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my interest in vampires has been rekindled... it died out since the "twilight saga" which i really hate... but reading Anne Rice all over again reminds me why i have been facinated by them since i was younger...
as a result, i have started writing a story of the same genre. cliche, it might seem, with the crapload of "young adult" novels on vamps, but there is the challege... making a novel that is about something so cliche, and trying to make it original.
and because novels can be so overwhelming, i'm looking for a few people who would be willing to read it while in the working phase and provide me with feedback and reviews...
it will be part of a chap-zine i'll be making soon-ish. and the first few parts of the 1st draft is included in my personalitzine, Saling-Pusa.
also, i've heard of and read lots of zombie zines, but i havent read any on vampires, which i find odd, given the more-than-enough crappy "young adult fiction" on vampires... so... any suggestions? both zines and books would be fine. i am more interested in resources, history, theories, accounts, etc. than fiction, because vampires in fiction is never scarce.
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wow you should read this novel called "let the right one in" it's really amazing, and there is a swedish movie of it, which is also amazing! they are way way better than twilight!
"i'm looking for a few people who would be willing to read it while in the working phase and provide me with feedback and reviews..."
well, i wouldn't mind reading it and try to help you out with some feedback! maybe check it for typos hahaha... just kidding, though i'm always ready to improve my English reading & writing skills.
your post caught my attention because, i'll confess, vampires are one of my favorite "things", long long before the Twilight hype. when i was about 12, i remember reading a magazine article about Vlad Tepes (Vlad III the Impaler), the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and being fascinated by him. then i saw Francis Ford Coppola's movie version and i was hooked ^_^. i've read some books over the years, i guess mainly were fiction (Anne Rice, very good!), but i own a couple of them about research and history of the vampire myth and folklore.
just yesterday i was writing a draft of a zine review, for my newborn blog of zine reviews, and it's a zine about vampires, sort of. you should check out redguard here on WMZ, he made a zine about the 1931 movie «Dracula», see details here http://wemakezines.ning.com/profiles/blogs/on-loving-dracula-a-24hour.
i came across another zinester here, though i haven't read her zines yet, she has a perzine - Cat's Teeth -, and some issues feature vampirism. check here (http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/WinterMuse).
and you're right, i haven't seen that many other zines out there that are vampire-themed either, unfortunately.
if you want, i'll browse my books and give you the references for them, maybe you can buy them online or even search them at a local library.
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Save money and headache by re-booting/rebuilding your own axles, instead of buying remanufactured ones that are likely to fail in short order.
you will need a couple specialty tools to complete the project that you wouldn't need for the removal of the axle. These are a snapring pliers and a CV Boot clamp tool. with some patience and cussing, the snapring can be removed without the tool, but the cost is worth it, even if you only use it once. the clamp tool can be rented from some stores. Both are readily available at any auto parts store for less than $10 each:
you'll also want a roll of paper/shop towels nearby. as there's a lot of grease in there that'll need to be cleaned out. and a good hand cleaner and a solvent.
NOTE: it is possible to replace only the DOJ/SFJ boot (on the tranny/diff side), but it's only about 5-10 minutes extra work and $5-10 extra cost to replace the outer while you're at it. whereas you have to do the whole project to replace the outer boot. so just do it while you're at it, and then you don't have to worry about it!
first, remove the axle. This is a fairly common topic, and write-ups for your specific subaru can be found all over the internet.
once you've got the axle out, and on the bench (or the floor....). Start the disassembly.
now you'll need to remove the clamps:
For future reference, this inner joint, with the squared off cups is a DOJ (double-offset joint) or SFJ (Shuderless Freering tripod Joint) on newer models. both of these designs allow the axle to telescope, and change length a bit.
this can be done with a cutoff wheel, tin snips, but I prefer to pry the clamp apart with a chisel or screwdriver:
This outer joint is a CVJ (Constant Velocity Joint), it does not telescope, but does allow higher angles without binding.
now pull the boot back from the axle cup:
ewwww....that grease is very contaminated and worn out.
once most of the grease is cleaned out, use a screwdriver (or tip of a pliers, or even a pen...) to pry the circlip out of the axle cup:
then pull the joint out of the axle cup:
now, if your joint looks like this, you have an SFJ, which doesn't need to be disassembled. skip the next few steps to pulling the snapring off:
here are the components of a DOJ, cleaned, layed out, and labeled:
wipe some of the grease off, and then rock the retainer back and forth to force the balls out:
once all 6 balls are out, rotate the retainer a bit, and slip it off the inner race onto the shaft:
then use your snapring pliers to remove the snapring:
then you can slide the inner race off the shaft. at this point, be sure to take note of which side goes where. the first time I did this, I used a couple dabs of white-out on one side of the race and retainer so I knew how it went.
now slide both boots off the shaft.
now comes the task of cleaning out the CVJ. this is a little more difficult, as it cannot easily be disassembled (I know it's possible....but I've never done it without destroying it). this one is pretty nasty, dried up and crusted with dirt.
I prefer to work some petroleum based hand cleaner (like Goop or Gojo......make sure to get the petroleum version. easiest way to tell is look at the directions for use. if step one is something like "do not wet hands", you've got the right stuff), and work that into the joint:
then rinse it repeatedly with a solvent (gas works....if nothing else)
once cleaned out, you should be able to move it around fairly easily. don't be alarmed if it binds up while dry. it takes quite a lot to damage these irreparably, once you've worked some grease in there, it should free up quite a bit.
now to put it back together.
fill the CVJ with grease (go ahead and use the whole pack), and then slide the boot on the shaft. then the small clamp. next slide the other smaller clamp, and the inner boot.
now slide the retainer on, followed by the inner race (make sure both are facing the right direction....remember those marks you made?). then install the snapring, and re-assemble the retainer and 6 balls (again, not necessary if you have an SFJ).
put the joint into the axle cup, and re-install the circlip. now, open your other pack of grease and put a bunch in the axle cup, and the rest in the boot. slide the boot onto the cup, seat the boots in the indents on the shaft/cups for the clamps. now install and tighten the clamps. and you're done!
now move the joints through their range of motion repeatedly to work the grease into the joints.
re-install in the car. and enjoy!
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text: Gordon needs to be featured to be effective. The Bulls used him to the max of his potential and that was by surrounding him with defenders to cover him while he was out there and let him get his. Only 1 problem with that...they still topped out and didnt win crap. BG needs to take this offseason and figure out if he wants to be remembered as a scorer that couldnt win? or a scorer that changed his game to adapt to his team so they could win. I would rather be done with him than to have our team cater to a sixth man that has 1 trick in his bag and thats scoring. and that trick may be in a bag that he left on the road in a hotel if we judge him by the #s. We have good enough young players to get rid of BG for whatever waterboy we can get for him. Charlie is a horrible defender as well, but at least he can score and score in bunches off the bench.


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Well, I guess that's one way of announcing the new Nikon products!
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By Joe Brewin
Per Mertesacker believes Arsenal are already one step ahead of last summer's preparations after the arrival of three new first-team stars.
Spain international Santi Cazorla became Arsène Wenger's latest signing on Tuesday, following strikers Olivier Giroud and Lukas Podolski to Emirates Stadium.
Mertesacker has welcomed the new additions and says there is healthy competition for places ahead of August 18's Premier League opener against Sunderland.
"I think we have a better situation than last year," he told Arsenal Player. "The team is full of characters, good players and every position [has competition]. So I am looking forward to the season because I think we can show the potential we have in a better way than last year.
"We need good signings and I feel that these players will help us a lot. Giroud is a good striker and I have seen a lot of him in training because he was not out in Asia, so we trained a lot together. He made a good effort and hopefully in the games he will show that as well.
"Santi Cazorla has just signed so we will see him in training and in games in the short term."
Podolski was first to arrive after completing his move ahead of Euro 2012 and Mertesacker says his Germany team-mate has enjoyed a seamless transition to life in north London.
"I try to do my very best [to help him settle]," said the defender. "I had the same thing last year and it is good to have a lot of help in your first moments in a new city with a new language. It is good to have some German friends around you.
"But the Club is doing well also. You have a lot of people who have been very helpful from the beginning. Everything is going fine for him and I am very happy that he is here to give his best for Arsenal.
"From the beginning he was confident about speaking English. He is a confident guy with more than 100 caps for Germany, so he has massive experience. For us to have him here is a massive impact."
You can watch the full interview with Per on Arsenal Player now.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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A coalition of health care workers and activists is forming a lobby to examine the impact of being part of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq upon veterans. At present, there are no clear statistics concerning whether these wars have been responsible for a rise in crime among those who served. However, there is no doubt Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in greater use of drugs and alcohol and some forms of violent behaviors. Although, not all veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, there is no question a significant percent are afflicted.
A question being examined is whether courts of law should take into consideration the impact of being part of a war when individuals are being charged with crimes. There currently are federally funded programs in Colorado and other states where "veterans courts" will hear cases for veterans charged with crimes.
Of course, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and George Bush will live happily ever after despite their crimes.


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I'm driving up to SuperMegaFest near Boston this week with my wife and son from Connecticut. Normally, my 501st garrison (CTG) really doesn't troop it -- we just hang out and maybe do other costumes and leave coverage to the New England Garrison. But Jeremy Bulloch is going to be there, and though I've been a Boba fan for a long time and a TDHer for a while, I've never had a chance to meet him in person. Would you:
A) Tote the full on Boba Fett suit up there, suit up and try to get a pic with him in costume? Could probably do that on Day 2.
B) Just take the helmet up there and see if you can get him to sign the inside and take a casual photo?
Kind of a pain to bring the full tote up with all the other stuff in the car and I already have plans for Day 1. Just curious. I probably will cross paths again with him some other time....


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My mom's birthday got me thinking about this year's Harley 110th Anniversary.
Saturday I wandered the same streets looking for that special gift that once were open only to cycles and thousands of pedestrians. Sounds of loud music competed with Milwaukee Iron four-strokes as hordes of concert-goers gathered at Cutler Park for the free concerts Labor Day Weekend five years ago.
I should have left a little earlier. I noticed too late that several stores close by 5:00 Saturday afternoon. Even though the Poppin' On Broadway's sign said open till 3:00, the doors were still open after 5:30. Cathy produced a great-looking boxed coffee cup for Mom from the back room after I'd mentioned why I was there. She also showed me a prototype package of 110th Anniversary Harley black and orange popcorn. She wouldn't sell it to me, but presumably it's hog flavored... bacon?
Our Harley conversation had me remembering what a great thing Bethesda Events put together with Weekend In Waukesha. I'd never seen so many people downtown! I'd love to see something like it again this year, but it probably won't happen. The partners in Bethesda Events were also the developers of the Black Trumpet Restaurant and Clarke Hotel and you already know how that turned out.
Even though I had a gift certificate to the Clarke Hotel and Black Trumpet courtesy of Scrooge, (don't ask) we never ate or stayed there. Oddly enough, though, Mom decided she'd like to celebrate her birthday with Sunday brunch at Andrew's in the Delafield Hotel. I say oddly, because Andrew Ruggeri with Andrew's was a Black Trumpet and Bethesda partner. It's all connected in an odd sort of way: Harley popcorn, anniversary, Bethesda Events, Black Trumpet, Andrew's...
Needless to say Andrew's isn't the type of restaurant we're most familiar with, but were thoroughly impressed nevertheless. I could've done without the live harp music, too high-falutin for my taste, but oh! the food! Each plate was an art piece to be devoured with the eyes first until they're fully satisfied. I took many photos because I didn't want the best part to go to waste, but the food really did taste as good as it looked.
Really, the best part of the meal was the celebration of my mother. . . but the food was a close second.


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Thought some folks here might enjoy one of my new ebook releases.(I'm the publisher, not the author)
This is a young adult story (ages 10 and up) about wilderness survival. As a promotion it can be downloaded FREE both today and tomorrow (06/18 and 06/19/2013) at Amazon for the Kindle.
If you don't have a Kindle, just get one of the Kindle readers apps for Android, iPhone, or even PC / Mac - they are free from Amazon. ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000493771 )Alive and Alone (Young Adult Fiction: Adventure)
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On a trip to the Lake Clark area of the Alaskan bush, a sudden arctic weather system forces down the small plane of Dr. Jim Wade, and his son David. Both have survived the crash, but not unscathed. Food, fire and shelter are all a priority. Following the death of his father, now it is up to David to figure out what to do next, and how to survive, on a remote Alaskan mountain - in winter!
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Friday March 2nd marks Carl Jacobsen's 170th birthday with the opening of the exhibition, "From Buddha to the Baroque". This lifts the veil from the brewing magnate's unknown collections which contain many surprises. Admission on opening day will be free of charge.
It was with Carlsberg beer that Carl Jacobsen put Denmark on the world map but he was also a passionate collector of art. Today he is known especially for Northern Europe's largest collection of ancient art, which can be seen at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
With the exhibition "From Buddha to the Baroque" the Glyptotek has been going through its own storage magazines and those of the National Gallery of Denmark, the National Museum of Denmark and the Thorvaldsen Museum on the hunt for Jacobsen's hidden or forgotten treasures.
Now for the first time the public can experience examples of the full range of Jacobsen's enormous collections under one roof. The exhibition will present more than 100 works, including statues of Buddha from Asia, Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, ancient Greek stone tools, medals and much, much more. Several of these collections have not been on view for a century: they are works of high quality, which, for the most part are unknown to the public. Among the treasures are a c 800 year-old Syrian "hand grenade", a two-metre-high gilded statue of Buddha from Japan and the largest collection of obsidian blades outside Greece.
Carl Jacobsen bought his first work of art when he was only eight years old – a drawing by the Danish painter Martinus Rørbye. As a young man he began to buy paintings and sculpture, and in his last years he also developed a taste for Asian sculpture.
In the course of his life the art-loving Jacobsen left his mark on the city of Copenhagen in the form of The Little Mermaid, the decoration of the Botanical Gardens and the spire of Nikolaj Church.
For a time the collecting mania threatened to take over Jacobsen to such an extent that his wife began to worry that it would endanger their children's inheritance. Although he would have liked to acquire works by the great masters such as Michelangelo and Raphael, on more than one occasion he bought works which were not what he believed them to be. These included a costly Rembrandt, which turned out not to be a Rembrandt at all.
Experience the stories and see it all at the exhibition, which offers a more nuanced picture of the collector, patron of the arts and brewing magnate Carl Jacobsen.
Learn more about the brewing magnate as collector on the Glyptotek's homepage.
In conjunction with the exhibition a catalogue will be published "Buddha, barok & bryggeren – Carl Jacobsens ukendte samlinger", Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Ny serie nr. 14 2012, 228 pages, profusely illustrated. Published in Danish. Price: 150 kr. Available from the museum's art bookshop.
To mark the occasion of Carl Jacobsen's 170th birthday admission to the museum will be free on Friday 2nd March.
The press will be very welcome to join us at the opening of "From Buddha to the Baroque" on Thursday 1st March at 5.30 p.m.
The exhibition has been realised with support from the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation and S.C. Van Fonden.


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Galatasaray director Bulent Tulun has claimed that he is expecting Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder's decision over whether to move to the club within the next 24 hours. Follow GOAL.COM on Twitter
The Istanbul club announced on Wednesday that it was interested in bringing the Dutchman to Turkey, and talks have been progressing well, according to the official.
"Overall, I can say the talks have been positive, but he hasn't decided yet. He has family issues to discuss." Tulun told Milliyet. "Sneijder will notify us of his decision within 24 hours. I think it's going well, but I cannot say anything definitively. Sometimes, transfers that are 99 percent finished don't happen. For that reason, I am saying nothing.
"Things are moving well, but I don't know what to expect. We will announce the decision within 24 hours."
Sneijder has not featured for the Nerazzurri since September since getting into a stand-off with the club over signing a contract extension.
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AT&T Shows Off New Android Smartphones Lineup At CTIA 2011
AT&T starts CTIA off right by introducing five new smartphones to its Android lineup and announces five smartphones availability of Motorola ATRIX 2, Samsung DoubleTime, Samsung Captivate Glide, Pantech Pocket and prepaid AT&T Avail, which bring total count of new Android devices this year to 19……………….
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text: Several of us have asked in various threads why on earth Mao feels the need to rework every single jump. Obviously she's struggling. Obviously the (f)lutz had been a problem for a while. Obviously the 3a isn't working. She just won a second world title, and a silver medal at the Olympics. So I must ask what was so wrong with her jump technique that she embarked on this program of reworking ALL of her jumps? I must have missed an interview with her in which she answered this question. Anyone know?


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At last, a couple of months work on and off, and they are finally ready to mold. I used the Paterson squegee and stir stick and made sure that all the tools will show out of the top of the pockets to the correct height.
Copies of these will be ready for sale hopefully by January.
As always, our opinions are appreciated.
(If the tool on the left looks a little bent, it isn't, it's just the camera lens distorting it)


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Appreciate your reply.But...Can you back up your assertion with anything? That's really what I'm looking for. Sorry, I'm a details and raw information type of person.Also, your crack about tree bark pretty much just gels with actual mass starvation. No one eats that and you can't survive on it. So I'm not really clear on your main point here.
Saw the first yellow jacket of the season yesterday scoping out one of the same plants the bees have been working (different post). Usually we are covered up with the annoying critters at this time of year.
native americans lived here a long time with no honeybees and they didn't have the advantage of buying their protein at supermarkets.
migratory pollination in the case of almonds in particular exposes bees from all over the country to each other's diseases and pests (think native americans meet smallpox) in a very small area every year. constantly relocating bees is also stressful for them. imagine if your house was ripped up and hauled thousands of miles on the back of a truck every few weeks while you and your family were trapped inside with no plumbing, running water, etc.


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The Canadiens announced on Wednesday morning that defenceman Jarred Tinordi has been sent down to the AHL's Hamilton Bulldogs. Later in the day the Canadiens announced that defenceman Greg Pateryn was being called up from Hamilton.
Tinordi was a healthy scratch for Tuesday's 4-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers at the Bell Centre with Nathan Beaulieu taking his spot on the blue line.
Tinordi was pointless in six games with the Canadiens, with nine penalty minutes and was even in the plus/minus stats.
Douglas Murray (upper body) and George Parros (concussion) skated on their own Wednesday in Brossard with Murray saying he's getting "closer" to returning to the lineup.
"I just want to hit some people," he said.
Carey Price, who will start Thursday night against the Anaheim Ducks at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN-HABS, RDS, TSN Radio 690) was the first player on the ice for Wednesday's practice working on rebound control with goalie coach Stephane Waite.
"It's important to work on the little details in your game," Price said. "It helps you refocus and get prepared for the upcoming games."
Here's how the lines and defence pairings looked at practice:
(Photo by Dario Ayala/The Gazette)
Oilers come back to sink Habs 4-3, by Pat Hickey
Canadiens strong start unravels, by Pat Hickey
Jab by Eller gives Oilers extra motivation, by Dave Stubbs
Canadiens vs. Oilers photo gallery, montrealgazette.com
Depleted Oilers pot four straight to down Habs, Edmonton Journal


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Posted by JP Gownder on April 17, 2014
The Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) role is changing significantly: I&O pros are increasingly helping to drive business strategies with the technologies they choose and implement. Business leaders tell Forrester that technology is too important to leave to technology managers alone; they are pushing their I&O colleagues to explore the business value associated with the technologies they choose, implement, and manage. I&O pros, in turn, tell us that their jobs are changing. As one I&O pro put it, "I've been an infrastructure manager for 15 years, but only in the past 3 have I been asked to construct a business plan and be part of the business planning team."
Figure: Burberry's Technology-Powered Flagship Store In London
For I&O pros in retail and related verticals like hospitality (or for anyone involved in creating in-person experiences), we've just released a report to help aid this transition. Along with my co-author Michele Pelino, we've just released the report "Infrastructure Will Drive The Retail Store Experiences Of The Future." The report asserts that I&O pros have an important role to play in helping their companies engage shoppers in experiences that will drive loyalty and spending.


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November 8, 2013 at 6pm to January 15, 2014 at 7pm – NANTES, FRANCE ZINES OF THE ZONE is a traveling library dedicated to selfpublished photobooks, photozines, and any DIY printed matter related to photography. From february to june 2014, we will travel across Euro… Organized by ZINES OF THE ZONE | Type: open call for zines
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Lignin, the tough stuff so vital to the migration of plants from water to land, gets around
Catherine Clabby
A new discovery in a red alga is challenging some conventional wisdom about plant evolution.
As ancestors of land plants abandoned their aquatic nurseries for life on shore, they needed the means to seal in water and hold themselves up to thrive. Lignin, a strengthening and stiffening polymer common in woody plant cells, contributes to both extremely well.
Lignin production for those tasks was considered a key adaptive achievement of vascular plants, which descend from green algae. Now a University of British Columbia botanist and some highly specialized chemists have strong evidence for lignin in a red alga called Calliarthron cheilosporioides.
The finding suggests that a biological building block fundamental to the success of land plants has roots that stretch back far deeper—and maybe wider—through evolutionary time than was known. "This pathway is involved in the production of other secondary metabolites like pigments in plants. A lot of that is likely to be conserved pretty far back in the evolutionary history of algae," says Patrick T. Martone, the botanist who led the study, published in January in Current Biology.
Martone, now an assistant professor, didn't set out to locate lignin in algae while a graduate and postdoctoral student at Stanford University. The biomechanist simply wanted to better understand the toughness of C. cheilosporioides, which dwells in the harsh habitat of intertidal zones along rocky shores.
During high tides, waves pummel the alga with water velocities exceeding 20 meters per second and with forces that exceed those generated by hurricane winds. The calcified, or rigid-bodied, seaweed has multiple noncalcified joints that make it flexible yet strong enough to handle that setting.
When collaborator Jose Estevez at the Carnegie Institution for Science examined the joints for Martone with a transmission electron microscope, he saw secondary cell walls, features commonly found in land plants. That prompted Martone and Estevez to seek out experts in lignin, a molecule of great research interest right now because its toughness impedes the use of some plants as sources of biofuel and animal feed.
John Ralph and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center detected lignin in C. cheilosporioides. They found the same telltale components derived from radical coupling reactions of hydroxycinnamyl alcohols used to describe lignins in terrestrial plants.
At the Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales in France, Katia Ruel applied antibodies designed to locate lignin within land plants to samples of C. cheilosporioides. Her tests detected lignin in the seaweed too.
The amounts are much smaller than what is found in land plants. But lignin is most abundant in the parts of the seaweed that are most mechanically stressed, which suggests to Martone that there could be some environmental stimulation that increases production of the polymer in the organism. The puzzling thing is that it's also present in calcified portions of the algae. "We don't know what it's doing there," Martone says.
Martone's working hypothesis is that the molecular pathways producing lignin emerged long before land plants evolved from green algae, back to some ancestor shared with red algae more than a billion years ago. Molecular evidence and comparisons of the biological gear the algae use to harvest light convince him that both red and green algae descend from one endosymbiotic event, when a eukaryote cell engulfed a photosynthesizing cyanobacterium and gained the ability to make its own food.
Karl J. Niklas, a Cornell University botanist and former editor of the American Journal of Botany, considers Martone's evidence for lignin in C. cheilosporioides exceptionally strong. But he thinks that red and green algae evolved from separate endosymbiotic events. Still, the progenitors of the two algae may both have carried genes similar to those participating in the lignin production pathways seen today, he says. But they could have used them for different purposes, possibly to produce indigestible substances that protected against microbial attacks.
"This is a stunning example of convergent evolution," Niklas says, comparable to birds, insects and bats developing winged flight independently.
Intrigued by all the mystery, Martone has stepped up his lignin studies.
He has sent a batch of different varieties of seaweeds, including kelps, to Ralph's laboratory to see whether lignins reside there too. Martone's lab is looking for genes in C. cheilosporioides that are homologous to genes linked to lignin production in land plants.
"People thought they knew what was going on," says Martone. "But all that is changing."—Catherine Clabby
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2009/3/a-tangled-tale-of-plant-evolution/1
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So we got a Llama kinda late in the summer. The previous owner had cut down the coat (too much in my opinion) and done it late in the year. Currently we have temps in the mid teens and I am wondering if I should do anything more than just lots of dry straw bedding. She is in a covered area with 4 goats and they all seem to be huddling up, I know they are a hardy animal but how hardy ?
BTW, did you hear about the Balloonist who tried to set a world record by going from the Andies to the Indies in his Undies?


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The Canisius volleyball team won the first set but couldn't overcome Siena in the next three sets as the Saints defeated the Golden Griffins 23-25, 25-12, 25-16, 25-20 at the Alumni Recreation Center on Saturday afternoon. With the loss, Canisius drops to 10-16 overall and 8-7 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Freshman Katlyn Tyler led Canisius with nine kills. Junior Emily Litwin posted 21 digs in the match while senior Roxanne Hernandez had a match-high six blocks as Canisius totaled 10 team blocks on the day.
"We lost the match today in the serve and pass part of the game. We could never get into any sync or run our system consistently," Canisius coach Cathy Hummel said. "It doesn't matter who the opponent is but especially in a late-season match against a quality opponent like Siena, struggling in that aspect of the game makes it very difficult."
Siena (10-14, 10-5 MAAC) jumped out to a quick 7-3 lead, but Canisius scored four straight points to even the score on the second service ace from sophomore Rachel Kline. Canisius extended the run to a 12-4 spurt, which included three kills from Tyler. Siena battled back and tied the score at 21-21, but Canisius never gave up the lead in the latter stages of the opening set. The Griffs took the first set on a solo block from Hernandez, her third block of the set.
The Saints dominated the next two sets and carried that momentum throughout the rest of the match. In the second set, the score was tied at 5-5 after a kill from senior Emily Elek, but Siena scored the next five points to go up 10-5 en route to evening the match at one set apiece. The third set followed a similar pattern as Siena again went up 10-5 early in the set. Canisius scored the next three points to make it 10-8 on a kill from Tyler, but Siena used a 10-1 run to break open the third set and go up 2-1 in the match.
Siena won the first three points of the fourth set and built leads of 10-3, 15-6 and 22-13 before Canisius made a late charge. A 5-1 run, including three kills from senior Jessica Warner, made it 23-18, but the Saints got to match point on the next side-out. Canisius fought off the first two match points but Siena finished off the match on its third opportunity.
Four Siena players posted double-digit kills, including 14 kills and 26 digs from Taylor Akana. Meghann also had a double-double with 11 kills and 13 digs. Haley Howell posted 51 assists for the Saints.
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Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
In my case I did a bit of both, doing the ASA 101, 103, 104 and 105 courses over a couple of years while sailing a 16ft dinghy on lakes and the bay. The later, more advanced courses will mean a lot more if you have been doing some sailing in between.
What I don't like the idea of is these packages where you do, say, 101 and 103 in a week. I prefer the idea of spacing them out a bit, and each one should take a week (or two weekends). You need to maximise time on the water, not minimise it.
I still look back on those courses as some of the best times I've had. Rather than a chore, they made pretty good vacations - taking a week off work and sailing beats working, any day.
Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
When I wanted to start sailing there were no classes on the small inland lake in Indiana where we had a cottage. I found a cheap sailing dingy and bought a book on sailing. read the book and practiced every chance I got. When my kids were small we bought a sunfish and sailed the heck out of it. When the wind was blowing whitecaps we were out there tipping it over and having the time of our lives.
Now I live in NC and sail the Cape Fear region. I have sailed with a lot of different people on a lot of different sailboats. Every time I go out I learn something new, even when single-handling my own boat. Nothing beats experience, especially when backed up with knowledge.
I agree with a previous poster, buy a small boat and learn your sailing skills on the lake and your seamanship manners on saltwater.
Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
Another vote for doing both.
Find a cheap intro sailing course, hopefully one where they will let you rent boats out to practice afterward. You don't necessarily need ASA 101-103 certification ($1200) unless you want to charter - when I started out I found a two-day Red Cross course for about $350 that covered all the same material.
In my opinion, a course is a much better introduction to sailing than learning on your own. Trial and error on the water is not fun. The first day the wind picks up to 20 knots and you didn't reef your sails before leaving the dock and your boat heels so hard the rails hit the water you'll give yourself a heart attack that might cause you to never go out again.
Use their boats to practice for a season while you see how much you like sailing. This will also buy you time to save up for boat, slip, and maintenance budget.
You don't mention who will be sailing with you, but if you are planning to single-hand, lessons will allow you to see how hard that is going to be. If you have someone to sail with in mind, have them take the course with you so you can develop confidence together as a crew.
Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
I've had my first boat a little over a year now. My wife and I just took the ASA 101/103 courses a few weeks ago, we both learned so much more in the classes than we learned by trying to teach ourselves. The added plus was that my wife is no longer scared about sailing! Going with a trained and certified instructor gave my wife the ability to relax and enjoy the experience. We did countless MOB drills, and my wife can now confidently sail the boat if something were to happen to me. I vote for do both!
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Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
I would suggest you to take a course...Say ASA 101. Why? Because it teaches you some rudiments of sailing and docking, etc.
How do you act like you know what you are doing when you have others less experienced than you aboard? What are some of the gotchas to look out for so that you don't end up with your sheets tangled close onto a lee shore or some other common foolishness.
A good course and instructor can really accelerate you learning experience.
Much of the above and more you will learn by experience. But some book-learnin' stuff you just need to know.
A surprising number of skippers don't know the "rules of the road (rode?)". When do you have the right-of-way (are the stand-on vessel) and when should you give way (are the give-way vessel) and what are your obligations as such? What do the various lights, flags, horn signals and balls all mean? The various buoys? As far as I can make out a large number of weekend boat operators here on San Francisco Bay haven't had any formal training and therefore don't have a clue.
Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
6 years ago ago we bought a boat, took a sailing and seamanship course and hit the ocean. As my wife puts it, I have an above average ability to solve problems and fix things. (From wy wife of all people) so as clueless as we were, we weren't complete idiots. That said, that was about 1500 miles ago. You can certainly just start sailing. It isn't rockrt science, making it go. Plus you'll learn more from your screw ups anyway. But, I wish I had taken a class on sail trim. Real instruction would be nice when things aren, t perfect.
Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
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So I'm new to sailing and was wondering from other people who have experienced these situations on what to do. I live in utah so lake sailing is my only way to go really. Question is to learn the proper skills I need to one day charter in the caribbean should I head down to cali and take a ASA course which runs around 1200 $ or buy my own small boat, 25ft or so, and teach/ have local yatch club people teach me at the lake
Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
First I would suggest doing research on Youtube, forums and getting some books so that you at least understand the vocabulary of sailing, parts of the boat, parts of the sails, etc. The concepts of sailing aren't all that complex to learn but the lingo can trip up beginners. See if anybody teaches a power squadron course in the area and take it. Maybe try community colleges too. Next I would suggest finding a marina or yacht club to hang out in on a Friday night or Saturday so that you can meet some sailboat owners. Tell them up front that you want to learn to sail and that you will provide sandwiches and appropriate refreshments (I see you are in Utah). Get some time on the water on a variety of boats. Once you get "in" with the right group of people you should be able to spend time on OPBs (other peoples boats) and learn how to sail along with docking and other tasks. A Craigslist add may not be a bad option to meet up with boat owners.
If you end up getting a decent grasp of sailing then whether you have a formal training certification or not should not preclude you from being able to charter a boat in the Caribbean. It would be money well spent to pay for a captain for 3-5 days if you do make it down here. A captain should be able to teach you the intricacies of the vessel you are on and take all the pressure off while you are learning what you need to know. If you aren't comfortable to be turned loose by the fourth day, make arrangements for the captain to stay for your entire charter.
Considering your location, I probably wouldn't suggest buying a sailboat until you were more experienced and understanding more about which sailboat serves your purpose the best.
Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
We went the buy a boat route and don't regret. Have owned and sailed a 28' now for 4 months. but one thing we did was ride with others a few times before buying. Had to pay a little bit but at least we could test the waters for lots less than course costs. I feel we have most of the basics down with still much to learn. But by buying and getting in a marina we have several newfriends who are experienced hands and could probably be talked into sharing their knowledge/experience. I say buy with help and go slow on the learning curve.
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Re: asa school vs buying own 20-30ft and teach self?
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I was in a similar position, thinking of buying a boat and getting people to go out with me to learn, and through books, etc. I ended up taking ASA 103 (I had to to a 101 test first to 'place' into it). It was expensive, maybe around 700, but money well spent. What I learned about boat safety, navigating, and docking would have been hard to get elsewhere. We didn't focus on sailing that much, which is where having a boat and practicing, with friends prefereably, comes in. But I'm really glad I took that course. Between that and getting experience on my boat, I think I'll be really ready to charter somewhere, which sounds fantastic.
Where were you able to test up to 103?? This is what I have been looking to do. Thanks for any info you can provide.
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Another example of neoconservative Michael Medved fawning over an Obamic oration that simply isn't worth the… well, we'll get into that.
On his radio show today, Medved referred to a speech, which Obama gave today at the National Prayer Breakfast, as "great;" Medved enthusiastically compared it to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Medved was evidently so impressed by the subject of the speech that he failed to note the superficiality and hypocrisy of its execution.
The subject was civility, about which Barack H. Obama is a subject-matter expert — for the same reason that Jack the Ripper was a subject-matter expert on human anatomy. Indeed, the president's violent assaults on civility are legion. In today's talk — the same one where he referred (twice!) to a Navy Corpsman as a "corpse-man" — he inexplicably neglects covering a number of points:
- Bearing false witness against one's rhetorical opponents; for example, the president accusing Republicans of saying "that they can insure every American for free, which is what was claimed the other day, at no cost" — when they, or rather Rep. Tom Price (R-GA, 100%), actually said "he has a health-care proposal that expands health insurance coverage to 'all Americans… without raising taxes by a penny.'"
- Making rude and offensive gestures out of view of the target of such mockery; for example, when the president extends his middle finger, visible only to his own supporters, while pretending to rub his cheek during a debate.
Insulting one's debate partners with crude, adolescent epithets; for example, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY, 100%) calling Sen. Scott Brown a "far-right tea-bagger Republican," which is not only demeaning but drips with homoerotic inuendo. Are Democrats really saying we should despise Brown because Schumer thinks the senator from Massachusetts is homosexual? (Which, by the way, he most certainly is not.)
That would be a switch.
In fact, whenever Obama in his civility speech drifts away from vague platitudes —
And this erosion of civility in the public square sows division and distrust among our citizens. It poisons the well of public opinion. It leaves each side little room to negotiate with the other. It makes politics an all-or-nothing sport, where one side is either always right or always wrong when, in reality, neither side has a monopoly on truth.
— into more concrete paeans to civility and condemnations of incivility, the good guys always seem to be liberal, while the black-hats are invariably conservatives:
That begins with stepping out of our comfort zones in an effort to bridge divisions. We see that in many conservative pastors who are helping lead the way to fix our broken immigration system. It's not what would be expected from them, and yet they recognize, in those immigrant families, the face of God. We see that in the evangelical leaders who are rallying their congregations to protect our planet.…
We may disagree about the best way to reform our health care system, but surely we can agree that no one ought to go broke when they get sick in the richest nation on Earth. We can take different approaches to ending inequality, but surely we can agree on the need to lift our children out of ignorance; to lift our neighbors from poverty. We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are[.]
All right, we get it: Obama loves conservatives who support comprehensive immigration reform and Globaloney, and he despises any conservative who opposes universal health care, the government school system, and welfare for all. And he reserves especial hatred for anyone who "target[s] gays and lesbians for who they are." We take judicial notice that liberals by and large believe that any initiative which defines marriage as between one man and one woman falls into that "targeting" category.
Even his one feeble nod to lessons the Left must learn is innocuous, demonstrating their big-heartedness rather than small-mindedness:
We see it in the increasing recognition among progressives that government can't solve all of our problems, and that talking about values like responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage are integral to any anti-poverty agenda.
Yes, it would be nice if progressives recognized the former and talked about the latter. Soon, perhaps?
But where in the president's speech is any reference to the real-world examples where the incivility is entirely on the other shoe? Can we all agree that SEIU thugs shouldn't physically assault black conservatives at peaceful protests? Not until Obama and the Left recognize that it actually happens.
We can all take different approaches to environmental protection, but surely we can all agree that when climatologists who are global-warming alarmists conspire to sabotage the careers of their counterparts who reject global-warming theory, such shenanigans are at the very least uncivil.
Well, no; to most of the Left, the CRU's only mistake was getting caught by a hacker. As to fabricating evidence and suppressing inconvenient truths, the entire liberal spectrum relies upon the "fake but accurate" defense of Rathergate vintage.
Barack Obama seems remarkably averse to self examination. He is the most "do as I say, not as I do" president in my lifetime. Heck, he's the most "do as I say, not as I do" president of Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-WV, 79%) lifetime; and that takes us all the way back to John Quincy Adams!
The president is equally incapable of beholding the beam in the eyes of his allies in House and Senate, in the leftstream media, and on blogs like Daily Kos, Firedoglake, and the Hufflepuffington Post. (See, I'm keeping with the Biblical tone of the prayer breakfast.) When he says, "in reality, neither side has a monopoly on truth," he means neither the progressive nor the moderate Democratic side; he certainly does not extend such magnanimity to the GOP — which indeed has a monopoly on mendacity in Barack Obama's world.
I understand (but reject) Michael Medved's urge to give the POTUS (and his TOTUS) the benefit of the doubt; but Medved and other former liberals really need to understand that at a certain point, all "doubt" is blown away by the hurricane of rank, uncivil partisanship that surrounds the current administration. At that point, it's far more urgent to extend the benefit of clarity.
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1 Abstract
FieldTrip is a library for functional 3D graphics, intended for building static, animated, and interactive 3D geometry, efficient enough for real-time synthesis and display. Our first renderer uses OpenGL, with the usual visual limitations. Since FieldTrip is functional, it is about being rather than doing. One describes what models are, not how to render them.
FieldTrip is work-in-progress. It's being released to show what's going on and see who's interested in collaborating on developing it further.
Besides this wiki page, here are more ways to find out about and get involved with FieldTrip:
- Join the FieldTrip mailing list.
- Visit the Hackage page for library documentation and to download & install.
- Or install with cabal install FieldTrip. See Installation dependencies below.
- Get the code repository: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/FieldTrip.
- Report bugs and request features on the tracker.
2 Basic types
The basic purpose of the core FieldTrip library is to allow a user build 3D geometry, from individual simple shapes to full 3D scenes. The principal types are as follows.
- Geometry3
- 3D geometry. These values can be spatially transformed in space (affinely: scale, rotate, translate) and combined (union).
- Surf a = (a,a) -> (a,a,a)
- Parametric surfaces, i.e., mappings from 2D to 3D. Normals are constructed automatically and exactly via derivatives, thanks to the
vector-space library. These normals are used for shading. For simplicity and composability, surfaces are curved, not faceted. Surface rendering tessellates adaptively, caching tessellations in an efficient, infinite data structure for reuse. The mechanism for choosing tessellation is a very primitive placeholder. FieldTrip provides some basic shapes of surfaces (spheres, torus, cubes, etc) and many functions for manipulating surfaces, colors, etc.
- Geometry2
- 2D geometry. There's a function () to embed 2D into 3D.flatG
- Image o = (R,R) -> o
- A primitive placeholder for functional imagery in the spirit of Pan. The intention is to use this type or
something like it for texture mapping. Much design and implementation work to be done.
3 Example
The code for the static torus pair shown above:
torusPair :: Geometry3 torusPair = f red (1/2) `mappend` pivot3X (f green (-1/2)) where tor = torus 1 (2/5) f :: Col -> R -> Geometry3 f col dx = materialG (plastic col) (move3X dx tor)
color with a plastic look (defined in
torus function used here is a
simple wrapper around a parametric surface defined as follows:
-- | Torus, given radius of sweep circle and cross section torus :: (Floating s, VectorSpace s, Scalar s ~ s) => s -> s -> Surf s torus sr cr = revolve (const (sr,0) ^+^ cr *^ circle)
Graphics.FieldTrip.ParamSurf, along with other tools for shape generation.The trick to turning this polymorphic
surfG :: Surf (Vector2 R :> R) -> Geometry3 torus :: R -> R -> Geometry3 torus sr cr = surfG (P.torus (pureD sr) (pureD cr))
[fill in more examples]
4 FieldTrip meets Reactive
FieldTrip contains no support for animation, because we intend it to be used with the Reactive functional reactive programming (FRP) library (and possibly other animation frameworks). By design, FieldTrip is completely orthogonal to any formulation or implementation of FRP.
The reactive-fieldtrip project connects Reactive and FieldTrip.
The picture above comes from an animation in reactive-fieldtrip.
src/Test.hs, as follows:
~/Haskell$ cd reactive-fieldtrip/src ~/Haskell/reactive-fieldtrip/src$ ghci GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> :l Test :l Test [1 of 2] Compiling FRP.Reactive.FieldTrip.Adapter ( FRP/Reactive/FieldTrip/Adapter.hs, interpreted ) [2 of 2] Compiling Test ( Test.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: FRP.Reactive.FieldTrip.Adapter, Test.
Then run the example:
*Test> anim3 (const (spinningG torusPair)) Loading package OpenGL-22.214.171.124 ... linking ... done. Loading package syb ... linking ... done. Loading package base-184.108.40.206 ... linking ... done. [...] Loading package reactive-0.9.0 ... linking ... done. Loading package FieldTrip-0.2.2 ... linking ... done. Loading package reactive-glut-0.0.5 ... linking ... done.
5 Some videos
6 Problems and solutions
6.1 Installation dependencies
You may also need to install libghc6-opengl-dev and libghc6-glut-dev using synaptic or apt-get.
- To do: describe the symptoms that indicate when this extra installation is needed
6.2 GLUT and freeglut
You may encounter the following message when using reactive-glut or reactive-fieldtrip and freeglut:
user error (unknown GLUT call glutSetOption, check for freeglut)
The problem is the following line of code in FRP.Reactive.GLUT.SimpleGL in the reactive-glut package.
actionOnWindowClose $= MainLoopReturns
That line allows a graceful exit, e.g., back into ghci. However, it relies on freeglut. If you have (non-free) GLUT, comment it out. I'd like to make the check at runtime, but I don't know how. Help, please.