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It's difficult to understand why any Republicans on Capitol Hill would like their odds in any kind of budget showdown this fall that could result in a government shutdown. Very simply, they would be going into a game with an incredibly weak hand, and their odds of winning would be quite small.
Think of it this way: Yes, the public holds Democrats on Capitol Hill in, as they say, minimum high regard. A July CBS News national poll showed that just 36 percent of Americans approved "of the way the Democrats on Capitol Hill are handling their job," while 55 percent disapproved, for a net of minus 19 points. A Gallup poll in June put the job-rating approval for Democrats on Capitol Hill at just 34 percent, with disapproval at 61 percent, a net of minus 27 points. The folks at Pew Research asked the same question in May, and the numbers for Democrats were 32 percent approval and 59 percent disapproval, a net of minus 27 points. So the net approval rating for Democrats on Capitol Hill ranges from minus 19 to minus 27 points.
As pathetic as those numbers seem, take a look at the responses to the same question asked about Republicans in Congress. The CBS poll that showed the Democrats approve/disapprove numbers at 36-55, a net of minus 19 points, put Republicans at 25 percent approve, 67 percent disapprove, a net of minus 42 points! Compared with the Democrats' numbers of 34-61 in the Gallup poll, a net of minus 27 points, the Republican numbers were 26-69, a net of minus 43 points. The Pew Poll shows Republicans at 22-68, a net of minus 46 points, in contrast to 32-59, a net minus of 27 points, for Democrats.
At this point my conservative readers are likely grinding their teeth and muttering about the "lamestream media" poll bias. But I would direct them to the Fox News polling, which gave Democrats on Capitol Hill a 32 percent approve/60 percent disapprove rating (a net minus of 28 points), while Republicans received a dismal 24 percent approve/66 percent disapprove (a net minus of 42 points). The truth is that on the standard-worded questions, approve-disapprove, ballot test-trial heats, and the like, Fox News polling varies very little from that of the polling by the three broadcast news networks, CNN, or the independents such as Gallup and Pew. It's only on some other questions—rather curiously worded ones, shall we say—that a thumb goes on the scale on Fox polling. (What you ask is what you get, no matter who sponsors the poll.)
The truth is that the public has a poor opinion of Democrats, and a horrible impression of Republicans on Capitol Hill. Which side goes into a card game with a weaker hand—one with approvals of between 32 and 36 percent with disapprovals of between 55 and 61 percent, or the one with approvals of between 22 and 26 percent and disapprovals that range from 66 to 69 percent?
Let's factor in the other player in this game, President Obama. Obama's job-approval ratings have been in a very gradual decline since February, losing roughly a point every three weeks. No, it's not Benghazi, the IRS, or domestic surveillance, it's just the slow leak that has become pretty standard for second-term presidents—call it "Lame-Duck Fatigue." In a second term, on most subjects and most days, the mute button has been hit for the president. But even that being the case, Obama's current Gallup job-approval rating is 46 percent, with a 51 percent disapproval (a net of minus 5 points). Fox News polling from early this month puts Obama's approval rating at 42 percent with a disapproval of 52 percent (net of minus 10 points). The July Pew Research poll put Obama's approval and disapproval ratings at 46 percent, while CBS put him a little better with 48 approve/45 percent disapprove (a net positive of 3 points).
While Obama's numbers are hardly impressive, they are still much better than those for congressional Democrats, and they aren't even in the same time zone as the bleak numbers for Republicans in Congress. This being the case, who goes into this fight with the least credibility? The answer is Republicans in Congress.
Logic would then indicate that Republicans acknowledge, at least to themselves, the weakness of the hand they are playing, and hope to get the best deal they can, knowing that they can't completely win a showdown. At the same time, the question for Democrats is how much anxiety do they want to cause the public, and particularly those who have their retirement funds invested in the markets. Do they want to demand such enormous concessions from Republicans that Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell can't get their side to a deal at all, keeping in mind that the latter has a tea-party challenger in his Kentucky GOP primary next year?
It's a time for Republicans to be realistic and for both sides to be adults—and allow a reasonable deal to be reached.
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Take a close look at Middle Tennessee State's poster. The first person to find the hidden phrase will be invited to guest host a segment of coach Rick Stockstill's radio show this fall. The school also sent out a series of tweets teasing last week's release of the poster. You can view the tweets here, here and here. Last but not least, there is a YouTube video after the jump of the poster photo shoot.
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- What I Love About My Small Home:
- I grew up in Los Angeles, where most apartment buildings are recent builds with grey carpets and stucco walls. When I moved to Boston I was struck by how much love and care was put into buildings. My apartment is a studio converted from the old living room of a brownstone house. I love the original window moldings, parquet floors, and antique fireplace. It makes me feel like I'm just sharing the space with the history of the house. When I decorated, I tried to fuse that history with my modern/vintage style.
- Biggest Challenge of Living in a Small Space:
- Keeping it clean! When you are living in one room and leave your towel on the floor, it makes about 30% of your whole apartment's floor covered. That's annoying. When everything has a designated home base, it's easier to remember to clean up. In a small space that means either living lightly or finding great storage. I'm a big reader, so I covered my door-less closet with awesome bookshelves that I hid sliding pads under. During summer, I put all my winter bedding and clothing behind there, and in winter I store my air conditioner and other out of season stuff there. It helps the visible space in the apartment not get too cluttered!
- If I am the Grand Prize winner of Small Cool, the item(s) or project(s) from my home design wishlist that I'd like to spend my winnings on are::
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From The Files Of June 10, 1993
All three county schools were scheduled to hold baccalaureate and commencement services this week. Southern Fulton will hold services June 11. Valedictorian is Amanda Unger and salutatorian is Ninita Peachey. McConnellsburg High School will hold graduation June 10 with Mary Hoover as valedictorian and Rebecca Eisaman as salutatorian. Forbes Road's graduation services will be June 9 with Julie Berkstresser as the valedictorian and Kathy Jo Orth the salutatorian.
A group of about 12 Russian managers from the Blatijskij Zavod Shipyards near St. Petersburg toured the William "Billy" Ward farm in Buck Valley last Thursday as part of an educational tour of American business and industry.
If all goes according to plan, the McDonald's golden arches will soon grace Lincoln Way East in McConnellsburg. Franchise holder Steve Delamater of Chambersburg has tentatively confirmed that he plans to open a fast-food franchise in McConnellsburg. The restaurant would occupy land owned by McConnellsburg businessman Ray Koontz, including the former location of Gordon's Trailer Sales next to Sheetz and the two-story white house adjacent to the former trailer sales lot. That home wold be razed or relocated if the land deal is finalized.
Michelle Souders and Brian Shank were married March 8 at the Las Vegas Garden Chapel. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Souders Sr. of Hancock and Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Shank of Warfordsburg.
Philip and Shirley Prager of McConnellsburg celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary over the weekend with their sons and their families.
Deaths: Ronald Waters, Orrstown; Vera Roher, Huntingdon; E.Catharine Beard, Hagerstown; Boyd Shank, Fayetteville.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 23, 1983
When people talked about the uniqueness of Fulton County they bring up the facts that it doesn't have a railway, it doesn't have a poorhouse, but it does have two newspapers. The latter claim to fame, however, will no longer hold true after July 1, 1983, when the two county papers will be merged into one weekly publication. On Monday, The Fulton County News bought The Fulton County Journal. The last issue of the Journal, formerly known as The Fulton Democrat, and first published in 1850, will come off the press June 29, 1983. The "News" will continue to publish under its own flag. With the sale of the Journal, Fulton County returns to being a one newspaper county, a status it held only for a scant four months in late 1850. Immediately after the formation of the county in 1850, the Jackson Democrat of Bedford moved into McConnellsburg and began publishing as The Fulton Democrat. Its appearance was quickly countered by the establishment of The Fulton Republican. Fulton County then had papers to represent both ends of the political spectrum. The two papers were joined in 1899 by The Fulton County News, which took a nonpartisan, nonpolitical approach to the news. Fulton County, however, could not sustain three newspapers and in 1922 The Fulton Republican ceased operations. The two county newspapers have had many different owners. The news was bought by John and Audrey Greathead in 1947. Audrey Greathead continued to run the paper after her husband's death in 1958 and in 1971 went into joint ownership with her son, Jamie Greathead. The Fulton Democrat was purchased by Guy Oakman from Virginia Lynch in 1962. In 1977 he sold it to his son, Lee, and the name was changed in 1981 to The Fulton County Journal.
Following a sparkling performance in the College World Series, county son Bret Elbin has signed a contract with the Texas Rangers of the American League. He left this past weekend for Sarasota where he will play for the club's rookie league team. Elbin is well known in baseball circles around the area. He starred for the Southern Fulton Indians, graduating in 1979. He also played in several summer leagues and for a year at Hagerstown Junior College before attending Alabama. He played shortstop for two years for the Tide before switching to third base his senior year. While at Alabama, Elbin broke several records. He is the son of Keen and Mercy Elbin of Warfordsburg.
The streets of Hustontown were the site of the Hustontown Firemen's Parade last Thursday night. The parade was the highlight of the firemen's carnival at the firehall last week.
Specials at the IGA: cantaloupes, 98 cents; cherries, 98 cents lb.; Pepsi, $1.69, eight, 12-oz. cans; Hungry Jack pancake mix, 89 cents; Crisco oil, $4.99 gal.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Palmer in Dudley on June 10; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fox Sr., Shippensburg, June 12; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Terry Chilcote Sr., State Line, June 14; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Galen Covert, Orbisonia, June 15; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Pittman, Everett; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Joel Seilhamer of Mount Union, June 16.
Linda Cronauer, daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Cronauer and Charles Cronauer of Hagerstown, wed Bradley Divens, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Roy Divens of McConnellsburg on May 7.
Deaths: Bertha Schooley, McConnellsburg; Anna Unger, Hancock; Vida Manning, Hagerstown; Margaret Shives, Mercersburg; Kenneth Parsons, Orrstown; Zola Ralsbeck, McConnellsburg; Mabel Lake, Shade Gap; Carl Snyder, Novato, Calif.
Marriage licenses: Jeffrey Funk, Mercersburg, and Aretha Miller, Clear Spring; Steve Smith, Mercersburg, and Teresa McCulloh, Mercersburg; Robert Bean, Hustontown, and Lynn Keebaugh, Hustontown.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 21, 1973
The first fatal accident in Fulton County for 1973 was investigated by state police on Saturday at
9:55 p.m., when an Ohio man lost his life on Interstate Route 70. The victim was identified as Harold Wayne Stitt Jr., 30, Mento, Ohio, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mrs. Margaret Newman has been appointed postmaster at Hustontown, according to an announcement last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hendershot remain patients in Chambersburg Hospital following a motorcycle accident last Sunday at Fort Loudon.
A scholarship fund for two years in trade school has been established in memory of Richard Wayne Miller by his parents, Wayne and Betty Miller. The scholarship will go to a graduating senior at McConnellsburg High School on the basis of outstanding qualities and shop work. The slain boy was deeply interested in shop work, according to his parents.
Gary D. Wilt of Dillsburg was among 136 members of the senior class of Dickinson School of Law to receive juris doctors degrees during commencement exercises on June 2.
Jeffrey Ott, son of M. and Mrs. Paul Ott of McConnellsburg, graduated in the class of 1973 at Penn State University. He received a B.S. degree in animal science.
Scott Shelley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sheeley of Mc- Connellsburg, is currently undergoing six weeks of basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
Marriage licenses: Ronald Clingerman and Gloria Bohrer of Warfordsburg; Michael Hollenshead of Harrisonville and Leona Sipes of McConnellsburg; Robert Haines of Needmore and Betty Golden of Warfordsburg; Thomas Rhoat of Robertsdale and Debra Johnson of Wells Tannery.
On Sunday, June 17, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Mont Chamberlain gathered at their home for a cookout to celebrate their 40th anniversary.
Paul and Herman Mellott, Robert Riggs and Foster Earley attended the U.S. Open Golf tournament in Oakmont, Pa., on Saturday and Sunday. Herm Mellott is now wearing a golf cap autographed by Jack Nicklaus.
Deaths: Charles H. Mellott, Needmore; Rolla R. Snyder; Forest Hills, Pa.; Martha M. Corbin, Ambridge, formerly of Six Mile Run.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hoffman of Orbisonia on June 9; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Mills Sr., Warfordsburg, on June 10; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Skiles of McConnellsburg on June 12; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mason of Mercersburg on June 15.
U.S. Air Force Sgt. Paul C. Wright, son of Mrs. Betty Garlock, who resides on Star Route North, McConnellsburg, has arrived for duty at Ramstein AB, Germany.
Specials at the IGA: sugar, 5-lb. bag, 39 cents; Hills Bros. coffee, $1.69; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti sauce, 49 cents; round steak, $1.39 lb.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 27, 1963
Zip code, the Post Office Department's revolutionary new system of improved mail dispatch and delivery, will go into effect nationally on Monday, July 1. Postmaster George A. Paul stressed the importance of all citizens of McConnellsburg learning the town's zip code number and using it on return addresses on all correspondence.
The Fulton Chamber of Commerce held its regular meeting last Tuesday night at which time the following officers were elected to serve for the coming year: Lyle Duffey, president; Edwin Keiper, vice president; James Gordon, recording secretary; Chauncey McGarvey Jr., corresponding secretary; and Richard P. Barton, treasurer.
State Secretary of Public Welfare Arlin M. Adams announced on June 15 that he has asked all county officials throughout the state to coordinate their welfare activities with the state public assistance program.
Bob Garlock of Bob's Body Shop, McConnellsburg, phoned state police on Sunday night when he looked from the window of his apartment at about 9:45 p.m. and saw two youths siphoning gas from his pickup truck. The youths were arrested by state police and charged with petty larceny.
Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Chubb of McConnellsburg have received word that their son, Don Henry Chubb, was selected Soldier of the Month for June. In recognition for this award, he has been granted an expense-free trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, by the U.S. Army.
Establishment of a new telephone exchange in the upper end of Fulton County was announced this week by John E. Caldwell, district manager of the United Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania. The new exchange will serve Knobsville, Hustontown, Fort Littleton, Burnt Cabins and adjacent areas. Approximately 400 telephones will be connected to the new exchange.
Judy Fittery, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fittery, remains a patient in Washington County Hospital, where she is being treated for a serious paralytic condtion caused by a virus.
Members of the Little League baseball teams were delighted on Monday evening when a young deer came sauntering onto the playing field as if to join the game.
Marriage license: James C. Akers of Crystal Spring, and Doris Lee McCray of Warfordsburg.
Thomas E. Morton of McConnellsburg and serving on board the USS Tracer, homeported at San Franciscso, Calif., has been promoted to electronics technician third class, USN.
Airman First Class Herbert A. Hull of McConnellsburg has graduated form the Noncomissioned Officer Preparatory School at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in South Carolina.
Ray L. Swadley of Needmore and serving aboard the radar picket destroyer USS Stickell, homeported at Philadelphia, has been promoted to radarman second class, USN.
Mrs. Mary Hammann of Amaranth is building a new house in place of the one that burned last spring. Mrs. Hammann is 100 years old.
The local A&P offers watermelons for 79 cents each and 65 cents each at Cisney's Food Market.
Sylvia Spade of Warfordsburg and Malcolm Peck of Needmore were wed on May 10.
Born at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Sweger of Wells Tannery on June 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Leon Remsburg of Warfordsburg on June 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Carbaugh of Hustontown on June 19.
Deaths: Rev. Oscar Locke, Shade Gap; Mrs. John Humbert, Marysville; Melissa Mae Thomas, McConnellsburg.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 25, 1953
Miss Mary Hoke of town is a patient in Fulton
County Medical Center, having suffered a heart attack.
Miss Joan Esterly of Reading was a guest of Mrs. Ruth Cooper and is leaving on Wednesday to spend the summer months touring Europe. She will return this fall in time to enter the senior class at Dickinson Law School.
Hal Herman and his orchestra will play for dancing at the local American Legion home on Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Raymond Deshong, son Paul and Morris Suders Jr. spent the weekend in Philadelphia from where they enjoyed a round-trip river cruise to New Jersey.
Shirley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Barnett, underwent an operation recently in the hospital at Somerset.
Norris Hoopengardner of Broadview, Ill., after stopping in Akron to visit his brother, Wayne, is spending a week with relatives and friends here. Mr. Hoopengardner is with the International Harvester Co. in Chicago and this is his first visit to Fulton County in 30 years.
About 20 local firemen spent Thursday at Fishermen's Paradise. Two of the largest fish they caught were a 22-1/2- inch, 4-1/2-pound brown trout by Don McQuade and a 21- inch, 3-3/4-pound brown trout by Gene Stenger. Most of the others had catches of 18 to 20 inches.
The county superintendent's office has reported that 199 Fulton County pupils have passed the eighth-grade test for acceptance to high school. The highest score, 259, was made by Doris Jean Souders of Thompson Township. Others with scores of 250 or more were Doris Jean Long of Wells, 254; Fred Funk of Dublin, 254; Calvin Leon Smith of Union, 252; and Norman William Shives of Licking Creek, 250.
Foster Ambrose has announced that a special show will be presented at his Game Farm Zoo on July 5 for the benefit of Fulton County Medical Center. Music will be presented by Fulton Valley Boys and over $100 worth of door prizes will be given away. The admission price will be 50 cents for adults, children free.
Fifty Fulton County farmers pooled 6,342 pounds of wool last Tuesday, according to county agent H.P. Kies. Prices received were 62 cents a pound for medium and 57 cents for rejections.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Hopkins of McConnellsburg on June 14; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bard of McConnellsburg on June 18.
Death: Bernard Ralph Schriever of Amaranth.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 24, 1943
Deaths: William F. Mellott of Saxton; James
Clarence Sloan of Port Huron, Mich.; Porter B. Wilson of Three Springs.
On Monday night of this week, Harry W. Sowers, 31, Big Cove Tannery, father of six children, was found dead on Route 522, about 3 1/2 miles south of McConnellsburg. He was found lying in the middle of the highway shortly after midnight by Philip Ranck of Needmore. Mr. Sowers was killed by a hitand run driver who is now being sought by police.
These five men will leave for the armed forces on July 3: Norman C. Wermick, Lester K. Clippinger, Rollie J. Rohm, Wayne A. Keebaugh and Sheldon R. Hess.
Grier L. Schriever, 45, of Hancock, received lacerations of the right eye, a cut upper lip, an upper tooth knocked out and bruises of the right elbow when his Pontiac sedan was struck on Tuesday evening by a Chevrolet truck driven by Paul C. Mellott, 16, of McConnellsburg.
John Culler has announced his candidacy for the office of sheriff of Fulton County.
More deaths: Ralph M. Lowry; Clayton J. Brewer of Mc- Connellsburg; Hilda Frances (Brant) Hann of McConnellsburg; Mrs. J.V. Adams of Renova, Pa.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 22, 1933
Deaths: David Hampshire Rotz of Todd Township;
Robert Samuel McClain of Essington; Mrs. Guy
Hixon of Everett; Mrs. Wilbur Clugston of Websters Mill.
Recent weddings: Lewis Everts and Leah Barnett on June 14; Willard Joseph Cratin and Lillian Margaret Reeder on June 17; Paul H. Kepner and Thelma LaRue Deshong on June 10; Thaddeus M. Shimer and Elsie M. Weisel on May 29; Lee E. Moore and Alice E. Deavor on June 15.
The first tragedy in the newly formed Citizens' Conservation Army occurred on Saturday afternoon when Edward S. Larkin drowned in the Juniata River. Larkin was one of 200 youths assigned to the Licking Creek Conservation Camp.
G.C. Fields returned home last week after attending the IOOF Convention in Erie as a delegate from the local lodge.
W.M. Kendall of Websters Mill returned home Monday from Philadelphia where he was a surgical patient in University Hospital, having had his right leg amputated.


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Two arrested after a 'fight' led to a double stabbing in Birmingham
Three people have been injured and two teenagers have been arrested following a double stabbing in Hall Green this afternoon.
Emergency services were called to the scene at around 2:05pm after a fight reportedly broke out on Cole Bank Road.
Two people were found to have suffered stab wounds, whilst a third person appears to have been struck with a blunt object. All three, who are understood to be in their 20s, are in a stable condition in hospital.
Two people were arrested at the scene an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy both on suspicion of assault. They are both being held in custody and will be questioned by detectives in due course.
Photo: Police cordon at Birmingham double stabbing
Birmingham stabbing: two men being taken to hospital
West Midlands Ambulance say two men stabbed in Birmingham are 'in the process' of being taken to hospital.
Birmingham double stabbing: no college staff or students involved
The college near to a double-stabbing in Birmingham, says no staff or students are involved in the incident.
Two people have been taken to hospital with stab wounds after what police are calling 'a disorder' next to South & City College in the Hall Green area.
ITV News Central has been told the attack happened in Cambrai Gardens, the public gardens outside the college.
Police have arrested two men.
Birmingham double stabbing: happened 'outside' college
Police say a double stabbing in Birmingham happened 'outside' South & City College in Hall Green.
West Midlands Police were called to Cole Bank Road at 2:05pm.
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Birmingham stab 'disorder': two in hospital
Police say two men stabbed in Hall Green in Birmingham have been taken to hospital.
At the moment, their condition is not known.
Officers were called out to the campus of South & City College at 2:05pm.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – A 9-year-old girl crawled out of a mangled SUV, climbed out of a canyon and walked about a mile in the middle of the night to find help after surviving a highway crash that killed her father in Southern California, authorities said.
The 2010 Ford Escape was launched about 200 feet down an embankment along a semi-rural stretch of the Sierra Highway in northern Los Angeles County about 1 a.m. Sunday, said California Highway Patrol Officer Cheyenne Quesada. The vehicle overturned several times.
The girl managed to extricate herself and walk through rugged terrain to a nearby home, but nobody answered the door, the CHP said. Then she hiked up the steep embankment and along the road to a commuter rail station in nearby Acton where she flagged down a passing motorist at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
"She walked quite a distance in a very, very threatening environment. It's very black out there, very dark," CHP Sgt. Tom Lackey told KABC-TV. "It's very steep and it's brushy and there's also coyotes in the background."
Responding officers found a man had been killed, Quesada said. A coroner's spokesman identified him Monday as 35-year-old Alejandro Renteria, of the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
A helicopter transported the girl to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She was treated for minor injuries including bumps and bruises and a cut on her face.
On video shot by the family in the hospital, the girl said she was cold and hurt, according to KCBS-TV. She told her family she was saddened to learn her father did not survive the crash.
Television footage showed crews using a long tow cable to remove the severely damaged black SUV from the canyon.
The CHP is investigating whether alcohol played a role in the crash.
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Patrick Regan has kindly shared the material from his George Heath site with readers of the Victorian Web, who may wish to consult the original.
The short life-story of George Heath is uneventful, but the interest attached to his name is derived from his character and thoughts, as shown under the terrible affliction he suffered, an affliction rendered harder to conquer by his high aspirations and early ambitions for the future.
He was born on March 9, 1844, at Gratton, near Endon and Horton, in the moorlands of Staffordshire, and earned for himself the title of "The Moorland Poet," for he spent his whole life in this part, from which he drew many a hope and poetic conception. The place of his birth was reminiscent of the picturesque surroundings of well-known native spots of rustic genius, and romantic enough in its way to have reared a Burns. After a scanty education, George Heath still followed in the footsteps of other lowly poets, and laboured on his father's farm, but later was apprenticed to a joiner and builder, and about this time we learn of his realisation that, whatever his calling, at heart he was wholly a poet, and that one way or another he must find expression for his poetic imagination. With such hopes he found one congenial spirit in his friend, Herbert Foster.
But now the clouds descend on his life. First he developed consumption of the lungs, following on a severe cold caught during the restoration of Horton Church in 1864, and to make this illness even harder to bear came the sorrow of a broken faith and a discarded love by one whom he had loved very dearly, "a love that was once as life" to him. He gained some pleasure from his first published verses, Preludes (altered later to Simple Poems), which appeared in 1865. But he felt he must put all his thoughts and inspirations into a grand epic poem.
In 1866 appeared Heart Strains, which attracted some slight attention to his work, one or two of the poems being given at public readings at Stafford and Leek. His talent was now developing, and although he does not seem to have published any more himself, yet his Doom of Babylon, though too great a subject as yet for his pen in its demand for force of expression, shows a certain mystic power and the quick dawning of a true poetic genius, and in many poems (Icarus, for example) there is at times the full quality of fine poetry between inferior passages - the sun's gleam seen through the trees. He also possessed a command of language remarkable under the circumstances.
Whenever possible he eagerly acquired a knowledge of literature and the classics, and owed much to the Rev. J. Badnall, of Endon, till at length he became well versed, and even able to translate Virgil into English verse.
During his lingering illness, friends were kind to him in many ways, bringing him books, circulating his poems, visiting him and writing, and there is no doubt he felt these kindnesses deeply, yet suffered a great loneliness at times; but even in these moments of utter hopelessness of an ultimate recovery he kept an unswerving faith. His last poem, Tired Out, shows clearly a realisation of the end of his sufferings, which came in 1869 at the age of 25. This Moorland Singer died in the Spring that he worshipped. (There is an entry in his diary - one of the four that were lent to Buchanan — dated the day before he died, into which the whole courageous spirit of the poet is concentrated. It is simply this: "Tuesday, May 4th. Praise God for one more day!" ) Over his grave in Horton Churchyard, marked by a runic cross designed by his friend, H. W. Foster, may be read his epitaph, with the following lines from some found among his papers: —
"His life is a fragment — a broken clue —
His harp had a musical string or two,
The tension was great, and they sprang and flew,
And a few brief strains — a scattered few —
Are all that remain to mortal view
Of the marvellous song the young man knew."
George Heath's best memorial is the edition of his poems edited by Francis Redfern, though there is much that could still be done. In the famous list of lowly born poets the name of George Heath deserves a higher place than has yet been accorded to it, for there is enough true inspiration in many of his lines to prove he only needed time to reach his rightful place. At present he is among those of whom Shelley wrote:
"Whose names on Earth are dark,
But whose transmitted effluence cannot die
So long as fire outlives the parent spark."
Robert Buchanan is one of the few who have realised the powers that George Heath possessed and the skill he was beginning to show, and his tribute to the poor poet is all the more valuable when the divergent ideas of the two, in certain matters, are compared. Perhaps Buchanan was thinking of his friend, David Gray, who died when quite young. Heath's portrait made a great impression on Buchanan, who traced. in the lineaments a likeness to Keats and to Shelley - the immortals who died in youth, — and this is a striking fact well worth observing and remembering. Heath had a great love for some of Buchanan's poems, and in the Moorland Poet's lines to Edith occurs this sentence —
"I had read
One of Buchanan's thrilling melodies."
The keynote of Heath's poetry is one of sadness, becoming certainly almost morbid at times, yet he can be felt shaking this off in many of his poems and fighting his way back to hopefulness and a deep and manly faith. The bitterness of disillusionment is strongly portrayed when he writes of his love that was discarded. This is the theme of his long poem, The Discarded, a New Year's Eve reverie, akin to the agony of soul wrapped in the language of Poe's Raven. But he even rises above this, and in such poems as Edith it is seen he retained his ideals of womanhood —
"The intercourse with true
And tender womanhood has been the one
Green grove of palms in all my desert life!"
In his hopeful moods he recurs to the time when be was able to enjoy the beauty of his surroundings and his thoughts:
"When music to me was a worship-breath,
A rapture, a -tongue, a power!"
This spirit is shown in A Chant of Praise, and in the following lines from A Country-Woman's Tale: —
"The light and glory of the world and God,
Like a great deluge surged around me there,
And rose and rose, and burst into my soul,
And snatched it from its sordid shrine of clay,
And bore it up and up upon its tide,
And filled it so with worship of the good -
Spontaneous worship of the good - until
It seemed nigh bursting with unspoken praise."
Icarus, his poem on "the life of poor String," is partly his own story. The imaginary poet in these verses was -
"A lover of Nature, akin to her moods,
A power-spirit chained to a spirit that broods."
The unfinished writings left by a poet, especially if he be one of "the inheritors of unfulfilled renown," are strangely impressive. Those of Heath seem to image his poetry as a fine temple shattered ere it reached completion - these are the fragments. Some of them attached to Icarus display the dawning of a lyric beauty —
"And the nereid willow, coyly
Dips her tresses in the stream,
While the silken sensuous waters
Tremble downward in a dream.
Did I dream that Summer twilight
Was a crisis to my fate,
That the currents thence diverging
Led to issues strange and great?
There are moments when we tremble,
When we pause amid the strife,
When we feel our acts will influence
All the tenour of our life.
* * * * *
"Mid the air, the twittering swallows
Touch each other as they pass,
And a million things are kissing
As they sing amid the grass.
And the graceful poplar, bending,
Strokes the birch's lady hair;
Lean the glowing flowers together;
There is moving everywhere."
We can unfailingly grant the poet his wish in The Poet's Monument —
"I shall want thee to dream me my dream all through,
To think me the gifted, the Poet still,
To crown me, whatever the world may do,
Though my songs die out upon air and hill."
Much of his sadness and of his fight against it is seen in The Invalid Poet, and perhaps therein, though the title is repelling, appear his most sustained passages of poetical power. In other poems he appeals by his love of the scenery and legends of his county.
The last lines in a tribute by another Staffordshire poet, Elisha Walton, express a realisation of the little we can really know of all the Moorland Poet felt, of all he suffered, and of what heights he might have reached —
"And he passed from our sight, and his untold tale
Remaineth untold for ever."
Rusell Markland
Staffordshire Poets. ed. C.H. Poole & R. Markland. [London?] N. Ling & Co. 1928.
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Column: For that kind of money, get a jetpack!
At first blush, news that a really old baseball card fetched $92,000 at auction the other day seemed like a lock for this week's sign-of-the-apocalypse in sports.
For that kind of money, after all, buyer Jason LeBlanc could have bought himself a fully operational jetpack! Which comes with 600 pounds of thrust, and you don't even need a pilot's license to fly!
Or, if you prefer to stay grounded, how about an S-class Mercedes-Benz sedan? Or two toilets made entirely of 24-carat gold. Heck, LeBlanc could even have rented the 25-foot wide townhouse Irish real estate mogul Dennis Quinlan is offering on New York's Upper East Side for a month – and still had enough change left over to cover the cable bill. But no.
LeBlanc shelled out the money for a 148-year-old card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club, saying he bought it as an investment for his young son, and the craziest thing about the whole story might be that he actually got a bargain. Since there's very little chance we'll learn that ballplayers in the 1860s were using performance-enhancing drugs, odds are good that somewhere down the road, some other rich guy will be willing to buy that card from his kid for a lot more.
"Absolutely," said Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions for Heritage Auctions. "A lot of these items, when they're one of a kind, we can put an estimate on, but often we miss the selling price by a lot.
"And there's this, too," he added a moment later. "This is still a growth market. Baseball is king right now, because it has the longest and most storied past, at least for Americans. But football is our most popular sport, and the collectibles there are starting to catch up. Plus, there's more and more people getting into the market all the time."
Of course, you'd expect a guy in the business to say exactly that. Heritage wasn't the seller in LeBlanc's case, but the firm expects to generate even bigger headlines later this month as it auctions off the jersey U.S. hockey team captain Mike Eruzione wore in the "Miracle on Ice" game at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, when a team composed mostly of college players upset the Soviet Union's Big Red Machine on its way to winning the gold. Heritage already has a standing bid of $325,000 for the jersey, one of two dozen items Eruzione put has up for consignment. Also included in the auction is the bloody sock that then-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling wore in in Game 2 of the 2004 World Series. His reputation might be in the can, at least as a businessman, but the sock still could end up in someone else's drawer for a cool $75,000 or more.
So if you've got that kind of money laying around in a drawer and an itch to play the collectibles market, here are the two most important things to know:
– The safest buys will always be stuff once owned or worn by those who, like those Brooklyn Atlantics, have passed into the great beyond. The highest-selling item ever bought on the memorabilia market was the earliest known Yankee jersey worn by Babe Ruth. It went for over $4.4 million just last May and is considered the likeliest contender to break the record if and when it's offered for sale again. Coming in at No. 2 was the original copy of the "Founding Rules of Basketball" written by the game's patriarch, James Naismith, in 1981; that document fetched just over $4.3 million.
– If you like controversy, make sure you have deep pockets and plenty of time on your hands. Cartoonist Todd McFarlane paid more than $3 million for the 70th home run ball disgraced slugger Mark McGwire hit in 1998, and he'd be lucky to get 10 percent of that sum for it today. But McFarlane also seemingly overpaid for some Barry Bonds-powered mementos, and he can afford to take a long range view of the value of his collection.
"I try to take the emotion out of this. We're in the eye of the storm of this controversy. But I'm thinking 20 years in the future, this doesn't matter," McFarlane said in an interview a while back. "You can bellyache all you want, public: it's still going to be in the record book. Get over it! It doesn't matter what you think; what matters is what is. There's not going to be an asterisk. There's going to be a number in a book. I know people who don't think Bush was really elected president, but there he is. You don't have to accept it personally. He'll still be in the history books."
Personally, I'd rather have the jetpack, but something tells me McFarlane is right. As another rich guy famously said once, "The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."
Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org and follow him at Twitter.com/JimLitke.


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You know when I started really getting into science? It's when a high school chemistry teacher chucked a big chunk of the curriculum and taught us practical math instead: how to use the power of estimation to get ballpark estimates of various phenomena. It really woke me up to the power of simple arithmetic and reason.
So here's a really good example. A couple of people have been raising money to build a gravity powered lamp Just raise a bag full of dirt and let it slowly drop, and the power generated will drive a small reading light, or can be used to recharge batteries, they claim. It's the same principle that drove my grandparents' cuckoo clock; every morning they'd pull a chain to raise the weights, and over the course of the day they'd slowly descend, making the whole mechanism tick.
Which immediately made me suspicious — that's all that pound or two of counterweights did, was make a precisely designed and balanced delicate clock mechanism work. You can really get that much energy, to generate a useable amount of light, with such a trivial amount of input? And then I saw the video, where they raise the weight and the light instantly comes on brightly, with no detectable descent of the weight. This can't be true, I thought.
But then I read this site, where they whip out the metaphorical envelope and scribble some quick calculations, that same estimation technique my high school teacher showed us how to use. Nope, can't work. None of the numbers make any sense.
They also highlight one of the creator's comments:
With hand-cranked devices, it might require three minutes of turning a handle for half-an-hour's return. With this amount of effort required from the consumer, it's often not seen as a particularly attractive trade-off. The GravityLight just needs three seconds of lifting for 30 minutes' return.
Think about that. Somehow, a quick lift of a 10kg weight is now energetically equivalent to three minutes of hard exertion. It does not compute.
I suspect their demo unit has a nice little slot for a 9V battery. And for that they've received $280,000. Now that's the kind of return from input that really violates the laws of nature.
OK, I'm going to back off on the implication of fraud. The commenters say that it would produce some minuscule amount of light; the question is whether it would be sufficient to be at all useful. It's possible their only crime is exaggeration.


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Ryan Shores' career in comedy began with the publication of his first book, the dark humored "Lotto Scratchers & Tall Cans" in 2008. The book reached a cult audience, and in the spring of 2009 Ryan began performing his material live. After a summer show at the Comedy Store in La Jolla, San Diego, Ryan was approached by an emerging company representing comics in the southern California area and asked to join on as one of their represented comics. Ryan is currently represented by James Kross (of L.A. Slumlords fame). A regular around the San Diego/ Los Angeles comedy scene, Ryan Shores has performed to hundreds of crowds across the United States from Hollywood to New York City, as well as entertained US troops as part of the Proud Hearts Foundation. Ryan has performed with such national acts as Sarah Silverman, Jim Florentine (Crank Yankers, The Howard Stern Show), and Craig Robinson (The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine). Ryan holds a bachelor's degree in Theatre Performance from San Diego State. Since 2013, he has been featured regularly on Union Tribune's daily morning news show on the "Comic Strip" segment. In March of 2013, the first episode of "Ryan Shores' Degenerate Podcast" broke the top ten highest rated podcasts on Reverbnation's spoken-word Charts within 24 hours of its release. .
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STARKSBORO — Those who have unhappily watched the trends of young people leaving the state and farms closing up shop have reason to celebrate the launch of Footprint Farm in Starksboro this year.
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No. 8 Braves: 23rd in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Phillies.
Isn't every action supposed to bring an equal opposite reaction?
Frank Wren must not have gotten the message.
While the Red Sox's 7-20 September led to sweeping changes throughout the organization, the Braves' even worse finish produced almost no change.
Interesting, isn't it?
On Sept. 5, the Red Sox were seven games ahead of the Rays in the American League wild-card race. At that point, the Braves were 81/2 games in front in the National League wild-card race, with the Cardinals and Giants tied for second.
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What is it about Jessica Simpson that drives us wild Hint It's not the songs.
Jessica Simpson sits on the floor of a Los Angeles recording studio, golden hair tumbling, sundress hiked over honey brown knees, skin glowing in the aromatherapy candlelight. She's the picture of cornfed health, voluptuous yet surprisingly petite. But a shade of unrest clouds her fine features.
What an enigma, this Bible Belt–raised, teenpophoned, realityTV child bride. True, over three seasons of MTV's Newlyweds, she has amassed the most astounding collection of blond sound bites in the modern age—including three abortive attempts to pronounce the word Massachusetts. Yet later reports hint at subterfuge behind the seduction. Husband Nick Lachey cites her "very deep, intellectual" aspect as key to his love. Her mom once put her IQ at a geniuslevel 160, suggesting that an anguished intelligence might lurk behind the telegenic facade.
Even now, as she looks over the barbecue takeout containers scattered around her, Simpson's face seems to bear traces of some existential malaise. "Why do I feel such paradoxical loneliness" she might be thinking. "How can the Self truly breach the Void" Finally, she breaks through.
"Where's a napkin" Simpson says, holding out saucesmeared fingers. "This stuff'll smell like chicken fart."
Genius Maybe. After all, this too is part of the Jessica gestalt—the selfdescribed "big old dork" who charmed the nation as the petulant, bubbleheaded newlywed, sharing every humanizing malaprop and gastric emission with awestruck viewers. But with Simpson, the inperson experience is far from MTVedited "reality." She and her bestfriend/assistant, Cacee, had appeared at the studio looking like twin muses from a crunchy liberalarts campus: flowing sandy hair, flouncy dresses. Simpson's Vuitton bags are filled with spiral notebooks and paperbacks. She is doeeyed and buttoncute, with perfect teeth, a braid atop her head, vintage cowboy boots, and hippieish bangles. "Hiiiii!" she'd said in an apologetic tone, given that traffic made them late, and leaned in to hug me—a stranger—hello.
She is on her third day in the studio, hashing out ideas with longtime producer Cory Rooney, who, having worked with such turbo divas as Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez, calls the Jessica Simpson experience weird. "The weird thing is that even though she's a star, she's so normal," he says. "It's very weird. And it's been weird ever since she was younger."
Simpson—who says if she weren't a star she'd be a therapist, like her minister/therapistturnedSvengali father—does show distinct signs of an actual interior life. In her bags today, she carries In the Company of Soldiers by Rick Atkinson; The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey; The Book of Positive Quotations; a rhyming dictionary; The Oord Dictionary of American Usage and Style; a paraphrased New Testament; "and then of course Nicholas Sparks," she says, holding up True Believer. These—along with a fortygig iPod and Atkinsapproved chocolatemint cookies—are some of the tools Simpson is using to craft the next stage of her career.
When I ask her to tell me about her outfit, she brightens. "Well, see, I'll show you my real outfit," she says, lifting up her turquoise hoodie to expose a lowcut aqua sundress and—whoo_POW!_—the famed Simpson twins, voted "best boobs" by the readers of In Touch magazine this May. Simpson may be busy drafting the next stage of her public life—costarring in the bigscreen version of TV's redneck camp classic The Dukes of Hazzard, preparing a new purely selfdetermined album—but she accepts the baggage that comes with her particularly modern brand of stardom.
I ask if there are any misconceptions she'd like to refute. "No, 'cause I'm definitely ditzy, and people believe that about me," she says. "But, I mean, I'm not dumb."
I request a definition of terms.
"There's the flybytheseatofyourpants, kinda ignoreeverythingthat'saroundyou, which is what I am. You know, pay attention to what you wanna pay attention to." This being ditzy. "And then there is the totally [she mimes staring slackjawed into space] 'Huh' " That being dumb.
"Thinking is my hobby," she says.
A German scientist reportedly predicted the extinction of blonds, putting the date at around 2200. For now, though, other theorists posit a blond troika controlling popular culture, an axis of evil including Paris Hilton, Ann Coulter, and Jessica Simpson. Each rose to power through various marketing tools—fellatio, fascism, and premarital virginity, respectively—and each has parlayed her gimmick into media ubiquity.
While Newlyweds made Simpson a cultural icon, it was not as a singer but as a reallife version of the baremidriff pioneer in I Dream of Jeannie (whose cinematic remake she briefly considered): a childlike domestic sprite of teasingly bodacious wholesomeness. But shortly after the show debuted in August 2003, she released her album In This Skin, then rereleased it as a collector's edition seven months later; it has sold 2.5 million copies. The campaign continued with QVC appearances, in which she hocked her cryptopornographic "edible body product" line, Dessert; a Christmas album sold exclusively at 7Eleven; and an ercise video in the works. She and her husband have also hosted musicalvariety specials, updating kitsch pairings like Sonny and Cher, and Donny and Marie, without any particular ironic distance. Edible body products aside, Simpson's a big, frothy, Grated dollop of heartlandAmerican whipped cream.
But glance behind the media blitz and she looks a little more human; compared with, say, Paris Hilton, who cites Donald Trump as a hero and frankly rhapsodizes about "branding," she's Joan of Arc. Born in Abilene, Texas, Simpson began her career as a 13yearold church singer who was forbidden to sing solos, she remembers, "because my boobs were too big and they said it would make men lust." After labels pronounced her too sexy for Christian music, Simpson's manager dad, Joe, steered her down more secular avenues: teen pop, then reality TV. Now Simpson is 24—35 in MTV years—and ready to wrest her soul from that remorseless merchandising machine.
Not that she's wresting too hard. Simpson remains canny about her market. Her first power move has been to step into the most famous cutoffs in history to play Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard, being brought to the multiplex by director Jay Chandrasekhar—"I still can't pronounce his last name," says Simpson—and starring erstwhile Jackass Johnny Knoxville and rubberfaced American Pie alum Seann William Scott. Fighting for, and playing, the role forced Simpson to connect with her inner warrior. Initially, Chandrasekhar resisted casting her: "He watched a couple of episodes of Newlyweds and thought I was that dumb blond that everyone else in the world thought I was," she says. But his mind was changed after two hardwon screen tests in which Simpson channeled Daisy's spunk. "She is a strong, powerful woman who is sexy as hell, but when she smiles it never comes across provocative or demeaning," Simpson says. "She gave me a lot of confidence to find something in my soul that needed to come out."
While Simpson clearly rose to the challenge of Daisy, she's quick to downplay the role's demands. "Some acting coaches write all over your script and break it down like it's an English class," she says, then pauses. "Daisy Duke ain't deep." She laughs. "She just needs to talk with an accent, smile, and show some cleavage. With a southern accent, you can make anything sound good. You can just say"—she bats her eyes at me and softly coos—" 'Ah laahk you….' " Works for me.
The choice of Daisy makes sense for Simpson, since she herself is such a throwback to retrograde ideals of wholesome redstate femininity. Typical of this persona is to serve as U.S. Envoy of Perkiness. Simpson paid one of the more celebrated visits to Afghanistan in 2002, when she undertook the classic Bob Hope–style USO tour and choppered from battleship to aircraft carrier in a Santa Claus suit bearing tidings of comfort and tatas. This year, her efforts took her to a much hotter sphere of conflict.
When we meet, Simpson is just back from Iraq, where she and Lachey filmed the twohour ABC special Nick & Jessica's Tour of Duty—in which America's sweethearts don flak jackets, board Black Hawks, and bring smiles to our troops overseas. "I think after Newlyweds," which ended its run last April, "I'm ready to show a different side of myself that people don't really know," she explains, legs curled under her on a sofa. "The side that actually is a giver and not…just a taker." She laughs. "A side of me that wants to experience the world. What people know of me is that I want to have everybody do things for me."
Simpson and her husband also boarded a C130 with fresh troops deploying to Iraq. "And when we landed, it was so surreal and so…badass," she says, eyes wide as she shakes her head. "I mean, these men and women are the most spectacular people. They're just rugged and rough and, you know"—she gestures with a clenched fist—"out there for freedom."
The trip had real dangers, with one base getting shelled hard enough to prompt an evacuation of pop's first couple. But Simpson says the most haunting visit came before Iraq, at an army hospital in Germany. "These guys—just kids," she says softly of the wounded. "It just blew my mind. Twenty years old. Sent into Iraq two days prior, and they were in suicide bombings or attacked in Humvees. And it's like…you just try to hold yourself together."
In addition to the human wreckage, Simpson and her husband had to soldier through the lessthanchivalrous comments from the heavily medicated wounded. "Well, it had been a while since they'd seen…a girl in some tight jeans," Simpson explains. "But Nick was a great husband to take it all in stride."
Take what in stride What'd they say
"Oh, that they wanted to… Oh, they just made…comments. But they were on drugs, though. I can't even really say what they said because it makes me sound… I don't wanna say it because… Just they were…very forward in their…liking of…a woman. But that's why I'm there! To bring smiles, even if I have to show a little cleavage."
Simpson is well in step with a generation of girl entertainers who mix chaste sound bites with eyepopping wardrobe and near pornish vocalisms. She plays me a mix of her countryhiphop remake of "These Boots Were Made for Walking," from the Hazzard soundtrack—her breathy, moaning phonesex soul voice flooding the room. Can I get a handclap / for the way I work my back goes the breakdown, punctuated with yes, y'alls from Hazzard costar Willie Nelson.
But maybe some erotic cognitive dissonance is to be expected, given her early lessons in sexual realpolitik. "Honestly, it really popped the bubble I was living in," Simpson says of having been banned for bustiness from the choir loft. "But my father was also a little secular for the Bible world. He wanted to bring young people in, so he'd take everybody paintballing, take everybody to dances; girls could wear bikinis at summer camp or whatever. He believed in treating teens as they should be treated. I grew up sitting outside of my dad's office after school and watching pregnant teenagers and 12yearold heroin addicts go in, and I was definitely the opposite of whatever most people think a preacher's daughter is, the wild child. Because I grew up with my dad as a preacher and a therapist."
According to Simpson, her dad's avid multitasking explains a fatherdaughter relationship that has confused some and creeped out many. If Joe's gleeful marketing of his daughter's, er, charms—"She's got double D's!" he crowed in these pages earlier this year—isn't sufficiently jarring, there are his reported plans to take in other young charges to raise under his roof and sculpt for stardom, in a kind of teenpop stemcellresearch project.
But their relationship is healthy, she says. "I know that if I'm feeling deeply about something, I would go to my dad to talk about it, because he will give me advice where it would not necessarily be as a father, it would be as a therapist. Our family has done that since day one. 'Cause we all work together—it's a family company, what we run—from manager to clothing lines to everything that's happening in my life, even going to my mom to talk about my sex life. I don't really talk to my dad about my sex life; that would be kinda weird."
Yes, it would. I ask what was the first swearword she ever heard.
"Piss," she says, naming more of a gateway cuss, which she first heard in fifth grade. As an impromptu prude test, I ask when she first heard fuck.
"I don't remember the first time I heard…that word."
Obviously, Simpson isn't the sort of pop diva who'll grab her boyfriend's junk for the paparazzi (à la Britney) or cut herself into the proceeds from her home sex video (à la Paris). Yet there's something about her image that's absolute catnip to the tabloids; maybe it was inevitable she'd briefly be linked to that goto tarnisher of maidens' reps, Fred Durst. ("Poor Fred," she says, when I bring up his sole public role now.) In fact, in this lull between Newlyweds and her upcoming triple play of TV special, film, and album, Simpson's been portrayed as the straying young wife, given too long a leash by her semiclueless husband and falling prey to VIPparty Babylon.
In addition to the scurrilous claim that she used a butt double to play Daisy Duke, tabloids reported an onset romance with her disturbingly dashing Hazzard costar Johnny Knoxville. "Oh, we both laughed about that," she says of the reports. "I really adore Johnny Knoxville, I think he's great. If people wanna make that romantic, they can. But I'm married, and my husband is my romance."
Instead, Simpson says her time on the set in Baton Rouge provided a kind of rebirth. "It brought a lot of the South back in me," she says. "Being in Hollywood, it's very easy to become that Barbiedollfigure. And in Louisiana—you know, the downhome dirty South," she says with a deep twang—"it gave me a lot of confidence." She credits that confidence with inspiring her to write and record her upcoming album herself—a legitimately bold move for such a heretofore packaged star. "My husband only visited at the very end. My dad visited only three times. My mom, who usually does my wardrobe for everything I do, she only visited for six hours and never spent the night."
Time away from handlers would be significant for Simpson, whose father gave her a "purity ring" when she was 12 with which she pledged chastity until marriage. "I met Nick at 18 and went straight from my dad to him," she explains, in slightly disquieting terms. "So I called Baton Rouge my college life. I really found a lot of growingup time. I got to just do something on my own."
With 100point headlines on every newsstand declaiming the details of her supposedly crumbling marriage, I feel compelled to ask how recently Simpson has seen her husband. "Today," she says blithely. "He's at a golf lesson now." And as we step back into the lounge of the recording studio, lo and behold, there's Mr. Nick Lachey, stretched out on a sofa—fratboy resplendent in shorts, polo tee, and Miller Lite ball cap, watching Giacomo take the Kentucky Derby on TV—and I wonder if he's there for my benefit.
"Hi, baby," he says as she enters, receiving a kiss on the mouth. They briefly discuss going out to buy Cacee an AC. "I got an hour acting lesson, but let's do that first," Lachey says. They decide to hit Home Depot and have Lachey install the unit later. "Nick does all the manual labor," Simpson explains.
I ask Lachey, who saw Hazzard last night, if there was anything surprising about watching his wife play a T&A legend. "No, I mean, she looked hot as hell," he says. "But I'm not surprised about it. I was more just proud of her."
"Hey, he's seen me without the bathing suit," Simpson interjects.
They chat and canoodle a bit before Lachey makes to leave. He bids me adieu, kisses Jess, and steps out the door. Which is the moment when I realize I'm a walkon in a Newlyweds episode.
Simpson became a famous, beloved multimillionaire largely by clipping on a fanny mike and serving up her young marriage as entertainment. "They started shooting three months after the wedding," she says, once Lachey leaves. "The idea was to do a sipisode documentary on a newlywed couple. That's all we thought it was going to be." Instead, she's become part of a social experiment, vanguard of a new kind of massmedia storytelling project with very fuzzy boundaries. I ask what she regrets about this inarguably Faustian deal.
"There's nothing I regret about it," she says, shrugging. "I mean, there are moments in all our lives that aren't being aired that we wish didn't happen. So I can't really pick out one. 'Cause at the end of the day, a lot of them have made me some money, so…" Simpson laughs.
Funnily enough, neither she nor her husband watches reality TV these days, preferring that spectacle of ballsout marital discord, Desperate Housewives. "Nah," Simpson says of shows that traffic in supposedly pivotal, private moments. "I don't buy it." She shakes her head and smiles enigmatically, knowing, as always, more than she lets on. "They should call it 'halfreality.' "
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The organiser of two choral events in the Alice Springs' Desert Festival says they've been cut from this year's program but the festival says otherwise
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The organiser of two popular Alice Desert Festival choral events, says he was told last week they would not be included in this year's program.
Morris Stuart has been a key organiser for both events in previous years; Acapella in the Gorge featuring the local Asante Sana choir, and Desert Voices, which showcases Indigenous choirs from Central Australian communities.
"I was told that the two events will not be in the program," Mr Stuart told 783 Mornings' Nadine Maloney.
"I was also told that we could run them because we've got good audiences and that they haven't got funding..."
But Manager of the Alice Desert Festival, Joe Pickett says that Mr Stuart can still apply to be part of the program.
"Asante Sana have not been cut from the program...they are most welcome to be part of the festival this year, they're welcome to put in applications..."
But Joe says Desert Voice which last year featured choirs from Areyonga and Titjikala, will not be featured.
"Desert Voice has been run by Red Hot Arts but in partnership with Morris Stuart...we've decided not to run that project this year along with a number of other projects."
"We'll be having a gap year from partner managed events."
Mr Pickett told 783 Mornings the changes reflect a new model for Red Hot Arts which will focus on artist development.
"[Last year] we burnt out a lot of people...and we weren't able to invest enough in artist development," he says.
"The festival needs to be underpinned in pathways for artists locally so we're not just giving them once off performances but we're actually investing in upskilling people."
Mr Pickett says the smaller, downsized festival program will run over 5 days instead of several months, which was the duration of last year's event.
Another festival?
Mr Stuart says he wasn't told he had the option of applying to the Alice Desert Festival but says in light of the changes, he's going to run his own event this year.
"The working title is 'the Centralian Singers Festival,'" he says.
"We'll avoid the Desert Festival dates but we will run it in September."
"We've got an opportunity to do something really different, and really celebrate the joy of singing."
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February 3, 2003
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