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Long, five-car-caravan convoys, open air, live music, face paint, dehydration, hordes of howling drunks with beers in hand and marijuana smoke rising in plumes above their heads: These are the tropes of summer for those who love music festivals, and there's no shortage when it comes to these monstrous gatherings.
With summer comes the weather we all love here in Oregon. Raincoats are removed, flip-flops are slipped on and outdoor patios open up. No one knows this last part better than local winery patrons. Summer is wine time.
And Oregon is wine country. But wine contains alcohol, and this does not mix well with driving unless you want to leave pieces of yourself scattered along our state's scenic byways or spend a night in the clink. Sure, you could motor out to one of the many wineries and have one, maybe two glasses of excellent Oregon pinot, then safely drive your sweetheart back home. Certain occasions, however, call for more than one glass of wine; more than one bottle of wine; hell, maybe even more than a few bottles. Sometimes the circumstances of celebration call for excess (as well as safety) — and nothing says excess like a limousine.
"I try not to paint eyelashes, unless they are really important," says artist Lynda Lanker, whose portraits of women of the West are as intimate and forthright as the flesh-and-blood women they depict. Though some of Lanker's work is so detailed that for a moment the portraits appear to be photographs, even her more abstract pieces capture a sense, a feeling, of these generations of ranch women and cowgirls.
"Tough by Nature" represents almost 20 years' worth of painting, sketching and interviewing 49 women in 13 western states. It captures not just a moment in time, but also a spirit. The exhibit, which is accompanied by a book featuring the portraits and interviews with the women, presents Lanker's work in pencil and charcoal, oil pastel, egg tempera, plate and stone lithography, engraving and drypoint. "Tough by Nature" opens at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at the University of Oregon on July 1.
Minutes after walking away from the oldest coffee tree in the world, Silje Heyland, a German college student studying fair-trade coffee practices in Ethiopia, had a sudden urge to go back. "Perhaps we can eat lunch under the tree," she suggested. The rest of our expedition party — wet, tired, muddy, hungry — looked at her with unsympathetic eyes and decided it would be better to eat lunch at a nearby village, where there were primitive huts to duck into for shelter against the afternoon thunderstorm.
At first, it seemed possible that what started as a military mutiny on March 22 might simply blow over. After a few days of sheltering in my apartment, I emerged to find Bamako, the capital of the West African nation of Mali, just as I had left it. Besides an underlying uncertainty over just exactly how Mali's government would shape out, the mood was bright and the city would be as colorful as always. At work, a USAID youth-development project, most of my colleagues insisted the coup could be a positive step for Mali. They believed Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali's ousted president, to be the head of a horribly corrupt government that was a democracy in name only.
City Hall was a lauded public building when it was built in 1964, with wood fins symbolizing Oregon's connection to the forests, a very public terrace and a design that bubbled with democratic values and encouraged a connection between government and citizenry that wasn't dominated by an imposing tower.
But after years rusting in the garage, Eugene's own City Chitty Bang Bang might be razed rather than remade into something special.
in the U.S., fútbol is a sport that's overshadowed by football. Mainstream sports networks rarely cover soccer unless it is around the time of World Cup — and it's no stretch of the imagination to say that there are more than a handful of Americans who have no idea when the next World Cup will be (2014, in Brazil).
For the record, that World Cup is exclusively the domain of international men's soccer teams — it's probably even safer to say that a greater amount of Americans are unaware of when the next women's World Cup is (2015, in Canada), or even that a women's World Cup exists.
Et tu, Andy Stahl? Political smears are hardly a modern phenomenon, nor is political intrigue. You can't throw a stick at the corpus of Shakespearean tragedy without hitting one in which a character is killed or victimized through the evil machinations of another. To the audience of a play, it's soon made clear who the true villains are, but in politics where we are not just the audience but actually part of the action — all the world's a stage — who the good guys are can get a little unclear once the mud-slinging begins.
Here are our selected picks for the May 15 primary. We have not included uncontested races. See our news stories, briefs and letters this week for more information, and most candidates have websites. Ballots can be mailed in by May 10 or dropped off at white ballot boxes around town up until 8 pm May 15.
The Friendly Area Neighbors association held a forum for EWEB candidates recently and only about 15 people showed up and most of them were family and friends of the two candidates, Steve Mital and Will Shaver. EW interviewed the two candidates a few days after the forum.
Lane County's sometimes dramatic conflict between environmentalists and resource extraction interests is reflected in the race for the North Eugene position on the Lane Board of County Commissioners. Incumbent Commissioner Rob Handy is challenged by Eugene City Councilor and former state lawmaker Pat Farr and interpreter Nadia Sindi. Sindi is not raising money and is running a low-key campaign and, for lack of space, is not included in this discussion.
If you can envision a city as a living organism, with its heart beating outward from the epicenter of downtown, and if you can picture the crosshatching of streets as comprising a kind of circulatory system pumping the blood of commerce, then you might consider taxi cabs to be the white blood cells of urban life. The analogy is clunky but not completely infelicitous: Cabs do serve a particular purpose and, like white blood cells, they can be launched against certain malignancies. Most notably, taxis are an easy cure for the routinely terminal affliction of driving drunk.
The idea of a community forest has been kicking around the Siskiyou Mountain hamlet of Williams, Ore., for a while. But it took an out-of-state landowner's plan to slash forests safeguarding the town's water supply to turn ideas into action.
Here's the deal: If we don't have this little "birds and bees" conversation, there won't be too many birds or bees left. The planet we live on is threatened by a species of animal whose way of life destructively encroaches upon the habitats and prosperity of other creatures — we are that species, and we just keep coming.
The Goose Timber Sale near McKenzie Bridge is a large Forest Service logging operation posed as a beneficial project for the forest and the people. But local people aren't buying the sales pitch. They say this giant timber sale will, in truth, be as bad for the forest as it will for them.
If you want to keep Eugeneans green and fit, you've got to start 'em young. Shane MacRhodes, program manager for Eugene Safe Routes to School Program, says the program makes it safer for kids to walk and bike to school by use of the five E's: education, encouragement, engineering, enforcement and evaluation. This tidy little description includes a wide swath of projects that shows just how many tools are required to build a bike culture safe enough for tykes.
Sometimes biking or using public transit isn't a viable option, so people keep a car around just in case. But if that eats a hole in the old wallet or makes driving on the regular too tempting, now there's the WeCar option.
NextStep Recycling Executive Director Lorraine Kerwood wants to emphasize that there is no "away" in thrown away — all that crap we shove "out of sight, out of mind" remains on-site somewhere, perhaps in another state, another country, outer space. When it comes to waste, everything that disappears must re-emerge. This is especially true of what Kerwood calls "the tide of electronic waste going to shredders."
The first thing outdoorsy newcomers to Eugene might want to know is "Where are the parks?" and "What hiking spots are nearby?"
Cut a forest in half and nobody is happy — not the timber beasts, nor the treehuggers.
You know why they teach sharing in kindergarten? Because it sucks to give something away without a promise you'll get something better in return. Studies of little kids show that as they get older and develop their cognitive skills, they share more because they understand reciprocity better.
Then those kids grow up to be loggers, environmentalists, politicians and policy wonks, and the sharing and compromise thing gets all messed up again.
"I was on roller skates the whole time," Alejandra Escalante recalls of an early acting experience. Escalante, who plays the lead in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's current production of Romeo & Juliet, explains that everything "from the costumes to the script" in that early role was a fiasco. "It was embarrassing," she says.
Achilles in camouflage, teens swigging poison and reptiles seducing pharmaceutical interns — yep, the 2012 season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is up and running. Planning a trip to the idyllic town of Ashland? Consider the following, and then grab your tickets.
The struggle to protect the peace, quiet and purity of Waldo Lake and the surrounding forests has been going on for decades and it's likely to continue a while longer as various factions and interests make their cases in court, in front of agencies, and out in the public arena. The fight has become so convoluted that it might take the Oregon Legislature to eventually resolve the conflicts over usage and jurisdiction.
The name "Waldo" is not poetic enough to describe the clear, pure water of this pristine lake high in the Cascades. Kayla Godowa-Tufti, of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, whose ancestors once lived in the mountains and valleys around Waldo Lake, wonders what the native peoples of the area called the translucent waters.
It's Saturday and I'm standing in a garage in Springfield and the guy next to me suddenly blurts out: "What is a euphemism for a necrophiliac for cars?"
This question, posed by a mechanic, isn't rhetorical. No dirty punch line hovers expectantly in the air. He's just curious.
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First Look: 10 Great International Designs
Ambiente 2010
I'm just back from a whirlwind weekend in Frankfurt, Germany, where I attended Ambiente, a huge international design show featuring over 4,500 exhibitors from 93 countries. It was, as you can imagine, an amazing trip - a chance to see and experience designs, trends and products from all over the world that will play a part in shaping the style of our homes in the coming years.
As I was organizing my photos this morning, I started a desktop file called "best" and copied over images of things that I had noted as especially intriguing or beautiful in person. Some are practical, some fanciful, but to my eye, all are worth a longer look.
So, to kick off my posts on Ambiente 2010, I offer a list of those items, in no particular order...
Shown above, first row, left to right:
1. This three tiered tabletop storage and display solution was part of a student project. It is called "Gestapelt" and was designed by students Sandra Bohm and Sabrina Kuhn, who described it as a "different kind of cakestand".
2. New "Vitrini" boxes from Iittala, designed by Anu Penttinen. Beautiful, practical little cachepots, in varying sizes made from glass (both colorful and clear), sometimes combined with wood or metal.
3. Paul Smith's colorful interpretation of the classic 60s Cylinda line by Arne Jacobsen for Stelton.
4. A Fatboy lounge done up in a super shiny stretchy leather (like what was used by Prada a few years ago). A little bit dangerous looking!
5. The acid toned bright interiors and unusual forms of the Maison Sauvage porcelain pieces which were shown in the up and coming designer section of the fair called "Talents".
Shown above, second row, left to right:
6. Chain chandeliers by Willowlamp from the South African pavilion.
7. An unforgettable, dramatic oversized white porcelain screen from the Jean Boggio for Franz collection.
8. Small, ultra luxe china cups in "quilted" black and white with gold interiors from Sieger.
9. A homey bench with warm feet from the Pling Collection.
10. A simple, elegant step ladder designed by Karl Malmvall that is good looking enough to hang on the wall when not in use from Design House Stockholm.
(Images: Janel Laban)
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i just re-blogged the leg warmers...
seriously just covered socks as one of the hottest go-to accessories for fall 2010 on my fashion blog:
so i couldn't resist letting my readers see that fashion, function and home design are all intertwined!
keepin' those table legs warm...too cute and love it!
wow wow wow!
I live close to Frankfurt and didnt know this was going on! Thanks for blogging about it, hope its still on so i can go on the weekend...
#1 - Been done since Marcel Breuer's Laccio tables of the 1930's
#2 - I remember seeing translucent colored plastic boxes like this when I was a kid in the 60's.
#7 - Those bas-relief screens are interesting - but perhaps more impressive in person. Coincidentally, I was just drooling over some vintage Paul Evans bas-relief credenzas this weekend on eBay...
#9 - Knitwear for furniture - Ugh.
Great post!

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This is like a roast, only it uses chicken instead of beef. The rosemary gives it a sweet taste and blends well with the garlic, butter and parsley. —Isabel Zienkosky, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Prep: 20 min. Bake: 2 hours + standing
1/2 cup butter, cubed
4 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary
2 tablespoons dried rosemary, crushed
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 whole roasting chicken (5 to 6 pounds)
6 small red potatoes, halved
6 medium carrots, halved lengthwise and cut into 2-inch pieces
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St. Elizabeth basketball player Tim Massado is this week's WDEL Male High School Athlete of the Week.
Tim scored 20 of his teams' 23 1st half points in a tough loss to Catholic Conference rival Salesianum Friday night.
Despite the loss, Massado says his team showed a lot in a gritty comeback.
"It just shows us that no matter what we never give up. We fought all the way back, we were down 16 or 17 in the first half and we took the lead late but they got it."
The Vikings program made a rare appearance in the state championship "Final Four" last season, and Tim says some dreams were reached during the tournament run.
"I've always wanted to play at the Bob (Carpenter Center). That was a big achievement for me, when we got there I was really excited. In the playoffs I realized that you have to take it a game at a time and you can get really far."
While St. Elizabeth succeeded last season, so did Tim, being named Delaware's Gatorade Player of the Year, and his biggest fan got to tell him the good news.
"When I actually win I was very excited. My mom is the one who told me right after Coach told me, I was just really happy."
As for life after the Vikings, Tim says he wants to go to prep school for a year to hopefully earn a Division I scholarship, and would like to be a coach when he's done playing.
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My race fan buddies spend most of their time glued to their HD TVs and home entertainment systems these days. The NASCAR Sprint Cup season has started up again, and the entire 2012 motorsports season promises to be a thrilling one.
Things are heating up in NASCAR, for instance. The "Jimmie Johnson Show" is over, folks! After the Las Vegas race, we were treated to some fairly exciting events and four different winners in six races. Just 25 little points separate the top seven drivers in the Sprint Cup standings. Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
The IndyCar series is about to kick off as well. The spec car is a thing of the past. This year, Honda, Chevrolet and Lotus will fight it out on the track, which means a decent variety of chassis/engine combos.
But the new Dallara DW12 IndyCars are, in a word, hideous. They've got a pointy nose and a fat arse, courtesy of wraparound side pods. I know it's in the name of safety, but the cars look downright lumpish. I'll just have to get used to them, I guess…
The Endurance World Championship is just around the corner as well, with the 12 Hours of Sebring set to kick things off. Several new cars will join the fray, including the already famous Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrids. The Toyota TS030s, also hybrids, will arrive later this season as well. The 24 Hours of Le Mans in June should be riveting despite Peugeot's last-minute withdrawal.
And let's not forget the Formula 1 season opener. Will anyone manage to beat Sebastian Vettel with any regularity? I like the German kid a lot, but he's dominating F1 like nobody's business. It's not good for the show or the ratings
Let's hope McLaren, Ferrari, and – why not – Lotus manage to surprise us, and from the first race too.
Encouragingly, Lotus drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean set the pace during the winter trials. What an incredible fairy tale ending if Räikkönen manages to secure the F1 title after two years on the rally circuit!
Speaking of rallies, it seems there's been a changing of the guard. Sebastien Loeb is no longer calling the shots, and Citroën is being hounded by Ford.
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The Word: Power outage leads to a first for 'South Park'
For 16 years, "South Park" has been one of the world's only reasonably topical purveyors of animation. "South Park" is unlike most animated shows in that its incredibly short production schedule allows it to actually stay current. But the quick turnaround for their slightly animated little parka kids is a double-edged sword, and this week it finally gave them a papercut.
A blackout in South Park Studios meant that, for the first time ever, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and their staff blew a deadline. The episode that was set to air on Oct. 16th, Ep. 1704, "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers," will instead air on October 23rd.
"It sucks to miss an air date but after all these years of tempting fate by delivering the show last minute, I guess it was bound to happen," Trey Parker said on South Park's website. The staff also provided a bunch of photos of themselves sitting around in the dark, in case anyone doubted their "a blackout ate my homework" tale of woe.
I guess we can let this gross lapse of professionalism slide, as long as it doesn't happen again for 16 years.
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Welcome to PredictionIO¶
PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server. It empowers programmers and data engineers to build smart applications. With PredictionIO, you can add the following features to your apps instantly:
- predict user behaviors
- offer personalized video, news, deals, ads and job openings
- help users to discover interesting events, documents, apps and restaurants
- provide impressive match-making services
- and more....
PredictionIO is built on top of solid open source technology. We support Hadoop, Mahout, Cascading and Scalding natively.
Learn How to Use PredictionIO¶
These few steps can get you familiar with PredictionIO quickily.
- Read the Quick Start.
- Install PredictionIO and give it a try!
- Learn from some examples in Tutorials.
The PredictionIO Guide¶
This guide is under active development.
- Installing PredictionIO
- Quick Start
- Concepts
- API Endpoints
- Item Recommendation Engine
- Item Similarity Engine
- Item Rank Engine
- Distributed Deployment
We want to ensure that PredictionIO is useful for you. You will get quick response to any question or feedback about PredictionIO through these channels:
PredictionIO Google Group is actively supported by core contributors of PredictionIO. It is for general questions, requests for help, and new feature announcements.
Stack Overflow is another great place to ask technical questions about PredictionIO. Be sure to add the predictionio tag to your question.
The code is on GitHub. The best way to send a patch is with a GitHub pull request. PredictionIO JIRA is the best way to file a bug report.
Submit a feature request, or vote for one, here.
Additional Machine Learning Resources¶
Machine Learning is about teaching computers to predict future, or otherwise unknown events, by applying computer science or statistics techniques to analyze existing data.
The following resources provide additional information:
- Stanford Machine Learning Course
- Stanford Machine Learning Course freely available on Coursera
- Collaborative filtering: A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining
- A free book chapter that introduces Collaborative Filtering with sample codes.


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Financial education should be a prerequisite to qualify for any type of public aid.
As a professor at a community college in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago, I have observed poor money management skills and misplaced priorities of low income adults. A vast majority of my students are very young single mothers and, as a result, have high childcare expenses along with low income. One student could not afford treatment to have a painful oral abscess treated until payday one week later since she had insufficient savings. She already had an unpaid dental bill from a prior root canal that she misunderstood what the cost would be. Still, she and many other students have tattoos, get their hair and nails professionally done, and have tablets and smartphones. Many of my students regularly eat at fast food restaurants and bring junk food to class for a snack. I have observed my students spending money on luxuries when they are not able to meet their basic expenses.
Although a majority of my students are getting free education and other forms of public aid, I don't think that it is enough. As financial education was the turning point for me to get my finances on track, I think it should be a prerequisite in order to qualify for any type of public aid from the government. Additionally, I think that ongoing financial follow ups should be required periodically in order to continue to receive public aid.
The class should teach how to track expenses and form a budget. It should have a calculator for people to plug in their information and find out their complete financial picture including income, expenses, and net worth. The class should emphasize the importance of an emergency fund and could suggest spending cuts and help the person come up with a savings plan. Every month, people receiving aid should be required to log on to enter and track their savings and net worth. These tools could educate and motivate lower income individuals to make significant improvements in their financial situation as they have for me.
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Apr 29 2013: there is an old saying that "cut one's coat according to one's cloth". I believe it is basically a matter of culture than education ,as these are pretty much common sense and do not require any formal education. For instance in India people do not spend more than what they have, hardly 10% people have credit cards. In US I have seen people spending first and then thinking how they will fund it. This is not to say that one culture is better than another, but to show how community values affect the spending behavior of people.
If people learn to spend only what they have (and not what they might have in future), they can mitigate most of the potential financial problems. IMHO.
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|NADPH-dependent medium chain alcohol dehydrogenase; has broad substrate specificity; member of the cinnamyl family of alcohol dehydrogenases; may be involved in fusel alcohol synthesis or in aldehyde tolerance; protein abundance increases in response to DNA replication stress (1, 2, 3 and see Summary Paragraph)
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|Biological Process
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|Manually curated
|9 genes
|Classical genetics
|Large-scale survey
|48 total interaction(s) for 38 unique genes/features.
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|Note: this feature is encoded on the Crick strand.
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ADH6 and ADH7 are non-essential genes that encode the only S. cerevisiae members of the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogase (CAD) family (1, 4). CADs are a subgroup of medium-chain zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenases that were originally identified in plants where they are involved in the biosynthesis of lignin (2 and references therein). However, since lignin biosynthesis does not occur in yeast, in S. cerevisiae these enzymes are instead thought to participate in lignin degradation, the synthesis of fusel alcohols, and NADPH homeostasis (4).
Although their kinetic properties differ slightly, both Adh6p and Adh7p use the cofactor NADPH and have a broad substrate specificity. Adh6p and Adh7p share 64% sequence identity and each forms homodimers made up of 40 kDa subunits (1, 4). The crystal structure of Adh6p shows that its two subunits are structurally dissimilar with one subunit in the apo (inactive) and the other in the holo (active) conformation. Additonally, two zinc atoms are found per Adh6p subunit and only one cofactor molecule binds per dimer (5).
ADH6 is induced when galactose is the sole source of carbon in the media (2). Yeast strains overexpressing ADH6 are able to grow under toxic concentrations of veratraldehyde, and cell lysates from overexpressing strains are able to support the use of both NADPH and NADH as co-factors during the conversion of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural to 5-hydroxymethylfurfuryl alcohol (1, 6).
About the medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (MDR) family
Medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductases (MDRs), sometimes referred to as long-chain dehydrogenases (7), constitute an ancient and widespread enzyme superfamily with members found in Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryota (8, 9). Many MDR members are basic metabolic enzymes acting on alcohols or aldehydes, and thus these enzymes may have roles in detoxifying alcohols and related compounds, protecting against environmental stresses such as osmotic shock, reduced or elevated temperatures, or oxidative stress (8). The family also includes the mammalian zeta-crystallin lens protein, which may protect the lens against oxidative damage and enzymes which produce lignocellulose in plants (8).
MDR enzymes typically have subunits of about 350 aa residues and are two-domain proteins, with a catalytic domain and a second domain for binding to the nicotinamide cofactor, either NAD(H) or NADP(H) (8, 9). They contain 0, 1, or 2 zinc atoms (10). When zinc is present, it is involved in catalysis at the active site.
Based on phylogenetic and sequence analysis, the members of the MDR superfamily can be further divided into more closely related subgroups (8, 9). In families which are widespread from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, some members appear conserved across all species, while others appear to be due to lineage specific duplications. Some subgroups are only found in certain taxa. S. cerevisiae contains fifteen (8) or twenty-one (9) members of the MDR superfamily, listed below. The difference in number is due to six sequences that were included as members of the quinone oxidoreductase family by Riveros-Rosas et al. (9) but not by Nordling et al. (8).
Zinc-containing enzyme groups:
- PDH; "polyol" dehydrogenase family - BDH1, BDH2, SOR1, SOR2, XYL2
- ADH; class III alcohol dehydrogenase family - SFA1
- Y-ADH; "yeast" alcohol dehydrogenase family - ADH1, ADH2, ADH3, ADH5
- CADH; cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase family - ADH6, ADH7
Non-zinc-containing enzyme groups:
- NRBP; nuclear receptor binding protein (9) or MRF; mitochondrial respiratory function (8) family - ETR1
- QOR; quinone oxidoreductase family - ZTA1 (8, 9), AST1, AST2, YCR102C, YLR460C, YMR152W, YNL134C (9)
- LTD; leukotriene B4 dehydrogenases - YML131W
- ER; enoyl reductases (9) or ACR; acyl-CoA reductase (8) family - no members in S. cerevisiae
|Larroy C, et al. (2002) Characterization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae YMR318C (ADH6) gene product as a broad specificity NADPH-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase: relevance in aldehyde reduction. Biochem J 361(Pt 1):163-72
|Larroy C, et al. (2003) Properties and functional significance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADHVI. Chem Biol Interact 143-144:229-38
|Tkach JM, et al. (2012) Dissecting DNA damage response pathways by analysing protein localization and abundance changes during DNA replication stress. Nat Cell Biol 14(9):966-76
|Larroy C, et al. (2002) Characterization of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae NADP(H)-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase (ADHVII), a member of the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase family. Eur J Biochem 269(22):5738-45
|Valencia E, et al. (2004) Apo and Holo structures of an NADPH-dependent cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Mol Biol 341(4):1049-62
|Petersson A, et al. (2006) A 5-hydroxymethyl furfural reducing enzyme encoded by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADH6 gene conveys HMF tolerance. Yeast 23(6):455-64
|Jornvall H, et al. (1981) Alcohol and polyol dehydrogenases are both divided into two protein types, and structural properties cross-relate the different enzyme activities within each type. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 78(7):4226-30
|Nordling E, et al. (2002) Medium-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (MDR). Family characterizations including genome comparisons and active site modeling. Eur J Biochem 269(17):4267-76
|Riveros-Rosas H, et al. (2003) Diversity, taxonomy and evolution of medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily. Eur J Biochem 270(16):3309-34
|Persson B, et al. (1999) Bioinformatics in studies of SDR and MDR enzymes. Adv Exp Med Biol 463():373-7


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Huntsville city leaders and planners said there is not much they can do to prevent a controversial new Walmart Supercenter from being built near the Parkway Place Mall.
The store would be built just south of the mall, at Drake Avenue and L&N Drive.
The Midtown Huntsville Association called a neighborhood meeting to talk about the project Wednesday night. People in the nearby Piedmont neighborhood said it would bring noise, crime and extreme traffic tie-ups.
But the area is zoned industrial, which would allow a big box store like Walmart, and the state has signed off on a traffic study saying the impact on traffic wouldn't be disruptive.
"We can do all we want to and say 'no, you can't do this,' and we'd be in court and we'd lose real quick," said Mayor Tommy Battle. "That's the process. This comes down to the land zoned for highway commercial, heavy industry."
"I don't believe we can stop it, but we have to do something to make sure that aesthetically, the Walmart doesn't have a detrimental impact," said Senator Paul Sanford.
Some neighbors complained that the traffic study was actually paid for by Walmart, but the city said it is standard procedure to require developers to pay for traffic studies.
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Hydraulic Fracturing is a newer form of getting fossil fuels out of the ground. It's called an unconventional form of drilling, because it isn't extracted the way oil wells have been set up in the past. Horizontal drilling and Fracking aims to extract oil and gas from rock formations that were not economic to extract using conventional methods (ie: vertical drilling).
First a company sets up a drill that goes thousands of feet straight down, than it sends a blast of pressurized water and chemicals horizontally to crack up the rocks and then like a vacuum, extracts the natural gas.
Here in Jersey, we have just discovered a large shale gas reserve called the "Newark Basin." So what does that mean for New Jersey?
Economist, and founder of Energy Policy Forum, Deborah Rogers explained that the Oil and Gas industry's economic portfolio is not as profitable as it is made out to be. Even quoting energy officials themselves, like John Hofmeister, former Chief of Operations, Royal Dutch Shell who said, "to sustain growth, companies will need to drill many wells at a rate beyond the capacity of the industry as currently defined...those who ballyhoo oil shale and say this will take care of us - no, it won't."
Deborah also explained the misleading job growth numbers surrounding the shale gas boom. She said, "In 2011 oil and gas accounted for 181,000 direct industry jobs, whereas 183,200 direct industry jobs were created for renewables. So based on a jobs per kilowatt scale, renewables are providing significantly more opportunity and creation."
The U.S. Geological Survey, Post Carbon Institute, has just said, "Based on actual production, reserves have been overestimated by a minimum of 100% and as much as 400-500%."
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Do you drink enough water?
Most People Don't--And That May Be Harming Their Health
A well-conditioned NBA rookie. A 34-year- old businesswoman. A 58-year old executive, recently retired. Each complained of the same symptoms: muscle cramps, headaches, and fatigue, especially near the end of the day. In each case, Susan Kleiner, Ph.D., a registered dietitian in Seattle, suspected the same problem: too little water. "They were all somewhat dehydrated--just dehydrated enough to make their days a little miserable." In each case, a simple water prescription cured the problem.
Those cases are hardly unique: In fact, most people consume less than the optimal amount of water--and a significant number of them do experience symptoms. Moreover, a skimpy water intake may cause more than just symptoms. It clearly contributes to constipation and increases the risk of heat exhaustion or heat stroke. It probably helps cause or worsen asthma, dental disease, kidney stones, and urinary- tract infections. It may even increase the risk of colds and cancer.
Insufficient water intake is a particular concern for older people, because aging, certain drugs (notably sedatives and tranquilizers), and certain diseases (such as diabetes and stroke) may all weaken the sense of thirst. In fact, dehydration is one of the top ten reasons why older people are hospitalized.
Young or old, you need to know whether your body requires more water--and whether wetting your whistle more could really help your health.
Water shortage
The body is constantly losing water via the breath, skin, urine, and feces; the more you weigh, the more water you lose. On a cool, inactive day, the average man loses about 12 eight-ounce cups of water, but takes in only about 9 cups (about half of that from the water in fruits, vegetables, and other solid foods). The deficit eventually triggers enough thirst to restore water equilibrium, but the average man still spends most days slightly dehydrated.
The average woman experiences a somewhat smaller deficit: about 9 cups lost on a cool, quiet day, but only about 7 1/2 cups consumed. However, that 1 1/2-cup shortfall matters more for women, since they generally weigh less than men.
The damage from dryness
Severe dehydration--a net water loss of as little as 4 percent of body weight--can make blood volume and blood pressure plummet, potentially causing muscle spasms, dimmed vision, delirium, fainting, or even a heart attack.
Such drastic problems are relatively rare, since thirst typically kicks in when water loss hits about 2 percent of body weight. But some people may start feeling symptoms of mild dehydration--including headache, fatigue, lightheadedness, muscle cramps, and slightly dulled thinking--after just a 1 percent loss. And the average man's daily water deficit does reduce body weight by about that much; some women with a slightly higher-than-average deficit may also feel the effects of their water shortage.
In addition, some evidence suggests that consuming an ample amount of water may provide more-important health benefits-- possibly including protection against a common killer.
Reduced cancer risk.
Consuming plenty of fluids can speed the elimination of feces from the colon and urine from the bladder, thereby helping to prevent and treat constipation and urinary- tract infection. Researchers now suspect that getting enough fluid might cut the risk of cancer, mainly by flushing out or diluting carcinogens in the bladder and colon.
While that notion is still just theoretical, observational studies do lend some support. In the largest one, a ten-year Harvard study of some 50,000 men, published last May in The New England Journal of Medicine, those who consumed the most fluid had roughly half the bladder-cancer risk of those who consumed the least. Two smaller, earlier observational studies linked a low fluid intake with an increased risk of bladder or urinary-tract cancer; another suggested that drinking at least five glasses of water a day might cut the risk of colon cancer. One very small study even linked consumption of water, but not that of other beverages, with a reduced likelihood of breast cancer-- possibly because water may help wash away or dilute carcinogens not only in the bladder and colon but also in individual cells throughout the body.
Less chance of kidney stones.
Stones form when calcium, uric acid, and other substances in the urine become sufficiently concentrated to form crystals. Drinking lots of liquids helps prevent stones, presumably by keeping those concentrations low. People who've already had kidney stones need as much as two extra quarts of water a day, according to some research, to prevent recurrence.
Fewer asthma attacks.
Researchers have long known that people with asthma have more trouble breathing when it's dry outside, presumably because parched airways don't function properly. Researchers from the University of Buffalo recently showed that lung function declines when asthmatic individuals get dehydrated, increasing the chance of asthma symptoms even in humid weather. (Dehydration similarly dries the mucus membranes in the nose and throat, reducing their ability to trap airborne bacteria and viruses. So dehydration just might increase susceptibility to colds and other respiratory infections.)
Better oral health.
Saliva helps neutralize the cavity-causing acids in the mouth, wash away food particles and sugars, and inhibit the growth of micro-organisms that cause gum disease and other oral problems. Even slight dehydration can reduce saliva. Some people try to moisten their mouth by chewing gum or sucking candy or lozenges rather than by drinking more. But unless you're using sugar-free products, such sugary items compound the risk of cavities--and, of course, they still leave you dehydrated.
Reduced weight.
In theory, drinking more water, especially with meals, may help curb the appetite by making you feel fuller. While there's no supporting evidence, that simple step is certainly worth trying if you want to slim down. In addition, some people tend to eat rather than drink when they're thirsty, for two possible reasons. Many foods make you feel less thirsty, since they contains some water and relieve dryness in the mouth by stimulating salivation. And some people simply confuse thirst with hunger. Deliberately drinking more can rectify the problem.
Water, water, everywhere
In general, the only people who may be harmed by consuming too much fluid are those whose body retains water due to congestive heart failure, hypothyroidism, or long-term use of certain medications, notably nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen, ketoprofen, and naproxen. In addition, men with an enlarged prostate should weigh the possible benefits of ample hydration against the likely inconvenience. But while all those people should avoid drinking excessive amounts of water, they should still try to consume the recommended amount. Nor do people who take diuretics need to worry that the recommended intake of water will interfere with their medication.
You can get your water from a combination of beverages and solid foods. But it probably makes sense to get at least five 8- ounce cups from water itself, partly because it's cheap and calorie-free, and partly because some of the cancer evidence suggests greater protection from water than from other drinks. Other good sources include healthful beverages such as 100 percent fruit juice and low-fat milk or soup. Noncaffeinated soft drinks and fruit drinks also count toward your total, but they're loaded with sugar. And caffeinated or alcoholic drinks don't count at all, since caffeine and alcohol are diuretics--they boost urine output and could leave you more dehydrated than before.
Fruits and vegetables are the best food sources of fluid: Each serving of produce typically provides about one-third of a cup of water. A serving of red meat, poultry, or fish usually provides about one- fourth of a cup; a serving of grain provides about one- sixth of a cup.
Because you may start feeling symptoms of dehydration before you start feeling thirsty, particularly if you're older, don't rely on thirst to guide your water intake. Instead, drink steadily over the course of the day. You can tell you're getting enough fluid if your urine is clear or very pale blue and virtually odorless; dark-blue, strong- smelling urine means you need to drink more.
Summing up
Most people, particularly men, don't consume enough water. The evidence that the resulting deficit may keep you from feeling your best or may help promote or worsen various health problems--including constipation, urinary-tract infection, kidney stones, asthma, dental disease, and possibly even colds and cancer--is not conclusive. But boosting your fluid intake is so cheap and simple that even a slight possibility of payoffs make that step a good idea for most people.
Try to consume at least 9 to 12 cups of fluid a day, depending on how much you weigh. Drink extra water when you exercise, when it's hot or dry inside or outside, if you're pregnant or breast-feeding, when you consume alcohol or caffeine, or have diarrhea or fever. Aim to get at least half your quota from water itself, the rest from healthful beverages or solid foods, especially fruits and vegetables.
Don't like the taste of plain water? Try sweetening it with saccharin and flavoring it with a small amount of fruit juice.
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No Need to Guzzle All That Water, Expert Says
Fri Aug 9, 7:40 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trying to do the "right" thing by drinking eight full glasses of water a day may do little more than make a person run to the bathroom, a researcher said on Friday.
Newspaper articles, health and beauty magazines all advise drinking at least 8 full glasses of water a day totaling 64 ounces for optimal health -- an approach called "8x8" by proponents.
But Dr. Heinz Valtin of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire said there is no scientific evidence to back up this advice, which has helped create a huge market for bottled water.
"After 10 months of careful searching I have found no scientific evidence that supports '8x8'," Valtin, who has written textbooks on the subject of human water balance, said in a telephone interview.
Writing in the American Journal of Physiology, Valtin, a kidney specialist, said people forget that the food they eat also contains some water.
The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council ( news - web sites) has recommended that people take in about one milliliter of water for each calorie of food eaten.
This adds up to two liters, or 74 fluid ounces on an average 2,000-calorie diet. But the National Research Council also noted that much of this is already contained in food.
"I did 43 years of research on that system -- the osmoregulatory system. That system is so precise and so fast that I find it impossible to believe that evolution left us with a chronic water deficit," Valtin said.
If a person gets low on fluid, the body compensates by bringing fluid back out of the kidneys and by slowing the loss of water through the skin, Valtin said. Thirst kicks in long before dehydration starts, he added.
"It does it very quickly and very accurately and it does so in minutes," Valtin said.
He said he and colleagues became concerned after seeing dozens of newspaper and magazine articles urging people to sip water all day. "I started talking to my colleagues and asking them 'Do you know of any evidence for this?'. Invariably, they said, 'No I think it's a myth'," Valtin said.
The journal asked him to review all the scientific studies he could find and he concluded that someone misinformed has been telling people to drink large amounts of water when most do not need to.
"I am referring to healthy adults in a temperate climate leading a largely sedentary existence," Valtin said. "Persons with certain diseases must have large volumes of water -- kidney stones are probably the most common example."
The rest can just drink enough to slake thirst -- and this includes coffee, tea, and even beer -- despite their diuretic effects, Valtin said.
He hopes people will be relieved of the guilt of not getting enough water, and of the expense of buying bottled water to drink throughout the day.
"There is also the possibility that if you drink a lot of water that happens to be polluted then of course you get more pollutants," Valtin said.
"Then there is the inconvenience of constant urination, the embarrassment of having to go to the bathroom all the time," he added.
And overdoses of water can cause water intoxication that can lead to confusion and even death. Water intoxication is one deadly effect of taking the drug Ecstasy, for instance, because it makes people thirsty beyond their physical needs.


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MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) - Local business owners who attended a state budget update in Marshfield on Tuesday think Wisconsin's business climate seems to be improving, but that the proposed budget is a mixed bag.
Larry Hutchinson is with Pearce Companies LLC and says it's a business-friendly budget, but that it has too much pork in it. According to Hutchinson, "The parts that are especially egregious as far as I'm concerned are the 50-some items that the legislators pulled from the budget that the Governor wanted in, but then they turn around and add 58 or so items of their own back into the budget, so really we'd gain no ground."
Todd Berry, President of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, was the featured speaker and said that while the new budget is generally sound, he's worried that the state's recent economic progress might be hard to maintain.
The proposed state budget includes $654 million in income tax cuts, and continued tax relief for manufacturing and agricultural employers with a total tax relief program that approaches $I billion.The event was hosted by the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce and Industry.


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A judge in Manhattan put the brakes on the so-called Taxi of Tomorrow because the Nissan-built minivan does not come in a hybrid version -- a violation of the city code.
But the Taxi and Limousine Commission said the ruling would not hold up implementation of the new vehicle.
"The TLC is acting immediately to ensure that taxi owners will continue to have the option to purchase a hybrid vehicle, even once the ToT hits the road in October," TLC Chair David Yassky said in the statement.
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Pierre Rissient in person for all screenings! A still-functioning movie house located in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe, the unassuming façade of Paris' Cinéma Mac Mahon belies its history as one of the world's sacred sites of celluloid worship. It was there, in the early 1950s, that the future critic-publicist-programmer Pierre Rissient and his band of film-crazed friends convinced the theater owner to let them commandeer the programming, ushering in a tidal wave of American movies—especially film noirs and other genre fare—directed by the likes of Fritz Lang, Joseph Losey, Otto Preminger and Raoul Walsh. Read more »


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DOVER, Del. - A man wanted by Milton Police was arrested by Dover Police during a traffic stop. Dover Police say they stopped a vehicle on Laffery Lane, near Bay Road, on Saturday, around 12:10 AM.
During the stop, officer say they discovered that there was a 9mm handgun along with 11 rounds of ammunition, and 3 Xanax pills in the vehicle. One of the occupants, 22-year-old Stefon Miller of Lincoln, was apparently wanted by Milton Police in connection with an armed robbery.
Miller, along with a second occupant, 22-year-old Natia Campbell of Dover, were both arrested. Both were charged with possession of a firearm by a person prohibited, possession of ammunition by person prohibited, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, possession of a deadly weapon with a controlled substance, 2nd degree conspiracy, and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.
Miller is being held on $25,000 bond at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. Campbell is being held at the Delores Baylor Correctional Center on $7,250 bond.


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The foreign exchange, known as forex for short, is the virtual exchange of international currency. Whenever a transaction occurs that requires changing currencies, whether from US dollars to Japanese yen or any other available currency, the foreign exchange is used. Unlike stock markets, forex trading is done using computers rather than in-person encounters.
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Forex trading is a complicated process that can net high earnings for those well-versed in the technique. Take courses and classes if you're interested in learning about trading on the foreign exchange.
International Economics Courses
While most colleges don't have courses dedicated to forex, there are classes you can take that will give you a good understanding of the methods, terminology and history of foreign currency and trade. Look for classes in international or foreign economics.
While forex works with currencies from all over the world, you could also take economics courses from specific countries such as Germany or China if you want to specialize in these areas. International business courses also go a long way to help your understanding of currency trading.
Forex Seminars
Many companies that employ international workers host forex seminars onsite. Contact the Human Resources department of your employer to see if they offer seminars or separate classes that teach how Forex professionals learn to trade. Large financial corporations often offer these seminars on a yearly or biannual basis to keep employees abreast of new developments.
Online Courses and Webinars
Many websites offer courses in trading on the foreign exchange. For instance, Forex.com offers regular webinars on subjects such as introductions to forex and live trading sessions. When you're perusing possible websites for learning forex, determine if the company is reputable. Read their reviews on the Better Business Bureau website to see feedback before paying for a course.
Finance Books
For those who learn better on their own, pick out a few forex books to learn more about the subject. Books such as Currency Trading for Dummies by Brian Dolan and Forex Revolution by Peter Rosenstreich lay down the basics of forex. For best results, pair this method with college courses or online webinars to increase your knowledge of the foreign exchange.
Certification Exams
Although not required to trade on the foreign exchange, a global financial certification can show off everything that you've learned in your courses. For instance, a CFA certification, also known as a chartered financial analyst certification, shows that you have the skills necessary in global finance.
There are many ways in which you can learn more about forex trading. To become an expert in the industry, all you need is the determination to learn more about trading and how the theories and concepts apply to practical uses.


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"My toes, my toes!"Primarily an Animation Trope, but has been known to turn up in other places, Agony of the Feet is a trope particular to Amusing Injuries. A character is minding his own business and someone (or himself) drops something heavy on his foot, or he's angry about something and kicks the source of his frustration a little too hard. Or she's angered a cute kid and the kid kicks her (in the shins/stomps on her foot). Or there's a misstep, resulting in a stubbed toe... you get the idea. A common live-action variant is a character buying shoes too small for their feet, either through foolish pride of refusing to admit that they have large feet or being too cheap to buy full price, insisting that their low-price leather shoes will extend with wear. Whatever the situation, the result is the same. The character in question ends up hopping on one foot while clutching the other one, shouting in Angrish for a few seconds to indicate their pain. Variants can occur with other body parts, but some part of the foot or leg is most common. For situations in which the knee itself is injured, see Knee-capping. Not to be confused with the agony of defeat or "Agony of Defeet."
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Not bad, just nothing to write home about. I chose 3 stars because it is suppose to make it a "Good solid recipe", which is what it was. I added thyme and a bit of zucchini I had to use up, but other then that, I stuck to the recipe. A good recipe to use up left over ham, but not one I would go out of my way to make otherwise.
Ham Tetrazzini
Yield: 5 servings (serving size: 1 cup)
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- Calories: 293
- Calories from fat: 29%
- Fat: 9.3g
- Saturated fat: 3.4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.3g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.6g
- Protein: 16.3g
- Carbohydrate: 36g
- Fiber: 1.9g
- Cholesterol: 56mg
- Iron: 2.9mg
- Sodium: 584mg
- Calcium: 164mg
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup low-salt chicken broth
- 1 cup 2% reduced-fat milk
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon stick margarine or butter
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 1/2 cup diced green bell pepper
- 3 cups hot cooked wide egg noodles (about 5 ounces uncooked pasta)
- 1 cup cubed cooked ham (such as Light and Lean)
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon dry sherry
- 1/3 cup dry breadcrumbs
- Preheat oven to 450°.
- Place flour in a bowl; add broth, milk, and pepper. Stir the flour mixture well with a whisk.
- Melt margarine in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and bell pepper; sauté 3 minutes. Add flour mixture. Cook 2 minutes or until thick and bubbly; stir constantly. Combine sauce, noodles, ham, cheese, and sherry in a 1 1/2-quart casserole or 10-inch round gratin dish; sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Bake at 450° for 10 minutes or until bubbly.
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- COOKING METHOD: Bake
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Sri Lanka and IUCN-Sri Lanka publish Guide to Bundala National Park
In 1999, Sri Lanka was granted 39,860 Swiss francs from the Ramsar Small Grants Fund for the project entitled "Understanding the ecological character of the lagoon system in the Bundala National Park", as a part of a larger project, "Irrigation Water Management and Bundala National Park," which was intended to devise a water quality and quantity monitoring system and to assess the economic values of the resources on-site. The Park was at that time the only Ramsar site in the country and is home to a wide range of species from elephants to turtles. Due to the flow of irrigation water from upstream, desalinization and euthrophication have become serious problems in the lagoons within the Park. The grant was used for investigation of the ecological characteristics of Bundala National Park, establishment of a database to aid in site management (including mapping of information about the Park and surrounding area by using GIS), and quantifying the identified ecological characters.
In coordination with the final SGF project report, in early 2002 IUCN-Sri Lanka, on behalf of the Department of Wildlife Conservation, has published an attractive 54-page book entitled Guide to Bundala: a guide to the biodiversity of Bundala National Park, a Ramsar wetland in Sri Lanka (ISBN 955-8177-12-1), compiled and edited by Channa N. B. Bambaradeniya, with financial support from the Ramsar Bureau.
Following a Foreword by Dayananda Kariyawasam, Director of the Department of Wildlife Conservation, and a summary of the contents in the Sinhala and Tamil languages, the English-language text covers a wide range of topics, including vegetation types and habitats, animals to be found in the Park, "birding hotspots", threats to biodiversity, and useful advice to Park visitors (like "Do not shout, sing, clap or play musical instruments. Speak softly."), with annexes listing mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and butterflies to be found in Bundala.
Nicely illustrated with maps and photos, this small book will be useful, not only as a visitors' guide, but also for researchers interested in Sri Lanka's wealth of wetland flora and fauna. It is available from the IUCN Sri Lanka Country Office in Colombo, email@example.com, and from the Department of Wildlife Conservation, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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You should read this article if you really want to know what is going on behind the scenes in coroutines. It will be very useful if you are following the FSM tutorial and you want to get the grimy details on how we can create interruptable coroutines that can be later resumed.
This is an advanced subject and you don't really need to know this if you just want to use coroutines. If you are building systems and frameworks, or you are just curious then read on!
So a coroutine is basically an interruptable routine that can later be resumed. We tell the system when we want to be interrupted by entering a yield statement and we tell the system when we want to be restarted by returning an object derived from YieldInstruction or a reference to another coroutine.
It's obvious that yield is a part of the C# language - so what is it really for? I can tell you it wasn't originally designed to let you wait 2 seconds before destroying your monster's Game Object.
Code Based Enumerators
A while back the designers of the CLR decided that it would be a really good idea if you could enumerate over things that were created by code. So they built it into the framework. They figured that if you wanted to calculate the Fibonacci sequence then it would be nice if you could do a foreach over it. It's also very useful for other things where an enumeration would be useful and it's not practical or necessary to actually create an array or a list from it (or bother to write your own implementation of the IEnumerator interface).
For example say you wanted to do a foreach over every line in a file - well that's what yield was originally all about.
using System.IO; ... void ProcessFile(string filename) { //Loop through all of the lines in a file foreach(var line in Lines(filename)) { Debug.Log(line); } } IEnumerator Lines(string filename) { var reader = new StreamReader(filename); while(!reader.EndOfStream) { yield return reader.ReadLine(); } reader.Close(); }
IEnumerator & Some Magic
Basically yield returns the current value for a code based enumerator. If you look at the IEnumerator interface you will see it does two things:
- MoveNext() which returns true if there are more items and false otherwise.
- Current which returns the current value of the enumerator at the current step. You must always call MoveNext() before your first call to Current.
When a routine contains a yield then the compiler starts to do some magic. That coroutine looks like a normal function in your class doesn't it? Well it isn't that at all. Behind the curtain the compiler has constructed a dummy class which implements IEnumerator, this class has its own fields, one field for every local variable you have defined in your function and another to reference the instruction that last executed.
When that magic class's IEnumerator.MoveNext() is called your code starts to run and the compiler automagically gives you the this pointer for your classes instance, rather than the one for the magic class - it also works out how to reference the variables in your function. In other words you've built a state machine disguised as a function.
Enumerators as Coroutines
So what Unity is doing is calling MoveNext on your coroutine function and working out what you yielded by inspecting the Current property of the IEnumerator interface. It then performs its waiting behaviour based on what that value is - so if it's WaitForSeconds(2) then it checks and doesn't call MoveNext again until that time has elapsed etc.
Ok so now we understand coroutines it's kind of easy to hijack them. All we have to do is get the IEnumerator interface and call it ourselves. We could swap IEnumerators in an out and effectively get coroutines to pause and resume or switch states as we saw fit.
Here's an example where we have one coroutine that increments a variable by an increasing amount over time and another one that decrements the variable and uses a different type of yield. Pressing a GUI button switches between them without ever stopping the function that was switched out:
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; [RequireComponent(typeof(GUIText))] public class Hijack : MonoBehaviour { //This will hold the counting up coroutine IEnumerator _countUp; //This will hold the counting down coroutine IEnumerator _countDown; //This is the coroutine we are currently //hijacking IEnumerator _current; //A value that will be updated by the coroutine //that is currently running int value = 0; void Start() { //Create our count up coroutine _countUp = CountUp(); //Create our count down coroutine _countDown = CountDown(); //Start our own coroutine for the hijack StartCoroutine(DoHijack()); } void Update() { //Show the current value on the screen guiText.text = value.ToString(); } void OnGUI() { //Switch between the different functions if(GUILayout.Button("Switch functions")) { if(_current == _countUp) _current = _countDown; else _current = _countUp; } } IEnumerator DoHijack() { while(true) { //Check if we have a current coroutine and MoveNext on it if we do if(_current != null && _current.MoveNext()) { //Return whatever the coroutine yielded, so we will yield the //same thing yield return _current.Current; } else //Otherwise wait for the next frame yield return null; } } IEnumerator CountUp() { //We have a local increment so the routines //get independently faster depending on how //long they have been active float increment = 0; while(true) { //Exit if the Q button is pressed if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Q)) break; increment+=Time.deltaTime; value += Mathf.RoundToInt(increment); yield return null; } } IEnumerator CountDown() { float increment = 0f; while(true) { if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Q)) break; increment+=Time.deltaTime; value -= Mathf.RoundToInt(increment); //This coroutine returns a yield instruction yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f); } } }
We have created a hijack that basically has Unity start our DoHijack coroutine that delegates to which ever routine is currently active. When you click the GUI button to switch between them, notice how the value of increment remains the last value when the coroutine is re-enabled - the coroutine isn't restarting, its just continuing.
There are lots of system level things you can do by hijacking coroutines - the FSM tutorial will certainly be covering some of them!
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I particularly find I love Kraft Singles when making omelets or grilled cheese. There is a pleasing sort of "neutral" flavor and texture that I get with Kraft. I typically find other cheeses to be too strong.
Feel free to share one of your food confessions. I won't tell.