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I wanted my first review here to be a positive one. As it turns out, this one is more than positive; it's glowing like my radioactive zombie brethren.
ROT & RUIN, by Jonathan Maberry, is described as a coming-of-age story, set in a post-zombie-apocalypse world. From the time of the narrative, the dead started rising – and, of course, feeding on the living – fourteen years ago. On that First Night, protagonist (comer-of-age) Benny Imura was only a baby. In the world in which Benny has grown up, most of humanity's few survivors live in fenced-in, fortified communities, technology has largely been abandoned (to the point where long-distance communication does not exist), and nobody talks very much about life before First Night. Now fifteen, according to the laws of this new society, Benny must take on a job, and begins with no small reluctance to work with his much-older brother, Tom, who has raised Benny – in a mostly strained, tense dynamic – since First Night, in the "family business": Taking contracts from living relatives of zombies to "quiet" their undead loved ones. Benny and Tom's relationship is central to the story, character development and theme of the novel.
For those among you who like to categorize (and what healthy – or unhealthy – horror geek doesn't?), these are slow-moving, Romero-esque zombies. The novel could actually work very nicely as an extension of the Romero mythology, intelligently exploring the what-ifs of the years following a global zombie outbreak. As in Uncle George's films, all recently deceased humans "come back," not just those infected by existing zombies (although a bite from one is a quick one-way ticket to join the rotting ranks). Also in the Romero tradition, almost no time is spent on the whys behind the problem: At one or two points a character may mention a couple of speculative hypotheses about why one day the dead just started reanimating and eating the living, but none of this is important to the story. Like the best of Romero's work, this is a story about people: About people struggling to survive and find some new sense of normalcy in the midst of a bizarre, horrible and previously unthinkable set of circumstances. In such a situation, some ordinary, imperfect humans will find themselves rising to their greatest heights. Others will sink to the lowest, slimiest depths imaginable. Again, in keeping with the Romero tradition, the villains are not the hapless living dead. The true monsters in the story are living humans, taking selfish, sociopathic advantage of a bad situation, in order to dominate and exploit their fellow humans in the most hideous possible ways. The bounty hunters of ROT & RUIN, led by the hateful-beyond-words Charlie Pinkeye, make DAWN OF THE DEAD's biker gang seem like a bunch of fun-loving schoolboys.
As I look over what these rotting fingers have typed thus far, I just want to point out that all of these comparisons and relations to Romero should in NO way imply that this is a unoriginal piece of fiction. Far from it. This is a powerful work which, while informed and inspired by what has come before, transcends its subgenre and takes its characters – and readers – through the emotional valleys and peaks of the human experience, from the agonies of loss, old wounds and family tension to the heart-soaring sublimeness of a teenager's first kiss. (Before anyone cries spoiler, among the many kudos already heaped on this novel is one which celebrates that specific moment.)
Also, to any of you wizened, jaded, hardcorer-than-thou horror fiends who might be concerned about this book's designation as a YA novel, don't worry: While it can be safely recommended to teen readers, there is nothing fluffy, dumbed down or fad-chasing in sight here – nothing sparkles, except the compelling story, character development and good old-fashioned literary style. The only thing that could differentiate this from a work of "adult" fiction is the absence of explicit sex (and really, since the male and female leads are fifteen, I hope that's not a disappointment to anyone).
Lastly, for any naysayers commenting on this review's apparent lack of timeliness, there is a madness to my method (or something like that): The novel's first sequel, DUST & DECAY, shambles into finer bookstores at the end of this month. The coolest ghouls who haven't done so already will want to grab up and and devour R&R now, and thus be ready in time for D&D's release. Any still-living fans who are fearful of venturing out of doors, lest the zombie apocalypse strike at any moment, can order one and preorder the other from Amazon, and wait safely in a locked and fortified house for the postman to brave the undead horde and deliver them to your doorstep.
Unless he's zombie, too.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Book Review: ROT & RUIN, by Jonathan Maberry
I wanted my first review here to be a positive one. As it turns out, this one is more than positive; it's glowing like my radioactive zombie brethren.
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Each year, we host a variety of educational and community events, which range from career days to help students explore aviation career opportunities to an annual 5K run at Teterboro Airport.
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Complete with traditional German music, polka dancing and food and beer. The historic and quaint backdrop of Saint Anthony Main and the natural beauty of the Mississippi River bank make for the idyllic Oktoberfest setting. Admission and music will be FREE for all ages. I.Ds will be required to obtain a wristband for purchasing beer and wine.
Patrons will enjoy authentic German food from an array of great imported beers in our Biergartens. Join in the fun and games such as the beer barrel roll and the Hammerschlagen (nail driving).
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Top Gear tests the £120,000 driving game
Julien Abelli is the 25-year old stunt driver for the excellent French cop drama Spiral. He's also quite handy behind the wheel of a racing car: he went up against Nico Hulkenberg and Sebastien Buemi in junior karting, and finished fourth in a Formula Renault series.
An able helmsman, then. A smart one, too. When the cost of his burgeoning motorsport career became prohibitive, he decided to cut costs and build his own racing simulator to practice. He then foolishly invited TG to come and test it.
The super-sim no longer lives in in Abelli's bedroom, but a warehouse on a light-industrial estate just outside Paris. This is no lashed-together chair-and-steering-wheel-and-ironing-board set-up either. The 'facility' is like walking in to Richie Rich's games room. In the middle sits a full-size, fibreglass replica of Sebastien Vettel's RB6. It had been made by hand, following nothing more than a Haynes manual and a couple of blueprints from the internet.
The RB6 sits atop a bed of hydraulics, digitally parked in one of Spa-Francorchamps's pit garages thanks to a massive 11.5-metre wide, two-metre tall projection of the cockpit on a wraparound screen.
It's the result of a five-year build, countless hours reading simulator forums online and a Matrix-trilogy worth of computer coding - all done by Julien. On his own.
It started life as a static rig in his bedroom, then morphed to a two-axis sim. Then, after Abelli studied McLaren's in-house F1 simulator, his effort swelled to such a size that it now lives full-time in a warehouse.
It's hydraulically powered, has pitch, roll, yaw and heave incorporated, and makes returning to using a normal controller for your racing games completely impossible.
TopGear.com is not completely new to advanced simulators, having experienced the sextuplet of "consoles" at iWay in Lyon. We thought they were impressive, but this is on another level.
"iWay's simulators are heavy," Julien says of his local competition. "They're also electric movement, rather than hydraulic, so can't make the G-forces easily as they can't react quick enough."
Heading out on the digital track isn't as easy as wiping down your Cheeto-greased palms and picking up a controller. First you have to climb over the fiberglass sidepod, then wiggle your way into the tight cockpit. And then someone has to pin you to the chassis with the same six-point seatbelts Sebastian Vettel uses on race day.
After all this, you have to work out the wheel. It's a replica of a proper F1 wheel, with a Skittles grab-bag of buttons glued to it. Every one works, including DRS, KERS and radio to the pitwall. If you struggle with the complexity of a PlayStation or Xbox controller, this thing will give you an aneurism.
Pulling out of the pits, I test the vital controls to get a feel for the car, starting with the brakes. First mistake. The pedals are weighted the same as a GP2 car: so the brake pedal is solid, and the accelerator is light with a lot of travel. But what I wasn't told was that the seatbelts have four pre-tensioners to squeeze you to mimic the feel of braking. It adds instant excitement, but also a great deal of pain. Particularly in the downstairs region.
A pit stop of adjustment later, I try the accelerator. There's no traction control or ABS (we're running a 2013 F1 setup without KERS or DRS, as thinking of three things at once is frankly too much for my meagre intellect). Even with a progressive push of the pedal to avoid a mass of wheel spin, the whole car feels like it's reeling back onto its hind legs as the seatbelts tighten. A computer trick it may be, but it feels very visceral and fast.
While it can't recreate the lengthy build-up of g's you'd experience through, say, a long, fast corner on a racetrack, Julien's sim replicates the sensation with a short but intense g-force experience. It pumps out a maximum of 2.5g for 0.3 seconds under acceleration and braking. That's a whole g more than iWay's simulators can produce, but still highlights the limitations of a sim in subjecting drivers to the physical strains of driving a racetrack.
Even so, the rig throws the chassis in every fathomable direction, clanking and hissing as it goes. It shifts up to a metre forwards and backwards during acceleration and deceleration, swings left and right up to five metres during cornering, and hops up and down by 15cm to shake your lunch from your stomach as you hop over the kerbs.
When playing a game with a controller, the myriad of sensations a car produces has to be portrayed through a couple of triggers, sticks and rumble packs. In the simulator these are individually isolated.
If the car steps out of line, you feel this initially through your backside and then through the wheel trying fight you, just like you would in the real thing. Your brain tells your arms to respond by applying opposite lock and your feet to back off the throttle to collect the slide. At least, it does after the fourth spin.
Visually, the experience is far from stunning: the simulator runs off a 2007 version of rFactor (it's open-source and offers a vast amount of dynamic detail for the cars). But after a couple of minutes of playing, your eyes smooth over the awkward pixels as you become hooked into the driving experience.
Swapping from an F1 car and a Porsche 911 GT car, the difference in weight distribution and general car balance is also clear. And boy, it's addictive. You become a racing driver, stepping out of the car and checking your telemetry traces to see where to trim tenths off your time, and making whiny, unconvincing excuses for where you've gone wrong.
Julien wants to make a business out of virtual reality. He's launching a company called I-S.IM, which is set to launch at the start of next year.
The plan is to build ten simulators and place them in cities so you can pop down, strap in and receive training from professional racing drivers, for around £120 an hour. They're even making it compatible with Occulus Rift virtual reality goggles, so you'll look like a steampunk scuba diver behind the wheel, but will have even more engrossing and possibly even more sicky experience.
After half a day of getting beaten up (trust us, crashing hurts) and sweating it out in the simulator, we managed to get within six seconds of Jenson Button's qualifying pace in his McLaren at Spa.
We've never enjoyed a driving game so much. And although the system maybe visually limited, it's as close as us mortals will get to driving an F1 car round Spa. And if you've got £120,000 to spare, Julien will build you one. If he can find time between nailing J-turns in French cop dramas…
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- Civil Rights Instruction 113-1, issued Nov. 8, 2005, The purpose of this Instruction is to establish and convey policy and provide guidance and direction to the USDA Food and Nutrition Service and its recipients and customers, and ensure compliance with and enforcement of the prohibition against discrimination in all FNS nutrition programs and activities, whether federally funded in whole or not.
- Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d to 2000d-6, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance; and USDA Implementing Regulation, 7 CFR Part 15, Subpart A and Subpart C.
- Americans with Disabilities Act (28 CFR Part 35, Title II, Subtitle A), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in all services, programs, and activities provided to the public by State and local governments, except public transportation services.
- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. § 1681 et. seq.), which prohibits discrimination based on sex under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance; and USDA Implementing Regulation, 7 CFR Part 15 a.
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination based on disability; and USDA Implementing Regulation, 7 CFR Part 15 b.
- Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (45 CFR Part 91), which prohibits discrimination based on age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance.
- The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), and Department of Justice (DOJ) Memorandum dated January 28, 1999, entitled, "Policy Guidance Document -- Enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Related Statutes in Block Grant Type Programs."
- Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, which clarifies the intent of Congress as it relates to the scope of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related nondiscrimination statutes to ensure nondiscrimination in all programs and activities of a recipient, whether those programs and activities are federally funded or not.
- The Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended. The Supplemental Food Assistance Program (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) is an entitlement program available to all low-income individuals and families who meet the income, resource, and eligibility requirements as specified under the Act and corresponding regulations. The Act prohibits discrimination against any applicant or participant in any aspect of program administration for reasons of age, race, color, sex, handicap, religious creed, national origin, or political beliefs.
- Enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- National Origin Discrimination Against Persons With Limited English Proficiency, 65 F.R. 50123, August 16, 2000. This is the Federal Register cite for Department of Justice guidance for Executive Order 13166, Improving Access To Services For Persons With Limited English Proficiency, signed on August 11, 2000. Additional authorities can be found in the specific Program Appendices of the FNS 113-1 Instruction.
- USDA Departmental Regulation 4330-2, Activities Receiving USDA Financial Assistance, ensures compliance with and enforcement of the prohibition against discrimination in programs and activities funded in whole or in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- USDA Regulation 7 CFR Part 16, Equal Opportunity for Religious Organizations, implements executive branch policy that, within the framework of constitutional church-State guidelines, religiously affiliated (or "faith-based") organizations should be able to compete on an equal footing with other organizations for USDA assistance.
- USDA Civil Rights Accountability Policy and Procedures establishes the civil rights accountability policy and procedures for ensuring that appropriate disciplinary or corrective actions are taken when discrimination, retaliation, civil rights violations, or related misconduct occurs.
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text: Not too long ago, I saw an image of this book on jjjjound and wanted to know what it was. By some magic, it appeared on my doorstep this week. Ballets Russes is a beautiful documentation of the Russian ballets that took place in Paris that moved ballet into the high fashion world. I love the drawing section! It's a hardcover with nearly 350 pages so I'm sure the shipping wasn't cheap – Huge thank you to Anton for your mystical mind-reading abilities and everyone else at, Frankenstein. You can purchase the book here.


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Apple may have been working on porting the Mac OS X Darwin kernel to the same ARMv5 chipset architecture used by the iPhone and iPad, it has emerged.
A thesis called Porting Darwin to the MV88F6281 describes how Apple's Platform Technologies Group spent time in 2010 working on porting Mac OS X to ARM processors and was written by Tristan Schaap, who was at the time an intern but now works full time for Apple as a Core OS engineer.
Published by the Delfte University of Technology and picked up by the iMore blog, the paper details how Darwin - described by Schaap as "the lower half of the Mac OSX operating system" and including the XNU kernel, which is based on the Mach microkernel, and the userland - could be got into a workable state on the MV88F6281 processor.
The MV88F6281 is described by Schapp as "an ARMv5te compatible processor from Marvell. It is based on their custom Sheeva core, which is designed to be like the ARM926EJ-S core from ARM".
The paper's existence would seem to suggest that Apple has considered the possibility of a MacBook Air or perhaps even an iPad or iPhone running OS X.
Of course, the company did used to run Mac OS X on Power PC chips before moving to Intel and presumably had done extensive work on the possibilities of doing so beforehand. As iMore's Jack Perry points out: "It only makes sense for a company as forward thinking as Apple to have ARM-compatible builds of OS X in the development labs."


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Trombone player George Brunies got his start at age eight playing with Papa Jack Laine's band and later went on to play with Laine's son Alfred "Baby" Laine's band. He played in various bands in and around New Orleans including his brother Abbie's Halfway House Orchestra, until he moved to Chicago in 1919. After playing for a while in Chicago he took a job on the Mississippi riverboat the S.S. Capitol. He returned to Chicago in 1923 with his childhood friends Paul Mares and Leon Roppolo and joined the Friar's Society Orchestra which later changed its name to the New Orleans Rhythm Kings after leaving the club. George's brother Merritt took over the gig at the Friar's Inn with his band which was called Merritt Brunies and his Friars Inn Orchestra. George Brunies left New Orleans Rhythm Kings in 1924 and signed up with Ted Lewis and his Band that same year. He stayed with Lewis until 1934. Throughout the rest of his career he played with Muggsy Spainer, Art Hodges, Louis Prima and Eddie Condon and many others.
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Bio-based fuels continue to be a hot button topic in agriculture, given new impetus by the Bush administration's emphasis on ethanol.
Two experts in the field will be a part of the Saturday, Feb. 28, Ag Update session at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. The session is entitled "Growing Mid-South Agriculture: Critical Perspectives on Trade, New Uses, and Legislation."
"We feel extremely fortunate to have Brian Jennings, executive vice president for the American Coalition for Ethanol, and Mississippi Rep. Chip Pickering, a member of the House Agriculture and Energy and Commerce committees, to speak at this meeting," says Tim Price, executive vice president of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, which sponsors the annual show.
"There is a great deal of interest in bio-based fuels, and we believe these two very knowledgeable people will be able to provide our farmers with current information on the topic."
Also on the Saturday morning program, which starts at 8:30 in the convention center lobby auditorium, is Gary Adams, vice president of economics and policy analysis for the National Cotton Council, who will discuss key trade issues and cotton's future.
This year's exhibition, Feb. 27-28, is shaping up to be the largest in its 52-year history, says Price. "It's a complete sell-out, and we have a really outstanding lineup of exhibitors of equipment, products, and services."
The completion of the expansion of the Memphis Cook Convention Center last year made available an additional 35,000 square feet of space, and the 2004 show will have over 200,000 square feet of exhibits.
"We've got a lot of new exhibitors and a lot of long-time exhibitors who've substantially increased the size of their displays."
"We hope everyone is making plans to come to Memphis and take part in our big show."
More than 400 exhibitors have signed up to be a part of the show, the largest indoor agricultural exhibition in the South and the largest cotton equipment show in the nation.
It is co-sponsored by Delta Farm Press, which also publishes the official show program.
"This will be a great opportunity for Mid-South growers to have some one-on-one time with representatives of these companies, and to get up-to-date information on markets, the outlook for Delta crops, and new developments in the cotton industry," Price says.
Speakers for the Friday morning Ag Update session are Woody Anderson, the new chairman of the National Cotton Council, who will discuss issues confronting the industry in 2004; Riceland Foods chief executive officer Richard Bell, who will give his forecast for rice and grain crops; and Memphis cotton merchant William Dunavant, who will present his outlook for cotton.
The Southern Cotton Ginners Association and its member organizations will also be holding their annual meetings during the week of the show. They include the Arkansas-Missouri Cotton Ginners Association, the Mississippi Cotton Ginners Association, the Tennessee Cotton Ginners Association, and the Louisiana Cotton Ginners Association.
Most association meetings and events, including an honors reception/banquet, will be held at the historic Peabody Hotel.
The annual meeting of the association will be Thursday, Feb. 26, at 1:30 p.m. at the Peabody.
Delta Farm Press will publish the official program for the show, which will be distributed to all subscribers in the Feb.13 issue and to the Alabama circulation of the Feb. 11 Southeast Farm Press. The program will also be available to all show attendees.


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Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow is an ongoing project that weaves together photographic works, 35mm films, art installations and a novel in letters. Here some samples:
None of the images have been digitally collaged or superimposed. They record what the artist himself saw through the lens of his camera. While Colbert uses both still and movie cameras, the images are not stills from the film. The animal subjects of the photographs and films include interactions with both wild animals and also those that have been habituated to human contact.
With profound patience and an unswerving commitment to the expressive and artistic nature of animals, he has captured extraordinary interactions between humans and animals.
The Ashes and Snow exhibition includes more than 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a one-hour film, and two short film "haikus".
Colbert's elephant pictures makes me think of Richard Avedon's famous fashion photographs (below). But here the animals are just a backdrop: well trained circus animals with no real interaction with the posing human being in front of them... Still, I love Avedon's photographs. I have one of them as a screensaver on my Mac, and never seem to get tired of it.
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With an impressive price tag of $5 billion, the ThyssenKrupp (TK) steel mill, owned by ThyssenKrupp Steel USA, is one of the largest private industrial investments in the United States, the largest facility of its kind in North America and the second-largest integrated steel mill in the world that is currently under construction. The complex, which is located on 3,500 acres near Mobile, Ala., will ultimately include a river terminal, hot strip mill, cold rolling mill, four hot-dip galvanizing lines (HDGLs), wastewater treatment facilities, and a rail yard. When fully operational, it will have the ability to annually produce 4.3 million metric tons of carbon steel-coiled product.
To meet this immense and fast-track project's unique demands, the company hired Indianapolis-based electrical contractor Gaylor to perform a $45 to $50 million electrical installation package, which includes high-voltage transformers and substations, process line equipment and instrumentation, and general power and lighting throughout a 900,000-sq-ft facility.
"The scope of our work to date includes the installation of four HDGLs, a slab yard, and utilities in one of the HDGL buildings," explains Jeff Frazier, vice president and manager of Gaylor's Jeffersonville, Ind., branch. "The HDGL work features the complete electrical installation of four galvanizing lines. The slab yard assignment comprises the lighting, power distribution, crane power, and utility power to the yard, which is where the steel is collected for processing. Incoming power is fed through 35kV transformers and switchgear, and a 480V and 120V distribution system. Lighting systems include metal-halide high-bay fixtures along with fluorescent task lighting."
Not surprisingly, the sheer size of the TK project has presented Gaylor with numerous challenges, such as a huge demand for manpower, tools, and equipment. At peak electrical construction, the contractor has employed as many as 500 electricians.
"Working with an international corporation whose language and time zone are different than ours has been challenging at times," Frazier adds. "Continuous attention to minute details and providing regular progress reports allows our team to communicate effectively."
Adding to the project's challenges is its extremely tight time line, which Frazier says has required the contractor to "literally overnight" redirect resources.
"People have been relocated or hired and tools shipped or purchased, affecting field operations," he notes. "Purchasing has been intensive to ensure all the materials are available to support several hundred people in the labor pool. We also are working with multiple Gaylor branches, various manpower groups, suppliers, and vendors to man and tool the job."
To help keep the job site accident-free, the contractor has implemented a site-specific safety program with full-time safety personnel.
"Certain work has to be performed as high as 200 ft in the air and requires special measures to ensure the tie-off," says Frazier. "Intensive training has been provided for each employee, and corporate safety personnel have assisted with the development, implementation, and maintenance of the program."Started in October 2009, the TK project is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2011. Once opened, the factory will operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, and will eventually add 2,700 jobs to the area. In addition, the carbon and stainless steel manufactured and processed by the plant will be used for applications serving automotive, packaging, construction, electrical, and utility industries, and will provide material for manufacturers of appliances, precision machinery, and engineered products.


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I am not exactly what one might call a dedicated composter. I don't water it on a regular basis, turn it, or measure the temperature in the center to make sure the microbes are happy little critters. I've been known to throw weeds, seeds, and even (heaven forfend!) dairy products into the mix. Because I am careless about maintaining the correct proportions of "greens" to "browns," (i.e. fresh organic matter with decayed material or dirt), my compost bins smell quite charming, even in the depths of winter. And because things take about a year longer to decompose when one doesn't keep all those microbes happy, I tend to fill up a bin before the bottom section is ready to be used. Solution? I head down to the Rutland Solid Waste Management District and buy a new bin. I am about to get my third (the first one got moved with us from Middlebury about four years ago), since we generate the same amount of kitchen waste year round while freezing temperatures outside slow the decomposition process to a crawl.
Yet I love composting. To me, it is amazing that I can scoop up all those used paper towels and, instead of throwing them in the trash, throw them onto the compost heap, where in a year or two they will be used as fill in the depressions in our yard. When I need to clean up all the half-eaten/half-rotten drops from our ancient backyard apple and pear trees, I just pile them up in the compost bin, where they eventually begin to release an odor somewhat like cider that has turned. The black walnut tree that was the bane of our existence and the blessing of all the squirrels that nested in and chewed through our 19th-century carriage barn also littered the play areas of our yard liberally with their toxic offspring; nothing can grow under a black walnut due to the acidity of the nuts. My compost pile graciously accepted all the nuts I could gather, ameliorating both the destructiveness of the squirrels and the unfortunate appearance of black walnut saplings wherever the squirrels had buried them the previous fall.
Compost bins literally teem with life. What I like most are the composters that I can see are so hard at work, and loving it. I have a special affinity for earthworms, so simple in their biology, and yet so durable. They evolved long before us — perhaps as early as 1200 million years ago during the Proterozoic Eon, when multi-celled animals first began to appear on earth. Earthworms have also survived, largely unchanged, at least two mass extinction events, including one that wiped out the dinosaurs and every other large animal of the skies and seas 65 million years ago, and a much earlier, more devastating one 250 million years ago, when up to 65 percent of all life forms disappeared. Without earthworms, I frequently tell my kids, we humans would cease to exist; so while they make earthworm habitats and collections while gardening, I forbid vivisection experiments of the kind I did as a kid, and we always plop our scientific subjects onto the compost bin before going inside.
I have also come across an occasional larger creature, usually not a composter, but a predator of composters. When I moved my compost bin from Middlebury to Brandon, I discovered that a mole had settled deep into its depths in order to burrow and feast on the abundance of worms. Occasionally, scavengers get into the bin, including the neighbor's dog, the skunks who live under our carriage barn, and of course the squirrels who discover the veritable treasure trove of black walnuts awaiting them. One night, my neighbor called in a panic, claiming to have seen a bear pawing the piles of rotting apples. As unlikely as this sounds, there had been a recent sighting of an adolescent black bear going through some dumpsters in downtown Brandon earlier that week, but as I told my neighbor, better to keep the bear beyond the fence than in the yard for a late night encounter with my golden retriever.
I'll admit that composting can be hard on a marriage. On busy days, or lazy days, or bad weather days, I have a tendency to let the compost pile up in the kitchen. When my one small Tupperware fills up, I simply get out a larger one, and then a larger one, until I am forced to move them onto the railing of the back porch in order to have room to wash dishes or cook dinner. There they sit, collecting rain or freezing solid, sometimes falling and spilling their slimy contents all over the back steps, until I find the motivation to take them all the way to the compost bins. Sometimes in his frustration, my husband will put everything down the garbage disposal. What a waste! We have to pay for the water in our individual sewer bill, pay for the waste water treatment plant's maintenance in our town tax bill, and of course use electricity to grind everything up. My husband opts for the simpler solution and is far less fanatic about lowering our carbon footprint than I am; moreover, when confronted with clutter, he usually deals with it by shoving it aside. Thus the convenience of putting all my carefully collected compost down the disposal.
That is the one thing I am careful about: collecting everything that can be composted (and even some things that can't). When I do finally re-use my composted kitchen and yard waste, I often discover plastic labels, bottle caps, rocks, and all other manner of inorganic material. To me, this is backyard archeology. I enjoy finding the unexpected treasures that are buried on our property, like the broken bottles, the original slate roofing nails, the old marble pathway lying six inches under the current slate walk. When I visited Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia, the docent talked about how much they were able to learn simply by excavating the old trash piles; and of course, just about everything we know about ordinary human beings of the past comes from looking through their garbage. Of course, I know the history of my own family; still, I enjoy seeing the pineapple tops that refuse to biodegrade, the corncobs still intact after two years, and the occasional potato plant or tomato vine emerging, pale from lack of light, from the pile of refuse. The fact that new life can spring from garbage seems miraculous to me. And it happen so even under the adverse conditions I provide as a committed, albeit haphazard, composter.
Rebecca Reimers is a native of the New York City suburb of Teaneck, N.J., and a refugee of Westchester, N.Y. She has been living in Vermont for more than 13 years, in New Haven, Burlington, Middlebury and now in Brandon. She is a retired high school social studies teacher raising her three young sons with her husband, a native of the Boston area. Her thoughts on her community, and the surrounding towns of Leicester, Goshen and Forestdale, appear in "View from the Borderland," an online feature at the Addison Independent Web site.


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Dynamics of Quantum Fluids: Path integral and Semiclassical Methods
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The interplay of many-body nonlinear interactions and quantum mechanical effects such as zero-point motion or identical particle exchange symmetries lead to intriguing phenomena in low-temperature fluids, some of which remain poorly understood. Recent advances in theory and methodology have established the framework that has recently enabled the simulation of time-dependent processes in such systems. This lecture focuses on the development of path integral and semiclassical methods and their application to the dynamics of quantum fluids.
Forward-backward semiclassical dynamics (FBSD) is a rigorous and efficient methodology for capturing quantum mechanical effects in the time evolution of condensed phase systems through classical trajectory information. FBSD expressions for time-dependent expectation values or correlation functions take the form of phase space integrals with respect to trajectory initial conditions, weighted by the coherent state transform of a corrected density operator. Full quantization of the initial density is feasible by employing the discretized path integral representation of statistical mechanics, thus ensuring a proper treatment of zero point energy and identical particle exchange effects, while capturing important imaginary components. The FBSD approximation satisfies the detailed balance property of time autocorrelation functions and reverts to the exact quantum mechanical result at zero time.
Traditional path integral calculations of real-time properties are impractical for application to many-particle systems because of extensive phase cancellation. We have been able to obtain accurate, fully quantum mechanical results for the early dynamics of neat liquids by using a pair-product approximation to evaluate the complex-time propagator in a single step, circumventing the sign problem.
These methods have been employed to investigate the dynamics of low-temperature fluids, ranging from the nearly-classical supercritical argon to highly quantum mechanical systems such as liquid neon, para-hydrogen and superfluid helium. The results of these calculations are in very good agreement with experimental results on diffusion coefficients and dynamic structure factors probed by neutron scattering. The FBSD simulations provide novel insights into the separate roles of quantum mechanical and quantum statistical effects on the dynamics of these fluids.
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Jackson Family Feud: TJ Jackson Appointed Temporary Guardian of Michael's Children
The Jackson family feud keeps spiraling out of control. After the weekend drama where matriarch Katherine Jackson was M.I.A., news of an altercation emerged. Now, TJ Jackson, the son of Michael's brother Tito, has been named the temporary guardian of Michael's three kids.
Katherine, 82, left TJ, 34, in charge of the charge of the children when she left the home she shares with them on July 15. Her nephew Trent filed a missing persons report over the weekend.
"We have reason to believe that Mrs. Jackson has been held against her will," her attorney Sandra Ribera told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff at a hearing Wednesday (July 25), according to CNN.
As a result, Beckloff has suspended Katherine's status as custodian of Prince, Paris and Blanket. The judge fears that third parties are preventing her from performing her duties as the children's legal guardian.
The judge also ordered "that the children not be removed from California without a court order, by any person." Both Diana Ross, named as a backup guardian by Michael in his will, and Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of Michael's two eldest children, must be given notice of the order.
TJ's custody ruling order will remain in effect until next month's hearing. However, if Katherine returns home sooner, her custody of the kids could be restored.
The Jackson family matriarch was incommunicado for nine days. She finally contacted family on Tuesday, July 24.
TJ himself said that he was unnerved by the conversation he had with Katherine when she phoned home. "I've never heard my grandmother talk like that," he said about their discussion. "She wasn't sharp. Her words were slurred. Her choice of vocabulary, I never heard her use those phrases."
Katherine's other attorney Perry Sanders said that he met with her children Jermaine and Janet on Tuesday at a Tucson-area spa, but did not see or speak to his client. They were attempting to sort out the controversy regarding Katherine's location.
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The new GTS widened rear quarter-panels for all '56-'60 C1 and '63-'67 C2 Corvettes are the perfect fix. They fit into the stock rear quarter-panel placement just like the stock skinny fenders. Widened rear quarters for '61-'62 Corvettes will be available eventually. The C1 panels provide about 1.5-inch additional clearance in the rear, and the C2 units add about 1 inch of room per side. Best of all, the panels not only allow the use of more reasonable wheel and tire sizes, but the widening is subtle and generally goes unnoticed by anyone save the most seasoned NCRS judge.
If you're comfortable ripping pieces off your vintage car and doing fiberglass work, this could be a DIY project. However, you may want to consider having a professional do the work, since any mistakes made at this stage will greatly affect the quality of the paint applied later. In addition, owners often opt to build wider bumpers to follow the new, wider contours of the body.
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QuestionMy father had died when I was 8 and I just recently found out who he was. I am now 27 and have been speaking to my sisters from my father that I just recently met and they said when he died they received SSI benefits which I did not. Am I still eligible to collect the SSI that I never received as I did not know until recently he was my father?
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Kelly Wooldridge
Brendan Wooldridge, 10, of St. Louis, was diagnosed with PANDAS nearly a year ago after suffering with OCD and other disorders linked to strep throat infections he had as a toddler.
For Kelly Wooldridge of St. Louis, the change in her son's behavior was so abrupt, it was like someone flipped a switch.
Overnight, Brendan, now 10, went from being an easy-going, "huggy-kissy" kid to a rageful child plagued with tics, compulsions and obsessions, she said.
"He would walk up and choke kids at school, or pick up a chair and throw it at them," recalled Wooldridge, 37. Brendan developed facial tics, constant throat clearing, some humming.
"He was just miserable in his own skin," his mother said.
The shift first occurred when Brendan was 3, just after several recurring bouts of strep throat. The disturbing behaviors lingered, seeming to wax and wane for the next few years with no clear cause or explanation.
It wasn't until last year that Wooldridge -- like a growing number of parents, pediatricians and researchers -- finally connected the dots between the common childhood infection and the sudden onset of some forms of mental illness.
"Last spring, we learned about PANDAS," said Wooldridge. "I thought it sounded a little crazy, but it totally fit."
PANDAS -- or Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections -- is the unusual diagnosis given to a group of children who abruptly develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or tic disorders such as Tourette's Syndrome – but only after contracting infections such as scarlet fever or strep throat caused by Group A streptococcus bacteria.
"Parents describe it as a 'possession' or an 'explosion' of symptoms," said Dr. Susan Swedo, a leading PANDAS expert and senior investigator in neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health.
PANDAS turned out to be the cause of non-stop sneezing for Lauren Johnson, a 12-year-old girl featured on NBC's TODAY show, and it was linked for a time to outbursts of tics and twitches suffered by more than a dozen school-aged girls in LeRoy, N.Y.
On Thursday, the International OCD Foundation, or IOCDF, warned that mental illnesses such as OCD can be triggered by infections in children.
"If a parent recognizes these symptoms developing seemingly overnight, along with a glaring change in their child's personality and/or behavior, they should immediately have their child tested for strep," agency officials said.
Quick treatment with antibiotics can be the key to reversing OCD, tics and other symptoms, said Swedo.
"If you treat it acutely with antibiotics, it will help quite quickly," she said, noting that symptoms from the first episode eventually will subside. "But if a child gets another trigger, symptoms will return. If you have three episodes, the symptoms will become chronic."
It's not clear how many children may be affected by the disorder. About 1 percent of all children have OCD, but Swedo says there has been no research to determine the prevalence of sudden onset of the disorder preceded by strep or other infections.
But both she and Dr. Michael Jenike, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who's also been studying the problem, say in-progress research and the comments they hear from desperate parents every day indicate that PANDAS could be far more common than anyone suspects.
"It could be dozens of kids a day in this country," said Jenike, who also chairs the IOCDF scientific advisory board.
Some children may have a genetic vulnerability to the disorder and parents of some sufferers believe that it may run in families.
Now, new research suggests that the problem may extend beyond sudden OCD sparked by strep bacteria to include other infections, including Lyme disease, chicken pox -- even the flu.
This month, Swedo and other researchers have published a paper in the journal Pediatrics & Therapeutics that expands the definition of PANDAS to PANS, or Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, which encompasses more potential causes.
The goal is to urge doctors and other clinicians to consider a full range of signals when they're faced with abrupt changes in a child's behavior or mental state.
"It's clinically very, very distinct," Swedo said. "Your only job is to find a treatable trigger."
The trigger is believed to lie with the antibodies that are normally produced by the body to fight infection. Usually, in the case of a bacterial infection, the antibodies attack the invading bacteria and help elminate them from the body. But in the case of PANDAS, for instance, researchers believe patients mount an unusual immune response in which the antibodies may mistakenly attack the part of the brain that controls emotions, behaviors and physical movements.
Parents of children with PANDAS have been a galvanizing force for education and awareness, said Lynn Johnson, Lauren's mother, who founded the nonprofit PANDAS Resource Network after her family's experience.
To such parents, there's no question that strep and other infections are involved. Meghan Sherman, 15, of Plano, Texas, was diagnosed with PANDAS only recently, but she's had OCD symptoms that rise and fall with infections since she was 7, says her mother, Jen Sherman.
"When we treated the strep, the symptoms would go away. I've seen it with Fifth disease and with flu and with other illnesses," said Jen Sherman. Meghan now takes precautionary antibiotics during the winter cold and flu season to ward off infections -- and OCD.
When Kelly Wooldridge found out about PANDAS, she asked a doctor to test Brendan's blood for strep, even though he didn't seem sick. It came back positive.
Now she's taken his care a step further, opting for intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG treatments that are thought to suppress harmful inflammation in the body.
The change in her son, she says, is remarkable. He's no longer in trouble for behavior at school and he's been able to make friends.
"He's had not one trip to the principal's office," she said. "The biggest thing now is that he's happy."
Not everyone agrees about the PANDAS diagnosis, which was first described in 1998. Parents who suspect their kids have the disorder say they're routinely discouraged by doctors who aren't aware of the diagnosis or who actively reject it. There has been considerable debate about the role of strep A infections in the development of the disorder. Some experts believe that PANDAS may be a version of a better-known related disorder, Sydenham's chorea, in which antibodies attack the part of the brain that controls movement. The American Academy of Pediatrics is wary of preventive administration of antibiotics for strep infections, advising treatment of active illness.
But Swedo said experts do agree that there is a subgroup of children who develop sudden, dramatic cases of OCD, accompanied by a wide range of neural and psychiatric symptoms.
The new PANS label will generate additional research, even as Swedo and other PANDAS researchers continue to focus on the effects of strep. She hopes the increased attention will only expand awareness of the disorder among reluctant doctors.
"You have a treatable and perhaps preventable form of mental illness," she said. "While we're debating, these kids could be being treated."
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My first time posting on Think Atheist, so I thought some of you might find this to be interesting.
Ran across this today (http://worldviewwarriors.blogspot.com/2012/09/proof-of-worldwide-fl...)...a blog by the name of "Worldview Warriors" arguing for a biblical flood using this argument:
"The first obvious sign that a worldwide flood occurred is that there would be thousands upon thousands, millions upon millions of dead creatures buried underneath the surface of the earth. When we look at Geology, guess what? This is exactly what we find: thousands upon thousands and millions upon millions of creatures buried beneath the earth. Unfortunately, before secular humanists got their hands on the fossil record, creationists were poorly interpreting the fossils that were buried underground, which paved the way for secular scientists popularizing more scientific interpretations of the fossils. Today, creationists fight to set the record straight despite the fact that their interpretations are more reasonable and more logical than that of secularists."
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Wow! SOMEbody certainly hasn't had his second cup of coffee this morning!
RE: "A good scholar takes such corrections gladly. He will either be glad that he just learned something new, or he will be happy to correct unclear writing (as he abhors such, especially his own)."
I'll be the first to admit I've made a mistake - when I have. You made a statement about the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars, that I don't know is true. Also, considering the wide discrepancy between Ussher's and Euseibus timetables, I need to account for those - was it just speculation on one of their parts? (Granted, as it never happened, it was speculation on BOTH their parts, but they believed it did, and consequently must have had SOME kind of criteria for choosing the dates they chose.)
So I need to check the accuracy of your statement, as to the difference between the two calendars, and then research still more, assuming I find your statement to be accurate, to see if I can locate an alternative reason for the discrepancy.
At this particular point in time, I have no time to do either of those things, so I was trying to end the discussion until I had time to look into it. Perhaps you're accustomed to having your word accepted as infallible, but I accept no one's word without researching for myself. So when the time arises, I will do that research and if corrections are necessary, I will make them. But if you think I'm going to set aside everything else in my life, to do the necessarily research immediately so that your ego can be stroked with an admission that I've made a mistake, it is you, who are sadly mistaken.
It's not that I expected you to take me on faith, it's that I figured most people who do this sort of thing would actually know the difference; i.e., I expected you knew the difference already and just hadn't been thinking clearly. For what it's worth, I recognize now that I should have included a link with my original post.
If your purpose was in fact to postpone until you had time to do a fact check, a simple "I'm really busy right now, but I'll look into that" would have covered it, instead of what looked for all the world like evasive and/or dismissive behavior (and I hate to say it, but you have a reputation for dismissive behavior in these sorts of circumstances). Readers could have decided whether to check it or not at that point; at least they know to proceed with caution.
If you really do want to look into this at some future date, I can give you some information that will help you get started; you can verify this info quickly, the reasoning process is slightly harder to come to on one's own but can certainly be validated once you've verified my facts.:
The two calendars look very similar but differ in two respects:
1) The Julian calendar defines every fourth year to be a leap year; furthermore, in the CE, it's years divisible by four (4, 8, 12, 16.... 2008, 2012, etc. (And BCE, 1BCE (which is the year before 1CE) is a leap year, as is 5, 9, 13... etc. BCE.) The Gregorian calendar has almost the same rule. But the Gregorian does not consider century years that are not divisible by 400 to be leap years, so, for instance, 1600 (century year divisible by 400) is a leap year on both calendars, but 1700, 1800, and 1900 are leap years only on the Julian calendar.
Thus the Julian calendar year averages 365.25 days, while the Gregorian calendar year averages 365.2425 days. And since we know the difference is three leap days in the space of 400 years (e.g., 1600-2000; three Julian leap days are "skipped" by the Gregorian calendar), we can figure that, if in hypothetical year X, January 1 falls on the same day, then in year X+400, the Julian calendar will show January 1 the same day the Gregorian Calendar shows January 4. (As soon as an extra leap day shows up in the Julian calendar, it falls a day behind, because it has a February 29 while the other calendar has moved on to March 1. This process repeats two more times during the 400 years.)
2) Now for the other difference. Right now, today, the two calendars are not in sync. It happens that the Julian Calendar day is 13 days behind the Gregorian one; today is October 3 on the Gregorian, and September 20 on the Julian. It has been like this since March of 1900. The exact value of that difference is the second parameter of the math I am about to do. Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar is a table of the difference by centuries, from 1 CE to 1582, when the Gregorian calendar was actually introduced. You can extend the process into BCE territory and conclude the difference was 20 days (or so) in the 2300s BCE..
It's entirely possible I slipped somewhere and I am off a couple of days, or I may even have got a sign backwards. Regardless, worst case, it's less than a month's difference. And if you go back to Eusebius-the-lying-bastard's 2900s BCE date, it won't add much. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader.
For what it's worth, if I had to guess--and I will state up front that it is a guess--as to why they could be off by 600 years, I know many parts of the chronology given by the Bible are open to interpretation, and this is not an issue of honesty; it truly is difficult to untangle ancient peoples' timekeeping conventions--our serially numbered years as opposed to regnal years are a relatively recent invention. The example I remember hearing (and my memory could certainly be wrong) is that many people assume that no two judges (from Judges) served simultaneously, while others assume there were different judges in different parts of the "promised land" at the same time. The latter group is going to consider the book of Judges to have spanned less time, than the former will.
I believe modern scholars come down on the side of concurrent judges... but Eusebius was neither modern nor an honest scholar, I'd almost bet he thought the judges terms were consecutive not concurrent. What Ussher did I do not know. In any case it's one possible source of the discrepancy, or a portion thereof. I suppose one could compare the two chronologies side by side and see where they start to diverge as you go further back into the past, to zero in on the cause of the disagreement.
What does "worldwide" flood mean? That there came a day when there was no land above water? Where did all the additional water come from?
Oh...I forgot: God,
The biblical cosmology is that the sky is a solid dome ("firmament") above which is water; apparently the entire universe except the hemisphere of the sky over the flat circle of the earth was supposed to be water.
Oh, nevermind looks like Archae in the comment below this beat me to it.
See, Steve, this is the part, that were our roles reversed, I would have deleted my comment, but that's just me --
Hah! Well maybe I was just trying to pay you an ironic compliment.
Sounds like a good name for a new superhero - Ironic Man! He and Iron Man square off and Ironic Man kibitzes Iron Man to death --
What do you think? Will it sell?
The man of Irony should sell almost as well as the man of Steel.
He needs a weakness, any ideas?
The Bible tells us that a worldwide flood covered the tops of all of the mountains and 15 cubits above that (22.5 feet).
The number of gallons of water required to cover the Earth from its surface to the top of Mount Everest is 1+ sextillion gallons of water. And for Ararat, a mere 697+ quintillion gallons of water.
From the National Geological Survey, we know that there are 326 quintillion gallons of water in, on, under, and above, our planet. Of the 326 quintillion gallons - which is half as much as is needed to reach the top of Mt. Ararat, 98% is locked into the oceans, already below sea level, and unavailable for flooding purposes.
Clearly, the Bible is wrong, written in a time when men believed that the sky was blue because space, as we now know it, was filled with water, that the earth was protected from this water by a "firmament" that held the water back, and to flood the earth, all their god had to do was open the gates to the firmament and let the water pour down, which, as all can see today is simply not true.
Take this information back to your "Worldview Warrior" and see what he says. If you find you need more information, I have lots, but these two Items I've written should be enough to prove your case.
Never mind, Tom - I went there myself and did it for you! Why should I let YOU have all the fun?!!
It's evening here, and my work is done - I'm going to stop being sober now.
Archy, apart from the mind blogging numbers you have mentioned here, would anything have survived in the sub zero-temperatures at the top of the mountains and did they have the required time to acclimatize to the thin air?


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Prof. Sackmann dedicated a lifetime of research towards probing the living cell with tools of physics, long before biophysics was the mode of the day. Considered by many the father of biophysics in Europe, he pioneered, along with others, the idea of a "bottom up" approach towards understanding the cell – starting from relatively simple systems like lipid bilayers, giant vesicles and actin in solution and going towards more and more complex systems to reach eventually an understanding at the level of the entire cell.
More than 200 publications and several books Literatur von und über Erich Sackmann testify to his contributions to soft matter and biophysics. His early work was mainly on lyotropic liquid crystals and lipid membranes. Later, along with his students he laid the foundations of our current understanding of membrane adhesion. Over the years, his team developed and improved the technique of reflection interference contrast microscopy - RICM, (which is quantitative interference reflection microscopy - IRM) – a powerful tool to probe adhesion of membranes and thin films. Collaborations with theoreticians like Reinhard Lipowsky, Udo Seifert and Robijn Bruinsma have led to seminal works on adhesion of cell mimetic giant vesicles (also called liposomes).
Another of his interests is the cytoskeleton and its dynamics. To study cytoskeletal dynamics, his team developed magnetic tweezers capable of exerting very small pulling forces. He has contributed to our understanding of the dynamics of single actin filaments, actin networks as well as intact living cells.
His research interests include: physics of self assembly and function of artificial and biological membranes, viscoelastic microscopy of cells, physics of the actin based cytoskeleton: micro-rheology of macromolecular networks, applications of solid-supported lipid-protein membranes, ultrathin hydrated polymer layers and polymer/membrane composite films and neutron Reflectivity as a new tool to study the self assembly of membrane associated proteins.
Along with Reinhard Lipowsky, he has authored "the Structure and Dynamics of Membranes". Recently, along with Rudolf Merkel, he has published "Lehrbuch der Biophysik" - a text book on biophysics aimed at students and reaserchers.
In recognition of his research work, in 2006, he was awarded the Stern-Gerlach-Medal (Stern-Gerlach-Medaille) by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG, German Physical Society).
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If you do not already know how to program then if you do not already have a game specific set of scripts then this might be advanced material.
In any case, I really wanted something scriptable and something that can inspect anything in the game and change it. Ultimately I figured out how to compile IronPython for Mono that Unity uses and compiled something that loads into general Unity games and apps I've tried so far. I use a thirdparty plugin called IPA from Eusth (More details can be found here https://github.com/Eusth/IPA) to instrument the game and load plugins it was created for one game but works for any Unity game I've ever tried.
Runs on Windows x86 and x64 architectures. Only on standalone unity installs so no silverlight or web clients. And currently I have different builds for Unity 4 and 5 as that is what I have encountered most.
To install:
Download and unpack the console zip file from github file into the game folder. The plugin requires IPA to be installed so I've created additional downloads that include a recent version but you can download separately from here.
Drag the game exe over ipa.exe to instrument it. Note that this changes the dlls in the Managed folder. This enables the console assemblies to be loaded by the game (and any other plugins you might have). There are other ways to do this that might be simpler and less invasive but this is really simple once you used it once or twice. It makes a backup of the changed dlls so you can revert the changes if you dont like it.
To use:
Press the Ctrl+` (backquote) keys at the same time. For international users you can change the console startup options from the Plugins\Console\Console.ini file if you dont have easy access to the backtick or prefer a different key. There is also an option to open on start or to start hidden and run a startup script which is useful if there is a GUI cheat window script for the game.
You can close the console using ^Z (Control-Z) + Enter or run quit(). I will note that once the console is closed after opening I cannot restart the console and have it work properly so that is disabled. Games will close if you close the console using the X button.
From here you can manipulate anything in the game if you know how to find it. Most games usually have some class that is the root of everything that you can use to get access to more interesting stuff though not always easily. You can use Reflector, dotPeek or dnSpy to search through the game assemblies to find useful stuff. For Unity, most of the good stuff is in Assembly-CSharp.dll.
I should note that manipulating Unity objects directly from the Console can crash the game so I've introduced a library called coroutine to help run python functions properly in unity. If you put too much in a function then unity block and you never see anything so its best to only use the unity wrapper for short operations. You can look at the test.py library in the download for details.
Also you cannot create MonoBehaviour derived classes directly in Python so I had to create wrapper classes that call back to python classes.
You can use the behaviors to take things to the next level and custom user interfaces in Unity which will run arbitrary python code. This is finally where the real payoff is as you can bind keys or buttons to scripts that do useful work. I'll post some specific game examples elsewhere to show this.
You can see an example of using the Unity gui for Cosmic Star Heroine here.
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>>> import UnityEngine
>>> print UnityEngine.Application.unityVersion
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Create centered window that has a couple of buttons for testing
def test():
import unity_util
import UnityEngine
from UnityEngine import GUI, GUILayout, Screen, Rect, Input, KeyCode
import System
# delete all of the old stuff
class DemoMessage():
def __init__(self):
self.color = UnityEngine.Color.white
self.counter = 1
self.options = System.Array.CreateInstance(UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption, 0)
self.show_buttons = False
self.gameObject = None # will be assigned if exists as member
self.component = None # will be assigned if exists as member
self.visible = True
#print "Called when object is created"
def Update(self):
# Update is called less so better place to check keystate than OnGUI
if Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F8):
# unity sucks for checking meta keys
ctrl, alt, shift = unity_util.metakey_state()
if ctrl and not alt and not shift:
self.visible = not self.visible
def OnGUI(self):
if self.visible:
self.counter = self.counter + 1
origColor = GUI.color
GUI.BeginGroup(Rect (Screen.width / 2 - 50, Screen.height / 2 - 50, 400, 400))
GUI.color = self.color
with GUILayout.VerticalScope("Group", GUI.skin.window):
self.show_buttons = GUILayout.Toggle(self.show_buttons, "Buttons")
if self.show_buttons:
if GUILayout.Button("Click me"):
print "clicked"
if GUILayout.Button("Close"):
if self.gameObject:
GUI.color = origColor
def __del__(self):
#print "Called when object is garbage collected"
return unity_util.create_gui_behavior(DemoMessage)


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Jenna Kass is a New York City native who graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Illustration. She works primarily with pencil and graphite powder, building up layers of light and shadow to balance subtlety and intense emotion within each piece.
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Massaman Curry is a Thai dish of Muslim origin, which according to one theory, originated in central Thailand at the court of Ayutthaya in the 16th-century through a Persian envoy and trader. According to another theory, it originated in southern Thailand due to contacts with Arab traders. In light of the recipe's Muslim roots, this coconut-based curry is most commonly made with beef, but can also be made with lamb, duck, tofu, chicken, or even pork. The flavouring for the curry usually includes coconut milk, potatoes, and roasted peanuts or cashews, in addition to a range of other aromatic ingredients which include ginger, garlic, lime leaves, lemongrass, cilantro, chilies, onions, cumin seeds, cardamom, palm sugar, fish sauce, shrimp paste and tamarind sauce, however lime juice works just as well. I prefer to make my own paste and sauce rather than using a store-bought version, as it produces fresher more vibrant results.
Massaman Beef Curry
Serves 4-6
2 lb beef, cut into cubes
2 1/2 cups beef stock
1/3 cup diced onion
2 stalks lemongrass, smashed
3 kaffir lime leaves
2 baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch dice
1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves
Curry Sauce:
1 thumb-piece ginger, grated
4-5 cloves garlic, slivered
1/2 tsp chili flakes
1/4 cup chopped cashews
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp cumin seed
1/2 tsp white pepper
1 tsp turmeric
1/8 tsp ground cardamon
6 star anise
1 tbsp lime juice
1 tbsp brown sugar
3/4 tsp shrimp paste
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 14 oz can coconut milk
Place stock in a large pot over high heat and add the the beef, onion, lemongrass and lime leaves. Bring to a boil and reduce to low. Partially cover and simmer 60 to 80 minutes, stirring occasionally until meat is tender.
Add all the curry sauce ingredients plus the potatoes, stirring with each addition, holding back a few tablespoons of the coconut milk for serving, if desired. Return to a boil, then continue to simmer uncovered for 30 more minutes or until potatoes are tender, stirring occasionally.
Transfer the curry to a serving bowl or individual dinner bowls and garnish with fresh cilantro and some additional nuts if desired. Drizzle with reserved coconut milk and serve with Thai jasmine rice.


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Getting overweight and obese people to join a health club is only part of the battle. The other is getting them inside to work out. The way to do that, says Dino Nowak, is to make everyone feel comfortable and welcomed with good staff training. From the time someone walks through your doors until they leave, Nowak says, it should be all about them.
"Don't single out obese clients," says Nowak, fitness consultant and author of The Final Makeover: Your 40 Day Guide to Personal Fitness. "They want to fit in and be normal. Train your front desk staff to be friendly and know all your clients' names. Make them feel welcomed and that they belong there. We need to recognize the value of our members."
But it shouldn't stop there, especially for overweight and obese clients.
"Your management needs to follow suit, even more so with the overweight and obese population," he says. "Call them and introduce yourself, and tell them you are the point person. Whatever you need at this club, call me."
Next, introduce them to a trainer who should do a physical assessment and a complimentary training session. During the session, the trainer should lay out a six-week plan with realistic goals. They should also get measurements because all the body changes won't be visible on the scale.
"We have to get away from the scale and look at body fat percentage and body girth and how they feel and move," Nowak says.
Make sure the pro shop has items for all sized people, especially for overweight or obese clients.
"If you have their sizes, they may think, 'They did think about me; this is my club,'" he says.
Finally, don't hard sell any of your members on weight loss products, especially someone with a weight problem.
"The club needs to be a place of refuge where I go for me," he says.


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Holly Buchanan '07 teaches marketable crafts skills to South African students at risk of sinking into a life of crime. by Karen Hwa...
Grant will enable extraordinary initiatives with far-reaching effects.
HSBC, the huge banking and financial services company, has a nonprofit arm devoted to community and philanthropic work. Ithaca College, the midsize comprehensive institution of higher education, has programs, faculty, and staff dedicated to environmental and...
Ethan Medley '01 helps the Super Bowl champions share their wealth and skills. by Greg Forbes Siegman
While millions of fans debate whether the New York Giants can win back-to-back Super Bowls, Ethan Medley ponders a different question: What can they do to remain champions off the field?
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The Office of Science User Facilities are a unique resource for the Nation's researchers. Below are answers to some commonly asked questions.
A user facility is a federally sponsored research facility available for external use to advance scientific or technical knowledge under the following conditions:
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In most cases, yes; see below for more information.
In general, each facility manages the allocation of facility resources through merit-based peer review of submitted research proposals, with regular oversight by its federal sponsor, the Office of Science. Calls for proposals take place at regular intervals as indicated on each facility's website. Prospective users may propose independent or collaborative research. Proposals are typically evaluated for scientific merit by independent proposal review committees or panels, and for feasibility and safety by the facility, with those proposals that are most compelling being accepted and allocated time. There is no charge for users who are doing non-proprietary work, with the understanding that they are expected to publish their results. Access is also available on a cost-recovery basis for proprietary research that is not intended for publication. After proposals are reviewed and time at the facility is awarded, facility staff helps users prepare to visit the facility in order to conduct their research efficiently.
In addition to the independent proposal review bodies mentioned above, each facility has other established ways to receive advice and input on its activities. Each facility typically receives input from a scientific advisory committee. Each facility also has a formal user group, which fosters information exchange and communication on issues that are of interest to the user community. The Office of Science convenes panels of external independent experts to review each facility's operations on a periodic basis.
You can either contact the facility directly or contact the cognizant Office of Science program office (see the listings at left) for more information.
The Office of Science (SC) is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.


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All students in attendance at The University of Alabama are expected to be honorable and observe standards of conduct appropriate to a community of scholars. The University of Alabama expects from its students a higher standard of conduct than the minimum required to avoid discipline. At the beginning of each semester and on tests and projects, at the discretion of the course instructor, each student will be expected to sign an Honor Pledge.
The Academic Honor Pledge reads as follows: I promise or affirm that I will not at any time be involved with cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, or misrepresentation while enrolled as a student at The University of Alabama. I have read the Academic Honor Code, which explains disciplinary procedures that will result from the aforementioned. I understand that violation of this code will result in penalties as severe as indefinite suspension from the University.
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Academic misconduct includes all acts of dishonesty in any academic or related matter and any knowing or intentional help, attempt to help, or conspiracy to help another student commit an act of academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following acts, when performed in any type of academic or academically related matter, exercise, or activity:
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Except in divisions that have an alternate academic misconduct policy that has been approved by the provost/executive vice president for academic affairs, academic misconduct cases shall be resolved by the academic misconduct monitor (appointed by the academic dean) or the academic dean of the division in which the alleged action took place. Appeals from the monitor's decisions may be made to the academic dean; appeals from the academic dean's decisions may be made to the Office for Academic Affairs.
Penalties for academic misconduct can range from a reprimand to a penalty as severe as suspension for a definite time or even indefinite suspension. Indefinite suspension normally requires a minimum of one semester, after which students may appeal for reinstatement. Academic deans have the authority to impose the full range of penalties. Divisional academic misconduct monitors may impose penalties only after receiving a voluntary written confession unless otherwise designated by the dean. Academic misconduct monitors are authorized to impose penalties up to, but not including, suspension. All persons who admit to or are found guilty of an academic offense for which a penalty less than an indefinite suspension is imposed will receive a penalty of indefinite suspension if they admit to or are found guilty of another offense of academic misconduct. In all cases that involve suspension as a penalty, the Office of the University Registrar will be notified immediately of the suspension and a hold will be placed on the student's record to prevent further enrollment.
A penalty of indefinite suspension is mandated for a finding of guilt on all second offenses. All second offense accusations are referred directly to the academic dean of the College for resolution. "Second offense accusations" assume resolution of first offenses (i.e., a finding of guilt) and that the student has been afforded the opportunity to learn from the first offense. Multiple misconduct accusations, where the initial accusations have not been resolved, may result in a penalty more severe than is typical in first offenses, including indefinite suspension. For second-offense cases that are in progress at the beginning of a semester, a student will be allowed to enroll and continue through completion of the semester even if the outcome of the accusation is suspension.
If an academic misconduct case is underway during a student's final semester, the awarding of the degree may be dependent upon the resolution of the case.
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Jim Lehrer made it clear to TMZ ... he's well aware he was treated like a doormat by President Obama and Mitt Romney during Wednesday's Presidential debate.
Our camera guy asked Lehrer at Reagan National Airport, "Do you feel you were disrespected by President Obama and Governor Romney?"
Lehrer responded, "I didn't expect much. I didn't have a lot of expectations." Translation -- doormat.
And, of course, we also asked him about the demise of Big Bird.
BTW, Lehrer issued a statement saying part of his mission was to stay out of the way of the flow. Mission accomplished.