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A bomb has fallen over Notre Dame
Across the fields of yesterday
A fierce unrest seethes at the core
A flying word from here and there
After the whipping, he crawled into bed
A hut, and a tree
All day long I have been working
All the afternoon there has been a chirping of birds
Aloof upon the day's immeasured dome
An apple orchard smells like wine
An old silver church in a forest
Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup
A pitcher of mignonette
A poet had a cat
Apparition of these faces in the crowd
Apple-green west and an orange bar
Be in me as the eternal moods
Blackbird, blackbird in the cage
Black swallows swooping or gliding
Clearing in the forest
Dark on the gold west
Drug clerk stands behind the counter
Eager night and the impetuous winds
Ere yet the giants of modern science had gone a-slumming in smelly slums
Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room
Fog comes
For God, our God is a gallant foe
From their folded mates they wander far
Garden beds I wandered by
Giuseppe, da barber, ees greata for "mash
Give a rouse, then, in the Maytime
God has a house three streets away
God, though this life is but a wraith
Go 'way, fiddle! folks is tired o' hearin' you a-squawkin
He fought for his soul, and the stubborn fighting
Hem and Haw were the sons of sin
How memory cuts away the years
How many humble hearts have dipped
How pitiful are little folk
I ain't afraid uv snakes or toads, or bugs or worms or mice
I asked the heaven of stars
I'd rather have Fingers than Toes
I gotta lov' for Angela
I have a rendezvous with Death
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea
I have shut my little sister in from life and light
I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses
I met a little Elf-man, once
Immortal love, too high for my possessing
In a dark hour, tasting the Earth
I never saw a moor
I never saw a Purple Cow
I set apart a day for wandering
Is it as plainly in our living shown
I think that I shall never see
It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning
It is portentous, and a thing of state
Its cloven hoofprint on the sand
I went out to the woods to-day
I went to the dances at Chandlerville
I went to turn the grass once after one
I would that all men my hard case would know
Just now
Lean coyote, prowler of the night
Let me live out my years in heat of blood
Like a gaunt, scraggly pine
Listen to the tawny thief
Little toy dog is covered with dust
Lookon the topmost branches of the world
Lo, to the battle-ground of Life
Man's mind is larger than his brow of tears
Moon in heaven's garden, among the clouds that wander
Night was thick and hazy
North and west along the coast among the misty islands
Oh, where the white quince blossom swings
Old house leans upon a tree
Old Uncle Jim was as blind as a mole
Once, in the sultry heat of midsummer
Order is a lovely thing
Out of me unworthy and unknown
Outside hove Shasta, snowy height on height
Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough
Park is filled with night and fog
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo
Rich man has his motor-car
Seen you down at chu'ch las' night
Serene the silver fishes glide
She limps with halting painful pace
Silver dust
Sky is low, the clouds are mean
Sleep softly * * * eagle forgotten * * * under the stone
Smoothing a cypress beam
Solemn light behind the barns
Something there is that doesn't love a wall
Sometimes when all the world seems grey and dun
Strange that I did not know him then
Streets of the roaring town
Stuff of the moon
Teach me, Father, how to go
There are strange shadows fostered of the moon
There is no frigate like a book
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood
There's nothing very beautiful and nothing very gay
These be
They say that dead men tell no tales
They set the slave free, striking off his chains
Through the dim window, I could see
Tingling shafts of light
To what new fates, my country, far
Twine then the rays
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
Under a toadstool crept a wee Elf
Week had gloomily begun
What delightful hosts are they
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs
When Bill was a lad he was terribly bad
Whenever Richard Cory went down town
When I am dead and over me bright April
When I consider Life and its few years
When I see birches bend to left and right
When quacks with pills political would dope us
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock
When the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour
When Venus said: "Spell no for me
Whirl up, sea
Without the slightest basis
Woods stretch wild to the mountain side
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1. Re: file logging-properties, appclient directory?????Andrew Dinn May 4, 2012 6:08 AM (in response to sarahfr)
Salut sarahfr,
I suspect you probably meant to ask that question in the JBoss AS 7 forum. Unfortunately you ahve posted it in the Byteman User forum which is doubly inappropriate because i) Byteman is not a part of AS7 and ii) your question has nothing to do with what Byteman provides.
Also, you probably ought to be aware that typing your question in a BIG typeface is seen by many people as equivalent to shouting. You are very unlikely to get a sympathetic response if you continue to do that.
Andrew Dinn
2. Re: file logging-properties, appclient directory?????Wolf-Dieter Fink May 4, 2012 9:49 AM (in response to sarahfr)
logging-properties are used to configure logging during the initial boot phase (see boot.log).
For appclient directory see here, I would expect that this will answer your question.
As Andrew mentioned you should look into the forms how to write questions in a polite way
3. Re: file logging-properties, appclient directory?????James Perkins May 4, 2012 12:49 PM (in response to Wolf-Dieter Fink)
And just to add some information about the logging.properties file see the following documentation, https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Logging+Configuration#LoggingConfiguration-Whyistherea%7B%7Blogging.properties%7D%7Dfile%3F.
4. Re: file logging-properties, appclient directory?????sarahfr May 7, 2012 3:58 AM (in response to Wolf-Dieter Fink)


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The King of Clayfield
- Clayfield, Book 1
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Series: King of Clayfield, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 11-06-13
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: £19.39
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A conscience is a terrible thing to waste.
Steppenwolf Company and Chicago Shakespeare Theater veteran Scott Aiello performs the initial work in the Clayfield series, featuring a reasonable man - the director of a nonprofit museum in a small Kentucky town - trying to survive insanely unreasonable times. The virus that was once a small blip of foreign news exploded into a global pandemic invading even his small corner of the world. To survive, he must transform from a soft, sensitive man who cares about killing even those forms that threaten his life into a hardened murderer ready to take what he needs, wherever he finds it, and suppress any shreds of decency left that might work against keeping him alive.
On a cold February day in the small town of Clayfield, Kentucky, an unsuspecting and unprepared museum director finds himself in the middle of hell on earth. A pandemic is spreading around the globe, and it's turning most of the residents of Clayfield into murderous zombies. Having no safe haven to which he can flee, the director decides to stick it out near his hometown and wait for the government to send help.
But the disease and those infected are not his only concerns. He must also contend with armed gangs, strife within his group, his own lack of skills… and his conscience.
There are tough decisions to be made if he is to survive. But if he is smart - and a little lucky - he can do more than survive; he can live like a king.
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- Mike Naka
- 31-07-13
surprisingly good
What about Scott Aiello's performance did you like?
the narration is very good. the narrator has a smooth voice, and he's easy to listen to. i found it easy to distinguish the different male characters he portrays, and he even does female voices well!
Any additional comments?
DON'T be put off by the title and cover art! chessiness aside, this is a solid zombie tale! definitely in the top 10 i've listened to so far. i actually liked it that much!
the story is told in the first person by our nameless protagonist. he's not a survivalist nor has he any military background, which i found refreshing. instead, the main character is an out of shape, 30 something museum director. he's unprepared and has no ready supplies,
except a submarine sandwich and a few packets of ketchup. he's kind of a loner and is preparing for a senior citizen's tour when the canton b virus hits his small town.
the author does a good job developing the characters as the story progresses. the main character's gradual transformation is believable. he makes mistakes, which is refreshing. a few times, i found myself talking aloud- you idiot...why didn't you...i was totally engrossed in the story.
the supporting characters are also given the time to develop, and they aren't the typical cardboard cut out supporting cast. they definitely add to the story.
this story has a mix of zombies- the slow, shambling kind and the quick kind. there are lulls in the zombie action, and the author wisely uses this time to develop his characters. this is more than just a zombie story. it's also a story about how to survive when civilization collapses.
this is the first in a series, and the ending really surprised me. i didn't think the author would go that way, but he did.
overall, a surprisingly excellent addition to your zombie library.
16 of 16 people found this review helpful
- Howard
- 13-05-15
Finally a zombie book worth the money I paid for
it. Apocalyptic novels offer the author a terrific opportunity to develop characters, imagine how things might happen, how people react to change (radical change) in society (in the case of the zombie novel the obliteration of such). However virtually every zombie novel I have read (or tried to read such as Molle"s "The Remaining") I end up giving up and putting away or reading only one or two of the series.
Most of these zombie books are pure trite- endless descriptions of weapons, over the top scenes, cliff hangers that are anything but cliff hangers, stereotypical characters (he man sniper saving helpless but beautiful babe). The set ups are usually ridiculous as well (okay the entire concept is ridiculous I admit but why add insult to injury). The protagonists is a trained killer and is an ex Marine, Navy Seal, Delta Force member or who happens to have a billionaire friend who is and also happens to have a survival shelter. The plot simply a trail of bodies like one of those first person shooter videos. There - I got it out of my system as to why all the zombie books suck for the most part & that gets me to a review of book "The King of Clayfield" by Shane Gregory
I only purchased it because Audible offered it to me for $ 4.99 (probably because I quit buying zombie novels). I begin listening,fully prepared to cut it off and demand my money back. Instead I found a novel that deals with a normal "work a day guy" in the middle of no where Kentucky faced with a major disaster. The first person narration has a dry sardonic humor (not over the top) but also flashes of humanity and the book offers real questions about what happens when industrial society goes kaput. The women are women- not Barbies, my favorite is red neck Jen (Jennifer) who no one pushes around but is still a female and the protagonist, of all things, is a museum curator the very opposite of the normal Zombie Protagonist. He is a really nice normal guy who knows a little about how to survive but not much about killing and shooting.
Clayfield goes to hell in a zombie hand basket and the story revolves around the story of how the characters adapt to their new social environment and how they respond and learn to adapt to the new physical environment (good bye refrigerated orange juice hello planting sweet potatoes!). The pace is well done, the characters real- meaning not only do I like them they are not some cardboard imagination to serve a plot.
Well done- Well done- it deserves more attention than it seems to have gotten. If you enjoy reading a "what if the world ended as we know it" instead of "Lets kill 100 zombies per chapter and describe every gun ever made" novel then buy this book and listen to it!
Thanks Audible for putting it on sale- smart marketing move because I now plan on purchasing the rest of the series!
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Tilo
- 09-08-13
Will be one of your favorites
This book started hovering around the 3 stars mark for a while, but shifted to 4 stars as the both the story and protagonist developed and then at the end it went suddenly BING! and hit the 5 stars bell. The narrator must be the best male narrator I've listened to.
If you are like me and demand that authors take the zombie apocalypse seriously and try to make such a tale as realistic as possible, waste no time and spend your credit here. There is no over the top nonsense here.
The author makes the tale believable by coming up with creative solutions to some of the discrepancies in a zombie apocalypse. With so much splatter in other books, why don't the characters get infected? Often they happen to be immune, but at least here they use handkerchiefs to cover their faces. They have a fix for fighting off the infection if things get bad. The zombies aren't mindless but are like animals. They form packs, therefore some areas are very empty allowing them to get supplies. Head shots don't always work. They do get back up, but not right away. Most things have explanations for but some questions tantalizingly remain to be discovered. The word zombie doesn't even come up until the end, they are just called people. Yeah, pretty slow on the uptake but it all makes sense.
The protagonist is so unassuming he doesn't even have a name. I didn't even realize this and had to Google the answer to write this review because I thought I had just missed it. A museum director of a sleepy town, he is such a wuss and would be zombie brunch if it weren't for Jen who is such an awesome character. All characters have depth and feel real and the protagonist goes through a transformation as the story develops. Something suddenly at the end had me screaming in my head and made it hit the 5 star bell but I'm not going to give it away.
Hurry up and download this story. And the next.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
- clifford
- 25-04-15
been down this road many times before
I came across this book after reading a review from a source I have found many hidden gems from in the past. So I was expecting a good zombie story. King of Clayfield didn't quite live up to my expectations.
I wont go into the plot here. Nothing is new. The characters reacted to events and with each other in predictable fashion. I felt the author Shane Gregory is either unimaginative or lazy. Sappy romance, cheesy zombies, and Walking Dead style politics.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Marla Balla
- 18-04-14
A fun typical zombie romp
This may not have an original take on the zombie apocalypse but it was a fun and interesting read. It was never boring and had a great balance of action and character development. Not much background on how the virus happened or spread which kinda leaves a little hole in the story. The alcohol aspect of it was never explained...I hope it will be in the next installment. I like a little bit of a science mixed in with my post apocalyptic fiction and there isn't any here. Just straight into the mayham and zombies...which is okay too sometimes. I've already started the second book so I feel good about recommending this as an addition to your collection.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- crazybatcow
- 15-12-15
Bumped it a star for good writing
Okay. I've given this an extra star because, for a zombie novel, it's actually very well written. The characters behave normally and respond believably and, while there are the typical post-apocalyptic "bad guys" who use the ZA to feed their personal egos (and I'm not convinced such azzhats would be this numerous post-apocalypse)... for the most part the characters seem realistic.
There was one scene where an otherwise strong and capable woman throws a hissy-fit because her "man" of 5 whole days might or might not be looking at the only other female survivor "in that way" - this stereotypical behaviour felt extremely out of place in this novel. Dunno why he felt the need to make her come across as so petty, but... the novel in general is still way less misogynistic than nearly every other zombie book I've read.
The other little issue is how most of the book was written as if the characters had never heard of the nature of zombies before - for example, there are many many scenes where they are "baffled" as to where the "people" they shot went, or how they didn't "die" from a gunshot wound or two. The main character plays video games, and was aware of the existence of zombie movies, so why this hesitance to acknowledge that the people they "killed" got back up because, I dunno, they were zombies?
If it looks like a duck...
So, why did I give this more than 4 stars? Well, because the characters are well-written, the ZA is a little different from the typical one, the main character is not some super hero, there is no gun porn or herding/raping of women...and those people who do "bad things", like try to herd women for reproduction, are actually shown to be "bad guys", not the norm in a ZA world. And, probably most importantly, I didn't want to put the book down until I finished it...
The narration is very good. There is no sex or gore and I don't recall much swearing. I bought the rest of the series from Audible.
6 of 11 people found this review helpful
- Jim "The Impatient"
- 26-02-18
While this was not the most exciting Zombie book I have ever listened to, it might be the one with the most common sense. With the exception of the good guy act, that was taken way to far, everything else seems to go as you would really expect it to go for a regular type guy in this situation. I just wish he could have made it a little more exciting and not have the main character be such a goody two shoe. When faced with a naked woman that could have been the centerfold of a girly magazine, who is trying to seduce you, no red blooded straight guy would have been the idiot this guy was. Other than that it is all straight. I listen to all of this, which is rare and I have book two in my wish list.
16 of 30 people found this review helpful
- riverguide
- 02-03-17
Author looks and writes like a young Gurney Norman
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Great dystopian tale, fine Kentucky writing, great mythology...attention Walmart shoppers this Kentucky zombie trilogy is a real Bluegrass Special!
- Ellen
- 31-03-16
On the advice of another reviewer I got the king of clayfield -- whoever that reviewer was-thank you! I've already downloaded and begun book 2!!
- E. A Dunn
- 27-12-15
Ugh, only if you want to read the entire series
As far as "zombie apocolypse" stories go, the premise is pretty good. There are a few tried and true tropes to be trundled (cast of survivors flung together, sad loss, humans scarier than monsters), a few WTF moments (no power, anywhere, yet the local internet connection works??), and some surprising turns (the protagonist pulls of an excellent "every man", and there is some good dialog about maintaining civilization vs just surviving. Most refreshingly the author does not really bludgeon the reader with a particular viewpoint and make everyone else out to be idiots (except the actual idiots). The writing is adequate and narration is pretty good.
Unfortunately, the book is, essentially, just the opening act. It tells what is very clearly only a small part of a larger story and this book simply serves to feed you into the series. Sadly, I just can't say I am up for a whole series of this. If it stopped at one decent book it would have been a fun romp where I could overlook some of the obvious technical and fridge logic issues... but, I don't know if I am up for 3 books of "Meh", especially after feeling like I just purchased and read a partial book. And, while some of the character interactions are good, Most of the twists are telegraphed pretty far in advance, so it isn't even really that suspenseful.
I get it, we can't just have "a book" anymore, it needs to be a series, at least three... because reasons (mostly financial). If that's the space this author and publisher want to be in, then I would suggest that book 1 needs to be awesome, not adequate, and provide at least some sense of being a complete story so the reader doesn't feel cheated . e.g.: Hunger Games, Star Wars, Ender's Game, any of the Jack Ryan books by Tom Clancy. All excellent series, where the first was perfectly capable of standing alone


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Mary Scheer earns statewide honors
Lamar University's Mary Scheer is a recipient of the prestigious 2012 Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, presented by the Texas State Historical Association.
Scheer, associate professor and chair in the Department of History, will receive the award at the association's 117th annual meeting Feb. 28-March 2 in Fort Worth. Scheer is being honored as the author of "Women and the Texas Revolution," published in 2012 by the University of North Texas Press.
Ralph Wooster, distinguished professor emeritus of history at Lamar, also will attend the Fort Worth meeting to chair a session on "Texas Soldiers in World War I."
The Liz Carpenter Award was established in 1992 by Elen Clarke Temple to encourage the publication of scholarly research on the history of women in Texas. Jan Reid of Austin is also a recipient of the award for "Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards," published by the University of Texas Press.
"As a 2012 recipient of the Liz Carpenter Award, I am both proud and humbled to be chosen by my peers for this recognition," Scheer said. "My book, 'Women and the Texas Revolution,' places women as central to the story of Texas independence and will contribute to the teaching of Texas history at Lamar University and other institutions. Further, I am grateful to the history department, Lamar University and the award committee for their support in my research endeavors."
The association presents the award annually for the best scholarly book on Texas women. Each recipient receives a certificate and a monetary award.
The award honors Liz Carpenter, a fifth-generation Texan, for her commitment to the pursuit of the history of women in Texas and for her lifetime achievements in Texas and the nation. Carpenter, who died in 2010, was a journalist, author, feminist, humorist speaker and political advisor, whose career included serving as executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon Johnson and as staff director and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson.
Students, educators, historians and history enthusiasts will attend the historical association meeting, which will feature presentations by more than 100 historians, as well as five banquets, an exhibit hall displaying new and rare books, live and silent auctions and three historic tours of Fort Worth.
Amid activities of the annual meeting, the association will honor Scheer and other individuals who have excelled in Texas history through research, teaching and scholarship. Awards will be presented March 1 at a luncheon in the Worthington Renaissance Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, headquarters for the meeting.
Reid also will receive the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial prize for the best book on Texas published in 2012. Richard McCaslin, author of "Fighting Stock: John S. 'Rip' Ford," will receive the Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research.
Margie Crisp, author of "River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado," will receive the Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture. Shane Garrett-Scott is recipient of the H. Bailey Carroll award for the best article to appear in the Texas State Historical Association's Southwestern Historical Quarterly.


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In case you missed it, here's Jimmy Kimmel Live's post-Oscar Movie: The Movie: 2V trailer, the all-star sequel to last year's Movie: The Movie. Sexy vampires, mummies, zombies, and leprechauns! A planet ravaged by lust! Eye patches! Gerard Butler with a baby! Bryan Cranston playing the piano with his forehead! John Krasinski as The Shrimp! President Oprah! Wolf Blitzer's Sexpocalypse! A CGI gopher with the voice of a black person, obviously written by a white person! Zombies attacking Bruno Mars! Salma Hayek in the dual role made for an Oscar! Matt Damon "eating a sandwich" in a motion capture suit! A giant Channing Tatum! And Jenga! It has everything!
The cast: Rachel Weisz, Armie Hammer, Topher Grace, Jessica Chastain, Jude Law, Gerard Butler, Bryan Cranston, John Krasinski, Oprah Winfrey, Bradley Cooper, Kerry Washington, Guillermo Rodriguez, Jason Schwartzman, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Bruno Mars, Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, Samuel L. Jackson, Wolf Blitzer, and Matt Damon.
But sequels… they're never as good as the original.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Hurricane-force winds and snow were preventing searchers Friday from reaching a plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while carrying three Canadians.
Its emergency locator started transmitting late Wednesday about 680 kilometers (420 miles) north of the South Pole, but the weather has prevented search planes overhead from seeing the presumed crash site itself.
Rescuers don't know if the men are alive. Their plane has survival gear including tents and food.
The locator stopped transmitting Thursday night and crews have been unable to establish radio contact. Rescuers say a break in the weather is forecast Saturday.
One man on the plane has been identified as Bob Heath from the Northwest Territories, an experienced pilot in both the Antarctic and Arctic. Rescuers say the other two men were also part of the flight crew and that no passengers were aboard.
The propeller-driven de Havilland Twin Otter, was flying from a U.S. station near the pole to an Italian research base in Terra Nova Bay. Rescuers believe it crashed in the Queen Alexandra mountain range at an elevation of about 3,900 meters (13,000 feet).
Winds of up to 90 knots (104 miles per hour) have been blowing Thursday and Friday.
Steve Rendle, a spokesman for New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Centre, said rescue planes circled the area on Thursday and Friday but have been unable to spot the downed plane due to poor visibility. He said the battery on the locator beacon may have run out but that rescuers have a good fix on its location.
He said that when the weather clears, crews hope to establish a forward base at the Beardmore Glacier about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the assumed crash site. He said there's a rudimentary runway and a fuel depot at the glacier.
For now, two helicopters and a small plane remain at McMurdo Station, the main U.S. base about four hours' flight away. He said the elevation provides extra challenges for helicopter crews.
Heath's wife, Lucy Heath, told the Calgary Sun newspaper that airline officials had told her her husband's plane was down, and she said she was just waiting for more news: "I'm so worried."
Bob Heath wrote on networking site LinkedIn that he typically spends this time of year coaching and mentoring other pilots in polar regions.
The missing plane is owned and operated by Kenn Borek Air Ltd., a Calgary firm that charters aircraft to the U.S. Antarctic program. In a release, the National Science Foundation said the plane was flying in support of the Italian Antarctic program.
Authorities from New Zealand, Canada, the U.S. and Italy are working on the rescue operation.
Antarctica has no permanent residents, but several thousand people live there in the Southern Hemisphere summer as a number of countries send scientists and other staff to research stations. The U.S. runs the largest program, with about 850 staff at its McMurdo Station and another 200 at its Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where the Canadians' flight originated.


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U.S., state funding uncertainties put school district in a dilemma
Rob Shaw
Published: March 6, 2013 Updated: March 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM
On one hand, there is the looming and nightmarish possibility of millions of dollars of cuts in federal funds because of the continuing budget showdown in the nation's capital.On the other, there is the silver living of Gov. Rick Scott's proposed state budget that adds more than a billion dollars to education, the highest funding level in Florida's history.That leaves local education officials, such as those in Hillsborough County, in quite a conundrum as they try to figure out their budgets for next year and beyond.The most significant effects come from the sequestration that has resulted already in a number of cuts across the nation. Cuts to the Hillsborough County school district could run in the millions of dollars, but the exact amount may not be known for months.School officials are worried about how any such funding cuts could affect low-income and special-needs students. Those are two groups that rely heavily on federal funding at the local level."The most vulnerable are the most vulnerable," said Jeff Eakins, the general director for federal programs for the Hillsborough school district."It's going to be ugly for everyone," said school board member Candy Olson.The budget uncertainties affect a district's ability to look too far into the future, officials said at a budget workshop Tuesday."The threat of it makes us very conservative in how we move forward," Eakins said. "My issue is always two years down the road. It's the year after you have nothing left on the table."Superintendent MaryEllen Elia told board members that the Council of the Great City Schools is trying to lobby those in the nation's capital to let them know about the fiscal crisis that could be on the horizon for schools."There are people in Washington who don't know there's a storm brewing," she said. "I think we have to plan for the worst."On the state level, however, things aren't looking as dire on the funding front.There's $100 million for new technology in the state budget, which would include more than $7 million for Hillsborough County alone, if approved. There's millions for teacher supplies and a push by the governor to give full-time classroom teachers a $2,500 raise. What ends up being approved by lawmakers remains to be seen.Board members aren't quarreling with the proposed numbers coming out of Tallahassee, however, even if they are suspicious of the reasons behind the move."It's an election year," said board Chairwoman April Griffin.


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Addition of New Frequent Flyer Program Underscores Brand's Global Growth
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 19, 2012) - Fairmont Hotels & Resorts today announced a new marketing alliance with Qatar Airways, one of the world's fastest growing airlines.
As part of the new partnership, Fairmont guests on qualifying stays will now have the opportunity to earn 500 Qmiles or more in Qatar Airways' Privilege Club program. Qualifying stays are subject to hotel availability at published rack, corporate or package rates. Members of the luxury hotel chain's guest recognition program, Fairmont President's Club, will also have the option of earning additional frequent flyer Qmiles.
Fairmont President's Club provides frequent guests with special benefits and privileges designed to reflect individual travel preferences and offer an enhanced level of service. Personalized travel profiles afford members customized stay experiences while in-hotel benefits include complimentary high-speed and wireless internet, Fairmont Fit running gear and athletic apparel, a members-only reservations line, expedited check-in and check-out, and access to exclusive vacation offerings. Enrollment is free and guests can join at any Fairmont location worldwide, online at www.fairmont.com/fpc or by contacting 1-800-441-1414.
Voted Airline of the Year in 2011 by the prestigious Skytrax industry audit, Qatar Airways' dedication to service excellence along with its recent expansion into Central and Eastern Europe makes it a natural partner for Fairmont as the brand expands its portfolio of hotels and resorts globally.
Qatar Airways currently services a number of worldwide destinations that Fairmont calls home including Fairmont Dubai; Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi; Fairmont Nile City, Cairo; Fairmont Peace Hotel, Shanghai; Fairmont Singapore; Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montreal; Fairmont Washington, D.C.; and The Plaza, A Fairmont Managed Hotel in New York.
With an eye on worldwide growth, Fairmont is working on a number of exciting developments, as well, including many in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South-East Asia. Upcoming properties include Fairmont Jaipur, a 198-room hotel located in Rajasthan in northwest India, and the 299-room Fairmont Baku overlooking the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, both of which will open in 2012.
Qatar Airways becomes the latest addition to Fairmont's collection of airline partners, a group that includes other top carriers such as American Airlines, United Airlines, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Etihad Airways, Emirates, Cathay Pacific, Air China, Singapore Airlines, and Alaska Airlines.
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Located in world-class destinations around the globe, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a celebrated collection of hotels that includes landmark locations like London's The Savoy, New York's The Plaza, and Shanghai's Fairmont Peace Hotel. With more than 60 hotels, Fairmont is known as much for its warm, engaging service and culturally rich experiences, as its classic hotels that imbue a sense of heritage, sophistication and social importance and are often considered destinations in their own right. A community and environmental leader, Fairmont is also regarded for its responsible tourism practices and award-winning Green Partnership program. Fairmont is owned by FRHI Holdings Limited, a leading global hotel company with over 100 hotels under the Fairmont, Raffles, and Swissôtel brands. The company also manages Fairmont and Raffles branded estates and luxury private residence club properties. For more information or reservations, please call 1-800-441-1414 or visit www.fairmont.com.
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Editorial: Olympic legacy means you, too, can hop on a bobsled
February 19, 2014
Park City is one of only four places in North America where Olympic fans can watch medal-winning bobsled, luge and skeleton athletes on primetime television and then drive 10 minutes down the road to try it themselves. And according to officials at the Utah Olympic Park on State Road 224 near Kimball Junction, ever since the Olympic Winter Games opened in Sochi 11 days ago, people have been flocking to the park to do just that.
The first shovelful of dirt for Utah's ambitious ski jumping and ice sliding facility was turned in June of 1994. It was a bold move meant to help convince the International Olympic Committee to accept Salt Lake's bid to become an Olympic host city. In all, it took two and half years and cost $25 million to turn the mountainside into a world class Olympic venue, but the gambit worked and Salt Lake was selected to host the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
The project had its skeptics, though. At the time, bobsled, luge and skeleton sports were unfamiliar to most Utahns and many worried the facilities would become a white elephant after the Games were over. But by 1998 the park was attracting elite athletes from all over world and, thanks to aggressive efforts to spur local programs, some familiar faces began popping up among them too.
In fact, 12 years after hosting the Olympics, the UOP's 1,335 meter long ice track is far from a white elephant. It plays host to a busy year-round schedule of international competitions and public programs and, even though some of its most well-known athletes are kind of busy in Russia this month, the park has been especially busy accommodating new sliding sport fans.
If coverage of the daredevil ice athletes in Sochi has whetted your appetite and you haven't visited the UOP, take time to do so. Admission to the park is free and guided tours are available for just $10. When athletes are training or there is a competition you can stand alongside the track and feel the rush of cold air as they whiz by at unimaginable speeds. You can even book a ride on the Comet bobsled with a professional driver and feel the G-forces firsthand.
The UOP is also busy scouting for the next generation of Olympians. March 1 the park will offer bobsled and skeleton tryouts for youth ages 14-25 (no experience necessary) and on March 11 there will be bobsled and skeleton 'Fantasy Camps' led by experienced coaches.
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Some of this week's biggest stars at the Sochi ice track took their first runs at the UOP. Nicole Pikus Pace and Steve Holcomb will be coming home with newly minted silver and bronze medals but they might never have achieved Olympic glory if a few visionary leaders hadn't made that leap of faith in 1994.
For more information about visiting the Utah Olympic Park go to: utaholympiclegacy.com/
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Instead of feeling like a stranger trying to get the lay of a new land, Erin Tuller, MD, said she felt like she was coming home when she began working at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.
"I love it here," Tuller said. "I loved Ellis Fischel as a medical student at MU and as a resident physician. After my fellowship training, I interviewed for different jobs, but I knew if I was here I'd be happy. Everyone who works at Ellis Fischel loves it. It is a really good environment for both patients and employees."
Tuller was born and raised in Sedalia, Mo., home to the Missouri State Fair and approximately 20,000 residents. She considers herself a "small-town girl." She played several sports in high school, leaving home for college only knowing that she wanted a career in which she could help people. During her sophomore year at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan., she decided to become a doctor. Thus began the long training process.


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IPv6 tunnel broker setup
Hurricane Electric offers a free tunnel broker service that is relatively painless to use under Arch if you wish to add IPv6 connectivity to an IPv4-only host.
These instructions work for SixXS tunnels as well.
Registering for a tunnel
It is not that hard to do. Feel free to fill in the directions here if something seems tricky, but otherwise just go the tunnel broker site and complete the registration.
Tunnel rc.d script
For this script to work you will need the iproute2 package installed:
# pacman -S iproute2
Try the following init script to start and stop an IPv6 tunnel once you have registered it with HE. I placed this at
/etc/rc.d/6in4-tunnel. Obviously some of the variables up top will need to be filled in.
For DSL users the link_mtu should be set to 1472
#!/bin/bash if_name=he6in4 # "Server IPv4 Address" under "IPv6 Tunnel Endpoints" on HE tunnel details page server_ipv4='' # Your local IP. NOTE: when behind a NAT (even with DMZ), # use an address of your LOCAL machine, NOT the ROUTER one. client_ipv4='' # Your HE-assigned client IP, "Client IPv6 Address" on HE tunnel details page client_ipv6='' link_mtu=1480 tunnel_ttl=255 daemon_name=6in4-tunnel . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting $daemon_name daemon" ifconfig $if_name &>/dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then stat_busy "Interface $if_name already exists" stat_fail exit 1 fi # Note from Lekensteyn: removing "local $client_ipv4" seems to work too! ip tunnel add $if_name mode sit remote $server_ipv4 local $client_ipv4 ttl $tunnel_ttl ip link set $if_name up mtu $link_mtu ip addr add $client_ipv6 dev $if_name ip route add ::/0 dev $if_name # Here is how you would add additional ips....which should be on the eth0 interface # ip addr add 2001:XXXX:XXXX:beef:beef:beef:beef:1/64 dev eth0 # ip addr add 2001:XXXX:XXXX:beef:beef:beef:beef:2/64 dev eth0 # ip addr add 2001:XXXX:XXXX:beef:beef:beef:beef:3/64 dev eth0 add_daemon $daemon_name stat_done ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping $daemon_name daemon" ifconfig $if_name &>/dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then stat_busy "Interface $if_name does not exist" stat_fail exit 1 fi ip link set $if_name down ip tunnel del $if_name rm_daemon $daemon_name stat_done ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}" esac exit 0
Start tunnel at boot time
Once you have that all setup how you want you will need to add
6in4-tunnel to your
/etc/rc.conf file:
DAEMONS=(... 6in4-tunnel ...)
Using the tunneling with dynamic IPv4 IP
The simplest way of using tunelling with a dynamic IPv4 IP is to set up a cronjob that is going to periodically update your current address.
To do that open
crontab -e and add, in a new line:
*/10 * * * * wget -O /dev/null https://USERNAME:firstname.lastname@example.com/ipv4_end.php?tid=TUNNELID >> /dev/null 2>&1
Which should also make wget quiet and not bothering you with emails about its activity. Please replace USERNAME, PASSWORD and TUNNELID by the details of your account and tunnel. I would recommend running the command on its own first, to check if it works. To do that run:
wget https://USERNAME:firstname.lastname@example.com/ipv4_end.php?tid=TUNNELID


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The La Junta Junior and Senior High School Choirs presented their concert at the Picketwire Center Wednesday night.
The La Junta Junior and Senior High School Choirs presented their concert at the Picketwire Center Wednesday night. Director Josh Race expressed his appreciation for the Picketwire cast for "Of Mice and Men" giving up a night's rehearsal time so that the choir could perform in their venue. The last number, a medley of songs from "Les Miserables" was better staged in the theater. Kiel Heerding, home for spring break from the Colorado School of Mines, helped Cameron and Tracy Salzbrenner with the lights and audio.
The Junior High Choir led off the concert with a nostalgic collection of songs from the sixties. They sang hits to remember, for example, "Goin' to the Chapel," "Downtown," "Lollipop" and of course "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To." Skylar Jaramillo wore an unforgettable pink poodle skirt and all were dressed as they imagined girls dressed in the sixties. Sopranos were Sterling Chavez, Kalee DuBois, Skylar Jaramillo, Kamryn Osborn, Dakota Settle and Katrina Slaughter. Altos were Karina Martinez, Brittany Morese, Addica Ulloa, Kiara Waits, Emily Kilgore, Gaby Marquez and Brittany Teal.
The Junior High Concert Choir followed, leading off with a spontaneous "Happy Birthday" to Nate Clem. They sang "Nature's Lullaby," "Out Here on My Own," "Up Beat, Real Sweet," and "Rhythm of the Rain." The last number was outstanding, with rhythmic effects. Both the junior high choirs were accompanied by Clara Lee Stafford, who accompanied the soloists as well. Members of The Concert Choir were Sammie Cordova, Natasha Groves, Christine Muniz, sopranos; Natasha Aguilar, Kristen Bitter, Ashley Lowe and Jessi Purcell, altos; Nate Clem, Chris Crowder, Adam Floyd and Tryston Medina, baritones.
The LJHS soloists were Jacob Dittburner singing "Danny Boy," LeeAnne Roath singing "L'Amour est un Oiseau Rebelle" (from Bizet's "Carmen"), Janika Grimlund singing "The Cradles," and Mandi Jebe singing "Homeward Bound." All soloists were rated superior or excellent at contest. It should be noted that all singers except Roath were completely memorized, and Roath was singing in the original French.
The Jazz Choir was accompanied by Sandy Malouff in their choreographed production of selections from "Les Miserables." LeeAnne Roath and Josh Pliler sang "I Dreamed a Dream"; Seth Nixon led "Do You Hear the People Sing?" and also sang "On My Own" with Abby Wallner. Trevor Lopkoff sang the moving "Bring Him Home." Leading in the finale were Jacob Dittburner, Mandi Jebe and Janika Grimlund. The Jazz Choir sopranos were Jenn Harsh, Mandi Jebe, Nicolle Pagliacci and LeeAnne Roath; altos were Hannah Dittburner, Janika Grimlund, Shae Haberman, Kourtnei Osborn and Abby Wallner; tenors were Ernesto Hernandez, Trevor Lopkoff and Seth Nixon; basses were David Daugherty, Jacob Dittburner, Cruz Medina and Josh Pliler.
The choirs are under the direction of Josh Race, who also directs the La Junta Junior/Senior High School band program and the Smile-Hi Community Band.


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2013-04-30 — /travelprnews.com/ — Paradise Island Resort & Spa, Maldives is the proud host of the World Travel Awards (WTA), the most prestigious awards ceremony in the world tourism sector. This debut event would be held on the 12th of May 2013 and is definitely a first for the Maldivian Tourism Industry – first time such a prestigious event is hosted in the Maldives whilst the industry itself is celebrating its 40th year thriving and developing in 'tourism'.
For two decades, the World Travel Awards has been recognizing companies in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry for their exciting development and recognizing the excellence of service. The glamorous event will present awards to 58 categories from which the Maldives has been nominated for 30 different categories. Winning from any of these categories will be an endorsement that will ensure that the winners of this year's WTA spearhead in this prolific industry. The elite will get to celebrate their achievements as winning a World Travel Award has become one of the highest accolades a travel production or organization can achieve.
As the Maldives anticipates to shine in WTA, the whole of WTA experience will become more memorable with the world-class scrupulous service of Paradise Island Resort & Spa. The resort hopes for the opportunity to showcase the true Maldivian hospitality by hosting it on a sublime beach under an incredible star-studded sky. We are delighted and looking forward to welcome all the participants to this memorable event.


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Pravda wrote:Has anyone actually had a ride of one of these? I'm seriously considering one but there doesn't seem to be anyone in WA who is stocking them or planning on it.
Good luck!
When I was shopping for a Kona Honky Inc about 8 months ago, not even the distributor knew when stock was coming in, but were able to confirm "Not for a few months". I finally called every retail bike shop listed as a Kona agent and found two in the country. I ended up buying the 2010 model in 2012 because they offered a good deal on it. Since then I've had warranty issues that took several months and countless hours phoning/emailing to sort out: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=54924


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Police: Couple had guns, drugs in home with children
Police: Couple had guns, drugs in home with children
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
A Louisville mother and father were arrested after police say they had guns and drugs in their home with their children.
Amy Harris and Jaren Haynes are facing drug and child endangerment charges.
Police say they were arrested after a search found a loaded assault rifle on the floor, a handgun in the dresser and marijuana under the mattress.
Court records say the couple's 5-year-old and 2-month old were in the apartment at the time.


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By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A British businessman murdered in China in a high-profile case of political intrigue was an informal source of information for Britain's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, two sources familiar with the matter said.
The sources confirmed the substance of a news report earlier Tuesday alleging that U.K. businessman Neil Heywood, who died under suspicious circumstances a year ago in the Chinese city of Chongqing, had been in contact with MI6 and had been a "willful and knowing informant."
The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity, reiterated public denials by top British government officials that Heywood had ever been an MI6 staff officer. In an April letter to a member of Parliament, William Hague, Britain's foreign secretary, declared that "Mr. Heywood was not an employee of the British government in any capacity."
When asked about the Heywood allegation today, a spokeswoman for the British embassy in Washington said: "We don't comment on intelligence matters."
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Heywood's contact in MI6 had once described him as "useful." The newspaper said Heywood, who acted as a "freelance" consultant advising companies and individuals on business in China, for about a year had provided British intelligence with information on intrigue inside the family of Bo Xilai, a Chinese Communist Party boss whose spectacular downfall earlier this year caused political upheaval.
The Journal reported that Heywood had not been paid for information by MI6 and that the British agency had not given him "tasking," meaning it had not asked him to perform specific assignments or dig up specific information.
The Journal said Heywood had dealings with various British companies and politicians, including a member of the House of Lords who met Heywood several times in the company of his MI6 contact.
While Heywood's high-level Chinese contacts were impressive, there are indications that British authorities regarded him as unreliable and treated him and his information with caution.
According to news reports and official Chinese accounts, Heywood was murdered after he flew last November to Chongqing to meet with members of Bo's family. Bo, then that city's Communist Party boss, had been expected to be promoted to the Party's highest echelon this year.
According to an account presented at the trial of Gu Kailai, Bo's wife and Heywood's alleged killer, Gu murdered Heywood by poisoning him with cyanide in his hotel room in Chongqing.
Heywood's body was cremated without an autopsy. His family was told that he died of a heart attack, while the Journal said British authorities were advised he had died from excessive alcohol consumption.
The alleged murder plot against Heywood began to unravel after Chongqing's former police chief, Wang Lijun, took refuge briefly in a U.S. consulate in China and reportedly told American diplomats about Gu's role in Heywood's murder and her husband's involvement in corruption.
Gu was subsequently convicted of Heywood's murder and given a suspended death sentence. Bo Xilai was sacked from the Communist Party's Politburo and now awaits trial on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
(Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Editing by Warren Strobel and Ciro Scotti)


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Computer Forensics sounds interesting, after reading the previous thread i am curious to know can data be retrived from broken CDs.............
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What thread are you referring to?
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Well the data doesnt erase itself when a CD breaks, like if you break a small triangle foff of a side of a CD, the first 14 out of 17 songs may still play normal. But i dont know how you're gonna glue together a broken CD that it read all the data normaly since it would skip some part.
My guess is it wouldnt work if the cd were broken into pieces
Here's a bit of a link I was looking at though:
If you have problems with reading the CD, it's mirror surface could be contaminated by particles, fingerprints, various stains or, unfortunately, scratched.
To clean your CD use a soft lint-free cloth and apply light strokes in the radial direction only! The data on CDs are stored and read in a circumferential direction and the drive's optic is less sensitive to radial scratches you may generate yourself!
Data on CD disks is protected by a layer of lacquer on one side (mirror side) and by another layer of polycarbonate (PC) plastic on the other side (label side). The data are stored in the form of shallow pits in the PC matrix covered with a thin reflective layer of aluminum. If you scratch the disk and this scratch is deep enough to damage (remove) the pits, your data is lost locally. Fortunately, CDs are robust and not all scratches cause irreversible damage. If you have scratches on the mirror side of a CD and you really want to try recovering the data yourself (instead of looking for professional help), then, there are a couple of things you may try.
Complete article:http://www.usbyte.com/index_recovery.htm#CD
The theoretical answer to your question is "yes"
To completely destroy the data you would have to burn the CD , dissolve it or pulverise (reduce to powder) it.
If you just chop it into bits, they can be reassembled and read.
Hope that helps
And a little tip that i picked up along the way.
Well if you have a Cd and it's fairly scratched just apply a small amount of toothpaste on to your finger and then rub it onto the scratch.
Then before it dries up to much grab a tissue or some sort of soft like material and rub of the ToothPaste, it will patch up the scratch and you'll find that your Cd's that would once skip or not work properly should start working like knew.
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Sort of related,
A friend of mine once gave me his copy of a utilties progam. This cd was like nothing i had ever seen befor, there were holes you could look through.
I took one look at it and said there is no way that will install........ It did though.
Draw your own conclusions from that.
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The Law Enforcement Community, FBI, etc., have been piecing together tapes, floppies, HDDs, and most likely CDs as well, for a long time. For surface areas on CDs where data might be missing, they have been real successful at making assumptions on what the data was based on the remaining portions. Sorta like math.
Just food for thought.
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But i dont know how you're gonna glue together a broken CD that it read all the data normaly since it would skip some part.
Yes, it wouldn't play/read "normally" but this is a forensics question so I am assuming that the disk has been reassembled in a forensics lab and that the contents are being scanned for, rather than read. Electron tunnelling microscopy?
Now, if you think about it, just chopping the disk will cause some damage where the cuts were made, but what percentage of the total data area will that damage represent? Given the right kind of software, it is highly probable that the data could be recovered, and the missing bits "reconstructed".
I guess it is a bit like one of those jigsaw puzzles................if it is around 60% complete with a random distribution you will almost certainly be able to work out what the picture is of?
Yes, that sounds pretty good, I remember a few years back there was this review in one of our PC mags of a product that recovered damaged CDs. It had a very fine carborundum grinding disk in it. The guy who tested it got a music CD and scratched up so it wouldn't play, put it in this machine, and the thing played perfectly! I think that the running costs were about $2.5 per CD.
After all, toothpaste is a very mild (fine) abrasive?
Jinxy, I can see no real problem with that...........there was nothing in the place where the holes were?...............a bit like a hard drive with damaged sectors, the system just skips them and goes to the next good one?
EDIT: Damn! Relyt you beat me by two minutes
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And a little tip that i picked up along the way.
Well if you have a Cd and it's fairly scratched just apply a small amount of toothpaste on to your finger and then rub it onto the scratch.
Then before it dries up to much grab a tissue or some sort of soft like material and rub of the ToothPaste, it will patch up the scratch and you'll find that your Cd's that would once skip or not work properly should start working like knew.
I have also found petroleum jelly to work in the same fashion. Works every time on music cds.
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Artemisia is a genus that encompass a broad range of plants commonly known as sagebrush, sagewort, and wormwood. The family, which derives its name from the either from the Greek goddess Artemis or Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, includes many famous plants. Artemisia absinthium is used in the production of Absinthe, and Shakespeare employed wormwood as a cure for the love potion in Midsummer's Night Dream. One species of Artemisia, known as Artemsia annua, has been used for thousands of years in traditional Chinese medicines to cure headaches.
This last species is of particular interest to synthetic biologists, due to its ability to produce Artemisinin. As a result, much of the species' genes have been characterized and submitted to the Gene Bank.
Aretmisinin, or Qinghaosu, is a chemical compound produced naturally by the plant Artemsia annua. It is a sesquiterpene lactone, a type of terpene derived from 3 isoprene units and a lactone ring. The compound is unique, as it contains an oxygenated cyclic ring with a peroxide bridge, and contains no Nitrogen atoms. It was first derived from Artemsia annua in 1971 by Chinese chemists interested in observing the plant's supposed use in curing headaches [1]. In response to the Chinese government's push to develop new malaria cures, malaria patients were treated with this compound[2]. Fortunately, it was determined to be very effective at combating common malaria strains, including those resistant to the traditional antimalarial drug chloroquine. Currently artemisinin and its derivatives are employed to combat the malaria strain P. falciparum.
In 2011, the highly prestigious Lasker DeBakey Clinical Research Award was given to Youyou Tu,the principle investigator from the Institute of Chinese Meteria Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences whose team first discovered artemisinin in 1969. Her team was engaged in project 523, an attempt to screen over 2,000 traditional Chinese medicinal cures for potential use to combat malaria in the tropics of Vietnam [3]. Later tests in humans infected with malaria indicated that the drug worked so well within hours after application, that many individuals would discontinue use. Unfortunately, the malaria symptoms would eventually return, requiring new application of artemisinin[3]. The discovery of artemisinin by Dr. Tu has been talked about as a possible nominee for the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine.
Artemisinin posses antimalarial capabilities due to its trioxane ring structure. It is capable of killing the malaria parasite while infecting human red blood cells, and even proved effective on strains resistant to commonly used antimalarial drugs. Unfortunately, the ketone group on the bottom of artemisinin, shown below, imparts negative characteristics. In its native form, artemisinin has low solubility in both water and oil. This makes the compound difficult to produce and distribute, and led to the development of its multiple derivatives shown below. Note the expansion of the ketone group on the bottom of artemisinin in successive derivatives, which contribute to their increased solubility and potency[2].
Comparison to Chloroquine
Previously, one of the most widely used antimalarial drugs produced was chloroquine. While successful at combating malaria, chloroquine exhibits multiple adverse side effects, most notably Pruritus. Pruritus is a particularly uncomfortable form of itching sensation that dark-skinned individuals are more susceptible to, due to their increased melanocytes and the pathway in which chloroquine binds to these melanocytes[4]. This condition can be so painful that multiple drugs must be administered in unison with chloroquine in order to negate its detrimental side-effects. Considering that malaria generally plagues the poorest 20% of the world's population, mainly located in countries in Africa, the cost-effectiveness of this procedure can make it impractical to implement. In general, chloroquine is now used exclusively to treat malaria patients infected with the Plasmodium vivax strain, and chose preferentially of artemisinin in order to prevent development of drug resistance. Artemisinin is still the preferential drug for use on the malaria strain Plasmodium falciparum, in which drug resistance to chloroquine is quite common [5].
Production of Artemisinic Acid
In a famous paper released by Ro et al., Saccharomyces cerevisiae was engineered to produce artemisinic acid from simple sugars. This involved metabolic engineering of the mevalonate pathway, naturally present in S. cerevisiae, to introduce a three-step pathway that converts amorpha-4,11-diene into artemisinic acid.
The first step of this process involved engineering the yeasts' natural mevalonate pathway to produce increased levels of farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP). 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (tHMGR) was over-expressed in S. cerevisiae by introducing nother copy of the gene encoding for this enzyme, leading to increased mevalonate production by fivefold. Additionally, the mutant allele upc2-1 was introduced, leading to moderate over-expression of various ERG genes responsible for the production of enzymes in the mevalonate pathway.
S. cerevisiae naturally employes mevalonate to produce sterols. Ro et al. therefore introduced a methionine-repressible promoter to down-regulate the enzyme-encoding gene ERG9, responsible for the conversion of mevalonate into squalene.
Natively, S. cerevisiae contains no pathway to produce any form of artemisinin or its precursors. Therefore, Ro et al. isolated the genes encoding amorphadiene synthase (ADS) from Artemsia annua, and introduced them into S. cerevisiae. Alone, this step led to low levels of amorphadiene. However, combined with the steps mentioned above, significantly higher levels of amorphadiene were achieved.
Finally, Ro et al. isolated the genes responsible for converting amorphadiene to artemisininc acid in Artemsia annua and introduced them into S. cerevisiae. First, a genomic analysis of plants in the Asteraceae family was performed to determine common ancestor enzymes. It was determined that cytochrome P450 monooxygenase from sunflower and lettuce were compatible, and P450 gene fragments were obtained from the Asteraceae EST-database. A cDNA library of P450 fragments was created using random primers specific to CYP71 Asteraceae subfamily, and BLAST analysis was employed to determine the conservation of P450 gene across the entire Asteraceae family. The BLAST analysis determined that the P450 gene was an acceptable candidate for introduction into S. cerevisiae. The isolated P450 cDNA encoding for CYP71AV1 was then incorporated into S. cerevisiae. For stability of this CYP71AV1 enzyme, cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (CPR) was also isolated from Artemsia annua and introduced into S. cerevisiae. This allowed for an effective 3-step oxidation pathway to convert amorphadiene into artemisinic acid.
In vivo tests were then performed to determine whether this engineered S. cerevisiae was actually capable of producing artemisinic acid. Results of growth tests indicated that high levels of artemisinic acid were indeed present, and actually attached to the outer cell surface of the yeast cells. This allowed for easy recovery of plentiful amounts of artemisinic acid.
The results of Ro et al.'s work was the ability to rapidly produce high levels of artemisinic acid. The yeast engineered in this study were capable of producing 4.5% dry weight of artemisinic acid, roughly 3.5 times the productive levels of Artemsia annua. Additionally, the S. cerevisiae completes a full growth cycle in roughly one week, while Artemsia annua requires multiple months to grow completely.
It is worthwhile to note that the process by which artemisinic acid is converted into artemisinin is currently under debate, as "...how artemisinic acid transforms into artemisinin is still under investigation" [7]. However, multiple processes by which artemisinic acid can be converted into artemisinin have been suggested [8]. It has been shown that the conversion of artemisininc acid into artemisinin appears to be the rate-limiting step in the production of artemisinin in Artemsia annua[9], suggesting that improvements can be made in this mechanism.
Relation to iGEM
There has been no incidence of previous iGEM teams investigating artemisinin or any of its precursors. Many iGEM teams have referenced Ro et al., but only as an example of pathway engineering, or in order to discuss ethics and synthetic biology's potential to positively benefit society. No parts in the parts registry deals with artemisinin either. Only one [set of parts] mentions a protein, Granulysin, which can potentially be used to fight malaria. Investigation of further applications for artemisinin and its derivatives could serve as a novel area of research for future iGEM teams.
- Klayman DL. Qinghaosu (artemisinin): an antimalarial drug from China. Science. 1985 May 31;228(4703):1049-55.
Early review article that details the development of artemisinin and its derivatives for antimalarial drugs.
- Brown GD. The biosynthesis of artemisinin (Qinghaosu) and the phytochemistry of Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao). Molecules. 2010 Oct 28;15(11):7603-98. DOI:10.3390/molecules15117603 |
Relatively new review article on artemisinic acid and its derivatives.
- Miller LH and Su X. Artemisinin: discovery from the Chinese herbal garden. Cell. 2011 Sep 16;146(6):855-8. DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2011.08.024 |
Follows the discovery of artemisinin by Youyou Tu.
- Aghahowa SE, Obianwu HO, Isah AO, and Arhewoh IM. Chloroquine-induced Pruritus. Indian J Pharm Sci. 2010 May;72(3):283-9. DOI:10.4103/0250-474X.70471 |
Study from the University of Benin that explores the detremential side-effects of chloroquine, particularly pruitus.
- Douglas NM, Anstey NM, Angus BJ, Nosten F, and Price RN. Artemisinin combination therapy for vivax malaria. Lancet Infect Dis. 2010 Jun;10(6):405-16. DOI:10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70079-7 |
Discuses the use of combination therapy using Artemisinin and supplementary drugs.
- Ro DK, Paradise EM, Ouellet M, Fisher KJ, Newman KL, Ndungu JM, Ho KA, Eachus RA, Ham TS, Kirby J, Chang MC, Withers ST, Shiba Y, Sarpong R, and Keasling JD. Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast. Nature. 2006 Apr 13;440(7086):940-3. DOI:10.1038/nature04640 |
Widely referenced Nature article from the Keasling lab in UC Berkley in which the researchers were able to produce artemisinic acid in S. cerevisiae at levels over 100 times that produced naturally in Artemisia annua.
- Wen W and Yu R. Artemisinin biosynthesis and its regulatory enzymes: Progress and perspective. Pharmacogn Rev. 2011 Jul;5(10):189-94. DOI:10.4103/0973-7847.91118 |
Reviews the biosynthetic pathways for the synthesis of artemisinin in Artemisia annua.
Acton N and Roth JR. DOI: 10.1021/jo00039a020
Suggests multiple possible pathways in which artemisinin might be produced from artemisinic acid.
Zhang YS, Ye HC, Liu BY, Wang H and Li GF. DOI: 10.1007/s11183-005-0009-6
Notes that the rate-limiting step in the chemical reaction for artemisinin production is the conversion from artemsininc acid.


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