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The Holiday Inn Express Maumelle/Little Rock hotel location places you near major business and top attractions. For the business traveler, you can expect comfortable accommodations while providing you with everything you need to stay in touch with the office such as a 24-hour Business Center, meeting space, and complimentary Wi-Fi, fax and print services. We are located just two miles from Maumelle's industrial park where you can conduct business with Maumelle's top companies including Kimberly Clark, Cintas, Molex, Dillards, Mondolez, Ink, inc, Unifirst, Ace Hardware and Leisure Arts; in addition, we are located just six minutes to Maumelle's business park where you can find Garver, Arkansas Surgical hospital, Advanced Cable Systems, Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas, USAble corporation.
For the Leisure travelers, escape the summer heat at Wild River Country Waterpark. For the golf enthusiast Maumelle Country Club and Country of Arkansas has beautiful golf courses just three minutes from the hotel. With a variety of playing fields, campsites and tennis courts, nearby Burns Park is a great place to enjoy the outdoors during cooler weather. The hotel is also about 15 miles from Little Rock, where guests enjoy visiting popular destinations, including Verizon Arena and the Clinton Library and the ever growing River Market.
- Black-out Shades
- Pillow Menu
- Rollaway Bed/Cot Available
- Crib Available
- Iron/Ironing Board
- Separate Hanging Closet
- In-Room Heating and A/C Controls
- Extra Bedding Available
Bathroom/Personal Care
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- Hair Dryer
- Bathtub
- Whirlpool or Spa Bathtub
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- Microwave
- Coffee Maker
- Tea Maker
- Flat-screen TV
- DVD Player
- Work Desk with Lamp
- Desk-level Electrical Outlet
- Free Local Calls
- Cable/Satellite
- Premium Channels
- Video Games Available
- Two-line Phone
- Phone with Voicemail
- Power Converter Available
- Electrical Adapters Available
Added Value
- Connecting Rooms Available
- Complimentary Coffee/Tea Supplies
- Full Breakfast Included
- Breakfast Buffet Included
- Continental Breakfast Included
- Complimentary Coffee in Lobby
- Kids Eat Free
- Off-site Restaurant Delivery Available
Business Services
- 1 Meeting Room(s) Available
- On-Site Business Center
- Printer
- Copier
Internet Access
- Free High-Speed Internet in all Rooms
- Wireless Internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
Entertainment & Recreation
- Indoor Pool
- Heated Indoor Pool
- Indoor Pool Hours of Operation: 7:30 AM - 10:30 PM
Indoor heated pool, with towels provided. There is an outside patio just off of the pool area for guest to relax and enjoy the outside air during their time in the pool.
Health & Fitness
Complimentary Fitness Center
24 Hours Fitness Center 1. Recumbent Bike 2. Treadmill 3. Free Weights with AB Bench 4. 2 Elliptical Machines 5. Weight Scale
Hours of Operation: 12:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Fitness Center Type: LIMITED
Fitness Center Equipment:
- Treadmill
- Elliptical Machines
- Free Weights
- Stationary Bicycle
Housekeeping & Laundry
- Daily Housekeeping
- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
- Hours of Operation: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Added Value
- Language Interpretation
- Wake Up Calls
Hotel Details
200 Holiday Drive
Maumelle, Arkansas 72113
United States
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 11:00 AM
Check-in Age: 21
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- Complimentary Self Parking Available
Shuttle + -
- Arkansas Destinations is a transportation rental company that provides buses, mini buses, trolleys, limos and vintages.
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- Guest Rooms
- Elevators
- Public Restrooms
- Registration Desk
- Exercise Facility
- Business Center
- Pool
- Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 1
Accessible Hotel Areas
- Registration Area
- Accessible Guest Rooms
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Exercise Facility
- Pool
Hotel Areas with Accessible Routes from Accessible Public Entrance
- Accessible Self Parking
- Van Accessible Self Parking
- Ramp Access
- Portable Bathtub Seats
- Closed Caption TVs
- Telephone with TDD
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Guest Rooms
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Public Spaces
- Communication Kits with Visual Alarms
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- Pets Allowed
- Service Animals Allowed
- Pet Walking Area On-site
- Pet Fee per Night: 25 USD
- Nonfundable pet fee applies
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- Smoke-Free Facility
- Number of Floors: 4
- Total Number of Rooms: 75
- Number of Suites: 26
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 75
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 5
- Connecting Rooms Available
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Languages Spoken by Staff
- English
- Hindi
- Punjabi
- Spanish
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The slumping Tampa Bay Rays have turned to a Seminole medicine man to change their fortunes.
Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon invited tribal elder Bobby Henry to Tropicana Field on Monday in an attempt to help his team, which has the worst record in the majors.
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The Rays had lost 12 of 13 entering Monday's game against Seattle.
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We do not return to you, Victoria; because we never really left
With the completion of this year's Veloci-T Camp, I have come full circle in VS and this marks the culmination of my service to Victoria School.
I have spent 7 1/2 years here and these have been the best years of my life.
In this time, I have taught them lessons in theory indoors and camped with them to experience life's lessons outdoors.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
I shall be telling this with a sigh
To all Victorians: past, present and future, take care
Always remember that even when we leave Victoria,
Victoria lives in us.
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Obama, Intellectuals, And Race Matters
Although we should be exhilarated by the extraordinary achievement of Obama, our long-term challenge should be less to celebrate individual success than to ensure the collective liberation of both Black and white people from the bondage of unscientific images constructed by Western intellectuals, which has poisoned human relations.
[Issues Of Principle]
The candidacy and appeal of Barack Obama, the charismatic African-American with formidable oratorical skills, in the contest for nomination of the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, has generated debates about the saliency and relevance of race in today's society.
There is a real danger that people will mistake the episodic mood and symbolic exception afforded Obama for societal change in attitude, and from this draw broad conclusions that are supported by neither historical evidence nor patterns of treatment meted out to Black people.
As people ponder the issue, a critical question to ask and answer is this: has society in its collective consciousness undergone a qualitative transformation to the extent that a people once treated as chattels or sub-humans are now regarded with a genuine rather than formal sense of equality?
Rather than draw on anecdotal evidence or momentary polling numbers or even data about the status of Black people in society, we should review the writings and views of some of the leading intellectuals, in order to discern where society has been and the possible direction it might take on the issue.
Focus on intellectuals is warranted because it is fair to summarize that in every era in history intellectuals have often played a critical role in sustaining or undermining a system and in constructing mechanisms either for liberation or for lulling people to accept their conditions, however abject they might be. This has certainly been the case with the issue of race in global history.
There are three broad additional reasons why we should put a spotlight on some of the functions of intellectuals. In the first place, although intellectuals play a critical role in shaping institutions and systems, it is often difficult to decipher their mental habits, because they often veil their role by professing to be objective and to be committed to the search for truth. Western intellectuals in particular have been quite adept at the sophistry. Thus they have often sold to the world the notion that they are successors of the Enlightenment movement of the eighteenth century, which was purported to be characterized by belief in the power of human reason and innovations. To what extent can such a claim be supported by evidence on the issue of race?
Second, precisely because of the opaque ways in which intellectuals operate, it is incumbent upon those who have been fortunate to acquire research and analytical skills to examine the works of intellectuals and disclose it to the great majority of people who have neither the time nor expertise to delve into the rather intricate interconnections and dynamics of the various systems built on the recommendations by intellectuals. This, to a great extent, is the challenge of intellectuals who combine scholarship and commitment for social justice broadly stated.
And third, we need to sometimes clinically dissect the works of intellectuals in this area, because they have had quite insidious and far-reaching impact on the collective consciousness and ideological predisposition of people. In fact, in as far as race and racism are concerned, it was largely the stereotypical images of Black people constructed by intellectuals that have anchored white people's collective sense of superiority vis-à-vis Black people, regardless of position in society. This has in turn infected race relations on a global scale.
The role that intellectuals have played in social engineering on the issue of race and racism can be illustrated by reference to African history or the history of indigenous people the world over. But before evidence is adduced to illustrate the point, it is necessary to show the other side of the ledger, in order to provide a positive balance to role played by intellectuals in shaping attitudes.
An examination of recent African history indicates that on the positive side, intellectuals were critical in building the momentum that led, for example, to the dismantling of apartheid and the holding of the watershed democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998, and the building of a semblance of global consensus that made it possible for United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 to declare slave trade and colonialism crimes against humanity.
Certainly one of the most outstanding scientific innovations husbanded by intellectuals at the dawn of the new century was the Human Gnome Project, which confirmed a position taken by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1946 that all human beings belong to one human race.
However, these positive developments have been countered if not dwarfed by the works of other intellectuals who have lent their scholarship in the service of racial hegemony. In October this year (2007), James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his part in discovering the structure of the double helix DNA molecule and is regarded as the godfather of DNA, claimed that Back people were less intelligent than white. In an interview he stated that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really." He said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true".
In fact, Watson has written that "there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
The remarks by Watson is particularly revealing, as it comes from a person who is regarded in the scientific community not only as an individual who made the greatest single scientific discovery of the 20th century but also as one who has joined scientific immortals such as Darwin and Copernicus. It is particularly sad that the remarks came on the heels of the revolutionary scientific revelations by the Human Gnome Project about the essential unity of humanity.
What should be made clear is that Watson's remarks are not the exception among revered Western scholars. Watson's point of view has a distinguished antecedent. In 1831, the German philosopher, George Wilhelm Hegel declared in a lecture that the African "exhibits the natural man in his completely wild and untamed state. There is nothing harmonious with humanity in this type of character. At this point we quit Africa, not to mention it again; for Africa is no historical part of the world. What we properly understand by Africa is the unhistorical, underdeveloped spirit, still involved in conditions of mere nature."
It should be noted that Hegel made the remarks without ever setting foot in Africa or engaging in historical study of Africa or even consulting Greek sources that attribute their civilization to African influences. In terms of context, it should be pointed out that Hegel made his remarks at the very time when the campaigns led by William Wilberforce, an indefatigable fighter for the abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in the British Dominion, had gained ground.
In fact, the following year, the British Parliament passed the Abolition of Slavery Act in 1832, as a sequel to the Abolition of Slave Trade Act of 1807, which had also been shepherded by Wilberforce. The context might suggest that Hegel made his remarks to blunt the march of history and to divest European slave merchants from responsibility over the miserable state of Africa.
Similarly, during the decade of decolonization (1960s) in Africa, and during the heights of the Civil Rights Movement for Black Americans in the U.S.A., another salvo against African history came from a renowned vicar of Western scholarship, Hugh Trevor-Roper, the Reguis Professor of history at Oxford University. In 1964, he declared: "Undergraduates, seduced, as always, by the changing breath of journalistic fashion, demand that they should be taught the history of black Africa. Perhaps, in the future there will be some history to teach. But at the moment there is none, or very little: there is only the history of the Europeans in Africa. The rest is largely darkness, like the history of pre-European, pre-Columbian America. And Darkness is not a subject of history."
Trevor-Roper was more or less echoing remarks of a former colonial governor of Kenya and Uganda, Sir Philip E. Mitchell. In 1947, Mitchell said: "It is not necessary to try to guess how long it may take to achieve this or that stage [of African local government], but it is necessary to realize that history began for these African people about 1890 and that in the business in which we are engaged the unit of time is at present generations and not years."
The timing of the remarks by Mitchell needs to be commented on. It should be remembered that Mitchell made his remarks at the very time when the clarion call issued during the Pan-African Congress at Manchester in 1945, to organize the masses, was beginning to gain momentum.
The context of the remarks indicates that they were made to thwart organized political movements to get rid of the shackles of European colonial imperialism. What is today ironic is that in Uganda at Makerere University, the premier institution that used to be the envy of, and at par with, some of the best institutions of higher learning anywhere in the world, one hall of residence bears Mitchell's name. Interestingly, students have not raised serious objection to his name remaining as emblematic of the era of European colonial assault on African identity. It might even be that students associate the name with pride. Yet, the same Mitchell had utter disdain if not contempt for Africans.
The ramifications of what Western intellectuals have written about Africa are manifold. What George Orwell observed with characteristic clarity during the Spanish civil war of the 1930s applies with equal force to how traditional Western intellectuals have treated Africans and African history. In 1938, Orwell observed that "I saw in fact history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines'…This kind of thing is frightening to me, because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. After all, the chances are that those lies, or at any rate similar lies, will pass into history."
The refusal to admit that Africans had a historical past was not simply a convenient adjunct to the enslavement of Black people and their oppression and exploitation under European colonial imperialism but also importantly, as a form of social engineering to denude Africans of their identity and even existence as human beings.
The images in which Africa was portrayed in Western history suggested no obstacles or rights existed to the violent European intrusion into the continent. Once Euro-Americans denied Africans as rights-bearers and people without history, they could then retail without qualifications the concepts of "discovery," "settlement," and "exploration." Hence in Western literature we are told that pioneer individuals ventured into "unexplored" territory and "discovered" geographical wonders or potential wealth as if no human beings already existed there. The concept of discovery—and the idea that "knowledge" was or is "knowledge" only when certified by a white person, for example, was and is still used to legitimize claims to territories, resources, as well as indigenous intellectual property of the continent.
The above quoted remarks by some of the leading Western intellectuals should be regarded now as part of history. However, it would be a mistake to think that they are relics of the past: they still remain in the armory of Western intellectuals who are intent on providing demeaning representation of Black people.
One discipline that came into existence to literally study Africans or "natives" as objects and to devise means of their control and is still very much in business, is anthropology. It is curious that despite changing times, practitioners of anthropology have barely been repentant of the role their predecessors played in constructing and promoting stereotypical images of Africans. For most conscious Africans, although the participant-observer methodology of anthropology can be recommended, the rationale for its existence is dubious if not odious.
Although the new scientific knowledge should have opened up new vistas for human solidarity, a critical examination of the works of notable Western intellectuals shows that on the contrary, scholarship still adheres to the basic Euro-centric premise that Europeans are models or archetypes of humanity; and that other people are simply carbon copies or miniatures of Europeans. Hence, whatever other people do must follow Western models. It is this viral idea that is as pernicious now as when it first came into circulation in the seventeenth century with the growth of European commerce in Africans.
Let us come up to date.
As the contests for the Democratic Party's nomination of its presidential candidate for the general elections draw near, we should probe deeper whether the media's fascination with Barack Obama is a radical shift in premise and attitude that place "European ways of doing things" as the normal or standard for humanity.
It is arguable that Obama will be acceptable to the general population only to the extent that he fits into, or conforms to, European normative mode of behavior. Conversely, it is doubtful that Obama would be as acceptable if he were to use his enormous intellectual prowess to question the Western intellectual construction of humanity, which places Europeans at the apex and center of every endeavor.
Until Western intellectuals embark on a serious examination and dismantling of the Euro-centric notion of humanity, the success of Obama and all of us who are proficient in Euro-American discourse and world-view cannot change dramatically the stereotypical images of Black people in the popular consciousness of white people.
It is generally for this reason that we might hazard the conclusion that with the passage of time, Obama's success might be regarded as momentary exception rather than the rule. Although we should be exhilarated by the extraordinary achievement of Obama, our long-term challenge should be less to celebrate individual success than to ensure the collective liberation of both Black and white people from the bondage of unscientific images constructed by Western intellectuals, which has poisoned human relations.
Black Star News columnist Professor Amii Omara-Otunnu is UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, Executive-Director of the UConn-ANC Partnership and Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. His column appears bi-weekly online and in the newspaper.
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|October 12, 2009
Mike Smith's Op-Ed in the Washington Times >>
Video and other tributes to Chris, including an interview with Chris from May, 2009 >>
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HSLDA has received requests for information on how to give financially to the Klicka family. Tracy and Chris established a college education account for the children, and contributions to this account should be made payable to College America, designated for the Klicka Education Account. Donations should be sent to:
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A longtime champion of homeschooling rights around the globe, Home School Legal Defense Association Senior Counsel and Director of State and International Relations Christopher J. Klicka was called home by his Lord on October 12, 2009, at age 48, following a 15-year battle with multiple sclerosis. An attorney, spokesman, lobbyist, and homeschooling husband and father, Chris is survived by his wife, Tracy, their seven children (ages 11–21), and his parents, Ardath and George Klicka.
"Chris was both a people person and a goal person. He cared deeply about people, but was also driven to always do more!" says HSLDA President J. Michael Smith. "He was the most determined person I ever met in my life. Even with all the things he accomplished every day at HSLDA, he continually wanted to tackle new challenges and serve homeschoolers in more and better ways. He was so focused on the homeschooling world, but he was also very much focused on his family and dedicated to raising his children."
An integral part of Home School Legal Defense Association's staff for 24 years, Chris was HSLDA's first full-time employee, first executive director, and first full-time attorney. He believed passionately that homeschooling was the best educational method for children and demonstrated that passion in every area of his life.
Chris and Tracy homeschooled all seven of their children. He traveled across the United States (and around the world) defending families' right to homeschool and advocating homeschooling. He participated in countless radio interviews on homeschooling issues. He wrote five books on homeschooling, penned numerous articles, and had two more books in progress when he passed away. He lobbied state legislators, U.S. senators, and foreign diplomats to support homeschooling. He sought greater freedom for homeschooling parents and students in every area—from local school districts to sports associations, college admissions departments, and military recruitment requirements. He sought to educate the educators, truant officers, policemen, judges, and even social workers about the benefits and legality of homeschooling.
Even deeper than his passion for homeschooling was his deep love for his Lord. We may never know how many people Chris inspired to homeschool or continue homeschooling, or how many people he inspired to draw near to his Lord.
"Chris's accomplishments as a lawyer for homeschooling are clear and of value that cannot be overstated. He was one of the most important pioneers of our movement," says HSLDA Chairman Mike Farris. "He believed that this truly is God's way to teach children to love God. He believed it deeply. His conviction was infectious. He was a man of single-hearted devotion that I have never, ever seen equaled. The passion that Chris felt for the mission to which God called him never, ever, ever, ever dimmed, even slightly."
HSLDA deeply appreciates and honors Chris's life and his dedicated contribution to our organization and to homeschooling. Our staff misses him more than we can express, and we continue to pray with and for his family. The homeschooling movement has lost one of its greatest advocates and friends, but Chris has left an incredible legacy of freedom and awareness of homeschooling to the thousands of homeschooled students whose parents have made The Right Choice.
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing." II Timothy 4:7-8
"Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life." Revelation 2:10


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So just imagine my delight when my darling wife got me the 1970 and '71 New York Art Directors Annuals last Christmas. Woohoo! I was thrilled!
These two books were quite a revelation. For one thing, they are entirely devoid of anything remotely resembling traditional narrative illustration.
Among all the hundreds and hundreds of pages of "the best in advertising and editorial art and design" in 1970 and '71 there is not even a hint of Bernie Fuchs or Bob Peak or any other illustrators who dominated the commercial art business during the '50s and '60s.
What happened? Where did all the celebrated illustrators of the mid-century - the Al Parkers, the Joe Bowlers - go?
(Hint: the men below had something to do with it)
I needed someone really knowledgeable about the history of illustration to explain it to me, so I called my friend, Murray Tinkelman. After all, Murray was on the front lines as it all unfolded.
And for over thirty years now he's been teaching it at the university level.
(Interesting aside: of all the esteemed artists who once worked at New York's mighty Cooper Studio back in the '50s and early '60s, Murray is the only one whose work made it into the 1971 AD Annual -- both the pieces above were included.)
So based on my observation flipping through these two volumes, the kind of work showcased in the 1970 and '71 NYAD annuals can broadly fit into one of three categories:
type-only designs...
... designs utilizing photography...
... and designs either by - or influenced by - Pushpin Studios.
When I posed this observation to Murray he said, "You're right - but they weren't the only ones."
"There were a bunch designer/art director/illustrators and that was all happening around the late '50s and early '60s - and that went well into the 1970s - but Pushpin was the "big dog."
Murray continued, "They started in the early '50s with four or five guys; Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, Seymour Chwast and Reynold Ruffins.
(Below, photo from American Artist magazine, 1958)
"Then, through the years, they took on other people of a like mind: Isodore Seltzer, Barry Zaid and John Alcorn, for instance."
(Below, photo from the 1969 Pushpin Studios Exhibit booklet)
"In many ways," said Murray, "I liked John Alcorn best. The piece he did for Eve Cigarettes?"
"Wow, what a great, great piece that was."
(Below, John Alcorn, New York Art Directors Annual, 1970)
"I don't know how influential Alcorn was on other people, but he was terribly influential on me.
(Below, John Alcorn, publication and date unknown)
"There was a spread he did one Christmas for McCall's that was a series of panels that was one of the greatest pieces of decorative illustration I've ever seen."
(Below, John Alcorn DPS from McCall's, December 1962)
Trying to get at the roots of the early '70s look - the flat, graphic style, the bright colours, the simplification of shape and a certain undeniable 'cartooniness', a tip of the hat to Art Deco and Art Nouveau... all of this and more... I asked Murray to enlighten me further.
"That was Pushpin," he stated matter-of-factly. "Pushpin used the whole history of graphic design as a palette. One day they'd be Victorian and the next day they'd be Art Deco and then Art Nouveau... and they absorbed all of these "isms" - all of these design styles - into their own lexicon."
But what about these other designer/art director/illustrators who also helped shape the changing 1970s graphic arts landscape?
I asked Murray for his thoughts on Peter Max; about how responsible Max was for steering the "Pop Art" trend that seems to have overwhelmed illustration in the late '60s.
He replied, "Peter Max was a huge player. I have to blush when I say it now, because I show his work when I talk about the 1960s. I loved his stuff in the 1960s. He was the most ubiquitous image maker of the period.
(Below, Peter Max Life magazine cover, 1969)
Murray quipped, "His work was on everything but toilet paper."
Continued tomorrow
* Murray Tinkelman has won Gold Medals from The Society of Illustrators, The New York Art Directors Club and The Society of Publication Designers. He has over 200 Awards of Merit from The Society of Illustrators. Murray is the director of Hartford Art School's limited-residency Master of Fine Arts in Illustration program.


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NEW YORK (AP) - When Detroit became the biggest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy last month, it turned public attention to the municipal-bond market, where cities and states go to borrow money. Was this sleepy, often-overlooked area of the financial world actually dangerous?
NEW YORK (AP) � When Detroit became the biggest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy last month, it turned public attention to the municipal-bond market, where cities and states go to borrow money. Was this sleepy, often-overlooked area of the financial world actually dangerous?
Like other cities, Detroit borrowed from investors to pay for roads, sewer lines and an array of other projects. Now Detroit says it can't afford to pay bond investors all of their money back.
Even if you don't own any muni bonds, it's important to understand what they are and how they work. They're what your city uses to keep itself running, but it can be tough to cut through the jargon and heated claims surrounding Detroit's bankruptcy. To help, here's a look at the nuts and bolts of what finance types call munis: who owns them, how they work and just what they are, anyway.
What are municipal bonds, exactly?
Cities, states, towns and other local governments sell municipal bonds to raise money for school renovations, sports stadiums or other projects. A fire district might need a few hundred thousand dollars for a new truck; a state might need a few billion to build highways and hospitals.
When investors buy a muni bond, they're lending to a local government. In return, they get a regular interest payment and the promise of all their money back at the end of the bond's life. That could be one year later or as many as three decades later.
Have local governments borrowed a lot?
The total amount of municipal debt outstanding is $3.72 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve's latest report. That may sound enormous, but it's less than a fifth of the total $21.7 trillion U.S. bond market. Corporations have borrowed more money, owing $5.9 trillion to bondholders. And the federal government has more publicly traded debt than both groups put together: $11.9 trillion.
For the sake of comparison, the value of the entire U.S. stock market is $18.7 trillion, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.
What's the appeal?
It's mainly the tax-free income. The federal government taxes interest payments from savings accounts, corporate bonds and other investments, but doesn't touch income from muni bonds. To somebody in the top tax bracket, a New York State bond paying 3 percent is equal to a corporate bond paying 4.97 percent.
Who owns them?
They're mainly held by individuals, who buy them outright or through mutual funds. Individuals hold 44 percent of all munis, and mutual funds have another 25 percent, according to the Fed. Banks and insurance companies own much of the rest.
Buying municipal bonds directly tends to be the province of wealthy people who have the most to gain from the tax exemption.
"Tax-free bonds have been the best game in town for people who are well off and don't want to pay taxes," said Mark Schwartz, a former bond lawyer and investment banker who has a law practice in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
How can I buy them?
You can usually buy munis through your online brokerage account, but it's not exactly like buying stocks. They're traded "over the counter." That means there is no formal, centralized exchange with one agreed-upon price for a security. Instead, you have to buy them through a dealer, and the prices may vary.
"You can call up five dealers and get five different prices," said Daniel Berger, senior market strategist at Thomson Reuters, "although the prices would be closer than you think."
Dealers are supposed to offer "fair and reasonable" prices. They make money from the difference between what they paid and what they get from a sale.
What kind of return can you expect?
When there's little risk, there's little reward. Thanks to their solid credit history, municipalities pay very low rates to borrow money.
A type of muni called a "general obligation" bond is considered especially safe. They're backed by a city's full faith and credit, which essentially means a city will take extreme steps to repay them � even if it has to cut police and fire protection for its citizens or raise taxes.
The average yield on a top-rated, 10-year general-obligation muni bond is 2.71 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data. For a 30-year muni, it's 4.22 percent.
That's a bit more than the payout on U.S. government debt, and the tax break makes the benefit bigger for investors. The 10-year Treasury note yields 2.62 percent. The 30-year bond yields 3.70 percent.
What's going on in Detroit?
Detroit owes billions to bondholders and billions more in pensions to retired city workers. In its bankruptcy filing, the city proposed trimming pension benefits and paying bondholders a fraction of what they're owed. It also wants to treat retired city workers and bond investors as equals.
Both groups plan to fight the city's proposal, for very different reasons. The retirees argue that Michigan's state constitution protects their pensions. Investors who hold the city's general-obligation bonds expect not only to rank first in the lineup of creditors but also to be paid in full. Laws often require local governments to pay bondholders before they pay anybody else.
Government borrowers generally stick to their promised interest payments as long as residents keep paying taxes. Even when trouble strikes, bondholders usually get all their money back. In 1994, for example, the bankruptcy of Orange County, Calif., shook financial markets, raising fears that bond investors would spurn local government borrowers. But Orange County's bondholders eventually got all of their money back, according to the rating agency Moody's.
One of Detroit's problems, though, is that its population and property values have plunged, shrinking the city's tax base.
Bond investors worry that if Detroit manages to pay them less than the full amount they're owed, it would set a precedent for other cities to follow.
"This fight could last for years," said Richard Larkin, director of research at Herbert J. Sims & Co. "Bond investors ain't going to sit back quietly."
Will it affect me?
Probably not, unless you worked for the city of Detroit or own its bonds.
Even if you blindly stashed most of your savings in muni-bond funds, it's unlikely that you loaned much to Detroit. Mutual funds tracked by the investor service Morningstar have $2.5 billion in bonds tied to the city. That's 0.003 percent of their muni-bond holdings, according to the Fed.
So I don't need to worry about losing my money?
Despite the high-profile problems of cities like Detroit, municipalities rarely miss an interest payment. The rating agency Moody's counted five defaults last year. Cities were behind three of them: Stockton, Calif., Oakdale, Calif. and Wenatchee, Wash.
Since the Great Recession hit in late 2007, a total of 26 municipal borrowers have defaulted on their debts, according to Moody's, and nearly all of them were hospitals and housing projects.
Corporations are much more likely to miss an interest payment. An average of 0.12 percent of all municipal borrowers default within 10 years, according to a Moody's study of defaults between 1970 and 2012. Nearly 12 percent of borrowers in the corporate bond market default over the same span.
How has the municipal market reacted to Detroit?
Interest rates on some bonds have crept up since the news broke, so some cities and towns will have to pay more to borrow from bond investors. Many investors, though, see Detroit as an isolated incident.
For the bond market to really freak out, said Schwartz, the former bond lawyer, "you're going to need a lot more Detroits."


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MACON, Ga. – Lipscomb and FGCU will face off at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon inside FGCU's Alico Arena in the Atlantic Sun Match of the Week. The co-leaders met two weeks ago in Nashville, Tenn., with the Eagles earning a five-set victory.
Lipscomb will look to avenge its lone conference loss by ending FGCU's long and daunting home win streak. FGCU currently owns a 31-match home win streak entering Friday's contest with Belmont. Out of those 31 wins, 23 have come in 3-0 sweeps. The Eagles are 39-1 all-time in Alico Arena. The Eagles have won 32 matches in 3-0 fashion. FGCU has never played a five-game match in Alico Arena.
Alex Kelly, a three-time Player of the Week in 2008 leads Lipscomb. She paces the conference in hitting percentage with a mark of .331 as well as in kills per set (3.88). Kelly won her third Player of the Week accolade last week turning in a pair of double doubles. She had 18 kills, a team high, and 12 digs in a 3-1 win at Mercer and a match-high 22 kills and 16 digs in a 3-1 win at Kennesaw State. Kelly will enter the weekend with an active streak of seven straight double-doubles.
While Kelly leads A-Sun individuals in hitting percentage, FGCU leads in the league among teams in that category at .241. Sunday's contest features the conference's top two in assists. Lipscomb's Jake Pease leads averaging 9.89 per set while Roberta Santos averages 9.35.
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MR. SUNSHINE – 9:00PM (History Channel)Matthew Perry makes his second attempt to headline a show after "Friends" (his last try was Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip") with this half-hour sitcom about a San Diego arena manager who is turning 40 years old. And in case your sarcasm detector is broken, you should know that the title of this show is not meant to be taken literally. Indeed, Perry's character turns out to be quite the cynic. Shocking, I know. I never expected Perry to play someone who makes occasionally cutting remarks. Also on board for this venture is Allison Janney, herself a Sorkin alumnus from "The West Wing." With Perry back on the air, that now makes three Friends who now have their own sitcoms. Meanwhile, David Schwimmer would like you to come to his dinner theater production of "Defending the Caveman" tonight. ANTICIPATION: PERRY!
JUSTIFIED – 10:00PM (FX) The shootin' and fightin' series returns for another season good ol' fashioned Kentucky mayhem. I like to think of this series as the spiritual descendant of "Road House." After all, isn't a sheriff just a bouncer with more authority? And a gun? And a cool hat? Popping up this season is Jeremy Davies as a member of the Rabbit Holler crime family, which is the most Southern-sounding crime family name of all time. Davies makes for a stellar addition to the cast, given his "Saving Private Ryan" pedigree. ANTICIPATION: BULLETS!
TOP CHEF – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Jimmy Fallon gets to have the chefs cater his birthday party for free. After the shocking ouster of Tre last week, it's clear that Mike is now the one everyone wants to see leave. Will he get the boot this week? And who gets a star tattoo on their wrist? That just looks dumb. ANTICIPATION: DICEY!
NOVA – 9:00PM (PBS) Learn about an Army tanker that can heal its own bullet holes. My God, the machines have gained the ability to regenerate! Soon, they'll be unstoppable! It's like "Maximum Overdrive" is finally happening! GAH!!! ANTICIPATION: HIDE YO KIDS!
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Congregation Har Shalom announces programs
Congregation Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203, will host these programs:
First Fridays March Purim Weekend with Rabbi Eliot Baskin will take place from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday. The gathering and blessings will take place at 5:30 p.m.; a catered dinner will follow at 6 p.m.; A Kol Ha Busha Voice of Embarrassment service begins at 6:45 p.m.; and the screening of the movie One Night with the King and discussion is at 7:15 p.m. Voluntary contributions are welcome for the dinner.
A Shabbat morning service with Rabbi Baskin will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 2 in the synagogue. This is an alternative Shabbat Shal OM Yoga and Meditation with Rabbi Baskin. Participants should wear flexible clothing and bring mats. A bagel-and-juice breakfast will be provided.
A Purim carnival will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. March 2. Participants should wear costumes and bring gregars (noisemakers). The carnival will take place at 4 p.m.; a catered dinner with Hamentashen will follow at 5 p.m.; Purim Shpielen is at 6 p.m.; and a community Megillah reading is at 7 p.m.
Gathering and blessings with Rabbi Baskin will take place from 10 a.m. to noon March 3. The event will feature a Chai Mitzvah program and a bagel-and-juice breakfast.
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Len lifts Maryland to dramatic win over N.C. State
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Alex Len dropped in a missed shot by teammate Pe'Shon Howard with 00.9 seconds left, giving Maryland a stunning 51-50 victory over No. 14 North Carolina State on Wednesday night.
Howard drove the left side and came up short on a 5-footer, but the 7-foot-1 Len grabbed the ball in front of the rim and eased it through the hoop. After the Wolfpack failed on a desperation heave on the other end, thousands of students in the sellout crowd stormed the court to celebrate Maryland's first win over a ranked team since March 3, 2010, against No. 4 Duke.
Len, with 10 points, was the only Terrapin to score in double figures.
Maryland (14-3, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) has won 10 of 11 against the Wolfpack (14-3, 3-1), including five in a row at home.
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani may think that "marriage should be between a man and woman", but he also thinks the Republican Party should "get the heck out of people's bedrooms and let these things get decided by states."
Giuliani said he thinks the decision by the New York state Senate to allow same-sex marriages was "wrong," but he said "there are other things that I think are wrong that get decided by democratic vote."
"And now," he said, "we should move on."
"I don't know what the heck the Republican Party wants to do getting involved in people's sexual lives and personal lives so much for," Giuliani continued.
"Stay out of it. And I think we'd be a much more successful political party if we stuck to our economic, conservative roots and our idea of a strong, assertive America that is not embarrassed to be the leader of the world."


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Jacque Vaughn passed his first test as coach of the Orlando Magic.
During his introductory press conference Monday afternoon, he showed so much charisma that it left one of his players wishing that training camp had started already.
"Sometimes life, it's about timing, it's about luck," Vaughn told a crowd that included Magic big man Glen Davis. "But sometimes you have to stick your neck out a little bit and take a leap of faith, create your own destiny. There's nothing wrong with that.
"The DeVos family is doing that today: taking a leap of faith in my ability to relate to guys, to communicate with individuals, to get a group of men to gather together for a common goal, to have resolve, to compete. I'm proud to be a part of that. Today, the destiny starts, and I'm thankful to be the head coach of the Orlando Magic."
Davis recalled feeling goosebumps.
"While he was up there on that podium, he was motivating," Davis said. "As a player, you want to hear that. You want to hear your coach motivating you to give your max. You want to hear your coach ask you to be something bigger than yourself."
Magic CEO Alex Martins confided to a reporter afterward that Vaughn has "it" — a special, indescribable quality.
Vaughn will need that "it," especially if, as expected, the Magic trade Dwight Howard and usher in a rebuilding period.
Vaughn, 37, faced multiple questions about Howard's uncertain future and deflected them deftly.
He said he plans to reach out to every player on the team's roster, including Howard, over the next week, preferably with face-to-face meetings. He left open the possibility that he will travel to southern California to meet with the disgruntled All-Star center.
Asked whether he wants to coach Howard, Vaughn responded, "I want to coach guys who want to be coached, who want to be great and who want to be here. I'm a simple person, and for me, it boils down to simple things."
With Magic Chairman Dan DeVos, GM Rob Hennigan and Martins flanking him on the dais, Vaughn opened by speaking about the three coaches who influenced him most.
Roy Williams, his coach at Kansas, taught him how to "believe in guys and care for them more than when they're just on the basketball floor." Jerry Sloan, his coach with the Utah Jazz, fostered his "will to compete" and made him more consistent. Gregg Popovich, whom he played for and coached for with the San Antonio Spurs, gave him his first coaching opportunity.
The Magic ultimately interviewed six candidates, and only two of them — Vaughn and Philadelphia 76ers associate head coach Michael Curry — eventually met with members of the DeVos family in Michigan.
Martins lauded Vaughn as a "great leader."
Vaughn succeeds Stan Van Gundy, who guided the Magic to a 259-135 regular-season record (for a franchise-best .657 winning percentage) over five seasons.
Van Gundy arguably did his best coaching job last season. After Howard underwent season-ending surgery on his back, no one faulted the Magic for a lack of effort.
Vaughn's roster could be even more outmatched when, and if, Howard is traded.
Asked about his ability to relate to players, Vaughn answered, "We've been successful here, and I will never underestimate that and I'll give credit to the success that came before me. Some would say I'm inexperienced. I played 12 years and I've coached two years. Would my résumé look a little nicer if it said '14 years of experience?' Maybe so.
"But I've sat in the seats that the guys that I'll coach have sat in. I'll be able to relate to their personal, physical, mental stresses that they come across every day, because I've been there. And I think they'll relate to that and they'll appreciate that. And they'll know that I'm fighting for them and that I believe in them, and that'll be my approach."
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PEMBROKE, N.C. -- UNC Pembroke outscored Augusta State 19-6 over the final 5:50 Saturday night and rallied for a 70-64 Peach Belt Conference victory over the 12th-ranked Jaguars in English E. Jones Center.
The loss was the third in the last four games for ASU, which slipped to 7-3 on the season, 3-1 in the PBC and 2-1 in the PBC East Division. The Braves climbed to 9-5 overall and 2-2 in the league with the win.
ASU junior guard Ryan Weems paced the Jags in scoring with 14 points and D'Angelo Boyce tallied 13 points and seven assists. Devon Wright-Nelson posted nine points and a team-best nine rebounds. Devonte Thomas added nine points and Travis Keels chipped in eight.
UNCP's Shahmel Brackett, a preseason all-conference selection, booked a game-high 23 points that included five 3-pointers. George Blakeney recorded a double-double with 17 points and 10 boards, while Quamain Rose notched 11 points and six assists.
ASU led by as many as 10 in the first half and owned a 29-23 advantage at the half. In a second half that featured five ties and nine lead changes, the Jags used a 6-0 spurt to build a 58-51 lead with 5:50 remaining. The Braves answered with seven straight points – five from Brackett -- to pull even at 58-all with 4:48 left.
The Jags' shooting struggles continued down the stretch, as they combined to go 3-of-10 from the field and 3-of-8 at the charity stripe. A free throw from Wright-Nelson put ASU up 59-58 with 4:20 to play before Blakeney countered with a layup for a 60-59 Braves' lead.
Baskets by Boyce and Keels twice gave the Jags a 1-point lead, but each time UNCP had an answer. Keels' layup gave ASU its last lead at 63-62 at the 3:17 mark. Brackett drained his final trey with 2:35 left to put the Braves up 65-63 as Weems and Wright-Nelson misfired on three 3-point attempts in the final 31 seconds.
The Jags shot 41.8 percent in the game, but just 37 percent in the second half, and connected on only 2-of-16 (12.5 percent) 3-point attempts. The UNCP shot just 37.9 percent from the field but netted a 41-32 advantage in rebounds. Brackett connected on all five of the Braves' 3-pointers.
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No one would have expected a Florida fishing hole to become the subject of a small naval battle, but when Lawrence Lamee and his brother began arguing about the spot, that's just what happened. Heated words were exchanged, honor ruffled, and then brother turned upon brother.
Each man was in his own boat, and Lawrence Lamee used his to ram his brother's. When U.S. Coast Guard, National Park Service, and local law enforcement boats arrived on scene, the attacked boat had taken on water but stayed afloat. As far as we know, no marines from the attacker's vessel managed to board the aggrieved brother's boat.
Lamee was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief for his act of piracy. We hope he wears an eye patch to court and speaks to the judge in pirate talk.


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RICHMOND, Va. – The VCU tennis programs have built quite a tradition of excellence over the past 20 years. Since 1993, the Rams have combined for 30 NCAA Tournament appearances (18 by the men, 12 by the women) and 15 CAA Championships.
That standard of excellence is not limited to the courts as the Black & Gold were recognized once again by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) for the ninth straight year.
"My coaches and I demand a high level of dedication to all aspects of a student-athlete," Head Coach Paul Kostin said. "We want our athletes' success to not be limited to the tennis courts. Our kids have always done a great job of that and this year was no different."
VCU's men's squad earned the ITA All-Academic Team Award, which honors squads that have a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above. Five Rams also earned ITA Scholar-Athlete status, given to any player (sophomore or older) who posts at least a 3.50 GPA or higher.
On the men's side, the Rams posted a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 for the Spring, including nine student-athletes being named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll and seven to the Dean's List.
Rising juniors Camill Salomon and Max Wennakoski, rising senior Filip Svensson and graduated senior Tim Johnassen all posted GPAs of over 3.6. Salomon led the way with a perfect 4.0 this spring.
For the women, graduated senior Kateryna Yergina posted a GPA of above a 3.5 in international studies to earn the ITA Scholar-Athlete accolade.


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Howard County doesn't have the sailing tradition of Annapolis, the boardwalk of Ocean City or the storied battlefields of Gettysburg. But it does have a prime spot between two big cities, a historic downtown, miles of mountain biking trails and plenty of money to lure tourists.
Over the past year, county leaders have dramatically increased spending to promote Howard as a convenient destination between Baltimore and Washington, seeking a regional niche to help draw visitors from around the Mid-Atlantic. The county's welcome center has moved out of a basement location, and a new website suggests that visitors escape from urban sightseeing with golf at Turf Valley Resort, biking at Patapsco Valley State Park or a leisurely stroll along Ellicott City's quaint Main Street.
But the county may not have such an easy time redefining itself for the many people who know it only through signs along the highway, or as a bedroom community for two big cities.
Baltimore and Washington boast plenty of their own attractions, said Sandy Hillman, who headed tourism efforts in Baltimore under Mayor William Donald Schaefer. She said Howard County can easily become an afterthought for which many don't have the time.
"It's not an obvious destination," she said. "They will have to focus in on their assets." An increase in the local hotel room tax helped lift the tourism budget from just over $400,000 in previous years to more than $800,000 this year, but that's still well shy of Anne Arundel's annual tourism budget of $1.5 million.
Rachelina Bonacci, executive director of Howard County Tourism & Promotion, said Howard is trying to capitalize on big tourist events held in nearby Baltimore and Washington.
Columbia hosted its own cherry blossom festival during Washington's celebration, for instance, and the county's hot air balloon event coincides with the Preakness.
"Visitors don't know boundaries," said Sam Rogers, chief marketing officer of the Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors Association. Instead, he said it's important to focus on tourists' interests, which means regional collaboration.
"We work very closely with the B&O Museum and work to promote their station in Ellicott City," he said. "If you're a railroad buff, your next stop is Ellicott City or vice versa."
Margot A. Amelia, executive director of the Maryland Office of Tourism, said her office tries to "highlight things that knit the state together," such as the Chesapeake Bay or Civil War trails. Howard has joined in on such collaborations.
"Howard County has really learned they have to be a part of a broader regional approach," she said. But she added, the county is not a hard sell once visitors become aware of what it has to offer.
"They have so much green space and quality of life that is recognized nationally," she said. "Ellicott City is on my short list of where I take out-of-town travelers."
She said Howard's state-of-the-art recreational facilities could also help it to draw youth sports visitors, such as soccer and lacrosse tournaments. While Troy Park Tennis Center, a planned 8,000-seat tennis stadium in Elkridge, has stalled due to a lack of funds, the county recently celebrated the opening of Blandair Park in Columbia, which has three synthetic-turf multipurpose fields equipped with lights and bleachers.
"Youth sports is a big market," she said, which has held up even as leisure travel is decreased with the slow economy.
Another project on the horizon is building up a local film office, which will work to promote the county as a destination for film producers, Bonacci said. Already, several notable TV shows, including "The Wire" and "VEEP," filmed scenes on soundstages inside county warehouses.
One of Howard's best-known historic sites — Doughoregan Manor, the home of Charles Carroll, who signed the Declaration of Independence — remains closed to tourists and locals alike.
While Bonacci said she'd love to see it available to visitors, the county does not promote it out of respect for Carroll's famously private descendants, who still own it.
"It's a significant historical site. It's our Monticello," she said.
A large portion of the tourism budget increase has been used to hire additional staff to help market the county at conventions and attract large groups. The tourism office also launched a new website in December, describing Howard as, "Where Maryland Comes Together," and is working to improve its mobile and social media presence. The county also opened a new visitor center in Ellicott City to showcase other destinations around the county.
Even Anne Arundel, which has an annual tourism budget of $1.5 million, must work to market itself to rake in visitor dollars.
"We have it all," said Connie Del Signore, president of the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference & Visitors Bureau. "Annapolis is such an easy sell but it costs money to get in front of people."
Joe Barbera, former president of Howard's tourism board, said the additional funding will help tourism promoters reach a wider audience.
"We now have an opportunity to think big," he said. "People don't come to D.C. to come to Howard County but when they come, they discover it's a nice place to be."
He said it's important that Howard continues to market its successful events, such as the Wine in the Woods festival at Symphony Woods in Columbia and the county's Restaurant Week.
Such activities are opportunities to show people what else is available in the county, and encourage them to return, Bonacci said.
County officials hope that the new, $525,000 visitor center will allow them to play on one of Howard's strengths — historic Ellicott City — to expand tourist perceptions of the area. Barbera, who owns Aida Bistro & Wine Bar in Columbia, said the visibility of the new visitor center is crucial, likening it to the move of his own restaurant to a more prominent location on Gateway Drive.
The old tourist center was not as welcoming; it was hidden in the basement of the old Main Street Post Office. It was seen more as a bathroom stop, said Pete Mangione, general manager of Turf Valley Resort, who supported the hotel tax increase amid objections from other hotel owners.
In the recent renovation, the visitor center moved up to the main floor of the same building after the Post Office closed.
"Downtown Ellicott City is a pretty popular place but [visitors couldn't] see what else we have," Mangione said, referring to the old visitor center. The new, more prominent location "will expose more that the county has to offer."'
On a recent weekday, about an hour to close, the visitor center was mostly empty. One resident came to pick up brochures to use in a teaching exercise for her foreign language class and another woman stopped by with a brown package, only to learn the old post office had closed two years ago.
Officials say visits have increased overall since the renovations, though some people may just be stopping by to check out the new location.
"There's a definite difference [with] a visitor center that's in the middle of a destination," said Amelia, of the state tourism office. She worked for the city's tourism office when the visitor center at the Inner Harbor was opened.
Sitting near the entrance at Turf Valley, overlooking the golf course, Bonacci, after rattling off a list of attractions, said, "We sell what we have here in our own backyard. … Why a lot of folks choose to live here. We're a very cool destination."


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Friday, 29 March 2013
A few thoughts on the BBC and the media
Another journalists' strike at Pacific Quay, with claims about the workload and of bullying. I may add that if such pressures were not enough, hard-pressed journalists have also had to endure a torrent of abuse on alternative media and by email, not least from deeply misguided independence supporters.
I am a supporter of the BBC, albeit a critic of specific instances of superficiality or lack of balance in political coverage. I support them because the BBC has been a central feature of my entire life since the early 1940s and I owe it a debt I can never repay, least of all by the licence fee which, for me, would be cheap at ten times the price. Without BBC news, current affairs, music, comedy, drama, culture and popular entertainment my intellectual life – indeed my life – would have been immeasurably poorer. As deprived child in Glasgow, there were four lifelines to the life of the mind for me – my radio, which meant effectively the BBC, the free public libraries and museums, cheap, quality newspapers and the wonderful soapbox orators of the Glasgow Barras market. That world - the world of media - has now changed almost out of recognition, yet in spite of the new electronic media and channels of communication (which I have kept up with and utilise) the BBC is still central for me. BBC Four and the Parliament channel alone are superb examples of what a great public service broadcaster can do, what it can be.
However, my respect and gratitude are given to the programme makers, not to the governing body and senior managers of the BBC, who are responsible for much of what is undeniably wrong with it. The BBC produces quality output through its programme makers, its presenters, its journalists, its creatives despite the managers and governing body, not because of them. A generation ago, Dennis Potter, one of the glories of BBC drama, a dying man, supping from a flask of liquid morphine, excoriated the managers of the BBC in the era of Birtism – in his 1993 Croaking Daleks speech in Edinburgh. All that he criticised then is still present today: all that he forecast then is coming to pass now.
So I don't support the BBC that engages in the gadarene pursuit of ratings, the BBC that pays megabucks to celebrity entertainers and presenters, the BBC that allows its most senior echelons to behave like kings of the universe, with salaries and perks to match, while they drain the life blood of resources from the front end people who keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed. I don't support the faceless placemen and women who infest the higher governance of the BBC, drawn from the incestuous pool of the 'great and the good', remote from the lives and concerns of ordinary mortals. I don't support the higher management in thrall to the insidious influences of shadowy, powerful interest groups, whether they be governmental, commercial, religious or political.
I also have nothing but contempt for the BBC that allowed Jimmy Savile to survive and prey on the young and vulnerable, and which tolerates behaviour from some of its 'stars' that is beneath the contempt of any thinking viewer. I despise the metropolitan laziness that draws its panellists on political programmes from the same rolodex of the usual suspects, complacently networking over London dinner tables.
I question the deeply reverential style adopted by the BBC when covering organised religion or the monarchy – a deferential mode of acceptance and support for institutions that are irrelevant to large swathes of the population, institutions that should be reported on objectively and questioned where appropriate.
Most of all, I question the competence of the present generation of managers to manage – to apply best modern managerial practices and techniques to the management of people in a time of budget cuts and resource pressure. I question the professionalism of my own discipline, Human Resources, as it appears to an outsider to be practised within the BBC, notably BBC Scotland at the moment, but I recognise the possibility – ever-present for HR departments – that they too are the victims of an oppressive management culture, incompetent in the management of change.
I unequivocally support the BBC trades unions on fighting for the security, dignity and respect owed to their members – the people who are the true heart of the BBC.


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Another reason for Bill Foster to keep hiding. Folks are going to start asking Foster questions about Rangel's corruption and Pelosi's inaction. Via Roll Call
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday called for the House to await the outcome of pending ethics investigations into Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel's (D-N.Y.) personal finances before addressing whether he should forfeit his gavel — despite the committee's decision to admonish him in an unrelated investigation Thursday.
The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the ethics committee, announced Thursday night that after a nine-month investigation into travel sponsored by the Carib News Foundation in 2007 and 2008, it found that the trips violated House gift rules because of prohibitions on corporate contributions and that it had approved the trips based on "false and misleading information."


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Has anyone seen this? Full contact jousting! Think sports like Rugby and Football are rough, tough, and painful? Pssh...
A reality show where a group of Jousters who are trying their best to take the art of Jousting and Medieval Combat from the theatrics of the Renaissance Faire into the arena of a fully fledged sport like Basketball or Football.
Here is their YouTube channel if you wanna see more clips of the Knights of Mayhem.


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Carey Mulligan & Marcus Mumford Dine Before Ted Dwane Blood Clot News
Carey Mulligan and her husband Marcus Mumford head out to dinner with his Mumford & Sons bandmate Winston Marshall on Monday (June 10) in Austin, Tex.
Before their meal, the 28-year-old actress watched them perform to a packed crowd!
The next day, however, the band revealed some sad news on their website: member Ted Dwane has been diagnosed with a brain blood clot, and they will be postponing their shows this week.
"Our friend and bandmate Ted has been feeling unwell for a few days, and yesterday he was taken to a hospital to receive emergency treatment. The scans revealed a blood clot on the surface of his brain that requires an operation," their website revealed. "Ted is receiving excellent care and we are being assured that he will recover quickly from surgery."
Get better soon, Ted!
FYI: Carey is carrying the Viktor & Rolf "Bombette" bag.


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Corbin Miller has made 13-of-20 3-point attempts (.650) during his rookie season (Gil Talbot).
The Particulars
No. 21/22 Harvard (12-1) is off to the best start for the program since the 1945-46 season when the Crimson began the year 19-1. The Crimson visits Fordham (6-6) Tuesday eveningat 7 p.m. in a non-conference matchup before hosting Dartmouth Saturday afternoon to begin Ivy League play.
Live video will be available with a subscription at FordhamSports.com. WHRB's Charlie Hobbs and Scott Reed will have the audio call on GoCrimson.com. Live statistics will also be available for the game at GoCrimson.com.
Series History
Harvard and Fordham have met 10 times since 192-63, with the Rams owning a 7-3 advantage in the all-time series. The Crimson won last year's meeting, 80-57, at Lavietes Pavilion. Laurent Rivard led Harvard with 21 points, going 5-of-8 from beyond the arc, while Christian Webster added 18 points in the Crimson victory over the Rams last year on Dec. 1, 2010.
Harvard owns a 19-36 record against teams that are current members of the Atlantic 10 conference. The Crimson is 1-0 against A-10 teams this year after downing Saint Joseph's, 74-69, Saturday afternoon. Harvard will also face George Washington in the Crimson's final non-conference contest of the season Jan. 14.
Harvard's Last Time Out
In its 74-69 win over Saint Joseph's Saturday, the Crimson came back from a 14-point deficit in the first half and a 10-point hole at halftime. Kyle Casey led the way with his first double-double of the season, scoring a season-high 26 points and adding 10 rebounds, including five on the offensive side. Keith Wright added 16 points and five boards, while Oliver McNally handed out seven assists, while only committing one turnover.
Fordham's Last Time Out
Chris Gaston came down with 17 rebounds, including six offensive boards and 11 on the defensive end, and was 11-of-15 from the line to finish with 23 points in the win over the Yellow Jackets. Branden Frazier added 19 points and six assists, while Bryan Smith also reached double digits with 11 points. The Rams shot 37.9 percent from the field for the game, but Georgia Tech only hit 42.9 percent of its foul shots (6-of-14).
Harvard As a Ranked Team
The Crimson is 4-1 as a ranked team in program history with wins this season over Boston University, Florida Atlantic, Boston College and Saint Joseph's this season. The lone setback for the Crimson came at then-No. 9 Connecticut. Harvard is 2-0 at home as a ranked squad, while boasting a 2-1 record on the road when ranked nationally.
Entering the week, Harvard was tied for first in the nation in free-throw defense, as opponents had only made 57.3 percent of its foul-shot attempts (114-of-199). Northern Arizona also stands tied for first (.573).
Double-Double Show
Keith Wright leads the Crimson with two double-doubles, while Kyle Casey and Jonah Travis have recorded one apiece this year. Harvard players combined for 17 double-doubles last season: Keith Wright (12), Brandyn Curry (3) and Kyle Casey (2).
Lavietes Is The Place To Be
Harvard is riding a 21-game win streak at home, a program record. The current win streak at home is the longest for Harvard at Lavietes Pavilion and is tied for the ninth longest current streak in the NCAA. Kentucky is enjoying the longest current streak with 44 straight home wins.
Nation's Current Longest Home Win Streaks
Through (Dec. 31)
Kentucky 44
Duke 42
Ohio State 34
Notre Dame 28
Purdue 26
Temple 25
North Carolina 25
Belmont 22
Harvard 21
Texas State 16
Long Island 16
Comeback Kids
Harvard trailed by as much as 14 points in the first half and was in a 10-point hole at halftime against Saint Joseph's Dec. 31. The Crimson outscored the Hawks, 36-21, in the second half, holding Saint Joseph's to just 29.6 percent shooting to earn a 74-69 comeback victory.
Casting Ballots
The Crimson is ranked No. 21 in this week's ESPN/USA Today coaches poll and No. 22 in the AP poll, marking the highest respective rankings in program history. Earlier this season, the Crimson became the first Ivy team ranked in the AP poll since Princeton was rated No. 8 in the final poll of the 1997-98 season.
Harvard is the only Ivy League team to have received at least one vote in a major national poll this season.
RPI Watch
Harvard currently sits at No. 22 in the RPI, according to collegerpi.com. The Crimson earned the highest ranking in program history, No. 14, Dec. 2.
The Crimson will play at least seven games on national or regional television this season.
Harvard is 5-1 on TV this year after earning wins over Utah (HDNet), No. 20/22 Florida State (Versus) and Central Florida (Versus) at the Battle 4 Atlantis. The Crimson also defeated Boston University (NESN) and Boston College (ESPN3), but fell on the road at No. 9/9 Connecticut (ESPN2).
Coming Down With It
With his 11-rebound performance against Boston College Dec. 29, Keith Wright now has 18 double digit rebound games in his career. Wright also has two double-doubles this season and has led Harvard in rebounding in nine of 13 contests.
Up By 20
Harvard has won four games by 20 or more points this season, having downed MIT, Utah, Boston University and Boston College. Under head coach Tommy Amaker, the Crimson has won 21 games by 20 or more points.
Defense Wins Games
The Crimson enters the week 13th in the country in scoring defense (55.4 points allowed per game).
The Crimson is 3-1 against BCS teams this season after Utah, then-No. 20 Florida State and Boston College. The Crimson fell at No. 9 UConn, 67-53, Dec. 8.
Harvard owns an 8-9 record against BCS conferences under Tommy Amaker. The Crimson has defeated BC four times and has also topped Michigan, Colorado, Utah and Florida State during Amaker's tenure. The Crimson has also defeated at least one BCS team in each of the last five seasons.
Road Warriors
The Crimson, which currently owns an 8-1 record in road/neutral sites, will play a total of 18 road/neutral games this winter. Harvard set a program record for road/neutral wins in 2009-10 with 10, and the Crimson followed up with nine road victories last season. Harvard is 5-1 on the road and 3-0 in neutral sites in 2011-12.
Kings of Massachusetts' Courts
The Crimson is currently on a 14-game winning streak against schools from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since falling to Northeastern in overtime, 76-71, Dec. 10, 2008, including four straight wins over Holy Cross and Boston College and three against Boston University.
Harvard is 4-0 this season against Massachusetts teams, having defeated MIT, Holy Cross, BU and BC.
Night and Day
Harvard owns a 7-1 record in night games and a 5-0 mark in day contests in 2011-12.
Head Coach Tommy Amaker
Tommy Amaker (Duke '87) is in his fifth season as head coach of the Harvard men's basketball team. He registered his 250th career coaching victory Dec. 4, 2011 against Seattle at Lavietes Pavilion. Amaker has guided Harvard to its national ranking, as the Crimson was rated No. 25 in the AP poll and No. 24 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches ranking Dec. 5, 2011. Amaker also led the Crimson to its first Ivy League title as well as the program's first appearance in the NIT. In addition, the Crimson established a program record with 23 victories in 2010-11.
He brings a 254-191 (.571) career head coaching record into today's game, including a 78-52 (.600) mark at Harvard, a 108-84 (.563) record at Michigan and a 68-55 (.553) record at Seton Hall.
Rejection List
With 19 blocks this season, Keith Wright now ranks second in program history with 125 rejections. Brian Cusworth '07 holds the Harvard record with 147 career blocks. Wright's 54 blocks last year also stand second in Harvard history for a single season. Brian Banks '78 had 59 rejections during the 1977-78 campaign.
Kyle Casey has rejected 71 blocks in his career, including 16 this season, ranking him seventh in program history in rejections.
Iron Horse
Oliver McNally has played in 100 games during his Harvard career. McNally is just 15 games shy of tying Jeremy Lin '10 for the most games played in Harvard history (115).
Season Honors
Kyle Casey
- Ivy League Co-Player of the Week (Dec. 12)
- Ivy League Honor Roll (Jan. 2)
Brandyn Curry
- Candidate for Bob Cousy Award
Laurent Rivard
- Ivy League Honor Roll (Nov. 14, Dec. 5)
Jonah Travis
- Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Dec. 5)
Keith Wright
- Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament MVP
- Ivy League Player of the Week (Nov. 28).
- Ivy League Honor Roll (Nov. 21, Dec. 26)
Harvard's duo of Oliver McNally and Brandyn Curry has combined to hand out 107 assists, while only committing 46 turnovers between them (2.3 assist/turnover ratio).
Making The Most Of It
Oliver McNally went 7-of-7 at the foul line at Holy Cross and shot 6-of-6 at Loyola Marymount and is shooting 87.2 percent from the line this season (34-of-39). Christian Webster is Harvard's career leader in free-throw shooting, making 88.7 percent of his attempts (173-of-195) over his first three seasons, while McNally is fourth in team history at 85.4 percent (240-of-281). Over the last three games, Brandyn Curry has hit 15-of-16 free-throw attempts (.938).
Last season, the Crimson ranked second in the nation as a team with an 80.8 percent success rate from the charity stripe (just behind Wisconsin's 81.8 shooting percentage). Harvard owns the NCAA record for team free-throw percentage for a season (82.2 percent in 1983-84). Harvard is currently shooting 74.2 percent from the line this season.
Harvard and Amaker Against Fordham
The Crimson is 1-0 against Fordham under head coach Tommy Amaker, with the win coming last season at Lavietes Pavilion, 80-57, Dec. 1, 2010.
Hitting Baskets
Keith Wright stands second in the Ivy League in field-goal percentage, hitting 56.0 percent of his attempts this season (61-of-109).
Defense, Offense
Entering the week, the Crimson ranked first in the Ivy League in defense (55.4 points allowed per game) and third in scoring offense (67.2 points per contest). Harvard was also first in scoring margin (+11.8). The Crimson also paced the league in shooting percentage (.462), foul shooting (.742), 3-point shooting (.379), rebounding defense (28.6) and blocked shots per game (4.7).


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Noel Lazo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Carlson School of Chemistry
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Carlson School of Chemistry
Department of Biology
Clark University
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Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 1991
M.S. SUNY at Syracuse
B.S. University of the Philippines
Research Summary
Research in the Lazo Lab is focused on the biophysics of misfolding and self-assembly of proteins associated with disease. Proteins of interest include the amyloid β-protein in Alzheimer's disease, islet amyloid polypeptide associated with type 2 diabetes, the prion protein in various forms of prionoses, and skin proteins linked to epidermolysis bullosa, a disease characterized by skin blistering following little or no trauma. A combination of biophysical and biochemical methods including NMR spectroscopy and limited proteolysis/mass spectrometry is used to elucidate the early events of protein misfolding and self-assembly.
Recent Publications:
Robbins KJ, Liu G, Selmani V, Lazo ND. Conformational analysis of thioflavin T bound to the surface of amyloid fibrils (2012). Langmuir, 28,16490-16495
Liu, G, Gaines JC, Robbins KJ, Lazo ND. Kinetic profile of amyloid formation in the presence of an aromatic inhibitor by nuclear magnetic resonance (2012). ACS Med. Chem Lett. 3, 856-859
Liu G, Robbins KJ, Sparks S, Selmani V, Bilides K, Lazo ND. Helix dipole effects in peptide self-assembly to amyloid (2012). Biochemistry, 51(20): 4167-4174.
Sparks S, Liu G, Robbins KJ, Lazo ND. Curcumin modulates the self-assembly of the islet amyloid polypeptide by disassembling a-helix (2012). Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 422(4): 551-555
Robbins KJ, Lin G, and Lazo ND. Detection of strongly bound thioflavin T species in amyloid fibrils by ligand-detected 1H NMR (2011).J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 735-740
Lui G, Prabhakar A, Aucoin D, Simon M, Sparks S, Robbins KJ, Sheen A, Petty SA, and Lazo ND. Mechanistic studies of peptide self-assembly: Transient α-helices to stable β-sheets (2010). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 18223-18232


text: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles news The Beatles with Ed Sullivan, New York. 9 February 1964 Tonight The Beatles will be honoured at 'The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles' which will be broadcast on CBS Sunday 9th February at 8pm, exactly 50 years to the day, date and time of the band's first game-changing appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. For more info on the TV special visit http://www.grammy.com/news/performers-announced-for-beatles-special We are honoured that The Beatles were recipients of The Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, alongside a group of accomplished and exceptional individuals. At the Grammy show in Los Angeles, Paul was joined on stage by Ringo Starr to perform his single 'Queenie Eye', taken from the 'NEW' album released last October.