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"Significant increases in flu activity in the U.S. in the last three weeks indicate that an early flu season is underway," says Rich Collins, Watonwan County Public Health Director. "We urge everyone to get a flu vaccine now if you have not done so already this season. Vaccination is especially important for children, adults 65 and older, pregnant women and people with asthma, diabetes and other long-term conditions who are at high risk from flu complications."
Since the start of the influenza season, no influenza-related deaths have been reported in Minnesota, however more than 70 people have been hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza, and 18 outbreaks of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Minnesota schools have been reported.
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PORTSMOUTH — Efforts to recover the body of missing University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth Marriott continued Thursday to no avail, despite the addition of an aircraft to the search party.
Associate Attorney General Jane Young said three boats took part in the search Thursday, as well as an aircraft furnished by a state agency in Maine.
The vessels combed the waters off of Peirce Island in Portsmouth, where investigators have been focusing their attention since early Friday evening, Oct. 12.
Police say they have gathered "credible" evidence indicating Marriott's body is located off the coast of Portsmouth. They have also called on agencies in Maine and Massachusetts to be aware of the search, in the event Marriott's body has drifted north or south.
The 19-year-old UNH sophomore was last seen on Tuesday, Oct. 9, and is presumed to be dead. Prosecutors say Marriott was either or strangled or suffocated in an apartment on Mill Street last week by a 29-year-old Dover man.
The suspect, Seth Mazzaglia, was arraigned Monday on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Marriott's death. He is due to appear in Dover District Court once again on Oct. 29.
During the past week, the New Hampshire Marine Patrol has taken the lead searching in the water for Marriott's body, with some assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard. N.H. Fish and Game officials are also in consultation with investigators, many of whom are familiar with diving conditions in the area.
Poor weather has hampered the search intermittently this week, and investigators feared that prospect would arise once again today. Young said it's possible the plane aiding the search will be grounded today due to rain.
In an interview earlier this week, Young said investigators feel a strong sense of mission to find Marriott's remains, as they would in any case.
"The law enforcement community is very cognizant of the fact that there is a family out there that is grieving, who has anguish in their hearts," she said. "(Officials) are doing everything they can to bring their child and sibling home."
Anyone with information pertaining to Marriott's death is urged to contact Dover police at 603-742-4646 or the New Hampshire State Police at 603-271-3636.
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PORTSMOUTH — Efforts to recover the body of missing University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth Marriott continued Thursday to no avail, despite the addition of an aircraft to the search party.


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The fire departments, especially Onsted's, arrived on the scene in a timely manner and helped control the fire promptly. They were very helpful in securing important documents, which have proven to be invaluable. Due to the unfortunate situation, Mrs. Dennis was trapped in the fire. Deputy Jeff Johnson from the Lenawee County Sheriff's Office was especially helpful throughout the tragedy and kept the family updated on what was happening and what to expect.
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We want to especially thank Billy Stoner, a neighbor, who called in the fire and did try to see if Mrs. Dennis could be saved. Sylvia Stoner, a neighbor, took time out of her busy day to drive to the son's house to let him know about the fire. Every neighbor was there to lend their love and support either by a hug, a phone call or just a kind word. A nearby neighbor, who didn't know us, even stopped by to offer us food, which was so admirable.
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Houma resident Dan Gray loves Mardi Gras. But he might love his parade spot more.
Houma resident Dan Gray loves Mardi Gras. But he might love his parade spot more.
A former king of the Krewe of Houmas, Gray said he gave up parading in the krewe after more than 35 years because it was more fun to hang out at his family's Mardi Gras stand and party house. The house, a former taxi stand on Park Avenue, was renovated into a Mardi Gras party house nicknamed the "Mardi Gras Shack" with a kitchen, bathroom, bar and living room. Gray has been at the spot since 1998.
On Wednesday he was out at the shack touching up the paint with some fresh green, purple and gold for the parade season. It's a lot of work to maintain, he said, but it's worth it.
Gray is one of many Houma residents who take securing their annual viewing spot along the Houma parade route very, very seriously.
And if you don't have property along the route, it can take dedication, planning and sometimes money to secure a spot, along with knowledge of local parking laws.
Local authorities warn there are rules paradegoers need to remember when staking out spots for the festivities, which will kick off Sunday in Lafourche.
The Krewe of Versailles is set to roll at noon in Larose, the Krewe Des Les Petite Lions will roll at 1 p.m. Golden Meadow and the Krewe of Shaka will roll at 1:30 p.m. in Thibodaux. In Houma, parades will kick off with the Krewe of Hercules at 6 p.m. Feb. 1.
In both Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, you need to follow traditional parking rules, even during Mardi Gras, police said.
For instance, private cars and trucks can't park on a state right of way. Along the west-Houma route, which starts at Southland Mall and ends in downtown Houma near the Town Hall on Barrow Street, the right of way varies. The general rule of thumb, officials said, is to keep an eye on the power lines that stretch along West Park Avenue and Main and Barrow streets. You don't want to park or build a stand between the poles and the roadway's edge.
Anything used to cordon off private property, whether it's a barricade or ropes tied to stakes, can't be on state or parish property, either.
Another major rule of thumb is to make sure your vehicle doesn't block the parade route or side-street intersections.
Blocking intersections can prevent emergency vehicles from getting through if there's an emergency during the parade, said Houma Police Chief Todd Duplantis.
In both Houma and Thibodaux, officers will sweep the parade route before the event to look for cars parked improperly.
In downtown Houma, the parking meters are bagged along the route before the parade, and parking is prohibited in those spots, Duplantis said.
If problem vehicles are found, police will attempt to track down the owner to move the car. If the owner can't be found, the car will be ticketed and towed as a last resort.
"We're trying to be as lenient as possible. We're not interested in writing a bunch of tickets," said Detective David Melancon, a spokesman for the Thibodaux Police Department. "But we can't have hindrances to the parade route. We need the parades to flow freely."
Officers will direct traffic at crowded intersections after the parade, Duplantis said.
Along the Houma route, parking can sometimes get very competitive. Paradegoers can pay hundreds of dollars to rent a spot from businesses and property owners. Some residents will park their cars in open property along the route weeks-to-days ahead of time to call dibs on open spots.
Crystal Bourg Carmichael of Lockport said she rents a spot at Mr. H Rent to Own in Houma.
"Love our spot," she said.
But others said its better to have family or make friends along the route to secure your annual party spot.
Viewing stands like Gray's are a common sight along parade routes. Those are also prohibited on state and parish property.
The stands may be installed up to 30 days before the first parade and must be must be removed 10 days after Carnival season ends. This year Fat Tuesday, the last day of Carnival, is Feb. 12.
If you're planning to erect a stand in Terrebonne, you first have to get a permit from the parish Planning and Zoning Department. That office is on the fourth floor of the Government Tower, 8026 Main St., in Houma. For information, call 873-6569. Viewing-stand permits are $50.
Vendors erecting stands to sell food must get approval from the state Department of Health and Hospitals before applying for the local permit.
So far this year, Terrebonne Parish has permitted 24 reviewing stands and four concession stands, said Terrebonne Planning and Zoning Director Pat Gordon. More concession stands will likely be permitted as the parades get closer.
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Most employers wouldn't allow let alone encourage employees to watch TV while they work. But Equity Consultants LLC, a Richfield-based private mortgage company, is doing just that.
However, there's no ESPN, CNN or soap operas on these TVs. Instead, each displays what president and CEO Goran Marich considers to be a powerful motivational and teaching tool.
Last December, the company implemented ECTV a closed-circuit television technology program that highlights company performance statistics, training information and overall corporate communication for the company's 130 loan officers. Some 15 television monitors are hung throughout the building, continuously streaming important announcements, loan closing rates, videos, updates and compliance messages, among other things.
The program was designed to solve the problem of an office overwrought with memos and dry erase boards full of unreadable charts and graphs.
"It needed to go away," says Marich of the way the company was keeping track of statistics and communicating. "We needed a companywide scoreboard that paints the picture and shows all the statistics that are most important to our managers, to our loan consultants."
In the meantime, the company has found many more applications for the technology, turning the loan closing performance statistics into an interoffice competition among loan officers.
"They love it. They love to see their successes," says Marich. "It's showing to everybody else how they stack up, and it's becoming that primary motivator that we'd hoped it would be."
The company has tied in incentives and rewards, and since implementing the technology has seen three successive months of record-breaking sales increases. Using a green screen, special effects and digital images can also be inserted and projected on the televisions during announcements.
ECTV is also a great way to reinforce what employees learned in training, especially during slow afternoons.
"I feel we have enough meetings, we have enough training, we do a great job of recruiting and bringing in the right person, but once they're here, how do we keep reinforcing that message?" says Marich. "And that's where ECTV really becomes powerful.
"People forget 85 percent of what they hear within 30 days if it's not reinforced or repeated. We'll show a half-hour training segment or a half-hour compliance update that, while they're working, they can subliminally see the text, they hear the audio, so they're hearing the right messages throughout the day."
The company has also progressed to recording its monthly president's council meetings, where Marich meets with the top few loan officers in the company to talk about their successes in the previous month. These meetings, as well as other best practices tips from fellow employees, are broadcast periodically on ECTV.
Marich says the $200,000 price tag for the televisions, technology, green screen and audio system was hefty, but it's an investment he's glad he made.
"I think the price of a poor working environment is the ultimate price that I can't afford to pay," says Marich. "So for me, the price of the investment was nothing compared to the benefit that it brings."
In fact, Marich considers ECTV such a success that he's planning on implementing it in the company's Detroit and Indianapolis offices.
"It's just a much more compelling, dynamic way to say the same thing instead of in an e-mail or a constant tone of voice in meetings," says Marich. "We have some great people and some brilliant ideas, and they're just not communicated enough. That's where this is really leveraged, by flattening the learning curve from new hire to advanced loan officer by hearing all this great stuff within the first 30 days."
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Dover man arrested in connection with January Smyrna home invasion
Delaware State Police have arrested a Dover man in connection with a home invasion and robbery that took place Jan. 15 in Smyrna.
Police spokesman Master Cpl. Gary Fournier said Troop 3 detectives, along with Dover Police Drug Unit and Special Operations Response team served a search warrant March 28 at a home in the 600 block of Nimitz Road and arrested Martin F. Smith, 41, without incident.
A search of the residence turned up a Tec-DC9 handgun, a 9 mm handgun, a .22-caliber handgun and various rounds of ammunition.
The original incident took place Friday, Jan. 25 at a home in the first block of Hedgerow Hollow Road, Smyrna. The 38-year-old victim told police he had answered a knock at the door and was greeted by a man who explained his car had slid into the victim's car in front of the house. As the victim left the house, he was confronted by a second man. Both the man and Smith allegedly pulled handguns and demanded money. The man turned over an undisclosed amount of cash and a written prescription for medication.
The two men then took the victim back into the house and demanded more money, causing a physical confrontation between the suspects and the victim. The suspects hit the victim over the head with the handguns and fled in an unknown direction.
The victim was taken to a local hospital and was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Fournier said the investigators determined this was not a random act and that the victim had been targeted for the attack.
Smith was charged with first-degree robbery; first-degree assault; home invasion; possession of a deadly weapon during commission of a felony; five counts of possession of a firearm by a person prohibited; three counts of aggravated menacing; endangering the welfare of a child; and second-degree conspiracy.
Smith was ordered held at the Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna in default of $185,000 secured bond.
If anyone has any information in reference to the second suspect, they are asked to contact Detective Dan Wright of the Troop 3 at Criminal Investigations Unit at 302-741-2811 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333. Information also may be provided via the Internet at www.tipsubmit.com.


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The St. Louis Cardinals offense continues to struggle after scoring nine runs last Friday night. However, they have managed to split their first two games with the Cincinnati Reds thanks to excellent starting pitching from Adam Wainright and Jaime Garcia. There is no score in the rubber game of the series as I write this blog. The Cardinals made some bullpen moves on Monday as they have begun to show signs of growing impatient with some of the subpar pitching performances the bullpen has turned in over the past few days. I would not be at all surprised to see them make another move or two if the bullpen meltdowns continue.
Speaking of the bullpen, closer Jason Motte is attempting to come back from his elbow injury without surgery as he has begun an aggressive throwing program that he hopes will allow him to return to the bullpen without having to undergo Tommy John surgery which would require him to miss all of the rest of this season and most likely the first part of next season. Motte has yet to throw with full intensity and that will be the real test but he has been able to stay pain free so far in his attempted comeback. The Cardinals and Motte will need to reach a decision soon though or he will miss a good chunk of next season as well if he delays surgery much longer.
The Kansas City Royals appear to have revitalized the Cleveland Indians offense as the Indian pounded the Royals on Monday before moving on to play the Phillies and banging out seven homers in last night's game. The Royals offense got back on track as well as they easily defeated the Tampa Bay Rays last night at Kauffman Stadium.
Congratulations to the Truman State softball team on making the MIAA postseason tournament. Truman State has been up and down the last couple of weeks but have played well throughout most of the season and were even in the top 10 regional rankings at one point. It's a major accomplishment making the MIAA tournament though with the MIAA having 342 teams they obviously can't have all of them in the postseason tournament or it would never end. If Truman plays the way they are capable of playing they could very well be looking at playing on past the MIAA tournament.
The Kirksville High School baseball team is home for the second day in a row as they play Marshall this afternoon at North Park. Kirksville has beaten Marshall at least once this year and is coming off a major offensive victory yesterday as not only their offense but their pitching as well got back on track in a major way. They are scheduled to be at home on Friday as well to face Jefferson City if weather permits.
The KHS girls soccer team's offensive juggernaut continues as they continue to put up multiple goal games against good competition. It has been great watching this relatively new program take shape and become a program to be reckoned with.
Both KHS track teams are busy preparing for the NCMC conference meet scheduled to take place in Kirksville on Friday. We'll have more to say about that on Friday but the weather forecast doesn't look encouraging.
The St. Louis Blues are leading the defending Stanley Cup champions Los Angeles Kings 1 to 0 after last night's overtime victory in the first game of their opening round series. The Blues are the underdogs in this series but the Kings have been somewhat of a disappointment this season as they were expected to have a better record than they have. They got off to a very slow start this season as did the Blues before coming on as the season progressed.
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OpenSourceMalaria:Story so far
This is a human-readable summary of the open source drug discovery for malaria project. A less readable collection of all the relevant data can be found here.
The story so far in the open source drug discovery for malaria project
Last year the Todd lab at The University of Sydney received funding for a pilot project in open source drug discovery from the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). The project champion at the outset was Tim Wells. Jeremy Burrows came on board and led the suggestion to go after a few of the actives that had been placed in the public domain in 2010 by GlaxoSmithKline and others. Work got underway in the lab in August 2011. The team were successful in securing further funding from an Australian Research Council Linkage grant - a scheme where funds from an external agency are matched by the Australian Government. This has generated funding from May 2012 for three years.
The scientific idea behind the project is familiar medicinal chemistry methodology - the aim is to find a small molecule that is effective for the treatment of malaria, and that involves generating molecules (the Todd lab's primary responsibility) and evaluating them (with other members of the project). Based on the biological results, analogs are made, or the series might be ditched and another one selected. The first series to be tried is based on an arylpyrrole that was one of the most attractive hits in the original GSK dataset, but there are plenty of other series that are also very attractive from a medchem perspective.
The difference with this project though (as described in the 6 Laws) is that everything is open, meaning all the experiments go on the web (including the ones that did not turn out well). All the data are available. Anyone can do anything they wish with the compounds, with the proviso the project is cited (see licence conditions below). The main difference is that anyone can take part - people may make molecules, offer guidance and input in other ways that change the direction of the project as it is happening, i.e. rather than the release of all data at the end of the project, data are released as the project is happening so that people can become genuinely involved in the research. Thus the iterative cycle of analog synthesis in response to biological data that is normally guided by luck and medchem intuition is now guided by the intuition of the collective. Similarly, since the biological data are all open too, it should be easier to form an objective assessment of a molecule's performance divorced from the judgement of those closest to the compounds. In the same way that in software development "with enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" the open nature of the research makes the science better and faster. This was found to be the case in a previous synthetic chemistry project involving the drug praziquantel.
Rounds of Synthesis and Evaluation Completed to Date
Paul Ylioja started by resynthesising the two known active compounds from the GSK set (OSM-S-5 and OSM-S-6 - structures below), plus a few simple derivatives, and confirming that they were active. The current list of all the compounds made thus far in this part of the project is kept in this spreadsheet. The biological evaluation was carried out by three separate labs (Vicky Avery, Stuart Ralph and the original GSK Tres Cantos Lab led by Javier Gamo) to ensure a solid footing of repeatability. The original compounds contained an ester which was thought likely to hydrolyze in vivo, so various versions of the "lower half" of these leads were also evaluated to check whether the original hits were prodrugs, but all these compounds were found to be inactive. The project champion from MMV, Paul Willis, recommended a few "near neighbor" compounds that also looked interesting, and a number of these were made too and evaluated in this first round. One compound, OSM-S-9, was found to be more active than the original GSK hits. Sanjay Batra came on board the project and his student Soumya made (and is making)some analogs varying in the position of the fluorine atom, though the activity of those tested to date is low. (Sanjay works at the CDRI in Lucknow, India, where Saman Habib also works - Saman is leading the Indian OSDDm project which will hopefully get started soon). The outcome was that the original hits remained interesting (because of their reasonable potency and logP values) but that highly potent novel antimalarials were also being generated in this class. Thus a second set of compounds was synthesized and evaluated, giving rise to several new highly potent compounds, one of which (OSM-S-39) displayed a picomolar IC50 value. This is impressive given the small number of compounds made to date, and is testament to the quality of the hits contained in the original GSK set.
At this point the decision was taken to take the most promising compounds on to advanced biological evaluation, to see what the promise of this class really is (rather than continue to increase potency through analog synthesis). Evaluations to date are as follows.
- Metabolic and solubility assays: The two original GSK compounds and six other compounds made in this project were evaluated by Sue Charman's lab at Monash. The raw data are here and can be discussed here. The originals displayed good solubility but moderate degradation rates. The other compounds were degraded more slowly but at a cost of low solubility.
- hERG: One of the original GSK compounds (OSM-S-5) plus one of the most potent novel compounds identified to date (OSM-S-35) were subjected to the hERG assay and passed, perhaps implying that this class of compounds should not exhibit undesirable cardiac side effects. Discussion page here.
- Late Stage Gametocyte Assay: Four of the compounds have also been evaluated in a late stage gametocyte assay with very interesting results indicating unusually high activity in blocking the transmission of the parasite. The original GSK compound OSM-S-5 was inactive. Discussion page here.
- In vivo: However, the two original GSK compounds as well as one of the most promising novel compounds have been evaluated in mice and found to possess zero oral efficacy (Results available here). This result taken with all the other biological data requires careful consideration about whether to change the focus of the research to another series or whether to continue to alter the structures of the best compounds to overcome the in vivo roadblock.
- "Human and Mouse Plasma Stability Assays": Assessed the stability of OSM-S-5 in human and mouse plasma. The compound was stable in human plasma but susceptible to hydrolysis in mouse plasma. Esterase activity is known to be higher in rodents than in other species which was confirmed using a control compound in this assay (p-nitrophenol acetate) so the results are not too surprising. Lab book page here.
Based on these results it was decided to carry out a third round of analog synthesis and evaluation on the arylpyrrole series, with an emphasis on analogs a) with low logP and b) that lack the thiazolidinone heterocycle. A consultation occurred asking for suggestions for the ten most appropriate compounds to make, and the ten most interesting for commercial procurement. The final stage of the consultation took place live on the web. As a result the lists were finalised; commercial compounds were ordered and synthesis commenced. In early November, the team received results from the biological evaluation of the commercial compounds and the the synthetic compounds that had been completed, along with some analogues. This set of compounds were found to possess low to negligible levels of activity. This surprised the team but also provided some interesting insights. For example, a forked series, the pyrazoles, looked attractive but so far, all examples tested were found to be inactive.
Currently (Dec 2012) there remain a few compounds which need synthetic input from any labs interested in contributing. The project has to date had no luck in securing donations of the compounds from commercial suppliers. On considering some structurally 'similar' active compounds from the TCAMS set, the team have also decided to synthesise a few extra compounds plus hybrids, in order to access their biological activity. An open consultation is set to take place on Monday 17th December in order to decide how the project should develop.
What Are the Compounds Doing?
What might this series of compounds be doing to the parasite to kill it so effectively? It's not clear. The original screens were whole-cell assays, so while it is known that the compounds are effective, it's not known what they are doing in any detail. Iain Wallace from ChEMBL has performed a prediction of the biological role of these compounds (as well as predictions for the whole "Malaria Box", which is a set of compounds MMV are providing to people for antimalarial screening and which are the focus of a current round of Gates requests for proposals). Iain clustered the compounds as a similarity map, allowing visualization of the correlation between structure and predicted activity. Discussed also here. One of the predictions was that the compounds hit an enzyme known as DHODH, and GSK are at the time of writing screening some of the project's compounds against this enzyme. These predictions are made using informatics - a comparison of the structures of our compounds with other known compounds that have known activities. The argument is based on extrapolation. To evaluate whether the prediction is correct, a subset of compounds has been sent to Corey Nislow at the University of Toronto for screening in a yeast-based assay that does not identify for sure what the compounds are doing (which is very difficult) but provides harder biological evidence for a role.
How to Obtain Other Compounds
The original compounds from the GSK assay were commercially available, arising from libraries that are provided to larger companies by smaller specialised companies. In a medicinal chemistry project like this one starts with a set of compounds, then one sources further compounds that are similar. Novel compounds need to be made. Other compounds may be available by other means, however. Typically in academia required compounds are made in-house because academia works as a closed system, which is inefficient if relevant compounds exist elsewhere on the planet and can be sourced by other means more quickly. In this project organic synthesis of novel compounds is currently being performed in Sydney and Lucknow. But for known compounds the following needs to be done.
1) Identification of Commercial Compounds: What if some compounds we require are already commercially available? How can these be found? Iain Wallace was able to do a search of databases such as eMolecules for relevant compounds above a certain threshold of similarity and filter compounds by supplier, generating the "hitlist" quickly and with no manual human input. These can be converted into spreadhseets for quick visualisation - see here for examples on Jimmy Cronshaw's series (see below for these).
2) Obtaining Commercial Compounds: With the compounds identified, the relevant suppliers need to be contacted to ask for donations. That will probably not be trivial since it needs a human interaction. Failing that the compounds can just be bought.
3) Identification of Other/academic Compounds: What about compounds that could be useful to the project but which are not commercially available, e.g. compounds sitting in academic lab fridges? Some can be found using resources like SciFinder, though these require expensive subscriptions. Many compounds that might be perfect for the project may not even be in the published literature, which is another argument for openness in science.
4) Get Other/academic Compounds: This will be a case of manual contact with interested groups. One such enquiry has already been submitted, to see what happens. Naturally contributions are rewarded by possible authorship on resulting papers.
Ultimately, as a species, we are not very efficient at sharing valuable chemical resources. A user-driven list would be helpful - "I need compound X. I can buy it from you, or you can give it to me, or you can make it for me or with me, but I need the compound in timeframe Y." This is like a Molecular Craigslist, and would reduce some of the supply-demand barriers in chemical research.
Related Series
The arypyrrole series was the first to be examined. Two other interesting-looking starting points from the GSK set, based on a triazolourea and a thienopyrimidine, were the focus of James Cronshaw's honour's thesis at Sydney University. The triazolourea (OSM-S-56) was found to be even more active than the original GSK hit (TCMDS 134395). James is in the process of synthesising the thienopyrimidine to confirm activity, upon which time it will be necessary to decide which, if either, are to be taken on further. In general a strategy for the project is to decide as early as possible which series are looking attractive biologically, because there are still a lot of leads to pursue. If any of these structures look synthetically attractive to you based on your previous experience, please consider joining the project. Some of these molecules are quite straightforward to make and would be suitable for undergraduate lab classes.
Comments and input can be by Twitter, Google+, The Synaptic Leap or directly on the relevant Electronic Lab Notebooks. This page also has a "talk" tab for input. Or please write your own input somewhere (e.g., your own blog) and link to the project. Anonymity is perfectly acceptable, just less useful. Please avoid email.
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BROCKTON – Mayor Bill Carpenter's $375 million budget passed with near-unanimous support from the City Council on Monday night.
The council voted 10-1 to approve the spending for fiscal year 2015. Councilors trimmed the budget by $171,000 before its passage.
"The cuts were minor because the budget was tight," Chief Financial Officer John Condon said. "Additional reductions would have been difficult for them to find."
The budget was particularly tight this year, Condon said, because of lagging state aid, drops in federal funding and a decision by Carpenter to fulfill a campaign promise not to raise property taxes this year by the full 2.5 percent allowed by law, leaving nearly $3 million on the table.
Ward 6 Councilor Michelle Dubois voted against the budget in Finance Committee previously, concerned it did not contain enough revenue to fund the city through the entire year, but voted in favor on Monday.
Dubois said that she is relying on Carpenter's promise not to return for a tax hike later in the year.
"It's the mayor's budget and he's assured me it's a 12-month budget," she said. "I'm going to take him at his word."
Council President Robert Sullivan was the sole dissenting vote. Sullivan said he voted no because of the budget's "dramatic and negative impact on the school system."
"As a product of the Brockton Public Schools, I was opposed to that," Sullivan said. "It's going to be long-lasting and people are going to lose their jobs."
The School Department's budget, approved by the School Committee last week at $160 million, includes 96 layoffs of non-certified personnel.
Superintendent Kathleen Smith said she plans to bring back 199 teachers, 10 paraprofessionals and 10 teacher assistants who had been given pink slips.
Carpenter's budget includes an increase of roughly $3.6 million in local funding for schools, but despite that Smith said her department is woefully under-funded.
In a letter to her staff last week, Smith said the school budget is $13 million short of her recommended budget and $6 million less than a level services budget.
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Senate Bill 501, authored by Sen. Frank Simpson (R-Ardmore), was approved 44-1 and would give local governments the authority to ban smoking on property they own or operate.
"Many communities in Oklahoma had already approved city ordinances to do that, but the Attorney General recently ruled that was a violation of state law limiting local government control over the use of tobacco," Simpson said. "SB 501 establishes the right for county and municipal governments." Homer Nicholson, Oklahoma Municipal League Board President, said statistics indicate about 6,000 Oklahomans die each year from smoking and said many of the deaths come from secondhand smoking.
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Genesis by internationally renowned photojournalist Sebastião Salgado makes its North American premiere at the ROM, organized by Amazonas images, with support of Vale and presented by ROM Contemporary Culture and Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Genesis is an eight year photographic expedition traveling to 32 different locations around the planet. Showcasing over two hundred hauntingly beautiful and provocative photographs, Genesis depicts the raw beauty of the landscapes, seascapes and people that have escaped the destructive reach of modern society. Curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado, GENESIS takes you on a journey to rediscover the far corners of the world and urges you to consider what is left of our planet, what is in peril and what is left to be saved.
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Our WR core It sucks. You can call me negitive but I'm just calling it like I see it. This is not a one night bad night thing. This has been something that has happened all year long. It was what largely cost the Chiefs the ball game. They couldn't get open. And to me something that I'm starting to see more and more of with them if they don't get open right away they just stop and start watching Alex. That's not going to get the job done. Quiting on the play is just not going to work. If this WR core can't get their together this team isn't going to head anywhere. Again you can call me negitive all you want but that's just how I fell about the WRS on this team right now. They just are NOT getting the job done. People will bash Alex but he CAN NOT catch the ball for these guys. That's not his job. Alex misses some throws yes every QB does just like every team has drops but this team has way to many drops and it's costing the offense like they did tonight. I'm growing tired of this. This team is so close to being able to compete for a title but the WRS are slacking off on the job and they don't seem to care.


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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tiny Toon's Ideal 1
The cartooniest and most enthusiastic artist was Eddie of course. Here are some of his sketches of the Looney Tunes babies.This Bugs character looks pretty conservative for Eddie. They are really good, but I'm surprised he had to write "acceptable off-model". I wonder who needed to be convinced it was acceptable? I bet the model department wasn't!
I really like Eddie's Porkys. These show a special love for the character.
You gotta be a real cartoonist to realize the creative beauty and humorous potential of Warner Bros.' seemingly most conservative character.
These are some great poses below. It's weird to see Porky wearing pants, but somehow Eddie manages to draw him as if what's under them is aching to come out. He knows what people like about Porky.
You know somebody can really draw if they like to do back poses - and can make them funny! Many artists are afraid of drawing characters from the back - not Eddie. He embraces the backside. This Porky below is really appealing. Damn those pants!
Here is definite proof that Eddie can draw cute!
I love how he can get perfectly clear poses, construction and attitudes in just a few lines on a tiny thumbnail drawing. Eddie's storyboards are super fun to lay out, because he's done the hard part for you. I don't know how you can go wrong with storyboard drawings like this.
Story Artists No Longer Are Allowed To Tell Stories
Nowadays, they make the storyboard artists not tell stories anymore and do something totally irrelevant to the job instead. Guys who should be staging and writing the gags are too busy cleaning up their tiny drawings and drawing complete detailed backgrounds to have time to think about story. No job category does what it was invented for anymore, it seems.
Here's the Daffy character looking much better than I ever saw him on the screen
He had a really bizarre design in the cartoons. - a giant brain with a tiny little vestigial beak. (I did a bunch of giant brain tiny Toons drawings making fun of it)
Eddie was one of the first directors during the idealistic days of Tiny Toons' birth. (Or reincarnation) He was the perfect choice. He had a unique "voice", a strong individual drawing style and a really funny way of seeing the world - as you all know from his genius theory blog. Plus, he knew all the cartoons that they were basing the baby version on.
Tiny Toons (not the characters) came out of the Mighty Mouse and Beany and Cecil experiments. It was originally supposed to be a continuation of their ideals - the ideals I had been fighting for all through the 80s - which were to give cartoonists back the industry that had been stolen from us and let the cartoonists create the whole thing from beginning to end. They even started by packing the studio with MM and B&C artists and "writers" - who were actually artists in disguise. Mainly Tom Minton and Jim Reardon who wrote so many funny MM episodes.
Tom Ruegger told me he loved Mighty Mouse and had already imitated it in "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" for Hanna Barbera. Being once an artist himself and having some sympathy for us, he said he believed in the same things as I did, and he set up the studio for WB and Spielberg. Steven himself is a big cartoon fan and wanted cartoons done the way they used to be done at WB's original studio, not some crappy Saturday morning thing that was just like everything else.
Tom started with my adapted-to-TV unit system and doing layouts in-house (which everyone else was doing overseas) and having artists write the cartoons. I think they still used scripts like we were forced to on Mighty Mouse and that may have been the parasitic worm that eventually devoured the system.
This was all happening at the same time Spumco was starting production on Ren and Stimpy, and once we got into heavy production I began stealing many of my artists back from Tiny Toons and installing a more advanced artist/unit system. There was a lot of overlap between the 2 studios.
I'll show you some more takes on the same characters Eddie drew by other well known cartoonists.
...and tell more stories. Eddie, you can correct me if I get anything wrong. Or Tom or anyone else that worked on that first season in paradise.
46 comments:
- Jenny Lerew said...
You should have done this post years ago. ; )
Eddie's TT boards were the most fun for a character layout artist to work from that you could imagine. Really a visceral pleasure.
That's all the more impressive considering how good all the other board artists were that there at the time-like Bruce Timm and Barry Caldwell and pretty much everyone.
It was a real eyeopener that the shows that came back looked almost nothing like them (with a few exceptions) but no one could fault the great finesse of the original boards.
- JohnK said...
Hi Jenny, I would have, but I didn't know I had all these xeroxes until I started digging up art for my book.
Hey, do you remember how many cartoons were picked up for the first season?
Your pal,
- Amanda H. said...
Oh man, I used to watch Tiny Toons all the time way back when.
...I feel old, lol.
Although I'm hard pressed to remember anything specific...I think they had a baby version of the Dodo bird, am I right?
- Paul B said...
I love the way Eddie can separate two characters when they are together, and with just a few lines!
I think Eddie have some of the great cartoon voices in history and his laugh is simply genius.
He made the asteroid scream in the Quisp commercial?
Do you know if Steven Spielberg liked Ren & Stimpy?
- Whit said...
65 half hours was the order for the first season of TTA. They sold 80% of the market with the name Steven Spielberg and the title "Tiny Toons" alone. Wouldn't sell today, even with that big a name attached.
- Jenny Lerew said...
How many were picked up? Do you mean the original ep order for syndication? Wasn't it something like 26? It must have been more than the standard 13. Minton would know that...I was just a tiny cog.
I have at least one or two of Eddie's boards somewhere. If I find them would you like to have copies--I'll bet he can't find his own! Not in his 'Xanadu' archives.
- JohnK said...
I would love that Jenny! I remember too that Jim Smith did some great boards. You don't have any of those do you?
- Racattack Force said...
I believe that 65 episodes was picked up for the first season, with all the animation being shipped out to different companies (some good, some bad). Never saw the characters make any poses or expressions like that in the series: that would have be fun to see.
"Nowadays, they make the storyboard artists not tell stories anymore."
As far as I know, some series allow the storyboard artists to "write" the stories.
- JohnK said...
Really? What shows?
Do they do layouts afterwards in house?
- Sven Hoek said...
Eddie is really gifted. HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!!
His art and his laugh are works of art.
- C said...
I like how the back shots move cute. Well, you can imagine them moving, that is. It's like a pig toddler or something.
- Eddie Fitzgerald said...
I drew all that stuff. i was hoping to inspire people to get more back shots and McKimson-type head rolls in the show.
There's a few original poses but most were copied from the TV, mostly from Clampett and Jones cartoons. I see some Glen Kennedy pose ideas in there too. Glen did some wonderful work on that show.
I wrote "acceptable off model" on the sketches because so many artists were doubtful that the studio would accept that kind of posing.
- Amanda H. said...
Did another study. Tell me what you think
- SugarPete said...
"Really? What shows?
Do they do layouts afterwards in house?"
Spongebob, El Tigre, Mighty B, Chowder and Flap Jack all do/did layouts and scene specific posing on their own shows. They don't lay out every single scene in the episode of course, but most of the important scenes are done to make sure the animators hit the right quality of poses and expressions.
In terms of storyboard, At Nick the storyboard artist use scripts but have total freedom to inject lots of their own jokes. At Cartoon Network, they're given a small list of important plotlines for the episode and are free to fill in the rest of the story.
I thought you would have known this since most of your artists work on those shows mentioned.
- Kristina said...
Wow, those are some super-cute drawings.
That's a good point about drawing characters from the back. It's hard because you don't have the facial expression to rely on, so the body language has to do all the work. I think I'll practice more back poses.
- Kingsley said...
Hey John. Thanks for posting the awesome drawings by Eddie. They were fun to look at.
Are you going to make it to the CTN Animation Expo in Burbank, CA this weekend?
- patrick sevc said...
I may regret this in the morning, but here's my first attempt at a Kaspar layout, for your critique. Thanks!
- Racattack Force said...
I'm sure that Chowder and Flapjack has the storyboard artists write the episodes, with the writers just doing the outlines for them. Unsure about layout though: need to check.
- Jizz Wad said...
Great drawings!
I never thought 'Tiny Toons' lived up to their intro. They'd prepare you for a wild time but the only thing that stood out was the female rabbit 'Babs' being funny. A funny, confident female cartoon character.
I'm pretty sure they used to push thinly disguised morals and social lessons too. Urrgghh.....
- Oliver_A said...
The first encounter I had with Tiny Toons was the direct to video film "Tiny Toons - How I Spent My Vacation". I really loved it as a kid.
Just recently, I happened to watch it again, and while some of the gags don't hold up well, I was really surprised that it still had some really good stuff in it.
@Eddie Fitzgerald
Did you also work on this film? Was it really supposed to have a theatrical release? And who directed the Plucky Duck/Hampton and Elmyra/Jungle sequences, because I strongly think they are funny as hell.
- Brubaker said...
"I see some Glen Kennedy pose ideas in there too. Glen did some wonderful work on that show."
I can't help but laugh. You're probably the first person EVER to say nice things about Glen Kennedy's work on "Tiny Toons". Kennedy's animation is often considered the worst in the show.
- Trevor Thompson said...
Tiny Toons was fully aware of people's love of a pantless pig. There was an episode where Hamton ( the Porky character ) takes off his clothes to go skinny dipping and the cops show up.
He has to make it home naked the whole way and when he gets there his friends throw him a surprise party.
- Dipp said...
As a hardcore fan of Tiny Toons I can say that I DID see all of these poses, drawings and expressions on the actual show.
John, I know it's hard to accept that something from the 90s that you didn't do was actually good.
I can see the underlining frustration depicted by calling these guys "Porky" and "Daffy"; when my generation clearly remember that their names are "Hamton and Plucky"
It's hard to accept that these guys started as something unoriginal and derivative, but ultimately they became their own characters, with their own clear and strong personalties that in many cases rival their predecessors (Hamton VS Porky and Elmyra VS Elmer comes to mind)
- Racattack Force said...
"Kennedy's animation is often considered the worst in the show."
Never understood why everyone hated Kennedy's work on the show: I've always found it fun and lively. The episodes his company did were my favorites, if only for the animation.
- drawingtherightway said...
Hey John according to imdb.com it says that you were a model designer for 1 episode of Tiny Toons (Who Bopped Bugs Bunny). Is this info correct and how did that come about?
- JohnK said...
I don't remember that. The only "models" I did were for laughs, just to make fun of the existing ones.
We did a storyboard called Haunted House that Spielberg liked, but got rejected by WB.
So we rewrote it and adapted it and used it for Ren and Stimpy
- patrick sevc said...
I've never seen so many of Eddie's drawings in one place, it's a real treat. Thanks for the eye candy!
- talkingtj said...
couldnt really get into that show..it just seemed tame when you consider the premise..im surprised so many people i admire were on that show..were there a lot of restrictions on it?..there was one episode..the one where the duck character(child?)kept pressing all the buttons on the elevator, wouldnt let anyone else do it..that episode was both magical and real,was eddie on that one?
- Jenny Lerew said...
John, you did do models for Kent on that episode. I have copies of all your drawings of the elephant...remember? They're really beautiful, stunning stuff.
Eddie, as I recall it the note about "acceptable off-model" meant that those would be the sorts of heads YOU would find "acceptable" from your layout artists, not second-guessing anyone else! You drew those for your crew(and anyone else who fancied them).
"Summer Vacation" was a lot of fun because for that show the segments were broken up by the various crews and the artists--yes, the board and character layout artists-"wrote"(i.e. sat around and thought up ideas, physical business and dialog in group sessions)nearly all the material. With the directors. The writers did also, but there was more input from us on that than before or (usually)afterwards, I think-but it always varied from show to show.
I worked mostly on the Jungle stuff for Barry Caldwell(who drected that part). A lot of the Spumco guys worked on the "National Lampoon's Vacation" thing with the pig and duck--great layouts and poses and boards in that. It really was a blast and those were good times working there-a very relaxed atmosphere and not a very large staff(including the non-artists), all on part of the 11th floor.
- Mr. Semaj said...
Eddie had the right idea serving as the series' (only) writer-director, bridging the gap between the writers' room and the artists' room, something I've suggested before about other shows that fell victim to the writers' elitism.
- RooniMan said...
"You know somebody can really draw if they like to do back poses - and can make them funny!"
I'll have to remember that.
- drawingtherightway said...
John K said:
"We did a storyboard called Haunted House that Spielberg liked, but got rejected by WB."
I'm pretty sure that Jim Smith posted some of these on his blog the one time.
- Oliver_A said...
@Jenny Lerew
Thanks for the information! The Plucky/Hampton story has always been my favourite part of this film, and you can easily tell by the drawings that this segment was developed by "the usual suspects". ;)
The fact you call the working experience on this film as positive is totally reflected in the final product. Watching it for the first time again 4 months ago, I never expected that it would still make me laugh. Thanks for some good childhood memories!
- Keith said...
Love this blog John, I have been aware of it for awhile but never took the time to read through a bunch of the posts. learning a lot from just reading it so far. going to have to try and do some construction practice from stuff posted on here.
I want to make my own 2d games and since my other love is classic cartoons I think I should pair the 2 together.
- Adam said...
These drawings are amazing! The acting, the posing, the energy. They are all so specific and just ooze that appeal factor. And all done is so very few lines! Very inspiring stuff, thanks for posting these. Now I wish Eddie would post more of his own drawing theories on his blog.
- torquesmacky said...
You've put up a few drawings from the "Haunted House" TT cartoon before, but it was called "Hi, Spirits" instead. It looked like it paired Hamton and Gogo, and even with the freaky notions that come out of your head I'm having a hard time guessing how that coupling would work.
- Roberto González said...
John saying positive things about Tiny Toons? This is the end of the world! I predict next posts will be full of criticisms.
I agree the concept was somewhat blasphemous but like I said once here I think it was a good idea to create these new characters that are very similar to the original ones but they are not them.
I mean, young Bugs, Daffy and Porky would have been better than Buster, Plucky and Hamtom if they have used designs that were exactly like the original ones, only shorter. What I mean is that to me it would have been a lot more blasphemous to give "young Bugs" a T-shirt instead of creating a character called Buster who looks very similar to Bugs but he wears a T-shirt. Something like "Yo, Yogi" is REALLY blasphemous.
On the other hand Baby Looney Tunes makes the characters SO bland in their personality that I also find it blasphemous even though they kinda keep their original designs. IMHO it would be nothing wrong with a young Looney Tunes or a Baby Looney Tunes series if they looked and acted like baby Bugs in "The Old Grey Hare".
I also think the Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation movie has some of the best stuff they ever did in the series. It's probably the best "Looney Tunes" movie ever done, if we talk about full-plot movies instead of collections of shorts (Of course The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie was very good). In fact, the Tiny Toons Movie is about the most similar to a not-filler type of movie I've seen in the last two decades of animated features. Everything in the movie is about the gags, there are not pathos, messages or sappy scenes to be found, they even included jokes in the credit titles!
I think it's great timing to talk about this subject now that Warners is trying to do another series with the Looney Tunes. It seems this time they want them to look more like the classics, but I'm still not very confident about the whole thing.
- Roberto González said...
Oh, and Dipp is right I think...I'm not sure if they really used ALL those poses in the Tiny Toons show, but I'm also quite certain I did see a lot of them.
- Eddie Fitzgerald said...
Jenny: Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, that was just for my unit, but I'd hoped for a wider informal circulation. Those drawings seem very stiff to me now. It took years for me to learn how to loosen up and get a more fluid line.
- Dave Mackey said...
"Tiny Toons" was a great show for its time, but 20 years later some of it doesn't quite hold up. I think one of the things was that there was no consistent vision on stories - I think every day there was a different story editor. There were a lot of WB old-hands who were working on the show - Art Leonardi directed a bunch of it, and Tom Ray and Norm McCabe did a lot of the timing/slugging. I'd have to look back and check exactly who else was there, but I vaguely remember Bob Givens and Pete Alvarado helping out there.
- Eric said...
NOW I understand why, back in those days, I saw Tiny Toons and said "Wow, this actually doesn't totally suck." Of course, the sarcasm was a product of the lowered expectations we all had at the time for any new animation. Thanks for that back story.
- Dan said...
"Glen did some wonderful work on that show."
Well, he did in the "Gang Busters" and "Best O' Plucky Duck Day" episodes, but others it varied. I mean, it looked fine in "The Acme Bowl" and "Fields of Honey," it was rather overkill on "Hare Today Gone Tomorrow" (and a tad lumpy), and on some like "New Character Day" and "High Toon," it was just... blah!
But I bet Glen Kennedy's animation would've worked pretty well on Ren & Stimpy!
- michaelschott said...
One of the best cartoons ever. Tiny Toons is brilliant. envious John?
- michaelschott said...
One of the best cartoons ever. Tiny Toons is brilliant. envious John?
- Powerpuff Guy said...
Did you rewrite a Tiny Toons episode as a Tiny Toons episode?
- Unknown said...
Great drawings. So much emotion and expression, just like the show itself, despite some claims to the contrary.
In fact, I think these characters had more life and more appeal than their forebearers, personally. Especially taken collectively. Their relationships were much more dynamic, and the satire wink-wink industry humor really tickled me. I honestly loved this show. Wish Warner Bros. would go ahead and do a new version with these characters, like they were rumoured to be considering several years ago.


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