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Parks and Wildlife Commission Approves Zebra Mussels Rules for North Texas
AUSTIN — Using new authority granted by the last regular session of the Legislature, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Thursday approved a rule requiring anyone leaving or approaching public waters in 17 North Texas counties to drain their boats to prevent the further spread of invasive zebra mussels.
Anglers and boaters leaving or approaching public water will be required to take all reasonable steps to drain all water from their vessel, including live wells, bilges, motors, and any other receptacles or water intake systems that resulted from contact with public water. This applies to all types and sizes of boats, whether powered or not, personal watercraft, sailboats, or any other vessel used on public waters. The new rule applies to all public waters in Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hood, Jack, Kaufman, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Stephens, Tarrant, Wise, and Young counties.
As a result of this rule, live fish could not be transported in water that comes from the water body where they were caught, which could impact off-site tournament weigh-ins. Personally caught live bait could be used only in the water where it was caught.
Anglers would be allowed to transport and use commercially purchased live bait in water provided they have a receipt that identifies the source of the bait. Any live bait in water purchased from a location on or adjacent to a public water body could only be used as bait on that same water body.
Movement from one access point to another on the same lake during the same day would not require drainage. The rule also includes exemptions for emergencies and governmental activities involving collection of water. Marine sanitary systems are exempt from the new regulation.
The rule will take effect in late December 2013 or January 2014.
The nine-member commission also voted to publish a proposed rule in the Texas Register for public comment that would add 28 other Central and North Texas counties in the boat-draining mandate, including Bell and Coryell counties where zebra mussel adults were recently found in Lake Belton (see below for a complete list of counties). That rule could be considered by the commission at its next regular meeting in January.
The zebra mussel is a small, non-native mussel originally found in Eurasia. It has spread throughout Europe, where it is considered to be a major environmental and industrial menace. The animal appeared in North America in the late 1980s and within 10 years had colonized all five Great Lakes and the Mississippi, Tennessee, Hudson, and Ohio River basins. Since then, they have spread to additional lakes and river systems, including some in Texas.
"Unfortunately, zebra mussel larvae, called veligers, are not visible to the naked eye," said Brian Van Zee, TPWD Inland Fisheries regional director based in Waco. "You could be transporting them on your boat and not even know it. This is why it's particularly important to always Clean, Drain, and Dry your boat and gear before heading to another water body."
For more information on zebra mussels and how to clean, drain and dry a boat, visit http://www.texasinvasives.org/
Additional counties being considered for boat draining requirements: Archer, Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Clay, Comal, Comanche, Coryell, Eastland, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton, Hays, Henderson (west of Hwy 19), Hill, Johnson, Leon, Limestone, Llano, McLennan, Navarro, Robertson, Somervell, Travis, Wichita, and Williamson.
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Re: Colossians 1:11 κατὰ τὸ κράτος τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ
Posted: October 24th, 2013, 7:13 am
In all natural languages there are many ways to say essentially the same thing. Sometimes we can convey the same meaning with a more vague expression simply because there is the context to fill in the details. In this case a genitive would be one of the most vague ways of denoting a relationship, which would be determined by the context. You might of course say that the writer could have been more precise, but in fact the genitive already conveys the same thing sufficiently well. I chose to use the English phrase "to his glory" but that is not actually the meaning of the genitive, as I indicated when I said "seem to imply". The genitive just denotes a relationship, which is not a symmetric one but slightly directed, something like "X that pertains to Y" (the same caveats about English renderings apply). This explanation applies equally to all the examples of genitive phrases mentioned by Ken, and there is little validity in forcing any genitive to mean anything more precise. Even those who prefer to split the uses of the genitive into many different precise categories will have to categorize instances of the genitive (excluding verbal complements and other grammatical constructions) based on their context.Andrew Chapman wrote:I am not sure I understand this. I would have thought that 'to his glory' and 'for your glory' might be rendered by, say, εἰς, as in, for example:David Lim wrote: If we simply take the Greek genitive it does seem to imply "the might that is to his glory" ... "the earth of your glory" simply refers to "the earth that is for your glory"
εἰς τὸ εἶναι ἡμᾶς εἰς ἔπαινον δόξης αὐτοῦ (Ephesians 1:12)
for us to be.. to the praise..

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'All right Mr De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up' blasted the soundtrack at John Galliano, as smoke-filled bubbles exploded from the ceiling of a dank warehouse and lasers shot down the catwalk like rose-hued Klieg lights. It was camp, it was cliché, but it was one of the few moments when goosebumps ran down one's spine this Paris season. John Galliano was indeed ready for his close-up. For S/S 2010, his heroine was Norma Desmond - and accordingly, his models were dressed as a kooky, spooky washed-up Silent Screen diva in his usual madcap magpie mix of eras, fabrics and finishes, make-up caked like Baby Jane Hudson as they primped and preened for the camera. But unlike Desmond's fantasy world, Galliano's creations were founded very much in the reality of the here-and-now. Example: in a season dominated by lingerie dressing, Galliano's was indisputably some of the best. He's been working bias cuts, point d'esprit veiling and a wicked way with a chantilly lace insert for almost twenty years, and these were some of his finest. Flirty slips of dresses were patchworked from printed silks, tulle and lace, sliced into panels of sheer and opaque in a melange of fabrics which never overwhelmed. His outerwear too was given the lingerie touch: pleated jackets like bed-coats, fashioned from foliate chiffon and nude trenches fettered and fretted like lace with cutwork, while lace-veiled satin shoes, trussed with ribbon and patched with leather, were as delicious, light and carefree as bon-bons. It took immeasurable skill for this mix to appear as effortless as it did, and for Galliano's signature raid on the dressing-up box not to resemble just that. But these garments had an eminent realism to them - strip away styling tricks like the diamanté kirby-grips crusting the front of coats, crazy-lady piles of jewels and Stephen Jones' admittedly-ravishing Miss Havisham-style veiled, feathered and ribboned millinery (but save the latter for a fabulous rainy day at Ascot) and everything would work on a contemporary starlet with an eye for the exotic. Daywear, naturally, was ignored - it's never a Galliano forté, to be honest, but no need as Norma Desmond doesn't really rise before the cocktail hour (and according to many a catwalk this season, neither do many other luxury goods consumers). And as for her very many film premieres... Galliano is undoubtedly the man to costume her. Cue a deluge of ravishing, billowing eveningwear - miles of cloisonné coloured plissé jersey, tonnes of jeweled embroidery, soufflé-light silk mouselline and georgette and acres and acres of leg. What felt great was to see how feather-light and effortless everything seemed - especially after a couple of seasons where you felt Galliano (and his models) were drowning under his own urge to decorate. When it comes to show-stopping after-dark dressing, for spring Galliano proved he's still big. It's just those dresses that have got smaller.
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I have just learned, from Jezebel via Zuzu, that Afros and dreadlocks are "inappropriate" in the workplace, according to an unnamed Glamour editor who recently spoke on the topic of corporate fashion at a New York law firm.
The style maven said it was 'shocking' that some people still think it 'appropriate' to wear those hairstyles at the office. 'No offense,' she sniffed, but those 'political' hairstyles really have to go.
Setting aside the question of what the hell a law firm was doing hosting a fashion lecture in the first place, are you fucking kidding me?
As I said at Zuzu's place, what I know about African-American hair would fit in a thimble, but I do know that those "political" hairstyles are also known as "what happens when you don't torture your hair with chemicals and hot irons." And I know that, for as much time and money as I spend on being blonde, A) I would probably have to spend twice as much of both if I were an African-American woman trying to maintain straight, "appropriate" hair, and B) if I didn't spend that time and money, no one would tell me my hair doesn't fucking belong in the workplace.
Oh, but wait, she prefaced it with "No offense." So, you know, it totally wasn't racist.


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ALISO VIEJO, CA - June 27, 2013 - Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI) Productivity and Graphics Group today announced a partnership with Chinese software and hardware company, Beijing Ou-Lei Technology, to offer Anime Studio® 9 in China. With Anime Studio's all-in-one 2D animation software program and animation creation tools, artists of all skill levels are able to create their own movies, cartoons and cutout animations for film, television, Web and more.
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Bears Trip Toronto 3.25.09
Following the same successful formula they utilized during the latter stages of their recent road trip, the Hershey Bears came from behind once again to defeat the Toronto Marlies on Wednesday night at Giant Center, 4-3.
Matthieu Perreault's double minor penalty for high-sticking Toronto's Alex Berry at 1:49 gave the Marlies the first crack of the night on the power play.
Hershey's penalty killing unit, ranked last in the AHL entering the game, successfully killed off the first part of the Perreault sentence and more than half of the second before Toronto's Andre Deveaux found daylight low to the stick side of Hershey goaltender, Michal Neuvirth, at 5:20, giving the visitors a 1-0 lead.
Early in the second period, Steve Pinizzotto's thunderous check on Toronto's Jiri Tlusty at 1:20 drew a pool of blood from the head area of Tlusty, and also drew the attention of the Marlie's Bates Battaglia, a former Washington Capital, who immediately sought retribution on Pinizzotto.
Although Battaglia clearly initiated the battle, referee, Chris Cozzan, apparently saw otherwise, choosing to hand out matching fighting penalties to the combatants. Tlusty did not return to the game.
Ryan Hamilton's holding penalty in the Hershey defensive zone on Hershey's captain, Bryan Helmer, led to the Bears finally getting on the board at 3:32, when Alexandre Giroux struck for his 51st goal of the season, and 20th strike on the power play.
With Dean Arsene out of position while trying to exact revenge on Alex Foster, who had nailed Kyle Wilson with a stiff check seconds earlier, the Marlies quickly regained the lead at 4:41 when Todd Perry beat Neuvirth.
Keith Aucoin's turnover in the Hershey defensive zone, led to Chris Bourque's holding penalty, and ultimately to Deveaux's second power play marker of the affair at 9:36, giving the Marlies a 3-1 lead.
Aucoin atoned for his defensive faux pas, beating Marlies' netminder, Justin Pogge, with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle at 13:22, to cut his team's deficit to a single goal.
"I tried to get off as quick as I could. I don't think he (Pogge) saw it right away. I think his defenseman screened him and he saw it at the last second, but it was too late," said Aucoin.
Immediately after Aucoin's goal, Kip Brennan, appearing in his first game at Giant Center since February 7th, shook things up a bit when he and former Norfolk Admiral, Jay Rosehill squared off. Brennan's narrow victory in the tussle seemed to inspire his teammates to score 46 seconds later, tying the game at three.
Pogge contributed to his own demise by turning the puck over to the Bears' Jay Beagle deep in Toronto's zone. Beagle backhanded a no-look pass to Andrew Joudrey, who quickly shoveled the puck into the vacated cage at 14:11.
"Actually, I just saw the puck go by me, and I saw the goalie was still kind of in the corner," said Beagle. "I was going to shoot it and at the last minute, I heard Joudrey yell my name and I dished it to him and he put it home."
The teams went into the second intermission deadlocked at three, thanks largely to quality saves late in the period by Pogge (on Giroux), and Neuvirth (on Deveaux).
In the third period, there were not a lot of quality scoring chances for either side, and in fact, it was a low probability shot by Oskar Osala that sealed the deal for Hershey. Osala, after gaining the Toronto zone, unleashed a wicked wrister that sailed by the glove hand of Pogge at 8:15.
Osala, when asked if he was surprised that puck found its target, joked that this goal was not unlike many of his previous 22 tallies.
"You always ask me that after I score," Osala laughed. "I was surprised this time because I was thinking about it, and I kind of knew I was going to shoot back to the far side. Usually, when you have time to think, it doesn't work, but I think my wrist shot is harder than my slapshot. Coach always bugs me about that; he always tells me not to take slapshots, but to take wrist shots."
The Bears, steeped in talent this season, proved that they don't have to always play a full 60 minutes to come out on top as long as they rev it up when their backs are against the wall.
"We didn't play that good the first period, and Neuvirth made some good saves for us. We came out the second period and played a good 40 minutes to end the game, and that penalty kill at the end was huge."
Tags: Alex Berry, Alex Foster, Andre Deveaux, Andrew Joudrey, Bates Battaglia, Bryan Helmer, Chris Bourque, Chris Cozzan, Dean Arsene, Jay Beagle, Jay Rosehill, Jiri Tlusty, Justin Pogge, Kip Brennan, Kyle Wilson, Matthieu Perreault, Oskar Osala, Ryan Hamilton, Steve Pinizzotto, Todd Perry, Toronto, Toronto Marlies


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1. Lead a discussion on the subject participating citizenship at a ship meeting or with a separate group of your peers.
- Reference: See "Leading a Discussion" on page 52.
2. Write and submit a paper of about 200 words that tells how and what your ship can do to contribute to the world fellowship of Scouting.
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Prepare a written analysis of one of the following: your ship's bylaws, constitution, administration, or ceremonies and make recommendations for change to your ship's Quarterdeck.
- Reference: See Citizenship in the World merit badge pamphlet, No. 33260.
Active Membership
3. Attend at least 75 percent of your ship's meetings and special activities for 18 months (including previous service of Apprentice, Ordinary, and Able).
- Note: Check with your ship's yeoman.
4. Present a brief talk or program (15 minutes in length is suggested) on Sea Scouting at a service club, religious organization, PTA, or other adult organization.
- Reference: See "Making a Speech" on page 51.
5. While an Able Sea Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. The project idea must be approved by your Skipper and ship committee and approved by the council or district before you start. This service project should involved your ship and at least one other group. Note: You must use the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, No. 18-927] in meeting this requirement.
- References: See page 83 and Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, No. 18-927, and Quartermaster Service Project Workbook.
Special Skills
6. Boats: Demonstrate and teach the Motorboating merit badge. Know the principles of springing into and out from a dock, from both bow and stern, using an engine depending on the type of craft used by your ship.
- Take charge of the craft used by your ship, or suitable powered craft and give all necessary commands to the crew while coming alongside and getting under way in several wind and current situations.
- References: See "Orders to the Crew" on page 155 and Motorboating merit badge pamphlet, No. 33294.
- Note: The purpose of this requirement is to demonstrate a knowledge of the effect of propeller, steering, and hull in boat handling.
7. Marlinspike Seamanship: Teach the Ordinary and Able requirements No. 7, Marlinspike Seamanship to a crew. Demonstrate an eye splice in double braided line.
- References: See pages 123 through 145 and pages 154 through 155.
8. Ground Tackle: Teach the Ordinary and Able requirements No. 8, Ground Tackle, to a crew. Know the methods of bringing a boat to anchor or mooring with special emphasis on wind and current with respect to the vessel's course and speed.
- Take charge of the craft used by your ship and give all commands to the crew for anchoring and weighing anchor in several different wind and current situations.
- Take charge of the craft used by your ship and give all commands to the crew for picking up a mooring buoy and properly mooring the vessel in several wind and current situations.
- Reference: See "Ground Tackle" on page 145.
- Note: Depending on the type of craft used by your ship, this requirement may be met either under sail or power.
9. Piloting: Teach the Ordinary requirement No. 9 and Able requirement No. 15 to a crew. Know the methods of fixing a boat's position in limited visibility, and the special precautions that should be taken when limited visibility is encountered.
- References: See "Piloting and Rules of the Road" on page 170 and "Navigation and Weather" on page 223.
10. Signaling: Draw the international code flags and pennants from memory and give the single-letter meanings of the flags. Demonstrate your ability to use the book, International Code of Signals.
- Note: The International Code of Signals may be secured from most marine supply stores.
- Reference: See "The International Code Flags" on page 222.
11. Swimming: Meet the requirements for BSA Lifeguard or Red Cross lifesaving, and obtain certification where applicable.
- References: BSA Lifeguard Counselor Guide, No. 34536, and Application for BSA Lifeguard, No. 34435.
12. Cruising: Take command of a vessel with a crew of not less than four Sea Scouts for at least 48 hours (including two consecutive nights). Do no work while in command. You must delegate all duties and supervise only. During the cruise complete the following:
- a. Inspect the vessel for required equipment.
- b. Supervise the menu preparation.
- c. Prepare the boat to get under way with a proper checklist.
- d. Anchor, dock, and maintain course by commands to the helmsman.
- e. Remain under way for at an extended period during darkness. Discuss appropriate nighttime running procedures.
- f. While under way, perform man overboard, damage control, abandon ship, fire fighting, collision drills, and any other drills used by your ship.
- During this cruise no substantial errors may be committed. A competent adult leader should grade and observe this requirement and, if necessary for safety reasons, take command of the vessel.
13. Safety: Know the heavy weather precautions taken aboard both power and sailing craft when dangerous weather approaches, and demonstrate these precautions aboard the craft used by your ship.
- Reference: See "Heavy Weather" on page 251.
14. Rules of the Road: Teach Able Requirement No. 14, Rules of the Road, and demonstrate a working knowledge of both international and inland navigation rules.
- Reference: See "Rules of the Road" on page 174.
15.Weather: Demonstrate your ability to read a barometer, thermometer, anemometer, psychrometer, and weather vane. Be familiar with the Beaufort scale of winds and seas.
- Read and understand a local weather bulletin. Know how to obtain current marine and weather reports from the National Weather Service in your area either by telephone or radio.
- Know weather signs for your local area, including cloud types, and prepare a 48-hour forecast from them. Compare your forecast with the actual weather that occurred.
- Reference: See "Weather" on page 235, and Weather merit badge pamphlet, No. 33274.
16.Electives: Do four of the following. Note: Check with ship's officers before selecting electives to assure that they will be consistent with the ship's program.
- a. Sailing: Know the principles of handling a schooner, ketch, yawl, or other suitable sailing craft. Under competent direction, take charge of a crew and demonstrate your ability to handle a suitable sailing craft in all points of sail.
- Note: The key to success here are the words competent direction. You must secure the guidance of the adult related to the sailboat you will use. Read the reference material he or she suggests, and learn by doing as you sail together.
- b. Engines: Explain the principal features of steam turbine, turboelectric, direct reversing diesel, diesel-electric, gas turbine, nuclear, gasoline, and diesel engines and the relative advantages of each type.
- Understand the operation of spark ignition and compression ignition for internal combustion engines used aboard small craft.
- Be familiar with the engine aboard the craft used by your ship, including its principles of operation, fuel, lubrication, cooling and electrical systems, and their component parts.
- Be able to locate and correct minor engine troubles according to the engine manufacturer's troubleshooting guide.
- Note: With the help of your ship's officers, locate a consultant who has a knowledge of engines. Read the consultant's suggested reference material, and ask the consultant to relate this to the engine aboard your craft.
- Reference: See "Boat Maintenance and Engines" on page 157.
- c. Radio: Qualify for and obtain the Marine Radio Operator Permit as issued by the Federal Communications Commission.
- Note: Look in the blue pages of your local telephone book for the address and telephone number of your nearest U.S. Federal Communications Commission field office. Ask for an application and appropriate study materials, and secure the help of a qualified adult. Sight-impaired applicants will receive a special examination.
- d. Boat Maintenance: Take charge of reconditioning or overhauling at least one of your ship's boats, or take charge of hauling out the principal craft used by your ship. In either case, lay out a plan of the work to be done in advance, including an estimate of the materials, tools, cost, and time involved.
- Note: Work closely with an adult leader of your ship to carry out this requirement.
- Reference: See "Boat Maintenance and engines" on page 157.
- e. Electricity: Know and demonstrate the correct method of rescuing a person in contact with a live wire. Demonstrate the approved method of resuscitation.
- Understand the construction of simple battery cells. Demonstrate the proper care of storage batteries.
- Understand the difference between direct current and alternating current and the best uses for each.
- Demonstrate that you know how to replace fuses, reset circuit breakers, and properly splice shipboard electric cable.
- Submit a diagram of the electrical system aboard the craft used by your ship or aboard another craft.
- Understand wire tables, the current-carrying capacity of circuits, and the hazards and prevention of electrical overloading.
- Understand electrolysis as applied to the deterioration of a boat's underwater fittings by galvanic action and its prevention.
- Note: Secure the help of a qualified adult to help you understand the wiring of your boat and the effects of galvanic action on the underwater fittings of your boat.
- Reference: See "Electrical Systems" on page 167.
- f. Navigation: Understand how the sextant works. Show how to use it and demonstrate measuring horizontal angles and altitudes. Understand the navigator's day's work.
- Demonstrate finding latitude by the altitude of Polaris or by the sun's altitude at local apparent noon. Demonstrate how longitude is determined.
- Demonstrate finding error in the boat's compass by the sun's azimuth.
- Note: Celestial navigation and sextant use are far too complicated to describe and illustrate effectively in a manual of this type. Secure the help of a consultant and read the literature he or she recommends.
- g. Drill: Demonstrate the ability to handle the ship's company in close-order drill. Do all required maneuvers.
- Reference: See pages 44 through 50.
- h. Piloting: Under competent direction, assume the con of your ship's vessel. Plot its projected course between two ports, and cruise that course mooring to mooring, handling all piloting duties and acting as officer of the deck. The cruise should be made in daylight hours with good visibility.
- Reference: See pages 170 through 218.
- i Yacht Racing Crew: Take charge of a crew in a race using current ISAF racing rules.
- j. Rigging: Demonstrate your ability to splice and handle wire rope, attach wire rope fittings, and complete a safety and tuning inspection of a ship vessel.
- References: See "Splicing" on page 133 and "Wire Rope" on page 137.
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CNBC and Fox Business have been at loggerheads over guests for months now, and it's finally reached a "hysterical level", says the NY Post.
Bear in mind: The Post and Fox Business are both owned by News Corp.
That said, the real drama went down last week at the Consumer Electronic Showcase in Las Vegas. Fox Business reporter Liz Claman, a CNBC alum, was there, and she's been gaining a reputation for bagging interviews with high-level execs.
However, when Fox Business got an interview with TiVo Chief exec Tom Rogers and the Jets' Tim Tebow (he's the star of TiVo's ad campaign), CNBC was not happy. It didn't help that Rogers used to be an NBC president either.
The networks also reportedly fought over Kaz Hirai, the CEO of Sony.
The only high-level guest that only went to Fox was AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, but still, according to the NY Post's sources.
Our snoops say other top executives were given much the same treatment from CNBC: It's us first and nobody else second — or else...
One senior executive involved in the p.r. wranglings said, "This has been going on for a number of months, but it's gotten to a hysterical level. . . . Everybody has a tough schedule; it really felt like they [CNBC] were coming unhinged."
Can't we all just share and get along?


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New Smith County Book to be Published
Nov. 25, 2006 - The Smith County Genealogical Society announces that the eagerly anticipated publication, Smith County, Mississippi and Its Families, Volume II is in final stages for printing and should be available by mid-December of this year. Society President, Charlotte Webb says that the book, like Volume I published in 2003, will be a hardbound edition and include over 500 submissions for family and military veterans as well as for communities, businesses, and organizations, churches and schools.
Webb says that Volume II was a "given" after the response to Volume I. She says the Society continues to emphasize that it is important that family and county history be preserved before being lost, and it was with this intent that this undertaking was done. All items included in Volume II are new and not found in Volume I; so, this is an entirely new book and historical material. People with ties now or in the past to Smith County contributed in their own words family histories, many with photos, for today's researcher as well as future generations. She says the Society is grateful for those who did take the time and contribute to this effort.
Genealogy is now one of the most popular past times in the country as people want to know more about their ancestry and family heritage. Smith County was one of the major areas settled and inhabited by families coming out of the Carolinas to Georgia to Alabama and on into Mississippi. Many families later made the move on west to Louisiana and Texas. This book will help many researchers looking at families that were part of this time in our country's expansion.
Preorders are now being accepted by the Smith County Genealogical Society for this book. Cost if $40.00 + $5.00 shipping. Mississippi residents need to include an additional $2.80 (7% sales tax). Payment can be sent by check or money order to: Smith County Genealogical Society, PO Box 356, Raleigh, MS 39153. Be sure to indicate that the payment is a preorder for the Smith County, Mississippi and Its Families, Volume II publication. Shipment will be made on first received-first shipped basis. Webb says that a limited number of Volume I books are also available and can be had for the same price - $40.00 + $5.00 shipping. Again, Mississippi residents need to include an additional $2.80 (7% sales tax). After publication has been received, copies of both Volume I and II can also be purchased through the Friends of the Library at the Raleigh Public Library for the same purchase price.


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ESPNU Pac-12 Logo Tournament: Championship RoundPosted by Connor Pelton on November 15th, 2011
Over the past two weeks we have whittled down the field from 12 logos to two. Amazingly, the two that Drew and I chose for the top two seeds (The Beaver and Bruin) have advanced to the final! Voting will go all week long and then we will crown the winner. Here we go!
#1 Oregon State vs #2 UCLA
Connor's thoughts: Not much to say about this other than it's a great matchup. I'll take the Bruin because of everything I've mentioned before; the punctured football, the bear tracks, it's just all too much for the Beaver.
Drew's thoughts: Given the Bruins' struggles on the football field of late (not that their basketball exploits have been terrific), the football in the ESPNU logo turns me off a bit. Plus, the OSU logo is just a more clever take all the way around. I'll take the favorite in the all-chalk final.


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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.
- 1 The story so far in the open source drug discovery for malaria project
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.
Two Rounds of Synthesis and Evaluation
Paul Ylioja started by resynthesising the two known active compounds from the GSK set (OSM-S-5 and OSM-S-6), 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.
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 is being 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 is the first to be examined. A forked series, the pyrazoles, looks attractive but has not yet received a great deal of input. Two other interesting-looking starting points from the GSK set, based on a triazolourea and a thienopyrimidine, are currently being resynthesised by James Cronshaw in Sydney to confirm their 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.
Open Source Drug Discovery More Generally
A one-day meeting on open source drug discovery for malaria was held in February 2012. General issues surrounding the feasibility of open source drug discovery were discussed, followed by more specific malaria-related ideas. These talks are gradually going up on YouTube with annotations, and they frame many of the relevant issues, for example the landscape of drug discovery in neglected diseases, and whether patents are necessary in drug discovery. An important message is that open source drug discovery is where anyone may participate in driving the research, which is different from a more general use of the word "open" where data are made freely available, but perhaps after a delay which essentially prevents participation by others.
How We Run the Project
The way the project is run is one of the novelties, though as with everything in this project nothing is static and advice is always welcome on improvements. Raw experimental data are recorded in an online, openly-readable electronic lab notebook. The Synaptic Leap is being used to discuss ideas and results, as well as plan future work. The project's Google+ page is a light way to keep up with developments and discuss. The project's Twitter feed is a broadcast mechanism for updates. LinkedIn as used in the past on another project as a way of connecting with relevant experts, but has not been used much so far in this project. A wiki (that includes this page) is used to host the current overall project status. If you wish to participate in this project, you can sign up to all these sites, and you would then be sent the Twitter/G+ passwords so you can used the same accounts. A Facebook page is needed next but doesn't exist yet.
Why Take Part?
What of motivations? Why would people want to contribute to this project? Partly to solve a problem. Partly to be involved with quality science that is open, and hence subject to the most brutal form of ongoing peer-review. Partly for academic credentials since regular peer-reviewed papers will come from the project. Partly to demonstrate competence publicly - open science is meritocratic and status-blind. Perhaps a mixture of all these things.
A competition is possible in the future, i.e. with a cash prize. Progress towards a very promising lead compound series has been rapid, but there is a long road to a compound that looks sufficiently promising that it moves towards clinical trials. There's a lot of tweaking needed, and perhaps even the move to another series. It is not obvious what will happen. It is certain the project will need a lot more input than it has received to date. A prize may increase traffic and input. The competition would be teamless, however, awarded based on performance of individuals within a group where everything is shared. Not sharing data or ideas leads to disqualification. Such a competition is difficult to judge, difficult to award, and hence almost certainly worth doing. More about this is here.
A final point - the project is open. Nobody owns it. Those people most active in the project lead it while they are active. If you wish to contribute, in any capacity, please do so. There is no need to "clear" anything with existing project members by email first. To date is has been very common for current participants to receive questions/suggestions from people by email, which is to be discouraged. In the development of Linux, the need for Linus Torvalds to approve everything caused a serious bottleneck, and the observation that "Linus doesn't scale". Nobody scales, but the team does. So it's more efficient if all the project discussions are held publicly. Many people do not like this idea. In science the idea of "beta testing" something is alien. When data are released in science there is an expectation that the data are correct, and essentially finished. This project eschews this view. All data are released immediately, all discussions are public, anyone can participate.
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.
The project's licence unless otherwise stated is CC-BY-3.0 meaning you can use whatever you want for whatever purpose, provided you cite the project.


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Demi Lovato: It's Too 'Hard' to Watch Myself on TV
It has been three years since she completed a three-month treatment program for bulimia and anorexia, and Demi Lovato still finds it difficult to see herself onscreen.
"It is still hard being in front of the camera when you have suffered from eating disorders, and I still don't watch my episodes," the 'X Factor' judge, 21, revealed to reporters at the show on Nov. 14. "It is hard."
Lovato has long been open about her personal battles (in addition to her eating disorders, she also suffered from bipolar disorder, self-harm, and substance abuse), hoping that by sharing her own experiences, she can help others dealing with similar issues.
"I was called a role model the second I made it in the industry, and I never felt like one. I finally feel like a role model, and I am doing the things I am supposed to do in this world," said the singer, who recently published a new book, 'Stay Strong: 365 Days A Year.' "This [book] is one of the small ways I can make a difference – if it changes one person's life or makes someone happy and changes their energy in their day."
And while Lovato, who has a guest stint on 'Glee' this season, is currently focused on her music career, that doesn't mean she has given up acting for good.
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I have a small sheet of paper in my handly little note pad where I mapped out all the things I wanted to post for So Celebrate National Sewing Month. Needless, to say, I have not even come close to completing that list. Sigh.
One of the things on that list, however, is Fabric YoYos!
I had totally overlooked this on my list until I attended a baby shower on Saturday morning. Darling Sarah Brumit gave the most darling onesies to our friend Lindsey … one she handpainted the sweetest polka dot trail, and the other she sewed three fabric yoyos across the top. I so wish I had taken a picture of these little wonders because they were SO cute!
I hadn't originally planned on doing a tutorial for yoyos – I was just going to show a few ways that they can be used as sweet and sassy embellishments … BUT… when I asked Sarah if she made her yoyos herself, she said no. What!?! Could it be that Sarah doesn't know how? If that's the case —- I really need to remedy that for her! Hence, today's post – How to Make a Fabric YoYo!
There's today's little ditty about sewing celebrating. I hope to see you again tonight… to catch up!?!?


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Overcoming Application Server Dependency
In the example, the ticket booking component is implemented as a session EJB. In a production environment, EJB runs in container, which means it has container dependency. The production environment is usually very different from the development environment. If you were to test EJB in an environment closer to the real one, you would have to build and deploy it in an application server and then test. This usually takes a time, especially when you are working with large and complex enterprise applications. If you have to build, deploy, and wait for the server to come up to see your result, it breaks your flow. This is why I like OpenEJB and it's embedded mode feature. OpenEJB simulates the container for you and helps your test run closer to the real environment. This helps avoid the tedious build and deploy cycle as OpenEJB runs within your IDE and starts or stops while running the test. I especially like the inclusion or exclusion filter which helps avoid loading of unwanted EJBs for a scenario. For this example, I kept the ticket booking session bean simple with only two methods -- one method to book a ticket and another method to check for the seat availability, as shown in the EJB local interface below:
Overcoming Data Dependency
A unit test scenario often requires a set of pre-existing data before it can run successfully. Remember the spaceship can only transport five people. The seat availability method of the session bean should return True if five seats are not filled, and False if all of them are filled. To test if it correctly returns False when all seats are booked, you should have five seats filled already before running the test. So five pre-existing ticket bookings is a prerequisite for a test.
There are also cases where the same data cannot be recorded more than once as it will be functionally incorrect as per the requirement. In our example scenario, we have a requirement that the same passenger should not be allowed to book ticket on the same date more than once; otherwise it should display an error message. To test whether this validation logic works correctly and displays error message, the database should already have an existing booking for the passenger that the test is trying to book. On the other hand, to successfully book a ticket the database should not have the same data already. In this case, we need to remove the existing data everytime before running the test. Otherwise this test cannot be repeated as running it first time itself would have created the data and thereby causing the subsequent runs to fail.
This is where DBUnit comes in handy. It helps to prepare the database to a known state so that tests can repeatedly run successfully. It has the ability to export data from database to XML and import data to the database from XML. To export data we should first have the data in the database. This seed data creation can be accomplished in multiple ways including manually inserting data using SQL. The way I created it is using the application code itself. I had the unit test case for booking the ticket ready. I simply used it to create data and visually checked for the correctness (a one-time job).
Data Helper
Once the required seed data has been created in the database, it needs to be exported to an XML file so that unit tests can use it. I wrote a class called DataProcessor that contains the logic for data export/import using DBUnit. This is injected into a helper class called DataHelper that can export or import data in bulk using the processors. This helper class is used by the unit test classes for preparing the data for running tests. The data processor configuration for spaceship example is shown below. Since we only need to export ticket table's data, only one query is configured.
Any number of data processors can be configured like the one above to export data into multiple XMLs for different use cases. Each processor can hold one or more queries to export data depending on the number of tables.
Once the data processor is configured, it is injected into data helper as shown below. As you can see, it can take a list of processors as parameters, allowing multiple processors for mass export or import.