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I'm an adult-market slipstream writer. I interned at a prestigious New York literary agency for over a year. I attend the Turkey City professional writer's workshop, am a 2015 graduate of the Disquiet International Literary Program, and won a fellowship to the 2019 SLS workshop in Tbilisi, Georgia.
To get a sense of my thought process as an editor, you might like to read a post from my "Philosophy of Writing" series.
If you have any questions or if you'd like to request a full CV, please don't hesitate to use the contact form below.
This service is best suited to authors who have polished their manuscript from a creative standpoint, but who would like to tidy up the technical details. I copyedit all fiction or narrative non-fiction manuscripts.
Copyedits take 10-15 business days to complete. Please get in touch using the contact form below for a quote or to request a sample.
This package includes:
- Spelling/grammar correction
- Typographical correction/proofing (erroneous spaces, extra punctuation, typos, odd layouts)
- Factual queries (basic fact-checking)
- A style-sheet to make sure your stylistic choices remain consistent
Bear in mind that both of my copyediting services cover errors only and not matters of style or opinion.
Manuscripts take 15-20 business days to complete. Please get in touch using the contact form below for a quote or to request a sample.
This package includes my basic copyediting service. In addition, I will highlight and comment on (but not fix) problematic passages that contain errors of writing craft, including:
- Clumsy repetition
- Awkward sentence structure
- Passages that break narrative convention in an unskilled way
Bear in mind that both of my copyediting services cover errors only and not matters of style or opinion.
All potential clients will receive one sample line-edited chapter and a rough evaluation of the manuscript, i.e. what I expect to encounter during my edit. (Unfortunately, in-depth editing is not possible without reading the entire manuscript, but you should be able to get a fair idea of my service with this sample.)
Edits will normally take 20-40 business days to complete, depending on the length of the manuscript. This service is for adult-market manuscripts only. Please get in touch using the contact form below for a quote or to request a sample.
My specialties are:
- Speculative fiction (all fantasy and sci-fi, slipstream, cyberpunk, steampunk, new weird, magical realism, etc.)
- Literary/upmarket
- Short story collections
- Experimental/Prose-poetry/Avant-garde/Metafiction
- Speculative romance (paranormal romance, urban fantasy with romantic emphasis, etc.)
I am experienced in:
- Romance
- Memoir
- Thrillers
- Women's fiction
I also edit:
- Mass market
- Historical fiction
- Narrative nonfiction
- Erotica
In-depth editing is my favourite service to provide: it forces me to get deeply involved in the well-being of the writer and the writer's book. I find it challenging and rewarding. I love beautiful language, and as such my service is comprehensive.
I recommend this service for writers who are unsure about their craft and would like to have the benefit of a sharp editorial eye. This service does focus on one manuscript, but my ultimate aim is to make your writing more artful, more appealing, and better overall.
My standard in-depth editing service includes:
- My standard copyediting service: spelling, grammar, typos, basic fact-checking.
- Line editing: I'll draw your attention to awkward phrasing, inappropriate word choice, stylistic inconsistencies, and other concerns at the sentence and paragraph level, and will make suggestions about how to tighten and improve your writing. I'll weed out POV (point of view) errors, tense switching, and purple prose (flowery description).
- Characters: I'll edit to help you ensure that your characters are interesting, psychologically believable, and have depth.
- Theme: What are you conveying to your readers overall? What images occur throughout your writing? I'll edit to make sure that your book accurately represents the themes you want it to.
- Plot: I'll point out plot holes, errors in pacing, and help you keep readers turning the page.
- Developmental: if your manuscript is in development, I'll help you brainstorm plot, character, setting, and pacing. I'll comment with an eye towards the development of your career, not just your current work in progress.
- Substantive: I'll help you edit towards a clean, readable, artful piece. I can't promise representation or a sale, but I can promise happier readers.
Some notes on my in-depth service:
- I won't ghost-write your book for you; I'm only here to correct errors and to make suggestions.
- Subsequent revisions of the same manuscript will be much less expensive!
Contact me below to discuss availability and pricing for services I haven't mentioned above, including:
- Beta reading (reading a manuscript as if I'd bought it in a bookstore)
- Reader's reports (a formal book report that details the overarching structure of the book and my impression of it as an expert reader)
- Short stories/novellas
- Partial readings, priced per chapter, for adult market manuscripts
- Writing mentorship/tutoring, priced per hour
- Editing for visual artists (painters, photographers, sculptors, collage artists, illustrators, jewelers, etc.), craftsmen (objets d'art, bath/beauty products, etc.), or musicians: I am open to exchanges. Please message me!
- Editing for nonprofits/charities: if I can complete the job in time and I support your cause, I'll work for you pro bono.
- Query letter and submission help for the adult market — Please do research before requesting this service, as there is a huge amount of free information online about how to query agents. I recommend you begin your search here, at Query Shark, written by agent Janet Reid. Please follow the instructions on her site for reading/understanding her posted material. If you still need someone to walk you through the process, I'm here!
- Middle Grade/Young Adult: I can't accept MG/YA clients for any service except copyediting. Please contact my friends, editor Cassandra Marshall (MG) or author/editor/creator of hashtag #CPMatch Megan Lally (YA). I'd be a terrible substantive/developmental editor for the children's market, as I have no relevant experience. Cassandra and Megan have expert knowledge of the MG/YA markets, and are well-known for their edits.
- Any service for manuscripts not in British or American English. Dialects welcome! I studied linguistics, so even though it might be a puzzle to edit your version of Trainspotting, I'll give it a go.
- Typesetting or proofing for ebooks or print books
- Any service for poetry
- Advice on the sale/marketing/publishing of self-published works. All of my self-pub advice is free and should be considered woefully inexpert. If you would like professional help, I recommend you contact my friend and former boss Rachel Thompson.
- I cannot share information with you about the internal workings of any organisation I'm affiliated with, or have been affiliated with in the past. Please don't ask me to.
- I will refuse work at my own discretion if it expresses racist, transphobic, homophobic, or misogynistic sentiments, or prejudice against political or religious beliefs. Critique is fine; prejudice is not.


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CATEGORY: Power Couples
COMPANY: CMC Group / NEST
INDUSTRY: Real Estate / Fashion
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE: Ugo graced the cover of Haute Living Miami in 2006 along with Giuseppe Cipriani, thanks to the duo's collaboration on the still-forthcoming Cipriani Ocean Resort and Residences. Ugo has created some of Miami's most recognizable structures as the president of CMC Group and the founder of Glasswall, LLC, which specializes in impact-resistant window systems for high-rise properties. In 2009, Haute Living Miami featured former fashion model Sara in a piece that discussed her new interior lifestyle boutique Nest, on Lincoln Road. The 2,200-square-foot shop, located between Michigan and Lenox Avenues, specializes in high-style products for the home presented with a coveted European flair that is reflective of Sara's innate sense of style.

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War FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? And when the dust settles, who will ...
IMDB: 6.3/10 69,797 votes
Transformers Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
IMDB: 7.1/10 488,064 votes
The Invisible After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
IMDB: 6.3/10 30,326 votes
The Invisible2007
The Bourne Ultimatum Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
IMDB: 8.1/10 455,638 votes
The Bourne Ultimatum2007
Surf's Up Cody is a surfing penguin from Shiverpool who dreams of making it big and being like his idol Big Z. On his journey he discovers his talents are not all he thinks they are and he must learn to accept that their is more to surfing than fame and fortune. Surf's Up is a 2007 American computer-animated mockumentary film ...
IMDB: 6.8/10 51,033 votes
Surf's Up2007
Spider-Man 3 The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains -- including the shape-shifting Sandman -- in the third installment of this blockbusting comic book adventure series. While Spidey's superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and gets caught up in a love triangle.
IMDB: 6.2/10 353,837 votes
Spider-Man 32007
Shrek the Third Shrek and Co, return for more adventures. The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. Shrek however wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace and quiet. So when he finds out their is another heir to the throne, they set of to bring him back to ...
IMDB: 6.1/10 197,921 votes
Shrek the Third2007
Resident Evil: Extinction Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
IMDB: 6.3/10 142,534 votes
Resident Evil: Extinction2007
Ratatouille In one of Paris' finest restaurants, Remy, a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Torn between his family's wishes and his true calling. Remy and his pal Linguini set in motion a hilarious chain of events that turns the City of Lights upside down.
IMDB: 8.0/10 437,533 votes
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with brave Will Turner and feisty Elizabeth Swann. And what of Jack Sparrow? Nothing is as it seems.
IMDB: 7.1/10 439,807 votes
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End2007
Pathfinder A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
IMDB: 5.4/10 36,083 votes
Paranormal Activity After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
IMDB: 6.3/10 176,834 votes
Paranormal Activity2007
Ocean's Thirteen Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and are composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that him and his team will do anything to bring Willy Bank and everything he's got down. Even if it includes hiring help from one of their own ...
IMDB: 6.9/10 241,492 votes
Ocean's Thirteen2007
I Am Legend Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might ...
IMDB: 7.2/10 493,123 votes
I Am Legend2007
Hitman The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
IMDB: 6.3/10 133,657 votes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Returning for his fifth year of study at the venerable Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ever-maturing Harry Potter is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students -- dubbed "Dumbledore's Army" -- to defend ...
IMDB: 7.5/10 328,295 votes
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix2007
Ghost Rider In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a gogetting reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider.
IMDB: 5.2/10 172,471 votes
Ghost Rider2007
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
IMDB: 5.6/10 201,660 votes
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer2007
Crows Zero The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
IMDB: 7.1/10 5,247 votes
Crows Zero2007
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship ...
IMDB: 4.7/10 88,604 votes
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem2007
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AyalaLand Park Point Residences Availability Chart (as of April 22, 2013)
PARK POINT RESIDENCES AVAILABILITY CHART (as of April 22, 2013)
The Future Residents of Park Point Residences
Park Point Residencescaters to affluent buyers who fully appreciate the value of a personal refuge within a dynamic city life. Their mobile lifestyle warrants the need to be close to life's essentials, a sense of security and a lock-up-and-go convenience. They are citizens of the world, well-traveled, well-read, with discerning and refined tastes. They are exposed, socially responsible, and passionate about their diverse social, political, economic and environmental endeavors. They are accomplished individuals in their chosen fields, possibly belonging to the similarly accomplished families. They are accustomed to a life of luxury and appreciate having lifestyle options that nurture privacy, as well as those enriching social interaction.
Park Point Residences (PPR) is integrated into the redevelopment of Ayala Center Cebu, Cebu's premier lifestyle destination, as such residents enjoy unparalleled exclusive direct access to a brilliant array of shopping, dining, and entertainment options.
Park Point Residences features Ayala Land Premier's elevated standard of quality and finishes.


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Item:Grape juice powder
Appearence:Off-White Powder
Packaging:Foli Bag/Paper Drum/Carton
Delivery Time:1-3 Working Days
Payment:T/T West Union Escrow
Shelf Time:2 year
Storage:Keep Dry and Keep away from Sunlight
Grape is a fruiting berry of the deciduous woody vines of the botanical genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes or they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, jelly, grape seed extract, organic grape juice powder, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Factory supply organic grape juice powdered grape juice Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. YesHerb organic grape juice concentrate powder have good solubility in water
1.organic grape juice concentrate powder is made under low temperature, rich in vitamins and nutritive elements.
2.organic grape juice concentrate powder have rich nutrients.
3.100% made by organic grape juice , have good soubility in water
1.Grape seed extract used to reduce cancer risk;
2.Grape seed extract has the useage of antioxidant activity;
3.Grape seed extract has anti-inflammatory, removal of swollen;
4.Grape seed extract can reduce the incidence of spots and cataracts;
5.Grape seed extract will reduced exercise-induced vascular sclerosis porridge;
6.Grape seed extract will strengthen the blood vessels the flexibility of the wall.
1.Fruit powder can be used as raw material to add in wine, fruit juice, bread, cake, cookies, candy and other foods;
2.Fruit powder can be used as food additives, not only improve the color, fragrance and taste, but improve the nutritional value of food;
3.Fruit powder can be used as raw material to reprocess, the specific products contain medicinal ingredients, through the biochemical pathway we can get desirable valuable byproducts
Packaging Details
1kg/bag,5kg/bag,or 25kg/Hardboard drum,or at your requirment.
1KG : Double pharma-grade polybag inside,sealed Aluminum foil bag outside;
5KG : Double pharma-grade polybag inside,Hardboard cartons outside;
25KG: Double pharma-grade polybag inside,Hardboard drum outside.
Drum size: 38CM*51CM/25kg , Drum Net Weight: 2.25KG
Carton size: According to the Qty.
Stored in a cool and dry well-closed container and in ventilated area,
kept away from moisture and strong light or high temperature.
Shelf Life
Two years under well Storage situation and stored away from direct sun light


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A [Not So] Brief Overview of DMT
What Is DMT? NN-Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT for short, is a short-acting psychedelic entheogen that allows a person's consciousness to encounter some of the most incredible experiences, visions, thoughts, and dimensions imaginable. DMT is, without doubt, one of the most powerful, yet mysterious, psychedelics in existence, but to classify it as merely a drug would be to do it a great injustice. DMT is more of a trans-dimensional key into experiences so profound and awe-inspiring that it raises many questions regarding the nature of reality and


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She was renting to own a couch for her apartment. Instead she got unwanted pests -- Bedbugs and clusters of bed bug eggs.
Now she has dozens of bite marks all over her body; her legs, back and arms, 30 to 40 bites, all resulting in scars. Now she is sleeping on the floor at a neighbor's house until her apartment is disinfected.
Unfortunately, she also has had an allergic reaction to the bites and is now covered with bumps and scars. So she has to look at the scars the rest of her life.
The Rent-A-Center where she got the furniture took the couch away, refunded her payment, and sent an exterminator to inspect the apartment. But he did not spray it. A company spokesperson tells Fox 26 News they believe the bed bugs were already there claiming bugs were found in the baseboards, outlets and mattress. She says they were not.
The spokesperson goes on to say that their stores go to "great lengths" to sanitize all furniture before it's rented. She thinks they missed hers. "Right now I want them to exterminate my home, I want my furniture and I want this past me, I don't want to deal with it any more because it's been a nightmare for me."
Rent-A-Center says they want to make their customers happy, but they don't have a definitive answer to who's at fault in this case.
For more information on exterminating bed bugs, contact EHS Pest.


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The 2006 indoor finals were covered by SportUK.tv.
SportUK.tv Ltd. is a production company based in the west of England and run by a group of experienced television professionals. Their aim is to spotlight a wide range of sports & events which currently receive only minimal coverage on established television channels.
The 2008 tournament was covered by BBC Radio Bristol.
The 2006 tournament was featured in the Bath Chronicle.
Mayor of Bath
The Mayor Of Bath has presented the trophies to the winning teams since the tournament began.
Getting in touch
For a press release or to arrange media coverage of the tournament, please get in touch.


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Woot Woot – A fresh start is available for you right now and anything you choose … make 2013 a fabulous year to start fresh – start anything fresh … all tiny steps lead to the bigger picture … its a wonderful feeling of freedom to have such a choice available … positive, fun, change … make it an awesome year
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Seated Seagull Sits out Storm
Looking out my backdoor
Photo by Suzanne
Today we all woke up to this. So exciting! Yes I live in a park land on the edge of the mountains with amazing nature all around. I love today and am getting ready to go out and see what's going on. Tonight we are expected 16cm of snow so tomorrow should look even more beautiful – will keep you posted!
Bring on the snow season …
Right behind my home is this mountain, 12 minutes door to top, so we are heading up the mountain to check out the snow right now … here we go .. up up up the mountain road and then …
Bam – lots of snow …
bring on the snow season … boarders, skiers, snowshoeing fans, dogs, babies, kids, adults .. its a fresh air winter fun land alive and well full of smiles and plenty of things to do ..
How lucky am I to live where I live .. woot woot
Photos by Suzanne
Canada Shared by Canadians – Come Check Us Out
When I saw this I just had to share with you today. This is my random act of fun to share fun from Canada eh! Check us out!
If you enjoyed a taste of the short clip you will love the real deal on the long version here.
Come visit Canada we are having so much fun eh!


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Biofabrication, a recently created word, is so new and so promising in the medical world that no-one has really worked out where, and if, there is a limit to the upper reaches of this process.
Already, the convergence between technology and medicine has helped repair nerves — once thought to be an unreachable goal.
The process of printing in different materials to create parts to repair human bodies gives a legitimate use to the old cliche that this is technology limited only by the the limits of imagination.
The technology has gone from a novelty item, printing out cute toy dragons, to a serious engineering tool, creating bespoke parts to assemble, for example, a jet engine.
And it's not just printing in metal, such as when recently in Australia scientists created new ribs for a man with cancer, it's body tissue itself which can be re-crafted to create new parts.
3D printing is a great marriage to the field of regenerative medicine where damaged tissues or organs are repaired through stem cell therapy.
Stem cells, which have the potential to self-renew, can now be loaded into a printer and spat out in new shapes, including three-dimensional tissues and structures.
Last year, in a process using stem cells, Polish firefighter Darek Fidyka became the first person to recover sensory and motor function after the complete severing of his spinal cord.
And this month, a team of scientists announced a 3D-printed guide which helps regrow complex nerves after injury. The study, in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, showed how researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing to create a silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.
Already titanium hip joints are being printed, made to order for individuals, a precise fit, better and more durable than the original.
The next step will be replacement of external parts such as ears, using live tissue as the ink in the 3D printer, building healthy new parts layer by layer.
And perhaps one day, organs will be built, although at the moment the complexity of such as task makes this something for the distant future.
Here's how, according to the journal Biofabrication, scientists use living cells as printer ink.
With the art of biofabriction being so new, there are no formal qualifications for working in the field. Those who create via the 3D printer come from a range of background and tend to collaborate a lot across disciplines including engineer, biology, materials science and medicine.
However, the first four students in the world's first masters degree in biofabrication started in June in Australia.
Two Australian universities — Queensland University of Technology and the University of Wollongong — and two of the world's leading research universities in the 3D printing of replacement body parts — the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands and the University of Würzburg in Germany — are working together on the degree.
The universities has established a record in key areas of biofabrication, including polymer chemistry, cell biology and clinical implants. The universities will eventually each have 10 students.
Professor Gordon Wallace at the University of Wollongong says the first four students are getting a lot of short course work to bring them up to speed with advances in 3D printing. That includes looking at the ethical, safety and regulatory issues.
"Anyone coming into this, there's no-way they will come with all the skills but they obviously have a proven ability to learn and a proven ability to work with other people," he says.
Demand for places in the course was very high. The students were carefully selected and not just for their technical capabilities.
"There's a real knack in being able to work across disciplines," Wallace says. "Communication skills are very important, not just being able to work across difference science and engineering disciplines but also being able to communicate very effectively with the clinicians, around understanding the clinical problem and being able to deliver a solution.
The students have to acquire skills in chemistry, biology, materials and engineering.
"No-one is going to have all of the skills for every challenge," Wallace says. "It's important for us to instill these skills based on communication but with the ability to find other skills and integrate those skills into a particular project very quickly and efficiently."
They are about to get started on research with each being assigned a clinician, a medical expert, as a mentor. Topics include cartilage regeneration, building systems for improved wound healing and controlled implants.
"It's starting to unfold pretty well and the next batch of students starts next February," Wallace says. "And our other partners are also starting students."
In total the whole group across Australia and Europe will 40 students by March next year. Half are based in Europe but will be here for a year and those in Australia will be in Europe for 12 months.
Some of the experiments would have been impossible just a few years ago. This includes cartilage regeneration, wound healing and nerve/muscle regeneration.
"This ability to 3D print living cells, white stem cells, is enabling a range of very fundamental biological studies to be done," Wallace says.
It also means the commercially available 3D printers soon get overtaken.
"We have acquired what's available commercially in terms of metal polymer and biomaterial printing but they are still fairly limited in the range of materials and cells that they can accommodate," he says.
"So we continue to develop our own printers in parallel."
The process also need a fair amount of computing power. This includes for medical imaging to provide the information about the defects which need trying to be repaired.
"While we have state of the art printers in our own laboratories, quite powerful and complex to run, when to comes down to providing a clinical solution I think there are going to be very simple, dedicated 3D printers that are customised for a particular application," he says.
"For example, we've been developing a bio-pen for our orthopedic surgeon for cartilage regeneration because his preference is to print direct into the defect using a hand held 3D printer. It really makes sense to have dedicate printer for dedicated medical applications."
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I love to cook, but dinner is not always my thing. Some nights when I come home from long meetings or shoot days, the last activity I want to do is make a meal that involves 12+ ingredients. My mom worked full time while raising me but somehow managed to cook the most delicious food even after a long day at work. The plus: a lot of her recipes require 6 ingredients or less. I present to you my mama's Butterflied Garlic Butter Prawns.
Butterflied Garlic Butter Prawns
- 2 lbs jumbo prawns
- 1/2 shot rice wine
- 1/2 stick butter
- 1/4 cup minced garlic
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt
- 1/4 slice lemon
Wash and devein jumbo prawns. With a rugged slicing knife, butterfly each prawn from the curved side through the middle, spreading the prawn open onto its shell.
Melt the butter in the microwave for less than 30 seconds, or over the stovetop. Combine the garlic with the butter and mix. Brush rice wine thoroughly over each prawn, sprinkle with salt, and coat it over with the garlic butter.
Place the prawns on a greased baking pan, open side up. Bake at 450° for 10-12 minutes. Plate, drizzle with lemon juice, and serve immediately.
Watch the video if you're a visual learner and print the above for reference!


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Assistant professor, Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, US.
|Janine Ziermann is an Assistant Professor at the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington DC. She received her PhD in Germany studying the evolution and development of head muscles in larval amphibians. This was followed by a postdoc in Netherlands and one in USA to further study vertebrates. Her research focuses on the evolution and development of the cardiopharyngeal field, a field that gives rise to head, neck, and heart musculature. Additionally, she aims to use the knowledge from her research to understand the pathology of congenital defects, which often affect both head and heart structures. She won several awards, including the ?American Association of Anatomists (AAA) and the Keith and Marion Moore Young Anatomist?s Publication Award? (YAPA). Furthermore, she single authored or co-authored more than 30 papers in top journals such as Nature, Biological Reviews, books, book chapters, and commentaries.


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Using our trademark interactive style and combining dynamic physical performances with great music and sound effects, Clever Pants turns John Buchan's famous novel into an action-packed musical comedy for the stage.
Our hero, Richard Hannay becomes accidentally involved in a fast moving murder-mystery adventure full surprises and suspense. Performed in a dynamic interactive style by three very experienced native actors, this comic thriller guarantees both students and teachers a really fun theatrical immersion in 110% English.
Fantastic - students roared with laughter , especially when their classmates went onto stage. A very motivating experience for all our students of ESO.
Have a look at these videos - wonderful performance of our students, isn´t it?
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Friday's Favorite OTR
This being Halloween, it's appropriate to look at something creepy and this particular episode of the Shadow (though not originally broadcast on Halloween) certainly qualifies.
Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane take shelter from a blizzard in an isolated house that—it turns out—was built by a man who once worked as the state's executioner. Several other people have also occupied the house and one of them is soon murdered.
It's soon discovered that the house is filled with deadly booby-traps—each one designed to kill in a way that resembles an official method of execution (firing squad, gas chamber, hanging, etc.). There's also a story about $100,000 in cash hidden somewhere.
The creepiness factor is pretty high. Several occupants of the house serve as effective red herrings to distract us from the real killer and there's a goose-bump-raising sequence in which Lamont and Margo must walk down a pitch dark hallway, knowing there are probably more booby traps ahead. The denouement, when the Shadow finally confronts the killer, has its chilling moments as well.
All in all, it makes for something very appropriate to listen to on a dark Halloween night.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Action sequences the way they should be done: Comic Books
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
History of the Marvel Universe--March 1962
In this one, the FF go against the Miracle Man, a guy who seems to be able to do anything—become invulnerable; grow to giant-size; conjure up monsters, etc. He declares war on the human race, but Reed figures out the secret of his "miracles" and he ends the issue on his was to jail.
It's a good issue (and one particular visual—when Reed stretches himself into a round shape to take the place of a car tire—is really fun), but the villain isn't that memorable or interesting. In fact, he is one of the few bad guys our heroes encounter during these early issues that does not become a regular part of the group's rogue's gallery. The Miracle Man won't appear again until the mid-1970s.
It's the details adding to the FF's mythos that are most interesting. They don their costumes for the first time. We find out they have a headquarters atop a skyscraper (though it is not yet referred to as the Baxter Building). This includes a cutaway view of the place so we can see its layout. I love stuff like that.
And we see the first version of the flying Fantasticar, though this early flying bathtub isn't anywhere near as cool looking as the later version will be.
Ben is still perpetually ill-tempered and is starting to get on everyone's nerves, especially Johnny. In fact, at the end of this issue, it's not Ben who gets in a snit and quits, but Johnny.
This ending sets up the next issue, which will re-introduce a Golden Age character to modern continuity. Also, in another comic, we'll be introduced to yet another major addition to the Marvel Universe.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Action Sequences the way they should be done: Comic Strips
On weekdays, the daily strips were printed larger as well
With that much room to work with, artists could add however much visual detail and dialogue they needed to tell exciting and involving stories. It was, consequently, the heyday of the adventure strip, combining complex plots, great characterizations and well-presented action scenes. A post from a few weeks ago about Terry and the Pirates showed the best example of an adventure strip from that era, but there were lots other.
Today, though, we'll look at another wonderful strip from the 1930s. Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy was created by Roy Crane in 1924. Originally, it was a humor strip, featuring the nerdy misadventures of a store clerk named Washington Tubbs III.
But the strip evolved as Wash made an effort to actually live a life of adventure. He went off on a search for lost treasure and ran afoul with some villianous sailors. Soon, his travels took him to obscure countries, where he often got involved in civil wars and court inrigues while inevitably falling in love with just about every pretty girl he met.
In 1929, Wash teamed up with two-fisted mercenary Captain Easy, who soon became the lead character in the strip.
Wash and Easy is a wonderful strip in many ways--its sense of fun and adventure, its humor, its likable protagonists--but for the sake of this post we will again unjustly ignore everything except how good Crane was at laying out a fight scene.
Take a look at this series of six daily strips. (Sorry I can't give you a bigger, better-quality image. I hope you can see this well enough to follow what I'll be talking about.)
Even taken out of context with the rest of the story, you can easily follow the flow of the action. Wash and Easy are fighting for a rebel force in a civil war against a tyrant, battling government troops aboard a small ship. While Easy mans a machine gun (and then a cannon) in a desperate last stand against a superior force, Wash gets mixed up in his own side battle below deck.
It's a great sequence, allowing us to easily follow the action and understand what is happening as the battle progresses to the point where the entire ship is getting blown apart. Crane's cartoony visuual style meant he could really rack up the body count and still have it all seem like good fun, but he also makes sure the battle unfolds in a logical manner. Crane realized that a good action scene isn't just a series of panels showing us random chaos, but rather a series of panels that still maintain viability in telling an actual story. And this, in turn, makes the battle that much more exciting and involving.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Action sequences the way they should be done: Movies
The Dirty Dozen (1967) may be the ultimate Guy Movie. A maverick army officer is told to train 12 convicts (all doing time for violent crime) for a very dangerous mission behind enemy lines. They are to parachute into occupied France the night before D-Day and attack a chateau used by German general officers as a retreat. Basically, they are kill as many high-ranking officers as possible, then get away anyways they can.
Most of the movie involves the training of the Dirty Dozen, but the finale (the attack on the chateau) takes up the last 40 minutes or so of the fim.
And about half of that time involves the men sneaking into position. They first have to knife a few sentries and commandeer a staff car. Two men set up a machine gun at a crossroads to hold off the nearby German army units that will inevitably arrive after the shooting starts. Two others--dressed in German uniforms--enter the chateau, later using a grappling hook and rope to sneak some of the others up to the second floor. A man climbs to the roof to sabotage the radio antenna, but his foot crashes through the rooftop and he gets stuck. Inside the chateau, a insane member of the group begins to act particularly unstable at an inconvenient moment...
It's good movie-making on several levels. First of all, it's suspenseful. The Dozen have to kill or avoid guards and remain undetected while getting into position for their final attack. If anything goes wrong, they are all likely to get killed. Skillfully filmed by director Robert Aldritch, the sneaking around sequence does not slow the movie down or bore the viewer. Rather, it helps build up our emotions in such a way as to make the final battle that much more satisfying to watch.
Most importantly, when the fighting does start, all that preparation helps us to follow the action. We know the geography of the chateau and its outer grounds. We know where the characters are in relation to each other. We know what each of them is doing and why they are doing it. We are able to keep track of who is still alive and who has been killed. The finale of The Dirty Dozen, eventually culminating around one character's desperate race to drop live grenades down air shafts and get the heck out of there before everything blows up, is one of the classic action sequences of all time.
Kelly's Heroes (1970) is another great World War II film. This one involves a small, elite armored infantry unit in France. They capture a German officer and learn about a town miles behind enemy lines that contains 16 million dollars in gold.
As one character states, robbing a bank behind enemy lines could possibly be the perfect crime. But before they loot the bank, they'll need to do something about the German soldiers--and the three Tiger tanks--guarding the place.
As we did with The Dirty Dozen, we'll rather unfairly leave aside comments about great characters and dialogue that combined with an anti-authority attitude that help make both these movies so good. Instead, we'll concentrate on how well the movie does in taking the time to set up the final battle scene.
The unit (along with a Sherman tank) reach the town. Several characters sneak in and take position in a bell tower, where they can see pretty much the entire place. We can also see everything from their point-of-view and hear them radio in a report to the others, which gives us a clear understanding of the tactical situation. Meanwhile, the commander of the Sherman tank explains how the only weak spot on a Tiger tank is its rear armor--another key piece of information we need to follow the ensuing action.
The rest of the unit sneaks into town. As in the other movie, they must knife a sentry and avoid detection. They use the ringing bell in the tower and the sound of the Tigers warming up their engines to sneak their own tank into town and get it into position. A machine gun is set up outside what is presumed to be the main German barracks. One of the guys in the bell tower gets out his sniper rifle and picks his targets. An explosive charge is set at a key point.
Once again, none of this is boring. It works for the exact same reason the comparable scene in The Dirty Dozen works. It sets us up emotionally for the final battle, as well as making sure we understand the tactical situation. When the fighting starts, we always know exactly what is going on.
These are the sort of movies that modern filmmakers really need to pay more attention to. These are prime examples of how to properly present an action sequence. They didn't make us want to throw up from motion sickness--instead, they actually entertained us.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The History of the Marvel Universe--January 1962
When we were introduced to our heroes in the first issue, there was a sequence in which they were inadvertently scaring the snot out of innocent bystanders, who had no idea who the oddly-powered foursome was. But as the second issue opens, the FF are now world-famous, known to everyone. It's fun to presume they've perhaps held a press conference and spent some time doing disaster relief or catching bank robbers.
But the threat level goes up when four shape-changing aliens impersonate them while committing a variety of crimes. Soon, the world is scared of them once more and the army tosses them into specially designed prison cells.
In a nifty scene, all four must individually use their powers and their brains to make an escape. They track down the aliens and capture them. The aliens turn out to be advance scouts for an invasion fleet. So the FF turn the tables by pretending to be the aliens and bluffing the invasion fleet into fleeing our galaxy.
Those aliens would be back, though. This is the first appearance of the Skrulls, the war-like and creepy-looking villains who will become a fixture of the Marvel Universe.
Once again, Jack Kirby gets to show off his talent for designing bizarrely fun creatures. Not only are the Skrulls (when in their natural form) a great design, but Kirby also goes to town drawing the bizarre monsters they turn into during their final tussle with the FF.
There's also some nice bits of characterization involving the Thing—one scene in which, overwhelmed by bitterness, he has to be restrained from going on a senseless rampage. Then another in which he briefly turns back into Ben Grimm, only to become the Thing again almost before he has time to realize he's back to normal. All this is building up to a sort of emotional epiphany he'll have in issue #5.
There's a plot-hole at the end—Reed hypnotizes the captured Skrulls into thinking they are just cows and leaves them peacefully grazing in a pasture. I love that, but only three of the four Skrulls are there at the end. Reed says the fourth Skrull is heading back to his home world with the invasion fleet, but that doesn't make sense in context to how events unfolded. Somehow, Stan and Jack lost track of one of the Skrulls when they wrote this tale.
But it all turns out for the good. Seven or eight years later, writer Roy Thomas would use this plot hole as a key part of his multi-part Avengers epic, "The Kree-Skrull War." But it'll be some time before we get to that. For now, let's move on to the introduction of yet another super hero.
Tales to Astonish was one of several science-fiction anthology books that Marvel was publishing at the time. The cover story in this issue—"The Man in the Ant Hill"—is about a scientist named Henry Pym. Pym creates a serum that shrinks him down to the size of an ant.
The serum works faster and better than Pym expects and he ends up too tiny to reach the growth serum. He's attacked by ants and ends up dodging the insects through the tunnels of their ant hill. Finally, with the help of one ant who has instinctively aids him, he is able to escape the ant hill and reach the growth serum. The story ends when he vows to set aside his dangerous experiments.
But he'd go back on this vow before long. The story was popular with readers and Stan Lee soon decided to bring Henry Pym back as a regular character. Before 1962 ends, we'll see the scientist don a costume and shrink back down again to fight crime as the astonishing Ant Man.
But for now, the Fantastic Four would remain the only active super heroes on the block. When we return to look at March 1962, we'll see how they fare against the Miracle Man.
Monday, October 20, 2008
From the pulps to the comics without missing a beat
Hamilton broke into print in Weird Tales magazine in 1926. By 1948, he had contributed 79 short stories and novellas to that particular periodical, aside from finding success elsewhere in the pulp marketplace.
Many of his Weird Tales entries recounted the adventures of a Space Patrol in the far-future, protecting Earth (and sometimes the entire galaxy) from horrible threats. Using both human and non-human characters as his protagonists, Hamilton gave us a set of plot-driven space operas full of self-consistent super-science and well-described action set pieces. (You know, when you look at science fiction in general, it's really quite amazing how often the entire galaxy is in danger of blowing up or getting sucked into another dimension or having all intelligent life eradicated. But life, after all, would be pretty dull without the occasional galactic-level threat to spice things up.)
During the 1940s, Hamilton also gave us many of the adventures of Captain Future (a character original created by eidtor Mort Weisinger, but fleshed out by Hamilton). Captain Future (who was in reality scientist Curt Newton) was meant to appeal to teenage readers, but the stories are fun enough to appeal to adults as well.
Captain Future was essentially a superhero. Set in (naturally) the future, each novel had the good captain and his "Futuremen" (a robot, a shape-changing android and a disembodied brain) battling villiany throughout the Solar System, with occasional forays into deep space or other dimensions. And with a robot, android and dimembodied brain at your side, you really can't help but be cool.
As with his Weird Tales stories, plot was emphasized over characterization, with stories that were set in a fantasy version of our galaxy that didn't concern itself too much with scientific plausibility. But in this, Hamilton was merely playing to his strengths. He was perfectly capable of giving us likable heroes and loathsome villains, but he was at his best coming up with clever, convoluted plots that always follow their own internal logic.
As the pulp market began to collapse in the late 1940s, Hamilton took his skills into the growing comic book market. This is hardly surprising--he had been writing stories with a comic book sensibility before there even was a comic book sensibilty.
Hamilton's most important comic stories were in the various Superman-related comics. Once again, his ability to plot out internally consistant stories set in a fantastic world of super-powered beings was his main strength.
Some of his most entertaining stuff appeared in Adventure Comics, which featured the ever-growing Legion of Super Heroes. A good example of his work there can be found in Adventure #318 (March 1964), in a story titled "Mutiny."
"Mutiny" begins with the Legion helping to evacuate a planet that's about to explode. Sun Boy, despite suffering from fatigue and overwork, is determined to lead the mission. He and a team of fellow Legionnaires load the planet's inhabitants onto a giant space ark.
But Sun Boy makes a navigational error and the ark enters a dangerous area of space. When Cosmic Boy points out the error, Sun Boy accuses him of mutiny and uses robot assistants to toss him in the brig. When the other Legionnaires object, Sun Boy threatens to generate enough heat to blow up the ark unless they agree to abandon ship. He puts them on a small lifeboat with no food or radio and only a little bit of fuel.
The bulk of the story consists of the Legionnaires figuring out how to survive. By thinking their situation through carefully and using their various powers in clever ways, they are able to planet-hop to several locations and deal with a number of dangers.
Finally, using fuel pods salvaged from an ancient wrecked space ship, they catch up with the ark. The ark is caught in a meteor storm and Sun Boy has gone catatonic. The Legionnaires bring the ark to safety. Sun Boy is examined by a doctor and discovered to be suffering from "space fatigue." The story ends when he is cured.
Hamilton put together fun Legion stories by coming up with countless clever variations on how the characters could work together. In "Mutiny," each of the castaway Legionnaires has his or her moment to shine. The story builds a sincere level of tension by showing them think their way—step-by-step—out of a seemingly hopeless situation.
Over in Superman comics, Hamilton was also plotting out some cool new elements to the Man of Steel's mythology. In Superman #164 (November 1964), arch villain Lex Luthor challanges Superman to a duel on a planet with a red sun. Under such a sun, Superman has no superpowers, making it a fair fight.
Superman must depend more on his wits than his might, but things get complicated when the two opponents stumble across a civilization that has lost the knowledge to make use of the many ancient scientific devices lying around. Lex helps them out, fostering the attitude among them that Lex is a hero, while Superman is a villain. They even rename their planet Lexor in Lex's honor. This story ends with Superman taking Lex back to prison on Earth (but only after Lex has shown a rare burst of compassion for the Lexorians). Lexor becomes a part of Superman's mythos, with several important later stories taking place there.
Edmond Hamilton is pretty much the poster boy for what made the pulp magazines and Silver Age comic books so entertaining. simply because his storytelling skills were always infused with a sense of fun. In the pulp era, he used his prose to delight his readers. By the late 1950s & early 1960s, Hamilton and other writers such as Otto Binder, Gardner Fox and E. Nelson Bridwell were joining talented artists in building an ever-growing mythology in the DC Universe with a rapidly expanding cast of characters. It was all very silly and implausible, but it all still managed to make its own sort of sense. And, most importantly, none of these writers ever forgot about the importance of letting their readers have fun.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Friday's Favorite OTR
Okay, this one isn't really old-time radio, but it was a nifty-keen attempt to revive the medium with adaptations of two stories starring one of the most dynamic and entertaining characters to come out of the pulp fiction era.
In the mid-1970s, a guy named Alan B. Goldstein got the idea of adapting Robert E. Howard's original Conan the Barbarian stories into audio adventures. Apparently, he had hopes of making this an ongoing series.
Writer Roy Thomas, who was at that time writing a superb Conan comic for Marvel Comics, also liked the idea and penned the scripts for two of the stories.
Both the stories chosen were set early in Conan's career--a wise idea if these were indeed to be the jumping off point of a continuing series. "The Frost Giant's Daughter" has Conan still in the northern part of his fictional world--not far from his homeland. Knocked unconscious by an opponent, he wakes up still dazed and sees a beautiful woman standing over him. The woman taunts him, causing him to run after her in a rage. But she is leading him into a trap involving her rather bizarre brothers...
"The Tower of the Elephant" is one of my favorite Conan stories. On the one hand, it's a sort of fantasy "Mission: Impossible" story, with Conan and a more experienced thief breaking into a wizard's tower. But later, we see horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's influence on Howard's prose when Conan encounters an imprisoned being with a weird and cosmic back-story. The two themes mesh nicely into a tale that runs the gamut from taut suspense to action to creepiness to tragedy.
Both the audio adaptaions (eventually released on an LP record) are excellent, with good acting and skillfully done sound effects. In both cases, a third-person narrator is used to move the story along while perserving much of Howard's entertaining prose.
Sadly, Goldstein's vision of a continuing series never came to pass. But the two Conan stories that were produced were both worthwhile--solid, faithful adaptations of two excellent sword-and-sorcery adventures.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The perfect Mystery Book Store
Here's the elements that would make up this particular bookstore:
1. Book are divided by sub-genre (hard-boiled, police procedural, media tie-ins, etc) and then divided by author within those catagories. The selection is comprehensive, with both new and classic books.
2. A small section of used books that customers can buy/trade for is also available.
3. DVD section with mystery movies/TV shows
4. Section for selling CDs of mystery/detective old-time radio shows.
5. A small cafe.
6. "The Diogenes Club": An area with comfy chairs/sofas. Also, a copy of the game "Clue" is there free for people to play anytime. There would be selection of classic mystery fiction for people to read for free and a Sherlock Holmes chess set.
7. Large-screen TV in the Diogenes Club.
8. For an hour or so each day, at a scheduled time, old-time radio mystery shows will be played over the store speakers.
9. Three nights a week: Mystery movie night on the large-screen TV. (It's turned off the rest of the time--to allow customers and browsers a properly quiet atmosphere.)
10. Once a week talk by an author and/or mystery historian.
11. Once a week book discussion group.
12. A small magazine section with stuff like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Armchair Detective, etc.
13. A small games section for genre-specific board games and computer games.
14. A small graphic novel section for genre-appropriate materials.
15. Once a month catered mystery dinner whodunit night.
Of course, to be really, really perfect, someone would have to actually get murdered from time to time. The police would be baffled and I would have to step in and use brilliant deductive reasoning to identify the killer. I've always wanted to do that, but the opportunity never seems to arise. But, to save my customers a knife in the back or poison in their coffee, I suppose I'll have to leave that part out anyways.
If I ever become a multi-millionaire, I'm gonna open this place. Don't anyone hold their breaths waiting, though. The multi-millionaire part seems a tad unlikely.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
History of Marvel Comics--November 1961
In the 1940s, Marvel Comics wasn't Marvel Comics yet. They were known as Timely Comics. Like most Golden Age comic book publishers, Timely jumped aboard the superhero bandwagon after the phenomenal success of Superman (published by rival DC Comics).
Timely did some fun superhero stuff, with their costumed do-gooders going up against the Nazis even before the U.S. entered World War II. Their most successful characters (both commercially and artistically) were Captain America and Bucky, the Human Torch and Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner.
But by the late 1940s, superheroes were on their way out. Comic books themselves, though, remained enormously popular. Through the 1950s, Timely (well, actually, they were now called Atlas Comics) made a go of it with comics featuring Westerns, romance stories, science fiction, detective stories and so on. There was a short-lived attempt to revive Captain America, the Torch and Namor in 1953, but this didn't catch on.
By the time 1961 rolled around, Atlas Comics' publisher Martin Goodman noticed that superheroes were coming back into vogue. DC Comics had reintroduced new versions of many of their 1940s heroes—most notably Green Lantern and Flash. All these new heroes, as well as their old stalwarts Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, were being featured in a comic book called The Justice League of America. And kids by the hundreds of thousands were eagerly spending their dimes for copies of the JLA.
Well, by golly, if DC had a successful superhero group, then Atlas (well, actually, they were now called Marvel Comics) should have such a group as well. If I remember the story correctly, Goodman brought up this idea with writer Stan Lee on the golf course. Before you could yell "Fore!" Marvel was putting out its first superhero comic book in nearly a decade. The Fantastic Four were born.
I have no idea whether Stan Lee or anyone else initially intended to tie their new superhero stuff into their 1940s continuity—whether they meant from the start for it all to be part of the same universe. But this would eventually happen—before long, both Captain America and the Sub-Mariner would be reintroduced into the more modern continuity. Those old characters were quite simply too cool to leave behind. By the end of the 1960s, the WWII-era stories would be considered an established part of the new and ever-growing Marvel Universe. Keep that in mind. It'll be important later on.
FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (November 1961)
First of all, I will state right off that I'm not getting into the debate about who deserves the most credit for the existence of the Fantastic Four—Stan Lee or artist Jack Kirby. I know there was some bitterness in later years about who contributed what to those early comics (and I do believe that Kirby was later treated poorly by Marvel Comics), but I have enormous respect for both Lee and Kirby as storytellers. All I'm gonna do is talk about the end product—the first book in what would represent the birth of a vibrant and entertaining alternate reality.
The Fantastic Four consists of brilliant scientist Reed Richards, gruff test-pilot Ben Grimm, Reed's gal Sue Storm and Sue's teenage brother Johnny. Reed took his three friends on a test flight of a new rocket, but things go awry when the ship is pelted with "cosmic rays." They crash-land, then soon discover each of them has gained a unique superpower. Reed can stretch his body like rubber. Sue can turn invisible. Johnny becomes a new version of the Human Torch. Ben Grimm gets the rotten end of the stick—he becomes the super-strong but ugly and rock-like Thing.
It's an interesting origin, especially when you remember that the FF is created because Reed, smart as he is, screwed up when he ignores Ben's warnings about the danger of cosmic rays. It's an important point—because Ben is the one who gets turned into something monstrous-looking as a result. Ben's bitterness over this is the strongest emotional linchpin of this first issue and, though he and Reed gradually morph into best friends in later issues, Reed's search for a cure for Ben will be a reoccurring plot-point for years.
In this first issue, the FF doesn't have costumes—though that will soon change. We learn in the next issue that they don't have secret identities either--another point deliberately made to get them to stand out from DC's characters.
The FF's first mission is taking on the Mole Man, a guy who lives on a remote island called Monster Isle and sends his subterranean creatures around the world to steal nuclear reactors. Our heroes confront the villain, beat up a few cool-looking monsters (Jack Kirby was incapable of designing a monster that didn't look cool) and foil the Mole Man's plans to destroy the surface world.
Kirby's strong artwork and character design carry the plot along quickly and effectively, while the personality conflicts between the characters really did succeed in making the comic stand out from the crowd. It's an auspicious start for the new comic. Perhaps the only drawback is that poor Sue isn't given a lot to do. In fact, until Lee and Kirby eventually opt to amp up her powers a few years down the line, this will be a reoccurring problem with the character.
But would the Fantastic Four have to stand alone against supervillains, monsters and invading aliens? Of course not. In fact, concurrent with FF #2, we would also get our first glance of a character who would eventually join the ranks of the superheroes. But that's a story for our next entry in this series.
[Interesting side fact: In this issue, the FF are based in "Central City," copying DC habit of creating fictional cities to house their superheroes. By issue #3, though, their hometown morphs in plain ol' New York City.]
Monday, October 13, 2008
The strip was created in 1934 by Milt Caniff, who continued as writer/artist through 1946. After this, he left the strip and created Steve Canyon. Terry continued on until the early 1970s, but it was never as good as it had been during the Caniff years.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Monday, October 6, 2008
Tommy guns, bootleggers and G-Men
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Now I've got that song stuck in my head!!!!


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Boyer Ford in Minneapolis has extremely low prices! Is this because they are trying to win business in the Twin Cities? I was shocked when I was shopping for an Ford Edge Sport.
Boyer Ford in Minneapolis has extremely low prices! Is this because they are trying to win
business in the Twin Cities? I was shocked when I was shopping for an Ford Edge Sport. I
found a 2013 Ford Edge Sport and looking at a Ford Explorer - they were one of the
lowest priced dealers in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis Area) Just curious how some dealers
have such great prices over other dealers? Why is there such a variance?
19 Answers
I recently Just purchased a Vehicle from Boyer Ford In NE Minneapolis and I Was helped by a very nice salesman by the name of Ben He was very helpful, and got me a great Deal on my Focus. Boyer is most known for their commercial vehicles, and I guess they started selling cars a year ago. Ben told me that they are pricing vehicles less expensive that other dealers due to their low overhead, and excellent financing options. If you want a great deal on a car I recommend Ben at Boyer. Thanks, Brandon
Tom I don't think these are hold over vehicles - I just checked and most of their inventory is used - unless they are trucks. Boyer Ford has been pricing cars below market in our area to gain market share. They also have on the the nicest facilities around. Top notch dealership and the plus side is you save time and money.
So I answer directly to this Tom character who puts me on hand plot. So why doesn't this 57K poster respond?!?! He just throws his 57K poster weight around with quick comments without reading the actual questions I guess. Someone need to rename Tom to ROBOTOM!
Thanks Js08016 or Jim... thats a flavorful comment of the comments to the online atmosphere and the current state of the state. I would comment and state that not all vehicle history reports are flavorful for the state depending on the state. But I will concur that i'm not saying... I'm just saying.
I play hockey and haven't been on my "A" game lately. A friend of mine told me to visit this forum for infinite knowledge in which I can find my inner coach. I just want to give a shout out and thanks Hashish Meat, I never looked at it from that atmosphere. Thank you for infinite wisdom.
Dany Heatley! # 15 MN WILD! I would say you have come to the right place. After that messed up state of the state you made out of that Ferrari - ouch. You need to seek Jim's (Js08016) advice though above, and before taking a recently purchased supercar down the road at 200MPH and splitting it in two... that was quite an oracular spectacular. I hope the next guy pulls a history report. I mean Jim couldn't be more helpful! Wow. Now... Let's get down to brass tacks here shall we.... how much for the ape? And who is this Boyer Ford?
I leave for a few hours to return to this? I mean some of you have some serious problems - all of which I do admire.... Boyer Ford is a great place to buy a car, I was just asking for simple logic. I mean in my mind it doesn't make sense why someone would pay more for a perfectly good car lower miles, good history from another dealer...Boyer Ford is by far the best prices in our area. They also have the best service and of course complimentary history reports and letter openers.
I'll take some Hashish Meat for 300$
The old "can I take your car to my mechanic?", of course we always welcome people to have a mechanic check out our stuff before they buy it, but it seems like every time they come back with a $2,000 list of preventive maintenance items the mechanic has "recommended" (made up) that need to be done, unless of course the prospective customer is okay with his family perishing in a fiery wreckage- in which case the laundry list of things can be put off for a couple of months… This is especially annoying if combined with the former "I'll give you $5,000 for your $8,000 car" rant above
Spend 6 hours at the dealership, drive 42 of our 50 cars, take three to you mechanic and then offer me $5,000 out the door on my $8,000 car… no offense, but if I can discount the vehicle $3,000 (or just about 40% for all you math types) wouldn't I have been massively overcharging you in the first place… just how much money do you think we make?!?!?
No seriously go to Boyer Ford and talk to them first. Don't waste your time digging around to save $100 they already have the best prices and they will prove it. Just go these ask them to show you the cars... if you are here you already know. Boyer Ford or Boyer Ford Trucks I can't remember what they go by these days... but a great dealership.
I had this pain in my side one time... but it's gone now.
Wow thanks again for opening up on here Dany... I am very pleased you have found a medium to voice your opinions and share some of your amazing and talented wisdom. We can always use the advise from a guy ranting in a car forum - whom actually split a Ferrari in half... no wonder you have pain... your lucky to be alive. Keep up the good work Dany! We are very proud of you!
Jim! Kind word are always welcome in the land of make believe! I appreciate the response! You have made a beleiber out of me! Oh wait I meant....
The English name Turkey, now applied to the modern Republic of Turkey, is historically derived via Old French Turquie from the Medieval Latin Turchia, Turquia, Greek Τουρκία. It is first recorded in Middle English (as turkye, torke, later Turkie, Turky), attested in Chaucer, ca. 1369.[1][2] Turkey was the name of a horse I used to know.... once....
I forgot when the horse turned 13 we had his left legged removed and affixed to his upper left torso to support a slight lean which occurred at later times of the day against the fence in the south field. Now how this relates to auto.... well one time my car got stuck by that exact place where the horse was sitting.... south field area. I got it running again but why is the left front tail light not working? The right side does but the left doesn't? It's not because of the horse is it?
The doctor told me about that... so you think that pain I keep having in my left side is from accessory olfactory bulb? The doctor mentioned something about this with aging... Thanks again! I really have found this forum useful for my medical issues.
Dany I must say you are just a bright bulb! Stick to hockey and quit using the Internet it's not healthy for you. In fact it's detrimental for idiot jocks to read or write... they should train you like race horses and put you through college post career. No need for you to confuse your agenda. Why are you here anyway? I know why hashish is makes perfect sense.
I just lost $50... from some guy who pulled a flush twice in a row. MAN. So now how do you replace brake pads on a 2002 Honda accord? I have the pads... got a C-clamp... so... enlighten this gambler so I can keep on keepin on. I'm busted down flat broke.
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When the University of Ghana went to the polls last year, a number of extraneous factors muddied an election which was supposed to herald in a regime of "voting on meritocracy". But as you can guess, the supposed last bastion of progressiveness failed to blaze the trail. Ethnocentrism led the way while bigotry placed a close second.
The favorite candidate in the run-up to the elections was a northern Muslim while his opponent was a southern Christian. Pre-election, no one thought those two trivial defining characteristics was going to have any bearing on how people voted. I mean Legon is supposed to be the citadel of learning in the gate way to Africa, right? But unfortunately that was not to be the case.
I had closely followed the elections and written a number of articles on the superiority of the credentials as well as the proven track record of one of the candidates in student politics over the other. This was the era which gave birth to the "Sobolo Sippers", a nickname my roommate and I earned in student circles due to our repeated mention of that red magical drink. We exalted our preferred candidates name, trumped his accomplishments and rebutted the potshots thrown by the other side. We even censured our guy, albeit less harshly, when he got carried away during the Presidential debate. All this was done without any recourse to bastardizing the other candidate's ethnicity or religion. Heck, I was blunt in refuting a pseudo "Fatwa" issued by some John Doe Muslim (or should I say Isshaque Doe) who called out my preferred candidate for choosing a Christian as his running mate.
And so I was lost of words when on the eve of the elections, I read an apology of an article calling for "…believers to not vote for the Muslim candidate because he is the devil in the wolf's skin here to deceive". Yes, you read right! That was the characterization of one of the candidates by a bigot. Not enough, some guys loitered around the election booths, asking would be voters if they knew the religion of the candidates in the race and advising them to vote along religious lines.
It is for these reasons that "I stand with Ahmad". Now do not get me wrong, it is not my intent to paint the whole campus with a brush of bigotry. The front line supporters of my candidate did not share his faith. They shared his conviction to serve but the fact that such bigotry was swept under the carpet is a tad worrying.
And that is why #iStandWithAhmed even though I am 6000 miles away in a line about to buy "gob3"(Red-Red/ Beans and Gari). Because I have seen a candidate lose an election solely on the grounds of his religion. Because people look at me twice once I tell them I am from a Zongo. Because people still say northerners in Ghana have no right to lead because "most of the nation's resources are in the southern zone and thus only southerners have a right to presidency".
I know some might read this and say it is simply an attempt to clutch at straws and appropriate a distant event to my experience but in a subtle way, my realities and that of a million others in this country is not different from that of brown skinned Ahmed Muhammed.
Yes an English teacher in Adisco will not call the police should a Gariba bring a homemade clock to school but will he not chase him to the last floor of a building resulting in him jumping to his death simply because Gariba does not want to attend the congregation of a faith he does not believe in?
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Python to Debian source package conversion utility
Project description
stdeb produces Debian source packages from Python packages via a new distutils command, sdist_dsc. Automatic defaults are provided for the Debian package, but many aspects of the resulting package can be customized (see the customizing section, below). An additional command, bdist_deb, creates a Debian binary package, a .deb file.
Two convenience utilities are also provided. pypi-install will query the Python Package Index (PyPI) for a package, download it, create a .deb from it, and then install the .deb. py2dsc will convert a distutils-built source tarball into a Debian source package.
- News
- The commands
- Examples
- Download
- Install (or, using stdeb to create an stdeb installer)
- Background
- Features
- Customizing the produced Debian source package (config options)
- Prerequisites
- Call for volunteers
- Mailing list
- License
- Authors
- Additional Credits
master branch
This branch is recommended for all users. It requires Debhelper 7, and thus requires Ubuntu Intrepid or Debian Lenny (unless you use backports).
- 2009-01-09: Version 0.5.1. Bugfix release. See the download page, the changelog and release notes.
- 2009-12-30: Version 0.5.0. See the download page. Highlights for this release (you may also wish to consult the full changelog):
- A new pypi-install script will automatically download, make a .deb, and install packages from the Python Package Index (PyPI).
- Removal of the setuptools dependency.
- New option (–guess-conflicts-provides-replaces) to query original Debian packages for Conflicts/Provides/Replaces information.
- As a result of these changes and to fix a couple bugs/warts, some minor backwards incompatible changes and deprecations were made. Please check the release notes.
- 2009-12-28: Version 0.4.3 Released. See the download page. See the changelog and release notes.
- 2009-11-02: Version 0.4.2 Released. See the download page. See the changelog and release notes.
- 2009-10-04: Version 0.4.1 Released. See the download page. See the changelog and release notes.
- 2009-09-27: Version 0.4 Released. See the download page. This version switches to debhelper 7. See the Changelog for 0.4.
old-stable branch (0.3 and earlier)
This branch is recommended if you are operating on older Debian/Ubuntu distributions. It is compatible with Ubuntu Hardy.
- 2009-10-04: Version 0.3.2 Released. See the download page. See the Changelog for 0.3.2
- 2009-09-27: Version 0.3.1 Released. See the download page. See the Changelog for 0.3.1
- 2009-03-21: Version 0.3 Released. See the download page. See the Changelog for 0.3
- 2009-02-17: Version 0.2.3 Released. See the download page. See the Changelog for 0.2.3
- 2009-01-29: Version 0.2.2 Released. See the download page. See the Changelog for 0.2.2
- 2008-04-26: Version 0.2.1 Released. See the download page. See the Changelog for 0.2.1
- 2008-04-26: Version 0.2 Released. See the download page. See the Changelog for 0.2
- 2007-04-02: Version 0.2.a1 Released. See the old download page.
- 2006-06-19: Version 0.1 Released. See the old download page.
The commands
pypi-install, command-line command
pypi-install takes a package name, queries PyPI for it, downloads it, builds a Debian source package and then .deb from it, and this installs it:
pypi-install [options] mypackage
py2dsc, command-line command
py2dsc takes a .tar.gz source package and build a Debian source package from it:
py2dsc [options] mypackage-0.1.tar.gz # uses pre-built Python source package
sdist_dsc, distutils command
All methods eventually result in a call to the sdist_dsc distutils command. You may prefer to do so directly:
python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command sdist_dsc
A Debian source package is produced from unmodified Python packages. The following files are produced in a newly created subdirectory deb_dist:
- packagename_versionname.orig.tar.gz
- packagename_versionname-debianversion.dsc
- packagename_versionname-debianversion.diff.gz
These can then be compiled into binary packages using the standard Debian machinery (e.g. dpkg-buildpackage).
bdist_deb, distutils command
Also, a bdist_deb distutils command is installed. This calls the sdist_dsc command and then runs dpkg-buildpackage on the result:
python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
A note about telling distutils to use the stdeb distutils commands
Distutils command packages can also be specified in distutils configuration files (rather than using the --command-packages command line argument to setup.py), as specified in the distutils documentation. Specifically, you could include this in your ~/.pydistutils.cfg file:
[global] command-packages: stdeb.command
These all assume you have stdeb installed in your system Python path. stdeb also works from a non-system Python path (e.g. a virtualenv).
Quickstart 1: Install something from PyPI now, I don't care about anything else
Do this from the command line:
pypi-install mypackage
Warning: Despite doing its best, there is absolutely no way stdeb can guarantee all the Debian package dependencies will be properly fulfilled without manual intervention. Using pypi-install bypasses your ability to customize stdeb's behavior. Read the rest of this document to understand how to make better packages.
Quickstart 2: Just tell me the fastest way to make a .deb
(First, install stdeb as you normally install Python packages.)
Do this from the directory with your setup.py file:
python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
This will make a Debian source package (.dsc, .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz files) and then compile it to a Debian binary package (.deb) for your current system. The result will be in deb_dist.
Warning: installing the .deb file on other versions of Ubuntu or Debian than the one on which it was compiled will result in undefined behavior. If you have extension modules, they will probably break. Even in the absence of extension modules, bad stuff will likely happen.
For this reason, it is much better to build the Debian source package and then compile that (e.g. using Ubuntu's PPA) for each target version of Debian or Ubuntu.
Quickstart 3: I read the warning, so show me how to make a source package, then compile it
This generates a source package:
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/Reindent/Reindent-0.1.0.tar.gz py2dsc Reindent-0.1.0.tar.gz
This turns it into a .deb using the standard Debian tools. (Do this on the same source package for each target distribution):
cd deb_dist/reindent-0.1.0/ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us
This installs it:
cd .. sudo dpkg -i python-reindent_0.1.0-1_all.deb
Another example, with more explanation
This example is more useful if you don't have a Python source package (.tar.gz file generated by python setup.py sdist). For the sake of illustration, we do download such a tarball, but immediately unpack it (alternatively, use a version control system to grab the unpacked source of a package):
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/Reindent/Reindent-0.1.0.tar.gz tar xzf Reindent-0.1.0.tar.gz cd Reindent-0.1.0
The following will generate a directory deb_dist containing the files reindent_0.1.0-1.dsc, reindent_0.1.0.orig.tar.gz and reindent_0.1.0-1.diff.gz, which, together, are a debian source package:
python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command sdist_dsc
The source generated in the above way is also extracted (using dpkg-source -x) and placed in the deb_dist subdirectory. To continue the example above:
cd deb_dist/reindent-0.1.0 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us
Finally, the generated package can be installed:
cd .. sudo dpkg -i python-reindent_0.1.0-1_all.deb
For yet another example of use, with still more explanation, see allmydata-tahoe ticket 251.
Files are available at the download page (for ancient releases, see the old download page).
The git repository is available at http://github.com/astraw/stdeb
Install (or, using stdeb to create an stdeb installer)
For a bit of fun, here's how to install stdeb using stdeb. Note that stdeb is also in Debian and Ubuntu, so this recipe is only necessary to install a more recent stdeb.
STDEB_VERSION="0.5.1" # Download stdeb wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/stdeb/stdeb-$STDEB_VERSION.tar.gz # Extract it tar xzf stdeb-$STDEB_VERSION.tar.gz # Enter extracted source package cd stdeb-$STDEB_VERSION # Build .deb (making use of stdeb package directory in sys.path). python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb # Install it sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/python-stdeb_$STDEB_VERSION-1_all.deb
For the average Python package, its source distribution (python_package.tar.gz created with python setup.py sdist) contains nearly everything necessary to make a Debian source package. This near-equivalence encouraged me to write this distutils extension, which executes the setup.py file to extract relevant information. setuptools may optionally be used.
I wrote this initially to Debianize several Python packages of my own, but I have the feeling it could be generally useful. It appears similar, at least in theory, to easydeb, Logilab's Devtools, bdist_dpkg and bdist_deb.
- Create a package for all Python versions supported by python-support. (Limiting this range is possible with the XS-Python-Version: config option.)
- Automatic conversion of Python package names into valid Debian package names.
- Attempt to automatically convert version numbers such that ordering is maintained. See also the config option Forced-Upstream-Version.
- Fine grained control of version numbers. (Debian-Version, Forced-Upstream-Version, Upstream-Version-Prefix, Upstream-Version-Suffix config options.)
- Install .desktop files. (MIME-Desktop-Files config option.)
- Install .mime and .sharedmimeinfo files. (MIME-File and Shared-MIME-File config options.)
- Install copyright files. (Copyright-File config option.)
- Apply patches to upstream sources. (Stdeb-Patch-File config option.)
- Pass environment variables to setup.py script. (Setup-Env-Vars config option.)
Customizing the produced Debian source package (config options)
stdeb will attempt to provide reasonable defaults, but these are only guesses.
There are two ways to customize the Debian source package produced by stdeb. First, you may provide options to the distutils commands. Second, you may provide an stdeb.cfg file.
stdeb distutils command options
The sdist_dsc command takes command-line options to the distutils command. For example:
python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command sdist_dsc --debian-version 0MyName1
This creates a Debian package with the Debian version set to "0MyName1".
These options can also be set via distutils configuration files. (These are the setup.cfg file alongside setup.py and the ~/.pydistutils.cfg file.) In that case, put the arguments in the [sdist_dsc] section. For example, a project's ~/.setup.cfg file might have this:
[sdist_dsc] force-buildsystem: False
To pass these commands to sdist_dsc when calling bdist_deb, do this:
python setup.py sdist_dsc --debian-version 0MyName1 bdist_deb
|Command line option
|–dist-dir (-d)
|directory to put final built distributions in (default='deb_dist')
|–patch-already-applied (-a)
|patch was already applied (used when py2dsc calls sdist_dsc)
|–extra-cfg-file (-x)
|additional .cfg file (in addition to .egg-info/stdeb.cfg if present)
|–patch-file (-p)
|patch file applied before setup.py called (incompatible with file specified in .cfg)
|–patch-level (-l)
|patch file applied before setup.py called (incompatible with file specified in .cfg)
|–patch-posix (-q)
|apply the patch with –posix mode
|–remove-expanded-source-dir (-r)
|remove the expanded source directory requires.txt in the egg-info directory
|If True (currently the default), enable migration from old stdeb that used pycentral
|If True (currently the default), limit binary package to single Python version, working around Debian bug 548392 of debhelper
|If True (the default), set 'DH_OPTIONS= –buildsystem=python_distutils'
|If True, set –pycentral-backwards- compatibility=False and –workaround- 548392=False. (Default=False).
|If True, attempt to guess Conflicts/Provides/Replaces in debian/control based on apt-cache output. (Default=False).
|–use-premade-distfile (-P)
|use .zip or .tar.gz file already made by sdist command
You may also pass any arguments described below for the stdeb.cfg file via distutils options. Passing the arguments this way (either on the command line, or in the [sdist_dsc] section of a distutils .cfg file) will take precedence. The option name should be given in lower case.
stdeb.cfg configuration file
You may write config files of the format understood by ConfigParser. When building each package, stdeb looks for the existance of a stdeb.cfg in the directory with setup.py. You may specify an additional config file with the command-line option –extra-cfg-file. The section should should either be [DEFAULT] or [package_name], which package_name is specified as the name argument to the setup() command. An example stdeb.cfg file is:
[DEFAULT] Depends: python-numpy XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6
All available options:
|Config file option
|debian/control Source: (Default: <source-debianized-setup-name>)
|debian/control Package: (Default: python-<debianized-setup-name>)
|suite (e.g. stable, lucid) in changelog (Default: unstable)
|debian/control Maintainer: (Default: <setup-maintainer-or-author>)
|debian version (Default: 1)
|debian/control Section: (Default: python)
|version epoch
|forced upstream version
|upstream version prefix
|upstream version suffix
|copyright file
|debian/control Build-Depends:
|debian/control Build-Conflicts:
|file containing patches for stdeb to apply
|patch level provided to patch command
|debian/control Depends:
|debian/control Suggests:
|debian/control Recommends:
|debian/control XS-Python-Version:
|parameters passed to dpkg-shlibdeps
|debian/control Conflicts:
|debian/control Provides:
|debian/control Replaces:
|MIME desktop files
|MIME file
|shared MIME file
|environment variables passed to setup.py
|file with rules to install to udev
The option names in stdeb.cfg files are not case sensitive.
- Python 2.5 or higher
- Standard Debian utilities such as date, dpkg-source and Debhelper 7 (use stdeb 0.3.x if you need to support older distributions without dh7)
- Make output meet Debian Python Policy specifications or the new
python policy. This will include several things, among which are:
- the ability to make custom changelogs
- the ability to include project-supplied documentation as a -doc package
- include license information in debian/copyright
- the ability to include project-supplied examples, tests, and data as a separate package
- much more not listed
- Create (better) documentation
- Log output using standard distutils mechanisms
- Refactor the source code to have a simpler, more sane design
Call for volunteers
I don't have a lot of time for this. This project stands a very real chance of being only a shadow of its potential self unless people step up and contribute. There are numerous ways in which people could help. In particular, I'd be interested in finding a co-maintainer or maintainer if the project generates any interest. Secondarily, I would appreciate advice from Debian developers or Ubuntu MOTUs about the arcane details of Python packaging.
Mailing list
Please address all questions to the distutils-SIG
MIT-style license. Copyright (c) 2006-2009 stdeb authors.
See the LICENSE.txt file provided with the source distribution for full details.
Additional Credits
- Zooko O'Whielacronx for the autofind-depends patch
- Brett (last name unknown) for the –ignore-install-requires patch
- Ximin Luo for a bug fix
- Alexander D. Sedov for bug fixes and suggestions
- Michele Mattioni for bug fix
- Alexander V. Nikolaev for the debhelper buildsystem specification
- Roland Sommer for the description field bugfix.
- GitHub for hosting services.
- WebFaction (aka python-hosting) for previous hosting services.
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Here's a new one from Tonstartssbandht, taken from their all-over-the-place-in-the-best-way new record, Now I Am Become, which drops today on Arbutus. In stark contrast to the catchy, relatively structured previously unveiled jammer "Shot to La Parc, album closer "Orange Miss You" finds the bros in the midst of a noisy, chaotic, and occasionally abrasive experiment that takes a left-turn about halfway through, morphing into a glorious Beach Boys (or possibly Animal Collective, or probably both)-inspired hymn:
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The Black Market, vol. 25, no. 1, 2014
The market for works by African American artists continues to grow. Yet, as elsewhere in the art world, the gains are uneven, the majority of benefits accruing to a minority of artists, dealers and institutions. This, at time when economic disparity in black communities is increasing more quickly than economic disparity within the population as a whole. In addition, the market is undergoing scrutiny as curators and critics seem to act ever more blatantly as handmaidens to the functioning of the market. What is the art market really about? What is it telling us? How does it operate? Who is it for? Various art experts respond in this issue.
Extended feature: Who's Controlling the Game? 10 players with the most say in the black art market respond
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