
With an "Are you crazy?" look on my face, I told my dad in no uncertain terms that there was no way on God's green earth that I was gonna eat that potato salad.
He just shook his head, scooped up what I'd asked for, added a plastic knife, and handed it over. I tore into that cold fried chicken like I hadn't eaten like, well, since, 4 o'clock this morning.
Then I attempted the bake beans with a knife. Have you ever attempted to eat baked beans with a plastic knife? Yeah. Well. I don't suggest it. Even if you are starving. It's not easy. I quickly ate as much as I could. Then ate the rest of my chicken.
Then I attempted the bake beans with a knife. Have you ever attempted to eat baked beans with a plastic knife? Yeah. Well. I don't suggest it. Even if you are starving. It's not easy. I quickly ate as much as I could. Then ate the rest of my chicken.
But I was still hungry. I tried to look everywhere else but at my brother's and dad's plates piled high with Mom's potato salad. I watched a bird swoop down towards the water. I saw a fish come to the surface causing a small ripple in the water. I focused on one of the islands that made up the area of the bay where we'd been fishing all morning. Then I looked back at their plates. The potato salad. The piles weren't as high anymore.
Then I focused on the island once more. My eyes began to droop as the boat gently rocked back and forth. I closed my eyes briefly and filled my lungs with the salty air. I heard more birds off in the distance.
I opened my eyes again. Just staring at that potato salad. My stomach growled. I licked my lips
"Caroline? Are you sure you don't want some potato salad? Here. Try some"
My dad handed me some on a paper plate. I hesitantly picked up my plastic knife. Barely dipped it into the potato salad. Brought it to my nose. Sniffed. My stomach growled. It smelled so good. I stuck out my tongue. Licked some of it off the knife. And?
My mouth watered.
I quickly swallowed it and dug in for more. Each knife-full was better than the last. It was tangy. The juxtaposition of the crispy fried bacon and the soft potatoes was to die for. The crunch of the onion and the celery? Divine.
Each ingredient complimented the other. It was perfect.
Before I knew it, I was done. I licked the knife. I licked the paper plate. I hadn't even left any on my plate for Etiquette's sake, like my Gran always used to tell me to do.
I figured Etiquette could get his own mom's dang potato salad.
|My potato salad, which was my mom's potato salad. Before that is was my Gran's, & one day, it will be my daughter's.


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Movie Highlighting Female Veteran Directed by Clarkson University Professor Premieres Nov. 11 in Potsdam
At the start of each semester, Clarkson University Film Professor Brian Hauser notices an odd distinction among male and female veterans in his classes.
"I can usually tell within a couple minutes: the haircut, how they walk, where they choose to sit in my classes. And once they say 'sir,' I know," Hauser, himself a veteran, says of male vets. "Among the women in my classes, I can't tell who's a vet. They usually don't bring it up until we're well into the semester and I've mentioned my time in the military."
Hauser wanted to bring female veterans' stories to the forefront in Nontraditional, a film that follows 26-year-old Erika Byrd, a female combat veteran starting her freshman year in college. The world premiere of Nontraditional, which Hauser wrote and directed, is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. on Veteran's Day, November 11, at Cinema 10 in Potsdam's Roxy Theater. Christina Xydias, an assistant professor of political science at Clarkson, co-produced the film with Hauser.
Most of the movie was filmed on or near the Clarkson campus over the summer and features several local cast members. Editing wrapped up recently and the film is being submitted for possible screenings at several film festivals across the country.
In the movie, Byrd believes college will be easier than her recent tour of duty in Afghanistan. But she struggles to connect both with her classmates and her professors.
"We know that some returning soldiers can face unexpected challenges," Hauser said. "They've just left a highly regimented world where they're in extreme danger most of the time. Once they're home -- with family and friends, going back to work -- they have to navigate a social structure that's extremely ambiguous, at the best of times. It's not easy for most people, whether they're military or not."
Hauser says he hopes the movie can shed more light on the lives and struggles of female combat veterans.
"We're telling a story that hasn't been told," Hauser says, "and it's about people our society doesn't really see. This movie could change that."
More information on Nontraditional can be found at https://www.facebook.com/nontraditionalthemovie.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Photo caption: Nnamdi Ubozoh, playing Todd Clark, and Lise "Kat" Evans, playing Erika Byrd, star in Nontraditional, which will debut at Cinema 10 on Veteran's Day. Clarkson University Professor Brian Hauser wrote and directed the film.


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We always forget how much we enjoy the College World Series. It seems to come along at just the right time; the sports world prepares to settle in for a long summer of low-stakes baseball (with the Olympics tossed in this year, just to keep us awake), so having a tournament in which everyone's playing for their lives is a welcome respite. Particularly when they're wearing skullets.
Georgia took a 1-0 series lead last night, and we can only hope Fresno State hangs around long enough to get skullet-ed first baseman Kris Tomlinson as many plate appearances as possible.
Hey, we were in college during grunge; we weren't too far from this, actually.
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WASHINGTON >> Joining an exodus from Congress by both Democrats and Republicans, veteran Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon tearfully announced Thursday that he's retiring after 21 years, stepping down as House Armed Services Committee chairman.
"I'm leaving this job in a year, but I will not leave the fight," McKeon told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference, with his wife, Patricia, and current and former aides in attendance. McKeon pledged to continue working for men and women in the military.
The California Republican, who has led the panel for three years, is term-limited as chairman and McKeon said that was a factor in his decision to step down. He endorsed Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas, the panel's vice chairman, to succeed him if the GOP maintains control of the House in November's elections.
The 75-year-old McKeon said he didn't want to be a second-guessing presence next year.
McKeon spoke proudly of his committee's bipartisan work and its ability to pass a sweeping defense authorization bill last year, the 52nd straight time. With a granddaughter in the Army, he spoke of the panel's work to combat sexual assault in the ranks. A close confidante of House Speaker John Boehner, McKeon said the House leader had eased budget restrictions on congressional travel and panel members would be traveling to Afghanistan and visiting U.S. allies.
McKeon said he still gets a thrill when he sees the lights of the U.S. Capitol, but there were other feelings that signaled it was time to leave.
"For me, it's time to walk away," he said.
The soft-spoken McKeon campaigned for Republican candidates in 2010 and, thanks to the GOP wave that year, took over the chairmanship of the committee that oversees military policy, war operations and authorizes budgets for the Pentagon. During his time in charge, McKeon has fought congressional efforts to slash spending as defense hawks increasingly were outnumbered, even in the Republican Party.
The end of two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and increasing deficits served as the impetus for budget reductions.
McKeon has represented a California district north of Los Angeles that counts a number of defense contractors and the famed Skunk Works, the Lockheed Martin operation dedicated to creating new technology.
McKeon's decision to retire after 11 terms was expected and Republican candidates had already taken steps to seek the seat.
In a statement, Boehner, R-Ohio, praised McKeon as "a tireless advocate for our military and Department of Defense civilian personnel, as well as their families. No one has worked harder to provide them the resources they need to successfully complete the missions their nation has asked them to perform."
Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the committee's top Democrat, hailed McKeon's unwavering commitment to the troops and his efforts to work with Democrats in a bitterly divided Congress.
"Buck set a tone on this committee that the rest of Congress should seek to emulate," Smith said. "As political tension continued to rise in Congress, Buck stayed committed to bipartisanship."
Both the House and Senate Armed Services committees will have new leadership next year. McKeon's Armed Services counterpart in the Senate, Democrat Carl Levin of Michigan, also plans to retire after this year.


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