Here’s the complete 1979 run of the exciting Senatorial punch fest, along with a single 2010 panel for comparison. Strange that they deleted the forrest background for 2010. Those who’d rather wait and see the resolution for this chapter and be surprised over the fate of the good Senator, ah, Goodman should avoid the second half of this post.
1979 versus 2010 Mark Trail
Notes: Black and white comics are original 1979. Color comics are 2010. The 1979 clippings were purchased on eBay and there are quite likely some daily panels missing or out of sequence.
Same: Jim’s office is nearly identical.
Different: Except there’s no ash tray in 2010. Dialog is different.
Modified: Mark’s head is the same but tilted.
Same: Jim’s office scene is repeated from yesterday’s 2010 comic.
Modified: Mark’s head is the same, tilted yet another way.
Different: Andy is only present in 2010 comic. Mark is wearing a tie in 1979. No giant animals in 1979.
Same: Jim’s office is the same.
Different: Dialog is different. Setting is Flint Rock Park in 1979 and Paradise Lake in 2010. The area under discussion is 50,000 acres in 2010 but is 500 square miles in 1979 (however, the wall map is identical).
Modified: Ashtray is still gone from 2010 office.
Same: Panel of Mark and Jim walking is copied from 1979 and repeated two days in a row in 2010. The bus is the same.
Modified: However, in 2010, Mark’s pipe is edited out (in two panels). Needless to say the panel where he dumps his pipe into his hand (?!) is missing in 2010. Old-stile stoplight is updated and cropped.
Same Close-up of Jim is the same but enlarged and Mark is cropped out.
Same: Pretty much all the art.
Modified: Except Mrs. Jenson is edited out.
Different: Dialog is changed. Not called Loon Lake, Bradbury in 1979 is Tuggle in 2010.
Same: Most of the art.
Different: No giant animals in 1979. Dialog is different. Jim and Mark are back early. Modified: In the next few comics, Mark’s pipe and ashtrays are gone in 2010.
Different: In 1979, through some ghastly rendering defect, Bradbury/Tuggle has gained a lot of weight. The close-up panel was mercifully omitted in 2010.
Different; Senator Wallace makes an appearance in 2010. In 1979 the restaurant-owning senator doesn’t make an appearance for quite some time — and as the dialog indicates, he’s named “Tarnbuckle.” (Back in 1979, I can just imagine Elrod furiously trying to think of a name and then in Keyser Soze-like inspiration, he notices the turnbuckle on a nearby tent guy wire…) Speaking of names, the lake bullies are the Kunn Brothers, not the Parker Brothers.
Same: In 2010, the Parker Brother’s boat is reused two days in a row. I’m missing a 1979 comic here (you can tell by the date in the Elrod ball) so we don’t know if it was originally copied from 1979. The confrontation art is the same, but the dialog is different.
What we’ve learned: Smoking is no longer acceptable. Giant animals and a pet Saint Bernard can be added as often as necessary. Corrupt Senators are eternal.
What confuses me is why? If you have the talent, it’s not that hard to draw. Some effort went into modifying the original art, up to and including editing out or modifying objectionable or anachronistic areas. The dialog was changed but very closely matches the original dialog — so much so that the changes are really arbitrary. Most of the names are arbitrarily changed too.
FInally, how did they do this? Do they have everything scanned into a computer so they can easily cut and paste? I assume so. Did the writer tell the artist what to change and then letter in the dialog? Does everyone involved know they are recycling old art and plot? And is everything we’re seeing these days recycled like this?
We had to arrange to cut down a large pine tree last month because at some time in the distant past it had been struck by lightning and it was beginning to turn hollow and suffer from dying branches. It was pretty close to the house so the arborist my (Master Gardener) wife hired said better safe than sorry. (I prefer the term “lumberjack” to “arborist” but I think I’m in the minority).
My wife had saved five large slices from the tree to make a patio table. They are about 2-3 foot high and 2-3 foot diameter cylinders. Some woodworker she tracked down said to put them up on blocks and let them season for six months, then coat with sealant. So I got some 1×4s and lined them up all six of them in a row near my mulch pile.
All was well until I was watering some plants last night and noticed one of my more high strung cats perched on the largest log with her tail puffed out. She was obviously upset about something. Maybe a snake hiding under the logs? Wouldn’t be the first time she’d found one.
But when I went over to check, I was perplexed. She was attracted and disturbed by a ticking sound. In fact, it sounded just like a large, loud grandfather’s clock. And it was coming from inside the lock. I checked under the log just in case, then put my ear right up against it, but the log was ticking.
I moved the cat off and said, “This isn’t natural.” And at this instant, as if cued by some celestial movie director, every single log in the row started ticking. Now it sounded like I was in grandfather clock shop. I dropped the cat and she was smart enough to run for the relative safety of the garage.
A few minutes of tapping, prodding, and head scratching confirmed that something was inside those logs and whatever it was, it was ticking.
Now I was a botany major in college, used to camp every weekend, and even once helped build a log cabin from scratch. But I’d never heard of such a thing. This was more like something from one of my H P Lovecraft favorites. And I very vaguely remembered something from the book and film, “Practical Magic” about a ticking beetle. In both cases, things ended badly for the people who heard ticking logs. (We all have our sources of paranoia. Most of the people I tell this story too immediately think “time bomb,” even though I’m pretty sure wind-up clock bombs were abandoned about 20 years ago).
Thank heavens for the Internet, or I’d probably have taken a page from Lovecraft and solved the problem with railroad flares and a gallon of gasoline (and probably been carried off to Pluto by some fungi from Yoggoth or something).
After experimenting with various search words (ticking log is apparently an IT technical term) I tried “ticking log pine grub” and discovered the “Old House Borer.” They are inch long horned beetles that infest pine trees, live inside for up to five year, and eventually become two inch long grubs. At this point, they scrape their way out to form a .22 caliber-sized air hole, fill the hole with a mixture of sawdust and beetle poop, and then pupate. They can be really annoying if you use an infested log in a house or cabin, since the ticking can go on for weeks or months. In legend, if you hear the ticking from inside your walls, you are doomed and will surely die once the ticking stops (more or less what happened in “Practical Magic.”)
I have too much imagination. In some parallel universe were we hadn’t cut down the tree, something like this would have happened — At the height of the next hurricane, I’d wait until we were in the eye of the storm and step outside to assess the damage. All would be well except there would be a strange ticking from the big pine tree by the house. There wouldn’t be time to investigate much, and when the eye wall moved on, the winds would pick up and the tree would topple onto the house, crushing the roof like a Rice Krispies box and pinning me in the rubble. Worse, there would be movement from the shattered pine and soon dozens, perhaps hundreds of two inch long Old House Borers would swarm out. They wouldn’t be happy… No time to reach the railroad flares.
Well, that problem wouldn’t ever happen, but the story isn’t over yet. Old House Borers are hard to eradicate, but (again according to the Internet) borax-based solutions may help. We’ll see. I immediately thought “boron-based roach dust” and my wife immediately thought “Twenty Mule Team Borax.” I vividly remembered Ronald Reagan and “Death Valley Days” but I wasn’t even sure they still sell the stuff.
It turns out they do, and my plan was to make a slurry, paint down the log, and seal it up in a 55 gallon garbage bag for a week. I figure at least the log will be squeaky clean after that. Then the whole thing gets rinsed down and bagged for disposal.
Maybe not though. I told fellow STIX author Anna Crull my plans. She is not only a chemist, but as it turns out also has direct first hand experience with pine beetles of various kinds. Anna is one of the most green, tree huggingist, and most environmentally aware people I’ve ever know. But she has a streak of practicality that will probably send some folks whimpering and running for the comfort of their dog-eared copy of “Silent Spring.”
“That may be one of the bizarre and interesting tales I have read in a long, long time,” Anna began. Thens she told me about decades of dealing with boring insects, starting back with her father’s tree stands in Mississippi. “Raised in the Deep South we always had a “stand” of yellow pine trees somewhere in south Mississippi. Daddy sold some timber ever year and someone stole timber every year. However, I eventually learned more about pine beetles than anyone except the forest service needs to know. There are dozens of different kinds of pine beetles and they can spread to other trees. EPA took most of the ‘good stuff’ off the market but you still may be able to find some Sevin. If so buy all you can and spray your logs and any other pine trees.”
She also added, “Daddy was fond of a product called ‘Bedbug Killer.’ Apparently was effective pine tree treatment (I thought it just sounded yucky). Permethrins (pyrethrins) also help but generally not toxic enough but that can be considered an advantage. Borax won’t help too much except to get rid of roaches. I’m a chemist and therefore recommend strong chemicals for only one reason–that’s all that is effective. Trouble with beetles, ticking or not, is that they spread to other trees and even to wood fences that are suppose to be ‘treated.’ My father finally sold the pine forest so he didn’t have to worry about the theft. Same guys that did the thinning and cutting were probably the same ones stealing trees. Anyhow that’s who daddy sold the forest to.”
So the problem is bigger than a picnic table. Now I need to make sure the Old House Borers don’t spread to any of the other hundreds of pines in the immediate vicinity. A couple web pages seemed to swear by a Borax rub, but if those logs are still ticking next week, I’ll move up the food chain to whatever they will let me buy. According to the EPA, Bayer Crop Div. is selling Sevin. Probably Home Depot has a hidden supply. Around here, Tractor Supply sells all sorts of toxics for the ‘ranch.’ Anna says she’s been amazed at the stuff you can buy at Tractor Supply. Probably no EPA or OSHA inspector has visited Tractor Supply in 30 years. And as an ex-chemist myself, I have the gloves, disposable suit, face masks, and 55 gallon bags to pull it off. Polycyclic hydrocarbons should degrade a long time before those bags begin to leak into the landfill.
On the other hand, since the bugs are inside the wood (for now anyway) I’m not sure how anything I use can penetrate to where it can do the most good. Apparently Sevin will do the trick. I’m not going to try the Permethrins — at least not on a picnic table for heavens sake.
Sounds like this story may end as horribly as I was predicting, albeit without me pinned down by swarms of hurricane-spawned bugs. At first I’ll pretend the problem will go away on its own — for a few days. Then I’ll wake up late Saturday night and be out in the moonlit yard listening to all the remaining pine trees with a stethoscope.
Old House Borer
Lovecraftian Elder Thing
Editors wanted for nanotechnology encyclopedia
Sage Publications are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, a new reference for undergraduate students and the general public addressing all aspects of nanoscience research, including definitions of nanotechnology terms, biographies of major researchers and their work, profiles of research institutions, organizations, and corporations, descriptions of nano techniques and potential, and thematic topics on ethics, religion and government regulation.
They are now starting the assignment process for articles that will be due May 1, 2009.
This comprehensive project is a two-volume encyclopedia for college, public, and science libraries to be published by Sage Reference in 2010. The work is made up of some 450 articles. Each article, ranging from 900 to 3500 words, is signed by the contributor. The General Editor for the encyclopedia is David Guston, Ph.D., Arizona State University, who will review all the articles for academic consistency.
If you are interested in contributing to the encyclopedia, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. Sage Publications offers an honorarium ranging from Sage book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the encyclopedia (approximately a $300 value) for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.
To find out more about the list of available articles, submission guidelines, and sample article, please email Susan Moskowitz, Managing Editor, Author Recruitment, Golson Books, Ltd. at nano@golsonmedia.com
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I am a certified porcupine handler.
Years ago when I was a volunteer for the Houston Zoo, I’d take out (relatively) tame animals for the public to view (alligators, snakes, chickens, rabbits, chinchillas, etc.) The only time I got bit was by a bunny, but that’s another story.
The closest I came to disaster was the memorable occasion when we first introduced a porcupine to the teaching collection. I was the first docent to get “certified” on porcupines, which entailed about six hours of training.
Clearly allowing the rodent to be petted was out of the question, so the plan was to gather a crowd and put the porcupine on a fold out table. We were assured by other zoos that porcupines can’t see very well and won’t jump off the table because they can’t see how high off the ground they are.
This seemed fine in theory and worked during rehearsal.
Finally the big day came and the crowd gathered. I gave my introductory lecture and then lifted the pet taxi with the star attraction inside. I opened the door, gingerly tilted to let the porcupine crawl out onto the table, and prepared to show how the quills worked (by touching it’s tail with a three foot Styrofoam sheet — the porcupine would slap the Styrofoam with its tail and a couple quills would still in the foam — a great lesson in staying away from these suckers).
The porcupine, who must have been dozing during rehearsals, promptly walked around the periphery of the table and then jumped off and started for the assembled visitors.
With visions of an all-to-effective demonstration of the “stay away from porcupines” lesson, I tried to get between it and the crowd. Those things move a lot faster than you’d think.
I ended up swatting it with the Styrofoam, which distracted it enough for somebody to get the pet taxi. We eventually nudged it in without further incident.
The visitors thought it was a great show, and figured this was all part of the act.
I believe that was the last time the porcupine was part of the teaching collection.
The story is very effective when I give corporate lectures on the difference between classroom training and on-the-job training. Showing a slab or Styrofoam coated with dozens of porcupine quills tends to focus the audience.
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I believe in over 25 years of technology jornalism, this is my very first report on sorghum. If Professor Paterson is correct, well then shame on me!
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Writer: Stephanie Schupska, 706/542-8981, schupska@uga.edu
“Sorghum’s importance is enormous,” said Andrew Paterson, a distinguished research professor and director of the Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, a joint unit of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
Paterson and his collaborators—from as close as South Carolina and as far away as India, Pakistan and Germany—mapped and analyzed the genome of Sorghum bicolor, placing 98 percent of its genes in their chromosomal context. At 730 million bases, or letters of DNA, sorghum has a genetic code a quarter the size of the human genome.
The results of the study appear in the Jan. 29 issue of international science journal Nature.
Drought tolerance makes sorghum important in dry regions like northeast Africa and the U.S. southern plains. It needs only half the water it takes to grow corn.
“Not nearly as much has been invested in sorghum as in corn,” Paterson said. “According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, sorghum yields increased less than 1 percent per year over the last 45 years, only about half the rate of corn, rice and wheat yields. Something is wrong with this picture. If new information and tools from the sequencing change that, it’ll improve millions of people’s lives.”
The sorghum that Paterson studied is drought tolerant, but its wild cousins can survive on even less water and resist more diseases and pests. Breeders can use the sequence as a tool to blend desirable traits into more improved commercial plants.
The sequenced sorghum genome is also being used to improve biofuel crops like sugarcane and Miscanthus, a genus of 15 species of perennial grasses that is a leading biofuel crop in Europe. These plants have much larger and more complicated genomes than sorghum, a close relative that can be a guide to accelerating their improvement.
In the U.S. now, it’s not clear whether Miscanthus or switchgrass will dominate the biofuel arena, he said, but recent side-by-side studies show that Miscanthus out yields switchgrass by as much as three to one.
Sorghum is also used to make biofuel and currently is the No. 2 source of fuel ethanol in the U.S. Corn is first. There is a shift taking place away from seed-based biofuel produced today to cellulose-based production, a process for which sorghum also shows great promise. That is why the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute got involved with sorghum sequencing.
The sorghum genome sequence also has other uses. Sorghum’s close cousin Johnson grass is one of the world’s worst weeds. Paterson hopes that by using the sequence, researchers can find better ways of controlling the weed.
A third use of sorghum’s genome sequence will be to gain insights into the reasons that sorghum, rice and other cereals are different from one another.
Sorghum is only the second grass genome sequenced. Rice was the first. While the two grasses are similar—93 percent of the genes present in sorghum are also found in rice—the differences are important enough to warrant closer inspection.
For example, Paterson’s team discovered that sorghum’s seed protein genes are completely different than the seed protein genes contained in rice. But they don’t know how and why.
“The genes don’t just stand out and say, ‘Here I am. This is why I’m different from rice,’” Paterson said. “We have a lot of new questions to ask.”
He would like to continue to build on his 17 years of sorghum research to find out what happened to sorghum’s and rice’s common ancestor millions of years ago to form the plants that sustain us today.
Recently received news release of potential benefit to the blogosphere.
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“When it comes to a blog, where you get your material and how you use it can land you in hot water just as much as, if not more than, what you say. Using unauthorized photos, failing to properly credit a source you quote, using copyrighted material, or allowing comments that contain any of the above can open the door to a lawsuit. That’s not why most people start blogs,” said Emily C. Shanahan, an associate at TBHR.
There are some steps you can take to help ensure your blog sticks to its intended purpose without making you or your company vulnerable to a lawsuit:
● Screen comments on your blogs – Stay in control of the content of your blog either by not allowing comments or by clearly defining from the outset what standard posted comments have to meet. If they don’t, delete them. That being said, don’t play editor of your users’ comments.
● If you quote them, give them credit – Trying to pass off somebody’s words as your own can lead to big trouble. If you’re going to quote somebody, keep it short and always credit the person who said it and in what publication.
● Using photos and images – Just because you find an image on the Internet does not mean you have permission to use it. When it comes to artwork, use only what you create, own the license for, pay to use or know to be free stock photography or clip art.
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● Company trademarks – Do not use in your blog trademarks that you do not own or are not licensed to use. You can, however, mention another company by name. As a precaution, you may want to mention if the company’s name is trademarked.
“A lot of this stuff is common sense, but many businesses seem to check their common sense at the door when they start up blogs,” said Shanahan. “Your blog is meant to give you a business advantage, not put you out of business. So when it comes to most blog posts, if you have a doubt about whether or not a post could be taken the wrong way or puts you at risk, consult your attorney. Better safe than sued.”
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If things turn out just right, there will be a special Valentine’s day present this February 14th — It might just be possible to see a planet orbiting another star. Not one of our solar system’s nine (excue me, eight) planets but a genuine extrasolar plant about two hundred light years away.
Check out the following press release from UC Santa Cruz.
Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet
By Tim Stephens (831) 459-2495; stephens@ucsc.edu
Astronomers have observed the intense heating of a distant planet as it swung close to its parent star, providing important clues to the atmospheric properties of the planet. The observations enabled astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to generate realistic images of the planet by feeding the data into computer simulations of the planet’s atmosphere.
“We can’t get a direct image of the planet, but we can deduce what it would look like if you were there. The ability to go beyond an artist’s interpretation and do realistic simulations of what you would actually see is very exciting,” said Gregory Laughlin, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Laughlin is lead author of a new report on the findings published this week in Nature.
The researchers used NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to obtain infrared measurements of the heat emanating from the planet as it whipped behind and close to its star. In just six hours, the planet’s temperature rose from 800 to 1,500 Kelvin (980 to 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit).
Known as HD 80606b, the planet circles a star 200 light years from Earth, is four times the mass of Jupiter, and has the most eccentric orbit of any known planet. It spends most of its 111.4-day orbit at distances that would place it between Venus and Earth in our own solar system, while the closest part of its orbit brings it within 0.03 astronomical units of its star (one astronomical unit is the distance between Earth and the Sun). The planet zips through this dramatic close encounter with its star in less than a day.
At the closest point, the sunlight beating down on the planet is 825 times stronger than the irradiation it receives at its farthest point from the star. “If you could float above the clouds of this planet, you’d see its sun growing larger and larger at faster and faster rates, increasing in brightness by almost a factor of 1,000,” Laughlin said.
Spitzer observed the planet for 30 hours before, during, and just after its closest approach to the star. The planet passed behind the star (an event called a secondary eclipse) just before the moment of its closest approach. This was a lucky break for Laughlin and his colleagues, who had not known that would happen when they planned the observation. The secondary eclipse allowed them to get accurate measurements from just the star and thereby determine exact temperatures for the planet.
The extreme temperature swing observed by Spitzer indicates that the intense irradiation from the star is absorbed in a layer of the planet’s upper atmosphere that absorbs and loses heat rapidly, Laughlin said.
Coauthor Jonathan Langton, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSC, fed the Spitzer data into a hydrodynamic model of the planet’s atmosphere to predict its response to the intense heating. Langton’s simulation shows the global storms and shockwaves unleashed in the planet’s atmosphere every 111 days as it swings close to its star.
“The initial response could be described as an explosion on the side facing the star,” Langton said. “As the atmosphere heats up and expands, it produces very high winds, on the order of 5 kilometers per second, flowing away from the day side toward the night side. The rotation of the planet causes these winds to curl up into large-scale storm systems that gradually die down as the planet cools over the course of its orbit.”
Daniel Kasen, a Hubble postdoctoral fellow at UCSC, was able to generate photorealistic images of the planet using a program he developed to calculate radiative transfer processes in astrophysics. “It calculates the color and intensity of light coming from the glowing planet, and also how starlight would reflect off the surface of the planet,” Kasen said.
The resulting images show a thin blue crescent of reflected starlight framing the night side of the planet, which glows cherry red from its own heat, like coals in a fire. “These images are far more realistic than anything that’s been done before for extrasolar planets,” Laughlin said.
If the planet’s orbit is aligned just right, it will pass in front of the star (an event known as a primary transit) on February 14. Both professional and amateur astronomers worldwide will be watching to see if this happens. The occurrence of primary transits would enable astronomers to learn more about this unusual planet by conducting spectroscopic observations.
HD 80606b was originally discovered in 2001 by a Swiss planet-hunting team led by Dominique Naef of the Geneva Observatory, Switzerland. Using a method known as the Doppler-velocity technique, they detected the tell-tale wobble in the light from the star caused by the gravitational tug of the planet.
Subsequent observations by Laughlin’s colleagues on the California & Carnegie Planet Search team–Steve Vogt at UCSC and Paul Butler at the Carnegie Institute of Washington–provided precise information about the planet’s orbit, which was essential for planning the Spitzer observations. Drake Deming of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center contributed his expertise to the analysis of the Spitzer data. Other coauthors of the Nature paper include UCSC postdoctoral researcher Eugenio Rivera and graduate student Stefano Meschiari.
The Spitzer Space Telescope is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), under contract to NASA. Support for this work was provided by NASA through an award issued by JPL/Caltech.
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Combat Ready Capacitor: Preliminary Failure Mode Analysis
Lockheed Martin recently applied for a patent for military body armor and utility garments submitted. The garment appears to include EEStor’s electrical energy storage unit. Wearable energy storage layers would help soldiers power portable electronic gear. Multiple layers also assure power redundancy and enhance ballistic resistance of armor plate.
Note to self. A squirt gun full of holy water should work on both vampires and commandos wearing Lockheed capacitor-enhanced body armor.
I’m thinking if it was a vampire commando, you’d get an electrical flash AND the body catching on fire.
Here’s details and some pictures:
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=US2008059684&WO=2008156903&DISPLAY=DOCS
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BTW, EEStor’s website has been “under construction” for quite some time. Their strategic partner Zenn Motors uses EEStor’s ultracapacitor battery as a power source. They are alive and apparently well at www.zenncars.com.
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