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PORTLAND, Maine - Voters on Tuesday repealed the state's same sex
marriage law after an emotionally charged campaign that drew large
numbers to the polls and focused national attention on Maine.
With 87 percent of precincts reporting, the campaign to overturn
Maine's same-sex marriage law won with 53 percent of the vote vs. 47
percent opposed to Question 1, according to unofficial results compiled
by the Bangor Daily News.
Gay-marriage opponents claimed victory shortly after 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
1 has passed," Frank Schubert, campaign manager of Stand for Marriage
Maine, announced in Portland. "It has all come together tonight and the
institution of marriage has been preserved."
About 40 people who worked on the Yes on 1 campaign cheered as they
heard the announcement by computer hookup at Jeff's Catering in Brewer.
"We went up against tremendous odds," Marc Mutty, public affairs
director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland who has been on
loan to the campaign, said from Portland. "We all know we were the
little guy going up against the big guy, but we prevailed. We prevailed
because the people of Maine - the silent majority - the folks back home
spoke with their votes.
"What they had to say," Mutty continued, "is marriage matters because
it's between a man and a woman. [This campaign] has never been about
hating gays, but about preserving marriage and only about preserving
marriage, and that's what we did tonight."
The defenders of Maine's gay marriage law - which passed the
Legislature in the spring but was never allowed to take effect -
acknowledged being behind, but held out hope for a bump as the final
votes and absentee ballots were counted.
In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, No on 1
campaign manager Jesse Connolly pledged that his side "will not quit
until we know where every single one of these votes lives."
"We're not short-timers; we are here for the long haul," Connolly told
the crowd, some of whom wiped away tears as he spoke. "Whether it's
just all night and into the morning, or next week or next month or next
year, we will be here. We'll be fighting, we'll be working. We will
The Yes on 1 campaign, led by the group Stand for Marriage Maine, built
its lead by winning votes in rural Maine as well as in some larger
towns such as the Roman Catholic and Franco-American stronghold of
In contrast, the effort to defend Maine's gay marriage law won strong
support in places such as Portland, where 73 percent voted against
Question 1, and majority support in Bangor.
Throughout the campaign leading up to Tuesday's closely watched
election, both sides had said that turnout would be key. State election
officials estimated earlier Tuesday that turnout likely would top 50
But while gay marriage supporters hoped the high voter interest would
provide a boost, it was not enough to make Maine the first state in the
nation where gay marriage won at the polls rather than in the
legislature or courts.
Despite the outcome, Mary Bonauto, a No on 1 executive board member and
attorney with Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, said she was
never more proud to live in Maine and raise a family with her long-term
partner. She was especially proud of the attention the No on 1 campaign
brought to the values shared by all families, regardless of sexual
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"I look around at the 8,000 volunteers, and the vast majority are not
gay people," Bonauto said. "So that gives me hope that, regardless of
the outcome, that this discussion has changed the state."
At the No on 1 election-watch party, what began as an exuberant crowd
of more than 1,000 began to steadily dwindle as the Yes campaign's lead
held steady. By 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, a few hundred die-hard gay
marriage supporters still remained in the ballroom as Connolly spoke,
but the disappointment was palpable.
With relatively few high-profile elections around the country, the
national media spotlight is on Maine. Had Question 1 been defeated,
Maine would have become the first state in the nation where same-sex
marriage was legalized at the ballot box.
Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, after witnessing activity at several
polling stations and hearing from clerks around the state, said he
believed at least 50 percent of voters may have cast ballots in the
off-year election dominated by the gay marriage issue.
"What I have seen around the state has been steady to very busy turnout all day," Dunlap said.
The lead-up to Tuesday's historic election began back in April when
more than 3,000 people crammed into the Augusta Civic Center for a
public hearing on the bill.
Lawmakers sat through more than 10 hours of impassioned, sometimes
tearful testimony from longtime gay and lesbian partners as well as
children of same-sex couples. The bill's opponents were equally
passionate, often citing religious objections to redefining marriage
from the traditional one-man, one-woman union.
Several weeks later, both chambers of the Legislature signed off on the
bill, LD 1020, and sent it with some trepidation to Gov. John Baldacci,
who had been on record previously as favoring civil unions and domestic
partnerships over same-sex marriages.
But Baldacci immediately signed the bill, making Maine the fifth state
in the nation to grant gay and lesbian couples marriage rights.
"When history shines a spotlight on you, you have an opportunity to
advance the cause or to let the cause slip backwards. I chose to move
things forward," Baldacci said recently.
Even before Baldacci had put his pen to the bill, however, opponents
announced the petition drive to gather enough signatures to trigger a
"people's veto" referendum. They easily surpassed the 55,000-plus
required signatures.
In the months since, the two campaigns have spent more than $6.5
million on the campaigns, with money flowing into their coffers from
organizations and individuals from outside of Maine.
Although the campaign is over, the Rev. Bob Emrich of Palmyra said that the work of traditional marriage supporters was not.
"This doesn't mean it's the end of our work," he said. "We must begin
building bridges and we may have to mend fences. People on the other
side were doing what they believed in, too.
"God has given us this victory," Emrich continued, "and it is very
important for us to recognize that he is the one who put the energy
into this campaign. So let's not be so arrogant to forget this. It's
very appropriate to pause for a moment of prayer."

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Last June, a book sat in front of me that, honestly, I was not inclined to read. Consuming a great deal of nonfiction in my college courses, I browsed the web for favorite bloggers or settled in with F. Scott Fitzgerald during the lazy summer months. But my summer job entailed urging incoming UNM freshmen to read this book, and a pesky voice in my head persuaded me to practice what I preached.
David Shipler's The Working Poor: Invisible in America is a well-rounded, nonpartisan account of the poverty plight in the US; while that summary did not necessarily entice me, the personal anecdotes did. I was intrigued by Claudio, an illegal immigrant living fearfully between farmhand jobs, and I was a little heartbroken by Peaches, a homeless, working woman who had been abused countless times. After doing some research on the author—a Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist fascinated with society—I was admittedly a little star-struck as I sat across from him a couple weeks ago.
"My mother raised me to be comfortable in an embassy or in a hut," said Shipler, who is now 70 years old, with kind eyes and his trademark white beard. "My mother brought me up to believe you can learn something from everyone. And I believe that's true."
Shipler, who visited UNM campus as part of the Lobo Reading Experience event from Oct. 15 to 16, shared stories about his beginnings in journalistic digging, his thoughts on the value of the human story and a peek into his most recent work in progress.
Shipler was raised in Chatham, N.J. and received a bachelor's in sociology from Dartmouth. Then a policy-minded student, he was also actively involved in his college radio station, had interviewed Martin Luther King, Jr. and attended the March on Washington before graduating in 1964. Late in his college career, a creative writing professor counseled him to consider journalism after graduation. Shipler needed to serve two years with the Navy, but he took the advisement to heart.
"The idea kind of kept percolating and midway through my Navy time, I went around and asked to see some editors to find out how you got into journalism," Shipler said. "I started literally as a copy boy. … running around the floor, getting coffee for editors and stuff like that."
Beginning as a news clerk at the New York Times, Shipler eventually reported for the city desk on New York housing before moving on to the Washington Bureau and work as a foreign correspondent in Russia and the Middle East. In these nations, he wrote his first books, among which was "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in the Promised Land." A still-thrilled Shipler recalled learning that this investigation won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
"I can tell you that I had no inkling that this was a possibility," the storyteller said.
He recollected the moment he learned he had won, having called in to the Times from an airport to check on a story he had written. "Joe [Lelyveld, the foreign news editor], got on the phone and he said, 'You won a Pulitzer for your book.' I said 'What? My gosh.' I never expected that to happen and it was just a tremendous honor."
The practiced newsman said his interest fundamentally stems from a fascination and appreciation for people.
"There are a lot of interesting human stories here, and it's not just about abstractions, it's about real people who want to say certain things and are either stymied or are able to, depending on how they navigate their way through the labyrinth of inhibitions and impediments," Shipler said. "I [find these] stories compelling and moving and powerful."
Having explored the territories of American poverty, unrest abroad and civil liberties, Shipler continues to examine the human faces of political issues within his new book on free speech. Owing to his own tried-and-true First Amendment rights, he said he is curious primarily about cultural restraints on free speech.
"I'm hoping to do this book about individual people who run up against these limits and are confronted by others who want to close them down," Shipler said. The author wants to explore diverse free speech issues, such as censorship, electronic speech and political speech.
A journalist who has confronted race issues, poverty and war, Shipler emphasized that people of any career—in any domain—can make a difference for good.
"Human dignity is a universal need," he said. "It doesn't matter where you are on the socioeconomic spectrum. You crave it and you deserve it, and that is a lesson that [everyone] can learn. You don't have to be working for an anti-poverty organization to have an impact and make change."
Keep your eyes peeled for Shipler's new book or check out his blog, The Shipler Report, for more of the author's work.


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Press Brake Offers 12 ft. Between Columns
Another highlight of the TruBend 3180 is its new Delem T3000 control. It has a large monitor with standard 2D graphic programming and optional 3D visualization. Operation is facilitated by the radius programming and machine-diagnostic functions, as well as an online help guide. It can search by product or drawing number, has two USB interfaces, and is available in 13 languages.
The largest of the TruBend 3000-series press-brake family, the 3180 has a bed length of 162 in., with 144 in. between the columns.
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|Yes, he's wearing a Green Bay Packer onsie!
I always wanted to have children. I was that little girl that wanted to be a mommy, so I was ecstatic when I found out less than a month after our church wedding, that I was pregnant. We weren't shocked or anything. We planned it. I'm a planner. I like a good plan and the more detailed the better. Heck, I used to pack for Summer vacation in the early Spring!
Anyway, my husband and I were stationed in Hawaii and we tried to decide when having a baby would be the best for our careers and for our units' training schedules. It finally dawned on us after comparing his unit's schedule and my unit's schedule that having a baby would never be convenient for the Army, so we decided to start trying immediately and had immediate success.
The guys at work were very supportive of me being pregnant. They were awesome and didn't treat me any differently. Sure I had a profile now, but I was able to do pretty much everything I did before except really heavy lifting and I had to stay away from certain chemicals. I even went "to the field" a couple times while pregnant. I was asked if I wanted to move to headquarters while pregnant and gave a resounding (or was it deafening) response of "NO WAY IN HELL!" You don't leave your buddies...pregnant or not.
I had some crazy cravings when I was pregnant with Benjamin...bologna sandwiches (this grossed my husband out), and broccoli with LOTS of butter. The guys in my platoon joked that they should buy stock in Junior Mints with how I was eating them!
|I was no small pregnant chick!
About halfway through my pregnancy the sickness just stopped and I felt better. I was huge, but felt better. When you're in the Army, you have to stay in shape and watch your weight. Not when you're pregnant and I took advantage of that. I was afraid that with my throwing up that the baby wasn't getting enough food (HA!) so if I ate and then threw up, I would eat again. How silly I was! I weighed 127 pounds before I got pregnant. By the time I gave birth I weighed 183! Not the 25-30 pounds of weight gain they tell you about. My First Sergeant would joke that I now weighed more than he did....but it was really no joke...I did!
So an easy pregnancy, and eventually it came time for the ultrasound. I wondered if they would be able to tell what our baby was, but Ben was asleep and lying there legs wide open, just showing the world that he was a little boy! So we new the gender now, and had to find a name.
|Daddy finally gets to see his boy
Noah, was what we decided on. Noah Romand. We knew that we wanted Romand for his middle name. Romand Kuehl was my husband's maternal grandfather, although we were saying and spelling it as "Roman" until just before filling out the birth certificate. Luckily we checked! But as you can tell, Noah is a Benjamin. I would love to say that I wasn't hormonal when I was pregnant, but that would be a bold-faced lie and my husband would no doubt let everyone know that in a comment to this post! One day, he came home from work and I just started blubbering that I didn't like the name, "Noah" and didn't want to name the baby that. It's not that Noah is a bad name. In fact one of my dearest friends ended up having a son around the same time as me and named her son Noah, but when you're hormonal, you're hormonal! OK...no Noah, but what to name him? We had no idea.
|A peaceful moment
The end of my pregnancy was nearing. My due date was January 27th and the baby had been head-down for weeks. Dr. Ellis (our awesome baby doctor that was also a good friend of my aunt and uncle) had to go away for just under a week, but he set me up with another doctor to see for the one appointment he would be missing. He promised that he would be back before my due date. I had had no contractions yet, and being my first pregnancy he wasn't too concerned about me going into labor early. What could go wrong...right?
During that one visit with the other doctor I found out that my plan had a pretty major kink in it. The doctor measured my belly and then felt it. He told me that the baby was breech. I told him that it just couldn't be. My baby had been head down for over a month. He sent me for an ultrasound to confirm it and to check the size of the baby. Yep. Breech. We were also told by the technician that the baby weighed around 8 pounds, give or take an ounce. At that diagnosis the nurse that was in the room put her hands on my belly and commented, "Eight pounds? Feels more like you have 2 five pound bags of sugar in there!" Let's just say that she was closer than the tech was...
|A daddy-Benjamin moment in the hospital
So on my due-date I was given an epidural and they attempted the ECV. What is an ECV? Essentially, what they do is push the baby out of the birth canal and attempt to turn him. So there's a lot of pushing on your belly from the outside. The epidural was to help with the pain and so they could go to a C-section if needed without additional meds or waiting. My aunt briefed me before going in for the procedure. She told me that it should be a firm, but gentle pushing. That if they were too forceful, that they could hurt the baby. She also told me that if I wasn't comfortable at any time with what they were doing to stop them.
So I'll segue briefly at that scary ECV thought and remind everyone that we still had no name for the baby. As luck would have it my husband walked through the hospital (Tripler Army Medical Center) and saw a name on an office, "Dr. Benjamin Berg". He told me about it. It sounded good. After all, the last 4 letters of our surname is "berg". It was decided as easy as that. Benjamin Romand Cayemberg it would be. I loved it. Yay...a name! OK...back to scary ECV stuff...
|9 pounds 5.8 ounces of baby...8 pounds my butt!
I stopped them again. I could feel the incision. I told them that and they just reassured me that I would feel some pulling, but that was all. They continued. I stopped them immediately. No, really, I can feel that. It's like a bad paper cut. They wanted to up my epidural, but they were told that I was maxed out. No more meds for me. It was time to put me under general anesthetic. My husband would have to leave. He kissed me and left. Before they put me under the last thing I remember saying through tears was, "I'm scared." And I was. I had never been under general anesthetic. I was scared that I wouldn't wake up. Silly, but I was. The nurse anesthetist was very understanding and comforting and under I went.
|The first time I held Benjamin
When I woke up, I was in the recovery room with my husband, my baby, my aunt and my uncle. My hubby came over with Benjamin so that I could hold him. I didn't want to. Yep, you read that right...I was too scared. I was afraid that I would drop him. Luckily, I had some great support there that day. My husband placed a swaddled Benjamin on my chest and helped me hold him. As soon as I saw him, I started crying. The feeling of joy is indescribable. I was finally a mom and was holding this perfect little mixture of me and my husband.
It hadn't been the birth I had planned for. I never felt the pain of labor and delivery. I never got to use the information I had learned in our childbirth classes. Did that bother me? Yes. No, I'm not saying that I want to be in pain, but I did feel like I had missed out on a part of the childbirth experience. I got over that quickly enough though as we welcomed the first new member of our little family.
Happy Birthday, Benjamin. I love you more than words can say!


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Apple gained a patent for a "portable display device" that seems to be for the original iPad, and seems likely to be a tool to help win future patent-infringement cases.
The patent application was filed in 2010, just before the iPad unveiling, according to Engadget. The patent also cites references for the device from 1947 until 2009 and includes all sorts of "elements that transpired between the filing and the granted date."
The reason? Likely because Apple's ongoing legal battle with Samsung will likely be bolstered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's documentation. It will be a great piece of evidence in any new hearing, especially if Apple intends on stating its entire iPad design is original rather than just its parts.


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Douglas, Massachusetts
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Douglas is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1746 and was previously called (New Sherbourn). It can be found in Worcester county and is a part of the Worcester registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 29 Depot St., Douglas 01516. On the attached map, Douglas is shown as 57 in Worcester county.
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Sergio Tacchini
Sergio Tacchini heroes
In five decades Sergio Tacchini wrote the great tennis and the most exciting successes. The most famous tennis players of these 50 years have represented Sergio Tacchini on the most important tennis courts in the world, winning the most coveted trophies. Especially, 39 Grand Slam titles over the course of 50 years, proving the strong link between the tennis' gotha and the Italian brand.


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Met Gala Kors: Alba & Swank
Michael Kors dressed a lot of people last night including Jessica Alba and Hilary Swank. I mean, there's nothing technically wrong with this, or any of his other guests, with one major exception, but it's really not all that exciting either, is it? Is this Met Gala worthy?
There's Alba's one shoulder burnt gold that's forgettable at best and Swank's in unremarkable red with a high collar that you know you've seen before just in a different colour and maybe with a small variation in detail. I'm just saying...where is the EFFORT?
And WHY are they wearing their hair the same way???
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How do you handle "that that"? The double "that" problem
I've encountered this sentence in a technical book:
A browsing context has a session history, which lists the Document objects that that browsing context has presented.
What is the grammaticall role of each "that" here? Can we consider using two consecutive "that" as a poor writing style from the point of user understanding?


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BOSTON - Jason Terry scored Boston's last nine points and the Celtics weathered a strong comeback by the New York Knicks, avoiding a sweep with a 97-90 overtime win on Sunday.
Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 29 points as they forced a fifth game in the series, but it was Terry who provided the finishing touches.
In Game 3, he had been elbowed by J.R. Smith, and the NBA suspended the Knicks guard for Sunday's game.
New York had tied the game 84-84 after trailing by 20 points early in the third quarter. It was 88-all before the Celtics regained control and took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Terry. Carmelo Anthony, who led the Knicks with 36 points, hit a short jumper, but Terry connected on a 15-footer with 50 seconds remaining for a 93-90 lead.
After Anthony missed a 3-pointer with 21 seconds to go, Terry was fouled and sank both free throws. He added a layup to close out the game.
But the Celtics still have a huge deficit in trying to become the first team to win after trailing a series 3-0.
Game 5 is Wednesday night in New York, where the Knicks can win their first playoff series in 13 years.
Jeff Green scored 26 points for the Celtics and Terry finished with 18.
The Celtics showed renewed energy early after being held below 80 points in each of the first three games. They led 54-35 at halftime and 59-39 three minutes into the third quarter before their recent second-half woes returned. In previous first halves, they scored just 25 points in Game 1 and 23 in Game 2. On Sunday, they were outscored 30-14 in the third quarter and led just 68-65 heading into the fourth.
Boston held a 65-51 lead when Anthony went to the bench with 3:35 remaining. The Knicks outscored the Celtics 14-3 the rest of the way behind 11 points from Felton and a 3-pointer from Iman Shumpert. Felton finished with 16 points in the quarter and 27 in the game.
The Knicks played the first half as if they had taken shooting lessons from the Celtics. New York hit just 28.9 percent of its shots (11 for 38) after Boston made only 39.5 percent of its attempts in the first three games.
The Celtics found their range from the start and connected on 51.3 percent (20 for 39).