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Thursday, February 2, 2012
At Super Bowl media day, wacky questions the norm (AP)
INDIANAPOLIS ? Quick, Wes Welker, spell Bill Belichick. Hey, Osi Umenyiora, know any other Elis besides that Manning guy? Rob Gronkowski, what's your favorite song by Madonna?
Not exactly challenging questions about Sunday's Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. But that's media day, the NFL's annual version of the circus, minus the ringmaster.
With players and coaches penned into cubicles, mainstream reporters were joined Tuesday by a guy in a superhero costume, another in an old-time football uniform, kids with microphones and some women who wore dresses that left little to the imagination. They asked the Patriots and Giants anything that crossed their minds.
And we do mean anything.
"This is crazy, man. It's crazy," said Patriots safety Patrick Chung. "I've never seen anything like this ever."
Actually, none of the players had. For the first time, the NFL let fans in on the act, too. For $25 ? or more, for those who waited until the last minute to buy their tickets ? fans could sit in the stands at the stadium and listen to the interviews over a headset.
"We can't hear all of the questions, so we have to guess," said Lee Clifford, who brought his sons, 10-year-old Ben and 8-year-old Nick. "I guess lots of people can get a pass to a media event."
Even people who carry their own disco ball, as the camera crew from Telemundo did.
Media day has never been the stuff of Woodward and Bernstein.
But it's gone from off-the-wall to downright goofy in recent years, the tipping point coming four years ago when a reporter from Mexico's TV Azteca showed up in a wedding dress from a slasher movie in hopes of winning Tom Brady's heart.
Imagine asking Vince Lombardi if he could name three Kardashians. Gronkowski actually did pretty well ? he got Kim and Khloe right away, but needed a few more seconds to come up with Kourtney. Or getting John Elway to salsa dance, as New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz did with singer Ciara.
There were no brides or proposals for Brady this year, although the fashion-conscious QB did talk about having his nails painted.
"They were pretty easy on me," Brady said when asked what it was like to grow up with three older sisters. "They dressed me up a few times in their clothes and painted my nails once, but it was nice."
Most of the players were good sports about the whole thing, knowing what they were in for when they arrived at Lucas Oil Stadium. Even the normally dour Belichick managed a chuckle or two.
"It's kind of catching me off guard," Patriots cornerback Sterling Moore said. "I definitely thought he'd be a little more strict in his interviews."
He might have been a little more cranky if he'd heard Welker when the receiver was asked if he knew how to spell Belichick's last name.
"Tough one. B-E-L-I-C-H-I," Welker said, and then paused. "K. Wait, that right? Is it CK?"
Told Belichick's name ended in "CK," Welker smacked his head.
Umenyiora fared better with the other Elis, naming Plaxico Burress' little boy, Elijah. As for Gronkowski and Madonna, he wasn't crazy for that question.
Silly stuff, to be sure. But the fans loved every minute of it. Parents let their kids skip school ? Zane Bishop, a high school senior, had his head buried in a book during the break, cramming for his AP Government exam Wednesday ? and the tickets were in such high demand people were actually scalping them.
"It's such an intimate experience," said Nick Lowery, a Patriots fan who drove from Columbia, Mo. "This is really cool."
Unlike the NFL draft, when rowdy New Yorkers waste no opportunity to heckle picks and boo players, the fans were on their best behavior. Most in the crowd of 7,300 were Colts fans, with many sporting Peyton Manning's No. 18 jersey. But the fans greeted both teams with applause when they came in, and cheered when Eli Manning, Brady and Welker talked about how much they were enjoying Indianapolis and praised Colts fans.
They even set aside their hatred for the Patriots, the Colts' biggest rival.
"Our philosophy has been `Fans first.' It's all about Hoosier hospitality," said Toni Meyer of Indianapolis.
Added Bill Burns, "The Patriots, we really don't like `em here. But there hasn't been any animosity."
The only complaint was that fans wanted more. Though they could hear interviews with the head coach and four players on the headset, they were restricted to the stands. No autographs, no photographs with their favorite players.
"I kind of wish we'd been on the field, but I understand," said Burns, who wore a hat with a "Press" card on the side and carried a toy purple microphone. "It probably would have been a bit of a madhouse."
Too late. It passed that threshold years ago.
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Black Keys To Unveil 'Gold On The Ceiling' Video On MTV
Clip premieres Monday, February 6, at 7:54 p.m. ET on MTV, with exclusive interview to follow on MTV.com.
By James Montgomery
The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach in the "Gold on the Ceiling" music video
The Black Keys continue to roll with their El Camino album, and now, they're taking MTV along for the ride. On Monday, February 6, at 7:54 p.m. ET on MTV, the band will premiere their brand-new video for "Gold on the Ceiling," during "MTV First: The Black Keys." And then, immediately following the clip's debut, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney will sit down for an exclusive 30-minute interview that will stream on MTV.com.
In that interview — filmed last weekend before the Keys' sold-out show in Berlin, Germany — the dynamic duo discuss their rather improbable rise to fame, the current state of rock music, and what's next (a new album already?!?). They also answer questions submitted by fans via Twitter.
After the premiere of the "Gold on the Ceiling" video (which features footage from the band's album release concert, which streamed live on MTV Hive), the clip will go into rotation on mtvU and MTV Hits, and will premiere on MTV.com, VH1.com and AMTV the following morning. The video will also debut on "MTV2's 120 Minutes With Matt Pinfield" on February 10 as part of a special Grammy-themed episode, and VH1's "Top 20 Countdown" on February 11.
It all gets underway Monday, February 6, at 7:54 p.m., with the world premiere of the "Gold on the Ceiling" video on MTV, and then rolls on with MTV News' 30-minute interview following immediately after on MTV.com. It's been quite a ride for the Black Keys so far, but trust us, you haven't seen anything yet.
What are you hoping for from the "Gold on the Ceiling" video? Leave your comments below!
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Certain Neurons Respond Specifically to Animals
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Whether cute and cuddly or fierce and frightening, animals affect the brain in ways scientists are just starting to appreciate. In a study of people who had electrodes implanted in their brain for the treatment of epilepsy, an international team discovered neurons that respond specifically to animals. The 41 individuals in the study were shown picturesof recognizable landmarks, objects, animals and people for about one second each as tiny electrodes measured the activity of individual neurons in three regions of their brain. When the researchers analyzed the electrical data from the 400 to 550 neurons in each region, they found a marked jump in the activity of neurons in the right amygdala that was not seen in the other brain regions tested?and only after viewing the pictures of animals. The report by senior author Christof Koch, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and his colleagues appeared this past August online in Nature Neuroscience. (Koch also writes the monthly column Consciousness Redux for Scientific American Mind.)
Previous studies in animals hinted that the right hemi?sphere might be specialized for detecting prey or threats. Given the amygdala?s proposed role in emotion and arousal, this finding led the team to speculate that the right-amygdala response might have evolutionary roots. More broadly, the fact that only the right side of the amygdala responds specifically to animals is tantalizing, Koch explains, because it is the first time this kind of hemispheric asymmetry has been found at the cellular level in the human brain. Imaging studies can detect only much larger shifts in activity. In this case, the patients being treated for epilepsy offered scientists a unique opportunity to examine such subtle brain responses.
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New York Campaign Finance Reformers Prepare New Campaign
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The coalition, which includes the Working Families Party, Citizens Union, Common Cause New York and others, is working with the governor?s special counsel on public integrity and ethics issues, Jeremy Creelan, to push for changes. Their agenda includes a New York City-style public financing system, an end to loopholes and large intra-party transfers, and better oversight and enforcement.
?The groups have come together and made a request to the governor to make this the next big reform campaign,? said Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey. ?And he essentially made mention of it in his State of the State address.?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was unequivocal about campaign finance reform in that speech.
?I?m going to be sending you a bill on campaign finance reform that puts public financing, matched contributions, lower limits and increased enforcement at the Board of Elections,? he said. ?Let?s have elections that New Yorkers can be proud of also. Let?s have campaign finance reform and let?s do it this?year.?
While campaign finance reform does not have the same emotional pull as same-sex marriage, some reformers hope the flood of money unleashed in this year?s elections by the U.S. Supreme Court?s Citizens United decision will raise public awareness.
?With the governor?s inclusion of campaign finance reform in his address, the coalition is expanding,? said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York. ?What we are looking to do is to build the strongest possible campaign to move this issue forward.?
The coalition strategy is similar to the one same-sex marriage advocates used last year. The Empire State Pride Agenda, Human Rights Campaign, Freedom to Marry and others formed a group called New Yorkers United for Marriage, which pooled money and volunteer resources into a coordinated media campaign led by SKD Knickerbocker, Cunningham and the governor?s then-secretary Steve Cohen.
One key difference is that while the same-sex marriage effort was run from the top down, Cuomo?s office expects campaign reform groups to come up with their own strategy and present it to the governor?s team for approval.
?They want to know what is the path to victory,? said one person involved in the effort. ?This would be the first big post-Citizens United reform anywhere in the country.?
Two campaign finance reformers said Cunningham?s success with same-sex marriage made her a logical choice to run their effort as well, though other prominent Albany consultants may also take part in it.
?While we won?t comment on any specifics out of respect for our clients, SKD Knickerbocker will take part in this year?s effort to bring fairness to the electoral process in New York,? SKD Knickerbocker vice president Morgan Hook said of the firm?s involvement in the campaign finance effort.
Source: http://www.cityandstateny.com/campaign-finance-reformers-prepare-campaign/
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