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Law enforcement officials have said that alleged gunman James Holmes sent the package to the University of Colorado medical center in Aurora. It was said to contain detailed writings about 'killing people' and it was Holmes himself who told police where to find it. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
Authorities recovered a package that apparently was mailed by James Eagan Holmes after the shooting suspect told investigators to look for the item on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News on Wednesday.
The source told NBC that the package contained writings about killing people, but could not go into more detail.
Holmes, a 24-year-old who was in the process of withdrawing from a graduate program in neuroscience at the university, has been arrested in connection with the killing of 12 and the injuring of 58 in a shooting spree at the midnight premier of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo. on Friday.
Police recovered the package on Monday after getting a search warrant for the medical center mail room and then getting a second warrant to actually open the package, the law enforcement source said. (Prosecutors later said in court documents that there was only a single search warrant.)
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Police found the package as Holmes described it, including his name in the return address, and it's now being analyzed, the source said.
It was unclear how long the package had been in the mail room before its discovery.
In response to reporters' queries about the package, the Anschutz Medical Campus issued a statement saying it could not comment on anything regarding the ongoing criminal investigation into the theater shooting, under order of Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester.
The statement did provide general information about how mail is handled on campus.
"The University centrally receives mail from the United States Postal Service. The University then delivers the mail to the address on the Anschutz Medical Campus the same day it is received," the statement said. "The University's mail service is not open on Saturday. Saturday mail is sorted and delivered Monday morning. The University does not log or track mail/packages unless it requires a signature from the United States Postal Service."
Holmes made his first court appearance before the court in Arapahoe on Monday, amid grieving for the victims.
Wearing a red prison jumpsuit, Holmes appeared with public defender Tamara Brady for the hearing. Holmes, who said nothing during the proceedings, had several days' beard growth and bright red dyed hair. He looked down or off into the distance, at times raising his eyebrows in a quizzical expression or frowning as if concentrating.
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A hearing of formal charges, expected to be multiple counts of first-degree murder, is set for next Monday. Then the state must decide whether to seek the death penalty.
Holmes had been stockpiling ammunition, weapons, body armor and explosives for months, said authorities who tracked his purchases. After his arrest, teams of experts worked for two days to disarm Holmes' apartment, which contained an elaborate web of explosive and incendiary devices set to be triggered by tripwires.
NBC News' Kate Snow and Kari Huus contributed to this report.
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Life on our hilltop campus extends beyond the classroom, with top-notch facilities for student-athletes and visiting teams.
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Driving Directions to St. Edward's University
From Interstate 35:
From Southbound I-35 take the Woodward St. exit. From Northbound I-35 exit Ben White and remain on the access road until you reach Woodward St. Head west and in a short distance you will see the campus on the right. There are two entrances from Woodward, the first is Theatre Pass and the second is Andre Drive. Turn right on either entrance and you have arrived.
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From southbound Mopac exit Loop 360 and stay on it when it changes to Hwy 71 East. Exit S. Congress Ave. Turn left onto Congress and continue past Woodward to the main campus entrance which is on the right at 3001 S. Congress.

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'Pink Panther' strikes the funny bone at Phoenix Stage Company
Phoenix Stage Company, Oakville: There are some plays where the lead just can't be replaced. Take "The King and I" for instance. Yul Brynner was so spectacular in that show that no one else has ever come close to filling his shoes, though many have tried. However, such is not the case for "The Pink Panther Strikes Again." The Phoenix Stage Company's Rick Haylon as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau would make Peter Sellers proud.
On opening night at the Phoenix Stage Company a large cast took on the Blake Edwards and Frank Walkman's "The Pink Panther Strikes Again." Adapted by William Gleason, the cast of varying degrees of talent turned the production into a more silly than funny experience, but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless. Directed by Ed Bassett, the executive director of the Phoenix Stage Company, he focused on the action. The bare bones set, which Bassett also designed, is a smart choice for a play with so many set changes. It's amazing how functional chairs can be, especially when moved about by pretty in pink pajama-clad panthers. Many of the actors played multiple roles.
The plot, which includes plenty of confusion, plays on the bumbling Clouseau and his former boss Paul Dreyfus who, thanks to Clouseau, ended up in a mental facility for three years. Almost ready to be released, Dreyfus has a relapse when Clouseau decides to visit him and gives him one heck of a surprise. The relapse is just what Dreyfus needs to go over the edge and that is when he decides to kill Clouseau. When all attempts fail, Dreyfus goes for the Doomsday Machine, which will end not only Clouseau, but the entire world.
Haylon as Clouseau has nailed the bumbling inspector's strange speech pattern. It's a little French, a little English, and a lot of mispronounced words. What is so important and so much to the actor's credit is that the audience understands every word. Haylon has honed in the body language as well and does an exceptional job in the role.
Killian Meehan does a fairly good job as Dreyfus, but he belies the lines that refer to Dreyfus as Clouseau's "old good friend." There's nothing old about Meehan. The actor hams it up a lot and has his best moments when Dreyfus is in agony with a toothache. Mitch Freidman goes a fine job as Dr. Fassbender as does Jennifer Beveridge as Margo Fassbender. J. Michael Elser plays Jarvis and Laura Sturges-Cortez as a hot Russian assassin fits the role well. Brian Elser plays Cato.
Multiple roles are played by members of the ensemble including: Tony Benedetti, Roni Gelormino, John Kennedy, Ian Kulesza, Brianna Mattingly, Maria Prussin, KC Ross, Leland M. Schick, and Heide Wallce. The Pink Panthers include: Brianna Mattingly, Jennifer Beverage, Maria Prusson and Heide Wallace.
There's always so much going on that it isn't always easy to keep track of the action, but overall, the production is entertaining and the audience enjoyed it thoroughly. The show runs through Sept. 21.
Joanne Greco Rochman is an active member in the American Theatre Critics Association. She welcomes comments. Contact: email@example.com.


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Jane Farver, director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, has announced her retirement at the end of a nearly 12-year tenure distinguished by the presentation of nationally and internationally acclaimed contemporary art exhibitions and a remarkable increase in public art throughout the campus. Farver has collaborated with a distinctive mix of artists, including emerging artists receiving their first significant visibility as well as prominent artists who otherwise might not have exhibited in the Greater Boston area.
"I have loved working with MIT's wonderful faculty, staff, and students, and with the advisory committee of the List Visual Arts Center," stated Farver. "It is hard to imagine there is a staff more dedicated and capable than that of the List Center, and I will be grateful to them always. It has also been a real privilege to work with the many curators, writers and — in particular — artists that I have encountered in my eleven years at MIT; I owe them all so much."
Farver personally organized numerous exhibitions at the List, including solo exhibitions and projects by Mel Chin, Michael Joo, Paul Pfeiffer, Runa Islam, Kimsooja, John Coplans, Adel Abdessemed, and Tavares Strachan. She also organized group exhibitions, often with colleagues at MIT and leading cultural institutions elsewhere, including Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s and Sensorium: Parts I & 2 – Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art. She assembled a dedicated staff of museum professionals at the List Center and also brought in distinguished outside curators and exhibitions, such as Cameron Jamie, organized by Philippe Vergne of the Walker Art Center, and Y E S Yoko Ono, organized by Alexandra Munroe with Fluxus scholar Jon Hendricks. During a public talk a few weeks after September 11, 2001, Farver and Ono recreated the artist's Bag Piece (1964)
During Farver's tenure, the List Visual Arts Center organized presentations for two international art biennials: the 9th Cairo Biennial, where she was co-commissioner for the American representative (Paul Pfeiffer), an exhibition that traveled to Athens for the 2004 Olympic Games, and the 49th Venice Biennale where Fred Wilson filled the U.S. Pavilion with newly created works.
The List Center is best known for its exhibitions of contemporary art that bring emerging talent to light, but Farver's most lasting contribution may lie in her oversight of an extraordinary public art program that has changed the campus. In conjunction with new construction projects and major renovations, Farver oversaw MIT's Percent-for-Art program, which added more than ten major works to the campus, such as Cai Guo-Qiang's Ring Stone (2010) outside of the new Sloan School building, Anish Kapoor's mirrored, stainless-steel work inside the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, and Sara Sze's Blue Poles (2006) running up the façade of Sidney Pacific Graduate Dormitory. This fall will see the installation of Martin Boyce's modernist metal screen with leaf forms and texts in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Farver, together with Registrar John Rexine and former Public Art Curator Patricia Fuller, re-wrote the List Center's Collection Management Policy and its Best Practices Document for Public Art, which were adopted by MIT's Academic Council. She also oversaw the reaccreditation of the List Center by the American Association of Museums.
In an extensive 2009 article on MIT's public art, The Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee wrote, "a Sunday stroll across MIT is actually a wonderful option for anyone interested in large-scale, boldly conceived modern and contemporary art." He also noted the comprehensive professional conservation effort that has taken place under Farver's supervision, notably of works by Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Beverly Pepper, Alexander Calder, and Harry Bertoia, to name a few.
Revitalizing the List Center's residency program was a priority for Farver, as it offered artists the opportunity to work with MIT's most remarkable asset — the extraordinary intellectual richness of its students, faculty, and staff. Several artists each year, including Cai Guo-Qiang, Christian Jankowski, Chantal Ackerman, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Matthew Day Jackson, came to campus, some seeking insight into how to create new works, others seeking a break from their artistic pressures. They gave back to the campus in many ways, from public talks and classroom visits, to collaborations that stretched the community's research into new avenues. A notable highlight was when artist Adel Abdessemed asked students to destroy a piano — and then put it back into working order, in a few days.
MIT Associate Provost and Ford International Professor of History Philip S. Khoury remarks, "Jane Farver has been a stalwart advocate for the arts, working ceaselessly to bring cutting-edge art to the Boston area and educate the MIT community about its importance. Her efforts will be sorely missed."
Farver will remain at MIT through the May 2011 opening of Juan Downey, The Invisible Architect. Thereafter, she intends to return to New York, where she held numerous positions prior to coming to MIT and has maintained a home.
Khoury announced that a search plan for selecting the next director is already under discussion.


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Three Ways To Sell Your Business By: Chris Lynch CEO Lynch Sales Company December 15, 2015 There are three ways to sell your retail business, but only one way to do so profitably. Selling to a group of employees or individual investor may preserve some jobs at the local level, but those buyers will not … Continue reading
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A recent Associated Press article about Washington farmer John Bartheld, who breeds miniature and full-sized cows, ended with Bartheld saying since he doesn't have kids "these things are kind of like my children," referring to his cows.
I often hear livestock farmers say similar things about the animals they breed, raise and even sell for slaughter. There is nothing remotely family-like about raising an animal, no matter how much affection one has for it during the process, then shipping it off to be slaughtered for food.
Many people are becoming more aware of the suffering behind the production of meat and dairy products and are embracing a vegan lifestyle.
Not only is it better for the animals, it has a positive impact on one's health and our environment. Visit madisonvegan.com for local restaurants that offer delicious and healthful vegan options. Give one of them a try.
— Lynn Pauly, Madison, co-executive director, Alliance for Animals and the Environment
Lynn Pauly: Try a vegan lifestyle for a positive impact on the environment : Wsj.


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Harold. Part One.
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Harold. Part One.
The first time I met Harry he was very ill, it was at his home I had just started going out with his Brother Paul a few weeks and Paul wanted me to meet all of his family. He looked pale and gaunt I thought he looked close to death! I clearly remember looking at Harry then at Paul and thinking I have got the better of the two! They didn't look like brothers at all for Paul is tall and had lots of thick gingery blond hair that occasionally looked red in the sun and had a young complexion and Harry has short, thin brown, bland looking hair receding at the front, he isn't very tall and his skin is much older looking. Yes there is a 15 year difference between them which is almost like a generation apart! Harry was welcoming as best as he could he sat in his rocking chair barely able to move or open his eyes. He explained if it wasn't for his little dog that he called Dog, the cat that he called Cat and the fish he called Fish, he would have had no reason to get up at all each day. It was a short visit but enough for him to know he was not forgotten. Paul had brought him some basic food supplies bread, milk, tea; of course, for I found out the whole family keeps the tea company going! I never drank so much tea in my life! It wasn't normal to me.
Paul and I had a whirlwind romance and within 8 months after meeting we were married. Out of all Pauls siblings 2 brothers and 2 sisters It was Harry I saw the most, maybe because he lived the nearest than the others. He was good with cars he could fix any car! When I went to buy my favourite car, in the world, a mini a proper 1 not the huge one that they now sell, I told my children those are fake minis. Harry came with me to check the car over I bet the man selling it, his heart must have been in his mouth. Harry and I took it for a run and on its return to the man's house the bonnet was raised and this and that was looked at, the tyres, the interior, he even checked the bit over the tyres for rust! Harry asked him how much he wanted for it he said, "£500" Harry said to me, in front of the man, "It's worth it, it's a good car," he always said what he meant, he is the no nonsense Harry, he says things like they are. I told the man I would have the car and would go and get the money but when I went to the cash point I was only allowed out £250 a day so I asked Harry if he would lend me the other £250 until the following day he said, "Yes no problem."
Having my mini was a dream come true, for I have always wanted one it's just like a huge cute toy! It was silver in colour and I asked Harry if he would paint it green for me as this was my favourite colour, he brought some green paint for me to choose and I chose bottle green. Harry did a wonderful job on my car and I was the proud owner of a very own green mini. I remember one day going to work on the motorway I was in a rain storm in the middle lane and a juggernaut was a yard behind me, his wheel was higher than my car, the idiot was flashing his lights and sounding his massive horn for me to get out of the way! I thought, so this is how I'm going to meet my Maker! I couldn't see through the windscreen for the amount of rain that was lashing down on us all, it was impossible to move to the left, the slow lane, but the idiot was having none of it, he was relentless and a bully but I held my ground for there was nowhere for me to move to for we all were in heavy traffic, I remember thinking, this is still a car even though it's tiny! Eventually the rain eased and I was able to see enough to be able to get out it its way! It was a close call. When our first child was about to be born we bought a high chair we couldn't get it into the mini others in the car park amused themselves by watching us struggle trying this way and that to get the darn thing in, but to no avail. Eventually a woman came over and showed us that the chair is in 2 parts and she unclipped it at its 4 corners and then there was a chair the bit under the chair that made it high! So sadly I had to sell my beloved car as nothing would now fit in it. Harry came with me to view other cars and if they were rubbish he would say so in front of the person selling it, he would point out the faults and say, "It's not worth it, this need doing to it and that needs changing." He would tell the person what he thought it was worth and sometimes he would get the price down for me and he would repair it for me and he'd tell me what I needed to get, which he would get either from a scrap yard or shop and for his labour he would say, "Just give me £20," he saved me hundreds over the years.
He loved going to car boots and antiques fairs, he had an eye for rare old quirky things! He always got a bargain; he was SO clever no one at the car boot could rip him off; he stuck to his guns and spoke with experienced, confidence, he was respected by many many people, after he bought his prized possession, he'd sometimes tell the seller what it was but, he wouldn't tell them what it was really worth, he kept that information to himself. He gave me a small wall plate with a little girl on and he gave Daniel an old wooden quirky toy car, the car itself was less than 1" thick and about 6" long with 4 wheels.
His house was fantastic! He'd show us the latest item he had bought we all had our own favourites, then next time I went he'd show me other item and that would become my favourite! I told him many times, "The Black Country Museum would love everything in your house." Amongst all the wonderful items in Harries house the BEST thing for me has always been his tree house! I have never seen anything like it, my Daughter Megan and I went up the stairs to the tree and it was amazing, the one room up in the tree was kitted out like an old fashioned home with a black cast iron fire, mantelpiece, small 2 seat sofa, mirror, pretty lamp, multicoloured beautiful carpet, front door 4 walls, fitted side lights and above our heads a light bulb and Laura Ashley looking floral shade, a small table with fine bone china with cup and saucer on, with a dark wood chair with slightly padded seat, all the furniture was beautiful and old. He told us to sit down, we did and we stayed there for about an hour admiring everything. It was a privilege to have experienced it, for me, it was a once-in-a-life..... never to be forgotten.
Harry like me is unique, I remember when Paul and I was expecting our first baby, Paul wasn't with me when Harry said, "Many years dads were not allowed to watch the birth of their children so I have never seen a baby born, please can I watch you give birth?" I was gobsmacked and said, "No way!!!!!" He said, "Please?" I replied, "Sorry Arry, no," I mean in history how many Brother in Law has asked that question to their Sister in Law? There can't be many! I laughed later when I told people but it wasn't a laughing matter for Harry or me at the time.
Whenever the kids brought home a consent slip from school for parents contact phone numbers it was always Pauls, mine and Harry's because my Mum emigrated after she retired and Paul and Harry's parents had both past away and we needed another number just in case I was too far away at work and Paul didn't drive and Harry did. I remember one summers day when the kids were small I was going to work and Paul would not wake up! I had woke him up but he was just too sleepy so in desperation I drove the 5 minutes to Harry's house with bottles of milk and nappies, I didn't bother to tell Paul where the kids were. I then drove to work at break neck speed, it was Sunday morning and the roads were unusually quiet, I made it with 1 minute to spare! So many hours later Paul rang me he sounded worried, he said, "The kids are missing!!!!" I told him I had to take them to Harry's, as they were too young to be left on their own, he said he was, "Sorry," he went and got the kids, Harry kindly dropped them back home. If I couldn't take or pick up Daniel from Kickboxing Harry as a 1 off or 2 off he'd pick up Daniel from there and bring him home. One of my favourite photos of Harry is the one with Daniel when he was 1 year old it is of them looking into each other's eyes Harry is looking down and Daniel is looking up. I call this lovely photo, which captured a lovely moment The Old And The Young. This photo was taken at a special wedding anniversary, on Paul's side of the family, while Harry was holding Daniel he said, "I wonder what he is thinking?"
One of the stories he told us was when he had a HUGE Great Dane, I didn't see it but had heard many stories about it, this one is my favourite, he took his pet for a rare walk for it usually went for a walk in the park at the back of his home, so here he was on the main road there was a group of lads around his age and he felt proud to have such a huge dog, and knew that all eyes at the bus stop was on him and his massive dog, then without warning the HUGE dog saw a cat!!!! The Mutt ran he held onto the leather lead but dragged him along the path; to this day he still has the scars on his chin!!
I remember when he asked, "Have you checked your brake fluid?" I replied, "You mean my breaks?" He said, "No, your brake fluid," I told him, "What's that, I've never heard of it before." Harry rolled his eyes in his head and said his favourite nickname for me which has always been, "You should've been blond!!!" I liked that, it made him laugh and me too.
He had many friends who are Gipsy's, he is so easy to get on with, that he made friends for life, I remember seeing a very long gipsy caravan in his garden many years ago, it wasn't how I'd imagine a gipsy caravan to look like, and with SO many Gipsy friends Harry who was always busy with various projects he did at the same time, he decided to make from scratch his own version of a Gipsy caravan. It was fantastic! One of his Gipsy friends wanted to buy it off him, but he declined and kept it.
Harry took pride in his colourful chickens. They looked like nothing in the shops, these seem too nice to eat, with their bold colours, but these were not for eating but for their eggs and there were plenty of them on his window sill, in the kitchen in rows of 2.
I think the best thing we all loved about Harry's house was his real coal fire!! It was always too hot in that compact living room, full of antiques and rare items, and the back room too. For us who didn't see it every day it was the heart of the house! Your eyes were drawn to it; it is indeed living, and hot and comforting. Everybody in the house chained smoked, when I first went there to visit I'd cough uncontrollably every time and when the kids went they did the same! We'd come out at the end and we'd all smelt like we'd had 30 fags! We accepted their rules and Harry accepted ours when he came to our home and didn't smoke indoors.
Many moons ago, before I got married I always said to my friends, "I want a car that will cost me £50," all the jokes would come flying my way, "Do you want it to have tyres, windows, doors......." And I would always reply, "Yes everything, just imagine an old person who becomes too old to drive and their car is just left in their garage and to get rid of it they sell it to me for £50." I didn't see that as impossible at all. Then one day after I was married Harry said to me, "Do you want a car for 50 quid?" I said, "Yes what's wrong with it (as I was in-between cars, as mine, he knew had just failed its MOT) "Nothing's wrong with it" he replied my good mate Ginge is too old to drive his now and it's just there in his garage, it is in perfect condition it's his pride and joy, he asked me to sell it for him and all he wants it £50." Well that was within my budget. Harry told me the Make of car and it was very VERY clean! Harry said to me, "Don't get putting empty crisps packets in this," It was a horrible mustard colour but I didn't care, it was the perfect car ... the insurance cost me 90 quid! I said to Paul one day I think someone is stealing petrol from my car as it had no lock on petrol cap, it simply turned to open or close but I had no proof until one morning I was walking towards my car that was parked at the bottom of the road and there underneath the front tyre was my mustard petrol cap!!! I quickly got it to Harrys who sorted me out, getting me a locked cap from the scrap yard. Then 6 months after having my lovely car I was at work and the milkman came to the office door and when the worker opened it I heard him say, "Whose is that piece of junk I just wrote off outside?" My heart missed a beat as I ran to the front door and I saw my car! I said to him, "That piece of junk is MY CAR!!!!" Details were swopped and an Inspector came to my home to look at my car which was more than drivable. He looked at it for a few seconds and said, "The car is a write off," I was gutted, it was fixable but it would have cost too much. Harry came with me to get my next car which was a cream old BMW! Cause cars is what makes Harry Harry, he fixed his own, mine and many many others he got paid for it of course. Most people never took their cars to the garage they just took it to Harry's who had his own vans outside the house in various colours and shapes
Fifteen years ago he met his second wife Cassandra she had 3 little girls Chloe, Skye and Amy from a previous marriage she been the innocent party. Myself and all of Harry's friends and family went to the wedding. As we got to know her we realized she was a funny onion! But if she was good enough for Harry she was good enough for us too. Harry had 3 kids from his first marriage John, James and Ruth he too been the innocent party.
Over the years I met some of his friends, whenever I went to visit with Paul and the kids, one of his friends was called Gold! As I got to know her I realize she is Golden!
When I wanted to tease Harry I would call him Harold, his reply was always the same, "That's not my real name, it's Harry."
Last year about a year ago, Harry told us he had found a lump on his chest, I didn't think too much about it for he had told us about a lump he had on his arm a couple of years before, but this lump turned out to be different.....
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What a lovely guy
That's a wonderful write-up for a man who was a clearly a lovely guy. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact announced the list of 10 players picked from the 2011 Expansion Draft on Wednesday, which included Houston Dynamo captain and MLS veteran Brian Ching as well as Philadelphia Union midfielder Justin Mapp and young Chivas USA defender Zarek Valentin.
Head coach Jesse Marsch didn't waste any time in announcing the Ching pick, tabbing him with the first selection in the draft.
"We value Brian," confirmed Marsch after the announcement. "He's a great goal scorer and has great experience, including in the World Cup. There's certainly a lot of respect for him."
Marsch was very much aware of Ching's desire to stay in Houston.
"He's made it clear that he doesn't want to be here," Marsch told MLSsoccer.com. "I want to include what's best for Brian in his future, but I also have to consider what's best for our club. We looked at this list, and we tried to get the best out of it."
The Impact's coach went on to explain that situations like these should require a certain level of professionalism from both parties.
"If you want to be a professional player, you have to keep an open mind to moving around," said Marsch. "If he doesn't want to come, then we'll find another player that fits our team."
The former Chivas USA midfielder was also keen on explaining his decision to select Mapp ahead of Freddy Adu, who the Union had left exposed. Marsch had been very interested in getting the 22-year-old attacker, but opted instead to take the 27-year-old midfielder.
"I never decided that I had picked Freddy," confirmed Montreal's gaffer. "I was just evaluating to see how it would fit. Everything comes into play about who the players are, what positions they play, how old they are and in the end, we just think that Justin was a better fit than Freddy."
The ex-US national team assistant coach stressed that he had a good relationship with Adu, but was deterred by the large cap hit his club would take on if they'd pulled the trigger on the pick.
"The stark reality is that he is a big number for our league," admitted Marsch. "We are not afraid of [Designated Players], but we're still thinking about who the right ones are for our team. We just felt like it wasn't Freddy."
One of the players virtually guaranteed to be selected was Valentin. Marsch stated that the promising US U-20 national team player had interested him right from the get-go.
"Zarek was the fourth pick in the draft last year," Marsch said. "As soon as we saw his name on the list, we wrote it right away on the board and knew that he was someone we'd like. The other thing about him is that there are a lot of teams interested in him, so we had to think about what his value was. In the end, we decided that he was a good young kid that we'd want to keep."
And Valentin wasn't the only one picked up from Chivas USA. Marsch and his staff plucked right back James Riley from the Seattle Sounders before trading him to the Goats in return for forward Justin Braun and midfielder Gerson Mayen.
"We were thinking about Riley because we knew that he is a guy that you can count on," Marsch said. "However with Valentin in, we thought we already had a good player at right back, and the opportunity to get Justin Braun and Gerson Mayen would bolster some of our attacking options. It was a better idea at this moment for our team."
These new additions, along with Bobby Burling (San Jose), Jeb Brovsky (Vancouver), Collen Warner (Salt Lake), Josh Gardner (Columbus), Sanna Nyassi (Colorado) and Seth Sinovic (Sporting Kansas City), mean that the club will be making decisions on the future of many of their players from the 2011 roster very soon.
"We have more decisions to make, more players on the radar, including some from last year," admitted Marsch. "I'm glad that we waited a little bit because it was important for us to get through the draft process and understand how to move forward."


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State Championship Banquet March 24!
The Ansonia Gridiron Club will host a banquet next month celebrating the high school football team's 20th state championship title.
The event is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, March 24 at the Colonial Tavern in Oxford.
Donation is $40 per person.
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The interest in renewable energy has increased greatly. The US currently produces enough wind energy to power 14 million homes. Approximately 2% of our energy comes from wnd, which is double from just 3 years ago. many beleive that in 2030, 15-20% of our energy will come from wind.
The reason for the growth is partially associated with new government regulations concerning our impact on the environment. Federal and local governments are receiving pressure from voters to find alternative sources. Experts believe that if the 2030 scenerio occurs, we would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 7600 metric tons and create 200,000 jobs.
Windmills have been around for centuries to pump water and grind seeds into grain. A wind turbine is an advancement that turns an electrical generator. The force of the wind, turns the blades. the rotor turns and spins a driveshaft that is connected to an generator. the generator converts this mechanical energy in to electrical energy.
There are several variables that determine the amount of energy produced: wind speed, diameter of the rotor, density of the air, and efficiency of the turbine.
A great product for teaching wind power concepts is the Basic Turbine. The Basic Turbine is a great start for teaching about wind energy in the classroom. Visit www.heathscientific.net to purchase this item. This is the most affordable and robust wind turbine kit on the market. Design blades and test your power output with a multimeter, LED bulbs, or an ultra capacitor.
The instructions that are included will show you how to build this PVC turbine, how to make blades for your wind turbine, how to use a multimeter to record electrical data and will discuss some basic wind energy science.


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It's not exactly easy playing in a college arena if you've never done it before.
Watching the two Grantsville games Thursday and Friday against Morgan and Cedar, it was obvious which teams had tournament experience.
Even easier to tell which one didn't — For the second time in as many nights, the Grantsville girls basketball team had stars in their eyes against a good opponent in the Class 3A playoffs, and lost.
Grantsville head coach Megan Vera said without hesitation that lack of experience was what led to the Cowboy downfall.
"The state tournament is tough," Vera said following Thursday's loss to Morgan in the quarterfinal. "These girls haven't been here before, and I think they had those jitters."
Grantsville scored just four points in the second quarter against Morgan. They performed slightly better with an eight-point performance in the second quarter against Cedar in the consolation bracket the next day.
Compared with 18- and 23-point comeback attempts in the fourth quarters of those two games, the Cowboys were obviously mentally ill-prepared for the bright lights.
It's a hard pill to swallow, especially for senior center Abby Butler, who has played on the varsity squad all four seasons of Vera's tenure at Grantsville.
"We came out and weren't focused and had a flat first half," she said. "But we came back, and we showed them what Grantsville basketball is really about, not giving up in the second half."
But the future is bright for this up-and-coming Grantsville program. Although they lose Butler and fellow-seniors Rylie Ekins and Brayle Crosman, the Cowboys have a plethora of talented underclassmen.
They all, like incoming senior Paige McCluskey, now have tournament experience.
Grantsville finished this season with a 21-4 overall record and a Region 10 championship.
"It was a tough loss, but we have proved so much this whole season," Butler said. "All four years, ever since Coach Vera showed up, we have proved so much that you can turn anything around."
Tavin Stucki is a sportswriter from Midvale, Utah, who hasn't found a sport he doesn't like. Follow him on Twitter @TooeleTAVscript or send comments to email@example.com.


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A top level market overview on the UAE water and electricity sector produced by our Market Research analyst, Loubna El Hassan.
Key highlights:
- The UAE water and power sector is set to grow over the next decade, driven by the government's efforts to expand its water and power capacity, which is anticipated to increase by 40% in order to meet the growing demand.
- UAE has one of the highest levels of per capita power consumption in the world, with soaring temperatures driving up air conditioner use during the summer months of June till September. As the country undergoes substantial population and economic growth, electricity consumption is expected to grow rapidly going forward, reaching 141 terawatt/hour in 2020, up from 103 terawatt/hour in 2014. Additionally, inefficient use of electricity and a reliance on energy intensive water desalination plants are key drivers for growth in power consumption in the UAE over the next decade.
- The UAE's average per capita water consumption is about 740 cubic meters per year (m3 pcpa), which is approximately 50% higher than the world average of 500 cubic meters. On the other hand, water production remains a costly process for the UAE, considering that the amount of energy required to desalinate seawater stands at about 30% of the country's total yearly power consumption.
- Government's projections for investment into the UAE power and water sector are promising. The nation has invested tens of billions of dollars in various power generation and water projects during 2011-2015. Additionally, till the year 2020, private sector is projected to be presented with an opportunity to invest up to USD 100bn into the power generation sector. The private sector is to be encouraged to invest in the energy sector, bringing technology, expertise and capital. DEWA will remain the single buyer of water and electricity in the Emirate. DEWA has launched a host of successful initiatives and have allocated over AED 2.6bn towards the development of electricity and water infrastructure in the Emirate, ahead of the World Expo 2020, aiming to have a more efficient generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity and water.
This report contains:
i. An overview of the water and power sector to include top line figures (annual production, consumption, growth outlook etc..), major challenges faced in the sector and key market players
ii. UAE's Future Plans and Investments in the sector
iii. Future projects by UAE's water and electricity authorities and
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Pokemon Go has finally arrived in Singapore! Good to see that the company Niantic did not forget about Singapore.
Upon starting the game, however, one would be in for a surprise. The gyms are all dominated by high level Pokemon, just merely hours after the release. (It is humanly impossible to have reached such a level in such a short time.)
For instance, the gyms near my neighbourhood has Gyarados (arguably the best Water Pokemon), Hypnos and Nidoqueen respectively. (See screenshot)
How did these guys get these Pokemon is a good question. The possibilities are either GPS Spoof (E.g. by using VPN to access Pokemon Europe or USA), or that they really caught the Pokemon overseas. Either way, they would have had a headstart since Pokemon Go was released much earlier in USA/Europe/Australia.
Overall, Pokemon Go is a fun and unique game in the sense that it involves walking around in real environments. However, one letdown is that it is not very skill-based (unless one counts flicking Pokeballs as a skill). There is not much strategy involved (both catching or battling) for Pokemon Go.
There is one mathematical part of Pokemon Go: Determining which Pokemon to evolve based on IV (Initial Values). Some websites to help are: Pokeassistant, or TheSilphRoad. The difference between a bad or perfect Pokemon is only 10% though, so it will only make a difference in very close battles.
Pokémon Clip 'N' Carry Poké Ball Belt, Styles May Vary
(For those really into the game, may want to check these out while you hunt for Pokemon!)
Flyme Pokemon Go Cap ,Team Valor Team Mystic Team Instinct Baseball Cap Hat (Red)


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Everyone knows that a majority of products made in the world were made in China. I am lucky enough to live at China's manufacturing industry's doorstep and am able to get all the designer (and high quality knock off) brands at a fraction of the cost. I'm also able to turn my fashion sketches into reality. With that being said, I have decided to start a business in which people request certain goods from China and I go on the hunt for them as well as selling them to you for a fraction of the cost!
Here are a few little things I have bought in China:
- Marc Jacob bags
- True Religion jeans
- Longchamp bags
- Dr. Dre beats
- Alexander McQueen clutches
- iPhone cases
Really, the list is endless of the kinds of things I find in China but those are the buys I'm most proud of. I've had friends buy knock off (but identical looking) bags from Prada, Chanel, Jimmy Choo, Mulberry, and others. I'll be posting photos of my buys later but in the meantime, if you're interested in getting some major steals, leave a comment below. I will ship to anywhere in the world (with the S&H charges included in the final price) so don't be shy and ask away! Also, if you'd want your fashion ideas to go from dreams to reality, email them to me with a list of characteristics (accessories, fabric type, colors, etc.) at firstname.lastname@example.com
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|At Homegoods. She passed out... but didn't dare let go of either ball. Future athlete? Perhaps.
|I stole more than a handful of kisses. She can't fight back when she's sleeping!
|Little darling
|So sleepy, snuggling with Dad
|At Page's Diner in Hinsdale- getting ready to meet Quinn for breakfast
|Someone has spotted Quinn outside the window of the restaurant!!!
|That little, certain someone is just a WEE bit excited to see our friend!
|...and the squealing begins!!
|Thanks Quinn for snapping a quick pic of us in our matching hats!
::Don't ask me what is going on with the chunk of hair shooting out the side of my head::
I think Ava sort of looks like a little train conductor. Boyish? Yes! .. and it's just like her!


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Will Troubled Van Halen Tour Make It To HP Pavilion?
With Van Halen's show in San Jose just a week away, the question has suddenly become whether they can make it to HP Pavilion before the wheels fall off their reunion. The ever-feuding metal legends are apparently at it again, having "postponed" more than 30 dates on their U.S. summer tour—basically everything…Continue reading »


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|The molecular products and biogeochemical significance of lipid photooxidation in West Antarctic surface waters
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|Collins J.R, Fredricks H.F, Bowman J.S, Ward C.P, Moreno C., Longnecker K., Marchetti A., Hansel C.M, Ducklow H.W, Van Mooy B.AS
|Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
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|Apparent quantum yield; chromatography-mass spectrometry; diacylglycerolipids; Fatty acids; Geochemistry & Geophysics; Intact polar; light-dependent degradation; Lipid photooxidation; Lipidomics; marine atmosphere; membrane-lipids; Oxidized lipids; oxidized phospholipids; Oxylipins; Phosphatidylcholine; Polyunsaturated; Remote; sea-ice diatoms; sinking particles; Ultraviolet radiation; ultraviolet-b radiation; unsaturated fatty-acids; uv-b; west antarctica
The seasonal depletion of stratospheric ozone over the Southern Hemisphere allows abnormally high doses of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) to reach surface waters of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) in the austral spring, creating a natural laboratory for the study of lipid photooxidation in the shallow mixed layer of the marginal ice zone. The photooxidation of lipids under such conditions has been identified as a significant source of stress to microorganisms and short-chain fatty acids altered by photochemical processes have been found in both marine aerosols and sinking marine particle material. However, the biogeochemical impact of lipid photooxidation has not been quantitatively compared at ecosystem scale to the many other biological and abiotic processes that can transform particulate organic matter in the surface ocean. We combined results from field experiments with diverse environmental data, including high-resolution, accurate-mass HPLC-ESI-MS analysis of lipid extracts and in situ measurements of ultraviolet irradiance, to address several unresolved questions about lipid photooxidation in the marine environment. In our experiments, we used liposomes-nonliving, cell-like aggregations of lipids-to examine the photolability of various moieties of the intact polar diacylglycerol (IP-DAG) phosphatidylcholine (PC), a structural component of membranes in a broad range of microorganisms. We observed significant rates of photooxidation only when the molecule contained the polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). As the DHA-containing lipid was oxidized, we observed the steady ingrowth of a diversity of oxylipins and oxidized IP-DAG; our results suggest both the intact IP-DAG the degradation products were amenable to heterotrophic assimilation. To complement our experiments, we used an enhanced version of a new lipidomics discovery software package to identify the lipids in water column samples and in several diatom isolates. The galactolipid digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG), the sulfolipid sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol (SQDG) and the phospholipids PC and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) accounted for the majority of IP-DAG in the water column particulate (>= 0.2 mm) size fraction; between 3.4 and 5.3% of the IP-DAG contained fatty acids that were both highly polyunsaturated (i.e., each containing >= 5 double bonds). Using a broadband apparent quantum yield (AQY) that accounted for direct and Type I (i.e., radical- mediated) photooxidation of PUFA-containing IP-DAG, we estimated that 0.7 + 0.2 mmol IP- DAG m(-2) d(-1) (0.5 +/- 0.1 mg C m(-2) d(-1)) were oxidized by photochemical processes in the mixed layer. This rate represented 4.4% (range, 3-21%) of the mean bacterial production rate measured in the same waters immediately following the retreat of the sea ice. Because our liposome experiments were not designed to account for oxidation by Type II photosensitized processes that often dominate in marine phytodetritus, our rate estimates may represent a sizeable underestimate of the true rate of lipid photooxidation in the water column. While production of such diverse oxidized lipids and oxylipins has been previously observed in terrestrial plants and mammals in response to biological stressors such as disease, we show here that a similar suite of molecules can be produced via an abiotic process in the environment and that the effect can be commensurate in magnitude with other ecosystem-scale biogeochemical processes. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Western blot analysis of cell lysates from various cell lines using AMPKβ 1/2(57C12) Rabbit mAb.
Immunohistochemical analysis of paraffin-embedded human lung carcinoma, showing cytoplasmic localization using AMPKβ1/2 (57C12) Rabbit mAb.
Immunohistochemical analysis of paraffin-embedded human breast carcinoma, using AMPKβ1/2 (57C12) Rabbit mAb in the presence of control peptide (left) or AMPKβ 1/2 Blocking Peptide #1074 (right).
Confocal immunofluorescent analysis of untreated C2C12 cells labeled with AMPKβ1/2 (57C12) Rabbit mAb (green). Actin filaments have been labeled with Alexa Fluor® 555 phalloidin (red). Blue pseudocolor = DRAQ5® #4084 (fluorescent DNA dye).
Flow cytometric analysis of COS cells, using AMPKβ1/2 (57C12) Rabbit mAb (blue) compared to a nonspecific negative control antibody (red).
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NOTE: Cells should be grown, treated, fixed and stained directly in multi-well plates, chamber slides or on coverslips.
Aspirate liquid, then cover cells to a depth of 2–3 mm with 4% formaldehyde diluted in 1X PBS.
NOTE: Formaldehyde is toxic, use only in a fume hood.
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NOTE: Adherent cells or tissue should be dissociated and in single-cell suspension prior to fixation.
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NOTE: Antibodies targeting CD markers or other extracellular proteins may be added prior to fixation if the epitope is disrupted by formaldehyde and/or methanol. The antibodies will remain bound to the target of interest during the fixation and permeabilization process. However, note that some fluorophores (including PE and APC) are damaged by methanol and thus should not be added prior to permeabilization. Conduct a small-scale experiment if you are unsure.
NOTE: Count cells using a hemocytometer or alternative method.
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AMPKbeta1/2 (57C12) Rabbit mAb detects endogenous levels of both total AMPKβ1 and β2 proteins. The antibody does not cross-react with other related proteins.
Human, Mouse, Rat, Hamster, Monkey
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to the sequence surrounding His233 residues of human AMPKβ1.
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is highly conserved from yeast to plants and animals and plays a key role in the regulation of energy homeostasis (1). AMPK is a heterotrimeric complex composed of a catalytic α subunit and regulatory β and γ subunits, each of which is encoded by two or three distinct genes (α1, 2; β1, 2; γ1, 2, 3) (2). The kinase is activated by an elevated AMP/ATP ratio due to cellular and environmental stress, such as heat shock, hypoxia, and ischemia (1). The tumor suppressor LKB1, in association with accessory proteins STRAD and MO25, phosphorylates AMPKα at Thr172 in the activation loop, and this phosphorylation is required for AMPK activation (3-5). AMPKα is also phosphorylated at Thr258 and Ser485 (for α1; Ser491 for α2). The upstream kinase and the biological significance of these phosphorylation events have yet to be elucidated (6). The β1 subunit is post-translationally modified by myristoylation and multi-site phosphorylation including Ser24/25, Ser96, Ser101, Ser108, and Ser182 (6,7). Phosphorylation at Ser108 of the β1 subunit seems to be required for the activation of AMPK enzyme, while phosphorylation at Ser24/25 and Ser182 affects AMPK localization (7). Several mutations in AMPKγ subunits have been identified, most of which are located in the putative AMP/ATP binding sites (CBS or Bateman domains). Mutations at these sites lead to reduction of AMPK activity and cause glycogen accumulation in heart or skeletal muscle (1,2). Accumulating evidence indicates that AMPK not only regulates the metabolism of fatty acids and glycogen, but also modulates protein synthesis and cell growth through EF2 and TSC2/mTOR pathways, as well as blood flow via eNOS/nNOS (1).
AMPKbeta1 and AMPKbeta2 share approximately 70% sequence homology. Both isoforms contribute equally to AMPK activity. AMPKβ1 is predominantly expressed in the liver and brain, and shows minimal expression in kidney and skeletal muscle. In comparison, AMPKβ2 is highly expressed in skeletal muscle, and is expressed at low levels in kidney, liver, and lung.
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Evaluation of safety and efficacy of low-dose methotrexate as an alternative treatment option to systemic corticosteroids in generalized lichen planus
Yuvraj Eknath More, Swapna Subhash Khatu, Dipali Chetan Chavan, Pradeep Mahajan, Sai Pawar, Neeta Gokhale
Department of Dermatology, Smt Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:Yuvraj Eknath MoreDepartment of Dermatology, Smt Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Narhe, Off Mumbai Bypass, Pune - 411 041, Maharashtra IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/0975-2870.202094
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Introduction: Lichen planus (LP) is a common, chronic, inflammatory pruritic disorder involving the skin, mucous membranes, nails, and hair follicles. Systemic corticosteroids have long been treatment of choice for generalized LP. However, use of corticosteroids is limited due to multiple side effects. Methotrexate (MTX) can be used as alternative and safe modality in generalized LP. Materials and Methods: Twenty-two cases of generalized LP with comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension and steroid-resistant and patients with side effects of long-term corticosteroids were included in this study. MTX was initiated at the dose of 7.5 mg/week. Clinical evaluation for improvement in lesions and pruritus was performed at 2nd, 4th, 8th, and 12th weeks. Results: After 12 weeks, 80% patients had excellent improvement. Patients with an excellent response were followed up. In the 6-month follow-up, four patients showed recurrence while all the remaining 12 showed complete remission. Conclusion: Results of this small study suggest that the use of weekly oral MTX can be highly effective and tolerable treatment alternative for generalized LP.
Keywords: Generalized, lichen planus, methotrexate


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I recently took part in an art exchange and here are some goodies I've got so far. 2 great prints from the Cloud Commission based in Newcastle. A mini zine and some lovely drawings by Sanna Dyker A beautiful handmade brooch by Kathleen at Murgatroyd and Bean and ring by Beth Dawson. Thanks Guys.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Art exchange
Labels: Art Exchange, Illustration, prints, ring Posted by Kristyna litten at 08:48
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- Sanna Dyker said...
Hey Kristyna,
I got your email but have had terrible trouble lately sending emails! I'm glad you like the drawings :) It's been such a lovely idea. I'm putting my postal delights up on my blog soon :) You have a lovely blog here, and gorgeous work! I hope the degree show preparation is al going smoothly :)
Sanna x
- 29 April 2010 at 17:40
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If you obsessed over the comic strip Peanuts as a child — I mean: You lived and died with those characters, devoured the strips retroactively in anthologies and contemporaneously in newspapers, collected the merchandise, watched the cartoons, wondered whether your personality was more Charlie Brown or Linus, mapped the interior of Snoopy's doghouse, yearned to meet, even be, their creator, melancholy Minnesotan Charles M. Schulz — hark, the herald angels sing: You are not alone!
The Peanuts Papers, edited by Andrew Blauner, collects three dozen essays by prominent writers and cartoonists — including Maxine Hong Kingston, Gerald Early, Chuck Klosterman, Ann Patchett, Chris Ware, the Canadian cartoonist Seth, and Rick Moody — who are just like you: so touched by Schulz's 50-year sprint through art and life, love and loss, religion and music, suburbs and schools, baseball and war, psychiatry and philosophy, that they, too, turned from consumption to contemplation.
It is altogether fitting, if belated, that Peanuts should be the subject of a rich anthology of top-tier literary criticism, including a few comic strips. Writing from diverse perspectives, demographic profiles, and disciplines, the contributors establish new boundaries for discourse about Peanuts, scholarly and popular, while paying tribute to favorite strips and lovingly exploring the most obscure tributaries of Schulziana. (I, for one, had forgotten the politically inconvenient fact that in 1980 a brief romance arose between Peppermint Patty, hailed here and elsewhere as a pioneering, if undeclared, lesbian character, and the unmistakably male Pig-Pen.)
A few entries the hard-core fans will recognize. In this category is Umberto Eco's essay comparing Peanuts with the comic strip Krazy Kat, first published in Arriva Charlie Brown! (an Italian collection) in 1963; then, translated into English, in The New York Review of Books in 1985; then again introducing the coffee-table volume Charles M. Schulz: 40 Years Life and Art (1990). Likewise Jonathan Franzen's autobiographical "Two Ponies" — with its provocative declaration, "Peanuts wasn't a portal on the Gospel. It was my gospel" — which was originally published, under a different title, in The New Yorker in 2004 and then, in abridged form the following year, as the foreword to The Complete Peanuts: Dailies & Sundays, 1957 to 1958.
For the many millions around the world who still love Peanuts, nearly two decades after the strip, and Charles Schulz, left us, The Peanuts Papers brims with fascinating insights into why the genius from St. Paul affected us so deeply. With admirable industry, Blauner, a literary agent and anthologist, commissioned more than two-thirds of the contributions especially for this volume. Only one, a long poem by the novelist Jonathan Lethem patterned after Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" — brandishing the harshest street profanity and intended, presumably, to syncopate Schulz to the Beats — felt out of sync with the strip's spirit (though Garry Trudeau, writing in the Washington Post in 1999, is quoted elsewhere in these pages labeling Peanuts "the first Beat strip," work that "vibrated with '50s alienation").
Common themes abound: The Peanuts gang inhabited what The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik establishes, in the lead essay, was a "uniquely bleak world," its absence of adult figures "credible" because "kids so often were [alone] in the postwar period that Schulz's strip immortalizes." Sarah Boxer, a contributor to The Atlantic, notes that despite Schulz's evolutions over the years — as writer, pen-and-ink man, entrepreneur — his "Hobbesian ideas about society" appeared at the outset and never changed. As summarized by Boxer:
People, especially children, are selfish and cruel to one another; social life is perpetual conflict; solitude is the only peaceful harbor; one's deepest wishes will invariably be derailed and one's comforts whisked away; and an unbridgeable gulf yawns between one's fantasies about oneself and what others see.
Leavening Schulz's imbalanced interplay between hope and hopelessness was the artist's gentle humor, patient pacing, and supple line work. Only with such sweeteners could so many legions of people, beset by their own adversities, choose to immerse themselves so regularly and enduringly in Schulz's cuddly dystopia, the setting for what Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, once called the "casual cruelty and offhanded humiliations at the heart of the strip."
One advantage the strip enjoyed, as Joe Queenan contends, was that every reader of Peanuts was always, by definition, at least a bit older than the children depicted, making Schulz's audience "nostalgic for childhood . . . the childhood Lucy and Charlie and Linus were having." This raises an important question for future scholars: How old were Schulz's youngest comprehending readers?
If different readers necessarily found different meanings in the strip, several contributors affirm here how passionately they wished literally to become a member of the Peanuts gang. "The 'Peanuts' world was where I longed to be," Janice Shapiro writes in a charming multi-panel comic recounting her intense bond with the characters in their '60s heyday. "It was like they were my friends. I was just as curious as to what they were going to do . . . as I was about the real kids who lived on my block."
A decade later, growing up on Staten Island, I felt the same way: Why can't my friends and I go trick-or-treating by ourselves at night, like the Peanuts gang, safe from the hooliganism of older kids out egging? It is a short step, and one giant leap, from such a sentiment to Why can't I go trick-or-treating with Charlie Brown? And as a cartoonist myself, I recognized intimately the frustration expressed by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker, who confesses to the quixotic quest for parity with the master: "I was extremely concerned with my ability to draw Snoopy and Charlie Brown just like Schulz did. No tracing, I needed to be able to do it myself. Get all the strokes and shapes just right."
Surprisingly, none of the essayists write, as I would have, about how the animated TV cartoons, while brilliant in their own right and undeniably central to the Peanuts–industrial complex, nonetheless seemed, as they did to me, somehow illegitimate, extra-canonical. Was no one else bothered by the complete blackening of Snoopy's ears and nose, ignoring the white trimming that lined them during the strip's peak run? It actually disappointed me that the cover of A Charlie Brown Dictionary (1973), a cherished reference volume, featured only images taken from the animated cartoons.
In The Peanuts Papers, however, essayists treat the TV cartoons reverentially, with paeans to Vince Guaraldi, the jazz virtuoso whose scores are synonymous with Peanuts, and excavations of forgotten fare, such as Mayflower Voyagers (1988), in which Schulz's animated youngsters and Snoopy, clad as Pilgrims, related the origins of Thanksgiving.
None of the contributors undertake to adjudicate the historiographical disputes between the Schulz family and author David Michaelis. For his monumental Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2007), Michaelis received unprecedented access to the Schulz archives — and, after publication, a slew of complaints from the artist's survivors, alleging the portrait he had drawn was skewed toward Schulz's darker impulses and factually inaccurate in several details. No comparably ambitious account of Schulz's life has been attempted since.
While Jennifer Finney Boylan writes movingly about her transgender journey, and the inspiration she took from the Zen-like self-acceptance demonstrated by the perennially marginalized Pig-Pen, the politics of inclusivism in The Peanuts Papers extends only so far. A number of essayists dutifully note the introduction of the first black character, Franklin, as an overture by Schulz, in 1968, to the African-American community, and that of Woodstock, two years later, as a nod to the counterculture; similarly, the vague sexuality of Peppermint Patty and Marcie is also addressed. But I am still left wondering whether any other Jews, or Muslims, felt excluded by Schulz's excursions into Christian theology — sporadically and then twice a year, without fail, Easter and Christmas — in temporary but stinging banishment from a universe they, and I, identified with so strongly, loved so deeply, every other day of the year.
If one element of Schulz's genius was his ability to draw the same thing every day without repeating himself — his own definition of a comic-strip artist — another was his discipline: He never succumbed to the temptation to cut his characters a break. Charlie Brown never successfully flies a kite; Lucy never seduces Schroeder away from Beethoven; Linus, the best-educated member of the gang, never catches a glimpse of the Great Pumpkin, in whom he alone believes; and Sally never wins the affections of Linus, her thumb-sucking, blankie-toting "sweet babboo." Even Snoopy, whose flights of imagination vault him into realms terrifying (World War I aerial duels) and soothing (Joe Cool), never escapes his animal dependence on the round-headed kid who feeds him.
Perhaps the chief lesson of The Peanuts Papers, not voiced explicitly by any of the essayists but hinted at in their collected wisdom, is that Charles Schulz's final cruelty transcended the boxes inside which he penciled and inked, leapt from the pages of the books and newspapers that reproduced his benign malevolence, to engulf his readers directly. In the end, all of us who pored over Peanuts, invested wholly in its cosmology, were the ones from whom the football was constantly being pulled at the last second, a painful reminder, each time we looked up from Peanuts — shouldn't we know better by now, with so many disappointments under our belt? — that however intense our longing to live in Schulz's world, we never would.
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This article appears as "Charlie Brown's World" in the March 9, 2020, print edition of National Review.
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Once upon a time shops would look proud of themselves. Sydenham road was actually beautiful. Shop owners would stand outside of their shop with a look of pride on their faces. Goods would be beautifully displayed. Signwriters, signmakers and glass cutters (these were generally from the area, all had their own styles and would help give an area it's own visual identity) would make the most humble of businesses beautiful.
These shops aren't exclusive boutiques. They simply believed in enticing people into the shop by making their store as attractive as possible. They had pride in their appearance. Even a humble dairy or fruit and vegetable shop. They were beautiful.
Some shops were so proud of where they were, they put the name of the road on the shop. We did this with Billings. Most shops these days don't even put the number on the shop front. We think they should by law.
Today Sydenham Road is pretty shabby. Compare the above with the same road today:
Much as we love Mustis above (which is what everyone calls the store) the signs hasn't changed for years, it pre-dates the current owners (Musti is one of the friendliest shore owners in Sydenham). Garam Masala have put tiles more suited to a toilt on the outside which is totally out of keeping with the building.
Many people say this is a great dry cleaners. We use another one, despite this one being cheaper and nearer to us. It doesn't look like it will do a good job. For months they actually had a mouldy wedding dress in the window. IN 4 years they haven't cleaned the shop front or cleared the tags off the roller shutters.
If you take over a business, invest in new signage. Spraypainting over the old name is not going to win you any customers! It makes me question how they treat the food if they think this is acceptable.
The sign on the right broke one windy night over 2 years ago. They still haven't fixed it. I'm not sure what that says about what they sell or customer service. To us it makes the shop look like it doesn't care. It's interesting historically though!
The sad fact is that it's cheaper to repaint an original shop front than rip it out and install a new one. Quality signage and signwriting isn't that expensive.
So shops in Sydenham currently look like this:
But what if:
Same shops, same shop fronts, same prices. Just new signage, awnings and a bit of paint.
Which one would you rather shop in? Which one gives you a better impression of the high street, customer service and quality?