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IT was still very sultry. All the windows of the red drawing‐room stood wide open. Outside the thunder rain fell, straight as ram‐rods, in big globular drops, which spattered upon the grey quarries and splashed on the pink and lilac, lemon‐yellow, scarlet and orange of the pot plants,—hydrangeas, pelargoniums, and early‐flowering chrysanthemums,—set three‐deep along the base of the house wall, the whole length of the terrace front. The atmosphere was thick. Masses of purple cloud, lurid light crowning their summits, boiled up out of the south‐east. But the worst of the storm was already over, and the parched land, grateful for the downpour of rain, exhaled a whiteness of smoke—as in thanksgiving from off some altar of incense. On the grass slopes of the near park a flight of rooks had alighted. They stalked and strode over the withered turf with a self‐important, quaintly clerical air, seeking provender, but, so far, finding none, since the moisture had not yet sufficiently penetrated the hardened soil for earth‐worms and kindred creeping‐things to move surfacewards.
Within, the red drawing‐room had suffered conspicuous change. For, on Richard moving downstairs to his old quarters in the south‐western wing of the house, Lady Calmady had judged it an act of love, rather than of desecration, to restore this long‐disused apartment to its former employment. Adjoining the dining‐room—connecting this last with the billiard‐ page: 566 room, summer‐parlour, and garden‐hall—this room was convenient to assemble in before, and sit in for a while after, meals. Richard would thereby be saved superfluous journeys upstairs. And this act of restitution, which was also in a sense an act of penitence, once decided upon, Katherine carried it forward with a certain gentle ardour, renewing crimson carpets and hangings and disposing the furniture according to its long‐ago positions. The memory of what had once been should remain forever here enshrined, but with the glad colours of life, not the faded ones of unforgiven death upon it. It satisfied her conscience to do this. For it appeared to her that so very much of good had been granted her of late, so large a measure of peace and hope vouchsafed to her, that it was but fitting she should bear testimony to her awareness of all that by obliteration of the last outward sign of the rebellion of her sorrowful youth. The Richard of to‐day, homestaying, busy with much kindness, thoughtful of her comfort, honouring her with delicate courtesies—which to whoso receives them makes her womanhood a privilege rather than a burden—yet teasing her not a little, too, in the security of a fair and equal affection, bore such moving resemblance to that other Richard, first master of her heart, that Katherine could afford to cancel the cruelty of certain memories, retaining only the lovelier portion of them, and could find a peculiar sweetness in frequentation of this room, formerly devoted wholly to sense of injury and blackness of hate.
And on the day in question, Katherine's presence exhaled a specially tender brightness, even as the thirsty earth, refreshed by the thunder‐rain, sent up a rare whiteness as of incense smoke. For she had been somewhat anxious about Dickie lately. To her sensitive observation of him, his virtue, his evenness of temper, his reasonableness, had come to have in them a pathetic element. He was lovely and pleasant in his ways. But sometimes, when tired or off his guard, she had surprised an expression on his face, a constrained patience of speech, even of attitude, which made her fear he had given her but that half of his confidence calculated to cheer, while he kept the half calculated to sadden rather rigorously to himself. And, in good truth, Richard did suffer not a little at this period. The first push of enthusiastic conviction had passed, while his new manner of conduct and of thought had not yet acquired the stability of habit. The tide was low. Shallows and sand‐bars disclosed themselves. He endured the temptations arising from the state known to saintly writers as "spiritual dryness," and found those temptations of an inglorious and wholly unheroic sort. And, though he held his page: 567 peace, Katherine feared for him—feared that the way he elected to walk in was over strait, and that, though resolution would hold, health might be overstrained.
"My darling, you never grumble now," she had said to him a few days back.
To which he answered:—
"Poor, dear mother, have I cheated you of one of your few, small pleasures? Was it so very delightful to listen to that same grumbling?"
"I begin to believe it was," Katherine declared. "It conferred a unique distinction upon me, you see, because I had a comfortable conviction you grumbled to nobody else. One is jealous of distinction. Yes—I think I miss it, Dickie."
Whereupon he laughed and kissed her, and swore he'd grumble fast enough if there was anything—which positively there wasn't—to grumble about. All of which, though it charmed Katherine, appeased her anxiety but moderately. The young man worked too hard. His opportunities of amusement were too scant. Katherine cast about in thought, and in prayer, for some lightening of his daily life, even if such lightening should lessen the completeness of his dependence upon herself. And it was just at this juncture that Miss St. Quentin wrote proposing to come to Brockhurst for a week. She had not been there since the Whitsuntide recess. She wrote from Ormiston, where she was staying on her way south, after paying a round of country‐house visits in Scotland. It was now September. She would probably go to Cairo for the winter with young Lady Tobermory—grand‐niece by marriage of her late god‐mother and benefactress—whose lungs were pronounced to be badly touched. Might she, therefore, come to Brockhurst to say good‐bye?
And to this proposed visit Richard offered no opposition, though he received the announcement of it without any marked demonstration of approval.—Oh, by all means let her come! Of course it must be a pleasure to his mother to have her. And he'd got on very well with her in the spring—unquestionably he had.—Richard's expression was slightly ironical.—But he did really like her?—Oh dear, yes, he liked her exceedingly. She was quite curiously clever, and she was sincere, and she was rather beautiful too, in her own style—he had always thought that. By all means have her.—After which conversation Richard went for a long ride, inspected cottages in building at Sandyfield, and visited a house, undergoing extensive internal alterations, which stands back from Clerke's Green, about a hundred yards short of Appleyard, the saddler's shop at Farley Row. He came in late. Unusual page: 568 silence held him during dinner. And Lady Calmady took herself to task, reproaching herself with selfishness. Honoria was very dear to her, and so, only too probably, she had overrated the friendliness of Dickie's attitude towards the young lady. But they had seemed to get on so extremely well in the spring, and very fairly well at Whitsuntide! Yet, perhaps, in that, as in so much else, Richard put a constraint upon himself, obeying conscience rather than inclination. Katherine was perturbed. Nor had her perturbations suffered diminution yesterday, upon Miss St. Quentin's arrival. Richard remained unexpansive. Today, however, matters had improved. Something—possibly the thunderstorm—seemed to have thawed his coldness, broken up his reticence of manner. Therefore Katherine gave thanks and moved with a lighter heart.
As for Miss St. Quentin herself, an innate gladsomeness pervaded her aspect not easy to resist. Lady Calmady had been sensible of it when the young lady first greeted her that morning. It remained by her now, as she stood after luncheon at one of the open windows, watching the up‐rolling thunder‐cloud, the spattering raindrops, the quaintly solemn behaviour of the stalking, striding rooks. Honoria was easily entertained to‐day. She felt well‐disposed towards every living creature. And the rooks diverted her extremely. Profanely they reminded her of certain archiepiscopal garden‐parties; with this improvement on the human variant, that here wives and daughters also were condemned to decent sables instead of being at liberty to array themselves according to self‐invented canons of remarkably defective taste. But, though diverted, it must be owned she gave her attention the more closely to all that outward drama of storm and rain and to the antics of the rooks, because she was very conscious of the fact that Richard Calmady had followed her and his mother into the red drawing‐room, and it hurt her‐though she had now, of necessity, witnessed it many times—it hurt, it still very shrewdly distressed her, to see him walk. As she heard the soft thud and shuffle of his onward progress, followed by the little clatter of the crutches as he laid them upon the floor beside his chair, the brightness died out of Honoria's face. She registered sharp annoyance against herself, for she had not anticipated that this would continue to affect her so much. She supposed she had grown accustomed to it during her last two visits to Brockhurst, and that, this time, it would occasion her no shock. But the sadness of the young man's deformity remained present as ever. The indignity of it offended her. The desire by some, by any, means to mitigate the woful circumscription of page: 569 liberty and opportunity which it inflicted, wrought upon her almost painfully. And so she looked very hard at the hungry, anticking rooks, both to secure time for recovery of her equanimity, and also to spare Richard smallest suspicion that she avoided beholding his advance and installation.
"We needn't start until four, mother," she heard him say. "But I'm afraid it is clearing."
Honoria turned from the window.
"Yes, it is clearing," she remarked, "incontestably clearing! You won't escape the Grimshott function after all."
"It's a nuisance having to go," Richard replied. "But you see this is an old engagement. People are wonderfully civil and kind. I wish they were less so. They waste one's time. But it doesn't do to be ungracious, and we needn't stay more than half an hour, need we, mother?"
He looked up at Honoria.
"Don't you think, on the whole, you'd better come too?" he said.
But the young lady shook her head smilingly. She stood close beside Lady Calmady.
"Oh dear, no," she answered. "I am quite absolutely certain I hadn't better come too."
Richard continued to look up at her.
"Half the county will be there. Everything will be richly, comprehensively dull. Think of it. Do come," he repeated, "it would be so good for your soul."
"Oh, my soul's in the humour to be nobly careless of personal advantage," Honoria replied. "It's in a state of almost perilously full‐blown optimism regarding the security of its own salvation to‐day, somehow."—Her glance rested very sweetly upon Lady Calmady.—"And then all the rest of and not impossibly my soul has a word to say in that connection too—cries out to go and tramp over the steaming turf and breathe the scent of the fir woods again."
Honoria sat down lazily on the arm of a neighbouring easy‐chair, against the crimson cover of which her striped blue‐and‐white, shirting dress showed excellently distinct and clear. Richard's prolonged and quiet scrutiny oppressed her slightly, necessitating change of attitude and place.
"And then," she continued, "I want to go down to the paddocks and have a look at the yearlings. How are they coming on? Have you anything good?"
"Two or three promising fillies. They're in the paddock nearest the Long Water. You'll find them as quiet as sheep. page: 570 But I'll ask you not to go in among the brood‐mares and foals unless Chifney is with you. They may be a bit savage and shy, and it is not altogether safe for a lady."
He stretched out his hand, taking Lady Calmady's hand for a moment.
"Dear mother, you look tired. You'll have to put up with Grimshott. The weather's not going to let us off. Go and rest till we start."
And when, a few minutes later, Katherine, departing, closed the door behind her, he addressed Miss St. Quentin again.
"How do you think my mother is?"
"Beautifully well."
"Not worried?"
"No," Honoria said.
"You are really quite contented about her, then?"
The question both surprised and touched his hearer, as a friendly and gracious admission that she possessed certain rights.
"Oh dear, yes," she said. "I am more than contented about her. No one can fail to be so who, loving her, sees her now. There was just one thing she wanted. Now she has it, and so all is well."
"What one thing?" Dickie asked, with a hint of irony in his manner and his voice.
"Why, you—you, Richard," Honoria said.
She drew herself up proudly, a little alarmed by, a little defiant of, the directness of her own speech, perceiving, so soon as she had uttered it, that it might be construed as indirect reproach. And to administer reproach had been very far from her purpose. She fixed her eyes upon the domes of the great oaks, crowning an outstanding knoll at the far end of the lime avenue. The foliage of them, deep green shading into russet, was arrestingly solid and metallic, offering a rather magnificent scheme of stormy colour taken in connection with the hot purple of the uprolling cloud. Framed by the stone work of the open window, the whole presented a fine picture in the manner of Salvator Rosa. A few bright raindrops splashed and splattered, and the thunder growled far away in the north. The atmosphere was heavy. For a time neither spoke. Then Honoria said, gently, as one asking a favour:—
"Richard, will you tell me about that home of yours? Cousin Katherine was speaking of it to me last night."
And it seemed to her his thought must have journeyed to some far distance, and found difficulty in returning thence, it page: 571 was so long before he answered her, while his face had become set, and showed colourless as wax against the surrounding crimson of the room.
"Oh, the home!" he exclaimed, shrugging his shoulders just perceptibly. "It doesn't amount to very much. My mother in her dear unwisdom of faith and hope magnifies the value of it. It's just an idle man's fad."
"A fad with an uncommon amount of backbone to it, apparently."
"That depends on its eventual success. It's a thing to be judged not by intentions but by results."
"What made you think of it?"
Richard looked full at her, spreading out his hands, and again shrugging his shoulders slightly. Again Miss St. Quentin accused herself of a defect of tact.
"Isn't it rather obvious why I should think of it?" he asked. "It seemed to me that, in a very mild and limited degree, it was calculated to meet a want."—He smiled upon her, quite sweet‐temperedly, yet once more there was a flavour of irony in his tone.—"Of course hideous creatures and disabled creatures are an eyesore. We pity, but we look the other way. I quite accept that. They are a nuisance, since they are a standing witness to the fact that things, here below, very far from always work smoothly and well, and that there are disasters beyond the power of applied science to put right. The ordinary human being doesn't covet to be forcibly reminded of that by means of a living object‐lesson."
Richard shifted his position, clasped his hands behind his head. He had begun speaking without idea of self‐revelation; but the relief of speech, after long self‐repression, took him, goading him on. Old strains of feeling, kept under by conscious exercise of will, asserted themselves. He asked neither sympathy nor help. He simply called from off those shallows and sand‐bars laid bare by the ebbing tide of his first enthusiasm. He protested, wearied by the spiritual dryness which had caused all effort to prove so joyless of late. To have sought relief in words before his mother would have been unpardonable he held. She had borne enough from him in the past, and more than enough. But to permit it himself in the presence of this young, strong, capable woman of the world, was very different. She came out of the swing of society and of affairs, of large interests in politics and in thought. She would go back into those again very shortly, so what did it matter? She captivated him and incensed him alike. His relation to her had been so page: 572 fertile of contradictions—at once singularly superficial and fugitive, and singularly vital. He did not care to analyse his own feelings in respect of her. He had, so he told himself, never quite cared to do that. She had wounded his pride shrewdly at times, still he had unquestioning faith in her power of comprehending his meaning as she sat there, graceful, long‐limbed, indolent, in her pale dress, looking towards the window, the light on her face revealing the fine squareness of the chiselling of her profile, of her jaw, her nostril, and brow. She appeared so free of spirit, so untrammelled, so excellently exalted above all that is weak, craven, smirched by impurity, capable of baseness or deceit.
"But naturally with me the case is different," he went on, his voice growing deeper, his utterance more measured. "It is futile to resent being reminded of that which, in point of fact, you never forget. It's childish for the pot to call the kettle black. And so I came to the conclusion, a few months ago, to put away all such childishness, and set myself to gain whatever advantage I could from—well—from my own blackness."
Honoria turned her head, averting her face yet farther. Richard could only see the outline of her cheek. She had never before heard him make so direct allusion to his own deformity, and it frightened her a little. Her heart beat curiously quick. For it was to her as though he compelled her to draw near and penetrate a region in which, gazing thitherward questioningly from afar, she had divined the residence of stern and intimate miseries, inalienable, unremittent, taking their rise in an almost alarming remoteness of time and fundamentality of cause.
"You see, in plain English," he said, "I view all such unhappy beings from the inside, not, as the rest of you do, merely from the out. I belong to them and they to me. It is not an altogether flattering connection. Only recently, I am afraid, have I had the honesty to acknowledge it! But, having once done so, it seems only reasonable to look up the members of my unlucky family and take care of them, and if possible put them through—not on the lines of a charitable institution, which must inevitably be a rather mechanical, step‐mother kind of arrangement at best, but on the lines of family affection, of personal friendship."
He paused a moment.
"Does that strike you as too unpractical and fantastic, contrary to sound, philanthropic principle and practice?"
Honoria shook her head.
"It is based on a higher law than any of modern organised philanthropy," she said, and her voice had a queer unsteadiness page: 573 in it. "It goes back to the Gospels—to the matter of giving your life for your friend."
As she spoke, Honoria rose. She went across and stood at the window. Furtively she dabbed her pocket handkerchief against her eyes.
"Well, after all, one must give one's life for something or other, you know," Richard remarked, "or the days would become a little too intolerably dull, and then one might be tempted to make short work of life altogether."
Honoria returned to her chair again and sat down—this time not on the arm of it but in ordinary conventional fashion. She faced Richard. He observed that her eyelids were slightly swollen, slightly red. This gave an extraordinary effect of gentleness to her expression.
"How do you find them—the members of your sad family?" she asked.
"Oh, in all sorts of ways and of places! Knott swears it is contrary to reason, an interfering with the beneficent tendency of nature to kill off the unfit. Yet he works like a horse to help me—even talks of giving up his practice and moving to Farley Row, so as to be near the headquarters of my establishment. The lease of a rather charming, old house there fell in this year. Fortunately the tenant did not want to renew, so I am having that made comfortable for them."
Richard smiled. A greater sense of well‐being animated him. Out of the world she had come, back into the world she would go. Meanwhile she was nobly fair to look upon, she was pure of heart, intercourse with her made for the justification of high purposes and unselfish experiment—so he thought.
"I am growing as keen on bagging a fine cripple as another man might be on bagging a fine tiger," he said. "The whole matter at bottom, I suspect, turns on the instinct of sport.— Only the week before last I acquired a rather terribly superior specimen—a lad of eighteen, a factory hand in Westchurch. He was caught by some loose gearing and swept into the machinery. What is left of him—if it survives, which it had much better not, and yet I can't help hoping it will, he is such a plucky, sweet‐natured fellow—will require a nurse for the rest of its life. So I am pushing on the work at Farley, that the home may be ready when we get him out of hospital.—By the way, I must go to‐morrow and stir up the workmen—Do you care to come and see it all, if the afternoon is fine and not too hot?"
And Honoria agreed. Nor did she shrink when Richard slipping out of his chair picked up his crutches.—"I suppose it page: 574 is about time to get ready for the Grimshott function," he said.—She walked beside him to the door, opened it and passed into the neutral‐tinted, tapestry‐hung dining‐room. There the young man waited a moment. He looked not at her but straight before him.
"Honoria," he said suddenly, almost harshly, "you and Helen de Vallorbes used to be great friends. For more than a year I have held no communication with her, except through my lawyers. Can you tell me anything about her?"
Miss St. Quentin hesitated.
"Nothing very direct—I heard from de Vallorbes about three months ago. I don't think I am faithless—indeed I held on to her as long as I could, Richard! I am not squeamish, and then I always prefer to stand by the woman. But whatever de Vallorbes may have been, he pulled himself together rather admirably from the time he went into the army. He wanted to keep straight and to live respectably. And—I hate to say so—but she treated him a little too flagrantly. And then—and then"—
Honoria put her hands over her eyes and shook back her head angrily.
"It wasn't one man, Richard."
Dickie went white to the lips.
"I know that," he said.
He moved forward a few steps.
"Who is it now? Destournelle?"
"Oh no—no"—Honoria said. "Some Russian—from the extreme east—Kazan, I think—prince, millionaire, drunken savage. But he adores her. He squanders money upon her, surrounds her with barbaric state. This is de Vallorbes' version of the affair. The scandal is open and notorious. But she and her prince together have great power. Something will eventually be arranged in the way of a marriage. She will not come back."


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By Tiernan Ray
The Street today had more to chew on as regards Apple (AAPL) in advance of the company's quarterly report next Tuesday, following better-than-expected fiscal Q3 results and a a better-than-expected forecast yesterday afternoon from wireless chip maker Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), a supplier to Apple.
Apple shares today closed down $6.81, or 1.6%, at $424.95.
Raymond James's Tavis McCourt, who has a Strong Buy rating on Apple stock, and a $600 price target, writes that he thinks the results signal Apple's rumored next iPhone, an iPhone 5S, is on track to debut in September, rather than being delayed as some media reports had suggested:
Skyworks is the market leader in RF front end solutions and sells broadly throughout the mobile ecosystem (big exposure to Apple, Samsung [Electronics (005930KS)] and China vendors). Skyworks is also taking share in analog components so it is hard to draw a firm conclusion, but in general, we view the results and guide a positive for Qualcomm (QCOM), who has a similarly diverse customer list of handset OEM customers. Perhaps more importantly, September quarter guidance for Skyworks was quite strong, +9% sequentially, which we believe is a strong signal that iPhone 5S and any other iPhone devices launching this year probably are not delayed nearly as much as recent news stories have suggested. This guide would be consistent with a September launch or perhaps early October at the latest. We will continue to monitor as other Apple component vendors begin reporting.
Also today, Christopher Caso of Susquehanna Financial Group, meanwhile, today reiterated a Neutral rating on Apple shares, and a $440 price target, reiterating there's downside risk of $340 for the shares.
"We don't think estimates fully reflect the poorer mix that our production checks suggest for 2H13," writes Caso, projecting revenue of $32.84 billion and EPS of $6.64, which is worse than the Street consensus of $35 billion and $7.33.
Caso thinks the rumored lower-cost iPhone will become a factor as soon as this quarter, and he opines that the Street doesn't appreciate how that mix of lower-priced wares will weigh on results:
For the June quarter, we are modeling 25 mln iPhones (including 15 mln iPhone 5) and 15.5 mln iPads (including 9.5 mln iPad mini). Our estimates are below consensus of 26 mln iPhone and 18 mln iPads. As a result, our 2Q revenue of $32.8 bln is below consensus of $35.2 bln. For 3Q, we are forecasting 28 mln iPhone (including 8 mln iPhone 5S and 7 mln low-cost iPhone units) and 17 mln iPad units. Our 3Q revenue estimate of $35.7 bln is below consensus of $37.8 bln. Our EPS estimate of $7.38 is well below consensus of $8.76, as we expect a greater mix of lower-end phones in the quarter due to our expectation of a September launch of iPhone 5S and the low-cost iPhone.
And finally, the team at FactSet today offered there perspective on the outsized impact of Apple's expected earnings per share decline of 21%:
The Information Technology sector has been a focus sector for the markets over the past 24 hours, as both Microsoft and Google reported actual EPS below the mean EPS estimates on Thursday night. The sector will likely continue to be a focus for the markets during the upcoming week as well, due to Apple. On Tuesday (July 23), the company is scheduled to report earnings results for the second quarter. The mean EPS estimate for Apple for Q2 2013 is $7.33, relative to year-ago EPS of $9.32. As a result of this expected decrease in EPS and Apple's earnings weight in the index, the company is the largest contributor to the earnings decline for the Information Technology sector for the second consecutive quarter. The earnings growth rate for the Information Technology sector is -9.4%. If Apple is excluded, the earnings growth rate for the sector improves to -6.9%.


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By Patsy R. Brumfield / Daily Journal
TUPELO – The FBI claims it has evidence that former Tupelo martial arts instructor J. Everett Dutschke connects with ricin found in his studio last week.
Dutschke was arrested about 12:50 a.m. Saturday after the case against another man collapsed.
Authorities claim ricin was sent via letter to President Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker of Tupelo and a county court judge.
Dutschke insists he is not guilty.
The FBI sworn statement has just been unsealed.
It claims that on April 22, Dutschke was observed cleaning out his former business, then discarding several items through the window of his vehicle.
When the items were recovered by the FBI, they said they found a coffee grinder, a box of latex gloves, a dust mask and an empty bucket of floor adhesive.
Several tests were conducted on the items, the FBI claims, and all confirmed the presence of ricin, made from castor beans.
The statement also claims that a January search of Dutschke's computer by local law enforcement revealed that on Dec. 31, someone downloaded a publication, "Standard Operating Procedure for Ricin," and two hours later, "Immunochromotography Detection of Ricin in Environmental and Biological Samples."
Authorities also expressed suspicion when they found that a computer and printer at Dustchke's East Tupelo residence shows its operating system reinstalled on April 22 and a print driver installed the same day.
"I understand … that persons wishing to delete the contents of their hard drives will often reinstall a computer's operating system," the FBI agent states in the report.
Dutschke also ordered castor bean seeds from Ebay, the FBI says their records show, in November and December.
The seven-page affidavit also claims FBI lab documents examiners on April 26 found numerous printed documents bearing the same "trashmarks" as the three ricin letters sent to President Obama, Wicker and Judge Sadie Holland.
• Read more in Wednesday's Daily Journal.


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Center for AIDS Research
Center for AIDS Research
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Comp Arthritis, MSK, Bone & Autoimmunity Ctr
Comp Arthritis, MSK, Bone & Autoimmunity Ctr
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Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Dr. Zajac completed his undergraduate studies in microbiology and virology at the University of Warwick, England (B.Sc with honors, 1991). For graduate studies he moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D, 1996) and then continued to pursue his interest in viral immunology as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral fellow in Rafi Ahmed's laboratory at Emory University. Allan was appointed as a Faculty member in the Department of Microbiology at UAB in November, 1999.
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Anti-Viral Immunity; T Cell Responses; Immunological Memory
Globally there are over 500 million citizens living with chronic HIV, hepatitis C, or hepatitis B virus infections and every year acute viral infections also cause significant disease, distress, and death. Thus, there is a critical need to develop better strategies to improve viral control and limit pathogenesis, that are ideally directed by an in-depth fundamental understanding of disease processes and host protection mechanisms. My research program is focused on immune responses to infection. I am fascinated by why certain infections and vaccines elicit robust and highly effective responses that can control the pathogen and subsequently provide life long protection, whereas during persistent infections these responses become corrupted. This corruption of the immune response can be catastrophic, resulting in failure to contain the infection, clinical complications, and increased likelihood of transmission. The majority of my research efforts involve investigating cell-mediated immune responses. Our studies have shown that virus-specific CD8 T cells succumb to exhaustion during chronic viral infections as they sequentially lose the typical arrays of effector functions that usually combat the infection. In published and ongoing studies we have used cytokine-reporter mice to track the ontogeny of T cell responses following viral infections. These studies have helped to define the origins of virus-specific memory CD4 T cells as well as the very early activation of anti-viral CD8 T cells which occurs during the first stages of a chronic viral infection. We are currently addressing the specific roles of functionally distinct subsets of T cell during acute and chronic infections and are pin-pointing which populations confer superior infection control and are most resistant to exhaustion. Many studies, including findings from my own laboratory, have highlighted the vital role for CD4 T cells in supporting CD8 T cell responses. Defining how these populations communicate and collaborate to drive strong anti-viral activities assists with devising strategies to improve inferior responses and understanding why immunity can erode. We discovered that the CD4 T cell derived cytokine IL-21 is essential for sustaining cell-mediated immunity in chronically infected hosts. We are now working towards defining exactly how this cytokine operates to support anti-viral T cell responses and exploring whether this can be therapeutically harnessed to boost immunity and improve viral control. Interactions between the cells of the immune system allows for the exchange of molecular information and commands which launch and regulate the individuals response to infections. We are also defining how adhesion molecules, which function to promote cellular interactions, shape the fate decisions of the responding T cells. We have shown that ablating specific adhesion molecule interactions can alter the magnitude, functional quality, and recall potential of anti-viral CD8 T cell responses. The next steps are now being taken to determine whether blocking these interactions is a viable therapeutic option for enhancing immune responses and better containing viral infections. Our studies generate fundamental information which is broadly applicable to understanding immunity to infections. Through a network of local and national collaborators we are continually expanding the scope of our studies. This includes exploring the roles of specific cytokines in developing and sustaining pathogenic autoimmune responses, such as inflammatory bowel disease, as well as examining the roles of cytokines and T cell responses during transplantation. We also have longstanding collaborations to better define how responses to chronic infections of humans, especially HIV infection, are regulated and subverted.
Selected Publications
Zajac, A., Blattman, J., Murali-Krishna, K., Sourdive, D., Suresh, M., Altman, J. & Ahmed R. (1998). Viral immune evasion due to persistence of activated T cells without effector function. Journal of Experimental Medicine 188, 2205-2213.
Yi JS, Du M, Zajac AJ. (2009). A Vital Role for Interleukin-21 in the Control of a Chronic Viral Infection.
Science. May 14
Harrington LE, Janowski KM, Oliver JR, Zajac AJ, Weaver CT. (2008). Memory CD4 T cells emerge from effector T-cell progenitors. Nature 452, 356-360
Wojciechowski, S., Jordan, M., Zhu, Y., White, J., Zajac, A. & Hildeman, D. (2006). Bim mediates apoptosis of CD127lo effector T cells and limits T cell memory. Eur. J. Immunol. Jun 8
Tebo, A., Fuller, M., Gaddis, D., Kojima, K., Rehani, K. & Zajac, A. (2005). Rapid recruitment of CD8 T cells restructures immunodominance during recall responses. Journal of Virology 79, 12703-12713.
Fuller, M., Hildeman, D., Sabbaj, S., Gaddis, D., Tebo, A., Shang, L., Goepfert, P. & Zajac, A. (2005). Cutting Edge: Emergence of CD127hi functionally competent memory T Cells is compromised by high viral loads and inadequate T cell help. Journal of Immunology 174, 4204-4214.
Fuller, M., Khanolkar, A., Tebo, A., & Zajac, A. (2004). Maintenance, loss and resurgence of T cell responses during acute, protracted and chronic viral infections. Journal of Immunology 172, 4204-4214.
Khanolkar, A., Fuller, M. & Zajac, A. (2004). CD4 T cell-dependent CD8 T cell maturation. Journal of Immunology 172, 2834-2844.
Zajac, A., Dye, J. & Quinn, D. (2003). Control of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection in granzyme B deficient mice. Virology 305, 1-9.
Fuller, M. & Zajac, A. (2003). Ablation of CD8 and CD4 cell responses by high viral loads. Journal of Immunology 170, 477-86.
Khanolkar, A., Fuller, M., Zajac, A. (2002). T cell responses to viral infections: Lessons from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. Immunologic Research 26, 309-321.
McMahon, C., Zajac, A., Jamieson, A., Corral, L., Mammer, G., Ahmed, R., Raulet, D. (2002). Viral and bacterial infections induce expression of multiple NK cell receptors in responding CD8+ T cells. Journal of Immunology 169, 1444-1452.
Puglielli, M., Zajac, A., van der Most, R., Dzuris, J., Sette, A., Altman, J. & Ahmed, R. (2001). In vivo selection of a lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus variant that affects recognition of the GP33-43 epitope by H-2Db but not H-2Kb. Journal of Virology 75, 5099-5107.
Grayson, J., Zajac, A., Altman, J. & Ahmed, R. (2000). Increased expression of Bcl-2 in antigen specific memory CD8+ T cells. Journal of Immunology (Cutting Edge) 164, 3946-3954.
Zajac, A., Vance, R., Held, W., Sourdive, D., Altman, J., Raulet, D. & Ahmed, R. (1999). Impaired anti-viral T-cell responses due to expression of the LY49A inhibitory receptor. Journal of Immunology 163, 5526-5534.
Buchmeier, M. & Zajac, A. (1999). Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. In "Persistent Viral Infections"; R. Ahmed & I. Chen eds. John Wiley & Sons publishers. pp 575-605.
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RE:Offseason Primer
Thanks Juro!
Yes, that's what I like about it, esp. running those flats out to the Parker River! It's just a great setup, esp. when I saw how easy it was to put in/out.
Thanks for the references, that's who I'll use, just have to clear it with the War Department.
RE:Offseason Primer
Good idea!
Of course the tying theme has been explosive over the last two winters, great stuff for off season. I don't know how many guys entered the ways of the roadkill second-glancers club over the last 12 months.
Mike -
Bob's boat is su-weeet for PI, as long as you stay within the jetties at the mouth (Bob may disagree?). Of course there are many days when a 16 footer could venture out but one should consider tides, weather, and navigational hazards. These things are not static of course so an easy ride out means nothing with respect to the ride back in.
Inside the jetties a boat like his is the nuts. It runs the channel over to the Ipswich side beautifully and takes the outside beaches very well too. It runs around Joppa like a magic carpet ride and floats over the shoals of feeding bass between the charter boats and the launch like a dream.
He got it from George Rohan at South Bridge Boathouse in Concord MA, George is a great guy and the kind of guy you want to give business to. Chris Mountain also bought one from him. They aren't Grady White's but at a fraction of the cost they are a tremendous value.
RE:Offseason Primer
Actually, I was thinking about that this morning. I'm considering getting my first boat and was wondering what would be the minimal deal necessary to fish Merrimack as well as around the Cape/Rhody. Trailer would be required at this point as I can't see paying for a dock.
I've always admired Bob D's setup...
Offseason Primer
Hey Gregg, Juro, etc.-
With the striper season still months ahead of us, the thought occurred to me that a lot can be done with our time to prepare for the coming season. Many of us, included myself, would appreciated some kind of weekly primer not only to remind us to get things done, but to see how others might prepare also.
Each week a different topic could be posted with someone starting the tread off. All of us might not be good at everything, but surely some of us feel safe in certain areas.
A different person would introduce the topic and others would add their $0.02.
If the thread is beneficial to someone, they could copy it each week or all, and have a nice little notebook primer for the off season.
Some weekly topics for discussion might be boat show (see example below), fishing shows, winter scouting, tackle maintenance, how to arrange your flies and tie efficiently, and a whole lot more.
Does this sound like a viable idea or not? I might have been sniffing that Softex too long.
Re: Preparing for the upcoming fishing season
A week by week winter planner of events and activities to make sure your ready when the gun sounds.
What a great time to prepare for the 2001 New England fishing season. During the next few months, there will be numerous boat shows throughout our area. This will give many of us a chance to get off that sofa and get some much-needed exercise. There are more beneficial aspects then health though that can be gained by going to a show.
New boats! Yes, it's nice to be able to afford a new rig. But for many of us, gathering information and seeing new ideas is more of a reality. Every year, hundreds of dealers and equipment representatives show off all their new stuff. If you're like me, there is always something you need or can use to improve your rig. How about changing that old Loran "C" into a new state of the art G.P.S. unit? Prices couldn't be better than a boat show bargain. Think about that boat positioning accuracy you will gain if you up-grade now.
What about depth/fish finders recorders? Improvements are constantly being made in this field, especially for small boat owners. Need communications? Sometimes a cell phone just won't hack it out there. A VHF radio will monitor the fishing conditions and conversations of fisherman a heck of a lot better.
Don't forget those big items too? Now is the time to re-power for the upcoming season. Great prices can be had at the boat shows. There are still some new 2000 models left over at dealers too. They can schedule a time for replacement during this slow period of winter, so your ready to hit the water comes spring. Don't forget about your trailer?
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Kaufmann's signal light spey interpretation
Have gotten into the duplication of traditional hairwing patterns, like Kaufmann's deschutes ties, as well as others, in spey style. hey, no reason to re-invent the wheel on color combinations for tried and true, huh??? hoping as i get more experience on the river and actually hooking something, i can start developing my own effective color combo's...
Anyways, this is Kaufmann's Signal Light spey interp. is the last of the three pictured in the "don't laugh" posting (can anyone show me how to link to previous posts???). one mod since the picture - addition of purple died GP tippet fibers to the GP crest tail.... other than that, as pictured, tho hopefully better tied...
Hook - Alec Jackson Spey or Partridge Bartleet (sorry, just partial to the bend and sweep in the bartleets! ), size as desired, color to...
Thread - Purple Uni-Thread 8/0
Tag - Silver medium tinsel (I know, the pic has gold, but silver is truer to the original... )
Butt - 1/2 red, 1/2 light green floss, 1 strand each, tied over silver tinsel to make it glow.
Tail - GP crest veiled by purple died GP tippet fibers (addition not in picture).
Rib - Silver oval tinsel (5-6 wraps starting at back of butt...), counter wrapped by small silver wire to lock in hackle.
Body - Purple died seal or angora goat, lightly picked out.
Hackle - Purple died BEP hackle, medium to large depending upon hook size. Palmered lenght of body, with 2 wraps at collar.
Collar/Throat - Purple died guinea is true to pattern, but I used a hot pink guinea to add some color and contrast to an othewise dark fly.
Wing - 1 pair each of black and purple hackle tips, each color tied opposite its pair (doesn't matter which pair is inside or out, tho black outside is more like the original tie). Tied either "Feiger Style" proud (with hackle in the round, and collar tie) or Glasso style with hackle folded over lower 1/2, throat, and wing tied flat on top of body.
Topping - GP Crest, layed over the wing, tip to the tip of the tail.
Cheek - Jungle cock nail if you desire...
that's it, tieing more, will display other patterns if folks are intereted in seeing....
Next one -
Skykomish Sunrise spey interpretation...
Hook - Alec Jackson Spey or patridge Bartleet, as your preference.
Thread - Orange Uni-thread, 8/0
Tag - Silver medium tinsel
Tail - GP tippet, orange, sparse, should be just beyond the tag.
Rib - Silver oval tinsel, with small silver wire counter wrapped to lock in palmered BEP hackle.
Body - Orange nylon floss, two strands, underwrapped with gold medium tinsel to help floss "glow".
Hackle - hot/bright orange BEP hackle, medium/large depending upon hook size, palmered length of body, with 2 wraps at collar.
Collar/Throat - either yellow died mallard/gadwall/pintail or tellow died guinea body feather, as dense or sparse as desired. like both, guiniea is a little bolder than the waterfowl.
Wing - four white hackle tips, 2 pair from opposite sides of the skin, concave in.
Cheeks - jungle cock nails
Hackle can be tied in the round, with a collar of the died waterfowl or guinea, and wing tied "proud"; or hackle folded down over lower 1/2 in traditional spey style, with a through and wing tied down flat on body (see Green Butt Lum Plum picture referenced in my thread "how about this one...."
Recipes as promised -
As I previously promised - Recipes for the flies I've posted. Again, I GREATLY appreciate everyone's feedback. Someone mentioned that i've "been at it a while." Well, been tying since I was 10, so that's 21 years. Am essentially self taught, with maybe 2 or 3 formal lessons in all that time. Am sure I've learned the hard way, with many wheels "re-invented" over that time. Have been tying steelhead ties for the past 3 years, have been experimenting with spey styles and more traditional ties in just the past 6 months... Enjoying it thoroughly!!!
Well, 'nough BS... The recipes, referenced to the photos from my posting "Don't Laugh" and "how about this one" from a few days ago... apparently i can't duplicate postings of the same picture... Enjoy, and if you have success with any of 'em, i'd love to hear about it!!
First fly is the one Ive been calling "yet to be named" or "to be named later". Well, it has a name, just needed review and approval from the originator of the pattern and color combination. Presented the fly pictured here to Amy (Randall) Hazel, of Deschutes Angler fame, and she approved. The fly is none other than a semi- Glasso Spey version of her famous Green Butt Lum PLum. Both John and Amy approved of the tie, and plan on fishing it for themselves. Hope you have as much success as the name sake---
Hook - Alec Jackson spey (nickel in the original Lum Plum series, black) or Patridge Bartleet; hook size your choice (I tie Bartleet 4's - 1/0 for deschutes fish).
Thread - Purple Uni-thread, 8/0
tag - medium silver tinsel, wrapped under floss butt as well (helps the floss "glow")
Butt - light green nylon floss, single strand (my preference for a more subdued "classic" look); experimenting with a fl. green uni-floss as well for something a bit brighter and more like the original.
Tail - GP Crest, veiled by died bright red GP tippet fibers (not to bulky). GP tippet extends just beyond the tag.
Rib - medium oval silver tinsel, with a small silver wire counter wrap to lock in and secure palmered hackle.
Body - Lum Plum berlin wool yarn. currently available exclusively from Deschutes Angler fly shop. neat stuff!
Hackle - Medium to large blue eared pheasant, died dark lilac, palmered length of body, and one or two wraps at the collar. Size of BEP feather dependent upon length of hook.
Collar/Throat - Guinea body feather died purple, dense as desired (i usually get 3-4 wraps on a nice thin stemmed feather)
Wings - 4 white hackle tips, 2 pair from opposite sides of the cap, concave in. Tied flat on body in typical Glasso style, or proud, "Feiger Style"...
Cheeks/Eyes - jungle cock nails
Topping - GP Crest tied to line up tips with the tail and veiled over the wing.
Hackle can be tied "in the round" as in original version, or folded down in traditional spey style. use a collar for the "in the round" tied, throat for the traditional tie....
Enjoy and happy tying!
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Shares of Apple (AAPL) are down $2.28, or 0.4%, at $524.03, amidst another raft of negative notes regarding potential iPhone sales.
As I mentioned earlier, Susquehanna Financial Group's chip analyst Chris Caso argues iPhone sales in the March-ending fiscal Q2 may miss Street consensus, based on what he thinks is the trend in production cuts for the device.
In addition, Bernstein Research'sToni Sacconaghi today reiterates an Outperform rating on the shares, while cutting his price target to $750 from $800, writing that his "five year model" shows, even though it's difficult to look out more than two quarters in Apple's case, that "growth is slowing."
Sacconaghi values the stock as a combination of premium P/E multiple and consideration for its enormous cashbalance, though he thinks Apple doesn't get much credit for cash because much of it is overseas and because the company only last year started returning cash to shareholders. Likewise, his estimates for Apple are close to consensus, as "Apple's ability to eclipse EPS is much more muted going forward."
Sacconaghi thinks Apple will be "range-bound" "in the near term" as investors worry whether it can "eclipse first-quarter and full-year 2013 estimates" and questions about whether gross margin will go up or down in coming quarters.
After spending the last several weeks, he writes, revisiting assumptions about "adoption curves" and market share in Apple's existing product categories, Sacconaghi concludes growth will "remain strong for the next two years, driven by the core business."
By 2015, thinks will slow substantially unless some new product categories come along, though Sacconaghi notes the many alluring aspects of the business nevertheless, including tons of cash generated:


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Land Rover's convertible is a statement
It's hard to look at Land Rover's DC100 Sport concept vehicle on the Los Angeles Auto Show floor and get any immediate sense of a practical ownership experience. It is a luxury-class two-seat convertible SUV.
More precisely it is a concept exercise on what the next Defender might offer in three or four years. And, as is the tradition with most concepts, company officials aren't saying yes and they aren't saying no.
But the drop-top model -- think of a Jeep Wrangler crossed with a Honda Del Sol -- is really a little more than that. It's a declaration of the heritage-steeped Rover brand being bold and brash and independent in its thinking about its future as a business unit of Indian billionaire Ratan Tata.
Auto brands that slip from independence into the hands of "investors" who are not necessarily car guys tend to have a spotty track record.
Rover could easily slowly spend down its fortunes playing it safe and boring. The convertible concept is anything but.
Where is it written that Rover has to be stately and functional? It only has two seats? So what. Sports cars and pickup trucks only have two seats. It's a convertible? The Nissan Murano crossover now comes as a convertible. And losing the top does give the Sport that genetic connection to the old Rover feature of being able to fold down a mud-splattered windshield while crashing through swamps.
Rover purists have been sniffing over in Europe since the concept first appeared that it is "overdesigned." Over designed? Are Swiss Army knives overdesigned?
This thing is a garage toy. And in the end, it squares nicely with the old Rover tag line: "The world's most versatile vehicle."


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Alternate name: Black Brant
Family: Anatidae, Ducks and Geese view all from this family
Description ADULT Has black head and neck with white "collar," dark gray upperparts, and white vent. Breast and belly are uniformly dark gray in nigricans; dark below, but paler on flanks in bernicla and Gray-bellied; uniformly pale gray in hrota. JUVENILE Similar to respective parents, but white collar is absent until late winter, and back feathers show pale edges.
Dimensions Length: 22-30" (56-76 cm)
Habitat Breeds on tundra, winters in estuaries. Locally common.
Observation Tips Black Brant migrates down Pacific coast; most winter in Baja California, Mexico. Gray-bellied Brant winter in Padilla Bay, Washington.
Range Western Canada, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, Southeast, Eastern Canada, New England, California, Texas, Northwest, Plains, Great Lakes, Alaska
Voice A nasal, honking kruut.
Discussion Small coastal goose. Three subspecies are recognized, separable by belly markings; they have reasonably distinct breeding and wintering grounds: nigricans (Black Brant) breeds in Siberia and northwestern North American Arctic and winters on Pacific coast of North America; hrota (Pale-bellied Brant) breeds in Greenland and eastern North American Arctic, and winters either on our Atlantic coast or in Europe; bernicla (Dark-bellied Brant) breeds in Russian Arctic and winters in Europe. Intermediate "Gray-bellied Brant" breeds in Canada and winters on Washington State coast. All birds feed on marine eelgrass and Sea Lettuce, sometimes also on coastal grassland.


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The score board looks good this morning, but whats happens if Miss State completes the pass instead of the Loston pickoff ?
Then get's the onside kick and score's again ?
It could happen one day.
We need to recruit a big, tall WR like it is its own position. The way that the game is played today, you have to have one of your top 3 WRs be a guy who can go up and get the ball in the Red Zone. Just like you need a FB or OT or FS, you need a tall WR, especially for the Red Zone - and we also need a pass catching TE.
This "big tall WR" obsession is kinda silly.
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Well, I guess this is the way to get involved in this community, so I might as well give it a try.
I'd post a link to my Web page, but it's so paltry that it's not worth bothering. I've never really put anything of interest on it, or kept it up to date. This medium might not suffer the same fate, since I expect it will be routinely read by more than five people.
I'm presently located in Washington, DC, USA, but am about to move to Dallas, TX, USA (actually Arlington, for the pedants) RSN.
A curious fact of history: I knew Rob Malda in college. I have yet to find a way to exploit that connection--if I'd only known about Slashdot back in '95 or so, maybe I could have done something so that I'd have some stock options by now... Through sheer coincidence, I also happen to be acquainted with Justin by way of DCLUG.
My two favorite languages/platforms are Perl and Oracle. I also program in Visual Basic (please don't hold that against me).
I'm a fan of Gödel, Escher, Bach, and in general anything self-referential. If you understand that book, you'll understand a good part of me, and in particular much of my sense of humor.
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pate: I slipped and fell on the ice while crossing the street in late January, during one of those freak winter storms in DC. I hurt my knee, too. I'm in physical therapy, too. (I don't know why I'm bothering to share that... Misery may love company, but company doesn't reciprocate.) I'm very functional at the moment, though I did spend over two weeks cooped up in my apartment unable to go anywhere because of the lingering snow and ice on the ground. (I got to telecommute for that time--yay!)
Für elise: Re: Org Chart: We've actually got something like that at my work. For the client I deal with, we have the personnel managers who handle us, and we've got the people who are customer relations, who own the projects. Or they used to, but that stopped. Or they never were supposed to, and it's just because of lack of leadership on my team in the past that they ever had that kind of authority. OK, maybe we didn't have that. In another part of my division (for a different client), they recently had a reorg to get rid of the second set of management since the VP complained that he didn't know which manager to go to to ask questions about a project. Anyways, in short: From my experience, it's definitely a nice principle, and maybe one day we'll see it implemented successfully. (Add that to my list of concepts that that statement applies to...)
No real signs of WTO protests around here. I've managed to stay away from any areas where protests are likely (in particular, I haven't ventured anywhere near Dupont Circle which had one of the more newsworthy ones over the past few days). I'm hoping this whole mess just goes away. Actually, that's not strictly true: I want a lot of noise and interesting events to occur on the fringes of my life, so that I can say "I was there" without it really having any effect on my life :).
I'm not sure what genuine meaning the ratings on here have. I know that enough ratings imply that I get the privilege of posting replies to the articles, but beyond that (and other sociotechnical issues that I'm not aware of), what does being a given rating really mean? I'm sure it'd be nice to see that 56 people say that I'm a "Master" (unlikely since I don't do any notable work on Free Software(TM) ATM), but I don't know what motivation I'm supposed to have to attain that status, or any other status above "Observer".
Random thoughts:
Favorite line of C code of all time (ATM), from a linked list implementation in college:
head = tail ? head : tail; /* cryptic C is fun */
On Usenet, in the group misc.misc, what would they do if there were too many off-topic posts? Or would they have to be on-topic posts? Would they ever consider creating a newsgroup misc.misc.moderated? (Probably not unless the original group were simultaneously renamed to misc.misc.misc...)
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Can anyone explain the concept of Halloween costumes for pets to me? Because I have tried– believe you me, I have tried– but I just. don't. get them. Sure, humans may think they look cute, but somehow, I just can't get beyond the fact that pet costumes are, in actuality, a cruel and unusual punishment that should only be reserved for the most drastic of occasions. This is why I have trouble dealing with these 11 pet costumes. Is it just me? Or does anyone else find them somewhat questionable, too? Please tell me I'm not alone here…
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Well, last night I started making an inventory of my 12" Star Wars figures. What I need to know is the following. What line does the first set (Darth, Ben, Luke, etc.) that say just "Action Collection" fall under?
Second, does Hasbro count the 2 pack figures ( ie. Luke w/Wampa, Darth Vader/Darth Maul etc.) as 1 figure, or 2 figures? I know the Luke with all the accessories, counted as the 100th 12" figure. So far I have inventoried over 75 12" figures, but if Hasbro considers the 2 pack and 3 pack as seperate figures, then that number will be higher.
Last question, do you recommened writing down the UPC # for each figure. I notice that all 6 cantina members all have the same UPC #, just stickers to tell which band member is inside. Also both variations of Tusken have the same UPC#.
So far I've just written the figure plus what line with the exception of those in my first question, and the UPC #, but soon I will be transferring the info to some program which will be neat and legible.
Thanks in advance for any help! :D


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Family: Gekkonidae, Geckos view all from this family
Description Sandy coloured with dark bands broken into patches. The tiny scales give its skin a silky texture. Unlike typical geckos, it has prominent eyes with movable lids.
Dimensions 11.4-15cm. (4 1/2-6")
Subspecies Desert - California, Nevada, Arizona & along Gulf.
San Diego - California pacific slopes to half of Baja peninsula.
Utah - Utah. Also Nevada & Arizona.
Tuscon - Arizona. Also sw. New Mexico
Voice Chirping.
Breeding May-September. 2-3 clutches, 1-2 eggs per clutch. Hatch after 45 days.
Habitat Semi-arid areas, canyons, sand dunes, deserts.
Range California, sw. New Mexico, s. Arizona, Utah, Nevada and northern Mexico (Sonora, nw. Baja California)
Discussion Zecretive and nocturnal. Forages at night for small insects and spiders, and is one of the few reptiles that control scorpion populations by eating baby scorpions. If captured, they squeak and may discard their tail. As a defense mechanism, they can also curl their tails over their bodies to mimic a scorpion. Hides under rocks and logs to escape midday heat.


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In suburban garages across America, cars leak oil, rags sit too close to gasoline cans, suicidal sorts feed tailpipes into windows — and bands bang out raw renditions of "Louie Louie." But in Sharon, there's one garage that's been a breeding ground for a very different kind of band. Because it's not the kids who are making the musical racket in this garage, it's their moms. And not just any moms: Lisa Yves (keyboards; 42), Marlane Pinkowitz (guitar; 43), Tammy Robbins (drums; 40), Emily Grogan (guitar; 38), and Marian (bass; 46 and, like Madonna, on a first-name-only basis with her fans) are HRT — Hormone Replacement Therapy. Although they've yet to release a debut CD, they've already been featured on The Today Show, The Fox25 Morning Show, and WCVB's Chronicle. And last year, the Canadian cable channel Slice carried a reality show based on their lives. Negotiations are under way to bring a version of the same program — Rocker Moms — to a US outlet.
Despite the obvious novelty value of a group of rocker moms, HRT are more than just an A&R scout's publicity stunt — they're serious about the band, and they have two members who are seasoned vets. HRT co-founder and de facto leader Lisa is a Yeshiva-schooled NYC native who made a living playing piano in Greenwich Village before moving here to raise a family. (She also had a stint performing with Harry Connick Jr., but we won't dwell on that.) And as a solo singer-songwriter, Emily Grogan has two albums to her credit: 2005's iO and the new At Sea (One Way Productions). She's also part of Angeline, a folk-rock project she formed earlier this year with fellow singer-songwriter Linda Viens.
Settled into the comfy-chair section of a Starbucks in Chestnut Hill, the members of HRT (who perform this Friday at Church) describe themselves only half-jokingly as MYLRs — Mothers You'd Like To Rock. There may not be anything particularly new about women in rock, but four decades after Janis, three after Patti Smith, and just one since the riot grrrl upsurge, HRT are emblematic of a grassroots shift. The spotlight has moved past mothers playing rock and roll to motherhood itself. Last December, HRT competed with other rocker moms at a Momapalooza festival in New York. And the MILF allusion is more than a joke: HRT are about rock and roll in the classic sense, with all the celebration of sexuality that goes with it. There was a genuine sense of liberation in the air when they played T.T. the Bear's Place last spring. HRT offer the opportunity, as one mom in the audience put it, to "live vicariously through them."
There are, of course, complications that come with rocking and raising a family. Not only a mother but recently divorced, Emily Grogan juggles work and her children's welfare with her musical career. Two HRT songs, "Motionless" and "Full Circle," deal with these issues in a musical-therapy sense. "Tequila" reveals a more hedonistic side of the band — the kind of release not usually found in the suburbs of Desperate Housewives.
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An enormous efficiency opportunity exists right under our noses. Electricity, the most versatile kind of energy, is used in limitless applications, ranging from transportation to heating, communications to lighting. The backbone of modern industrial society is, and likely will remain, the use of electrical power because of the services it provides and the standard of living it delivers. Despite our reliance on electricity in the United States, concerns about emissions from coal-fired energy production and their direct contribution to global climate change have resulted in an escalating awareness of the importance of energy efficiency. However, while the benefits of efficiency are increasingly espoused, the United States has relatively low implementation rates.
"Assessing the Electric Productivity Gap and U.S. Efficiency Opportunity," RMI's Energy & Resources Team's (ERT) recently published report, unveils just what is possible when efficiency measures are effectively implemented. Through their research, ERT discovered that the electric productivity (measured in dollars of gross domestic product divided by kilowatt-hours consumed) of U.S. states varies dramatically. If lower-performing states could achieve the electric productivity of the top-performing states through energy efficiency, the nation could save 1.2 million gigawatt-hours and displace more than the equivalent of 60 percent of coal-fired generation in the country. This could also mean more than $100 billion in consumer savings.
According to Natalie Mims, a Consultant with ERT "closing the electric productivity gap through energy efficiency is the largest near-term opportunity to immediately reduce electricity use and greenhouse gases and move the United States forward as a leader in the new clean energy economy."
With enormous implications for both the environment and the economy, how could an opportunity of this magnitude remain untapped? ERT's Closing the Efficiency Gap (CEG) research team, led by ERT Vice President, Stephen Doig, Natalie, and ERT Fellow Mathias Bell, decided to recast the problem itself and explore energy efficiency within a completely new framework—and on a much larger scale. They know that reframing the challenge is a critical step in the team's strategy to accelerate the adoption of energy efficiency and move towards the utility of the future.
For years, researchers have grappled with commonly cited barriers to energy efficiency adoption that contribute to the myth that efficiency measures are either too costly or technically unfeasible. "Decoupling" has been explored by a few states as a viable solution to promoting efficiency. Decoupling is a technique for setting a utility's rates so that the amount of money the utility earns is not bound to the amount of electricity it sells. This can ensure that a utility's revenues will not suffer, and can actually benefit, from implementing efficiency measures. A number of states have used decoupling in efforts to align their utilities' financial interests with the delivery of cost-effective energy efficiency programs.
While the project was still in its infancy, Natalie decided to research the impact that decoupling has had on energy efficiency in various states. After some preliminary exploration, however, she realized that focusing solely on decoupling might fail to incorporate the other factors that could lead to an increase in efficiency. Energy savings can be prompted by other things, including customer behavior, building energy codes, and appliance standards.
While decoupling offers utilities a way to promote energy efficiency measures, the CEG research team decided that in order to expand the scope of the research, and move beyond a "known" solution, they needed to conceptually reframe the problem. The new framework, they decided, would be electric productivity, which measures, in dollars, gross domestic product divided by kilowatt hours consumed—in short, what society achieved with the power it used.
This seemingly simple change of focus turned out to have a significant effect on both the approach to the research and what it sought to uncover. Rather than limiting themselves to one particular solution for utilities, an analysis of electric productivity allowed ERT to better understand opportunities to use energy efficiency. This meant a broader menu of strategies and solutions that were already being explored but weren't being implemented to their full potential. "Looking at productivity helped us not only better understand how effectively each state uses its electricity, but also how states compare to one another," says Mathias. "While combing through this data, some of our initial findings were staggering. The disparities between states were much larger than we anticipated."
There was another benefit to focusing on electric productivity: the economics. RMI has long promoted market-oriented solutions as an approach to driving energy efficiency, and ERT's VP Stephen Doig advised the team that a clear economic component needed to be the guiding force of the research.
According to Doig, "People often get stuck on the technical details of efficiency. We wanted there to be a clear message that not only is there high efficiency potential in many places but there are large economic benefits to be had as well." For maximum impact, opportunity linked to a dollar amount had a huge potential to not only spark interest among utilities but also motivate implementation.
With a broadened framework also came a broadened focus. State-by-state opportunities were magnified in the bigger picture: the nationwide opportunity was an incredible 1.2 million gigawatts.
Over a period of six months, Natalie and Mathias assessed the electric productivity of all fifty states, adjusted for climate and economic mix—variables that enhance data accuracy. These factors allowed ERT to create an adjusted electric productivity target for each state. Mississippi, the state with the lowest electric productivity for example, had a target of over 24,000 gigawatt-hours of untapped efficiency potential, which is the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 2 million households.
While each state is unique, ERT points out that many lessons can be learned from the collective national knowledge on best practices, utility regulatory experience, and technology adoption. According to Natalie, "Taking lessons from efficient states will facilitate adoption and prevent states from sinking resources into 'reinventing the wheel' of state efficiency programs and implementation practices."
The electric productivity of top-performing states, such as New York, California, and Connecticut, can serve as successful examples of how to overcome barriers to efficiency practices, regulate utilities, and implement new technologies. Poorest-performing states, like Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi, have a huge opportunity to build on the success of higher-performing states by closing their electric productivity gap using known and tested technology and policy.
An essential part of closing the gap between what's being done and what's possible will be identifying key levers to increase adoption. Determining how to take advantage of both physical levers, (such as compact fluorescent lights, weatherization, or more efficient appliances) and policy levers (like stricter building energy codes and appropriate utility compensation for energy efficiency) is a critical research component that both Natalie and Mathias have been actively pursuing to push CEG into its next phase.
The next step of ERT's research will be to create a roadmap to close the efficiency gap in each state. The roadmap will use each state's adjusted electric productivity as a baseline, allowing RMI to measure the success of different efficiency measures on a case-by-case basis and prioritize which actions states should pursue to achieve the highest levels of electric productivity. "The goal of the research was not just to solve a theoretical problem," says Natalie, "but to fix the real problem."
To see how efficient your state is, and what you can do about it, visit RMI's CEG interactive map.
Kelly Sweitzer is a public relations analyst at RMI
--Published April 2009


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By Stephanie Rebman/NEMS Daily Journal
A Booneville man died Saturday morning in a Tippah County car crash.
Sam Edge, 20, died around 8:30 a.m. after crashing along Highway 4 near the Prentiss/Tippah county line.
According to Tippah County Coroner Chad Bateman, it appeared Edge was traveling toward Ripley when he left the road, hit a tree and spun his vehicle into a parked 18-wheeler in someone's driveway. The force of the crash moved the 18-wheeler several feet, Bateman said.
He said the roads did not appear to have any condensation on them.
Mississippi Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.