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All the elements that bring readers time and again to Burke's books abound in The Tin Roof Blowdown. Robicheaux still struggles with the demons from his past: combat in Vietnam, alcoholism, police work in one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country, a murdered wife, dead friends. Here, too, is Clete Purcel, Robicheaux's best friend, still eating too much Cajun food, still drinking, still smoking, and still dealing out two-fisted trouble to the bad guys as he hunts down rogues and murderers. Here are the lovely descriptions of the South Louisiana countryside, the bayou country with its soft mornings, its blazing noons, its deep, mysterious nights.
This Deep South countryside has in Burke's novels always counted as a character in its own right, as real as Purcel or Robicheaux, In The Tin Roof Blowdown Burke adds another inanimate being to his usual list of characters: Hurricane Katrina. Right from the beginning, Burke shows readers the force of Katrina as a living entity, ferocious and deadly, a beast that literally destroyed a good part of a major city, that set into motion not only the forced evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, but also the criminal acts that clawed at the city and the surrounding countryside after the winds had stopped blowing, an explosion in criminality that continues to this day.
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Burke follows several criminals whose fate is fixed by the flood. Bertrand Melancon, his brother Eddy, and another friend have raped a young girl, killed a priest in order to steal his boat, and are unknowingly gutting and burglarizing the house of a powerful gangster when a neighbor opens fire on them. Only Bertrand ultimately survives that gun battle, and he comes to see himself as a dead man when he learns more about Sidney Kovick. "Hey, kid, if you stole anything from Sidney Kovick, mail it to him COD from Alaska, then buy a gun and shoot yourself," Clete Purcel advises. "With luck, he won't find your grave."
In the meantime, the gangster, Sidney Kovick, is hot on Bertrand's heels, seeking revenge for his demolished house and the recovery of some extremely valuable diamonds Bertrand has stolen. Other criminals become involved on one side or the other of this chase, including a psychotic serial rapist and killer, Ronald Bledsoe.
Dave Robicheaux, who is still working as a detective in New Iberia, takes on the break-in and shooting case. In his investigation he drops his readers into the dark heart of New Orleans while at the same time giving them some beautiful prose pictures celebrating the city before its devastation. With a plot as complicated as any Burke has ever written — Robicheaux helps readers keep track of the twisting story through frequent recitations of criminal activities — The Tin Roof Blowdown throws a harsh light on the criminal acts that followed in Katrina's wake. We see the brutality that characterizes these men: the brutality of Eddy Melancon; the more sophisticated, but still bloody path of murder followed by Sidney Kovick; and the senseless, sick violence practiced by Ronald Bledsoe.
Through Robicheaux's investigations, however, we not only learn how these criminals operate. We begin to understand why some of them behave the way they do. We understand that Kovick, who uses a floral shop as his front, can master his predilection for violence. We come to view him as a man who has an eye both for beauty and death. In Bertrand Melancon Burke creates a young man whose life has followed a course of brutality, yet in the wake of Katrina, he seeks redemption for himself.
Molly, the ex-nun who is Robicheaux's wife, and Alafair, Robicheaux's adopted daughter, also undergo changes amidst the brutality that funnels out of the hurricane. Normally an advocate of pacifism, Molly eventually has Robicheaux teach her how to shoot a handgun. Alafair, who is trying to write a novel and is soon off to college, has become a strong-hearted young woman who eventually must confront Ronald Bledsoe, the psycho-killer determined to take vengeance on her.
The people of New Orleans and the surrounding countryside, the social classes to which they belong, the houses and the landscape, the days and nights and weather — all will appear as familiar in The Tin Roof Blowdown as in any of the Dave Robicheaux novels. What makes this book different than the others is, of course, Katrina. Through Robicheaux's eyes we see that Katrina destroyed more than homes and historic places. It damaged the souls of human beings as well, offering the opportunity to indulge in robbery, rape, and killing. And yet Robicheaux also witnesses acts of heroism as well, like the priest trying to rescue victims in the middle of the flood. Like Robicheaux, we watch several characters regretting their behavior, wishing they had made different choices in their time of trial.
By the end of The Tin Roof Blowdown, Burke has given us the chance to see the storm and its aftermath from many different viewpoints, causing the reader to ask: How would I behave in such a situation? On which side — and there are many sides — would I take my stand?


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Gophers coach Don Lucia used his weekly radio show on Monday to defend himself from critics complaining that North Dakota won't be on the U's schedule the next three seasons.
"We have a rule at the University of Minnesota -- not put in by me -- but by the regents that we can not play a team with an Indian nickname," Lucia said. "And for years, this controversy with North Dakota and the nickname has been going on. And it has been fought in the courts and everything else.
"And it did not get settled until this summer. Well -- if you want to put the blame on me for not waiting to find out whether it was going to get settled or not, then so be it. I can accept that fact.
"I wasn't going to wait. When the conferences all broke up a couple of years ago. And we were heading into all these new conferences, it was kind of a frenzy and free-for-all for scheduling nonconference games. And when we had the opportunity to schedule some good opponents -- I could have waited, but I chose not to wait. But I wanted to ensure we had a good schedule for our fans and our team."
(Hold on there, coach. Virg Foss, a columnist for the Grand Forks Herald, the paper in the town UND plays in, points out in a recent column that the Wisconsin Badgers have the similar scheduling restriction. Yet UND and the Badgers will play each other the next four years.)
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"And then once the controversy with the nickname ended, then we would be in a position to put North Dakota back on our schedule and that is exactly what is going to happen. Right now we have our three more years with Notre Dame after this and four with Boston College. It is pretty much done that when Notre Dame drops off our schedule, North Dakota will come back on our schedule."
"They should be on the schedule on a pretty regular basis. Should it be every year? I don't know. We are starting to get so far out that it might be somebody else's decision, not mine. But I do believe we need to play them and our first available opportunity to play them -- when our schedule is clear -- they will be back on our schedule. A year here and a year up there. We will go back and fourth, rather than one and one."
(UND coach Dave Hakstol has said he would like to play a home-and-home series with the Gophers every year over three days. The middle day would be a travel day.)
"That will be good. It will be good for our fans. They will be excited, our players will be excited. It is a win-win for everybody. But you know what, if they wouldn't have fought [for] their old nickname, maybe we would be playing next year, instead of keeping that [controversy] alive for five years."
(Last week Lucia proposed playing North Dakota in 2016-17, 2017-18, then taking two years off, then repeating that pattern. ... Foss in his column, which was picked up by the College Hockey News is here, said UND and Gophers fans should write Lucia and U of M athletic director Norwood Teague asking them to schedule North Dakota every season because it is such a great rivalry.)
Lucia said the Gophers don't have as much scheduling flexibility as some might assume even though they will be in the six-team Big Ten Conference.
He said they will play 20 conference games and eight more every year against the four other Division I teams in Minnesota: Bemidji State, Minnesota Duluth. Minnesota State Mankato and St. Cloud State. Six of those Gophers' games will be two-game series, two will be part of an all-Minnesota teams tournament at Mariucci.
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Two games at Bemidji State
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Minnesota Duluth at Mariucci for two games
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Minnesota State or UMD in second game of Gophers new second tournament, in January (Bemidji State will not be in the field the first year)
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With the Big Ten Conference schedule, those eight games against other Minnesota teams and the Mariucci Classic, between Christmas and New Year's Day as usual, the Gophers have 30 games.
That leaves only four more available games.
And the Gophers have those spots filled for three seasons:
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2014-15: Notre Dame twice, probably at Mariucci; Boston College and Northeastern for single games on road
2016-17: Notre Dame twice, probably on road; Northeastern twice at Mariucci
"Next year, we will have a very attractive schedule," Lucia said, "and this is what we are the most concerned with because, I mentioned, with the breakups of the leagues and everybody scrambling to find your nonconference opponents I liken it to like when you are a kid and you are playing musical chairs. When the music stops, you better find a chair. And we wanted to make sure we locked into our non-league games with quality opponents.
"We weren't willing to wait. And we didn't have to. We had an opportunity to schedule good non-league opponents and that's what we did."
Lucia said he likes playing the in-state Division I schools. "That was a priority," he said. "They all wanted to play us. That is important for our state.
He said the 2013-14 Big Ten schedule won't start until Thanksgiving time, so 10 of the Gophers' 14 nonconference games will be early, except for the Gophers' two tournaments.
"[The schedule] is almost going to be like Big Ten basketball," he said, "where you have your nonconference games before your Big Ten season starts."
"Saturday's game was much more entertaining for the fans," Lucia said. "It was a better hockey game. The teams [on Friday] looked a little tentative and didn't have the pace of what Saturday's game was. ... What I liked that final 10 minutes, we had a good push."
The Gophers scored twice in the last 10 minutes of the third period to tie North Dakota 4-4, which was the final score after a scoreless overtime.
"Saturday's game was like an NCAA tournament game," Lucia said. "It was a playoff game, it was a March, April game in intensity. ... It just makes you better playing in a game like that."
* Lucia said senior center Erik Haula, who was moved to left wing on the first line for the UND series, was pretty sore after the games were over. He had missed the previous three games after being slashed on the hands.
Haula will get two days off this week, and play wing again versus Minnesota State. Then, after a week off the following weekend, Lucia said he hopefully expects Haula to be 100 percent and back at center on the second line for the series at St. Cloud on Feb. 8-9.
* Nate Condon had five points in the UND series, centering the second line. "He was really good this weekend," Lucia said.
* The Gophers have scored at least four goals in their past nine games, going back to the first game at Colorado College on Dec. 7.In that stretch they are 7-0-2 and are averaging 4.89 goals per game (44 total).
"The start we have had since Christmastime has been critical for us, not only in the league but, certainly, in the national picture," Lucia said.
The Gophers are tied for first place in the WCHA with St. Cloud State and ranked No. 1 nationally.
Asked if freshman goalie Adam Wilcox will every get a game off, Lucia said, Wilcox will get a break next weekend when the Gophers are idle after a home-and-home series with Minnesota State Mankato this weekend.
Lucia said he and Justin Johnson, the team's goalie coach, have talked about Wilcox and if his play starts to suffer, he will get a night off and junior Mike Shibrowski -- remember him? -- will play.
"I don't think we are talking about giving Bjugstad a day off on a Friday night because he is tired. Or anything like that. We will monitor it. We want to make sure he is fresh for us come playoff time.
"And if that means rotating goalies for a few weeks, we will do that. If he continues to play well and feels good, he will continue to play."
Translation: Wilcox will keep starting ever game unless a team really lights him up. Lucia, in recent seasons, seems to prefer one goalie. The torch got passed to Alex Kangas, then Kent Patterson and now Adam Wilcox.
* On Alabama Huntsville being admitted to the WCHA for next season: "It is great. ... When I was coaching at [Alaska] Fairbanks, we used to play them every year. And we'd go down and play at Huntsville. It is just another opportunity for kids to play college hockey and coaches to coach college hockey in a footprint that is in a nontraditional area that maybe it can spread some day. ... Probably in this instance, if Huntsville didn't get into the WCHA, they would have shut down their program."
On Minnesota State, the Gophers' next opponent: "They are 12-3-1 in their last 16 games and two of those losses were in overtime to Wisconsin a couple weeks ago. They are playing very good. ... They are a team that had a whole host of injuries the year before. Those kids were coming back. It was a team that really had a chance to jump up. And we've seen that. ... They are as skilled as anybody."


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"Just as they were when Rachel Carson published 'Silent Spring' nearly 50 years ago, birds today are a bellwether of the health of land, water and ecosystems," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday in a statement on the report.
"From shorebirds in New England to warblers in Michigan to songbirds in Hawaii, we are seeing disturbing downward population trends that should set off environmental alarm bells. We must work together now to ensure we never hear the deafening silence in our forests, fields and backyards that Rachel Carson warned us about."
The declines can be traced to a variety of factors, depending on a bird's particular habitat. But the causes most frequently cited in the report are agriculture, climate change, development and energy, and invasive species.
For instance, some of the nation's fastest-growing cities -- Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Diego, California -- are located in arid lands, the report said. "Unplanned and sprawling urban development is by far the greatest threat to arid lands."
In addition, invasive non-native plants have been introduced into the area, which can fuel wildfires and destroy native plants. Bird species of concern in arid lands include the elf owl, Bendire's and LeConte's thrashers and the gilded flicker, the report said. Some, such as the California condor, are already listed as endangered or threatened.
In the grasslands, intensified agricultural practices have hurt bird populations, according to the report. "Pastures cannot support many birds if overgrazed, burned too frequently or burned at the beginning of the nesting season or the end of the grass-growing season."
Also, public lands and parks are mowed too frequently and the grass kept too short to provide a habitat for birds, the reports said. Grassland birds showing marked population declines include the mountain plover, Eastern and Western meadowlarks, short-eared owls and Northern bobwhites.
In the forest, some species are doing well, but roughly one-third of forest-breeding bird species are showing decline. The same is true for arctic and alpine birds, where 38 percent of the 85 species are of conservation concern, the report said.
Game birds are also struggling. Of 19 resident game bird species, 47 percent are species of conservation concern, and two species are federally endangered, according to the report. The greatest hope for long-term management of game birds, however, lies in Farm Bill programs that retire millions of acres of land used for heavy agriculture, the report said.
Along the coast and in the ocean, bird populations have been hurt by overfishing, pollution and climate change, among other factors, the report said.
Each section of the report contains at least one "reason for hope." The California condor, for instance, has been reintroduced to some areas, and the bird's numbers are growing.
Urban birds, such as the American robin, hummingbirds, sparrows and woodpeckers, show a "steady, strong increase" in the last 40 years.
"A surprising number of native birds have adapted to life around humans," the report said. "... The wide variety of native birds that thrive in urban areas underscores the importance of these artificial habitats to the survival of many bird populations."
Wetland bird populations remain below historic levels, but "management and conservation measures have contributed to increases of many wetland birds, including hunted waterfowl."
Research shows that wetland bird species began to increase in the late 1970s, "coinciding with major policy shifts from draining to protecting wetlands," the report said. "Dramatic increases in many wetland generalist species, as well as arctic-nesting geese and cavity-nesting ducks, contribute to this overall trend."
"These results emphasize that investment in wetlands contribution has paid huge dividends," said Kenneth Rosenberg, director of Conservation Science at the Cornell Lab or Ornithology. "Now we need to invest similarly in other neglected habitats where birds are undergoing the steepest declines."
Taking action now -- particularly in the area of habitat loss -- can help reverse the declining trend seen in some species, according to the report. "The number and scope of severe threats to birds is daunting, but implementing solutions immediately and widely will pay off in benefits to society, the economy and the health of our environment."
It calls for measures such as increased monitoring of bird populations, stricter protection laws, more incentives, sustainable fishing practices and widespread education.
"Citizen science plays a critical role in monitoring and understanding the threats to these birds and their habitats, and only citizen involvement can help address them," said Greg Butcher, conservation director for the National Audubon Society.
"Conservation action can only make a real difference when concerned people support the kind of vital habitat restoration and protection measures this report explores."
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- 4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter, divided
- 1½ pounds medium shrimp (about 45), peeled, deveined, shells reserved
- 2 bay leaves, divided
- 2 carrots, peeled, chopped
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- ½ cup brandy
- ¼ cup long-grain white rice
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 3 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme
- ¼ teaspoon (or more) cayenne pepper
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- ½ cup heavy whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- ¼ cup finely chopped fresh chives
Recipe Preparation
Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large heavy pot over medium-high heat. Add shrimp shells and cook, stirring frequently, until they begin to brown, about 5 minutes. Add 1 bay leaf and 8 cups water. Simmer uncovered for 25 minutes. Set a fine-mesh strainer over a large bowl. Strain, discarding solids.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large heavy pot over medium heat. Add shrimp and cook, stirring occasionally, until just opaque in center, 3-4 minutes. Transfer shrimp to a plate. Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter to same pot. Add carrots, celery, and onion and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until very soft, about 20 minutes.
Remove pot from heat; add brandy. Return pot to heat and stir until almost evaporated, 2-3 minutes. Add rice and tomato paste; stir for 1 minute. Add shrimp stock, remaining bay leaf, parsley, thyme, and ¼ tsp. cayenne. Simmer uncovered until flavors meld and rice is soft, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Reserve 4 shrimp for garnish and stir remaining shrimp into bisque. Remove parsley, thyme, and bay leaf.
Working in batches, purée bisque in a blender until smooth. Pour through a fine-mesh strainer set over a clean pot. Discard solids in strainer. Stir in cream and reheat bisque over medium heat. Add lemon juice. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and more cayenne, if desired.
Mince reserved shrimp and mix with chives in a small bowl. Place 1 heaping tablespoon shrimp mixture in the center of large, shallow soup bowls. Ladle bisque around garnish and serve.
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iOS 5 in the Enterprise: Creating Configuration Profiles
- Using General Settings
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- Setting Up VPN
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- Enabling LDAP
- Setting the Date with CalDAV
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- Using Web Clips
- Setting Credentials
- About SCEP
- Using Mobile Device Management
- Managing Advanced Settings
- Wrapping Up
This is the "big" chapter for the iPhone Configuration Utility (iPCU), and for anyone who needs to perform extensive/advanced management of iOS devices. Configuration profiles are XML files that control the behavior of your iOS devices, restrict or allow specific features, and set up functions such as email and calendars. Once created, configuration profiles can be distributed via USB, email, or a web page.
You can also encrypt and sign a profile to restrict the devices it can be applied to, and password-protect it so that it cannot be removed short of wiping all the data on the device. Configuration profiles can be long and complicated, or kept simple and used only to point a device at a Mobile Device Management server that can push the desired settings to the devices.
Using General Settings
When you're creating a configuration profile, the iPCU might have you thinking that the General settings are the only mandatory settings. That's not exactly correct. You need General plus at least one additional setting. This is logical because it doesn't make sense to have a configuration that has only the General section because the General section doesn't really do anything in terms of configuring your iOS device. It's just there to identify the profile.
But, if you aren't expecting that behavior, and you're testing a profile, it could be annoying when the device refuses to install a profile with only the General settings configured.
The General settings are concerned only with the profile identity security (Figure 4.1). As such, the number of settings here is pretty small. You can set the name of the profile, which is what users see when they go into the General settings on the device and select Profiles (Figure 4.2). That's not a misprint by the way; you can have multiple profiles on a single device. If you choose to have multiple profiles, however, please watch your settings. Choosing conflicting settings would be . . . bad.
Figure 4.1. General settings for identity security
Figure 4.2. General settings on an iOS device
Most of the settings here are descriptive, starting with a Name for the profile that the user will see on the device and a unique Identifier named similarly to plist files—for example, "com.bynkii.bookprofile"—that serves two important purposes: First, if no other profile on a device has that same identifier, the profile's settings are added to the device. Second, if a profile on the device does have the same identifier, the settings in the new profile replace the previous profile's settings.
This functionality can make it easy to update an existing profile. Rather than performing a full remove and replace, you can just edit an existing profile while retaining the same identifier, and re-install the profile on the device. The exception is when changing Exchange accounts. When changing an Exchange account, you must remove the profile with the Exchange info so that the Exchange data can be purged.
The Organization and Description fields are available for you to insert customized information that—like the Name field contents—are displayed on the device.
The Security setting controls the ability to remove the profile and has three settings: Always, With Authorization, and Never. Always is pretty self-explanatory: The profile can always be removed by clicking Remove in the profile's information section (Figure 4.3).
Figure 4.3. Click Remove to delete a profile from a device.
If you choose With Authorization, the profile can be removed only by entering a passcode that you set when you create the profile in the iPCU. You'll see a warning to that effect when you install a profile with this security setting (Figure 4.4).
Figure 4.4. Warning displayed when installing an app that requires authorization
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Michael Haley
B.A., Rice University, 1987. Ph.D., Rice University, 1991 (W. Edward Billups). Postdoctoral: University of California, Berkeley, 1991-93 (K. Peter C. Vollhardt). Honors and Awards: American Chemical Society, Division of Organic Chemistry Fellowship, 1990-91; NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1991-93; NSF CAREER Award, 1995-1998; US-Israel BSF Ernst D. Bergmann Memorial Award, 1997; Richard A. Bray Faculty Fellow, 1998; Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1998-2003; Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, 2000-2001; Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2002; University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Members Excellence Award, 2007; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011. At Oregon since 1993.
The research interests of my group are deeply rooted in the exploration of important non-natural pi-electron rich systems. The group utilizes current synthetic methodology for the preparation of novel organic materials and compounds of theoretical interest. We investigate these compounds by modern physical organic methods to determine the important physical and chemical properties of these systems, such as conductivity, absorption/emission behavior, through-bond and through-space electronic interactions. Graduate and undergraduate students are actively involved in all aspects of the research, thus acquiring a strong synthetic and theoretical background.
1. Organic Semiconductors
Polycyclic hydrocarbons that possess extended pi-conjugation are of tremendous interest because of their potential use in optical and electronic device applications. While a majority of studies have focused on acenes and their derivatives, these systems are susceptible to oxidative and photolytic degradation; thus, there is a pressing need for alternative, acene-like topologies. Current research in the lab is focused on molecules based on or inspired by the indenofluorene (IF) skeleton, such as compounds 1-5 (Figure 1). Over the last few years, we have adapted and/or developed general methods for the assembly of a variety of fully conjugated IF derivatives and initiated exploration of their materials properties. We have shown that IFs can be prepared gram quantities in good overall yields and in excellent purity. In addition to being challenging synthetic targets, indenofluorenes are providing fundamental answers about structure, bonding, and reactivity in expanded, conjugated structures, and have the potential to act as rigid, planar, electron-accepting cores for the formation of advanced materials with novel electronic properties. We are exploiting the materials potential of IFs via a combined experimental and theoretical approach, with an emphasis towards use of indenofluorenes as organic semiconductors in devices. Importantly, we demonstrated recently that single crystals of IF 3 could serve as an active layer in an organic field-effect transistor that exhibits ambipolar behavior.
Figure 1. Indenofluorene and indenofluorene-inspired structures 1-5.
2. Supramolecular Chemistry of Arylethynyl Scaffolding
Anions are problematic environmental contaminants and are vital to many processes in nature, with anion binding proteins and transport channels implicated in the mechanisms of many disease pathways. This avenue of research is a productive collaboration between the Haley lab and that of UO colleague Darren Johnson to target new organic receptors that selectively bind and sense anions. The project is a union of the synthetic expertise of the Haley group to assemble relatively rigid and inherently fluorescent molecules based on arylethynyl scaffolding with the extensive knowledge of the Johnson lab to design and exhaustively analyze complex supramolecular systems. Molecules 6-8 are representative receptors (Figure 2). The modularity of our design strategy allows for exploration of a variety of recognition motifs for anions, including electrostatic attractions, hydrogen bond interactions and attractions with electron-deficient arenes (anion-pi, CH•••X– hydrogen bonds and weak-sigma complexes). This flexibility affords the possibility of selectively binding anions that are challenging to target with traditional approaches. Core and linker substitution provides another approach to tuning the selectivity of the receptors by changing the shape and size of the binding pocket. The functionality of the receptors can also be adjusted to provide a route to make the molecules water-soluble or even permeable to cell membranes. These molecules will have long-term applications in sensing, imaging and/or remediating anions, which will impact public health in both discovering and removing environmental contaminants and imaging the role anions play in biological processes.
Figure 2. Representative examples of completed arylethyl receptors.
3. Myotonic Dystrophy Therapeutics
In a close collaboration with UO biochemist Andy Berglund and his lab, we are developing therapeutics for Myotonic Dystrophy (DM). DM is the most common form of adult onset muscular dystrophy affecting 1 in 8000 people. DM is caused by an expansion of three or four nucleotide repeats–CUG in patients with myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1), and CCUG expansions in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2). Both DM1 and DM2 patients display many of the same symptoms (myotonia, progressive muscle weakness and wasting, cataracts, cardiac and developmental defects) strongly suggesting that both DM1 and DM2 work through the same or very similar mechanisms. In 2007 the Berglund lab discovered that pentamidine (9) as a molecule that binds CUG repeats and reverses some of the molecular defects of DM. We are preparing a wide variety of simple (e.g., 10, 11) and more complex pentamidine analogues for determining structure-activity relationships to improve their efficacy over 9 and thus potentially generate a therapeutic for DM.
Figure 3. Pentamidine 9 and structural analogues 10 and 11.
The work described on this web page has been generously supported by The National Science Foundation with additional contributions from The Petroleum Research Fund, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Oregon Nanosciences and Microtechnologies Institute.
Selected Publications
"Synthesis and Properties of Fully-Conjugated Indacenedithiophenes." B. S. Young, D. T. Chase, J. L. Marshall, C. L. Vonnegut, L. N. Zakharov and M. M. Haley, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 1008-1014.
"Experimental & Computational Studies of the Neutral and Reduced States of Indeno[1,2-b]fluorene." B. D. Rose, N. J. Sumner, A. S. Filatov, S. J. Peters, L. N. Zakharov, M. A. Petrukhina and M. M. Haley, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 9181-9189.
"Quinoidal Diindenothienoacenes: Synthesis and Properties of New Functional Organic Materials." G. E. Rudebusch, A. G. Fix, H. A. Henthorn, C. L. Vonnegut, L. N. Zakharov and M. M. Haley, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 3627-3633.
"An Anion-Modulated Three-way Supramolecular Switch That Selectively Binds Dihydrogen Phosphate, H2PO4–." J. V. Gavette, N. S. Mills, L. N. Zakharov, C. A. Johnson II, D. W. Johnson and M. M. Haley, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10270-10274.
"Selective Nitrate Binding in Competitive Hydrogen Bonding Solvents: Do Anion-π Interactions Facilitate Nitrate Selectivity?" M. M. Watt, L. N. Zakharov, M. M. Haley and D. W. Johnson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10275-10280.
"Aryl C–H•••Cl– Hydrogen Bonding in a Fluorescent Anion Sensor." B. W. Tresca, L. N. Zakharov, C. N. Carroll, D. W. Johnson and M. M. Haley, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 7240-7242.
"Reducing Levels of Toxic RNA with Small Molecules." L. A. Coonrod, M. Nakamori, W. Wang, S. Carrell, C. L. Hilton, M. J. Bodner, R. B. Siboni, A. G. Docter, M. M. Haley, C. A. Thornton and J. A. Berglund, ACS Chem. Biol. 2013, 8, 2528-2537.


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Final Vote candidate Scheppers needs boost
In evolution from thrower to pitcher, Texas reliever seeks All-Star spot
BALTIMORE -- Tanner Scheppers is a 6-foot-4 right-hander who averages 96 mph on his fastball but can hit 100 on occasion. He is one of the top 25 hardest-throwing pitchers in the Majors but also supplements his fastball with a mean slider.
With that simple repertoire, he is 5-1 with a 1.88 ERA in 42 appearances for the Rangers as their primary eighth-inning setup reliever. Opponents are hitting .205 off him and the Rangers are 30-12 in games he's pitched.
Four years after being taken with the 44th overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft, Scheppers has emerged as one of the top setup relievers in the American League. The Rangers have felt that way all season, but Tigers manager Jim Leyland confirmed it when he selected Scheppers as one of five candidates for the Final Vote and the last spot on the AL All-Star team.
"He has had a tremendous impact on our bullpen," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "I don't think we'd be where we are without Scheppers. He is the one who has been getting the ball to Joe Nathan, and everybody knows what Joe Nathan has been doing."
Scheppers has always been a hard thrower, but he has become more than that this season. He has become a big league pitcher.
"It's just been better location with movement," Scheppers said. "I've thrown more strikes. It's just having the opportunity to go out there and the confidence this team has had in me."
Scheppers is competing with four similar relievers: Steve Delabar of the Blue Jays, Joaquin Benoit of the Tigers, Koji Uehara of the Red Sox and David Robertson of the Yankees. Scheppers remains fifth in the voting according to the second ballot update released on Tuesday.
"It has been a good half, but there is a lot of season left," Scheppers said. "I just want to help the team any possible way I can."
Now in its 12th year, the 2013 All-Star Game Final Vote sponsored by freecreditscore.com gives baseball fans around the world the opportunity to select the final player on each All-Star team. Balloting began immediately following Saturday's Major League All-Star Selection Show presented by Taco Bell and ends Thursday at 3 p.m. CT. The winners will be announced on MLB.com shortly thereafter.
There will be an extra treat for fans who participate in the Final Vote online. If you are not a current MLB.TV subscriber (MLB.TV or MLB.TV Premium), you are eligible to receive a 14-day free trial of MLB.TV from July 12-26. If you are a current MLB.TV subscriber (MLB.TV or MLB.TV Premium), you will receive a 15-percent discount to the MLB.com Shop. MLB.com will send an email on July 12 to all Final Vote voters with instructions on how to redeem the applicable offer.
Mobile voting in the U.S. and Canada is open to everyone. In the U.S., to receive the 2013 All-Star Game Final Vote sponsored by freecreditscore.com mobile ballot, text the word "VOTE" to 89269. To vote for Scheppers, simply text message A4 to 89269. In Canada, fans should text A4 to 101010. Standard message and data rates may apply.
A1 - Joaquin Benoit, Detroit
A2 - Steve Delabar, Toronto
A3 - David Robertson, New York Yankees
A4 - Tanner Scheppers, Texas
A5 - Koji Uehara, Boston
N1 - Ian Desmond, Washington
N2 - Freddie Freeman, Atlanta
N3 - Adrian Gonzalez, Los Angeles
N4 - Hunter Pence, San Francisco
N5 - Yasiel Puig, Los Angeles
That Scheppers has reached the point where he is deemed worthy of All-Star consideration is a testament to his perseverance. Scheppers was recruited out of Dana Hills (Calif.) High School as a shortstop but was moved to pitcher at Fresno State. He developed into an outstanding one and was 8-2 with a 2.93 ERA in 11 starts and one relief appearance as a junior in 2008. But a midseason shoulder injury kept him from being a part of the Bulldogs' remarkable run to a College World Series title.
The Pirates took him with the 48th overall pick in the 2008 Draft, but Scheppers did not sign. Instead, he pitched for St. Paul in the independent American Association, and that's where the Rangers found him.
When the Rangers drafted Scheppers, there was some thought he could get to the Majors quickly. That didn't happen. He didn't sign with the Rangers until Sept. 17, 2009, and a series of injuries plagued him through the next two seasons as the organization deliberated whether to use him as a starter or a reliever.
"Some say this has been a long road, some say it has been a short road," Scheppers said. "Through all the injuries you learn a lot about yourself. I'm a firm believer in everything happening for a reason."
The Rangers finally settled on using Scheppers as a reliever, and he made his Major League debut on June 7, 2012. He wasn't an immediate success. The Rangers used him mainly in middle relief last season and he was 1-1 with a 4.45 ERA in 39 appearances.
But, after a slow start, he emerged late in Spring Training as the Rangers' top right-handed setup candidate in a bullpen that was considered highly questionable going into the season. After losing Uehara, Mike Adams, Scott Feldman and Mark Lowe to free agency, as well as having Alexi Ogando moving into the rotation, there was great concern about the Rangers' bullpen on Opening Day.
But the bullpen took a collective 3.25 ERA into Monday's game with the Orioles, fifth best in the American League, and their four blown saves were tied for the fewest. They were also tied for second in the league with 19 relief wins. Scheppers, who was tied for second in individual relief wins and tied for fourth with 17 holds, has been a big part of that.
"We'd be in big-time trouble without him," bullpen coach Andy Hawkins said. "He has been exceptional locking down the eighth inning. You couldn't ask for much more than what he has done. The bullpen has been a big strength of our team and he has been a big part of that."


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Winter is wonderful in New York's heartland! Frosted hills and picturesque farmland hold geological wonders and unique attractions showcase America's rich heritage. Beautiful state parks and ski centers offer outdoor fun, from ice-fishing to skiing, snowtubing and snowmobiling on boundless trails with abundant snow. Country roads lead to friendly towns and charming villages, with historic inns, hidden gems and famous attractions like the Baseball Hall of Fame and Howe Caverns.
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The Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad runs a Christmas Lights Train, Santa Express, and Cooperstown Christmas Special on selected November and December weekends. As the decorated train journeys from Milford to Cooperstown, enjoy seasonal treats and the beautiful light displays. The Easter Bunny Express runs in March!
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, honoring the greatest stars and history of the game, is an American treasure and a must-see destination. Kids love the Sandlot Clubhouse with interactives, Curious George and Garfield fun, photographs with Hall of Famers, and artifacts hidden in knotholes and drawers.
Take in the small town charm as you stroll along shop-lined Main Street. Get breakfast all day or a jumbo burger at the tiny classic Cooperstown Diner or try a moon pie at Schneider's Bakery. Dine in style at the Hawkeye Bar & Grill at the Otesaga Resort. You'll soon understand why this magical place is called America's Most Perfect Village.
Seasonal events include Cooperstown's Winter Carnival in February, with cool activities, a grand parade and fireworks.
Experience 19th-century village life at The Farmers' Museum, where festive events like the magical Candlelight Evening provide a taste of how the holidays were celebrated in 1845.
Tasteful stops along the Cooperstown Beverage Trail include the Fly Creek Cider Mill, Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown Brewing Company, Butternuts Beer & Ale and two award-winning wineries: Bear Pond and Rustic Ridge.
Just outside the village, Glimmerglass State Park is ideal for winter sports. Choose from snowtubing, ice-skating and ice-fishing as well as cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling on picturesque woodland trails.
E. Utica
Val Bialas, a city-owned ski center, offers a unique opportunity to ski and snowboard within city limits. There are five downhill trails, night skiing, and a new ski chalet.
Nearby, rent snowshoes and follow groomed trails to see the Utica Zoo in a whole new way during the winter season! Visit the bears, sea lions, gibbons, snow leopards, tigers and many other species.
Tours of historic Saranac Brewery finish with tasting fine-crafted beers and sodas in their 1888 tavern.
For family fun, board the Polar Express at the Adirondack Scenic Railroad's Union Station, weekends from November 16 to December 22.
See concerts, theater and dance at the historic Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, as well as works by great American artists from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer.
F. Alder Creek
Stay and play at the charming Alder Creek Country Inn, in New York's Snow Belt. Cross-country ski and snowshoe trails wind through the estate. Snowmobilers can zip right from the Inn to Old Forge and some of the best trails of the Tug Hill Plateau.
G. Westernville
Woods Valley ski area has skiing and riding on three terrain parks and 14 trails ranging from easy to black diamond. There's a brand-new Snowtubing Park, state-of-the-art snowmaking, and lighting for night skiing, riding and tubing. Warm up in the cozy lodge!
H. Camden
Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers find easy gliding at Osceola Tug Hill in the Snowbelt east of Lake Ontario. Lake-effect snow covers the Tug Hill Plateau with an annual average of over 200 inches!
I. Verona
Along with exciting gaming and dining, Turning Stone Resort & Casino presents a season of classic headline entertainment, from Frankie Valli to John Pinette. Lodging options range from modest to posh, and the world-class spa draws upon American Indian cultural themes.
J. Canastota
At the Boxing Hall of Fame, you can see the crown jewels of boxing's royalty, from World Championship belts to trunks, shoes and robes from dozens of legends from Joe Louis to Rocky Graziano and Sugar Ray Leonard. The event pavilion features the famous Madison Square Garden ring where the "Fight of the Century" took place between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in 1971.
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Nearly a decade ago when Colorado running back Malcolm Creer was in middle school in the Los Angeles area he first noticed he wasn't getting the scores he thought he should on some of his tests.
Creer studied hard. Nothing less was acceptable in his mother's home. Donna Jones, a nurse who works with patients with special needs, wanted as many doors as possible to be open for her children. So she always held them to high standards with their schooling.
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"That award means a lot," Creer said. "Just seeing that I'm being recognized for my academics and everything I've been through. It felt good to actually get an award in college. I have that on my resume now."
Creer said he never really had any self-esteem problems after learning he has dyslexia.
"It's just who I am," Creer said. "Everyone needs extra help with something. It can be extra help on the field or extra help from the coaches with something. Everyone needs help somewhere. So it's just the person I am."
He is allowed to take tests in a separate room from the rest of his class because his competitive spirit sometimes gets the best of him. If he sees others finishing ahead of him, he is prone to rushing to complete his work. Losing focus, leads to errors and misunderstanding questions.
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"He wants to always make sure he gets it right," Brannigan said.
Overcoming his learning disability hasn't been the only challenge for Creer in his two years as a Buff. In the eighth game of his freshman season in 2011, Creer agreed to pull his redshirt and play after injuries had caused depth issues in the Buffs' backfield. He suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the second game in which he played.
Creer made it back last season and played in six games on offense, rushing just seven times for 22 yards. Now that he is nearly two years removed from his injury, he is hoping to rebound and make a larger impact in 2013. CU players report Aug. 5 and begin practices on Aug. 6.
Creer has turned a challenging part of his life into a positive. He first began to think he might follow in his mother's footsteps during a Take Your Child to Work Day. He is majoring in speech, language and hearing sciences with hopes of helping people with disabilities after leaving CU.
"I'm fascinated with people's ears and how we hear things and our brain interprets things so quickly," Creer said. "Having a disability overall, I just feel like that major is what I need. I want to help other people and people who are deaf or anything like that. It's just my personality to help others."
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