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Five years ago in Los Angeles, Hollywood actress Rachael Leigh Cook woke to find her husband, Daniel Gillies, had redecorated their bedroom overnight.
But this was no Kiwi DIY job. The carpet was a sprawling mass of scribbled notes and on them were the workings of what would become the New Zealander's first film, Broken Kingdom, a tumultuous endeavour that would both break and save the former Street Legal star and current Vampire Diaries pin-up.
"He said he an idea for a script and I woke up the next morning, no joke, in a sea of three-by-five cards, spread in a perfect line across the bed," recalls Cook. "They were everywhere - on me, on top of him and he was hovering over them like a man on a mission."
The three-year journey that followed would ultimately turn into a personal, professional and financial roller coaster, testing the 36-year-old Kiwi at every sharp, downward plunge.
But it was the creative kick he needed, having hit a wall in his career, despite having launched in high gear after relocating to Hollywood almost 11 years ago. Following stints in Australia and Canada, Gillies, who was raised in Hamilton, felt Los Angeles was the only place with no limits and he quickly landed roles in blockbuster Spider-Man 2 opposite Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst and Bollywood-inspired Bride and Prejudice.
But a slew of "silly mistakes" followed, with Gillies turning down top roles because he believed he should stick with film.
"The last decade brought about startlingly good shows like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Lost, Game of Thrones. It's not even genre-specific. I didn't see television was becoming this burgeoning and respected animal, so I stuck to my guns and turned down great offers.
"I would run out of money and do a crappy movie I didn't want to do. I hurt myself because I could've sustained myself with incredible television."
Among his film projects was the 2007 horror flick Captivity, which became a real-life horror. Scripts kept changing, hours were gruelling and Gillies became increasingly-frustrated at the "spaghetti-like" mess of working under three directors. The film, co-starring Elisha Cuthbert, was dubbed one of the worst movies of 2007 and Gillies was distraught.
"I was in an American film playing a lead and it bombed. Years later, I can tell you it was my fault. But there's no young actor who would have turned down Roland Joffe, an Academy Award-nominated director.
"A film turning out shitty would destroy most actors but that's what I love about being a New Zealander. Kiwis create lemonade in the worst situations. I had to make the situation beautiful and the only way to do that was start from square one and make my own film.
"Captivity wasn't the greatest experience of my life, but I wasn't diagnosed with cancer ... as long as you're not dead you can keep fighting."
His resulting movie interweaves two stories - one following Gillies as a writer who forms a unique bond with a 14-year-old prostitute from the slums of Bogota, and the other centred on Cook (who also co-produced the film) as an LA teacher grappling with personal tragedy.
"I wanted to make a story about people," says Gillies. "I kept coming away from sets thinking, 'what the f*** is happening? Nobody's telling stories anymore.' Whenever I did a show or production in New Zealand, I always walked away from a director feeling like I learnt something. Here, I was walking away feeling like I wasn't even being directed anymore."
Thinking it would take 18 months, Gillies grew a beard, "a talisman of my own stubbornness", vowing he wouldn't shave until the film was completed.
It would be three years before Rachael, 33, got her clean-shaven husband back and in that time he learned Spanish while living on and off in Colombia, sleeping on floors in Berlin while chasing recession-hit investors and raising, then losing financers so many times that he stopped counting - and is still too pained to think about.
He refused an offer of US$100,000 ($121,000) from his in-laws and gradually his own bank account, fuelled by films like Spider-Man 2, drained.
"I don't know if I was clinically-depressed but I was certainly unhappy for long periods," admits Gillies. "But that's life. If the whole thing was a joy, I wouldn't do it. There would be no obstacle. I remember Bob Dylan once saying, 'What's happy? Anybody can be happy.'
"I don't agree entirely because I think there's a degree of wisdom and simplicity in being happy. My wife, for example, is very wise, deeply-intelligent and makes a priority out of being happy, but I feel like some of us ... we're restless. We'd rather compromise our happiness in order to be exactly who we are.
"I also believe some people are born with a blueprint to make shit happen and I'm probably one of those people. Not to sound self-aggrandising and, hey, only 12 people might watch the next 10 films I make, but I am definitely someone who says he's going to do something then carries that out ... hell or high water."
The hell part of that journey saw Cook - best-known for her role in the 1999 romantic comedy She's All That and more recently in TV series Psych and Perception - start to wonder "how long this would be our life", while the emotional toll on Gillies culminated in a panic attack while driving to the dog park in LA.
Cook found him sitting kerbside, head-in-hands, before he was taken to hospital.
Unable to quit, but desperate for funds, Gillies took one of the hardest steps of his life - accepting the $100,000 from Cook's parents to kick-start production.
His unstoppable mission had, meanwhile, became so fascinating to those around him that they filmed a documentary about the making of the movie, titled Kingdom Come, and also featuring commentary from fellow indie film-makers like Selma Blair and Don Cheadle.
Broken Kingdom won Best Director and Best Feature Film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and Outstanding Achievement in Film-making at the Newport Beach Film Festival. It was finally released online brokenkingdom.com for NZ$6 in October - Gillies all but giving the film away for free because all he wanted was for the film to be widely viewed.
Yet with the high of wrapping production - a day he marked by getting a tattoo - came the sinking realisation that he was more than $100,000 in debt and had been out of the Hollywood game too long.
Asking his agent to submit him for everything, a string of TV stints followed, including True Blood with fellow Kiwi Anna Paquin, NCIS and medical drama Saving Hope.
But it's his role as Elijah on TV2's cult hit The Vampire Diaries that has earned him major success, even if it is with the teen set. Show creator Kevin Williamson says he got lucky with the "terrific, phenomenal actor" while co-creator Julie Plec says, "There is no joy in this world if Daniel Gillies is ever killed off for good!"
It's not just his bosses Gillies has won over. Asked which of their castmates they want to see their character hook up with during a recent convention, there was a resounding "Elijah" among the show's leading actors - both male and female.
"Maybe they've taken pity on me because I'm not as attractive as them," he ponders. "I have no idea why they're speaking so fondly of me."
Humble he may be, but there's no denying the epic following the series has garnered internationally. Gillies is still getting accustomed to teenage adoration - and reluctant male recognition.
"My wife and I were in Bangkok and there's this conservative but adorable aspect of Thai people. They'd casually say, 'I know you're an actor but I don't watch it.'
"Then we'd go for drinks and through the course of the night it became, 'I f****** love Elijah! I've seen every episode!'
"I didn't realise how globally-popular the show was. I've never been part of anything like this. But when you have young men in cool clothing, pouting, beautifully-lit and talking about how much they love one girl, with a danger and sweeping romance thrown in, it's a bullet-proof marketing strategy."
The hypocrisy of stepping away from the "lost of art of directing" in Hollywood, then returning to recover his finances isn't lost on Gillies.
And though he still notices the same shortcomings, he says experiencing the "monumental responsibility" of directing Broken Kingdom, has made him calmer and more empathetic towards directors on US sets. He's glad to have finally paid back his in-laws and rescue his own finances, following the tornado of debt Broken Kingdom left behind.
It was Cook who supported the pair during the final months of shooting the film. Cook and Gillies, who have been married eight years, originally met in a bar.
"I was too proud to take the support but she justified it by saying, 'Honey, if you were in medical school I would be supporting you, and you'd be supporting me if I was in school.
You're in the best film school of all time - you're making a film.'
"It was incredibly gracious and sweet and I'm grateful we didn't have kids early because that's the luxury you have when you don't have children - being able to do extraordinarily risky business ventures. I'm not sure I would have taken that risk as a father."
Though he's now working on two further independent movies, it's fatherhood that Gillies is looking forward to next. As one of four children, now scattered from Australia to Germany, he's excited about the prospect of starting his own family.
He and Cook likely won't be raising them here, however - while he misses New Zealand, the couple has no plans to relocate. "This [LA] is home now. I miss the simplicity of New Zealand - and not having traffic - but would I ever go back? No. I love it here. Maybe it's the weather.
"People ask if it has grown on me over time, but I drove into LA and loved it right away.
"Rachael loves New Zealand. She's like, 'this is so abundant, fresh, beautiful and small'.
I'm more nostalgic. I have so much history and often feel like I'm looking through a misty piece of glass.
"I think New Zealand is one of those places you grow fonder of the more time that goes by that you're away from it."
The Vampire Diaries returns to TV2 on February 14.


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The Theatrics of a Great Education
September 15, 2016
Barter Theatre does more than just produce world-class theatre; we also have four unique education programs, which help students all around our region every day. In honor of National Arts Education Week, September 11-17, we want to acknowledge these programs and the amazing people who make them possible. With Project REAL, The Barter Players, Barter Youth Academy and our Student Matinee program, Barter Theatre offers programs to help many of the schools and homeschool organizations across Southwest Virginia and into East Tennessee.
Check out this article about the importance of the arts in education written by Barter Theatre's Director of Education and Director of Project REAL, Megan Atkinson and the Associate Director of Barter Youth Academy Michael Gerber:
As students begin the school year, and we approach the fall in our community, it is important for us to remember the impact of education in our homes, schools and communities. For decades, research has shown that when students participate in the arts as a part of their education, they go on to succeed in school, work and life.
Designated by Congress in 2010, this week is National Arts in Education Week: a national celebration of the transformative power of the arts in education. We are celebrating here in Abingdon, Virginia and would encourage all supporters of arts, culture, and education to join Barter Theatre, and our elected officials and education leaders, to celebrate the impact of arts education.
Recently, in Washington, D.C., the new Every Student Succeeds Act was signed into law—replacing No Child Left Behind. This new bill fully supports the arts as part of every student's "well-rounded" education. It provides the flexibility for students to learn creatively and for local districts and states to create schools that embrace the arts. What we know is simple: students attend school more often when they have access to the arts; parents and families engage with schools that embrace the arts; dropout rates decrease; grades increase; and the halls of arts friendly schools are filled with artwork, songs, drama and dancing.
We have seen such success with Barter's Project REAL (Reinforcing Education through Artistic Learning), which currently collaborates with 10 schools in the Southwest Virginia region. Project REAL uses theatre tools to teach all disciplines by connecting the curriculum to each student's own human experiences. When asked about Project REAL, one superintendent said, "When the instruction results in student engagement, it means the students want to come to school, so it directly affects student attendance. When they come in, and they get engaged into something meaningful, something that derives real-life experiences for them, they will be coming to school."
Barter Youth Academy (BYA) is a performance-based educational program that allows students of all ages the chance to learn and develop their performance and storytelling skills. Using the acting and rehearsing techniques of the Barter Resident Acting Company, students work through the theatre experience from the audition to the final performance onstage in front of a live audience. BYA provides a safe, positive environment to enhance the abilities for the beginning performer, as well as shaping the talents of the advanced youth actor.
BYA has expanded into four cities since 2011, offering classes in Abingdon, Virginia; Bristol, Tennessee; Elizabethton, Tennessee; and Kingsport, Tennessee. With a strong scholarship program, BYA reaches out to students who would otherwise be unable to afford this new and exciting theatre education. Local parents say:
"Thank you for having BYA in Kingsport! My daughter has blossomed with this program!!! I don't know what we would do without BYA!!! I can't wait to see what wonderful things happen in the fall." – Kingsport Parent
"My child has learned so much about theater from her Barter Youth classes. As a person who is inexperienced in the arts, this is an interest of hers that I would not be able to nurture without Barter Theatre's help. I am so thankful for the BYA program." – Bristol Parent
"It's more than a play, it's creativity, confidence and teamwork." – Abingdon Parent
As we celebrate National Arts in Education Week, let's pause to cheer on our educators and students. We hope you'll join us in appreciating those teachers who bring the arts to our students. Recognize your students and children for their creative endeavors. More importantly, get together and create as a way to celebrate the human experience.

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Angel Has Fallen
I couldn't wait to stop watching Angel Has Fallen.
I couldn't wait to stop watching Angel Has Fallen.
A snapshot of the struggle between labor and management that is both timeless and distinctly of its time.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about the inclusion of Sojourner Truth on Central Park's suffragette statue.
An article celebrating the one-year anniversary of our first female editor at RogerEbert.com, Nell Minow.
An article about the inclusion of Sojourner Truth on Central Park's suffragette statue.
From a childhood of pain, a lifetime of art.
A reappreciation of a Billy Wilder classic.
FFC Seongyong Cho looks back at Alan J. Pakula's twisty thriller Presumed Innocent.
Our Managing Editor and staff give some love to Music Box on its 90th birthday.
The latest on Blu-ray and streaming, including Amazing Grace, Avengers: Endgame, and Shadow.
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
A review of the new FX series, Mayans M.C.
The first films announced for the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Brian Tallerico muses (groan) on how "Sons of Anarchy" has shifted from Shakespearean tragedy to classical tragedy as a model.


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PSM interventions are later than in Normal mode; the vehicle can be maneuverd with greater agility at its performance limits, without dispensing with the assistance of PSM in emergency situations.
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics (and Happy New Year)
Another year, another blog. This is either the last one of 2010 or the first of 2011, depending on your point of view – or mine I suppose. It's been an interesting year in terms of writing the blog – with the arrival of Google Stats I've been able to see which posts created the most interest and were the most read. And reading the stats taught me that I often completely misjudge which topics are of the most interest to readers. A quick look at the stats for the year give me the following top five:
1. The post about great jazz musicians playing on terrible 'jazz' recordings by classical musicians looking for a bit of street cred
2. A post about the possibility that Bill Evans influence has slid somewhat off the jazz radar of young musicians
3. Elvin Jones – the perfect drummer?
4. The recordings that Steve Coleman and Dave Holland made together
5. Child Prodigies in Jazz
The post about the jazz/classical thing was by far the most read post on the blog, which I guess makes sense since there is a whiff of a rant in it and it names names a bit – everyone loves controversy! The child prodigy post also provoked some interest. But the three of the top five most popular posts were about well known figures in the jazz world, which tells me that people still prefer to read about what, or whom, they know. For myself, although I'm interested in all my subjects, I often find the stuff about the actual music – structural, conceptual, philosophical, technical things – to be the most interesting things to discuss. But my readers seem to prefer to read about the musicians who play the music rather than read about the music itself.
One interesting aside came from someone commenting on the Bill Evans post, who said that it had come as a relief to him that this post was less 'angry' than my normal efforts. Angry!? Me!? Disputatious maybe, a malcontent quite possibly – but angry? Hmmmm....... interesting. I'm quite conscious of not trying to personalise things unless I feel I can't make my point any other way, and though I do get angry about some aspects of the jazz world, I try and reign in my baser instincts and remain within the bounds of civilised discourse. The classical musician post was about as close as I get to a rant – I think! It's definitely interesting to see yourself as others see you sometimes.
One thing I do recognise is my tendency to be a bit verbose sometimes – I fight against it but I tend not to be able to get out in under 5000 words. This will probably be the shortest post of 2011........... I've got an interview with Steve Coleman coming up that's huge – but at least on this occasion the post is huge because Steve is being verbose rather than me.
Thanks as always to everyone who read the blog over the past year, and particularly to those who took the time to write and express their opinions – I really appreciate you taking the time and am flattered by your interest.
Next up for me – and no doubt some kind of report will feature on these pages – I'll be heading off to New York for a week or so, to see some music, meet lots of friends and bring home my new custom-made bass – a pretty good way to start the year.
Happy 2011!
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Certainly you cannot expect all musicians to be as good as you? A famous name is musical common ground - everyone has a favourite Beethoven symphony (regardless if only the first movement of the fifth is common ground), but not all people can discuss or appreciate the particularities of the harmonic language a Bartok or a Janacek has developed. Not to mention that you're working with a nearly anonymous sample of the whole wide world. Forget about statistics, for there isn't a quantified number for how many ideas a musician got while reading your blog, or how many musicians were inspired. What you shouldn't forget, is that there are musicians actively researching (or settling down and "following" because this is such a good source) to whom you've been a great help.
And now, resume being flattered, for there's definitely interest on your person, on your music, and on your writing.
Thanks for your comment Luís - I didn't mean my observation of what the stats showed about people's reading habits to be a criticism of those habits in any way. I'm delighted that they might be interested in readying anything I write! It was just an observation - I found it interesting that, according to the stats, people were more intrigued by certain types of subjects.ReplyDelete
And it's true what you say about statistics and how they can't ever tell the full story - hence the title of the piece!
Thanks Luís!
I'm with Luis. Blog journals by actual musicians are fairly rare and yours is easily one of the more thoughtful ones.ReplyDelete
The on board blogger stat system is oddly out of sync with analytics data if you have that installed. I found it useful to get a sense of where people came from, what they followed and so on but it is more useful as a business application or an after thought in your situation.
Have another great year. I'm migrating to All About Jazz and plan to do a set of features on different blog outlooks. You will be prominent.
I didn't mean my observation of what the stats showed about people's reading habits to be a criticism of those habits in any way. I'm delighted that they might be interested in readying anything I write! It was just an observation - I found it interesting that, according to the stats, people were more intrigued by certain types of subjects.ReplyDelete
Hi, Ronan. Just thought I'd qualify my comment to your Evans piece. As a music fan, I'm all for passion (which you clearly have by the gallon). And as an amateur player I love reading blogs by musicians in the trenches such as you, Ethan Iverson, George Colligan, David Berkman, and others. My aside was really just stating a preference for a light touch over a heavy rant. (I guess I was mainly referring to your Nigel Kennedy post—although the first commenter did write, 'Oh, Ronan, another rant!' so at least someone else shared my impression that this wasn't the first...) But I also said, 'uncensored opinion is definitely welcome'. Since the Kennedy post was your most popular of 2010, it looks like a little rant does garner more attention. Anyway, great to see your recent musical successes—I'll try to pick up your MSG CD (the clip sounds great). I hope you'll still keep up the blog in 2011. Good luck—and long live lengthy posts!ReplyDelete
Thanks Angus - I take your points and appreciate you taking the time to write!ReplyDelete


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A former All-American and member of Team USA, Tia Meza was named an assistant coach on the Cal State Northridge softball program prior to the start of the 2010-11 academic year. Meza, formerly Tia Bollinger, will work with the Matador pitchers, help with recruiting and serve other administrative responsibilities.
A four-year member of the University of Washington softball program, Meza was a two-time All-American and three-time All-Pac 10 selection while with the Huskies. She helped lead UW to two NCAA World Series appearances and also ranks among the school's career leaders in wins, innings pitched, ERA, saves and strikeouts.
She also served as a member of USA National Softball Team, helping the Americans to a victory at the Pan AM Qualifiers in Venezuela.
Most recently, Meza served as the Associate Athletics Director and Director of Softball at JSerra Catholic High School since 2008. At the school, Meza handled compliance issues and fundraising in addition to serving as the head coach of the varsity team.
Meza also spent a season as an assistant coach with LMU during the 2005 season, helping them to their first postseason appearance in school history.
Meza has also worked for Lehman Brothers as a loan administrator and for the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach. Originally from Newport Beach, Meza attended Mater Dei High School and was the 2000 Gatorade National Player of the Year.
Meza graduated from Washington in 2004 with a degree in Communications. She is married to Dane Meza and the couple has two children, daughter Riley and son Vince.


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Foster/Kinship Care Education is a statewide program funded by the California Community College Chancellor's Office. This program provides a variety of training programs for foster parents through California Community Colleges. Foster parents are required by the state to have pre-service training before children are placed in their homes and renewal training each year thereafter. In order to help foster parents through this process, we offer more than 400 hours of training each year in both English and Spanish. Included in this training are specialized F-Rate (medically fragile foster children) pre-service, D-Rate (behaviorally difficult foster children) pre-service, and regular classes for kinship care providers (those caring for relative children) in both English and Spanish.
The Foster and Kinship Care Education Program provides quality education and support opportunities for care givers of children and youth in out-of-home care so that these providers may meet the educational, emotional, behavioral and developmental needs of children and youth.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > August 2007 > Mission team builds relationships, shares faith in East Asia
Mission team builds relationships, shares faith in East Asia
Donnie Brown is familiar with the scripture verse "Paul planted, Apollos watered,
but God gave the increase," found in First Corinthians 3. But as a member of the recent
Special Impact Team mission trip to East Asia with Wayland Baptist University, he
has a new appreciation for the verse.
"God says he has called us all for a purpose, and we really were sowing seeds there and trusting God to bring the increase," said Brown, director of Baptist Student Ministries at WBU, who took three students to East Asia in July through Go Now Missions, an arm of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
May graduates Jalissa King of Portales, N.M. and Matt McCabe of Lubbock and WBU sophomore Chris Igo – a math and engineering major from Whiteface who now lives in Clovis, N.M. – joined Brown on the two-week trip, building relationships with nationals in simple, personal ways in order to open channels to share the gospel.
Brown said the group took language classes each morning in order to learn enough to communicate with nationals, then spent afternoons visiting with people in parks, stores and other venues near in the city. The goal was to set up more intimate times to visit over the evening meal, giving the Americans a chance to share their faith more personally and answer any questions. Working under the guidance of some Christians there, the group would pass on the names of persons showing interest in the gospel message to the nationals for follow-up.
During their afternoon visit times, the group handed out gospel tracts and VCDs containing the "Jesus" film, concentrating on a radius near the homes of national Christians so natural follow-up opportunities would occur. Even before they returned home, the Wayland group was seeing it happen.
"Two of us went into a shop to buy a sword, and we shared a tract with the store owner," Brown said. "Then a few days later, one of the local Christians went into the same store to buy a sword and was able to share her faith more in-depth because he had read the tract already."
Brown said their language teacher was another who expressed interest during their time abroad.


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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
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Onderstepoort j. vet. res. vol.79 no.2 Pretoria Jan. 2012
Infectious diseases of economic importance: Molecular biological characteristics of foot-and-mouth disease viruses collected in Tanzania from 1967 to 2009
Christopher J. KasangaI, II; R. SalluII; C.A.R. Mpelumbe-NgelejaII; J. WadsworthIII; N.P. FerrisIII; G.H. HutchingsIII; P.P. WamburaI; M.G.S. YongoloII; N.J. KnowlesIII; Donald P. KingIII; M.M. RweyemamuI
ISokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
IICentral Veterinary Laboratory, Tanzania
IIIWRLFMD, Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Tanzania. Since the first reports in 1954, FMD has caused significant economic losses in the country due to mortality and morbidity of livestock and costs associated with controlling the disease. The aim of this study was to review the serotype and genetic relationships of the FMD virus (FMDV) recovered from outbreaks in Tanzania, and compare them with viruses detected from elsewhere in the sub-Saharan region. At the World Reference Laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease (WRLFMD), a total of 106 FMD viruses have been isolated from samples collected between 1967 and 2009 from northern, southern, eastern and central parts of Tanzania. The presence of FMDV was determined by laboratory methods such as VI, CF, antigen ELISA and RT-PCR. Phylogenies of VP1 sequences were determined by the Neighbour-joining method. Foot-and-mouth disease virus SAT1 was the most frequent serotype (46.2%; n = 49) isolated in Tanzania followed by O (26.4%; n = 27), A (14.1%; n = 15) and SAT 2 (11.3%; n = 13). Genotyping showed that type O viruses fell into either the EAST AFRICA 1 (EA-1) or EA-2 topotypes, type A's into the AFRICA topotype (genotype I), type SAT 1's into topotype I and type SAT 2's into topotype IV. This study reveals that serotypes A, O, SAT1 and SAT2 cause FMD outbreaks in Tanzania. Recent samples from outbreaks in 2008, 2009 and 2010 have been typed as serotypes A, O, SAT1 and SAT2. Phylogenetic analysis of FMDV isolates from Tanzania showed that they are genetically related to lineages and topotypes from West and East Africa. In Tanzania, lack of comprehensive animal movement records and inconsistent vaccination programs make it difficult to determine the exact source of FMD outbreaks or to trace the transmission of the disease over time. Therefore, further collection and analysis of samples from domestic and wild animals, together with improved local epidemiological investigation of FMD outbreaks is required to elucidate the complex epidemiology of FMD in the sub-Saharan region.
Correspondence to:
Christopher Kasanga
PO Box 3019, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro
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Note: Proceedings of the Conference of the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance 'One Health' held at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, July 2011.


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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Bodhi Linux 2.0.0 Release Candidate
What is missing from this release still? Of note our AppCenter is still in the process of being transitioned over to work fully with this new release. Meaning a few of the packages there might not be found yet in the 2.0.0 repositories. If you do find an application there that doesn't install properly I encourage you to let us know on our user forums. Also worth noting is that none of the current .BOD files obtained via the "Download" buttons are functional with 2.0.0 and they should not under any circumstance be installed on a 2.0.0 system. There will be an announcement posted here when they are ready.
Finally - you can find the 32/64bit disc images for download via source forge here.
~Jeff Hoogland
18 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Great nees JeffReplyDelete
This is great!!ReplyDelete
Very nice! I'm looking forward to insstall that on my PC when I find some free time ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2012 at 8:17 AM
I so want to try this...alas, I'm staying away from Canonical's code base, so I won't be able it.ReplyDeleteReplies
Do you avoid everything Debian based as well then? Because Canonical's team contributes lots of stuff to them.Delete
Hi Jeff, when I shut down my netbook this RC gives an error about dbus not being correctly installed, checked and dbus is installed..ReplyDeleteReplies
Dbus error message is harmless. It is displayed because the Ubuntu shutdown scripts conflict with the E17 shutdown method.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Jeff, I've had great success with release 4. 66 years old and new to linux (moved from mint katya to bodhi 1.3). You and your team have created an ideal distribution/web site for a pure end-user (vym, zim, yEd, writer) such as myself. Thank you !! (finishing a large word 2007 project so Bodhi 2.0 is running inside VVox with a full 1920 x 1080 window -- yipee)ReplyDelete
Hi Jeff,ReplyDelete
I am using Bodhi for a week now. Going to replace my LM lxde once 2.0 is released. I am using the stable 1.4 so far. This is lightning fast on my old laptop.
As a new user I have a doubt. Can I use use Chromium as a default browser but still keep the "add software" option directed to Midori?
Thanks a lot
Unfortunately the "add software" triggers your default browser to open the page - however you can easily launch Midori and navigate to appcenter.bodhilinux.com in the URL bar to keep installing software via Midori on the AppCenter while still having Chromium as the default browser.Delete
Hi Jeff,ReplyDelete
A follow up question. Why not firefox, skype, opera and some other apps are not showing up on synaptic package manager? Do I get them only on Bodhi App center or from their respective home page or using terminal? I know I am missing some thing here. Just want to confirm this.
Thanks a lot
Firefox and Skype are both in synaptic. Opera and some others might currently be missing - we are in the process of making sure all the software that was in the 1.x.y repos is in the 2.0.0 repos now.Delete
The app center, synaptic, and terminal all pull software from the exact same place. So if it exists in one it will be in the others.
Hi Jeff,ReplyDelete
Thanks a lot for your immediate response.
Yes. I missed that completely. I am using Midori browser just for app center usage while using chromium for web usage.
I am playing with the last stable release and will wait for 2.0 stable release. Then I will move to that.
Are there any major differences between the two apart from ubuntu versions.
Thanks a lot
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Hi Jeff,ReplyDelete
Thanks for the good work, I've been trying a lot of distros for my old EeePC and unfortunately Ubuntu-based distros would grow to forget they were supposed to be low-spec friendly first.
Does 2.0.0 still have the same minimum requirements (128MB RAM)? Not that it should be a priority of course, just to check.Replies
The Bodhi desktop will boot on 128megs of RAM yes. However just like 1.4.0 - if the system has less than 178megs of RAM you will need to mount and use SWAP to use the graphical installer.Delete
Do You plan to use Entrance as default ? It seems to be more "E17 way" :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Entrance is dated and has been so for over a year. It is no longer functional with the current E/EFL release.Delete


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The threat of river flooding in Jackson County appears to have diminished Sunday morning as the Middle Oconee River is now predicted not to exceed flood stage. The river was at 11.9 ft. Sunday morning and is predicted to drop during the day rather than rise into flood stage as earlier predicted.
Jackson County officials and agencies were out in force Saturday monitoring river levels for possible flooding following four days of rain. According to Jackson County EMA director Steve Nichols, "the Arcade Police Department, Jackson County Sheriff's Office, Jackson County Road Department, North East Ga. Amateur Radio Club members, and Jackson County Sky Warn members were very helpful today keeping up with the storms and the river levels. Our partnership with all of these agencies continues to provide for the safety of our citizens."
A flood warning had been issued Saturday by the National Weather Service for the Middle Oconee River near Arcade affecting Jackson and Barrow counties and for the Broad River near Carlton affecting Madison and Oglethorpe counties.


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Reader Alex B. sent in this — Fantastic Contraption — a physics flash game where you string together wheels and joints in order to carry an object toward a goal on the screen. It's nice nonviolent trial-and-error fun, indulging both the competitive urge to be as efficient as possible, and the creative impulse to be as outlandish as you can get away with.
The opening tutorial is pretty helpful, and many of the opening levels are easy to beat in minutes or seconds. As for the general appeal of flash games, I think XKCD summed it up best.
Fantastic Contraption [Site, thanks Alex B]


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This is how I do things. At 10 oclock the other night, I finished up with things upstairs and thought, "I've been sort of tired, I should go to bed early." Then I walked downstairs to say goodnight to hubby (he was working late in his office) and spied some red knit fabric on my shelf. An hour and 20 minutes later, I had a new swim suit cover up. I was still tired the next morning, I'm not sure how that worked out.
This is a super simple construction. One rectangle in the back and the same sized rectangle in the front, cut in half. A drawstring is added and bottom and wing sleeves are hemmed. There's slightly more to it than that, but not really.
I added pockets because I have a new addiction to side pockets. My friend Melissa had a similar one on the other day at the spray park and I kept looking at it. I think this red fabric jumped out for me because it was in a pile she brought over last summer. So I think I'm going to be spending a lot of time in this! I was getting a little over my Jimmi Hendrix cover up from two years ago and my towel dress from last year.
The red is pretty bright, but in person it's not too bad. I intended for the top to be a little lower cut, but I guess my sewing machine prefers me to be more modest. I asked Lou what he thought and he said, "It's too short." His daddy gave him a high five. Bee rolled her eyes and took more pictures for me.
Bee took these two pictures of Lou. They are funny together. But, look at that! That's a number 5 he's writing. It's been our number the last few days we've been working on. Good boy!
Bee's still enjoying this towel wrap from last year.
I'd be happy to make up another one of these and show more detail in the construction of the cover-up, if anybody is interested. I could use a second one for sure!


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Jimmy Kimmel doesn't have to f*** Ben Affleck anymore.
The late night host is dating Molly McNearney, one of his show's writers, a source close to the star told People.
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His rep also reportedly confirmed the news to the mag.
However, the source resisted comparisons to fellow late night host David Letterman, whose controversial relationships with staffers have made recent headlines.
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"During work hours, they keep things professional," the source said.
Previously, Jimmy and longtime girlfriend, comedian Sarah Silverman, split in 2008, reconnecting in the fall of that year before calling it quits for good in March 2009.
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While People reported that Jimmy and Molly have been dating for "several months," it wasn't the first report linking the two.
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Daily Slice: John's Pizzeria, New York
A different slice profiled each day.
October! National Pizza Month! This month we'll be bringing you Daily Slice, quick snapshots of slices and pies all of us at the Serious Eats empire have been enjoying lately. —The Mgmt.
Ever since Kesté opened in the West Village, it's become the pizza destination of that corridor of Bleecker Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. But long before Kesté, there was John's Pizzeria, one of the city's old-school coal-oven giants, around, as the awning will tell you, since 1929. And while it's rarely talked about anymore, it still puts out a darn good pie.
In all honesty, the sauce is a little sweet and somehow tinny; the mozzarella isn't particularly flavorful. But the lumpy sausage is fennely and juicy, the cheese perfectly proportioned, and the crust has the great crackle-chew of New York-Neapolitan pies—it's thin, of course, and feels a little too firm as you grab and fold a slice, but once you bite into the end, you'll find a light, bready core under that outside resistance. Even after a reheat a few days later, it doesn't toughen up. Is it the best pizza in New York, or even the best of its kind in New York? I'd say no. But I'd also say it's a pizza that does the New York tradition proud.
John's Pizzeria
278 Bleecker Street, New York NY 10014 (near Jones; map) 212-243-1680; johnspizzerianyc.com
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HOUSTON — The Houston Texans' defense is making as many plays as the offense, and the formula has the team off to its best start ever.
Danieal Manning and Kareem Jackson returned interceptions for touchdowns and Matt Schaub threw two TD passes in the Texans' 38-14 win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. Arian Foster also had a touchdown run for the Texans (4-0).
Even though they were outgained 325-297 by the Titans (1-3), the Texans' defense came through with big plays in the third quarter to clinch the win.
Titans quarterback Jake Locker left in the first quarter and did not return after hurting his left, non-throwing shoulder on a hit by Glover Quin. Locker hurt the same shoulder in the season opener against New England. Tennessee coach Mike Munchak said Locker was "sore" and would undergo an MRI exam Monday.
Matt Hasselbeck threw two touchdown passes in relief of Locker for the Titans. Chris Johnson carried 25 times for 141 yards, more than tripling his rushing total through the first three games.
The Texans led 14-7 at halftime, but the offense bogged down for a while after that. Leave it to the defense to get Houston going again. Hasselbeck threw behind tight end Taylor Thompson and the ball ricocheted to Manning, who weaved his way 55 yards for a touchdown with 9:21 left in the third quarter. Manning signed with Houston as a free agent in 2011 and helped transform a defense that ranked last against the pass the previous season.
Manning's play not only re-ignited the restless fans at Reliant Stadium, it also seemed to wake up the offense.
The Texans went without a huddle and breezed down the field in just over two minutes. Foster broke a 16-yard run and Schaub threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to tight end Owen Daniels.
Down 28-7, the Titans were forced to throw more despite Johnson's best game of the season. Jackson, a cornerback, knocked away a deep pass to Kendall Wright, and Watt sacked Hasselbeck again near the end of the third quarter.
Hasselbeck fumbled when he was hit by Antonio Smith in the fourth quarter, and Watt recovered at the Tennessee 24. Shayne Graham kicked a 33-yard field goal with 5:38 left.
Tennessee crossed midfield and Jackson intercepted Hasselbeck and raced untouched to the end zone, high-stepping the last 10 yards. Hasselbeck threw a short TD pass to Wright in the final minute. He finished 17 of 25 for 193 yards.
The Texans led 7-0 when Locker was hurt on the Titans' second series. On third down, Quin blitzed and plowed into Locker for his first career sack. Locker immediately grabbed his left hand and arm as he lied on the turf. He eventually walked to the locker room on his own, and later returned in street clothes, his left arm in a sling.
Houston took over near midfield, converted a fourth-and-1 from the Tennessee 38 and Foster scored on a 4-yard run. Hasselbeck, seeing his first action since the opener, threw a 25-yard pass to tight end Jared Cook.
The Texans smothered Johnson for a 6-yard loss to force another punt for Tennessee. Johnson later broke a 19-yard run and the Titans' offense showed some life with Hasselbeck taking the snaps.
Hasselbeck found fullback Craig Stevens for a 19-yard touchdown with 7:52 left in the first half. Johnson limped off the field late in the first half, after he was tackled by Texans linebackers Brian Cushing and Connor Barwin. He returned for the Titans' first series of the third quarter.


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Q. What are the bonding requirements for transformers?
A. As noted in 250.30(A) of the 2008 NEC, a system bonding jumper must be installed at the same location where the grounding electrode conductor terminates to the neutral terminal of the separately derived system; either at the separately derived system or the system disconnecting means, but not at both locations [250.30(A)(1)].
If installed at the source, the system bonding jumper must connect the neutral conductor to the equipment grounding conductor of the metal transformer case. If installed at the first disconnecting means, the system bonding jumper must connect the neutral conductor to the equipment grounding conductor of the metal disconnecting means enclosure.
For clarification purposes, a system bonding jumper is a conductor, screw, or strap that bonds the metal parts of a separately derived system to a system neutral point [250.2]. It's sized to Table 250.66 in accordance with 250.28(D).
Danger: During a ground fault, metal parts of electrical equipment, as well as metal piping and structural steel, will become and remain energized, providing the potential for electric shock and fire if the system bonding jumper isn't installed.
If the separately derived system and the first disconnecting means are located in separate enclosures, a supply-side equipment bonding jumper must be run to the secondary system disconnecting means. Where the supply side equipment grounding conductor is of the wire type, it must be sized in accordance with Table 250.66, based on the area of the largest ungrounded secondary conductor in the raceway or cable. This conductor is not required to be larger than the derived circuit conductors [250.30(A)(2)].
Where the system bonding jumper is installed at the disconnecting means instead of at the source, the following requirements apply:
- Sizing for single raceway. Because the secondary neutral conductor serves as the effective ground-fault current path for ground-fault current, it must be routed with the secondary conductors and sized not smaller than specified in Table 250.66, based on the area of the secondary conductors.
- Parallel conductors. If the secondary conductors are installed in parallel, the secondary neutral conductor in each raceway or cable must be sized not smaller than specified in Table 250.66, based on the area of the largest ungrounded conductor in the raceway or cable. In no case is the neutral conductor permitted to be smaller than 1/0 AWG [310.10(H)].


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I'm wondering how exactly GitHub does what they do as far as hosting Git repositories goes. For example, I'm assuming that they manage repository push permissions based on values in some SQL table somewhere, something like:
create table user (id int primary key auto_increment,
username varchar(255),
password varchar(255));
create table repository (id int primary key auto_increment,
name varchar(255));
create table repository_member(id int primary key auto_increment,
user_id int,
repository_id int);
Pretty straightforward, right? I've used Gitosis (ironically hosted on GitHub) in the past, but something which uses a database would be a lot better than editing and committing changes to a couple text files on the hard drive. Is there another service which would make it easier to host tons of Git repositories and be able to heavily integrate it into a web application like GitHub does?


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Theodore Paul "Ted" Schilling, 70, of Shelbyville, Ky., formerly of Baltic, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, in Kentucky.
He was born Dec. 2, 1942, in Dover to the late Curtis and Dorothy (Graef) Schilling, and was a graduate of Beach City High School. He had served in the U.S. Army as a helicopter mechanic with medical dustoff during the Vietnam War.
He began working as a welder at Raven's and Edward's in Strasburg and in 1977, started his own company, Ted's Trailer Repair Inc. in Baltic. He worked until his retirement in 2006.
He was a life-member of Baltic American Legion and enjoyed fishing and hunting for mushrooms.
Surviving are his wife, the former Linda Broughton, whom he married in March of 2009. In addition to his wife and her family, he is survived by children, Mindy (Mike) Young of Millersburg, Brent Schilling of Atlanta, Ga., and Chad Schilling (Jolene Prentice) of Fresno; grandchildren, Jeff and Beth Young; sisters and brothers, Elaine (Roger) Shelt of Strasburg, Norman (Renee) Schilling of Baltic, Roy (Barb) Schilling of Ragersville, and Rita (Larry) Haney of Uhrichsville; and his ex-wife, Janice Schilling of Baltic.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Bruce Schilling.
The family held a Celebration of Life reception on Saturday, Feb. 9 at Baltic American Legion Hall.
Arrangements were handled by Smith-Varns Funeral Home in Sugarcreek.


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J.G. Ballard's autobiography, "Miracles of Life," is a splendid remembrance of his journey – from Shanghai to Shepperton - written with intense scrutiny, mordant humor, a touch of pathos and a dash of regret.
As a boy in the early and mid-1930s, he lived with his family in the tony International Settlement of Shanghai that English expats, as well as Germans, White Russians, eastern European Jews – and political refugees who needed no visas – sought when they entered that city.
What passed for close family life in Shanghai? Not much. Here is how he writes about what he observed: "Summers were spent in the northern beach resort of Tsingtao, away from the ferocious heat and stench of Shanghai. Husbands were left behind, and the young wives had a great time with the Royal Navy officers on shore leave from their ships. There is a photograph of a dozen dressed-up wives each sitting in a wicker chair with a suntanned, handsomely smiling officer behind her. Who were the hunters, and who the trophies?"
Sickness was everywhere else in the city. Ballard writes, "In the Bubbling Well Road our car had to halt when the rickshaw coolie in front of us suddenly stopped, lowered his cotton trousers and leant forward over his shafts, defecating a torrent of yellow liquid at the roadside, to be stepped in by the passing crowds and carried all over Shanghai, bearing dysentery or cholera into every factory, shop and office."
Ballard was driven to the Cathedral School for boys by the family chauffeur. It was run on English lines with Latin and scripture classes. He wrote, "The masters were English, and we were made to work surprisingly hard," given the nightclub and dinner-party ethos that ruled the parents' lives. In charge was a Church of England clergyman named Matthews "a sadist who was free not only with his cane but with his fists, brutally slapping quite small boys."
Even as an 11-year-old, Ballard noticed in Shanghai that British adults were losing power and that no number of patriotic newsreels "would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again." This decline was chillingly confirmed in 1937, when Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China. Eventually, broad swaths of Shanghai were leveled by Japanese bombing and naval bombardment. Chungking, 900 miles west, became the new national capital.
I particularly admire one of Ballard's word pictures of the decay of the Del Monte casino and nightclub, which catered to the wealthy in Shanghai:
"Gilded statues propped up the canopy of the bars… and on the floor ornate chandeliers cut down from the ceiling tilted among the debris of bottles and old newspapers. …it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality itself was a stage set that could be dismantled at any moment, and that no matter how magnificent anything appeared, it could be swept aside in the debris of the past."
Ballard notes that by the age of 14, he had become as fatalistic about death, poverty and hunger as the Chinese. "I knew that kindness alone would feed few mouths and save no lives."
As the war progressed, the Japanese took over the Ballards' country club, and, Ballard's mother told him "in tones of great indignation that they had stabled their horses in the squash courts."
Ballard and his family were interned by the Japanese. They were put in the Lunghua Camp, formerly an old teacher-training college, from 1943–1945. This episode, later described in a novel and a partly fictional film, "Empire of the Sun," were among the best and worst times of his life.
Young Ballard enjoyed the relative freedom of the camp, playing chess and cadging American magazines like Life and Popular Mechanics from American sailors. At that time Lunghua was overseen by a benign commandant named Hyashi. Later, when the war turned against the Japanese, Hyashi was replaced and the Japanese turned against their detainees. Ballard endured skin infections, malnutrition and a prolapsed rectum.
About war he observed, "I don't think you can go through the experience of war without one's perceptions of the world being forever changed." That is certainly an understatement. But Ballard's last testament equally comes across as plain-spoken and sincere.
Ballard returned to England in 1946, to a country foreign to him. There was a drabness to the landscape and the people that made him wonder if the English hadn't lost the war. After a month of disagreeable living with his rigid grandparents, he entered The Leys School in Cambridge as a boarder and later attended King's College, Cambridge.
There, Ballard found it hard to accommodate his hard-won overseas toughness to English deference. One had to kowtow to one's elders, try never being too keen about anything and learn to "take it on the chin," about life's inequities, English-style, as he put it. In short, people continued to tie themselves in class-induced knots that for generations held them fast.
So Ballard escaped these realities by writing short stories, taking an interest in films and reading up on the work of Freud and the surrealists, enduring subjects for him. Even into old age Ballard that psychoanalysis and surrealism were keys to human personality and self-knowledge.
Of particular enjoyment to him were American noir films like "Double Indemnity" and "ultra-low-budget crime and gangster movies…often more interesting than the star … " And, "Out of the simplest materials – two cars, a cheap motel, a gun and a tired brunette – they conjured up a hard and unsentimental image of the primeval city…"
Ballard tried medicine for a couple of years, dissecting bodies, which he enjoyed, before dropping out, to his parents' chagrin. He took a low pay copywriter's job in London, then a crack at NATO pilot flying training where he was seconded by the RAF to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Ultimately this didn't appeal to him either. But he picked up the notion while in Moose Jaw – from reading while bad weather made flying impossible – that s-f, "science fiction stories" might be his métier.
American magazines didn't give his "s-f" stories a tumble. But on returning to London but he met up again with a woman who later became his wife, Mary Matthews. He and Mary married with a first child already on the way.
Mary's encouragement and that of an editor, E.J. Carnell, gave him confidence. Carnell urged him to concentrate "on what I termed 'inner space', psychological tales close to the surrealists." He began selling short stories to English science magazines Science Fantasy and New Worlds in 1956, a late but good start. Despite his start, science fiction went into a steep decline in America and didn't recover until Star Wars decades later. Ballard countered with his own blockbuster novels, the dystopian "Crash" and "Empire of the Sun", years later.
"Miracles of Life"? The title refers to the birth of Jim, born in 1956 and daughters, Fay and Beatrice, born in 1957 and 1959. So much death and decay rescued by birth and growth in a small home and garden purchased in Shepperton in 1960! He reminisces that "I thought of my children then, and still think of them, as miracles of life."
Mary died unexpectedly, of an infection, while on holiday in Spain in 1963. Ballard tried raising his children alone He made many friends who were helpful to him, including Martin Bax, a pediatrician who published a quarterly poetry magazine called Ambit; Chris Evans, a scientist who influenced him greatly; Michael Moorcock, editor of the leading British science fiction magazine, New Worlds; the British artist, Eduardo Paolozzi; and the redoubtable Kingsley Amis, whose generous and kindly side Ballard says he saw before Amis became "a professional curmudgeon."
Ballard pays tribute too, to Claire Walsh, his partner of the last 40 years.. Ballard's final testament is a bright ending to a life that had its trials.
Miracles of Life
By J.G. Ballard
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Michael D. Langan, a retired U.S. Treasury official, reviewed J.G. Ballard's "Cocaine Nights" in 1998 for The Buffalo News.


text: The Assignment Was a 15-Page Paper, And They Wrote 97 — And Raised $25,000 By Alissa Falcone Office of University Communications December 19, 2013 Drexel communication major's senior project is 15 pages. But that didn't stop Farrah Goldsmith and Cherilyn Buscarino from submitting a 97-page report. Still not impressed? The two seniors' endeavor also involved planning a 250-person major fundraising event for the Drexel Smart House (DSH) that raised more than $25,000. Goldsmith and Buscarino, who have concentrations in public relations, decided it was time to rebrand the Drexel Smart House and attract more attention to the group. Back in 2006, the idea of transforming a former fraternity house in Powelton Village into a sustainable urban-living model for student housing and innovation classrooms generated a lot of interest. Funding announcements like a $1.1 million pledge from the University and more than $300,000 in external grants and donations occasionally brought the Smart House back into the spotlight over the years. Goldsmith and Buscarino wanted to use their brand and reputation management skills to once more bring attention to the group, which has been quietly working hard for some time, and celebrate its past and future achievements. They came up with the idea of a benefit, which eventually became The Smart Affair, a cocktail reception held Nov. 22 at the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building. "We wanted to show all the skills we'd learned up until that point," Buscarino said. After the duo successfully pitched the idea of using a large-scale event to raise money and awareness to the organization's board of co-directors, they took over PR duties for the group, including maintaining the group's Facebook page and Twitter account. Most of their time and energy went toward creating, planning, securing funding for and promoting the event all on their own. "We treated our project as a part-time job," Buscarino said. Goldsmith agreed. "I see it as an extension of Drexel's co-op program," she said. The two students, who finished their senior project two terms early, took lighter loads of classes so they could work with donors and vendors during normal business hours. Having worked with the University to plan events for their respective sororities (Phi Mu for Goldsmith and Phi Sigma Sigma for Buscarino), the students knew how to work closely with President John Fry and nearly every college dean, which granted them access to resources across the University. "Above all, this experience taught me the importance of establishing and maintaining relationships," Goldsmith said. Those relationships did pay off. After meeting with the girls, Fry pledged $5,000, or about half of the event's budget, and even wrote the welcome message in literature handed out at the event. Goldsmith and Buscarino also received donations from the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Close School of Entrepreneurship, LeBow College of Business, the College of Engineering, the Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship and the Office of the Provost. The Graduate Student Association, the Undergraduate Student Government Association and several Greek organizations also made financial contributions. Goldsmith and Buscarino recruited Drexel student volunteers to help out, including a graphic designer and photographers to help with marketing, a DJ and three a capella groups to provide entertainment and greeters to welcome guests. Their hard work resulted in success not only for the organization, but also for themselves. Now, when the girls apply for job positions for after graduation, they will have something tangible to discuss and give to potential employers. "The whole point of the senior project is to have something to show for your four or five years at Drexel and then show it to employers," Karen Cristiano, an associate teaching professor and the faculty adviser for the project, said. Even though the girls just handed in their papers and presented their project this past week, it's safe to say they've already passed that task with flying colors.


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This information was the most current on file in criminal division of Marion County District Court as of March 15. Information often is not available until more than a week after hearings. Journal entries must be checked by the defense, prosecution, and judge before they are filed.
Dakota Landon Dillashaw, 102 Santa Fe St. Apt. 3, Marion; plea agreement filed March 13; defendant agrees to plead nolo contendere to charges of assault on a law enforcement officer, attempted escape from custody, minor in possession or consumption of an alcoholic beverage, obstruction of official duty, and criminal damage to property; in return, prosecution agrees to dismiss all other charges and recommend probation.
Stephania Eppley, 323 Big Springs Road, Monroe, Tenn.; sentenced March 12 on conviction of giving a worthless check; sentenced to six month controlling jail term underlying 24 months probation; ordered to pay $18,940 restitution — with $15,589 credit — and $255.
Mathew J. Leach; waived formal arraignment March 4 and pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal deprivation of property and misdemeanor theft; status hearing set for March 13.
Charles W. Matthews, 901 W. Burns, Herington; plea hearing continued from Feb. 25 to March 25 on charges of criminal damage to property, battery, forgery, no proof of insurance, and driving while license canceled, suspended, or revoked.
Patricia Miller, 211 N. Jefferson St., Hillsboro; dismissal/status hearing continued from Feb. 26 to April 10 on charge of misdemeanor theft.
Leslie O. Riggs, 1094 X Ranch Road, Florence; pleaded not guilty Feb. 20 to charges of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and possession or consumption of an alcoholic beverage by a minor; pretrial status hearing set for March 20.
Stormy G. Snedecor, 304 S.E. 5th, Newton; sentencing on conviction of obtaining a prescription-only drug by fraudulent means continued from Feb. 25 to March 4.


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Ive got two tests and a paper to worry about first tonight, but if you all are blissfully homework free: Go play!
So I woke up this morning, made some coffee, checked my e-mail, and did my usual Sitemeter/Technorati check. I had a ton of hits from UD. From a post on sea anemones. "Oh god" I thought "Theyre using my glowing viruses as Evidences for Intelligent Design(TM)."
Thankfully, that wasnt the case.
Someone just asked about my essay as a side comment (even Average Joe Creationists are uncomfortable with Behes silence). Sal was nice enough (silly enough?) to provide a link to my essay, happily removing all doubt that Behe is *unaware* of my post, and adding even more pressure on Behe to respond. LOL!
Anyway, I know 99% of you cant post at UD, so please feel free to leave comments here!
Response 1, 08-28-07:
Sal, thank you for providing me a forum where I can answer your questions. That makes you two steps ahead of Behe. To answer your questions—fine. Lets say all viruses in the lentivirus family related to HIV-1 lost their Vpu. It probably cropped up millions of years ago—long before we were there with Qiagen kits to watch what was happening, so I will happily entertain that possibility*.
HIV still does not have, quote, the 'same number of genes.' If we grant your premise, all branches of immunodeficiency viruses 'lost' a gene. 'Same' minus one. And, HIV-1 Vpu doesn't look genetically or act biochemically like its ancestor, SIVcpz Vpu. They don't 'work in the same way.' Behe is still wrong.
Additionally, what has happened while we were watching is the evolution of the Subtype B and Subtype C sequences. Not only are HIV-1 Vpu sequences vastly different from SIVcpz Vpus, but B and C Vpus each have their own specific biochemical markers and specialties. We've watched that happen. Thus, Behe is still wrong.
And we have barely scratched the surface of HIV evolution. Hes only going to get 'more wrong' from here on out.
* We know Vpu is new in HIV-1 because of the directionality of necessity. As I referenced in my original essay, Vpu evolved in a very specific way in HIV-1 to overcome a cell specific and human specific host factor. Please see reference 10- I tried very hard to find PLoS/PubMedCentral references for this very purpose.Response 2, 08-28-07:
I believe Mike was referring specfically to human strains after the introduction into humans…
You dont want to reinterpret what Behe said this way. HIV-1 and HIV-2 are entirely different creatures. Also, HIV-2 has a gene duplication– something Behe said 'specifically' hadnt happened in HIV.
He preferred to us directly observed evolutions rather than using interpretations possibly biased by a preconception such as a phylogeny…
How, exactly, do you explain the apparent phylogeny of primate lentiviruses, then? And, this doesnt help your case. Again, lets grant your premise– HIV-1 is not related to SIVcpz. HIV-1 and HIV-2 are entirely different creatures. This makes things worse for Behe.
The Vpu protein did not emerge de novo after introduction into humans. Is that correct?
Absolutely right, which I addressed in my essay: "Ah, Michael Behe, you might try to talk your way around Vpu now (though you were evidently unaware of its existence moments ago) by insisting that it is not *new* new."
By the way, I appreciate your candor regarding the possibility of Vpu gene loss in ancient strains of HIV rather than gene emergence.
Anything is a possibility with HIV. But experimental evidence is normally used to figure out which possibilities are viable, and which can be discarded. Vpu is a new gene, not a 'lost in everyone else' gene.
Response 3, 08-29-07: Davie has turned moderation on my comments so he can read them before everyone else. Im THAT exciting!
Sal-- *quip, sorry* HIV-1 is not AIDS. You progress to AIDS after being infected with HIV-1. :)
Again, I will grant your premise-- Behe meant nothing happened in HIV-1 AFTER it was introduced to humans.
Behe still has a de novo multiprotein complex to worry about, and several de novo protein-protein interactions. He says that hasnt happened. He even made a table to say it hasnt happened.
I have never typed that Vpu is novel in humans. Its new in a branch of primate lentiviruses, again, look at reference 10. Its the sequence, biochemistry, and functionality that are different in humans.
Michael-- The number of phylogeny papers for HIV-1, 2, and SIV is massive (go to PubMed/PLos and search 'HIV phylogeny'). The easiest thing would be to point you towards the Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV sequence database. There, you can get sequences to line up yourself, if you dont believe anyone!
Dave-- Yup! Thats the quote (I knew he said it at least once)! HIV-2 has a new gene with lots of fun functions.
Here is a recent (free) paper on the topic!
PaV-- Sure! HIV-1 could have gotten Vpu from the chimpanzee genome! The sequence is so divergent (not only in humans, but in SIVcpz) that we have no idea where it came from at this point. Its not an obvious gene duplication like Vpx.
But as I said in my essay and here-- HIV-1 Vpu and SIVcpz Vpu are totally different genetically, biochemically, and functionally. The main difference is that HIV-1 Vpus can form 'viroporins'. Thats pretty wild.
The function they both have in common (destroying CD4 markers) is irreducibly complex in HIV-1... But not in SIVcpz. And then theres the evolution of novel protein binding/localization sequences in at least two subtypes (we havent looked at them all yet).
But the virus is still no more than a virus...
*frown* There is a reason HIV-1 has taken over this planet while HIV-2 has not. Vpu is part of that reason.
The differential evolution of Vpu between the subtypes points towards a way of stopping the subtype that is out competing every other HIV-1 out there.
Youre free to believe Vpu evolution is 'insignificant', but I doubt HIV-1 would agree with you.
That is a very old Creationist Claim, btw.
Response 4, 8/29/07:
If we drive Ms. Smith away, others might think we had to resort to banning because we could not defend ourselves, or could not point out when her reading of Behe was inaccurate. This should be an easy thing to do, and no cause for getting rid of her.
Thank you, Sal. And your readers have brought up wonderful questions. However, answers will only be posted to questions on my blog if my comments are going to be 'held in moderation' here.
This is your blog– youre free to moderate as you see fit. But Im not wasting my time answering your readers questions if youre going to trash my responses.
Dave– Im looking at a copy of 'Edge' right now. Would you like to read it out loud together?
"Yet through all that, there have been no significant biochemical changes in the virus at all…"
Response #5, 8/29/07:Mike was referring to #1, and Ms. Smith to #2, therefore, because this is an equivocation, #2 cannot be used as a counter example to #1.
Fine. Lets grant your premise again. Behe really meant '1. protein-protein binding within the same organism upon which a critical function depends.'
Vpu proteins interact with other Vpu proteins to create a tetramer-- a viroporin. Its also integral for particle release in humans, requiring more HIV protein-protein interactions. Completely new function/molecular machine in HIV-1. It is NOT in SIVcpz. And, Subtype C evolved biochemically to form these viroporins better than other subtypes. References for all of this is in my original essay.
Are you ready to start listing to what I say, or are you going to keep squirming?
(correction, pentamers, not tetramers :P)


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Thompson chain reference
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Is there any way to set up the TCR module as a reference instead of a dictionary? Would like to have it show the "chains" for the current verse in the ref window (where the TSKe and DBT is currently). Like reading an actual TCR bible with the references off to the side. Looked through the session manager and didn't see anything, just wondering if this is possible.


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President Obama makes his first major policy speech on Africa today to a host nation that is far from the continent's most economically or politically powerful.
Even among Ghanaians, the choice of location has aroused curiosity. "What we are all wondering," says Theodora Agyeman, a headmistress, "is why he has chosen to come to Ghana."
Analysts say the setting itself sends a non-verbal acknowledgment of Ghana's democratic successes – and a non-confrontational scolding of the third-term presidents and corrupt dictators that preside elsewhere in Africa.
"It seems to me he chose Ghana for its symbolism," says Steven Ekovich, a policy analyst at the American University of Paris. "He's making his first visit to a country that has had successful democratic transitions where the opposition won. That's a very powerful message to other African populations, and to other African leaders."
Ghana – associated afar with Kente cloth, African liberation, and ruined slave dungeons like the one Obama will visit – finds itself at the center of African intrigue, after five consecutive elections, including a major upset last December.
"If he visited, say, [Zimbabwean President Robert] Mugabe, he would feel obliged to at least indirectly hector Mugabe about his human rights abuses," Ekovich said. "Since he doesn't like to do that, he can come to a country where the country itself is taking that road to human rights and democracy. He doesn't have to say anything."
'Trusted partner'
The State Department calls Ghana "one of our most trusted partners in sub-Saharan Africa" – a compliment matched by the size of its one-acre, four-story Accra embassy, and returned by the number of restaurants Ghanaians have named after Obama, some scattered along Accra's George W. Bush Motorway.
For recent US presidents – each ever more focused on democratizing Africa – Ghana has been a natural port of call. Presidents Bill Clinton and Bush visited, the latter several times.
"Ghana is this poster child for democratic reform," said Director Larry Diamond of Stanford's Center of Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
Will Obama revitalize US involvment in Africa?
For Obama, the trip offers a chance to revitalize America's plethora of aid programs with his own celebrity. Obama's smiling face adorns batik fabrics, posters, banners, the back windows of buses, and billboards.
Already, his visit has provoked soul-searching from Africans living in bigger, more powerful countries with a worse track record on democratic reform. In Kenya, the Ghana trip is widely viewed as a judgment on Kenya's troubled power-sharing agreement.
In Nigeria, complaints that Obama bypassed West Africa's powerhouse country encouraged a reaction from its famous playwright, Wole Soyinka.
"The message he is sending by going to Ghana is so obvious, is so brilliant, that he must not render it flawed by coming to Nigeria any time soon," the Nobel Laureate said, praising Ghana's democratic progress, and lamenting Nigeria's lack thereof.
Is Ghana really worthy of such praise?
Ghanaian analysts, however, wonder if their caricature as Africa's exception is entirely warranted – especially during a contentious exchange of government, marked by dismissals and investigations perceived as excessive.
"It's actually quite ironic that Obama is coming here because of our democracy, because in a way, our democracy is not doing well as advertised," says Victor Brobbey, a research fellow at Ghana's Center for Democratic Development, a think tank. "The president has far too much power. Capturing the presidency gives you the state, you have all these resources, you get all this patronage. As a result, it makes elections this winner-take-all game, which raises the stakes and the tension."
There's also oil, a potential military base ...
Quietly, some Ghanaians wonder whether Obama is after Ghana's newfound oil, or a place to park Africom, Bush's proposed anti-terrorism base – or maybe, trying to accommodate his wife, Michelle, who Ghanaians widely, if questionably, believe has Ghanaian ancestry.
"Personally, I think we very much underestimate the influence of Michelle Obama in all of this," says Amos Anyimadu, administrator for Africa Next!, a governance think tank.
... and a photo-op at a former slave fort
"Eighty percent of the explanation of this visit lies in America," says Anyimadu. "Obama will be standing on a slave fort, talking directly to African-Americans."
"The only reason we managed to get Clinton to come," says Anyimadu, describing most presidential visits as symbolic, "was to provide a platform for the Clintons to talk to African-Americans."


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One thing I came away from the beta thinking was I really need to figure out how the crafting professions fit together because there's a real dearth of advice on that topic in game.
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Denver, Colo., Dec 13, 2013 / 05:19 pm (CNA).- The archbishop of Denver has voiced deep sadness and promised prayers for the victims of a shooting at a Colorado high school on the afternoon of Dec. 13.
"Today, we offer our prayers and profound sympathy for all those involved in the shooting at Arapahoe High School," said Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila in a statement.
"I am saddened by this tragedy, which has been repeated too often in recent memory," he said. "My heart goes out to the victims and their families, and my prayers, as well as those of the faithful in the Archdiocese of Denver, are with them."
According to police reports, a gunman walked into Arapahoe High School – located in the southern Denver suburb of Centennial – and tried unsuccessfully to confront a specific teacher, who learned of the situation and left the building. The gunman reportedly injured three people before apparently killing himself.
One victim was reported to be in serious condition, while the two others were listed as being in good condition.
Some students fled the school during the shooting, while others stayed in locked-down classrooms.
"I was scared and shaking," one student told the Denver Post.
Police slowly cleared the school, searching students as they were allowed to leave. Many distressed parents rushed to the school in an effort to find their children.
Arapahoe High School has approximately 2,100 students. It about is eight miles from Columbine High School, the scene of a deadly shooting in 1999 that left 15 dead, including two gunmen. Colorado was also the scene of the July 2012 shootings at a movie theater in the east suburb of Aurora, which killed 12 and wounded dozens more.
The Dec. 13 shooting took place just a day before the one-year anniversary of the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adult staff members, as well as his mother and himself.
As news of the Arapahoe High School shooting broke, many other schools in the Denver area, including Catholic schools, went into secure lockdown. No other incidents have been reported.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper called the shooting "an unspeakable horror" and "something no child, no family should have to endure."
Archbishop Aquila voiced gratitude that "first responders, school teachers and administrators were able to react with effective lockdown procedures."
"Unfortunately for all of us, however, we are once again confronted with the effects of a culture that has little respect for life and is desperately in need of the healing that only God can give."
"As we prepare our hearts for the birth of Christ, let us keep our youth in our prayers," he said. "In these last weeks of Advent, let us pray that as a culture we find the path to peace, which begins with accepting God's mercy and forgiveness."