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Tom Davis, who has been the barber on the Tulane University campus for more than 50 years, is sending out a challenge to all alumni. Davis has donated $500 for the Home Field Advantage campaign, and he is appealing to others to do likewise.
Davis invites alumni, professors, staff members and students to come into his barber shop in the Lavin-Bernick Center and donate. A haircut is optional.
In December 2011, Tulane announced the Home Field Advantage campaign to raise $60 million for construction of an on-campus football stadium and related facilities, and provide a $10 million boost to the football program.
Looking back, Davis recalls the innumerable times he partied during football games in the old on-campus stadium with other barbers who worked in the student center. There were four others, but he is the last remaining barber at Tulane.
Davis was thrilled when the Tulane Alumni Association recognized his service to the university by naming him an honorary alumnus at a party to celebrate his 83rd birthday in 2009. So now, he figures he should do his part for the university, and he especially hopes his many customers through the years will join him in donating.
David Edwards, a member of the Board of Tulane and one of the barber's regular customers, was the first to write a $500 check, which he dropped off to the barber. Edwards, who graduated from Tulane in 1971, also received his law degree from Tulane.
How many potential donors visit the barber?
"We're talking about 51 classes," Davis says. "I'd like to raise a lot — $20 is a lot for me."
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Review → Death to False Hope Fest, day 2
Day 2 was a bit more low key overall, in terms of crowd rowdiness, but perhaps even more awesome than the first night. Somehow I felt more destroyed after this one day than I recall feeling after the entirety of Fest 9. Weird! Some highlights:
- My friend Kevin playing 2nd guitar for locals Ascetic Parade, and being totally awesome
- Red Collar sending the crowd into a frenzy that may have been more out of control than Less Than Jake's 'Hello, Rockview' set.
- Brendan Kelly drunkenly falling over the drum riser, and playing a song he wrote when twelve, entitled "Dicks." For fans of "Nuts Nuts We Want Nuts."
- I Was Totally Destroying It overcoming their kinda dumb name and being awesome, particularly their cover of "Big Country."
- Pink Flag. Wow. Best band I wasn't very familiar with before, I'd say. More people should listen to this band, because they were awesome. Awesome 3-piece, all female power-pop-punk. I feel that, if there's any justice in this world, this band will be huge.
- The bodega across the street selling empanadas. I'm sure how I feel now is a direct result of those things, but man if they weren't delicious.
I want to send thanks to everyone I spent time with at DTFH Fest. It wasn't long enough, but it was a blast. Thanks to the bands who played and rocked hard. I don't think there was a single less-than-great performance all weekend. And of course, thanks to Scotty Sandwich from Death to False Hope Records, for putting this whole thing together.
Bands I saw:
The Riot Before
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Ascetic Parade
The Campaign 1984
Joe McMahon
Direct Hit!
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Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
April 2012 brought news of the latest shot fired over the bow of genetic inheritance as we know it. Ever since the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick in 1953 and the subsequent elucidation of the triplet nature of the genetic code by Marshall Nirenberg and others in the early 1960s, many scientists have fantasized about obtaining mastery over this primordial biomolecule.
An interim pinnacle of achievement in this hopeful process would be to create a DNA-like molecule whose information content would be both heritable and evolvable. Synthetic Genetic Polymers Capable of Heredity and Evolution presents elegant work along this path which may signal a substantive shift in humankind's ability to manipulate the language of life.
Holliger et al. report on their activities in building an XNA (xeno-nucleic acid) which fulfills the criteria of heritability and evolvability. The authors blithely state they have demonstrated information storage and retrieval in six alternative genetic polymers not found in nature. The ramifications of the phrases "alternative genetic polymer" and "not found in nature" are many and profound. The weight of this investigative stone flung into the deep pool of evolutionary time may create unceasing ripples for millennia or more.
The work itself involved engineering polymerases that could synthesize XNA from a DNA template and reverse transcriptases that could read XNA and turn that information back into DNA. Then, the researchers explored "the capacity of such genetic polymers for Darwinian evolution". A mere eight rounds of selection yielded the sought-for consensus motif.
In terms of pure knowledge acquisition, the importance of this work cannot be overstated. Similarly, the ethical and moral issues raised are thorny and complex. The primary question may be posed simply: "Is it right to do this?" Holliger et al certainly have demonstrated the ability and the capability of creating a novel heritable and evolvable information-bearing molecule akin to DNA. But it is owing to DNA (considering human ontology merely from a physical point of origin) that we are here at all. Humans specifically did not evolve from either threose-based (TNA) or anhydrohexitol-based (HNA) biomolecules [nucleic acids utilizing alternative ribose backbones; the ribose in DNA is deoxyribose].
DNA is the information storage-and-retrieval system for almost all life on our planet. There must be a deep reason for this, one hidden from view by the countless strata of departed eons. Even if our perspective does not include Creation, we can posit a prolonged exploration of the early evolutionary fitness space that concluded with DNA and RNA. Other nucleic acid variants were excluded. Whatever they were, whatever their configuration, they failed the test. To revivify "alternative genetic polymers", just because we can, may not be a good idea, neither in the short-term nor the long-term.
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Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye in 1911 in Cincinnati in a building that stood near where second base of Riverfront Stadium is now located. His father worked in the insole department of the United States Shoe Co., and also grew vegetables. Young Leonard dreamed of becoming a dentist. The family was hit hard by the depression and headed west. Rogers said that The Grapes of Wrath could have been his family's biography. Once in California, he sang in cowboy music groups to supplement his meager income, and founded the seminal group "The Sons of the Pioneers." For a while he was known as "Cactus Mac."
He was working in a haberdasher's shop one day when a customer demanded a cowboy hat for a tryout in the movies. Rogers trailed the man to Republic Studios, sneaked on to the set, and got hired. One of his first roles was the villain in a Republic movie starring Gene Autry. The two became pals. In 1938 Autry staged a one-man strike against Republic and Rogers became his temporary replacement. When Autry left Hollywood to fly fighter planes in 1943, Rogers again stepped into his shoes. He became the "King of the Cowboys," and made nearly 100 B-movie westerns, what the crossword puzzles call "oaters." He married his frequent costar Dale Evans. The couple reproduced, and also adopted eight children. In the 50s Rogers moved to TV. Roy and Dale became well known for their Christian (and also anticommunist) beliefs and spoke at Billy Graham revivals. Dale wrote inspirational books. Rogers was worth somewhere north of $50 million at his death. His last words were "Well Lord, it's been a rough ride."
Roy Rogers' first commercial success was with the Sons of the Pioneers, but he was an even bigger pioneer in marketing, a champion merchandise wrangler. At the height of his success, in the mid-50s, his photo appeared on 2.5 billion boxes of Post cereals. Roy Rogers comics sold 25 million copies a year. More than 20 pages of the annual Sears catalog were dedicated to his merchandise. Products included lunch boxes, sheets, wallpaper, socks, ties, hats, watches, cut-out dolls, cap pistols, and similar bric-a-brac. Roy Rogers booked some $50 million a year in sales. By the late 50s Rogers had more than 2,000 fan clubs and more than 400 licensed products on the market.
In 1955, Disney introduced the Davy Crockett Coonskin Cap, which heralded a $300 million Davy Crockett merchandise boom. Like Microsoft, Disney is evil, late, and more successful than the competition. This was one showdown Rogers didn't win.
In the 60s Marriott licensed his name for Roy Rogers Family Restaurants, of which there were more than 800 at one time, though there are considerably fewer today. The chain was later sold to downscale Hardees. Its specialty is a lousy roast beef sandwich, though there are some who cherish its fried chicken.
Beef is the king of foods in America, a fact that has valorized the cattle economy. But from the cow's perspective the singing cowboy only served to trivialize America's bovine holocaust. Somebody ought to remind the cows that their combined biomass and their population are vastly greater than they would have been without the cattle industry. Cows live lives of idleness, eating whenever they are hungry and facing no natural predators. Rogers helped make this possible. On the ideological level he made raising cows for slaughter glamorous On the instrumental level he sold his name to purveyors of fried beef. The ingrate cows should thank him for his tireless efforts on their behalf.
Rogers called Trigger "the best thing that ever happened" to him. Trigger was Roy's faithful golden palomino, a horse who could untie knots and even shoot a gun. Trigger was billed as "the smartest horse in the movies." The horse usually got second billing, ahead of Dale Evans. When his faithful mount died, Rogers had him stuffed and mounted, much to Evans' distress. Later she relented, and her horse Buttermilk was mounted too. Today one can see Trigger Trigger II, Buttermilk, and Roger's dog, Bullet the Wonderdog, at the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, CA.
Because of fan pressure to "leave out the mushy stuff," Rogers never kissed Evans on screen. But he did occasionally kiss Trigger. Among Rogers' 91 movies, his favorite was "My Pal
Trigger" (1946). "When my time comes just skin me and put me right up there on Trigger as if nothing had ever changed," he said. They didn't.
Much was made in Rogers' TV show of his Indian heritage, from his mother's side of the family. In 1967 he was named "Outstanding Indian Citizen of the Year" by a group of western tribes. Rogers accepted the honor. But made it clear that he was only one-thirty-second Choctaw, the rest of his genetic matter being Dutch and English.
The IRS posse is hot on the trail of Roy Rogers. It doesn't matter that he's dead. It seems that sinister Roy undervalued certain assets that he passed on to his children. No doubt they will pull him out of a rehearsal of the heavenly choir. (Cue sad cowboy refrain, setting sun.)
Zion, maven of old New York, says that "The guys in my neighborhood refused to recognize Roy Rogers as King of the Cowboys. Gene Autry owned that title, and no wartime substitute was going to hijack it, no matter what the Hollywood big shots said or did, which was plenty."
Zion adds, "Roy Rogers, with his goody-good wife and his goody-good life, couldn't shine Gene's boots. I like to think booze made the difference. Gene, long after his heyday, could drink Sinatra under the table."
Zion recounts an interesting anecdote: Autry, who owns the San Diego Padres, said, "I should have realized on Opening Day in 1974 that this country was bleeped up with Tricky Dick in charge. He came to brunch in my owner's box and then went downstairs to my field box. When he got there he sees my wife and says, 'Hello, Dale. How's Trigger?'"
The singing cowboy was a distinct subgenre of movie cowboys, a portmanteau philsopher-jester-gunfighter-herdsman. In 1974 Rogers released an autobiographical song called Hoppy, Gene and Me, about himself, Autry, and Hopalong Cassidy, who was the third of America's great singing cowboys.
Rogers had a sweet voice, and the best record he ever made was "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," which he did with the Sons of the Pioneers in 1934. He introduced Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In." But his oeuvre can't approach Autry's, which includes "Back in the Saddle Again," "Sioux City Sue," "You Are My Sunshine," "South of the Border," and many other great tunes.
Even though Rogers scabbed in place of Autry during a strike, the two remained friends, and together sued Republic for the right to sell their movies to television. By the time Republic won, Rogers had launched his television show and signed licensing deals. The Republic films, cut to 54 minutes for TV distribution, couldn't compete.
Rogers always fought fair, never hit anybody smaller than himself, and usually shot the gun out the hand of the villain instead of blasting the bastard. His theme song, "Happy Trails," which ran under the closing credits of his TV show, was written by Evans. Rogers said that a typical movie featured "a little song, a little riding, a little shooting and a girl to be saved from hazard."
For 12 straight years he was the number one western star at the box office. In a single month in 1945 he received 75,000 fan letters, eclipsing a record held by Clara Bow. In 1960 he estimated that it cost him $30,000 a year to respond to his fan mail. A survey by Life magazine found that children named him alongside FDR and Lincoln as the Americans they most wanted to emulate.
Upon Rogers' death, Clayton Moore, the actor who played the Lone Ranger, said, "He certainly was a role model for people all over the world. Just a good, straightforward man. He always treated people with kindness."
Gene Autry said, "This is a terrible loss for me. I had tremendous respect for Roy and considered him a great humanitarian and an outstanding American. He was, and will always be, a true Western hero."
September 14, 1995 was proclaimed Roy Rogers and Dale Evans day in New York City. The mayor press-released, "With the death of Roy Rogers, New York City has lost a good friend and the nation has lost an entertainment icon and a great humanitarian. What many Americans did not know was how active the couple was on behalf of children, particularly children in need, raising funds and making personal appearances all over the country."
The premiere singing cowboy sang dopey songs, never killed the bad guys, never kissed his woman, was a killer salesman, promoted the sale of masses of cruddy beef in a safe, "Christian" environment. What does this mean? It means that Americans lazily sought freedom without making hard, compromising choices. It means that Americans sought the emblems of achievement without doing the work. It means that Americans would rather munch on pallid, soggy, fatty sandwiches endorsed by a mediocrity than take a chance on something tasty. Good for them.


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Howard error denies Everton win at Liverpool
nepal United States goalkeeper Tim Howard cost Everton a victory in its Premier League match against local rival Liverpool by giving up the equalizing penalty in a 2-2 draw at Anfield on Sunday.
Howard bundled over Argentina midfielder Maxi Rodriguez in the area in the 67th minute and Dirk Kuyt converted the penalty kick to rescue the home side a point.
The result left Liverpool manager and club legend Kenny Dalglish, who made a dramatic return for a second spell in charge last weekend, winless after three games back in control of the team.
Portugal midfielder Raul Meireles gave Liverpool the lead in the 29th but Sylvain Distin and Jermaine Beckford scored goals for Everton in the space of six minutes at the start of the second half to turn the game on its head.
Manchester United survived the second-half ejection of right back Rafael to hold Tottenham to a 0-0 draw, keep its unbeaten run intact and remain top of the Premier League ahead of Manchester City on goal difference.
Tottenham needed a win to go above Chelsea into fourth place and almost took maximum points when Rafael van der Vaart's curling shot in the 80th flew narrowly over.
City beat Wolverhampton 4-3 on Saturday and third-place Arsenal also won, 3-0 at bottom side West Ham, to move two points behind the joint leaders. United has two games in hand over City and one over Arsenal.
The top five are separated by eight points with a little more than half the season gone.
In the other matches, Birmingham drew 1-1 with Aston Villa and Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan scored in second-half stoppage time to earn Sunderland a 1-1 draw at home to local rival Newcastle.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Jeremy Mathieu and Pablo Hernandez scored late goals to give Valencia a 2-0 win over Deportivo La Coruna to strengthen its hold on fourth place in the Spanish league.
Mathieu raced down the left flank to reach Tino Costa's lobbed pass and fire beyond goalkeeper Daniel Aranzubia from a very tight angle in the 77th minute. Hernandez then caught the Deportivo defense pressing forward for the equalizer to score the second just before the final whistle, as Valencia extended its winning streak to four games.
Valencia has scored late winners in its past three games to move three points clear of fifth-place Espanyol.
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Deadly Tornadoes Rip Across South
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TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Deadly tornadoes rip across five southern states. Hardest hit, Tennessee, with more than 20 people dead. In all, at least 48 people were killed. More than 100 others injured. Welcome, everyone, to a special edition of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Tony Harris. HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Hi there, everybody. I'm Heidi Collins. Devastation in the nation's midsection and parts of the South today. Residents are reeling after a deadly line of tornadoes ravaged five states overnight. Destruction from the storms is massive and widespread. Look at this damage now, a shopping mall devastated in Memphis, Tennessee. At least 10 people were killed in Macon County alone. That is north of Nashville. In Arkansas, more than a dozen lives were lost as a storm slammed through six counties there. The National Guard has been called out to help rescue people who may be trapped, and a state of emergency has been declared in Kentucky after the storms killed seven people there. National Guard troops are pitching in to help residents. Damage or deaths also reported in Alabama and Mississippi. (WEATHER REPORT) COLLINS: We want to take a moment now to go to Julie Oaks. She's with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. She's joining us now by phone from Nashville. Julie, as we continue to look at the devastation here, your state lost so many lives. JULIE OAKS, TENNESSEE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY: We did. We actually have just updated our numbers. There is now 26 people confirmed dead in Tennessee. Three of those in Shelby County. Still the hardest hit county remains Macon County, which is northeast of Nashville, where we've had at least 10 fatalities. COLLINS: Wow. Are people -- we've been hearing so many reports of the rescue crews and the people going through all of the debris, really just having to walk through these neighborhoods again. It's just stunning. I have to stop and look at this video, because we're looking at it coming in from Memphis, Tennessee, just buildings destroyed, little pieces of wood everywhere, and just barren land in some places. Julie, are they still going door to door to make sure that people are out of those homes and are all right? OAKS: We are still assessing whether we have people that are in need of any assistance at this point. Particularly, again, in Macon County. That area had pretty widespread devastation, especially from the city of Lafayette East -- excuse me, city of Lafayette West. We have just a tremendous amount of devastation there. At least 65 injuries and, as I said, 10 fatalities. That appears to be one of the hardest hit areas. But all across the state, from West Tennessee to middle, we have crews out working. COLLINS: I imagine they are working very hard to help everybody out the best that they can at this point. What have you been hearing from people as they come back and maybe are reporting in from the scene? What are they telling you about the residents of Tennessee? OAKS: Of course, our residents, particularly in Jackson... COLLINS: Sure, where the university is. Just in case people are just joining us, that's where Union University is, and so much devastation there as well. OAKS: Yes. And I think one of the interesting things about this is we've talked to a number of people who said we were ready. We've had so many tornadoes that have touched down in Jackson. Unfortunately, we know the drill. We knew what to do, we knew where to go, and I think that's probably why we've seen a lower number of fatalities in that county. People heeded the warning and took cover. COLLINS: Well, thank goodness for that. In fact, in one of the other states we had -- actually, no, it was in your state. In Shelby County, in fact, we heard reports that the sirens had been going off for about two hours. So, hopefully that certainly made the situation the best that it could be when something like this -- something as strong and powerful... OAKS: Absolutely. COLLINS: ... as Mother Nature comes through. OAKS: I had a call last night from a coworker who was out in the Haywood County area where there were 25 tractor-trailers that she said were literally just picked up, twisted, and tossed aside like they were toys. COLLINS: Julie, where were you when all of this happened? Tell us about your personal experience. OAKS: I was here in Nashville. We made the emergency operation center operational around 6:30 last night. I arrived here around 8:00, and that's where I was during the storms. COLLINS: All right. Well, we appreciate your account of things. Coming to us from the Tennessee Emergency Management, Julie Oaks, who has also updated that confirmed death total in the state of Tennessee, up now from 24 to 26. HARRIS: Well, search and rescue teams are going door to door in several Arkansas communities looking for victims. Our Dan Lothian is in the town of Atkins, about, oh, 60 miles northwest of Little Rock. And boy, Dan, one of the stories we received not too long ago from Van Tyson -- he is the editor of "The Atkins Chronicle" -- he told us about a couple and their adult daughter killed by the storm. Just very sad. DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It really is. That happened actually up the road from where we are standing. And, you know, as you go through this community, it is difficult to find areas that haven't been touched by the tornado. This area here, all of the homes wiped out. Look at these trees. Large trees just uprooted, knocked down. But I want to show you this house over here. The Austin (ph) family lived in that house. At the time when the tornado came through here, they had the grandmother, they had a 4- month-old baby, and also a young boy who has some special needs. They huddled in the center of the house, in a bathroom in the center of the house, and one of the rescue workers were telling me that there really is a miracle that they survived. The towels were still hanging on the racks inside the bathroom. The bathroom area untouched. They were able to survive, escape, from that house. But I'm telling you, the devastation everywhere -- just here to my left you'll see there is a pocket, a hole there where a giant tree was. And across the street, this family, they lived not far away from here a few years ago and their home was burned down in a fire. Now they came here, and now this house has been destroyed. Over here to my left, it really looks like a landfill. But what was here, three generations of the Martin family. They had three homes here. Two actual structures, and then a trailer home. The tornado came through here and obviously wiped out all their homes. I mean, they've essentially lost everything. It's difficult to even tell that a home was there. All you see is a lot of debris. Earlier this morning they were here going through, picking out pictures, clothing, whatever they could find. And that is what you see around here -- somber faces from the homeowners who are coming back to try to recover whatever they can from their homes that have been destroyed. You also hear the noise behind me. They're cleaning up. I mean, that's obviously what they have to do. There are a lot of volunteers who have come to help clean up with their big saws, chopping down trees. Life obviously has to go on. But, you know, for the family, at least the Martin family back here, they are thinking about whether or not they will rebuild. It has been such a traumatic event for them. HARRIS: Well -- yes. LOTHIAN: And they say they really don't know if they're going to be payable to move on. Back to you. HARRIS: Can I tell you -- here's what I'm struck by as I watch and listen to your report here. You know, we usually get these stories of a random nature of these storms and these tornado events where you've got maybe a couple of homes here absolutely devastated, then there is this one home that wasn't touched. As you were walking around there, I don't see anything that wasn't touched by this tornado. LOTHIAN: You're right. You're right. And, you know, I've covered tornadoes before, and you can see one home that's perfectly fine... HARRIS: Yes. Yes. LOTHIAN: ... and then the next home is destroyed. But you're right. I mean, I gave you a sort of a tour... HARRIS: Yes. LOTHIAN: ... a 360 tour around here. Every single home here has been destroyed. And the home that I was telling you about, the Austin (ph) family, I mean, the roof is all gone, the back wall has even collapsed in here. Nothing around here is really standing. Everything here pretty much has to get knocked down. It really has -- it really has destroyed this particular community. Now let's take a listen to the Martin family. I mean, they have lost everything. It's been very traumatic for them. Take a listen to what they had to tell us earlier. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PATTY MARTIN, STORM VICTIM: You see it on the news every day, and you never think it's going to happen to you. MARK MARTIN, STORM VICTIM: A few -- a couple of years ago there was a really small tornado that had come across the trees and took some of our trees out. So, you know, they say lightning don't strike the same place twice. Well, this is twice one's been here, and I don't know if I want to be here for the third one. (END VIDEO CLIP) LOTHIAN: It really has been a massive rescue and volunteer operation going on here. We've seen some crews going by checking on the houses. You saw -- let me just show you again if we can spin around, Bob. HARRIS: That would be great. Yes. LOTHIAN: Over here, you'll see that the homes have those orange marks on them. That meant that they came by to check the homes just to make sure that no one was inside. They go from home to home. There were also some members of the energy company here, some workers from the energy company, checking various lines, making sure that they don't have any gas problems. I know they usually shut those off when they have situations like this. But they were just double- checking to make sure that they don't have any leaks. And certainly volunteers. We've seen volunteers going around bringing food and water and whatever supplies they can for all of the families who are coming back to try to retrieve whatever they can from their homes that have been destroyed -- Tony. HARRIS: And we received word about an hour ago that FEMA is mobilizing, sending teams south. Let's hope they get there with some real assistance for those folks there where you are right now. Dan Lothian, appreciate it. Thanks, Dan. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe is getting a firsthand look at the devastation as he tours the damaged areas. He spoke with us by phone a short time ago about how Arkansas are pulling together. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GOV. MIKE BEEBE, ARKANSAS: One thing Arkansas is he really noted for is the way people rally and pull together. And actually, entire communities pitch in and help, whether it's giving blood, or whether it's helping with search and rescue, or whatever it might be. And some reports we're getting back is that there is an overwhelming number of folks who are actually engaged in assisting the emergency personnel and the first responders to try to be responsive to the needs of the people. But reports continue to come in in various places across the state about the nature of the devastation, about the things that we will find. (END VIDEO CLIP) HARRIS: The storm downed so many power lines in Arkansas, thousands of people without electricity. Some 350 electrical workers from other states are being called in to help fix things and get things back and running again. COLLINS: Unfortunately, we have a death toll number to update for you. And we're talking about the state of Tennessee. We are just now learning of two more deaths in Sumner County. That would bring that number to seven in Sumner County, if you're familiar specifically with these different counties. And also 12 now up from 10 in Macon County. That brings our confirmed total to 52 dead now, at least, across these five states that we have been telling you about all morning long. And in the middle of it all, one of the hardest-hit areas by these storms, Jackson, Tennessee. Our Ed Lavendera is there now bringing you a firsthand look of that damage. And Ed, I know you are standing in the parking lot now of Union University. Really, really tough video to look at here. ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, this is one of the -- when daylight first broke, we were just getting the sense of how intense this storm was. You know, we heard a little while ago from some students who had been living inside that dorm there where you see the pink siding that's been exposed to the wall that fell out. I spoke to a couple students who were living in there last night, and they described an intense feeling of the pressure dropping. They said they could almost feel it sinking in on their chest. And as they tried to open the door, the swirling wind and the dirt and everything flying. And then all of a sudden, it just got really quiet and the windows exploded. And they said it was an intense feeling for about 10 minutes. And then when they came to, they came out into all of this mess and they started seeing other students running around trying to help people who had been trapped. But, you know, there isn't a lot of time being wasted here. There's already some heavy machinery being brought in here to this university -- or this dormitory area where some 1,200 students had been living. And many of the students say they had been, you know, warned in advance to get into the lower levels of these dormitories to seek shelter. And that is perhaps one of the reasons why here on this campus no one was killed despite the heavy nature and the heavy hit, the direct hit that the tornado inflicted on this campus. We're joined by Tim Ellsworth (ph) here with Union University. Kind of give us an update on -- you've got a lot of stuff going on here on campus, as I can imagine. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. We're in the middle of the emergency assessment today, just trying to figure out the extent of the damage, figure out where we need to go from here. Trying to communicate to students and parents, and things like that, what's going on. And just trying to weigh all the factors as we make some decisions going forward about what's next for us. LAVANDERA: And what have you told the students? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've told the students that tomorrow they can come and go through their dorm room, get stuff that they need to get. Come in, evaluate their vehicle, drive their vehicles off if they need to -- if their vehicle is driveable. Classes are canceled until February the 18th right now is what we are saying. And so that's pretty much where we stand with the students right now. LAVANDERA: Obviously in two weeks these dorm rooms can't be rebuilt. Where do you put these students when they come back? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, that's the question that we are trying to figure out the answer to right now. We've got other places in town that have offered us lodging -- churches, other schools, things like that. And of course we've got faculty and staff who opened their homes last night to all the students on campus. And I'm sure that that's something that will probably continue. It's something that will have to be considered whenever we decide to start classes again. LAVANDERA: Are you amazed as you walk around this and you see all of this that none of your students were killed, quite frankly? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, yes. Amazed is not even quite a strong enough word. You look at this and it's just utter astonishment that not only was nobody killed, but that there weren't dozens or hundreds of people killed. And we can only chalk that up to the prominence of God watching out for us. LAVANDERA: Essentially the students we have spoken to said they had adequate warning, they felt they were well warned. They got on the lower levels. Is that, you think, was what made the difference here? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the residents life team here who puts these processes into place did a fantastic job. I think we've got some -- several heroes from last night's events. And I think the residents life team that warned our students, got them to safety, told them what they needed to do to protect themselves, I think they're the heroes, as well as the emergency response teams that helped dig the students out and saved their lives in the process. LAVANDERA: And last we heard there were several students that were still hospitalized. Have you an update on their conditions, how they're doing? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The last I've heard, they were still hospitalized. We know there are some who have some injuries, but none of them are life-threatening. And so they're going to be OK. And we're so thankful for that. LAVANDERA: And some of this heavy machinery -- has the process of tearing some of this down, has that already begun? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know if it's begun in force. I think there -- I haven't been told yet what the status is as far as tearing these down and sorting through the debris. I know the insurance people are here today. And so we're kind of waiting to get some words from them before we proceed with tearing things down. LAVANDERA: Well, I hope that insurance comes through. The president of the university told us earlier that some $40 million to $50 million worth of damage had been inflicted on this university. Virtually every building on campus here affected in some way -- Heidi. COLLINS: You can certainly see it, Ed, through all of your reporting this morning. Just absolutely stunning. We sure do appreciate it. Ed Lavendera for us this morning in Jackson, Tennessee, on the campus of Union University. Thanks, Ed. HARRIS: You know, why don't we do this? Why don't we just stay with these pictures out of Jackson, Tennessee, right now? Just amazing. And the work that's been done in helping us tell this story by our affiliate, WMC, has just been -- well, you've got to tip your hat to them. It has just been amazing, these aerial looks at all of the devastation. I can't come up with another word. It's just devastating to look at this there in Jackson, Tennessee. That chopper pilot also made the rounds of Memphis as well. But we've got an amazing story we want to share with you right now. Can you imagine this... you are driving in your car when the storm, the tornado, comes through the area, right where you are. What do you do? Well, Heidi, you've asked this question -- what do you do? What is the best course of action? Well, we've got the story of one man who survived this storm in his car as the tornado hits and takes him on an incredible ride. Have a listen. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, we were trying to get to her, because -- so we left, and -- you know, we said, well, let's stay here. And then we said, no, because she was on the way. So I said, "All right." And then we got here to the intersection. It was stormy, it was windy, and people were outside, but it didn't look, you know, like it was just storming. It wasn't, you know, really that bad. And like I said, it just -- it just came. I mean, it just -- you know, it wasn't that severe. It was like about a split second of hail. I'm like, "Uh-oh." And by the time we saw the hail, that was it. It hit us and whacked us, and picked us up and threw us. I mean, it was instant. Instant. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are you thinking now? What are you feeling? Anything? Are you like... UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, my head's hurting. I'd just like to get our phones back and find her glasses because, you know -- and the insurance company, I called them last night. They're supposed to be calling me about 10:00. I mean, I don't mind losing the car. We didn't lose anybody. We lost the car. You know, we're all alive. We lost the car, and I hate that, but, you know, we've got the insurance and I've got another one. And, you know, we'll get through it. You know, so nobody's dead. That's the biggest thing. (END VIDEOTAPE) HARRIS: Yes, that's the biggest thing. But my goodness, he -- he was an eyewitness to this. He survived it. He's driving along. The storm starts to get increasingly worse. The next thing, you've got hail. And then your vehicle is picked up and tossed through an intersection. How lucky is he? Just a headache. A bad bump on his head, obviously. But just amazing. And more and more of those stories I'm sure we'll be getting throughout the course of the day here. COLLINS: Yes. These powerful storms left at least seven people dead in Kentucky. We are headed there live next in the this special edition of CNN NEWSROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (NEWSBREAK) COLLINS: Meanwhile, President Bush contacted the governors of all five states slammed by these tornadoes, offering his sympathy, prayers and pledges of help. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This was a bad storm that affected a lot of people in a variety of states. This administration is reaching out to state officials. I just called the governors of the affected states. I wanted them to know that this government will help them. But more importantly, I wanted them to be able to tell the people in their states that the American people hold them up -- hold those who suffer up in prayer. (END VIDEO CLIP) COLLINS: The president made his comments at the start of a swearing-in ceremony for the new U.S. agriculture secretary, Edward Schaefer. HARRIS: Severe weather leaves at least seven dead across Kentucky. Damage in Central City described as looking as if a bomb went off. Those words coming from city administrator David Rhoades. He's on the phone with us. David, good to talk to you. You know, we often say, oh, it could have been worse, it could have been worse. Yes, we know that. We get that. But just how bad is it, particularly in Central City? DAVID RHOADES, CITY ADMINISTRATOR, CENTRAL CITY, KENTUCKY: Well, on the southeast side of town, it's where the direct hit was. There's not much damage other than in this one community, which is Gaslight Park area. The damage is pretty substantial. HARRIS: Did you -- have you had an opportunity to kind of tour it and see it for yourself? RHOADES: Yes, sir. I have walked the whole subdivision. HARRIS: What did you see? Describe it for us. RHOADES: It's hard to put into words what you see. I just thank the lord that there's relatively no severe injuries and no deaths. But there are homes that have been completely destroyed. There are homes that have been the roofs removed, the garages, the vehicles have been -- the glass is broke out, they've been shoved up against retaining walls, totaled out. Trees galore just -- it is -- it really looks like, if you haven't seen it, it looks like a war zone. HARRIS: How many people in your town need help right now? RHOADES: There is approximately 50 homes that have been damaged, probably with -- beyond occupancy. HARRIS: Oh, boy. And David, you're one of the people that the folks in your town would look to for some help, some leadership. Give me a sense of what it is you can do, what you're trying to marshal together to get some aid and comfort to folks. RHOADES: Well, right now, with the help from our local fire department, our police department, we have the National Guard on hand. We have 30 of those units here helping with traffic control, keeping solicitors out. We're having a problem with onlookers, people that want to come out and view the scene. The volunteer fire departments from around the -- not only in the county, but outside the county, the numerous police departments, we have been very blessed with support. HARRIS: Yes. RHOADES: We've had two contractors come out with track hoes to remove huge trees out in the middle of the road. The support has been just unbelievable. HARRIS: Well, I don't know if you have an opportunity -- I mean, I know your hands are full right now. We'd love to see some of the pictures of this damage. I mean, the pictures that are coming in to help us tell this story today are just amazing. David Rhoades is a city administrator, Central City there in Kentucky. David, thanks for your time. We know you're going to be busy. And again, you're looking at pictures on the left of your screen there from Jackson, Tennessee. Again, just amazing pictures. But let's continue to tell the Kentucky story. The tornado damage there widespread. At least seven people were killed. The spokesman for Kentucky's Emergency Management Division, Buddy Rogers, spoke with us by phone a short time ago. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BUDDY ROGERS, KENTUCKY DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Let me just say that our hearts go out to not only the folks in our state, but those in our surrounding states, too. And our thoughts and prayers are not only with those families and their loved ones, but to the responders as well. In Kentucky, we've had seven confirmed deaths from last night's storms, and some injuries. Mostly minor to moderate. Haven't had any reports of any serious injuries, but we do have widespread damage throughout the state. (END VIDEO CLIP) HARRIS: Kentucky's governor, Steve Beshear, has declared a state of emergency. He's surveying some of the hardest-hit areas in the south-central and western portions of the state by air today. COLLINS: Quickly want to go ahead and show you some more new video just as it comes in to us here in the CNN NEWSROOM. You are looking at the Arkansas governor who we spoke to at the top of our program around 9:00 today. This is Mike Beebe sort of taking a look at damage, surveying everything that he can. It is not a pretty sight in Arkansas. We know of at least 13 fatalities in his state. Let's go ahead and listen in for just a moment as some of the eyewitnesses here tell the governor what they saw. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BEEBE: You live in this house right here? And you live in the one right over there? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, sir. I was just staying with them. BEEBE: And so, how much... (END VIDEO CLIP) COLLINS: Well, unfortunately, it looks like that is the end of the new video coming in. But, once again, just to give you a little bit more detail about Arkansas, at least 13 fatalities that we know of there in that state. But one of the most remarkable things that we've been hearing is about the weather there now. We were speaking earlier to the emergency management folks there who were telling us it's very strange, because as you can tell by that video, people are wearing their coats. And it is snowing and sleeting there now on top of these tornadoes that rolled in in a very unlikely time of year. February, obviously. Kind of a strange scenario weather wise. Making a lot of things quite a bit more difficult for them, too, in the cleanup efforts all around. The video is pouring in from all of this devastation. If you look at this now, it's from the town of Moulton in northern Alabama. Searchers are spray -- spray paint a circle on the front of what's left of the houses. It means that they have gone inside and they have checked for victims. In this case, at least four people were killed by tornadoes before dawn this morning. A siren alerted many of the residents to the tornado danger but state officials say there was no siren in the area where these victims died. We're going to have a live report coming up from Moulton on this special edition of CNN NEWSROOM. To Mississippi now. Residents there also dealing with their share of damage today too. I-Reporter Shane Carr shot some of these images of the flying debris. You can see some of it there going through the air. He says it's from a big warehouse in South Haven, Mississippi. Carr says this was the beginning of the tornado. He shot this about a mile from his house. He says his kids were outside watching the funnel cloud while he ran inside to grab his camera. Wow. With nearly 50 people dead and hundreds more injured, images and blogs on this story are already burning up the web. Veronica De La Cruz is tracking this story online now for us from New York. And, Veronica, it's been pretty amazing to see what the people saw an hear some of their comments. VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. You know, you really are right about that. And we have been taking a good, hard look at the web. We've also been monitoring all of our affiliate web sites. And we want to start in Clinton, Arkansas, with Fox 16, our affiliate there. Top stories right now, 13 confirmed dead state wide due to tornadoes. And one of the hardest hit areas, Atkins, where there are reports of widespread damage. We were just looking at the video moments ago. There are also, unfortunately, injuries and fatalities. Moving up that page, there's the video box right there. Let's go ahead and listen in for a second, Heidi, as a reporter there shows what was once a Baptist church. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I just want to show you, it's just -- there's so much damage here. Look at this. This is the siding here from the building. And it just looks like crinkled paper. And the beams here just look like match sticks. There's just a lot of damage here. What you're looking at, this is actually the sanctuary. This is where the gym was. The sanctuary where they worshiped. And when you look at this, it's just so hard to believe there were actually two people inside here when this tornado -- when this storm hit. And they actually made it out OK. DE LA CRUZ: So lucky for them there. It was Fox 16, Clinton, Arkansas. We want to also bring you up to speed on another situation. The one in Jackson, Tennessee, where the university is. We're going to take a look at the web site belongs to our affiliate WMCTV now. The headline there, the story explaining how students hid in the bathroom as those tornadoes touched down. Thirteen students trapped in the wreckage overnight. Luckily all have been rescued. About nine were taken to area hospitals with serious injuries. And then taking a look at the video box there, you see that, right-hand side of the page, Heidi, there is some raw aerial footage of all the damage done to the school, which really kind of gives you a sense of how powerful that storm was as it ripped through the area. I think one of the reporters earlier was saying $30 million in damages done to that school. We also found this on the web, Heidi. A FaceBook page for the university students. The group's administrator has posted about 20 pictures and those pictures really do tell the story. Taking a look right here, you see cars just flipped over. Damaged, destroyed by the walls that have fallen on top of them. Those are the walls to the dorm rooms. There you see the students getting together trying to help in the rescue efforts. You see debris in all of the pictures strewn about. There again, you see the walls just ripped off the dorms. The roof ripped right off the buildings. Again, these pictures coming to us from FaceBook where there is a support group there online. I believe about 400 members now. That number has been continually climbing throughout the morning. We're going to continue to watch the web this afternoon, Heidi, and check back with you and let you know what else we've found. COLLINS: Veronica, very good. Appreciate that. Veronica De La Cruz for us this morning. Thanks. TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Man, the deadly storms catch the attention of the federal government to be sure. Reaction from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COLLINS: Sympathy and offers of help pouring out into the south. Fifty-two people already killed in four states. That number, too, may change. Many homes and businesses damaged. President Bush telling the people of the region they can count on the federal government. Here's the latest breakdown now. At least 28 deaths in Tennessee. Part of a mall store in Memphis was damaged and Union University in Jackson was nearly wiped out. At least 13 people killed in neighboring Arkansas. Three people killed when their home took a direct hit. At least seven people were killed in western and south central Kentucky. And at least four people are now confirmed dead in northern Alabama. Again, the latest information for you. At least 52 people dead across four southern states from severe weather. HARRIS: FEMA quickly stepping into action, telling tornado- ravaged states the agency is ready to help. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: FEMA is working with state and local counterparts, monitoring the storms and preparing to move into assist with respect to the process of responding and recovering as quickly as possible. The Regional Response Coordination Center Watch Unit in Thomasville, Georgia, is up an running and we've got state liaisons in Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and on its way to Arkansas. We've already deployed a team of FEMA people on the ground in Tennessee. So we're going to keep watching this. Again, I want to emphasize, it's important for people to pay attention to the direction they get from their local officials regarding evacuation and safety. (END VIDEO CLIP) HARRIS: OK. Chertoff also added our thoughts and prayers are with all of those communities. What do you say we get another check of weather? Jacqui Jeras now. Jacqui, clearly we are keeping an eye on all of the devastation that came before, but we're also looking ahead to the storm system and where it's going as it moves east. JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Right, the threat of tornadoes is still out there, Tony and Heidi, and predominantly we're looking at parts of Georgia and also into Florida. There you can see the watch in effect until 2:00 local time. But one thing I want to point out is many of these storms, see how they're lined up? It's kind of a linear line here. And that is more indicative of strong, damaging wind. When you tend to see the isolated storms out ahead of the line, that's when we really start to get concerned. So hopefully it looks like that tornado threat is starting to diminish, but the threat of severe weather, by no means, is over and done with. And straight-line winds can cause an excessive amount of damage. And even right here in the Dophin (ph) area, and just off to the east of there, we could be seeing some winds around 60 miles per hour or so. And you can see how that line is feeding out of the Gulf of Mexico and a lot of moisture is in place and a lot of warm air as well. Another area that we're watching, that we're concerned about, is right here across parts of Kentucky. The storm prediction center is monitoring this area for the potential of needing to issue a tornado watch. So we're seeing this development around Louisville, extending down towards Bowling Green. All of that will be pushing eastward. If you live in Cincinnati, if you live in Richmond, down towards Knoxville, be aware of that upcoming threat over the next couple of hours. There's also a winter side to this storm, guys. And we're going to talk more about this. Chicago is just getting walloped right now. I'll tell you all the details on that when I see you again. HARRIS: OK, Jacqui, appreciate it. Thank you. Door to door, house to house, emergency crews are canvassing damaged neighborhoods in Arkansas looking for victims. Our Dan Lothian is in Atkins. That's about 60 miles northwest of Little Rock. And, Dan, outside of perhaps the pictures coming out of Jackson, Tennessee, what you've shown us has been absolutely amazing as to -- speaking to the devastation from these storms. DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It really is amazing, Tony. You know, oftentimes what we say is that the camera can't really capture the massive nature of the devastation. I mean once you get on the ground here and you see what has happened, you see these large trees that have been just uprooted and you see an entire community here that has been just heavily damaged and so many structures destroyed, I mean it really sort of brings it home. Right here where we are, and we talked about this earlier, Tony. As we can spin the camera around. Sometimes what happens with tornadoes is that they'll sort of hop around a neighborhood and you'll have pockets where the homes are completely fine, and then other areas where the homes are gone. Well, in this area here, every single home either heavily damaged or destroyed. This is a home where the family was inside, six members of the Austin (ph) family inside that home. They were able to escape uninjured inside the bathroom in the center of their home. But you look at it. I mean there's not really -- except for the walls around the front part, the rest of the house is really blown out. The back, you can see by the window there, that whole wall has caved in. Just a few minutes ago, the owners of the house of the family members were there just picking through, trying to find whatever they can from that house. Across the street here, the owners of this house, they live not far away. A few years ago, their other house was destroyed by fire. Now this home has been destroyed by the tornado. Across the street over here, and we can just kind of walk around the car here, it really kind of looks like just a landfill. But what was here, we had three different homes, two permanent structures and a trailer home. Three generations of the Martin family. The parents were not here but the young kids were here. The grandmother was here. The great grandmother was here when the storm came through here. When the tornado hit. And it was a terrifying moment for all of them. Take a listen to what they told us earlier today. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BLAKE MARTIN, STORM SURVIVOR: It happened so fast you really couldn't think about hardly being scared. ROB HARDY, STORM SURVIVOR: I was pretty worried. I don't know about him. You know, it's kind of a scary thing. Eight years, you know, I guess the pressure is -- it feel like your head's going to explode. I mean it's just not what I thought a tornado was like. (END VIDEO CLIP) LOTHIAN: The Martin family saying that they don't know if they will be able to rebuild here. It's such a difficult time for them and they haven't decided at this point whether or not they can rebuild. So many memories here. So many generations here and pretty much everything has been lost. But again, what you're seeing now, volunteers coming through assisting the families who have been hit hard in this community, in any way that they can. And you're also seeing people going through and picking out whatever they can out of the rubble. Right across the street here you'll see a while ago, they just brought out a dresser and they're bringing out other items. We've seen people taking out pictures and clothing. So that's kind of what's happening here. As construction crews, debris removal crews are coming in here, we've seen gas crews going around and checking lines, making sure that there isn't any gas that's leaking around here. So a lot of different things happening in this community. And at the same time we're dealing with some pretty nasty weather. Early we had some snow flurries coming down. It's very windy as you can see. I almost lost my hat earlier on. About 35 degrees or so. So, you know, horrible conditions in the midst of a very difficult time here in this town. HARRIS: Well, it's no special effects. It's no movie set. That's the real thing and that's what it looks like in that whole area. Just, man, oh, man, ripped apart by that tornado. Dan Lothian, great reporting on that and, boy, great story telling. And what a description from the Martins. Thanks, Dan. COLLINS: Alabama was caught right in the middle of the tornado barrage. Powerful images when we take you there live next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) HARRIS: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Can't thank you enough for the I-Reports that you've been sending in to us. I want to get to this one. I-Reporter Mark Inman shot these photos at the Hickory Ridge Mall in Jackson, Tennessee. Inman says the mall was actually open when the tornado slammed the area. He doesn't know if anyone was hurt but the destruction everywhere. An entire wall of the Sears Department Store ripped off completely. We had an aerial view of that Sears store. Amazing. Inman says because of the weather, he never got a chance to vote. COLLINS: All right. We want to go ahead and get now to one of our reporters coming to us from Clinton, Arkansas. This is about 70 miles north of Little Rock. Let's listen in to just a moment with Heather Crawford. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) HEATHER CRAWFORD: Yesterday this was a house. Today this is all that's left. It was a heart-wrenching moment a few minutes ago when a young lady who lives here came home. She was not home during the tornado yesterday. She came here, she walked up and she said, I went to school and I had a house and I came home and I have nothing. She was digging through pulling out a jewelry box. Just broke down in tears hugging and crying and couldn't believe what has happened here. It's the same story all around. The tornado not only picked up houses, it picked up people. A woman right at the house behind me was thrown out of her mobile home. She had to be medevac'd out and is now in critical condition at a hospital. So many stories here today. But when you talk about the spirit of Arkansas, this is the spirit of Arkansas. There are so many people who have come out here today to bring food, to help saw trees down. So there are a lot of team effort, a lot of people doing their part to make sure these folks here get back on their feet. we're going to take a break and come back with more of our coverage of the deadly southern storms. 52 people dead. Hundreds injured. 52 dead in four states. We're back in a moment. (END VIDEO CLIP) HARRIS: And we're going to take a break and we'll come back with more of our coverage of the deadly southern storms. Fifty-two people dead, hundreds injured. Fifty-two dead in four states. We'll take a break and we're back in a moment. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COLLINS: The Red Cross, as you might imagine, is mobilizing to help victims of this storm. If you would like to make donations, you can certainly do that. Just call 1-800-RED-CROSS or log on to redcross.org. And for those of you in hard-hit areas, you can register yourself as "safe and well" on the Red Cross website so concerned family and friends can search the list for loved ones who have registered themselves as "safe and well." Makes everybody feel a whole lot better if they can check that list. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) HARRIS: All right. Let's get an update on the situation in Alabama. Also hard hit. Four dead, many others hurt. Live now to the city of Moulton and reporter Alcides Segui of affiliate WAAY. And, Alcides, if you would, first of all tell us where Moulton is. Next to what big city? That would be helpful. ALCIDES SEGUI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That would be Lawrence County. It's in the northern part of Alabama. It's roughly about -- let's say about an hour and a half west of Huntsville, Alabama, which is about an hour and a half northeast of Birmingham. But let me go ahead and just show you what happened here, Tony. Roughly around 2:30 in the morning is when the severe storm came through and this is what it left behind. Absolutely destruction. This is a man's house here in a small town called Speak (ph). We had an opportunity to speak with this individual a little while ago. We're going to crawl over and just bring you into this man's living room. This is where it all happened. I spoke to him a little while ago and he was telling me that roughly around 2:30 in the morning is when he heard lightning, walked outside and then just saw lightning scattered in the horizon, decided that he actually saw a tornado also on the horizon, ran inside the house and got behind this couch right here, laid down right over here, and then waited until the actual storm came through. He said it lasted about ten seconds. I'm joined now by that man, Dwight Johnson. Dwight, thank you very much for joining us. Tell us what you saw, how big was this storm? DWIGHT JOHNSON, STORM SURVIVOR: Well, it was, I'm going to say, an F-3. Maybe an F-4. It was huge. Yes, I came out early this morning. About maybe a quarter of 3:00. And I could see with the lightning strikes, I could see the funnel cloud in the sky. And then in just a matter of minutes, it disappeared and the sky just turned real black. SEGUI: Tell me what your thoughts were when you saw the tornado, what you call a tornado up on the horizon. What did you think? JOHNSON: Well, it was amazing. I'd never seen a tornado before. And I was just, you know, sitting there staring at it because I said, that's amazing. I've never seen a real tornado. But I could see the tail waving and whipping back. And then, like I said, it just all of a sudden disappeared. And then within minutes, I could hear a train sound coming. SEGUI: Mr. Johnson, I really appreciate your time. And, Tony, just to give you a heads up, these are stories that you can hear across up and down County Road 183. Spoke to a woman a little while ago. She was actually sitting on her rocker when the tornado came through her living room and, fortunately, she only suffered a minor cut to her head. So a lot of remarkable stories out here, Tony. HARRIS: All right, Alcides, appreciate it. Thank you so much. More on the deadly storms coming up in the next hour of NEWSROOM. I'm Tony Harris. COLLINS: And I'm Heidi Collins. You'll also get a lot of reaction to the results of Super Tuesday. We will see you tomorrow, everybody. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxantshop.com


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I'm working on a web application in JSP and my web container is Apache Tomcat 7.0.2 (Its portable cross-platform version). As I've made extensive use of HTML5-CSS3 and my target browser is Google Chrome, I'm able to run the the Apache server only in Opera web browser, neither of the remaining installed browser run it.
Here's the steps I have followed to start the server in my Windows 7 machine.
-Placing the 'apache-tomcat-7.0.2' directory on my root partition (i.e. C: Drive)
-Execute 'startup.bat' from 'bin' directory in it. (startup.sh if on Linux/Unix).
-Then, a Console window opens that shows log during the setup of server (separately from Command Prompt), and I need to keep that console running in order to keep the Apache server running, so I minimize it.
-Then, I open 'http://localhost:8080/' in various web browsers, and I could see Apache Server Homepage with same address only in Opera Web Browser (11.01), neither of other browsers installed can open it (Chrome 9, Firefox 4 Beta 10 or IE8).
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What can I do to make Apache run in every browser installed in my computer?
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist in paperback
Posted: April 16, 2008 @ 2:38 P.M.
The national bestseller The Reluctant Fundamentalist is now available in paperback!
To get your copy, please use the links to the right.
New Reviews
Posted: October 9, 2007 @ 8:48 A.M.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist has been reviewed by the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize!
Posted: September 6, 2007 @ 8:18 A.M.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist has been announced, and Nicola Barker, Anne Enright, Mohsin Hamid, Lloyd Jones, Ian McEwan and Indra Sinha are the six authors up for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007, the UK's annual celebration of the finest in fiction.
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Mohsin Hamid in Entertainment Weekly
Posted: June 14, 2007 @ 10:16 A.M.
A fantastic interview with Mohsin Hamid appears in the June 12 issue of Entertainment Weekly!
You must get asked this a lot: Changez smiled when the Towers fell — what was your personal response?
I felt frightened. I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. My ex-roommate worked in the World Financial Center, and my first thought was: What happened to him? I hoped people I cared about weren't dead, and then I thought: My whole world is about to change. I had this gut feeling it would be some kind of Muslim terrorist group, and after that who knew what would happen? My mother was in Pakistan and when she witnessed it she started crying hysterically. She used to visit me for a month every year and she'd fallen in love with New York. I had to console her.
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Review: The New Yorker
Posted: May 23, 2007 @ 11:44 A.M.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is called a "lucid, unsettling novel" in this "Briefly Noted" review from the upcoming May 28, 2007 issue of The New Yorker.
Mohsin Hamid on NPR's "Fresh Air"
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Listen to an archive of Mohsin Hamid's interview with Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air" from April 3.
"Exile Complex"
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Sajid Huq (Jajabor) discusses Mohsin Hamid and his anticipation for The Reclutant Fundamentalist, in the context of the longings for things familiar or representative of "home" frequently experienced by expatriates, a condition he refers to as "exile complex":
That said, post colonial lit can get a little tiresome. Some greatest hits aside, a lot of the new stuff that comes out keep re-inventing the wheel. Soon, all plots and characters start to look the same.
But a breath of fresh air, in the midst of such re-inventions, is Mohsin Hamid.
In fact, Mr. Hamid may even be my hero.
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Written Voices Podcast
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Mohsin Hamid on The Agonist
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Political blog The Agonist has posted Mohsin Hamid's op-ed piece Britain and America's Overstated Threat from Within.
Review: The Village Voice
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"Hamid . . . is an artist of fantastic cunning, and his second novel (following the rightly praised Moth Smoke) demonstrates what certain trumped-up laureates of post-modernity seem incapable of grasping: that it is possible to simultaneously address the byzantine monstrosity of contemporary existence and care about the destiny of one's characters."
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Has the MBB pep band ever made any recordings? I didn't find any audio clips online from the pep bands that play in Hilton, only from the marching band.
It was also kind of a bummer on CloneZone last night that during the timeouts, they'd show the pep band playing, but cut the sound. I guess that's because they were using the Cyclone radio network feed.
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And thank you Stumpy for this:
There hasn't been a specific pep band-only recording session. Probably cost-prohibitive. Plus, there are several pep band tunes that I can't imagine sounding nearly as tight with the full marching band playing.
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There hasn't been a specific pep band-only recording session. Probably cost-prohibitive. Plus, there are several pep band tunes that I can't imagine sounding nearly as tight with the full marching band playing.
Y'all ought to throw a couple of mics up at a MBB game and record sometime. The peps bands have their own unique sound...
Also from the experience of recording songs for the marching band, most of the songs we can not record and sell because of copyright issues.
They could probably use the facilities in Music Hall if it really came down to it. Last I knew, the Recital Hall was equipped for good-quality recording, and the stage is large enough for the pep band.
(isumellie beat me to this, but...) The other thing that has hamstrung previous marching band CDs is getting the rights to some songs. There were multiple good halftime shows that had to be scrapped from CDs entirely due to an inability to obtain rights. That would definitely be a red flag for the sale of any pep band recording, and maybe even free downloads, too.
I wasn't thinking so much of a CD for sale, but more just putting a few clips up on the band website (so the recordings wouldn't have to be CD quality). Although, I'm sure there are probably even copyright issues with just putting sound clips up...
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Very nice and clean appartment in the area very close by the center of Krakow. Really enjoyed my stay there. The television receiver broke down and whas replaced immdiately, and we didn't even watch the television :D
The flat was very nice and conveniently located.
The only negative remark we can make is that there is no air-conditioning. It was very hot and because the windows give out to the main square and above a pub it was very noisy in the evening and night if you want to leave the windows open.
Ein sehr schön eingerichtetes Zimmer. Der Vermieter war sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit. Es war zwar etwas laut wegen der vielen Touristenkneipen an dem Platz, aber wenn man nicht vor halb 12 schlafen geht, ist es nicht so störend. Ich kann die Unterkunft nur empfehlen.
Great location, comfortable room. Would recommend to anyone
The wifi didn't work, we were given no instructions how to get there, the towels smelled so bad and the people who stayed in the same flat were not respectful to our belongings. I also asked for help with the wifi password and received no answer. It's also terribly loud. This place is great for the price and being close to the Jewish area (great night life) but you could get a hostel for even cheaper because that's pretty much what it is.
Beautiful apartment, well appointed and very convenient and interesting locations, we stayed in two different spaces, both were outstanding and a pleasure to stay in. Great kitchen facilities.
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Four area students have admitted their involvement in the vandalism of the Porta Potty in Phoenix Park last week.
As stated in a press release issued by the Washington Police Department:
"The recently installed cameras at the park recorded the incident and the video was distributed to local media in an attempt to identify the suspects. It was also placed on the Washington Police Department Facebook page. Shortly thereafter, information was received that our efforts should focus on a specific individual at St. Francis Borgia Regional High School. In coordination with the high school, the suspect, a white male 17 years of age, was interviewed in the presence of his parents and admitted his involvement. Additional investigation revealed the other three suspects. They are also white males about 17 years of age, two from Borgia and one from Washington High. They also admitted their involvement to investigators. The Porta Potty sustained at least a cracked roof as a result of this vandalism."
The City of Washington has invested in surveillance cameras at the various Parks facilities to help curb vandalism. Washington Police Chief Ken Hahn stated they are already helping.
"We have been able to solve incidents of vandalism at the fairgrounds and now Phoenix Park. These cameras are a wonderful tool, and together with the public's help in identifying potential suspects they would in essence pay for themselves," advised Chief Hahn. The use of social media is also an investigative tool for law enforcement.
"Utilizing Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media is becoming a common investigative tool for law enforcement. We also use our Facebook page to advise our citizens of local crime, special events, crime victim tips, and a variety of other items," stated Chief Hahn.
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SHANGHAI - Utah's Jordan Loveridge was one of three players in double figures as the Pac-12 All-Stars remained unbeaten with an 85-63 win over the Jiangsu Dragons. The junior finished with 13 points and four rebounds.
In their first game against a team of Chinese professionals, the Pac-12 team showed an improved chemistry, out-scoring Jiangsu by 17 in the second quarter (25-8) en route to the double-digit win.
"It was a complete team effort," head coach Larry Krystkowiak said. "We wanted to place an emphasis on defense and so we implemented a challenging substitution rotation."
The rotation, which consisted of all five players being substituted, would occur when the opponents scored seven points against the players on the court at that time.
The defensive intensity helped things on the other end as the Pac-12 unit shot 47 percent from the floor.
Bo Barnes of ASU paced the team with 18 points on the strength of four 3-pointers, while Nikola Jovanovic of USC continued to shine with 11 points and three rebounds. Oregon State's Cheikh N'diaye was a force on the defensive end and finished with six rebounds.
The final game for the Pac-12 All-Stars will be on Saturday against another professional team, the Shanghai Sharks, who are owned by former eight-time NBA all-star and No. 1 pick, Yao Ming.
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This is pretty good for a first attempt, although I have a few suggestions for how you can improve it.
Forests: the forests would look better (in my opinion) if you
--include tree trunks where the rivers cut through them
--include scattered trees around the forest rims, getting scarcer and more dispersed the further from the forest edge: most forests don't simply stop, they gradually peter out (unless farming is included)
--perhaps you could include pockets of forest growing in the mountain valleys (which matches how actual forests grow)
--another thing to consider is making the forests less dark. I don't know the best way to do that, but either reducing the opacity of the forests, or using a lighter green, might work.
--perhaps you should add shadows to the mountains. If using Photoshop, I would add shadows by getting a brush with low opacity and low hardness, and simply painting over the shadowed parts of the mountain ranges (on a new layer, ideally). You can then play around with the opacity of the layer, and set it to Multiply (or experiment with other blend styles) to give it the right look. Adding shadows will make the mountains seem more 3-dimensional. You can also use shadows to emphasise some valleys over others (by making the deeper valleys darker or bigger)
--reduce the opacity of the ridge lines and (if it isn't too much work) perhaps make them straighter. I always recommend using GoogleEarth to research things when mapmaking. Check out the Alps, or Himalayas, to get a sense of how mountains look from above.
--there's a bit of a problem with the western mountain range where it splits into three branches. The middle branch looks (if you don't mind me saying so) plain wrong. I'd remove it altogether, if it was mine, and keep the other two.
--you could try to make all the mountains look more rugged. The best way to do that (again, in my opinion) is to redo the valleys as I suggested above (i.e. make them straighter), but make the central ridge of the ranges curve around a lot more. This website has some diagrams that might help to show what I mean (especially under "Drawing Realistic Mountains").
--I also think you should add hills to the landscape. This might, in fact, be the most important suggestion, because as it is now, it looks kinda flat (literally) apart from the mountains. Hills will make the mountains blend into the landscape more realistically, help to define the courses of rivers and locations of lakes, and can also be useful later for placing towns/cities and roads.
Rivers: all new maps on this website tend to get carefully scrutinised by the River Police, but as far as I can tell, your rivers check out. The lakes do look a little odd, but adding hills, as I suggested, may resolve that issue a bit. Other suggestions
--the delta looks peculiar. I don't know how to describe it, so instead I'll just direct you to GoogleEarth again. The Nile is the classic river delta to check out.
--you could work on the shape of the rivers a little bit. Rivers are often described as having a life cycle. When they first appear in mountain valleys, where the channels are narrow and steep, they run straight (youth); by the time they reach the sea, they have eroded wide valleys, and so they meander very widely (old age). It is a useful model to remember, and is shown in this diagram.
I think that's probably enough from me for now. I hope you find those suggestions helpful rather than unnecessarily critical.
It's also good to see another Aussie joining the site, too.


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Dear Workforce:
Do you have an averaged national1999 employee turnover rate? I know such a figure includes many influencingfactors, but it would suit my purposes well.
—LindaFunk, HR Manager, Anderson Public Library, Anderson IN.
Turnover rates vary, ofcourse, by industry and company size. The average national turnover rate hovered around 1.3 percent per month(according to the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.) during the second quarterof 1999.
This was an increaseover the record 1.1 percent seen by employers in 1998
SOURCE:. MarciaL. Jones, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, CriterionIncorporated, Irving, TX, January 13, 2000.
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