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Black/Red Beetle on corn stalk. What is it?
Hi. I found a small black beetle with horizontal red stripes on one of my corn stalks this morning (got away before I could catch him). I searched online and I THINK its a black and red blister beetle.
Any thoughts? And should I wig out and pull out the pesticide?
Seriously, just trying to keep an eye on things, be proactive. Any help much appreciated as always!!! I should add I noticed 2 weeks ago that something was chomping away on the leaves of the corn but that seems to have stopped.
This post was edited by StephanieHS on Fri, Jun 20, 14 at 9:34
You'll need to post a picture. "Looks like " descriptions aren't usually helpful.
But...seeing ONE of anything should never cause a panic and over reaction. Let's work on getting an ID.
We will need to know your general location, of course.
NEVER PULL OUT THE PESTICIDES FOR ONE BUG ... crikey ...
need an ID before you go hog wild ...
the only things your words trigger is box elder bug.. and lightening bug... neither of which are a corn problem.. as far as i know ..
pic please... unless of course.. you already crushed it into a fine powder .. and if so.. show us the powder.. lol.. just kidding...
ps: what is horizontal.. on a bug??? north or south.. or east or west??? ... head to tail ????
That was a joke, Ken. I thought that was obvious given I asked if i should wig out. Apparently not. As I said, just trying to be proactive, which is the best way to avoid pesticides in my opinion.
P.S. Horizontal, meaning running across the width of its body as opposed to vertical, running the length of its body.
rhizo_1, thanks for the help. I wasn't able to get a pic but I'm fairly certain it was a blister beetle. I only saw the one but I've heard blister beetles can be difficult to control and usually arrive in large numbers.
I just managed to rid myself of squash bugs on my cucs (knock on wood) by crushing them one by one and not in the mood for another infestation! Hoping to nip it in the bud if you have any experience with blister beetles advice appreciated :)
I'm down south, louisiana btw.
Lol....I'm laughing WITH you, Stephanie, not at you. :-) Spittlebugs were the first thing I thought of when you mentioned "black with horizontal stripes ", but you were so intent on it being a blister beetle.
Two-lined spittlebugs (Prosapia bicenata) can be a real problem for southern turfgrasses much more so than other plants. I remember seeing them on hollies, for example, but never a big deal. They can infest corn. You need to search for nymphs.
The control of these particular spittlebugs is a bit tricky. The nymphs, which do most of the damage, hide themselves deep in the lawn...as close to the soil level as possible.
Effective control must include de-thatching (even better to prevent thatch in the first place), hands and knees inspection to make sure that there is a large population of froth covered nymphs deep within the turf. If not, don't treat.
There can be two or three generations produced each year....one will be in the hottest part of the summer. If a search shows that there's a high population of nymphs (not adults), then the grass should be cut a couple of days before treatment.
Control of the two-lined spittlebug needs to be done right, or not at all. Applying pesticides can wreak havok to the ecosystem of the lawn so we've got to get it right.
The reason I'm blathering on about this is that they key to the control of these particular insects is getting rid of a large population of the frothy nymphs....not the adult. Making sure that the lawn isn't infested will likely result in very little problem for your corn or other plants.
Though the striped adult feeds on plants, too, it's the froth covered nymphs that do the most damage.
LOL! Feel free to laugh AT me, I'm fine with that ;)
I can't tell you many times I've seen one bug or two bugs, thought nothing of it, then gone out the morning and found 2 million (squash bugs and oh my word graveyard bugs). Anyhow, thanks much for your help and all the info! Turns out my husband treated the lawn, says he "kicked up a ton of them." They're seeking sanctuary in my garden. I've found only adults, living and deceased, but no foam spittle stuff, so I guess I shall remain calm....for now ;)
You rock!
Tell your husband that the Two-lined Spittlebug thrives in lawns where thatch has been allowed to build up. Managing the turf with conservative applications of fertilizer and frequent mowing can help prevent thatch in warm season grasses such as centipede, St. Augustine, and others.
Tell your husband that the Two-lined Spittlebug thrives in lawns where thatch has been allowed to build up. Managing the turf with conservative applications of fertilizer and frequent mowing can help prevent thatch in warm season grasses such as centipede, St. Augustine, and others.

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In the video, whose title translates from Arabic to "dog buries his son in Iraq," a dog gently sniffs the puppy – found in a ditch with empty water bottles – then proceeds to tenderly bury it, nudging with his nose the sand and dirt over the little body. In the background, three men talk inaudibly in Arabic while the dog works and then call out, in English, "thank you very much" as the dog finishes and leaves.
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HRC's Religion and Faith Program has been exploring the concept of acceptance in the first few bus stops. In addition to our Pathways to Acceptance forums, I spoke this Sunday at First-Plymouth Congregational Church about the spiritual discipline of acceptance. I asked the congregation to think about acceptance as a life-long process rather than one time destination.
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I have used this product for a number of years, with excellent results. It's important to me that it is WHITE ginseng root, which I personally have found more powerful than red ginseng, despite what I've seen in the literature. I use it especially to minimize signs of aging, particularly facial wrinkles. Best to use three weeks a month on, one week a month off, to give your system a rest from it.
It works for me!
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I started taking this with the advice of my chinese step-mother. My hands and feet were always cold. It took several months but my hands and feet are noticibly warmer. Now I don't have people saying to me "Ooooh your hands are so cold!" and I am much more comfortable. As ususal, iHerbs service was superb!!!
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I had previously rated Paradise Herbs Red Chinses ginseng as 5-star, but their quality has really dropped in my opinion. This Nature's Way ginseng has the actual "root flavor" that ginseng should have; and it does give me a kick. Excellent ginseng has kept me up at night when I have taken too much.
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After trying many different ginseng products over the years I decided to do a bit of research to better understand this powerful herb. I discovered the optimum way to take it was as the root of white ginseng. I was happy to read that Natures Way Ginseng Root capsules were exactly what I was looking for. I am very pleased with the product; it delivers vigor, is unobtrusive and has no side effects.
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Scientists are creating super soldier ants…a good idea?
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Checkout this great article from Thegothamist.com. It's about a giant rat that was found in a Foot Locker in the Bronx. It won't disappoint, I promise.
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A couple days ago someone Tweeted this photo of a giant monster rat, discovered at a Foot Locker in the Bronx. You might recognize this guy, as he bears a striking resemblance to the 3-foot-long beast that was stabbed with a pitchfork in Brooklyn last year. That one was believed to be a Gambian pouched rat, and may have been someone's escaped pet. However, it wasn't the first one spotted in that area, and locals believed they were multiplying faster than Gremlins taking a bath.
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Ladybugs, boxelder bugs, spiders, and cluster flies are all examples of this type of pests.
The good news about occasional invaders is that once they are inside they don't reproduce or feed, but are just a nuisance with their presence. Some of these pests, like the ladybug, are actually beneficial pests! Remind yourself of this as you scoop them up from your windowsills during the winter months. Ladybugs feed on a wide range of insects making them a pest that you want to have around – just not INSIDE your home!
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I was really surprised to see Ness having only 1 win over an AA (Nauman). Being a national finalist you have to have at least 1 (semifinals win). But, for as good as Ness is, it was surprising that he didn't have any other wins over AA's all year. His most impressive win clearly was his win over Parks, but that didn't count b/c Parks amazingly didn't AA.
Really impressed with these rankings so far. Not much to complain about
At first glance Chamberlain seems high, I can't see putting him over the Vermonster at minimum.
Who does this leave us with as the top 10? Taylor, Ruth, McDonough, JO, Howe, Dake, Kilgore, Stieber, and Bosak gives us nine.
Who am I missing?
Didn't even think of him when I saw Z at #14.
As much as I love Tony I don't know if I agree with discounting the 16-5 match from last December. Until Z got hurt he looked poised to COAST to the title.
Completely agree
Agreed x2, I forgot how bad that score was. Goodness...
I was surprised that Nelson beat Rey but I was really surprised that he was the better wrestler from beginning to end in that match. To think that someone could beat Nelson that badly last year...
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I'm tired of buying onion sets and want to try growing them from seed. Do they need to be started in flats and then planted in the garden after the frost date or is it best to direct seed them in the ground early spring?
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In my zone 5B, I have to start them inside close to 10 weeks before the last frost date and then transplant out around 3 weeks before last frost in order to get enough top growth to get a good sized onion. I did try once direct seeding them as well as letting them reseed one year (from a couple I forgot on the harvest) and they only produced scallions - not bulbs of any size.


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One example case would be that when the system boots, it pulls the static IP to assign to itself from that file. This means it would be nice to quickly grab a key/value from this file in a shell/rc script (ifconfig `evalconffile main_interface` `evalconffile primary_ip` up), where
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I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to approach this. I've tossed around the idea of using a plain text file and perl to retrieve the value. I've also tossed around the idea of using YAML for the configuration file since there may end up being a use case where we need multiple values for a key and general expansion. I know YAML would make it accessible from python and perl, but I'm not sure what the best way to access it from a quickly access it from a shell/rc script would be.
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The Technology Behind Sound BarsFirst of all, I have been quite skeptical of wireless sound systems delivering top quality results. Wired is always better in my books but I was pleasantly surprised with how the VIZIO delivered sound in a room that was crowded with people and other electronics.
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5 HDTVs From 2014 Are Good Bargains In 2015VIZIO E650i-B2, $898. Walmart has this 65-inch 1080p LCD TV from Vizio, in its entry-level E series for 2014, for under $900, $200 less than when we last checked two months ago. It has excellent high-definition picture quality and the Vizio Internet Apps Plus smart TV platform.
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5 Easy Ways to Get Netflix & Other Video Streaming Services On Your TVIn addition to adding 4K resolution all of the new M-Series sets, they will continue to incorporate Full-Array backlighting with Local Dimming for more even black levels across the entire screen surface. All of the sets also incorporate Vizio's Internet Apps Plus Smart TV platform.
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yes a 223 can kill a deer if shot placement is observed and using the proper ammo. but IMO also, 243 is the smallest caliber i would be comfortable using for deer size game.
need to check your states game regulations as some states have a minimum size caliber that can be used legally. even a centerfire 22 caliber is illegal in many states. need to to check this first before making any decision on caliber.
check out the Marlin X7 series and the Savage Axis series of rifles if considering a new bolt action rifle for hunting. also check out the pawn shops and gun stores for good used rifles. many good decent hunting rifles can be found and many can be had for a half to a third the cost of the same rifle new. sometimes they may even have a decent scope on them.
my suggestions on caliber for deer sized game, would be these as they are going to be the most commonly available. 243 Win., 30-30, 30-06, 270 Win., 7mm Rem. Mag., or 308. any of these wil work just fine as long as you use proper ammo for the job.
If you need an inexpensive but Quality gun go with a mossberg 100 ATR i have one in 30-06 it puts the bullets throught the same hole at 100 yards.
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Revelation 19:11
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Yes a .223 Remington/5.56x45 NATO will kill a White-tail..........Me I use a .308 Winchester/7.62x51 NATO.
When all else fails.
You can use a cannon, but if you can't hit the barn walls with it what good is it.........What is the terrain you'll be hunting is the first question. This thread has been over worked and should be in a sticky or what ever......I prefer either a 12 ga. slug or 00 buck, because the shots are within 50 yards.....
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I've googled this a bit already with no joy. I am running a standard PHP array through
$encoded = json_encode($myArray);
Before storing it in a MySQL database. 99% of the time this is fine but on the odd occasion the encoded JSON looks corrupted....
{ "value": " }
being stored in the database. This is a rare occasion, in fact I can't replicate it yet in my local development environment but wouldn't you know it user can!!
The data being stored comes from a
<textarea> on a form so the user could be putting in dodgy characters that are breaking thing somewhere, thing is I've tried every character I can think of and have even force non UTF-8 characters into it and it never causes the above.
I'm really struggling getting to the bottom of this. First of I can't see how
json_encode is producing the result above, perhaps figuring that out would help figure out what going on but I am stuck.
Any advice, help, pointer would be awesome,
Off I go to try to replicate it.


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I love my little low power cheap FoxConn r10-s4 barebones ($130, newegg) but the critical issue with netbooks is largely ignored: how easily do they break? IF somebody makes one with an aluminum case and the right padding inside so you can beat it up and spill things on it, I'm sold. Otherwise they've missed the whole point of cheap portable computers: You take them into places ad situations you wouldn't take others.
Why the hell must every variant on any technology get a new name these days. We had laptop. Then they got smaller and the same thing was called a notebook. Then the same thing got a little smaller and it's called a netbook. They get a non-mainstream cpu though and now they're a smartbook instead?
But windows CE has all the problems that Linux has but more.
Lack of hardware support. Know of any printers with Windows CE support that you can get at Best Buy?
Lack of software support. It is all aimed at the mobile market.
Linux will actually have more software and hardware support out of the box than WinCE.
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Groping encouraged at museum
New York's Museum of Sex unveiled a "Funland" exhibit in late June, bringing a carnival atmosphere to the 2002-founded Fifth Avenue institution. Visitors can try out a climbing wall called "Grope Mountain" or play a racing game called "Foreplay Derby," both themed around reproductive organs. There's also a bouncy castle called "Jump for Joy," where the walls and floor resemble enormous breasts. Jessica Richards, a visitor from North Carolina, commented: "I don't know anywhere else in the world where you can jump around with a bunch of boobs." Well, technically speaking, you can also do that in Washington, DC.
They've just having a ball
A Scottish couple in their early seventies have dedicated their global travels to publicizing their favourite soccer team. Hailing from Edinburgh, Fred and Rita Daniels regularly hand out green Hibernian Football Club badges and pennants to people in countries as far-flung as Iran, China, and Mali. In 30 years of travelling, they've spread the "Hibs" gospel in more than 80 countries. Hibernian last won the Scottish championship in 1952. But its chances of winning the Stanley Cup next year are just as good as Toronto's.
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When you visit an amusement park, do you enjoy feeling like you're risking injury or death? If so, check out Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey. It's just re-opened this summer. In its original incarnation from 1978 to 1996, the 14-hectare park became notorious for accidents. It was nicknamed "Traction Park." One guest died of a head injury on the Alpine Slide ride. Another person got electrocuted in a kayak, and others drowned in the wave pool. But new owner Andy Mulvihill, the son of Action Park founder Gene Mulvihill, said: "I refuse to be involved in any rides where anybody can get hurt." Once again, our God-given freedoms are under attack.
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Pour oil into fondue cooker to no more than 1/2 capacity or to depth of about 2 inches.
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From the photo, the round discs above the wheels look like they are the widest parts on the cart. So, do the width and length refer to the disc edges (or are width and length only measuring the tube-like edges, ignoring the discs)? Thank you for your reply!
Very well built cart. Looks and works great. Takes 2 people to assemble, however....
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The product arrived with two bent corners on two shelves that had to be straightened to assemble. The hardware was useless. We had to go to the hardware store and purchase new nuts and bolts. Once assembled, the cart seems sturdy, but this is our second experience of having great difficulty in putting together products from Overstock so I am now banned from buying anything on this site. So sadRead More
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The box looked like someone literally sat on the top. 1 Band that held it together was in tact the other band was missing. All the parts were there but the quality of each of the 3 shelves were warped and extremely poor welds that did not hold. The edges were also warped and dented. I specifically picked this unit agter I saw the pictures of how each shelf looked and the picture showed that the side bars were welded to the shelves, definitely wrong picture.Read More
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Given the raised edges on the shelves . . . What is the width and length of the most usable space (the flat, lowest area) on each shelf?
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Hi gobbly, thank you for your inquiry! The usable flat space is approximately 33 inches wide x 20.5 inches long. Hope this helps, have a great day!
What is the depth of the shelves?
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Oh Brrrr, RC! I snapped this one yesterday, but we're expecting snow tonight.
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LOL, lazypup!
I'm wondering...how did you post your EXIF info?
Your's looks a little more encouraging than mine Pam. Thanks for the ray of sunshine.
Lazypup, that's a hoot! The bluebird up to its keister in snow I posted yesterday would probably agree totally.
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The incredible media, audience and industry interest in Gangs of New York is perfectly understandable. There is always huge anticipation for a project by Martin Scorsese, one of the great directors of all time, especially one featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz, filmed on a two-mile-long recreation of 1860s downtown New York City, set in one of the most challenging times in American history (the 1863 draft riots), and which Marty has been working on for more than 25 years.
Unfortunately, a series of recent articles and columns about the film have focused on an alleged "brawl" between Marty and me, while failing to tell the real story - the miracle that this movie was even made at all. So I want to provide some context to the real challenges in completing this project, and explain how making it has become one of the highlights of my career.
My first experience with Marty came during the production of The Grifters, which Miramax co-financed, Marty and Barbara De Fina produced, and Stephen Frears directed. (I have just completed Dirty Pretty Things with Frears, you can ask him what it was like working with me.) I learned so much watching Marty in the editing room, where his input was invaluable to the film.
Marty and I once collaborated on an enlightening "experiment". I called a director with a series of edits to her film, all of which she soundly rejected. Six weeks later, when Marty called with exactly the same edits, the director embraced them, made the changes, and the film was a great success. We got a good laugh out of that one.
Perhaps if we had spoken to the reporters looking to write about the alleged fighting between us, we could have corrected the misconception of us not getting along. In retrospect, we should have done just that. However, if someone would pledge $100,000 to charity, we would be happy to brawl. For $200,000, we'd let them take pictures.
Gangs provided a rare opportunity, like Shakespeare in Love, for me to serve in the dual capacity of being one of the producers of the film and also co-chairman of the studio. As Robert De Niro advised me before I became involved with this project: "Your job is to protect and to serve." It was my responsibility to make sure Marty had everything he needed to fulfil his artistic vision for the project. To that end, before moving ahead with Gangs, I sought advice from those who knew Marty well - including his producer Barbara De Fina, and Irwin Winkler, who worked with him on Goodfellas and other successes.
Miramax first became involved with Gangs when Disney placed the film in turnaround, after they had shopped it around to other studios but still could not get proper financing. Had we not come on board and bridged the deal with Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) and Touchstone, the project would have been shelved. We should get an "A" for ambition for backing Marty on his most cherished project - one which he fought to make for a quarter of a century and was turned down by every other studio in Hollywood.
We worked hard to provide Marty with the best of everything. We lobbied Daniel Day-Lewis to join the cast, agreed to Marty's requests to develop this detailed set portraying civil war-era New York and to hire scores of extras, and supported his decision to shoot the film with a new 360-degree camera technique. In addition, we unequivocally encouraged Marty to take as much time as he needed in the editing room and provided him with final cut.
Marty made the set into a unique classroom, where the stars and everyone else were the pupils. He created such a sense of camaraderie and family that, even after six months of shooting, Leo and Daniel agreed to continue working for an extra eight weeks. And Cameron Diaz, whose contract was for originally for less than six weeks of work, stayed six months, continuing to work as her role expanded. All three actors took significantly reduced fees to participate.
One particular day, I called Leo, Daniel and Cameron from their dressing rooms where they were preparing for future scenes, just to see Marty work. We all watched Marty set up and shoot a spectacular tracking shot on the Satan's Circus portion of the set, one as complicated as the famous tracking shot at the Copa in Goodfellas. Marty captured the attention of everyone on the set of Gangs as he manoeuvred the camera, weaving in and out of this busy 19th-century gangland club, capturing a wide array of characters before zooming in on Daniel Day-Lewis seated at a table playing cards. When Marty finished the shot, the entire cast and crew burst out in applause. But that's what it was like most days on the set - Marty impressing even the most hardened veterans.
The unnamed sources won't tell you those stories. And they won't tell you about the "Saturday Nights with Marty". Every Saturday night Marty would recommend another film which offered insight into his inspiration for Gangs. The list, which ultimately grew to 70 or 80 films, included Visconti's Senso - for its brilliant period design and use of colour; the 1930s film The Bowery - for its recreation of old New York; and others like the silent film The Man Who Laughed and Fred Zinnemann's A Hatful of Rain. My favourite was The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Charles Laughton.
At this stage in my career, nothing ceases to amaze me. But reporters' cynicism still saddens me. The unnamed sources "close to the production" who have remained off the record clearly were not a part of the same film-making experience that the cast and crew were. So of course none of the true stories of camaraderie, passion and talent have been leaked, only misrepresentations of events. I challenge reporters to indulge only those naysayers with the guts to complain on the record, and to offer us the chance to respond.
Not one reporter has asked Marty or me anything positive about this collaboration. Not about Marty finally making his dream movie, not about Daniel Day-Lewis returning to the screen - nothing about anything that could possibly have gone right during this process. They prefer to exaggerate a few heated moments over the course of eight-and-a-half months of shooting and almost two years of pre- and post-production, while ignoring the fact that each of our few disagreements were followed twoseconds later by laughs. It really points out that the film-making world is still so foreign to the reporters who cover it. They think it is all about disagreements, escalating budgets, schedules going over, but rarely about the collaboration, learning, stretching the budget, and fun.
In retrospect, it was wishful thinking that we'd be able to release the film by December 2001. I was the biggest fan of the movie after having spent so much time on the set observing Marty's direction, witnessing Dante Ferretti's production design, and reviewing dailies showcasing Michael Balhaus's cinematography. None of these artists has ever won an Academy award so December 2001 meant award possibilities. I am guilty of overenthusiasm for setting such an unattainable date. I should have taken into account that Marty typically takes more time in the editing room (he edited both Age of Innocence and Goodfellas each for over a year). That's Marty's way. I am not going to mess with that. I pushed too hard. I was wrong.
However, immediately after September 11, we recognised that the film's portrayal of Americans fighting Americans in Lower Manhattan during the 1863 draft riots might be too painful for audiences so soon after the attacks. The delay afforded Marty additional editing time and ensured that the movie would only be released when he was ready. After seeing the nearly completed version of the film two weeks ago, less than a year after it completed shooting, we were proud to announce that it will arrive in theatres this Christmas, 2002.
Marty recently explained: "We came up with a version we like with a good running time. It's two hours 40 minutes, and I'm very proud of it." When asked whether he might one day release a longer "director's cut" as part of a DVD release, Marty responded, "I don't think so, because this really is the director's cut," he said. "This is the finished version."
All of our competitors who are licking their chops and hoping that this project will be a failure and hurt us financially will be disappointed. We were savvy enough to produce a cost-effective project, with minimal exposure to Miramax.
While much has been made of the film's allegedly "enormous" budget, the $97m total (approximately $13m over the original $84m projection) is completely along the lines of many star-driven studio films, many of which do not require such extensive outdoor sequences and period costumes and set design. This film offers great production values, because our dollars were spent onscreen, for a total budget less than Ridley Scott's brilliant Gladiator. For a little more perspective, consider that Gangs actually poses significantly less of a fiscal risk than our investment in other eventual Best Pictures like Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient, which were also rescued from turnaround.
All parties involved made responsible deals to limit the risks, so that no one would particularly suffer should things go badly. We sold foreign rights to IEG for approximately $68m, and they subsequently sold off individual territories. We retained the US domestic rights with Touchstone, splitting equally the remaining $29m in production costs and future print and advertising costs. Considering Miramax's $161m in profits last year, Gangs provides a relatively limited financial risk. The film only needs to gross between $50m-$60m in the US to be profitable for us.
Look, I'm no angel, I have had my share of fights, including a couple of memorable ones with James Ivory. While James recognised that my suggestions on Mr and Mrs Bridge were worthwhile (they did have the approval of Paul Newman), James and I failed to see eye to eye on Golden Bowl. So we agreed to disagree and walked away amicably. But that's not the way I feel about Marty and about Gangs. Marty and I have been friends for over 20 years, and we have always talked out any differences. Gangs was a truly special, memorable experience for my brother Bob and me.
Scorsese is a revered film-maker with fans all around the world. You'll find me at the front of that fan line. If it makes people feel better to spend their time between now and the film's release exaggerating alleged arguments instead of appreciating the dedication required to make the film, then so be it. But I guess I can live with that, because ultimately I'm the one who really wanted Marty to bring Gangs to Miramax so that he could make the film his way, and I'm glad I did.


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Updated: 10/08/2010 - ACT scores from one high school are under review, and many results are already canceled.
Updated: 10/08/2010 - ACT scores from one high school are under review, and many results are already canceled.
Posted: 10/08/2010 - Kentucky State Police say 45-year-old Lester K. Hurt killed Julius Edward Williams. Williams was found dead after a party in Perry County.
Posted: 10/07/2010 - Students at an eastern Kentucky school are forced to retake their ACT tests. Officials are investigating the 2009 plan test and the 2009 and 2010 ACT tests.
Posted: 10/07/2010 - An arrest was made in connection to the death investigation in Perry County.
Updated: 10/07/2010 - An over-the-phone debit card scam is leaving many people concerned and confused.
Updated: 10/07/2010 - Democratic US Senate candidate Jack Conway spent most of Thursday touring the mountains.
Posted: 10/07/2010 - Police say the burglars hit five locations in Lothair late Monday night and early Tuesday morning.
Posted: 10/06/2010 - A Perry County man was found dead this past weekend, and the family just wants to know what happened. Police have a few leads on the death of Julius "Ed" Williams but are still asking the public for help.
Posted: 10/06/2010 - State police say they have a few leads they are working on, but still do not know for sure what caused the death of 45-year-old Julius Williams.
Posted: 10/04/2010 - State police say an investigation is now underway into what caused 45-year-old Julius Edward Williams' death. His body was found in the Vicco community of Perry County over the weekend.
Updated: 10/04/2010 - Jonathan Combs enlisted in the army at the young age of 23.
Posted: 09/29/2010 - A Perry County man pleads guilty to multiple drug trafficking charges.
Posted: 09/29/2010 - Education leaders gathered Wednesday morning in eastern Kentucky to meet with the President of the Council for Post Secondary Education.
Posted: 09/27/2010 - Tracy Lynn Napier of bonnyman is accused of shooting Carl E. Holbrook late Saturday night after an argument.
Posted: 09/23/2010 - The case against a man accused of stabbing a Perry County District Judge will be heard by a grand jury.
Posted: 09/21/2010 - Police say Donald Caldwell of Browns Fork crashed his ATV between Browns Fork and Big Creek around noon Sunday.
Posted: 09/21/2010 - Police say 55-year old Mack Sizemore of Rowdy shot his son Daniel Stidham in the shoulder in July.
Updated: 09/20/2010 - This year's Black Gold Festival held in downtown Hazard was chosen as one of the Top Ten festivals in 2010 by the Kentucky Tourism Council.
Posted: 09/17/2010 - It's been one week since Perry County District Judge Leigh Anne Stephens was attacked while eating lunch.
Updated: 09/15/2010 - It's beginning to look a lot like the Black Gold Festival in downtown Hazard.
Posted: 09/15/2010 - The man accused of stabbing a Perry County District Judge was in court for the first time Wednesday. He is facing a charge of attempted murder.
Updated: 09/15/2010 - Several county and state officials from eastern Kentucky say they came to Washington D.C. to fight for their coal miners.
Updated: 09/16/2010 - WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of coal miners rallied on Capitol Hill Wednesday against the Obama administration's attempts to rein in mountaintop removal mining, accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of trying to wipe out the coal industry.
Posted: 09/15/2010 - Ronnie Brock was arraigned on an attempted murder charge Wednesday morning in Perry County.
Updated: 09/14/2010 - Buses lined up in the early morning hours to take coal supporters to the nation's capital.


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When most readers hear the words E. coli, they think tainted hamburger or toxic spinach. Noted science writer Zimmer says there are in fact many different strains of E. coli, some coexisting quite happily with us in our digestive tracts. These rod-shaped bacteria were among the first organisms to have their genome mapped, and today they are the toolbox of the genetic engineering industry and even of high school scientists. Zimmer (Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea) explains that by scrutinizing the bacteria's genome, scientists have discovered that genes can jump from one species to another and how virus DNA has become tightly intertwined with the genes of living creatures all the way up the tree of life to humans. Studying starving E. coli has taught us about how our own cells age. Advocates of intelligent design often produce the E. coli flagellum as Exhibit A, but the author shows how new research has shed light on the possible evolutionary arc of the flagellum. Zimmer devotes a chapter to the ethical debates surrounding genetic engineering. Written in elegant, even poetic prose, Zimmer's well-crafted exploration should be required reading for all well-educated readers. (May 6)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
To display a broad swath of the people, scientific processes, and discoveries involved in biology, science writer Zimmer (Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain-and How It Changed the World) describes a common, luxuriantly growing, usually benign gut bacterium, Escherichia coli, or E. coli. Easily grown in petri dishes, the species has alter egos that can kill its hosts, making the organism a useful laboratory model to explore the basis of heredity. Zimmer recounts the ingenious experiments performed over the last century, garnering Nobel prizes for those scientists who outlined the textbook diagrams of the biochemical processes that all organisms on Earth share with E. coli. He effectively counters the proponents of intelligent design concepts by describing the work of evolutionary development scientists who have shown evolutionary processes occurring in E. coliwithin a very short time line. The scientists, their work, and the ethical questions with which they wrestle are sensitively profiled, and Zimmer employs imagery to great effect, leaving the reader with the sense of having attended a well-executed museum exhibit intended for intelligent adults. Recommended for public and academic libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ1/08.]
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ESCHERICHIA COLI HAS LURKED WITHIN our ancestors for millions of years, before our ancestors were even human. It was not until 1885 that our species was formally introduced to its lodger. A German pediatrician named Theodor Escherich was isolating bacteria from the diapers of healthy babies when he noticed a rod-shaped microbe that could produce, in his words, a "massive, luxurious growth." It thrived on all manner of food-milk, potatoes, blood. Working at the dawn of modern biology, Escherich could say little more about his new microbe. What took place within E. coli-the transformation of milk, potatoes, or blood into living matter-was mostly a mystery in the 1880s. Organisms were like biological furnaces, scientists agreed, burning food as fuel and creating heat, waste, and organic molecules. But they debated whether this transformation required a mysterious vital spark or was just a variation on the chemistry they could carry out themselves in their laboratories.
Bacteria were particularly mysterious in Escherich's day. They seemed fundamentally different from animals and other forms of multicellular life. A human cell, for example, is thousands of times larger than E. coli. It has a complicated inner geography dominated by a large sac known as the nucleus, inside of which are giant structures called chromosomes. In bacteria, on the other hand, scientists could find no nucleus, nor much of anything else. Bacteria seemed like tiny, featureless bags of goo that hovered at the boundary of life and nonlife.
Escherich, a forward-thinking pediatrician, accepted a radical new theory about bacteria: far from being passive goo, they infected people and caused diseases. As a pediatrician, Escherich was most concerned with diarrhea, which he called "this most murderous of all intestinal disease." A horrifying number of infants died of diarrhea in nineteenth-century Germany, and doctors did not understand why. Escherich was convinced-rightly-that bacteria were killing the babies. It would be no simple matter to find those pathogens, however, because the guts of the healthiest babies were rife with bacteria. Escherich would have to sort out the harmless species of microbes before he could recognize the killers.
"It would appear to be a pointless and doubtful exercise to examine and disentangle the apparently randomly appearing bacteria," he wrote. But he tried anyway, and in that survey he came across a harmless-seeming resident we now call E. coli. Escherich published a brief description of E. coli in a German medical journal, along with a little group portrait of rod-shaped microbes. His discovery earned no headlines. It was not etched on his gravestone when he died, in 1911. E. coli was merely one of a rapidly growing list of species of bacteria that scientists were discovering. Yet it would become Escherich's great legacy to science.
Its massive luxurious growth would bloom in laboratories around the world. Scientists would run thousands of experiments to understand its growth-and thereby to understand the fundamental workings of life. Other species would also do their part in the rise of modern biology. Flies, watercress, vinegar worms, and bread mold all had their secrets to share. But the story of E. coli and the story of modern biology are extraordinarily intertwined. When scientists were at loggerheads over some basic question of life-what are genes made of? do all living things have genes?-it was often E. coli that served as the expert witness. By understanding how E. coli produced its luxurious growth-how it survived, fed, and reproduced-biologists went a great way toward understanding the workings of life itself. In 1969, when the biologist Max Delbrück accepted a Nobel Prize for his work on E. coli and its viruses, he declared, "We may say in plain words, 'This riddle of life has been solved.' "
Escherich originally dubbed his bacteria Bacterium coli communis: a common bacterium of the colon. In 1918, seven years after Escherich's death, scientists renamed it in his honor. By the time it got a new name, it had taken on a new life. Microbiologists were beginning to rear it by the billions in their laboratories.
In the early 1900s, many scientists were pulling cells apart to see what they were made of, to figure out how they turned raw material into living matter. Some scientists studied cells from cow muscles, others sperm from salmon. Many studied bacteria, including E. coli. In all of the living things they dissected, scientists discovered the same basic collection of molecules. They focused much of their attention on proteins. Some proteins give life its structure-the collagen in skin, the keratin in a horse's hoof. Other proteins, known as enzymes, usher other molecules into chemical reactions. Some enzymes split atoms off molecules, and others weld molecules together.
Proteins come in a maddening diversity of complicated shapes, but scientists discovered that they also share an underlying unity. Whether from humans or bacteria, proteins are all made from the same building blocks: twenty small molecules known as amino acids. And these proteins work in bacteria much as they do in humans. Scientists were surprised to find that the same series of enzymes often carry out the same chemical reactions in every species.
"From the elephant to butyric acid bacterium-it is all the same!" the Dutch biochemist Albert Jan Kluyver declared in 1926.
The biochemistry of life might be the same, but for scientists in the early 1900s, huge differences seemed to remain. The biggest of all was heredity. In the early 1900s, geneticists began to uncover the laws by which animals, plants, and fungi pass down their genes to their offspring. But bacteria such as E. coli didn't seem to play by the same rules. They did not even seem to have genes at all.
Much of what geneticists knew about heredity came from a laboratory filled with flies and rotten bananas. Thomas Hunt Morgan, a biologist at Columbia University, bred the fly Drosophila melanogaster to see how the traits of parents are passed on to their offspring. Morgan called the factors that control the traits genes, although he had no idea what genes actually were. He did know that mothers and fathers both contributed copies of genes to their offspring and that sometimes a gene could fail to produce a trait in one generation only to make it in the next. He could breed a red-eyed fly with a white-eyed one and get a new generation of flies with only red eyes. But if he bred those hybrid flies with each other, the eyes of some of the grandchildren were white.
Morgan and his students searched for molecules in the cells of Drosophila that might have something to do with genes. They settled on the fly's chromosomes, those strange structures inside the nucleus. When chromosomes are given a special stain, they look like crumpled striped socks. The stripes on Drosophila chromosomes, Morgan and his students discovered, are as distinctive as bar codes. Chromosomes mostly come in pairs, one inherited from each parent. And by comparing their stripes, Morgan and his students demonstrated that chromosomes can change from one generation to the next. As a fly's sex cells develop, each pair of chromosomes embrace and swap segments. The segments a fly inherited determined which genes it carried.
There was something almost mathematically abstract about these findings. George Beadle, one of Morgan's graduate students, decided to bring genes down to earth by figuring out exactly how they controlled a single trait, such as eye color. Working with the biochemist Edward Tatum, Beadle tried to trace cause and effect from a fly's genes to the molecules that make up the pigment in its eyes. But that experiment soon proved miserably complex. Beadle and Tatum abandoned flies for a simpler species: the bread mold Neurospora crassa.
Bread mold may not have obvious traits such as eyes and wings, but it does produce many enzymes, some of which build amino acids. To see how the mold's genes control those enzymes, Beadle and Tatum bombarded it with X-rays. They knew that when fly larvae are exposed to X-rays, the radiation mutates some of their genes. The mutations produce new traits-extra wings or a different eye color-which mutant flies can pass down to their offspring.
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1 Signature 3
2 E. coli and the Elephant 6
3 The System 32
4 The E. coli Watcher's Field Guide 50
5 Everflux 64
6 Death and Kindness 80
7 Darwin at the Drugstore 97
8 Open Source 113
9 Palimpsest 125
10 Playing Nature 157
11 N Equals 1 193
Acknowledgments 201
Notes 203
Selected Bibliography 213
Index 229
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Doctors to EPA: You're Full of…errr…Pollution
By now, you've probably heard that, if the EPA had it's way, they'd shut down every coal power plant in the country and replace it with tenderly-gardened patchouli fields and useless, circular solar panels that hippies will dance around in the moonlight, chanting and wearing nothing but copies of the Clean Air Act. Despite what President Obama might have said at this morning's press conference of course, recent EPA actions along these lines will have a disastrous effect on the economy as America's major industries struggle to retrofit their plants and meet outrageous EPA demands. Most plants who found the "updates" necessary to come into compliance with Lisa Jackson's edicts will end up closing rather than going deep into debt, laying off potentially thousands of Americans.
But that's pretty much what the EPA wants. No more oil, gas and coal means that failing alternative energy industries and green energy sources will finally have the "level playing field" they need to compete, and all of us peons will finally be saved from the horrific health menace that is air pollution. Our lives will be extended. Our lungs will rejoice. Our health care will be….ummm….more expensive?
Medical professionals and U.S. Reps. Paul Broun, Larry Bucshon, Michael Burgess, Bill Cassidy, John Fleming, Phil Gingrey and Paul Gosar have written a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to delay implementation of the proposed Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology rule (MACT), which imposes stringent new standards on coal-fueled power plants.
Why this particular policy? Well, the Utility MACT rule is expected to cause widespread shutdowns of power plants across the country.: The letter signers state that the proposed rule will actually hurt public health by raising electricity prices and thus health care costs, therefore negating any supposed longer-term health benefits.
Awesome. Not only is your energy going to be more expensive, because the EPA wants to shut down electricity production in your general vicinity, but now your health care costs are going to go up because hospitals and care centers, which basically rely on electricity to power lifesaving devices, lights, laundry and a host of other necessary things, will be forced to also pay higher energy costs. Hospitals and doctors who will now pay more for services will inevitably pass that cost on to consumers. And if Obamacare holds up, on to taxpayers.
Now, typically, the administration would, in a case like this, circle the wagons, hire some pre-paid "independent advisers" and attempt to convince the medical community that the EPA will not, in fact, cost them an additional arm and leg. And that would be the case except that, even as the administration attempts to court friends in the American Lung Association among others, to testify that a major increase in enforcement of the Clean Air Act will, in fact, save everyone's life and provide us all with individual unicorns, the EPA is busy pulling the rug out from under them. Remember those asthma inhalers that no one was ever going to need again? Well, it turns out you may not have a choice. According to the EPA they're a major Clean Air Act enemy.
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
So, yes, the EPA would like to prevent lung disease by putting major American industries out of business. Which is good, because the EPA also won't let you have an inhaler in the off chance their experiment in reducing greenhouse gases doesn't work. Which makes you wonder if any of these people have absolutely any idea of what they're doing.
My guess is no.
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Shell Chief Looks at Stake in Korea Gas
By DON KIRK
Published: June 22, 2002
SEOUL, South Korea, June 21— Philip B. Watts, the chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, said today that he had singled out Asia as ''a key growth area'' as Shell focuses on natural gas and negotiates for a 15 percent stake in the government-controlled Korea Gas Corporation.
Mr. Watts, who was here on a two-day visit, said at a news briefing that Shell might decide as a result of the negotiations to become a strategic investor in Kogas, as the Korean company is known. He did not say how much Shell was prepared to spend, but Shell officials cited local media reports stating that Shell might offer as much as $430 million, nearly three times the market price, as it competes with other major energy companies in the bidding.
The government seemed receptive to such overtures in view of its hopes to sell at least two of the three units that constitute Kogas within the next few months.
Mr. Watts made it clear that Shell intended to become a major contender here. He paid a courtesy call on President Kim Dae Jung and visited with senior cabinet ministers and Kogas officials. He also visited the industrial city of Ulsan to look at the operations of Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest builder of merchant ships and platforms for deep-sea drilling for oil and gas.
Competing energy companies see Korea, which produces virtually none of the oil and gas needed to fuel its enormous industrial plants, as a huge market. Some of Korea's own energy companies have been struggling to extricate themselves from the economic crisis of 1997-98. Mr. Watts emphasized liquefied natural gas, or L.N.G., as the fuel of the future for the entire region.
Observing that 70 percent of all liquefied natural gas sales are in the Far East, he predicted that annual worldwide sales would grow by 50 percent in the next decade from the current level of 110 million tons a year.
Shell sees Korea as one of several vital markets for natural gas that it is obtaining elsewhere in the region, notably in Sakhalin Island, off the Pacific Coast of Russia, where Shell has invested $2 billion in joint projects with Mitsui and Mitsubishi of Japan.
''We have known about gas in Sakhalin since last year,'' Mr. Watts said. ''This gas is already there and available. There are L.N.G. schemes being established with new pipelines out of Russia to Europe.''
Mr. Watts's vision of the future of this corner of Asia fits in with the hope of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for the movement of products to and from the Korean peninsula through Russia.
For years, South Korean leaders have spoken of the possibilities of natural gas pipelines as well as a railroad running from South Korea through North Korea to China and Russia. Their hopes have foundered, however, on the difficulties of negotiations with North Korea.


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