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Matthew Arnold
Machann, Clinton, Victorian Poetry
There are no new monographs on Arnold to discuss this year, but a variety of substantial new articles and book chapters deal with his life, career, and individual works in interesting ways. I will begin with Christopher M. Keirstead's treatment of Arnold in his book Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism (Ohio State Univ. Press, 2011) because it is in fundamental ways representative of Arnold's place in the study of Victorian poetry today. Keirstead's focus on Victorian poets' "cosmopolitanism" in the context of their "unique and vital" encounter with Europe is a legitimate and interesting approach that literary scholars should find helpful. The choice of texts by Arthur Hugh Clough, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, and Thomas Hardy is appropriate, and the references to Arnold's influence in the Introduction-"Arnold, Europe, and the (Future) Destinations of Victorian Poetry"-and throughout the text makes sense, because indeed his career "forms a microcosm of the broader movement" (p. 10). Keirstead refers to some of Arnold's best-known poems such as "Dover Beach" and "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" but the emphasis is on the ideas he developed in his critical essays after he turned away from the writing of poetry. Throughout the book, major poems by the other poets are in a sense "read against" Arnold, so he is a central figure whose key ideas tie together the book as a whole: "from the critical sidelines, Arnold would continue to press poets as he had pressed himself to fashion a more open intellectual engagement with the Continent and to sustain the genre's relevance to other kinds of border-crossing, whether social, economic, or political" (p. 20). As Keirstead acknowledges, his new study of cosmopolitanism in Victorian poetry in some ways follows up on the work of Amanda Anderson in The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (2001). Significantly, that book contains a chapter on Arnold that discusses his key concept of "disinterestedness" and places him in the context of works by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde.
Nevertheless, Arnold's critical approach has been controversial through the years. In the 1980s British critics influenced by Marxist ideology intensified what had already been a mid-century questioning of Arnold's position as a defender of liberal culture-and politics. Terry Eagleton in Literary Theory (1983) argued that Arnold had played a key role in the displacement of religion by "English literature" as a dominant instrument of "social control." Arnold's supposed patronizing or outright hostile attitude toward the working class was seen to be related to his paternalistic, authoritarian stance. Chris Baldick, in The Social Mission of English Criticism, 1848-1932 (1983), also argued that Arnold's culture, so closely associated with the "humanities" discipline of literary studies, functioned as a means of ideological control. At the same time, other well-known developments in academia worked against the significance of Arnold as a "traditional" Victorian writer and thinker. One was the rise of postmodernist theory, including Michel Foucault's ideas about "power" and its shifting patterns and his depiction of history as underlying layers of suppressed and unconscious knowledge, and Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of literary texts and philosophical skepticism. From these theoretical perspectives, Arnold's assumptions about literature and culture and human nature were hopelessly naive and for some he was a paradigmatic antitheorist. At the same time, for many feminist critics, Arnold was one of the "dead white males." More recently, Francis Mulhern in his book Culture/Metaculture (2000) and in a subsequent series of exchanges with Stephan Collini in New Left Review attacked Arnold's critical ideal of culture, which supposedly is intended to dissolve the political as a "locus of arbitration" in social relations. …


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Crash Injures 4
A single vehicle crash Wednesday morning in Vernon County injured 4
people. It happened in the Town of Webster. 24 year old Stacy Fahey of La Crosse was driving a minivan southbound on County Road D, near Buckeye Ridge Road when she lost control in a downhill curve. The van left the road, traveled down an embankment and struck some trees.
Fahey suffered a left shoulder injury. Also injured in the crash were 26 year old Trisha Buchkowski of La Crosse, 28 year old Linda Dogbe of La Crosse and 23 year old Caitlin Fitzpatrick of Onalaska.
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Beautiful and sexy Yoruba actress, Biodun Okeowo no doubt has come a long way to become the household name in the industry today.
For some years now she has been very busy, making and featuring in different films. Her latest work in the market "Ife n siere (love is crazy) is still a hot item in the market but that has not made the Lagos State University graduate rest on her oars as she is back on location brewing what may be another hit.
Biodun, who spoke with HVP on phone during the week, said she would be shooting day two of the movie that day, adding that everything is going on well with the cast and crew.
"Omo Butty", according to her will bring to the fore disadvantages of over-pampering a child up to the point of spoiling the child. "Omo Butty" which may literally translate to mean 'pampered child' is being played by Biodun herself alongside a rich cast that includes Madam Saje, Bukky Wright and others.
The synopsis of the story is about a child who is over-pampered by the parents up to the point that she could neither read or write. At a point when a teacher complained about the child's unseriousness the teacher was rewarded with a sack after the child complained to her parents and the parents leaned on the school authority to have the teacher shown the gate.
But things soon turned around for "Omo Butty" when she lost her parents and had to be faced with vicissitudes of life. She found out that she could not cope.
Ever since Biodun came into the movie industry she has done very well by herself. In 2010 she won the MAN's Top Three Actress award followed by Global Exellence Award as Upcoming Movie Personality Of The Year 2010 and she was the first Yoruba Artiste ever to clinch the Global Exellence award.


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Toyota's back on top
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
Interview with
Jan 28, 2013 After a dramatic couple of years, Japanese car giant Toyota has beaten General Motors to become the world's biggest-selling car maker.
What makes a city walkable?
Sarah Gardner
Interview by
Jan 3, 2013 According to urban planner Jeff Speck, designing cities for cars makes cities "crappy," but making a city walkable is no easy task.
General Motors plans to buy back government shares
Jeremy Hobson
Interview by
Dec 19, 2012 General Motors has just announced it is going to buy back 200 million of its shares from the Treasury Department, which plans to sell the rest of its GM shares in the next year or so.
Car sales drive economy around the world
Bob Moon
Dec 18, 2012 Car makers are headed for a record year for sales. Never mind a sluggish U.S. economy and a European recession.
Rental cars scarce in NYC for Thanksgiving
Alex Goldmark
Nov 22, 2012 Hurricane Sandy damaged hundreds of thousands of cars, so it's been tough to find a rental in time for holiday travel.
Shorter yellow lights mean more red-light revenue
Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Nov 22, 2012 Some cities with red-light traffic cameras are accused of reducing times for yellow lights to boost revenue from tickets.
The NTSB's wish list for new tech in cars, and Spotify goes in-browser
David Brancaccio
Nov 16, 2012 The National Transportation Safety Board says all cars, not just fancy ones, should come equipped with technology that warns of accidents ahead.
Used car prices expected to rise after Sandy
Stacey Vanek Smith
Nov 9, 2012 Storm Sandy totaled tens of thousands of vehicles, and that's expected to raise prices for used cars across the country.
China is a roadbump for Toyota's global resurgence
David Weinberg
Nov 6, 2012 Toyota and other Japanese carmakers are reporting lower sales in China due to the two nations' dispute over offshore islands, but Toyota projects higher earnings worldwide.
Back to the future for car names
Stacey Vanek Smith
Oct 31, 2012 If you're looking to buy a car anytime soon, you may get a case of déjà vu: Carmakers keep recycling old names.


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America's Next Top Model
ANTM's Whitney Thompson Used to Run Until She Literally Vomited
Whitney Thompson, winner of Cycle 10 and ANTM's first plus-size (or "fiercely real," as Tyra puts it) winner ever is a real role model for young girls. Contrary to model stereotypes, Whit is now a spokeswoman to raise awareness about healthy self-esteem and eating habits and has been visiting colleges to speak about her experience with weight issues.
She's been modeling since the age of 15, and took home the title of America's Next Top Model, but, at some point, she decided, "eating half an apple for breakfast and having a half a can of tuna for lunch" wasn't healthy. "Running until literally vomiting" was often the result, and, finally, Whit was over it.
She admits the only reason she even tried out for Top Model was to prove that curves were sexy (a girl after Tyra's own heart), after her 13-year-old cousin complained that she thought she was fat (despite being a size 2). Of course, she called out the fashion industry itself for hiring stick-thin pre-pubescent girls who haven't developed yet, and using them as the standard of beauty. That, coupled with airbrushing in magazines, and, Whitney says, looking like a model in real life, is virtually impossible.
Whit's advice? "Walk away from the mirror...try to take the negative and make it into the positive." Sounds like Tyra's parting words to many models on the show...
Guess what! Whitney's blogging for us! Check out her shocked reaction to the premiere episode right here.
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Apple extends workers' Thanksgiving vacation
updated 03:04 pm EDT, Mon October 1, 2012
Cook thanks workers for 'another incredibly successful year'
As it did last year, Apple is extending the Thanksgiving vacation time it gives to some of its workers for 2012, according to an email memo from CEO Tim Cook. "To recognize the efforts that made this amazing year possible, I'm happy to announce that we're extending the Thanksgiving holiday once again this year. We will shut down with pay on November 19, 20 and 21 so our teams can spend the whole week with their loved ones," he writes.
"Retail and some other teams will need to work that week so we can continue to serve our customers, but please check with your manager about taking time off at a later date," he continues. "Our international teams will also get an extra three days off during this quarter, scheduled at a time that's best for them. Details will be available on AppleWeb."
Earlier in the letter Cook thanks workers for "another incredibly successful year," listing off products such as the third-generation iPad, the Retina MacBook Pro, Mountain Lion, and the iPhone 5. The updated designs for the iPod touch and nano are mentioned as shipping "in the next few weeks."


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A Swedish horror film about a young boy who befriends a vampire.< read all 10 reviews
What did you think of this review?
Actually it is not really my scale. A friend and I used to read Cinefantastique Magazine in the mid-1970s. They used the -4 to +4 scale and my friend and I picked it up. It has a very statistical feel. I explain it in more detail on a link off my homepage, but apparently this editor will not let me give you the URL.
Ah, that's a workaround. I discuss the rating at system at:
Actually I was just trying to paste the URL from the cut-buffer. It was a very strange behavior. It pasted as a big chunk of Chinese pictograms. No idea why that was. I ended typing the link. I will try what I did again below.
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Look – Pink & Purple Eyes (Only)
This isn't a full look — just the eyes. I was testing out some settings and lenses with my camera, so I threw this on really quickly to get an idea of how colors and makeup were going to show up
What's everyone got going on for the weekend? Me, I'm spending it working on our Top Secret Temptalia Project 😉
You will need the following…
- Eyes: Soft Ochre paint pot (neutral beige base), Pink Opal pigment (white-pink), Lotusland eyeshadow (light purple), Stars 'n Rockets eyeshadow (fuchsia-purple), Sketch eyeshadow (burgundy), Rite of Spring eyeshdaow (white-pink), Urban Decay Ransom 24/7 Liner (purple), Plushlash mascara (black)
- Brushes: 266 (firm, angled brush), 226 (fluffy crease brush), 219 (pointed crease brush), 214 (smudge brush), 249 (flat, firm brush), 239 (fluffy shadow brush)
- Substitutes: Lotusland = Parfait Amour + Digit; Rite of Spring = Pink Opal
Directions: Define brows using a coordinating powder shadow applied with the 266 brush. Apply Soft Ochre paint pot all over the lid as the base with the 249. With the 239, apply Pink Opal pigment with water-based mixing medium on the lower lid. On the inner lid, pack Lotusland eyeshadow on using the 239. Apply Stars 'n Rockets eyeshadow to the middle and outer portions of the lid. Darken crease with Stars 'n Rockets eyeshadow using the 226, then deepen with Sketch eyeshadow with the 219. Sweep Rite of Spring eyeshadow underneath the brow bone to highlight. Finish with Urban Decay Ransom Liner on lower lash line, and Plushlash mascara on lashes.
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The Future of Payment Systems
Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
Drawing on wide-ranging contributions from prominent international experts and discussing some of the most pressing issues facing policy makers and practitioners in the field of payment systems today, this volume provides cutting-edge perspectives on the current issues surrounding payment systems...
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Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
Financial crises have dogged the international monetary system over recent years. They have impoverished millions of people around the world, especially within developing countries. And they have called into question the very process of globalization. Yet there remains no intellectual consensus...
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Comedian Jenny Johnson investigating death threats from Chris Brown fans following Twitter fight
The Twitter war between comedian Jenny Johnson and Chris Brown resulted in more than just his deleted Twitter account. Johnson has received so many death threats from "Team Breezy" that she asked Twitter administrators to see if she should be concerned.
"We are doing a bit of investigating ... to see who are writing them and if they should be taken seriously -- or just something we need to ignore. We are trying to discover if it's just a bunch of kids goofing off or something else," Johnson tells Celebuzz.
As for whether she thinks Brown quitting Twitter after their fight is for the better, Johnson answers, "I don't know if it's a good or bad thing. Only time will tell."
Need an example of some of the threats Johnson has received? How about, "@JennyJohnsonHi5 who the f**k are you? what the f**k did you do with Chris Brown? GIIIIRL, I HOPE YOU KNOW.. I WILL KILL YOU," or, "Stfu b***h honestly, I wanna sit on your face and stab 1235 needles in your eyeball, you son of a motherless goat." In this case, it does seem like it's better to be safe than sorry.


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Anderson seems to claim that Bernoulli effects contribute nothing to lift. This could easily be tested. Does a humped wing with a flat bottom and zero angle of attack provide any lift?
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Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) March 13, 2014
MobileBits Corp., (OTCQB: MBIT), provider of Samy™, a leading mobile marketing and loyalty network, today announced it has released Samy app version 1.6. The new Samy Apple iOS app offers consumers significant social features and functionality. The Company also plans to release an Android app with similar functionality.
New features include the ability for consumers to easily create and manage a user profile and login with their existing Facebook account. In a recent interview on NBC's Today Show in February 2014, Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook has 1 billion users. Consumers will now be able to link their Facebook profile with Samy in order to receive and share exclusive offers and coupons generated by retailers with the Samy self-serve merchant admin.
With the new Samy profile, consumers will clearly able to see the value of savings they gain through an offer redemption counter and calculator that delivers real-time tracking and display of their individual coupon/offer use.
In addition, Samy iOS version 1.6 includes a real-time news feed so consumers can stay informed of the latest merchant mobile stores and savings available near them. Other new features include:
Samy has helped thousands of bricks and mortar stores connect with local consumers and drive in-store redemptions and commerce across many different types of industries including quick-service restaurants (QSR), full service restaurants (FSR) and retail businesses.
Samy delivers consumer engagement on a pay for performance (CPA) basis and provides businesses with the tools to create, manage and measure mobile commerce through a proprietary mobile CRM software.
To learn more about Samy, visit http://www.samy.com.
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MobileBits is the provider of Samy, a leading mobile marketing and loyalty solution that drives engagement between brick and mortar stores and consumers. Samy delivers consumer engagement on a pay for performance (CPA) basis and provides businesses with the tools to create, manage and measure mobile commerce through a proprietary mobile CRM software.
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The Marion 300
In 1894, a fire started in the shafts in the upper levels of the United Verde Copper Mine and eventually worked its way down as far as the 900 foot level. All attempts to control and put out the fire failed because of the caving-in of the ground and the uncontrollable heat which occurred in the ore-bearing sulfide masses. After extensive studies, it was decided that the only way to deal with the situation would be to create an the open pit that we see today. To accomplish this task everything on top of the mine (which consisted of the smelter, business offices, shops, and homes) had to be moved. The smelter was relocated down in the newly built town of Clarkdale and was connected to the mining operations by an underground standard-gauge railroad line known as the "Hopewell Tunnel" system.
In 1918 the Marion 300 steam shovel, which had been built for use on the Panama Canal, was brought into Jerome to help dig out the open pit and load the railroad cars with ore. The shovel had an eight cubic yard dipper, two coal fired boilers, and a crew of four consisting of an operator, a fireman, a craneman, and an oiler. It revolved 360 degrees on a mobile railroad track mounted table.
The earth moving capacity of the Marion was so great that, in 1924, when the miners were forced to use a technique called "tunnel blasting", the Marion became the perfect tool. In tunnel blasting entire shafts were packed with between 25 to 130 tons of dynamite and detonated in a single blast. An entire section of the mountainside would then collapse into thousands of tons of moveable rubble.
This technique worked well until November 23, 1926. On that day the dipper of the Marion struck part of a tunnel blast which had failed to fire. The explosion was instantaneous. The operator and fireman were killed instantly. The two other crew members were injured, and the shovel was transformed into a useless, mangled piece of steel. Large, heavy pieces of the machine were blown as far as a half of a mile away - one chunk actually smashing through the roof of the Connor Hotel on Main Street. Other pieces were found as far away as the Gulch on the other end of town.
Mr. Yee
Mr. Yee and his brothers. Which one is Mr. Yee?
People from all over the world came to work in the mines of Jerome during their heyday. According to Herbert V. Young, in
They Came to Jerome
, by the 1920's " . . . in a workforce of 2,200 the following nationalities were represented: American, Austrian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish, Scandinavian, Serbian, Slavic, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh. There was also a miscellaneous classification."
Falling into this later classification were the Chinese. The Chinese, here from the beginning of the mines, were viewed with mixed reactions by the rest of the predominately occidental townsfolk. The asians did not fall into the usual categories. For instance, few if any ever worked in the mines. They were all self-employed. In the majority of cases, they established restaurants and laundries.
There were other practices that set them apart from the rest of their fellow citizens - some that caused much concern in certain segments of the community. Bill Adams, editor of the
Jerome Mining News
, took on a personal campaign to have the Chinese run out of town in 1909. Mr. Young says that "Front page attacks were the rule. One man, it was reported, found maggots in his soup while eating at Hong's restaurant. Another report was that cockroaches and bedbugs had been found in the food. The Chinese, shouted Adams, should be barred from Jerome . . ."
Perhaps it was not so much a health issue that bothered Adams and others, but what they might have considered to be a moral one. It was well known that certain members of the Chinese community had imported the vice of opium smoking to the town. Opium dens, much like those of Hong Kong and old Peking, were set up in the basements and backrooms of various Chinese-owned establishments, complete with bunks, pipes, burners, and sticky balls of the poppy extract. These dens were frequently raided by the local police, but like the speakeasys in the twenties, they would reappear a few days later, a few doors down. The majority of Chinese people were, of course, law abiding citizens who worked hard to establish a place for themselves out on the American frontier.
The last of these first generation Chinese to remain in Jerome was a Mr. Yee, who operated, paradoxically enough, the English Kitchen Restaurant. Mr. Yee acted as sole waiter, chef, and dishwasher of the eatery until he died in 1973.
Eating at the English Kitchen was always somewhat of an adventure, because not only did Mr. Yee not speak English very well, but the menu might be different from day to day. Somedays, a customer might not be sure what he was getting until the food arrived at the table. Mr. Yee's specialities were his made-from-scratch fruit pies, the ingredients for which he harvested from the fruit trees around town that the Italians had planted. They included some of the tastiest apricot, peach, and apple pies to be found west of the Missippi.
Mr. Yee was a good example of what hs been called Chinese inscrutibility. Although he lived in Jerome for over fifty years, he apparently never learned to speak English very well. He was almost unintelligible. During the sixties, however, he was observed talking to the proprietress of Jerome's last grocery store - in fluent Spanish.
It was thought by many that Mr. Yee knew much more than he wanted to let on. A local who lived here during that time tells of an encounter with Mr. Yee one spring morning in the restaurant.
"I had developed a habit of going down to the English Kitchen for a cup of oolong tea after my breakfast. As I entered this day, Mr. Yee was sitting under a cloud of blue smoke at a booth in the back, reading a Chinese newspaper of unknown vintage. I took a stool at the counter and waited for him to respond to my presence. Eventually he rose and came over. He was wearing his usual outfit: long skirt-like white pants, black slippers, a calf length stained white apron, and a white coolie/chef's hat. I told him that I would like some hot tea. He stood there for a second, looking quizzically at me with his old yellowed eyes. In back of him was a wall of dark brown hardwood shelves filled with boxes of oolong, jasmine, and Earl Grey tea. Looking at me as if dumbfounded, cocking his head to the side he asked, "Ot tee . . . ot tee?" He paused and finally, with a startled realization, he said "OOOOOOO . . . ot tea!" Then he smilied and laughed - for a long time - like it was the funniest thing in the world."
When Mr. Yee died, the townsfolk drove his hearse down Main Street and tolled the Jerome Bell hanging in front of the Mine Museum in an unusual gesture of love and respect.
Sheriff Johnny Hudgens
Johnny Hudgens was a Deputy Sheriff in Jerome back in its wild and rowdy days just after the turn of the century. We can see, in this excerpt from Herbert V. Young's
Ghosts of Cleopatra Hill
, that the wild west was with us even into the twentieth century.
When Hudgens's first arrived in Jerome there were certain people who wanted him to leave. They wanted him gone bad enough to kill him. According to Mr. Young one day a mine foreman "stopped at a hardware store on Main Street to make a purchase and found four men there buying forty- five caliber pistols and ammunition. As he left there he met Johnny Hudgens and told him about the men.
Photo from "Ghosts of Cleopatra Hill"
Deputy Sheriff Johnny Hudgens
'All right, Tom,' Johnny said. 'You just clear out, fast.'
The deputy went out to the middle of the street and waited. Soon the men came out, and seeing Johnny they started shooting. Johnny, with a gun in each hand, dropped three of them. The fourth man turned and ran, Johnny in hot pursuit. The fugitive ran through a saloon and started down the hill. He attempted another shot at Johnny as he started down after him, only to be met with a bullet in the head. It had taken Hudgens less than five minutes to kill all four of his attackers.
Another incident, talked of for many a day, occurred when Dave Schreiber, a tough miner with a record of misdeeds had sought refuge in the isolation of this mining camp, tangled with a young barkeeper named Vogel, who worked for his uncle, Hank Vogel, owner of a saloon between the Fashion and the Bartlett Hotel. He had come off shift one afternoon in a foul mood after a fight with his shift boss. He had come off second best and had been fired. He had warned the boss that he would kill him, and he meant to keep his promise.
He stopped in his room at the Montana Hotel, washed the blood from his face, then took a pistol from his valise and concealed it under his coat. Down town he entered the Fashion and had a drinkand waited for the shift boss who usually stopped there for a beer on his way home. The boss didn't show, and Schreiber went looking for him at Vogel's. Young Vogel was behind the bar. As well as being a bully, Schreiber was a cadger, and found no welcome when he demanded whiskey. But a drink was poured.
'Leave the bottle on the bar,' Schreiber ordered.
'No more till you've paid your bill," responded Vogel.
Schreiber reached across the bar, gathered a handfull of Vogel's shirt, and struck him in the face. The bartender reached for a gun he kept under the bar. As he came up with it Schreiber shot him through the heart. The miner glared around at the few other men in the saloon. All were frozen to their stools or chairs. He hurried up to the hotel and stuffed his few belongings in the valise.
In the meantime, Johnny Hudgens, who had been down the hill disarming a couple of ladies at the Cuban Queen's whorehouse who were trying to carve each other up with butcher knives, received word of the killing and followed Schreiber up to the hotel. Ed Kurmeier, the hotel manager, was tending desk.
'Do you know where Schreiber is?' Johnny asked.
'Right behind you,' Schreiber's voice called from the stairway.
As Johnny pivoted, a gun in each hand, Schreiber started shooting. A bullet struck the deputy high on the shoulder. That made Johnny mad. He didn't like anyone to shoot at him, as he had so thoroughly demonstrated during his stay in Jerome, and he liked it less that he should be hit. He emptied both guns at Schreiber, whose gun went off twice more, harmlessly, before he crumpled and rolled down the stairs. He was D.O.A. at the bottom.
'Johnny fired nine shots from the automatic and six from his revolver,' said the old timer, 'One shot must have missed, for they found only fourteen holes in Schreiber's body.' "
The Trees of the Golden Rain
Kenneth Howell
On a brilliantly clear February morning in 1953, John McMillan took off from the Cottonwood airport in his Aeronca Chief single engine plane. His mission: the greening of Jerome. Flying 2,000 feet above the Verde Valley, he approached the nearly abandoned and almost treeless town in the Black Hills. He swooped low, and still sitting in the pilot's seat, McMillan reached over to open the cockpit door. In a moment of biologic history, he poured out part of a ten pound bag of seeds - Paradise seeds, the winged offspring from the Chinese Tree of Heaven. Jerome had experienced its first air raid.
Curving around the barren, craggy cone of Cleopatra Mountain, McMillan dumped out more seeds. Within a half dozen passes over the cliff-hanging village, he had sent about forty pounds of seed on their way to drift on the cool wind before settling to meet their fate in the soil of a wasted landscape. This airbourne Johnny Appleseed hoped that his efforts would result in a bloom of new growth for a town that had lost its original verdure to the unfortunate consequences of human activity.
However, in 1983, McMillan, caretaker of the Phelps Dodge office in Jerome, said, "I can't take credit for all the Paradise trees growing here today. That spring (following the air drops) was so dry that I just don't think many of my seeds could have germinated."
Nevertheless, as any visitor to Jerome will notice, the Paradise trees are dominant and omnipresent. Did they spread so successfully on their own? No one knows for sure, but they did exist here before 1953. Perhaps Chinese entrepreneuring immigrants brought the first seeds from their homeland, where the Paradise originates, as they could have been wisely conscious of shade and leaf sparse Arizona.
Ailanthus, A. Glandulosa
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, the Golden Rain Tree . . . call it what you wish, this hearty, attractive species is here to stay. After brainstorming the idea of an airdrop with some friends, McMillan hired a bunch of local boys to gather and fill three large canvas bags with the seeds. Although pictures of Jerome from the early 60's reveal a much starker town than today, enough trees existed in '53 to provide the aerial cultivator with his large stockpile.
At the beginning of Jerome's dynamic mining era, all timber on the slopes closest to town fell to axe and saw. Then, the acrid, fume belching copper smelter on the edge of town poisoned and suffocated any remaining plants for twenty years. With the smelter's relocation to Clarkdale in 1917, Jeromites may have breathed easier, but McMillan, who had lived here all but the first three years of his life, remembered that the sulphur smoke from Clarkdale still made life pretty stinky. Yet, who could complain under the shadow of industrial prosperity? Only the plants seemed to mind.
Economic pressures, not the Environmental Protection Agency, finally forced closure of the mines in 1953. Nature had a break, and aesthetic minded McMillan knew the time was ripe for action. Jerome badly needed some eye-pleasing chlorophyll. Enter Paradise - The Golden Rain Tree (thusly named for its ability to dump a gilded shower of seeds upon those risking a walk under it during autumn). Adapted to a wide range of climates, the Paradise trees also seem to follow humans. They do best in disturbed soils, like vacant lots, ruined yards, and eroded slopes - places common to Jerome. Here, the loosened soil drains quickly and the Paradise takes advantage with its astonishingly extensive root system. An unforeseen but most fortuitous side effect of Paradise proliferation is the stabilization of topsoil on the steeper hillsides, which previously threatened to slide away, taking the town with it.
The nuisance element of this controversial plant remains strong. Their probing shoots work into cracks of building foundations, sidewalks, sewer lines, gardens, lawns, etc., etc. Ailanthus spreads by sending out suckers (instead of the more common cross-pollination). In a more optimistic light, Paradise trees don't belong in that category of invading, destructive, exotic plants like the Kudzu vine taking over the Southeastern United States, or the Saltcedar, which chokes out native vegetation in Southwestern river environments. In the artificial ecology of Jerome, however, where the human hand destroyed most of the native vegetation, Paradise trees remain welcome. They provide an effervescent vibrancy to an otherwise emaciated, slagged-out, eroded soil. Their delicate, fern-like leaves shade the sultry spirits and naked ruins.
On any tropic August night, when the mammoth cumulo-nimbus thunderheads bless the secret stairways with negative ions, and the electric, desert moon lends phosphorescence to the shadows, then the real magic of Paradise unfolds as one beholds their silhouettes dancing with the wind.
Thank you, John McMillan
The Old Padre - Father John
Richard Martin
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Juan Atucha Gorostiaga
Sometimes buried under asphalt, and sometimes exposed, many of the hilly streets of Jerome are paved with thick limestone blocks. Situated on County Road, one of Jerome's steepest limestone streets stands the more than one hundred year old Holy Family Catholic Church, surely one of the finest houses of worship in all of the Verde Valley. Once attended to by as many as five full time priests busy listening to the confessions of naughty miners and baptizing their babies, for over forty years the church, and it's priest, had basically been forgotten or ignored by its parent church. Today Holy Family is without a Father. Within the last couple of years the Catholic Church from Cottonwood, in the valley below has taken the Holy Family church under its wing. A gift store has been created on the bottom floor, and the living quarters in the rectory have been somewhat modernized. From time to time in the past youth groups from Phoenix, or even further would arrive to hold retreats in the downstairs parish hall where Holy Family's last priest, Father John resided. For nearly sixty years Father John was the character living in the church rectory.
I spoke or visited with the Old Padre nearly everyday for more than ten years as I walked by the red brick edifice on my way to and from my studio at the top of the hill. He was a little man who came to Jerome from the Basque region of Spain, and still had the accent to prove it. The Old Padre could often be found sitting on a low concrete wall, at the front of the church looking down on the business district of Jerome. Always, always dressed in a heavy wool overcoat, covering his priest's uniform, with his long underwear protruding unbuttoned at the neck, his stubbly gray beard covering chin and jaw and a rumpled black hat on his head. Sometimes, I hated to walk by that place, knowing if I couldn't escape the Old Padre, I might have to sit and listen to him repeat his stories about how wicked Jerome had been, and how it would be good if it and it's residents just went away. "Why do you people come here? ... What do you want? ... There is nothing here for you." Occasionally, during a brave moment when I saw that one of Father John's vehicles was gone, I would enter the sanctuary, up the steps, through the vestibule door, and into the sanctuary.
Surprise! There directly in front of you was a waxen, life-sized dummy of a priest staring right in your eyes. Behind him the sanctuary opened up into an area with high vaulted ceilings. Strange light filtered through the crude paintings of religious scenes covering the tall windows, Jesus with the lambs, Jesus trudging with the cross, all illuminating the quiet hall with a beautifully carved altar where several candles were always burning. The walls and high tin ceilings were painted a drab green, with huge ornate paintings on the wall behind the white altar, with a fallen Jesus in Mary's arms. One of the paintings was that of a pyramid with the sparkling sun behind a fully opened eye. The aisles were paved with ancient linoleum. More religious scenes were laid into the floor, cut from a variety of colored linoleum scraps.
Once I made a mistake. Curiosity and reverence had driven me to take another look inside the church. Suddenly the ramshackle front doors of the church swung open and there stood the Father, next to the waxen effigy, glaring at me. He had been downstairs and heard the sound of my feet on the floor. "What are you doing in here!," his Basque brogue filled the room, "stealing the offerings?" I slunk out the door, not to reenter the sanctuary for many years.
Even when the Old Padre wasn't sitting out front of the church, his entourage would be there to greet you. Lobo, Lobillo, and Lobito, two tiny yapping dogs and one medium yapping dog, were always there, all three snapping at your heels. The dogs went everywhere Father John went, usually on the dashboard of one of his many automobiles. He had a white '51 Dodge four door, a white "60 ford Falcon four door, and a host of others that he kept outside of town at a cabin he had located at the current site of the "Gold King Mine".
Painted on one side of that cabin, facing the road up into the mountains was a large sign "DID YOU CALL AHEAD?" On the other side of the cabin was an equally tall sign saying "NO? THEN GO BACK" He and his dogs could often be found slowly cruising out the Perkinsville road to the cabin and back. The two smallest, Lobillo and Lobito would scramble back and forth across the mail strewn dashboard, and Lobo would frantically jump back and forth across the seats. The Padre, in his wool overcoat and black hat slumped low, with the dog slobber covered windows rolled up, would be muttering to himself as the car jerked along, as if propelle by divine guidance. If neither the Dodge or the Ford were running, then Father John could be found with his head inside the engine compartment of one or another, tugging, muttering, and cursing. On a number of occasions he dispatched me to local auto parts stores to acquire parts for the cars.
The local old-timers loved the Padre and his ghost parish, and so did some of the rest of us. A little vintage salsa on the side of the hill. Rumor had that he would baptize the children of the unfaithful, no questions, no confessions asked. He'd taught this one to play the wonderful pipe organ in the church loft. He'd sponsored that one into the role of nun, or priest. Rumor had it that the legions of faithful continued to send him money, even though they hadn't set foot in the church for years.
Not too many people lived in town during those days, and most of them were considered just as curious as the Old Padre. One such fellow was named Glen, who hailed from Oklahoma. He'd hit the hippy highway and settled into Jerome, to live the budget life, hang out, grow a little pot, and maybe develop a few properties along the way. One of Glen's passions was photography. He often hung about, unobserved with his camera. One of his favorite spots was across the street from the Holy Family Church, huddled below the window sill of an abandoned house, capturing candid shots of the Padre doing his Padre things; talking to the dogs, harassing me, futzing with the Dodge, maybe holding his fourteen year old, featherless pet chicken. Rarely did Glen share those candid shots. Once and awhile he would. One morning I had walked down the hill with my friend Nancy, to the Post Office. In walked Glen, a compact fellow with a serious expression. In his hand was a black and white photo taken from across the street revealing Father John deep in conversation with long time Jerome patriarch, Dr. Joe. As the two were speaking intensely to each other, there, captured in the photo for all to see, slipping behind them, was the image of Nancy, hands in her long overcoat coat pockets, looking frustrated as she swung her foot to kick one of the canine pests, snapping at her feet. Glen gave Nancy the photo and the three of us stood in the PO lobby and laughed. The photo was the essence of Jerome. Glen hiding to take a photo, Nancy kicking the dog and the elders lost to the world of conversation, noticing nothing. After Glen left the lobby, Nancy set the photo down to open her mailbox. As we left she went to retrieve it. No one else had entered the building. No one else was there, and the photograph wasn't either.
I had passed by the church, heading up the hill to work on a gray winter morning when I heard the sound of Father John's old Ford Falcon wheezing up the hill to a stop in front of the church stairs. I turned around to see the familiar scene of the Old Padre climbing out of the car, dogs still on the dashboard. The next thing I noticed was that the car appeared to be moving, while the Padre was standing in the street. First slowly, then faster the tired old sedan rolled backward as if to escape, the dogs still dancing on the dash, leaping back and forth between the seats. As it slipped beyond the reach of Father John, he stood in the center of the street, one hand on his hip, the other waving in the air. "Gyett back hyere .... Gyett back hyere!,"he shouted. The car paid no attention whatsoever. Auto blasphemy. Finally zipping across the intersection, rear end first, crashing through the silver painted pipe handrails on the opposite side of the highway below, coming to rest with both rear wheels hanging over a fifteen foot wall, dogs barking, "Gyett back hyere," echoing through the silent neighborhood.
When you live in a small town, it's natural that you keep an eye on your neighbors. In our own way, the three of us, Glen, Nancy and myself, did just that with Father John, Glen from the abandoned house and Nancy and I as we walked by several times a day. Three days went by and no one had seen the Old Padre. He hadn't been out on the church stoop warming himself in the sun, waiting to snag one of us in conversation. The trash, full of oatmeal and milk boxes, hadn't been put up on the street. The dogs were nowher to be seen either. Both cars were there. Nancy questioned me, wondering if I had seen him and told me she hadn't. We both started to worry a bit. We decided that I should investigate. Ever since the Father John had caught me in the act of reveling in the old sanctuary's calm I had been a bit shy of entering the church. After investigating upstairs, I went down to the rectory door and knocked. The dogs barked. I called for the father, but not a word came back. Still afraid to enter I went on down to the police station and summoned the cop on duty. On our way back up the hill we latched onto Glen. This time the policeman knocked on the door and called out. The dogs barked. No Padre. We forced the door open and entered the dim rectory, a large area smelling of urine. Whew. Father John pee'd in jars and left them standing about. Gag. There were more jars. However, these were overflowing with coins and bills. Money everywhere, sticking out of ventilators, in boxes, on the floor. Still no Father. Then I heard a faint rustling sound. We looked through the dim light and saw an old bed pushed out from the wall. As we approached, the dogs barking and dancing around, there was Father John. He'd slipped between the bed and the wall. His left arm was sticking up to hail us. A crazed, stroke induced look, covered his face. He was too weak to help himself to get free. From that point on events moved swiftly. Glen rushed down to the bar and called an ambulance, which arrived quickly. The police and myself started gatherin up the money for safe-keeping. We counted thousands of dollars. Over the next few weeks more than one hundred thousand dollars were reported to have been found in the church ... the money from the faithful. The night after father John was taken away, the yellow cabin and big cottonwood trees next to it burned to the ground, consuming the assertive signs, and Father John's rather odd collection of hundreds of women's right foot shoes and bicycle seats.
I remember watching quietly as the old Padre was carried up those steep steps and lifted into the ambulance. In his broken Spanish/English/Basque he cried with a strong voice "Hospitale No!.... Hospitale No!" He never returned. Nobody was sure where he had been taken. Some folks thought to an old priests home in California. A month or so later, we learned Father John had died, vanished, like the photo taken years before.
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1560s, clowne, also cloyne, "rustic, boor, peasant," origin uncertain. Perhaps from Scandinavian dialect (cf. Icelandic klunni "clumsy, boorish fellow;" Swedish kluns "a hard knob; a clumsy fellow," Danish klunt "log, block"), or akin to North Frisian klönne "clumsy person." Or, less likely, from Latin colonus "colonist, farmer," though awareness of this word might have influenced the sense development in English.
Meaning "professional fool, professional or habitual jester" is c.1600. "The pantomime clown represents a blend of the Shakes[pearean] rustic with one of the stock types of the It. comedy" [Weekley]. Meaning "contemptible person" is from 1920s. Fem. form clowness attested from 1801.
c.1600, "to play the clown onstage," from clown (n.); colloquial sense of "to behave inappropriately" (e.g. clown around, 1932) attested by 1928, perhaps from theatrical slang sense of "play a (non-comical) part farcically or comically" (1891). Related: Clowned; clowning.
A person for whom the speaker feels mild contempt, esp one whose behavior merits derision: Get this clown off my back and let me help you (1920s+)
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SHIPS' propellers could be about to undergo their biggest transformation since Brunel's SS Great Britain, the first large iron-hulled ship with a screw propeller, was launched more than 150 years ago. Sea trials have shown that replacing a conventional metal propeller with one made of carbon composite can help reduce corrosion and maintenance, and make warships stealthier.
Propellers are normally made from an alloy of nickel, aluminium and bronze (copper and tin), known to marine architects as NAB, while the hull is usually steel. Putting the two in seawater causes a current to flow - just as in the school experiment in which children create a battery by sticking different metals into a potato. This current eats away the iron in the hull near the propeller.
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Andrew Wilson 11/01/2011
To keep the water running in LasVegas, recognize scarcity and let water rates rise-- double or even triple. Encourage homeowners to trade water rights. Let the market determine how much water people use, not the water police.
La Monica Everett-Haynes 06/01/2009
The United States must come to terms with its lavish use of water and, at the same time, figure out serious solutions to the immediate problem related to access to water.
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Anglers are doing back flips over a recent Utah Supreme Court Decision that makes public all waters in the state and permits recreationists to use streams that cross private property.


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Also possibly Mark Ronson and the Business International
Also possibly Mark Ronson and the Business International
coachella 06 '07' 08' 09' 10' 11' 12' 13' 14'
M.I.A. has 3 dedicated airhorn wranglers on her road crew
Queens of the Stone Age could practically headline right now...another big album by them, and they are for sure headlining material....sorta like the FF's career has gone, their albums and hits (though shitty to my ears) just get bigger.
also on a related note, who is the shitty headliner for 2012? I've sorta feared Phoenix.
Outkast would seem like an obvious choice to me.
5/15-17/15 - Psycho CA @ Observatory // 5/22/15 - Laura Jane Grace @ Hollywood Forever Cemetary // 5/27/15 - Neutral Milk Hotel @ Warner Grand Theater
6/3/15 - Sufjan Stevens @ Dorothy Chandler // 7/15/15 - Shellac @ Regent // 7/31/15 - Melt Banana w/Torche @ Roxy
I second Arctic Monkeys and add Franz Ferdinand. Could a Libertines reunion show headline? What about someone like the Presets? Justice with some production values?
M.I.A could not even headline Hard which got canceled. She will never headline. LoL Iggy I don't think you are good at detecting sarcasm.
Atmosphere. What tent/stage did he headline a couple years ago? He keeps getting bigger and has a great track record.
Avett Brothers. Come the fuck on. Anyone would pick them over Jack Johnson. They will only get bigger. If you can bitch at Avetts over me saying Mumford and Sons then you can kill yourself
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I think Yeah Yeah Yeahs is a safe bet
^ you have a great sarcasm detector
1.-Foo Fighters
2.-Franz Ferdinand
5.- Smiths (reunion) hahaha
LOL NERD, now you are just being rediculous!
Mumford and Sons. These guys have one album and they're on the second line. At that rate they could drop an EP towards the end of the year and be headlining Coachella 2012 just in time for the release of their greatest hits album.
The Dead Weather
Flying Lotus
The Roots
Friday AC/DC, Tame Impala, Interpol, FlyLo, Ghostface & Raekwon, Caribou, Squarepusher, Action Bronson, RevHorton Heat, Vic Mensa, Erol Alkan, Ab-Soul, Allah-Las,
Jack White, The Weeknd, Axwell^Ingroso, Ratatat, Subtrkt, Run The Jewels, Chet Faker, Gaslamp Killer, Gramatik, Yellow Claw, Cashmere Cat,
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Mortal Kombat veteran Kano is the eighth character to be confirmed for Mortal Kombat X. Check out the newly released trailer above for a look at him in action.
Series creator Ed Boon says Kano is "a bit older, but with all his cybernetic upgrades, he's deadlier than ever." The video shows off a fight between Kano and one of MKX's new characters, D'Vorah, on the Jungle level.
Like the other characters we've seen so far, Kano has access to three different fighting styles called variations; Kano's include Cybernetic (eye-laser and grenade attacks), Commando (better grappling skills), and Cutthroat ("enhanced knife-fighting skills"). All three are briefly seen during the video, and each changes the color of Kano's cybernetic eye and heart. The trailer ends with a preview of his fatality attack.
Boon teased late last month that some kind of MKX reveal would be coming at Gamescom, which takes place this week in Cologne, Germany. He offered no hint about what it would entail at the time, and we don't yet know if the Kano trailer is all developer NetherRealm Studios has in store for the event.
Mortal Kombat X does not yet have a release date, but is expected out in 2015 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. For more, check out our latest preview. A full list of confirmed characters follows below.
- Sub-Zero
- Scorpion
- D'Vorah
- Ferra and Torr
- Cassie Cage
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A Hen House (or chicken Coop) is probably the biggest investment you will make.Assuming they will be able to come out of the chicken house into a run or free range in part of the garden, a good guide is to allow a meter square of floor space for every 4 large fowl, or 5 medium hens or bantams. Whilst it is possible to squeeze more hens in than this, they will start to squabble more when encroaching on one another's space, especially at roosting time. If there is wet weather, they will want to take shelter in their house and hens that are lower in the pecking order may not go in if they get bullied the moment they go in the door.
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A very direct question from U.S. Representative Connie Mack, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
(Hat Tip: Redmassgroup)
Professor Elizabeth Warren, you might remember her, the senate candidate who when speaking of the Occupy Movement said, 'I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. … I support what they do'.
Speaking on MSNBC this week she again identified with the 99%, despite a net worth of $14.5 million that would place her well within the 1% she demonizes.
"I realize there are some wealthy individuals – I'm not one of them, but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock portfolios" she told him.
Hard to see how Warren wouldn't be, by most standards, wealthy, according to the Personal Financial Disclosure form she filed to run for Senate shows that she's worth as much as $14.5 million. She earned more than $429,000 from Harvard last year alone for a total of about $700,000, and lives in a house worth $5 million.
She also has a portfolio of investments in stocks and bonds worth as much as $8 million, according to the form, which lists value ranges for each investment. The bulk of it is in funds managed by TIAA-CREF.
Warren would not, of course, be particularly wealthy by the tony standards of the Senate. But she's also unlikely to draw the sort of popular identification with her financial status that might attach to Marco Rubio, whose home is underwater.
And efforts to pass herself off as one of the 99% for whom she aims to speak appear likely to backfire.
Forget about the tax rates of Warren Buffet and his secretary–that's just a smoke screen. What's really important to him is the government decisions that help his investments.
Warren Buffett's Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration's decision to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)'s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.
With modest expansion, railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the Keystone proposal by the U.S. State Department.
And on the subject of billionaire Obama supporters and how their interests just seem to benefit from government policy decisions:
George Soros, a billionaire investor and major backer of President Obama, stands to reap a windfall from legislation promoting natural gas-powered vehicles. The White House unveiled a proposal on Thursday that would do just that.
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Discover Magazine: CF Foundation's Novel Strategy Leads to
Life-Changing Therapy
August 23, 2013
"For the first time in over a decade, a striking silence fills the Cheevers' barn-style home," begins a story in the September issue of the science magazine Discover.
"The deep, rumbling cough that plagued sisters Laura, 14, and Cate, 12, every night of their lives, leaving them exhausted and weak, has finally stopped."
The full-length article "Doorway to a Cure" tells the story of a new cystic fibrosis drug — the first to address the underlying genetic cause of CF — and the CF Foundation's role in bringing this life-changing treatment to those with the disease, including Laura and Cate Cheevers of North Andover, Mass. The drug treats about 4 percent of people with CF and was developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. with support from the CF Foundation.
The search for more cutting-edge therapies that will benefit greater numbers of people with CF is ongoing, fueled by the science that led to the discovery of this breakthrough drug, according to the story.
"We're not going to settle for less than 100 percent of patients," says Robert J. Beall, Ph.D., president and CEO of the CF Foundation, quoted in the story on the Foundation's focus on finding effective therapies and a cure for all people with CF.
The story describes the unusual strategy the Foundation took in 2000, investing $40 million in a research program with a for-profit company to help discover innovative approaches to help advance new CF therapies. "At the time it was unheard of for a nonprofit to take such a gamble," the article says.
"Robert Beall deserves a lot of credit for placing a huge and expensive bet on an enterprise that could well have failed," Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, comments in the article. The Foundation's drug development strategy is a promising model for attacking other genetic diseases and is now being adopted by other groups, Collins adds.
Discover is a leading science magazine written for the general public, with a circulation of about 500,000.
Read and download "Doorway to a Cure," or look for the September issue of Discover on newsstands now.


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Climate change debate: As the River Cam bursts its banks in Cambridge, is flooding now just a fact of life in the British winter?
Posted: January 10, 2014|
From the cancellation of a multitude of sporting fixtures to flood warnings being issued to thousands of homeowners throughout East Anglia, the effects of torrential downpours have become an early characteristic of 2014.
Today, low-lying Huntingdon Racecourse was the latest location to fall foul of the soggy conditions with its race meeting cancelled two weeks after its popular Boxing Day event suffered the same fate due to standing water.
This week the Environment Agency issued a serious flood warning, meaning flooding is expected and action should be taken, for Brampton near Huntingdon, as well as flood alerts – flooding is possible – in Alconbury, Bourn Brook, the Lower River Cam, the Upper River Cam and the Great River Ouse.
But to what degree has the heavy rain which took hold over Christmas and continued into the New Year been out of the ordinary, or is it simply the norm for the winter months?
Met Office statistics actually show Cambridgeshire has so far had less rain this winter than it did last. In December 2012, the county measured 91.5mm of rainfall during the month, compared to 44.3mm of rain in December 2013. The average is 47mm.
A spokeswoman for the Met Office said: "The biggest characteristic of the weather we have seen in Cambridgeshire and across the UK in recent weeks is that it has been stormy, rather than necessarily wetter than in previous years.
"But there is no doubt the ground is sodden and waterways are full so even small amounts of rain could cause an impact."
The average rainfall for Cambridgeshire in January is 46.4mm but some locations, like the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, have already had 20mm.
A spokeswoman for the Environment Agency said: "We still have flood warnings and alerts in place because we have very, very wet soils – more than we would usually have at this time of year.
"But it is not an unprecedented situation and we have seen this before."
Along with the racing, a range of rugby and football matches have been axed due to the weather.
Cambridge United's league match against Braintree Town was postponed for the second time in a week on Tuesday due to the Essex side's Amlin Stadium being waterlogged.
Now coaches and players across the region are keeping their fingers crossed for better conditions this weekend, with hopes that further heavy rain holds off until Sunday night.
According to a 2013 study by scientists at the University of Reading and University of Iowa, winter flooding in the UK is set to get more severe and more frequent under the influence of climate change as a result of a change in the characteristics of 'atmospheric rivers' – narrow regions of intense moisture flows in the lower troposphere of the atmosphere that deliver sustained and heavy rainfall to mid-latitude regions such as the UK.
In Cambridge, the River Cam has crept onto the banks close at Victoria Bridge, which borders Midsummer Common and Jesus Green, and the rising levels have kept the Cam Conservators busy.
Colin Sparkes is the river foreman, based at the Conservators' House at Clayhithe, Horningsea, and is responsible for carrying out day-to-day river maintenance, including tending to Bishop's Mill sluice gate on behalf of Cambridge City Council.
Colin, who has worked on the river for more than 30 years, said: "This is not particularly unusual weather for this time of year but I suppose what has made it more challenging is that rather than getting four of five days of flood water, it had been consistently flowing ever since Christmas Eve. That means the river has been very up and down. We have had lots to do but it seems to be returning to normal now.
"It has also disturbed dredging works on the Backs because the water is simply not draining quick enough."
Short term forecast for the region:
Households can expect a mixed weekend of weather with more rain to come on Sunday night, according to the Met Office.
Following a clear night in which temperatures dropped to 3C, today started with frost and ice in some areas.
During the day, temperatures will rise to 8C – higher than the January average of 6C – with some gusts of wind and patchy periods of sunshine.
A band of rain showers will pass through the region in the evening but into tomorrow morning the sun will emerge with temperatures reaching 6C.
After a cloudy Sunday, with only a glimpse of sunshine to be seen, heavier showers will arrive in the evening and continue into Monday.
A spokeswoman for the Met Office said: "We have had some very mild temperatures of late that have even been in double figures.
"The contrast will make the coming days feel colder but they actually fit the January average."


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Reds v Sharks: Teams
At Suncorp Stadium, Saturday July 21, KO: 10.40am (BST), live on Sky Sports 2HD
Last Updated: 21/07/12 1:53pm
Having survived six straight elimination matches to scramble into the play-offs, the Reds' quest for back-to-back semi-finals continues when they take on the Sharks.
The Reds pulled off the upset of the Australian conference by slipping past the Brumbies with a bonus-point win against the Waratahs to make the finals after a horror start to their season.
After crashing to five losses in seven games that all but scuppered their title defence, the Reds finally got their groove on and will now vie for a seventh straight win in front of a sellout crowd at Suncorp Stadium where they have only lost four of their 25 games.
The Sharks won their regular-season fixture over the Reds in Durban, coming back from 17 points down late in the first half to send the defending champions packing.
However, the Reds in their own backyard are an entirely different proposition and the Sharks will also have their hosts' intimidating home record to deal with.
A nightmare travel schedule has not helped the visitors either, with coach John Plumtree admitting they expected to be heading to Canberra instead of Brisbane before the Reds bonus-point victory ensured a longer trip for the Sharks.
Indeed, they would surely have preferred facing the wobbly Brumbies rather than a Reds side on a six-game winning streak - especially after the South Africans won in Canberra 29-26 in round six.
But if you want to win this competition, you've got to be able to beat everyone and knocking over the defending champions at their fortress is a good place to start for the Sharks.
If they pull off a win, they will then have to travel back to South Africa for next Saturday's semi-final against the Stormers which will suit them just fine.
The Sharks do not lack experience in finals rugby either. They have been there done that, however it hasn't always been plain sailing.
The men from Durban have played in 10 play-offs (including three finals), but they've only won a total of three of these matches (all of them in semi-finals). Last year they were faced with a similar task, but came up short against the Crusaders in Christchurch.
The loss of Reds playmaker Quade Cooper has given the Sharks plenty to smile about though, but they have their own headaches after losing full-back Pat Lambie (injury) and inside centre Frans Steyn (ineligible).
Some may argue that this loss of the Springbok duo is more of a stumbling block than the non-availability of Cooper, but both sides have shown this season they can still produce the goods without them.
Reds: 15 Luke Morahan, 14 Dom Shipperley, 13 Anthony Faingaa, 12 Mike Harris, 11 Digby Ioane, 10 Ben Lucas, 9 Will Genia (capt); 8 Scott Higginbotham, 7 Liam Gill, 6 Jake Schatz, 5 Adam Wallace-Harrison, 4 Rob Simmons, 3 James Slipper, 2 Saia Faingaa, 1 Greg Holmes
Replacements: 16 James Hanson, 17 Ben Daley, 18 Radike Samo, 19 Jarrad Butler, 20 Beau Robinson, 21 Nick Frisby, 22 Ben Tapuai
Sharks: 15 Louis Ludik, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Paul Jordaan, 12 Tim Whitehead, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Frederic Michalak, 9 Charl McLeod; 8 Ryan Kankowski, 7 Marcell Coetzee, 6 Keegan Daniel (capt), 5 Anton Bresler, 4 Willem Alberts, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira
Replacements: 16 Craig Burden, 17 Wiehahn Herbst, 18 Steven Sykes, 19 Jacques Botes, 20 Cobus Reinach, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Odwa Ndungane
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APMC acts impair the freedoms of farmers and consumers.
Rahul Gandhi has announced that fruit and vegetables will be removed from the list of commodities under the agricultural produce marketing committee (APMC) acts in Congress-ruled states. This is an important move towards the freeing-up of markets,and will bring in competition and remove barriers to entry. It is expected that the de-listing will reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables in the long run and encourage investment in cold-storage facilities and warehouses. If the government wishes to reform agriculture and control food inflation,the reform should not stop here.
APMC acts were passed by states during our socialist past. They restrict whom farmers can sell to,who can get a licence to buy produce,and where trading can take place. This has given rise to a system with substantial barriers to entry in the trade of agricultural products. The freedom of farmers and other citizens to buy or sell as they like has been abrogated farmers are forced to sell to traders who hold APMC licences at APMC prices.
As with many other state structures in socialist India,APMC regimes rapidly turned into rackets. Hardly 30 per cent of the mandated open auctions are actually open or transparent. New licences are mostly given to persons who already have shops and godowns in the prescribed market area. Shops in these areas are limited and are mostly available only to friends and relatives of existing traders. There are no transparent criteria for sale or for getting a licence. There is no time-bound application processing period during which a licence is either granted or refused. A licence is granted for a period of one to five years. Thus,the incentive for long-term investment is diminished. Regulatory capture by local trading communities is said to be the norm. These traders control the entire marketing chain,including credit,inputs,storage etc. Prices are often bundled,and there is a lack of clarity on what the exact price of the produce is,and what the interest on the credit and other items is.
These traders then sell the fruit and vegetables to wholesalers who are also APMC-licenced traders and set prices in the wholesale market. Pricing is a mark-up over costs. Various studies have identified this monopsonistic-monopolistic market structure and the lack of free entry and competition as the reason for large middleman margins. For some products,the farmer gets only 40 per cent of the price paid by the end consumer. This market structure does not permit the entry of new players who want to set up cold chains and invest in other infrastructure,keeping marketing costs high. Sometimes,the marketing cost is itself nearly a fifth of the total price paid by the consumer.
The governments approach to reform has been to try to change the APMC acts. In 2003,the Central government circulated a model APMC act and asked the states to adopt it. Sixteen states changed their acts accordingly,though only six notified the new rules under their act. The model APMC act does not solve the problem. Though it allows contract …continued »


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Chael Sonnen to appear before Nevada commission at April 27 meeting | MMAjunkie.com
*Follow the link for the full article.by Steven Marrocco on Apr 18, 2011 at 3:15 pm ET
Chael Sonnen will get a formal chance to clear the air with the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
The onetime UFC middleweight contender is expected to be placed on the agenda for the commission's next meeting, which takes place April 27 in Las Vegas, NSAC Executive Director Keith Kizer today confirmed with MMAjunkie.com (UFC blog for UFC news, UFC rumors, fighter interviews and event previews/recaps | MMAjunkie.com).
The five members of the NSAC will decide whether or not to grant Sonnen both a fighter's license and a second's (cornerman's) license.
Sonnen's appearance follows a meeting this past month with Kizer. That initial meeting, which included UFC officials, was meant for Sonnen to address statements he had made to the California State Athletic Commission regarding his used of prescribed testosterone, as well as what to expect if he applied for a second's license that would allow him to coach "The Ultimate Fighter 14."
As MMAjunkie.com previously reported, the first meeting was not deemed a success by Kizer, who called into question Sonnen's claim that he (Kizer) had approved the use of testosterone prior to Sonnen's fight with Nate Marquardt at UFC 109.
"His point was, 'Well, you and I have never talked before right now, but I don't think I lied,'" Kizer said. "Then he gave some very strange story and claimed, 'My manager and you talked about therapeutic exemptions, and therefore, I just used the wrong word. I should have said 'my' instead of 'I.' As in 'my manager' instead of 'I.'
"I was very straight with him, saying, 'That's a ridiculous explanation.'"


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National Park Service offers free admission to celebrate 97th birthday
The Grand Canyon National Park and all national parks in the nation are celebrating their 97th year in existence.
The National Park Service was established on August 25, 1916 becoming the first country in the world to set aside its most significant places as national parks so they could be enjoyed by all.
"This is a great opportunity to explore a park if you've never been," said spokeswoman Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski. "Entrance fee is typically $25 per car, so this is a great way to see the park for free."
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Connecticut Children's Medical Center's name and reputation are valuable assets for our organization and it is important to present our brand identity in a planned manner that conveys value, coordination and consistency.
Our Brand Identity Standards Guide is designed to serve as a reference for all who are involved in any phase of development or implementation of any materials and messages that are seen or heard in the marketplaces we serve. The objectives of the guide are to provide an easily applicable set of messaging and graphic standards that will enable Connecticut Children's to:
- Implement and maintain a cohesive and consistent graphic identity for the entire organization
- Generate a greater brand awareness and a strong association to a clearly defined set of corporate brand identifiers
- Differentiate our brand from our competitors
Graphic designers, vendors and other communicators are encouraged to read through Connecticut Children's guidelines completely, including detailed specifications for brand usage.
Please direct questions about brand standards as related to marketing and communications initiatives to Connecticut Children's creative services manager, 860.837.5703.


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The warrior stood and faced God,
Which will always come to pass,
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.
"Step forward now, old warrior,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To my church have you been true?"
The warrior squared his shoulders and
Said, "No, Lord, I guess I ain't,
'Cause those of us who carry guns
Can't always be saint.
"I've had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
'Cause the world is awfully rough.
"But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
"And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
"I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here,
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
"If you've a place for me here, Lord,
It needn't be so grand. In life
I didn't expect nor need too much,
So if you don't, I'll understand."
There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod,
As the warrior stood quietly.
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, my warrior,
You've born your burdens well,
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
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2009 is the Year of Ji Chou.
Wishing You All the Best in 2009 !!! Happy New Year !!!
THANK YOU for Your Service to Our Great Nation !!!
Greetings from the Capitol City of the Great Sunshine State of the USA !!! _______________ Thnx 4 the Add !!! _______________ Stay Safe, Fight 2 Win, & GOD Bless ~~ Robert
I'll keep my CHRISTian Values, my freedom, my guns, and my money.
You can keep the "CHANGE"
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Thank you for the add. Very cute pics of you!
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God Bless keep safe
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Parliament meeting in Beirut, Oct. 16, 2012. (The Daily Star/Mahmoud Kheir)
BEIRUT: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri postponed Tuesday the approval of a controversial law that would make contract workers at Electricite du Liban full-time employees.
Berri said approval of the law would likely be postponed till Nov. 7 or 8.
Parliament convened Tuesday to approve 23 draft laws, including that of the EDL that has been slammed by the Future Movement.
Berri chaired the ordinary session which was also designed to elect parliamentary committees and Parliament's secretariat.
All committee members were re-elected to the same posts.
When the session was over, a parliamentary subcommittee formed to study two controversial items in the Cabinet's draft election law held its first meeting.
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