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Autism, like other complex neuronal disorders, is usually attributable to the interaction of multiple genetic and environmental factors that have been extremely difficult to tease apart. People with Timothy syndrome suffer from hypoglycemia, cardiac arrhythmia, and global developmental delay; more than 60 percent of them also have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Researchers in California and Japan recently generated stem cells from people with Timothy syndrome and began differentiating them into neurons in an attempt to gain further insights into autism. Their results are published in Nature Medicine.
Timothy syndrome is caused by a genetic mutation that changes one amino acid in a calcium channel expressed in the brain—calcium influx through these channels is essential for neuronal processes. It is not yet known how the mutation that causes Timothy syndrome disrupts normal cellular functioning or how it leads to psychiatric symptoms. Timothy syndrome thus provides a good system for examining how a specific gene contributes to brain development.
The mutation that causes Timothy syndrome prevents the channel from shutting down in response to cellular changes, meaning the channel is active more than it should be. Neurons made from Timothy stem cells exhibited an increased rise in calcium. After their mutated channels let calcium flood in, these cells retained more calcium, and did so for a longer time, than control neurons with normal channels.
Since calcium influx through these channels is known to impact the regulation of gene expression, the researchers compared the gene expression profiles of Timothy neurons and control neurons. The expression of hundreds of genes were found to be altered in Timothy neurons and neuronal precursor cells, and eleven of these genes had previously been implicated in either ASDs or other intellectual disabilities.
Analysis of the types of genes over- or under-expressed in the Timothy syndrome neurons confirmed that the mutation leads to the disregulation of genes that have calcium-regulated expression. These included the genes that produce catecholamines, including dopamine and norepinephrine. As a result, Timothy syndrome neurons secrete twice as much dopamine and three times as much norepinephrine than control neurons. As these neurotransmitters have important social functions, their increased synthesis could play a role in the development of ASDs.
The Timothy cells also had an altered profile of neuronal differentiation markers, with the changes suggesting that Timothy neurons would preferentially target different areas of the brain. This is consistent with an emerging idea among those who study ASDs, namely that they arise from defects in the connectivity between cortical areas.
The autism seen in Timothy syndrome is unusual, because it is caused by a single, known genetic mutation. Now that some of the functional steps between the genetic mutation and the neurodevelopmental disorder have been elucidated in this study, perhaps they can shed light on the causes of autism in people without Timothy syndrome as well.
Nature Medicine, 2011. DOI: 10.1038/nm.2576 (About DOIs).
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Cooking spray
1 box pareve corn muffin mix (or use recipe below)
½ cup green pepper chopped
½ cup roasted red peppers, chopped (from a jar)
2 tablespoons freshly chopped cilantro leaves
6 red peppers or poblano peppers, halved lengthwise and seeded
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray.
Prepare corn muffin mix according to package directions, green peppers, roasted red peppers and cilantro when you add other ingredients. Arrange poblano pepper halves on prepared baking sheet and fill each pepper with an equal amount of corn muffin mix.
Bake 18 to 20 minutes, until a wooden pick inserted in 1 muffin comes out clean.
Corn Muffins
1 cup self-rising cornmeal
3/4 cup self-rising flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 (8-ounce) container pareve tofutti sour cream
1 (8-ounce) can cream-style corn
In a large bowl, stir together the cornmeal, flour, salt, and cayenne. In another bowl, beat together the oil, eggs, and pareve sour cream until well blended. Add the corn mixture to the flour and stir until just mixed.

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Schneider Electric, a multinational energy management company, is investing tens of millions of dollars to build a global research and development center in Andover by the end of this year.
About 730 people, relocated from existing Schneider facilities in Massachusetts, will work in the 235,000-square-foot R&D center when it opens in December. Schneider executives said they expect to steadily increase employment there in coming years.
"We tend to grow these groups by about 15 percent a year," said Barry Coflan, a senior vice president at Schneider. "They tend to be professional jobs, high-tech kind of jobs [that bring] a lot of stability and economic prosperity into the region."
Schneider, based in Paris, generated about $30.8 billion in revenue last year and has some 140,000 employees in more than 100 countries.
Its selection of Andover as one of five research and development centers is another example of how the state's culture of innovation, its standing as a technology center, and its highly educated workforce are attracting foreign investment.
"The vibrant ecosystem of innovation in the Greater Boston area is the ideal backdrop," Chris Curtis, Schneider's chief executive in North America, said in a statement.
Schneider's Massachusetts workforce of about 850 already focuses on R&D, software development, and sales and marketing — at facilities in North Andover, Andover, Billerica, Canton, and Weymouth..
The company will give up its leased offices in Andover, North Andover, and Billerica. Many staffers will move to the new Andover center, where the research and development team will focus on creating and improving software and devices to help customers manage energy and become more efficient, seeking ways, for example, to keep the equipment at large computing centers from overheating.
Schneider's products are already doing that type of work at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, an energy-efficient data center in Holyoke.
Company officials said they selected Andover in part because of its proximity to major highways and top universities.
Schneider recruits many workers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Northeastern University.
The project, which company officials say is costing tens of millions of dollars, will renovate a vacant 160,000-square-foot building on Federal Street and construct a
Company officials said they see the center as a hub of high- tech jobs. "It's reaffirming our commitment to the region," said Coflan.
The facility is being financed in part by government incentives, including a five-year tax increment financing agreement with Andover valued at $1.2 million, a state investment tax credit for $285,000, and a one-year, 10 percent corporate income tax deduction for the cost of renovating the building.
The state's housing and economic development secretary, Gregory Bialecki, hailed Schneider's expansion in Andover as proof the Patrick administration's investments in education, innovation, and infrastructure are paying off and attracting employers.
"We've been trying to make the case that the innovation economy is alive and well all around Massachusetts, not just in Boston and Cambridge," Bialecki said, "and this is the perfect example of that."
Erin Ailworth can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @ailworth.


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ACLU: Fla. attack on civil liberties unprecedented
TALLAHASSEE — American Civil Liberties Union officials say Republican Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP-led Florida Legislature have mounted an unprecedented attack on civil liberties over the past two years.
The ACLU of Florida issued a report Thursday on actions by the group and others in the courts of law and public opinion and at the ballot box to protect voting, free speech and other rights.
The organization has been involved in 11 lawsuits as part of that effort. They include four still pending cases challenging drug testing of welfare applicants and state employees, a limitation on doctors asking patients about gun ownership and a purge of noncitizens from voting rolls.
The Republican Party of Florida issued a response contending Floridians strongly support many of the measures that the ACLU opposes.


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It has been talked about for quite some time, but EA has finally shown off some assets from the sequel to the cult classic American McGee's Alice, called Alice: Madness Returns. At a press event earlier today, EA described the game as an action adventure, with the very broad release window of 2011.
Alice: Madness Returns takes place 10 years after the conclusion of the original game, with Alice struggling to recover from the emotional trauma of losing her entire family in a fatal fire. After spending a decade institutionalized in an insane asylum, she is finally released to the care of a psychiatrist who just may be able to help her conquer the nightmarish hallucinations that still haunt her. Alice embarks on a mission to root out the true cause of her family's mysterious death, jumping from a gloomy and stark London to a rich and provocative Wonderland.
There is a teaser trailer, some screenshots, an official site, and that's pretty much it. This is certainly a case of a creative team taking something that was already dark and twisted and making it slightly more dark and twisted, but the original game is still talked about fondly. Check out the official site for a brief trailer, and you can gaze upon a few screenshots to make the wait a little more tolerable.


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It's Breakfast time! I have 2 really great recipes to share with you this morning.
This is light, fluffy, cheesy and EASY!
(Note: most of us here in the Ferguson household, don't care for cottage cheese, but you won't even know it's in here!! Just makes this casserole super moist!!!!)
Incredible Edible Egg Casserole
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- 10 whole Eggs, Whipped
- ½ cups Butter, Melted
- ½ teaspoons Salt
- ½ cups Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 4 cups Monterey Jack Cheese, Shredded (do Not Substitute)
- 16 ounces, weight Cottage Cheese
- 1 package (3 Oz. Package Or Around 3/4 Cup) Real Bacon Bits
- 4 ounces, weight Chopped Green Chilies
Preheat your oven to 350F.
In a bowl, combine the eggs, butter, flour, salt and baking powder. Mix well.
Slowly stir in the cheese, cottage cheese, bacon bits and green chilies. Bake in a greased 9×13 pan for 35-40 minutes. Enjoy!
I told you it was easy!
This next recipe comes from a new 4 little Fergusons reader, Mary who runs a B & B in Fayette, Alabama. Sweet Mary read this blog from stem to stern the day she found us. I had to "meet" this amazing lady, so I headed over to her website:
She and her hubby have a beautiful home that they open up to guests, "The Columbus Street Inn", and her breakfast menu sounds amazing! (You know if they run a Bed and Breakfast, her breakfast recipes HAVE to be delicious, or they'd just call it a Bed!) Anyhow, she shared this recipe with me, and it did not disappoint!
Mansion House Peaches & Cream French Toast Casserole with Yogurt Sauce
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- French Toast Casserole:
- 6 whole Croissants (Large, Light Type Found In The Bakery)
- 8 ounces, weight Cream Cheese
- 2 cups Fresh Peaches, Sliced
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cups Sweet Cream Butter
- 2 Tablespoons Corn Syrup
- 12 whole Eggs
- 1-½ cup 1/2 & 1/2
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- Yogurt Cream Sauce:
- 1 cup Vanilla Yogurt
- 4 ounces, weight Cool Whip
- A Dash Or Two Of Nutmeg And Cinnamon
- Syrup
Step One:
Grease 9×13 or larger pan.
Melt brown sugar, butter, corn syrup until bubbly.
Pour entire mixture into the pan.
Step Two:
Spread sliced peaches over the caramel syrup.
Break the croissants into pieces and place over the peaches.
Cut cream cheese into little pieces and scatter throughout the breaks (in little pillow-like puffs)
Step Three:
Mix the eggs, milk and vanilla.
Pour over the bread and cover.
Refrigerate overnight.
Step Four:
Place into a cold oven and set it to 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
You can cover if top is getting too brown.
When it is nearly finished it will begin to puff up and you will see the caramel bubbling up.
Step Five:
Serve with Yogurt Cream Sauce and hot maple syrup.
Thanks Mary, for the AM-AAAAZING recipe!
Happy Cooking everyone! 🙂
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With so many talented and creative bloggers out there, how could we not have a holiday series to inspire and delight our readers?! We've tapped some of our friends from all over the country to help with this "Holiday How-to" series and first up is the delightful Barbara from Haus Design (whom we got to meet when we traveled out west this summer!)
I am so happy to be here today on one of my favorite blogs, The Buzz! We are new to the Seattle area, and new in our home, so this year will be a very special holiday season for us, full of new traditions and friendships. I'm thinking that this December we will have a Holiday Open House to celebrate. Notice I didn't say *party*. I'm not sure why, but I find it's easier on me (and our guests) to have an Open House as opposed to a full blown party. The difference is that people can just stop in when it works with their busy holiday schedule. We provide a window of time when we'll have drinks and appetizers, and they can pop in for 20 minutes or the whole time! Here are a few of my favorite ways to celebrate this season. My goal is to do all of these – we'll see how successful I am! 🙂
I believe a festive welcome is a must to set the right one for the party. I love the look of swags like these for a more interesting look.
My husband's favorite drink is a Mojito. I'm anxious to try this out 0 it will look so cheery floating around in guests' hands at the party!
I'd love to dress up our dining room table with this type of detail. Our dining room chairs are Danish – the sleek design lends itself perfectly to adding a slipcover and a flourish.
Since the kids will be coming, I want to provide some fun food, too. How cute are these Elf Doughnuts?!
This is the Type A in me, but I truly adore when all of the Christmas gifts have coordinated wrapping paper. This natural look won't overpower the room and will give the tree a nice, cohesive, nature-inspired look.
I've been fortunate enough to meet Carolyn and Cynthia once before, and if they lived closer, I'd definitely love to be celebrating with them this holiday season! C & C – if you decide to jump on a plane, let me know – I'll have a cranberry mojito ready for you! 🙂
Thank you, Barbara, for your wonderful post – just let us know when the party is and we'll be there with
sleigh bells on!
Photo sources and more Open House ideas can be found on Barbara's Pinterest board here!


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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has waived restrictions that prevented cable operators from acquiring local telephone carriers, saying those mergers could lead to stronger competition to large telecom carriers for business customers.
The FCC on Monday approved a request by trade group the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) to relax rules in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that prohibited cable firms from acquiring more than a 10% stake in any local exchange carrier within the cable firm's franchise area, with some exceptions.
The '96 Act, as the law is called, attempted to preserve competition between cable providers and telecom carriers, the FCC noted in its ruling. But relaxing the rules for cable firms to acquire some local telecom carriers, called competitive local exchange carriers or CLECs, could create competition for the dominant, incumbent carriers, often called ILECs.
The decision to allow the acquisitions "will likely speed the entry of cable operators into the market for telecommunications services provided to business customers," FCC staff wrote in the ruling. "Alliances between competitive LECs and cable operators can merge these entities' complementary capabilities, resulting in increased facilities-based competition."
The NCTA argued the prohibition does not make competitive sense. The trade group argued that the '96 Act did not prohibit cable operators from acquiring CLECs, but only incumbent telecom providers. The FCC rejected that argument, and denied the NCTA's request for the agency to permanently overturn the rules, but the FCC decided to suspend the rule.
The ruling should lead to more competition, said Robert McDowell, a commissioner at the FCC. "Consumers will benefit from the increased efficiencies springing from strategic combinations between cable companies and competitive local telecom companies," he said in a statement. "This forbearance order promotes good public policy because it should spur competition in the telecommunications marketplace."
The NCTA praised the decision, saying it removed "outdated obstacles that have historically deterred pro-competitive transactions" between cable firms and CLECs. The NCTA's request for the change was prompted by one proposed merger that was rejected by a local cable franchising authority, a spokesman said.
Other groups said they were disappointed in the decision. After the FCC's August approval of a deal allowing Verizon Communications to buy wireless spectrum from a group of cable operators, "it's disappointing to see the commission scaling back these protections, too," said Matt Wood, policy director for Free Press, a digital rights group.
"We need real competition policies to spur the deployment and adoption of affordable broadband services," Wood added in an email. "We hope this so-called streamlining of the agency's review process will not merely transplant the duopolies we already see in the residential broadband market into the business market, which until now has been one of the few places that competitive carriers maintain a foothold and offer an alternative to big phone and cable."
The Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance (ITTA), a trade group representing midsized telecom carriers, also raised concerns about the FCC's action.
The NCTA's request for the relaxed rules "in order to be able to compete more effectively against the 'big bad' ILECs, is a gross mischaracterization of the current communications marketplace," Genny Morelli, president of ITTA, said in an email. "In many markets, large, nationwide, vertically-integrated cable conglomerates have come to dominate the market for the bundled service packages favored by most consumers today."
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Unable to walk because I was wearing shoes that are a bit too tight but too damn cool to discard, I boarded the R train at 42nd Street heading for 57th. I sat next to two girls who looked like living Barbie dolls. Early- to mid-20s. Blonde hair that I strongly suspect might not be natural. All of their clothing was candy-colored right down to their socks. Two cute little buttons. I wanted to buy them a sundae. Their thoughts must have been of chiffon and white clouds and holding hands with harmless, pretty, all-American university boys.
One was leaning close to the other and reading something off her her iPad. She read in a conspiratorial whisper, so as not to disturb anyone sitting around them. How thoughtful! The new issue of Vogue? An advice column on how to apply make-up? I looked over.
I cannot report what she was reading because it was in CHINESE. That young, cute cheerleader is FLUENT in CHINESE. She was interpreting what it said to her friend.
Am I EVER going to STOP judging people by the way they LOOK? How many times do I need to be taught the same lessons over and over?
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This is where I have my morning jolt, weather permitting.
Michael Bloomberg, genius mayor of New York (may he run for president someday), is leaving office. His greatest legacy, as far as I'm concerned, is closing stretches of Broadway and other Avenues and converting them into public spaces. They're great for hanging out and watching the big parade of humanity march by. Here's the view from my morning coffee. This used to be a section of Broadway that roared with traffic. Now look at it. The reason there are so few people around is that it's 6:30 a.m. Come back at 8:00 p.m. and there isn't room to walk.
A: The New Year's Eve ball. A few years ago they decided to leave it out year-round. Every time I have guests and point it out, they all say the same thing: "It's a lot smaller than I thought it would be." Boy…if I had a nickel for every time I heard that…
B: Disney. Ubiquitous. Has come to define what Times Square is vs. what it was. I'm not crazy about it, but I remember the pimps, whores and junkies. I know that image has a certain dark, poetic panache, but that's all just selective memory. This is the lesser of two evils. Listen to Travis Bickel's monologue as he drives his taxi through the area. It's accurate.
C: A gaggle o' NYPD.
D: A gaggle o' tourists.
E: NYC wildlife.
F: A damn good cuppa. Only $1.25! Or, you can go to the Starbucks that my coffee cart guy parks in front of and pay double or triple or quadruple. And they say there aren't any bargains in NYC. Feh.
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Billboard in the northeast corner of Times Square courtesy of French artist JR. It was more amusing before government surveillance revelations were made.


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Now Foods, Organic Quinoa, Whole Grain, 16 oz (454 g)
- Purely Gluten-Free
- USDA Organic
- Non-GMO Project Verified
- CRC Pareve
- Certified Organic by QAI
- Vegetarian/Vegan Product
Organic ancient grain that makes a great substitute for rice.
Good source of protein and fiber.
Always Made Without
- Dairy
- Wheat
- Soy
- Nuts
- Eggs
Produced in a dedicated gluten-free, allergy-friendly facility.
Living NOW Organic Quinoa is a good substitute for rice in recipes, and is often used in soups, stews, and casseroles.
It has a mild, delicate flavor that's slightly nutty, making it a popular addition to many vegetarian recipes. Sprinkle on your favorite salad for an extra burst of flavor and nutrition!
Living NOW is more than just a brand of great-tasting gluten-free foods - it's a way of life for anyone with food sensitivities. This premium line was developed to provide wholesome, healthy foods bursting with flavor and made without gluten and major common allergens including wheat, nuts, soy, dairy, eggs, and shellfish. Living NOW is produced in a dedicated, allergy-friendly facility and is Non-GMO with no artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives. With Living NOW eating is safe, fun, and satisfying again!
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**Note for 1 cup of Quinoa you will need 2 cups of water or stock
- Place Quinoa in a mesh strainer and rinse under cold water.
- Place water or stock into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Add Quinoa and turn heat on low.
- Cover the pot and allow for the Quinoa to cook for a minimum of 15 minutes or until the liquid is absorbed.
- When Quinoa is ready, remove from saucepan and fluff with fork.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Organic whole grain quinoa.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 1/4 cup (46 g)
|Servings Per Container: about 10
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A water main is an underground pipe that delivers water to a resident's service pipe. In residential areas it usually runs under the street. If a hole or crack develops in the pipe, the water will typically find its way to the surface. Because the water main is under pressure, water will continue to flow until the break is repaired. Water main breaks are more likely to occur when frost penetrates deep into the ground, to a level of 3-5 feet, usually from late January until early April. While cold temperatures may send the frost deeper, the level of snow cover is also important. Snow will act as a "blanket" insulating the ground. In years when there is plenty of snow, the frost does not go as deep.
If water needs to be turned off for a water main break, homeowners will receive little or no notice. The water can flood streets and private property causing damage and safety hazards, and must be controlled as quickly as possible.
A boil order is most commonly issued when Public Works crews need to shut down a segment of water main due to an emergency water main break or other maintenance activity. The boil order in this case is precautionary and does not mean that the water has tested positive for microbiological contamination. It is simply a precautionary measure until proper testing can be completed. Notification is made by Public Works to those consumers affected.During the day, Public Works staff will go door-to-door to issue boil order notification. If a customer is not home, a red door tag will be left on the front door. Sometimes, a boil order needs to be issued overnight. The Village does not have the ability to target specific addresses via phone or email contact. In the precautionary scenario above, Public Works will not ring door bells in the late evening or overnight hours, but will simply hang door tags for the residents to see in the morning.
If you have a question on whether or not your residence is under a boil order please call 847-546-8752 or email us (Boil orders will not be posted on social media websites).
If the water is ever confirmed to be contaminated per the IEPA regulations, additional notification will take place including but not limited to; news and media outlets, reverse-911 calls and other methods. But for a precautionary boil order with no confirmed contamination, only the door tags will be hung overnight.
At that time a boil order will be issued, and water sample(s) will be taken for testing in keeping with EPA standards.
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Mangalvar, or Tuesday, in Hindu religion is dedicated to Lord Hanuman and Lord Ganesh. Mangalwar takes its name from the Mangal or Mars who rules the day and is considered to be a trouble maker in astrology, and the fast is to ward off the harmful effects of Mangal. Here is a general idea on how to observe Mangalvar Vrat? The Vrat is observed mainly by couples who want to have children and by those people who are suffering from Mangal graha dosha.
Tuesday is generally dedicated to Lord Hanuman in most regions. Please note that in
Maharashtra, Tuesday is mainly dedicated to Lord Ganesha. In some regions, the day dedicated to Ganesh is Wednesday. In Kerala, Hanuman is worshipped mainly on Thursday.
How to observe Mangalvar Vrat?
After self purification and bathe on Tuesday morning deities first take the blessings of Lord Ganesh by offering red colored flowers.
Next Lord Hanuman is worshipped. Lamp is lit and red flowers are offered to Lord Hanuman. A mark is made on the forehead using red colored sandalwood paste. After prayers Hanuman Chalisa or Hanuman Ashtak is chanted. For Ganesha it is Ganesha Ashtotram or any other prayers dedicated to Lord Ganesh.
The fast is from sunrise to sunset. A single meal is taken on the day and is usually made of jaggery. Salt is avoided. The food prepared for Lord Hanuman is shared by the devotee.
Red is the color of the day. Red colored clothes are worn and red colored flowers are offered to the deity.
In the evening the offering made to deity is a food prepared using Jaggery. Before breaking the fast, a story associated with Mangalvar Vrat is listened to or read. There are several stories associated with Mangalvar Vrat.
In some regions, people avoid digging up earth or plastering the home. Oil massages are also avoided on the day.
Hanuman is the patron deity of the wrestlers and they observe a rest day. They also do not massage their body to avoid hair falling.


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I love to travel. Love, love, love it. And three weeks is a long time to be away from home, even for us. It's a long time to be away from our kids. It's a long time to be away from our sweet old smushy faced dog. But you know what? It's a great gig if you can get it. Our three weeks away started with a business trip to The Netherlands for The Complete Package. The dates for his week-long business meetings came up sort of suddenly, but we were totally up for the challenge. And since his company was paying for his round-trip flights and hotel accommodations, we weren't about to pass up this opportunity. I mean, he's already going to Europe, right? So why not?
First up, business meetings in Den Haag (The Hague). If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may remember that we were here last November as a first leg to our infamous German Christmas Markets Adventure. Boy, that was a great trip. This year, we found ourselves back in The Hague for a week and back at the Hilton Den Haag. If you're visiting The Netherlands, I highly recommend it.
I know I said this last year, but I L-O-V-E this hotel. The building is fantastic. The location is superb. The rooms are spacious. The bathrooms are luxurious. And the staff is friendly and helpful and engaging. It really is a dream hotel. And their beds are to die for. If I lived here, I'd rarely get out of this bed.
Just like last year, I planned to spend my days sightseeing and shopping while TCP slaved over a hot laptop, working (as usual, he would say). There are endless streets filled with countless shops, cafes, museums and interesting architecture in The Hague. There is just so much to discover here.
As you can see, it's beautiful here. And of the European cities we've visited, The Hague is the one I feel most at home in. I love it here. It's a tranquil, historic, lovely place and the people are every bit as lovely.
And that brings me to Claudia. Dear Claudia. Last year, after I posted photos of our trip to The Netherlands and declared my undying love of oliebollen – (Dutch donuts), Claudia left a comment on my blog inviting me to spend a day with her in Rotterdam the next time I returned. What a fabulous invitation! This year as we planned our trip, I remembered Claudia's offer and sent her an e-mail. True to her word, Claudia offered to take a day off and show me Rotterdam. Tuesday was a good day for her, and as luck would have it, TCP's company scheduled late meetings and team activities on Tuesday. Perfect. And just like that, the stars aligned and I had a date to tour Rotterdam with Claudia. I can't say this enough: I love my readers! So, let's get back to this face.
On Tuesday morning, I could hardly control my excitement. We'd exchanged photos prior to the trip so I'd know who to look for and she'd know not to let the wrong stranger get into her car. As soon as she pulled up, she jumped out of the car with a big smile on her face. What a great and accurate first impression. Claudia always has a smile on her face, and I love that about her. She whisked me away for a day in Rotterdam, and we spent the entire day smiling and laughing.
Our day started at a beautiful little cafe for coffee. Do you know what I love about Dutch cafes? They serve their coffee with little speculaas cookies. They're spicy shortbread cookies usually shaped like windmills, and they are perfect for coffee dunking. You should know this in case you visit. Nobody does little gingerbread-style cookies like the Dutch. Seriously. Fuhgeddaboudit.
The only thing that beats a good cup of coffee in a lovely cafe is a good cup of coffee with a new friend in a lovely cafe that overlooks a quaint harbor full of boats. This was our view from the cafe window. Nice, huh?
After coffee, we set out on foot to explore Rotterdam. Our walk took us along the banks of the Nieuwe Maas past the Maastunnel. I would love to have been a fly on the wall when this marvel was built. Opened in 1942, it is a deep tunnel used by pedestrians and cyclists to cross the river. And when I say it's deep under ground, I'm not joking. I got a touch of vertigo just looking at the escalator that leads to the tunnel.
Our next stop was the Euromast tower to take in the sweeping panoramic views of Rotterdam. Sadly, the observation platform was closed when we were there, but we were able to visit the restaurant instead, and the 360-degree views of Rotterdam were spectacular. Unfortunately, most of those photos came out gray due to the rain. No worries, though. The rain cleared as the day progressed.
So we've taken the steep escalator down into the Maastunnel, and we've ascended to the heavens in the Eurotmast to see Rotterdam from the clouds. What's next? The scariest part of the day (for me, anyway). Tackling Claudia's promise to introduce me to a traditional Dutch treat – raw herring. You heard me. Raw. Herring. To help calm my nerves, we ordered white wine with our lunch. So here's how it went down:
She took me to this lovely little shop where it was obvious they took great pride in their fresh seafood. It really was a delightful shop, and I was starting to feel a little better about what what going to happen here.
As we browsed the menu boards, Claudia suggested a sampling of Dutch delicacies. I let her do the ordering while I secured the last remaining cocktail table for our lunch. She's the local, so that makes her the expert here.
First up, the
dreaded much-hearalded raw herring in sandwich (broodjes) form, followed by a plate of fried fish (cod, I think) which was fabulous.
I'm just kidding about the heavy fish petting and sweet nothings. Actually, I think she was just wiping something off of it, but I got a good chuckle over the idea of her enjoying that fish a little too much. Cutting off about one inch of herring, Claudia handed over the fork and I was faced with my first raw herring.
If I haven't mentioned it before, I get a little weak in the knees at the prospect of eating herring. I can trace it directly back to a bad experience involving my dad, a dish of pickled herring in a dill & sour cream sauce, and a German restaurant in Fort Smith, Arkansas. I tried one bite and almost threw up on the table. I was horrified. It was awful (the fish AND the experience). Check a map. Fort Smith, Arkansas is land locked. It is nowhere near a source of fresh herring.
I vowed to never let herring cross my lips again, and yet here I was with Claudia – smiling and laughing and drinking wine and staring down a piece of RAW herring on a fork. So I tried it, and you know what? I didn't throw up. I didn't even gag a little. More than that, I found it interesting in texture and flavor. Why, I'd even go so far as to proclaim that it was okay! Would I eat one again? Maybe not. But maybe I would. Especially if Claudia was there urging me to trust her. Because I do trust her. And I did enjoy trying all of it.
Oh, I forgot mention she also ordered a cocktail of the teeniest but tastiest local shrimp (garnaal). Mmmm… now these I would definitely eat again. I think I'd eat them from a jar. I think I'd eat them in a car. I think I'd follow them with jam. I love these garnaal, Sam-I-Am!
Now here's where my blogging photography gets sloppy. After our wine and seafood lunch, we walked to a fabulous museum and took in a plethora of local Dutch paintings, sculpture, pottery & glass, and even furniture and home accessories. It was all lovely, as was our coffee break in the museum cafe. But it seems I took very few photos inside the museum, so we'll just have to skip to our ride through the harbor and across the river.Our water taxi takes us across the Niewe Maas to the opposite side of the river, across from where our tour started this morning. As we pull up to the dock, I notice the beautiful old building that now houses the Hotel New York. What makes this building notable is not the hotel, although the Hotel New York captures the spirit of the building. It's the history that makes it special. Rotterdam has been a point of embarkation for passengers seeking a future in the New World since the 1620's and the Holland America Line has been transporting pilgrims since the 1880's. This beautiful building is the Dutch counterpart to Ellis Island in New York. From here, families loaded their hopes and dreams onto Holland America ships and headed to points far and wide seeking new lives. Now, Holland America is known as one of the world's leading cruise lines and their former headquarters house the Hotel New York and a lovingly restored space that now serves as a bar and restaurant. As our day wound to a close, Claudia and I stopped here for high tea. And that's where this photo of Claudia comes back into play. It was taken just before tea.
After tea, we walked back across a nearby expansion bridge just as the sun was setting over Rotterdam. It was a perfect ending to a perfect day.We drank coffee, we sampled local delicacies, we took in spectacular views and stunning art. We walked under the river via the Maastunnel, we crossed over the river in a water taxi, and we ended with a sunset stroll over the bridge. And I enjoyed every single second of it. In fact, words fail to capture just how much I enjoyed Claudia's company. I will be forever grateful that she found my blog, that we started a dialog over olibollen, and that she invited me to spend a day learning more about her city. But the greatest part of the day was gaining a new friend. A lovely, funny friend whom I will cherish forever.
And speaking of oliebollen, Claudia informed me just before we arrived that oliebollen, those awe-inspiring Dutch donuts I fell in love with last November, are a seasonal holiday treat. As such, oliebollen stands do not open until early November. I think she could sense the utter devastation in my response to her e-mail. I was heartbroken, since I had informed her that my favorite oliebollen stand would be the first stop once we got checked in at the hotel. Not one to be deterred, Claudia knew that we would be spending one last night in Amsterdam at the end of our vacation. When we left The Netherlands for other destinations in Europe, she contacted the local tourism bureau to inquire if any oliebollen stands would open early enough for our night in Amsterdam. Wow. Most people would say, "maybe next time." Claudia e-mailed to tell me about stands opening early. Now that is a true friend.
And so, I'll end this first chapter of our travels with one final treat from The Netherlands. Okay, two. First, The Complete Package enjoyed his favorite Dutch side dish – frites with mayonnaise. Don't knock the mayonnaise until you've tried it. This ain't no Hellman's, baby. This is the good stuff.
And just when I thought all was lost, look what I found at Schipol Airport:
Up next, The Complete Package and I live one of his travel fantasies – a week in Istanbul, Turkey. It was ancient. It was exotic. It was fabulous. And you will not want to miss those photos, so stay tuned!
Special thanks to our friends Kaki & Donny for taking such good care of Ziggy while we were away. And thanks to our other friends Pat & Carl who were willing to take Zigman if needed. Your care of our sweet boy is what allows us to travel worry-free, and for that we are forever grateful. Truly.


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Many a skeptic claims that the Bible depicts a flat earth. Scriptural references such as Revelation 7:1 are cited, which speaks of "four angels standing at the four corners of the earth." However, this passage makes reference to the cardinal directions as seen on a compass – i.e. north, south, east and west. Terminology to a similar effect is used today when we speak of the sun rising and setting each day, even though we know that it is, in fact, the earth which orbits around the sun.
Another passage often referred to is Psalm 75:3, which speaks of God holding the pillars firm. However, the psalms are written in the poetry genre. Rather than referring to literal pillars, this is representative of God's guaranteeing the earth's stability. Even when the moral order of the world seems to have crumbled, God will not fully withdraw His sustaining power.
In contrast to the supposed "flat earth" verses, there are numerous Scriptures that clearly indicate otherwise. The earth is described in Job 26:7 as being suspended over empty space, implying a spherical figure. This notion is further entertained in Isaiah 40:21-22, which refers to "the circle of the earth." This is further supported by Proverbs 8:27 , which speaks of God drawing a circle on the face of the deep. From a "bird's-eye view" of the ocean, the horizon is seen as a circle. Such an observation indicates that where light terminates, darkness begins, describing the reality of day and night on a spherical earth.
The round-earth idea is further supported by Jesus in Luke 17:31,34: "In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back…I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left." This would seem to indicate the phenomenon of day on one side of the globe while darkness abides on the other.
In conclusion, the curvature of the earth is certainly a biblical concept, and there is little or no basis for the charge that the Bible teaches a flat earth. The Scriptures that seem to present a flat earth can all easily be explained when correctly interpreted and understood.


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Monsanto Wants to Know Why People Doubt Science
By Colin Todhunter | CounterPunch | February 27, 2015
On Twitter recently, someone asked the question "Why do people doubt science?" Accompanying the tweet was a link to an article in National Geographic that implied people who are suspicious of vaccines, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), climate change, fluoridated water and various other phenomena are confused, adhere to conspiracy theories, are motivated by ideology or are misinformed as a result of access to the 'University of Google.' The remedy, according to what is said in the article, is for us all to rely on scientific evidence pertaining to these issues and adopt a 'scientific method' of thought and analysis and put irrational thought processes to one side.
Who tweeted the question and posted the link? None other than Robert T Fraley, Monsanto's Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
Before addressing that question, it is worth mentioning that science is not the giver of 'absolute truth'. That in itself should allow us to develop a healthy sceptism towards the discipline. The 'truth' is a tricky thing to pin down. Scientific knowledge is built on shaky stilts that rest on shifting foundations. Science historian Thomas Kuhn wrote about the revolutionary paradigm shifts in scientific thought, whereby established theoretical perspectives can play the role of secular theology and serve as a barrier to the advancement of knowledge, until the weight of evidence and pressure from proponents of a new theoretical paradigm is overwhelming. Then, at least according to Kuhn, the old faith gives way and a new 'truth' changes.
Philosopher Paul Feyerabend argued that science is not an 'exact science'. The manufacture of scientific knowledge involves a process driven by various sociological, methodological and epistemological conflicts and compromises, both inside the laboratory and beyond. Writers in the field of the sociology of science have written much on this.
But the answer to the question "Why do people doubt science" is not because they have read Kuhn, Feyerabend or some sociology journal. Neither is it because a bunch of 'irrational' activists have scared them witless about GM crops or some other issue. It is because they can see how science is used, corrupted and manipulated by powerful corporations to serve their own ends. It is because they regard these large corporations as largely unaccountable and their activities and products not properly regulated by governments.
That's why so many doubt science – or more precisely the science corporations fund and promote to support their interests.
US sociologist Robert Merton highlighted the underlying norms of science as involving research that is not warped by vested interests, adheres to the common ownership of scientific discoveries (intellectual property) to promote collective collaboration and subjects findings to organised, rigorous critical scrutiny within the scientific community. The concept of originality was added by later writers in order to fully encapsulate the ethos of science: scientific claims must contribute something new to existing discourse. Based on this brief analysis, secrecy, dogma and vested interest have no place.
This is of course a highly idealised version of what science is or should be because in reality careers, reputations, commercial interests and funding issues all serve to undermine these norms.
But if we really want to look at the role of secrecy, dogma and vested interest in full flow, we could take a look at the sector to which Robert T Fraley belongs.
Last year, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called for "sound science" to underpin food trade between the US and the EU. However, he seems very selective in applying "sound science" to certain issues. Consumer rights groups in the US are pushing for the labelling of GMO foods, but Vilsack said that putting a label on a foodstuff containing a GM product "risks sending a wrong impression that this was a safety issue."
Despite what Vilsack would have us believe, many scientific studies show that GMOs are indeed a big safety issue and what's more are also having grave environmental, social and economic consequences (for example, see this and this).
By not wanting to respond to widespread consumer demands to know what they are eating and risk "sending a wrong impression," Vislack is trying to prevent proper debate about issues that his corporate backers would find unpalatable: profits would collapse if consumers had the choice to reject the GMOs being fed to them. And 'corporate backers' must not be taken as a throwaway term here. Big agritech concerns have captured or at the very least seriously compromised key policy and regulatory bodies in the US (see this), Europe (see this), India (see this) and in fact on a global level (see here regarding control of the WTO).
If Robert T Fraley wants to understand why people doubt science, he should consider what Andy Stirling, Professor of Science and Technology Policy at Sussex University, says:
"The main reason some multinationals prefer GM technologies over the many alternatives is that GM offers more lucrative ways to control intellectual property and global supply chains. To sideline open discussion of these issues, related interests are now trying to deny the many uncertainties and suppress scientific diversity. This undermines democratic debate – and science itself." (see here)
Coming from the GMO biotech industry, or its political mouthpieces, the term "sound science" rings extremely hollow. The industry carries out inadequate, short-term studies and conceals the data produced by its research under the guise of 'commercial confidentiality' (see this), while independent research highlights the very serious dangers of its products [see this and this). It has in the past also engaged in fakery in India (see this), bribery in Indonesia (see this ) and smears and intimidation against those who challenge its interests [see this), as well as the distortion and the censorship of science (see this and this).
With its aim to modify organisms to create patents that will secure ever greater control over seeds, markets and the food supply, the widely held suspicion is that the GMO agritech sector is only concerned with a certain type of science: that which supports these aims. Because if science is held in such high regard by these corporations, why isn't Monsanto proud of its products? Why not label foods in the US that contain GMOs and throw open [Monsanto's] science to public scrutiny, instead of veiling it with secrecy, restricting independent research on its products or resorting to unsavoury tactics?
If science is held in such high regard by the GMO agritech sector, why in the US did policy makers release GM food onto the commercial market without proper long-term tests? The argument used to justify this is GM food is 'substantially equivalent' to ordinary food. But this is not based on scientific reason. Foreign genes are being inserted into organisms that studies show make them substantially non-equivalent (see this). Substantial equivalence is a trade strategy on behalf of the GM sector that neatly serves to remove its GMOs from the type of scrutiny usually applied to potentially toxic or harmful substances. The attempt to replace processed-based regulation of GMOs in Europe with product-based regulation would result in serving a similar purpose (see this).
The reason why no labelling or testing has taken place in the US is not due to 'sound science' having been applied but comes down to the power and political influence of the GMO biotech sector and because a sound scientific approach has not been applied.
The sector cannot win the scientific debate (although its PR likes to tell the world it has) so it resorts to co-opting key public bodies or individuals to propagate various falsehoods and deceptions (see this). Part of the deception is based on emotional blackmail: the world needs GMOs to feed the hungry, both now and in the future. This myth has been blown apart (see this, this and this). In fact, in the second of those three links, the organisation GRAIN highlights that GM crops that have been planted thus far have actually contributed to food insecurity.
This is a harsh truth that the industry does not like to face.
People's faith in science is being shaken on many levels, not least because big corporations have secured access to policy makers and governments and are increasingly funding research and setting research agendas.
"As Andrew Neighbour, former administrator at Washington University in St. Louis, who managed the university's multiyear and multimillion dollar relationship with Monsanto, admits, "There's no question that industry money comes with strings. It limits what you can do, when you can do it, who it has to be approved by"… This raises the question: if Agribusiness giant Monsanto [in India] is funding the research, will Indian agricultural researchers pursue such lines of scientific inquiry as "How will this new rice or wheat variety impact the Indian farmer, or health of Indian public?" The reality is, Monsanto is funding the research not for the benefit of either Indian farmer or public, but for its profit. It is paying researchers to ask questions that it is most interested in having answered." – 'Monsanto, a Contemporary East India Company, and Corporate Knowledge in India'.
Ultimately, it is not science itself that people have doubts about but science that is pressed into the service of immensely powerful private corporations and regulatory bodies that are effectively co-opted and adopt a 'don't look, don't find approach' to studies and products (see this, this and this).
Or in the case of releasing GMOs onto the commercial market in the US, bypassing proper scientific procedures and engaging in doublespeak about 'substantial equivalence' then hypocritically calling for 'sound science' to inform debates.
The same corporate interests are moreover undermining the peer-review process itself and the ability of certain scientists to get published in journals – the benchmark of scientific credibility. In effect, powerful interests increasingly hold sway over funding, career progression as a scientist, journals and peer review (see this and this, which question the reliability of peer review in the area of GMOs).
Going back to the start of the piece, the question that should have been tweeted is: "Why do people doubt corporate-controlled or influenced science?" After that question, it would have been more revealing to have posted a link to this article here about the unscrupulous history of a certain company from St Louis. That history provides very good reason why so many doubt and challenge powerful corporations and the type of science they fund and promote (or attempt to suppress) and the type of world they seek to create (see this).
"Corporations as the dominant institution shaped by capitalist patriarchy thrive on eco-apartheid. They thrive on the Cartesian legacy of dualism which puts nature against humans. It defines nature as female and passively subjugated. Corporatocentrism is thus also androcentric – a patriarchal construction. The false universalism of man as conqueror and owner of the Earth has led to the technological hubris of geo-engineering, genetic engineering, and nuclear energy. It has led to the ethical outrage of owning life forms through patents, water through privatization, the air through carbon trading. It is leading to appropriation of the biodiversity that serves the poor." –Vandana Shiva
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Eat organic! Grow your own!
Comment by traducteur | August 16, 2015 |
1: Well-done research that could fill a book.
2: B/C the vacuum in new scientific breakthrus in all areas of theoretical science has been the norm for decades (see The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age [1996] by former SciAm staff writer John Horgan, and his recent SciAm article, an intro to the updated version of EoS, http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/was-i-wrong-about-8220-the-end-of-science-8221/), as Horgan suggests in EoS and the cited recent article, faux-scientists would increasingly engage in hyperbole and what's commonly referred to as science fiction ("I predicted that scientists, as they struggle to overcome their limitations, would become increasingly desperate and prone to hyperbole. This trend has become more severe and widespread than I anticipated.")
W/in the broader field of science, applied science has, w/the aid and abbettance of CIA/military-industrial-complex-funded junk science (confirmed in my 2-decades old interview w/Dr. Francis Fong, abused/beaten-up discoverer of the non-junky process of artificial photosynthesis, potentially ending global warming [a residual effect of Monsanto's GMOs] by the generation of supercharged sequestration), filled-in the entire field w/hyperbolic frauds purveying fiction-as-fact.
3. Every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds be reproved (John 3:20).
4. Horgan, who, full disclosure, I admire, is neverthless wrong b/c the application of known quantum effects can reveal (and has revealed) brand new areas of theoretical science knowledge. The only block: You have to add a Creator to the quantum mix b/c that's how the Creator interacts w/His Creation.
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Wolftrap SeadevilsTheodore W. Pietsch
This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.
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Thaumatichthyids are among the most bizarre of anglerfishes, characterized by having large tooth-like denticles associated with the esca, but more striking, an enormous upper jaw that extends far forward, each premaxilla bearing numerous long hooked teeth. The premaxillae, with their extraordinarily long teeth are capable of flipping up and down to enclose, when in the ventral position, the much shorter lower jaw, forming a cage-like compartment within which prey are held prior to swallowing, reminiscent of the Venus fly-trap among carnivorous plants.
The family Thaumatichthyidae contains eight currently recognized species in two genera, Thaumatichthys Smith and Radcliffe (1912) and Lasiognathus Regan (1925). Like many ceratioid taxa, the thaumatichthyids are rare and only know from just over 60 specimens.
Dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) views of Thaumatichthys binghami, UW 47537. The ventral view diplays the sessile esca on the roof of the mouth. © 2005 University of Washington
Metamorphosed females of the family Thaumatichthyidae are distinguished from those of all other ceratioid families by having elongate premaxillae that extend anteriorly far beyond the lower jaw, the bones widely separated anteriorly at the symphysis but connected by a broad elastic membrane; teeth on premaxillae extremely long, curved or hooked; esca bearing 1-3 large tooth-like dermal denticles; and opercle bifurcate, dorsal fork divided into two or more branches.
Metamorphosed females are further differentiated by having the following combination of character states: supraethmoid well developed (Lasiognathus), very much reduced or absent (Thaumatichthys); frontals long, narrow, and widely separated, ventromedial extensions present (Lasiognathus) or absent (Thaumatichthys); parietals present; sphenotics large, spine extremely well-developed (Lasiognathus) or small, conical, without spine (Thaumatichthys); pterosphenoid, metapterygoid, and mesopterygoid present; hyomandibular with a double head; hypohyals 2; branchiostegal rays 6 (2 + 4); subopercle long and narrow (Thaumatichthys) or short and oval (Lasiognathus), posterior margin of dorsal part without indentation, ventral part with (Thaumatichthys) or without (Lasiognathus) spine or projection on anterodorsal margin; quadrate and articular spines very well-developed (Lasiognathus) or rudimentary (Thaumatichthys); angular and preopercular spines absent; lower jaw without symphysial spine; postmaxillary process of premaxilla absent; anterior-maxillomandibular ligament reduced (Thaumatichthys) or absent (Lasiognathus); pharyngobranchials I and IV absent; pharyngobranchials II and III well developed and toothed; hypobranchials 1-3 present; only a single ossified basibranchial; epibranchial and ceratobranchial teeth absent; epibranchial I bound to wall of pharynx; proximal one-half to two-thirds of ceratobranchial I bound to wall of pharynx; distal end of ceratobranchial I free, not bound by connective tissue to adjacent ceratobranchial II; proximal one-quarter to one-half of ceratobranchials II-IV not bound together by connective tissue; epurals absent; posterior margin of hypural plate entire (Lasiognathus) or deeply notched (Thaumatichthys); pterygiophore of illicium bearing a small ossified remnant of second cephalic spine; escal bulb and central lumen present; posteroventral process of coracoid absent; pectoral radials 3; pelvic bones cylindrical, only slightly expanded distally; dorsal-fin rays 5-7; anal-fin rays 4-5; pectoral-fin rays 14-20; caudal-fin rays 9 (2 simple + 4 bifurcated + 3 simple); skin everywhere naked, dermal spinules absent (Lasiognathus), or present on ventral surface of head and body of metamorphosed specimens (Thaumatichthys); ovaries paired; pyloric caecae absent.
Males and larvae are known only for Thaumatichthys.
Regan (1925, 1926), followed by Regan and Trewavas (1932), Bertelsen (1951), and Maul (1961, 1962), included Lasiognathus in the family Oneirodidae, together with Thaumatichthys, which was originally placed in a family of its own, the Thaumatichthyidae Smith and Radcliffe (1912). Pietsch (1972) resurrected the Thaumatichthyidae to include both Lasiognathus and Thaumatichthys. Bertelsen and Struhsaker (1977) compared the osteology of Thaumatichthys and Lasiognathus, pointing out that the latter appears more closely related to the Oneirodidae in several of the characters in which it differs from Thaumatichthys. The Oneirodidae, however, is undefined cladistically (a long list of characters in combination, some or none of which may be derived, is presently required to contain the 16 morphologically diverse oneirodid genera; see Pietsch, 1974). Bertelsen and Struhsaker (1977:34) noted, therefore, that "it becomes a subjective choice whether the genera Lasiognathus and Thaumatichthys both should be included in the Oneirodidae as Regan (1926) did, or placed together in Thaumatichthyidae as proposed by Pietsch (1972), or whether each of them should be referred to a family of its own." At the same time, however, they cited the two unique features used by Pietsch (1972) to diagnose the Thaumatichthyidae (premaxillae extending anteriorly far beyond lower jaw, and enlarged dermal denticles associated with the esca) and added a third (dorsal portion of opercle divided into two or more branches). In the end, they chose to retain the Thaumatichthyidae in the enlarged sense as proposed by Pietsch (1972).
The 27 known specimens of Lasiognathus were collected from widely scattered localities in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between approximately 47°N and 35°S. The 33 known specimens of Thaumatichthys are worldwide in distribution between approximately 32°N and 27°S.
Key to the Known Genera of Thaumatichthyidae
1A. Head narrow; pterygiophore of illicium long, anterior end emerging on snout from between frontal bones; illicium long, greater than 35% SL; esca at tip of illicium, bearing two or three large tooth-like denticles; skin naked, dermal spinules absent; dorsal-fin rays 5; anal-fin rays 5 (Lasiognathus Regan, 1925)
1B. Head broad, depressed; pterygiophore of illicium short, completely hidden beneath skin of head; illicium short, nearly fully enveloped by tissue of esca; esca sessile on roof of mouth, with one deeply embedded dermal denticle; dermal spinules present in skin of ventral surface of head and body; dorsal-fin rays 6-7; anal-fin rays 4 (Thaumatichthys Smith and Radcliffe, 1912)
Bertelsen, E. 1951. The ceratioid fishes. Ontogeny, taxonomy, distribution and biology. Dana Rept., 39, 276 pp.
Bertelsen, E., and P. J. Struhsaker. 1977. The ceratioid fishes of the genus Thaumatichthys: Osteology, relationships, distribution, and biology. Galathea Rept., 14: 740.
Maul, G. E. 1961. The ceratioid fishes in the collection of the Museu Municipal do Funchal (Melanocetidae, Himantolophidae, Oneirodidae, Linophrynidae). Bol. Mus. Mun. Funchal, 14(50): 87-159.
Maul, G. E. 1962. On a small collection of ceratioid fishes from off Dakar and two recently acquired specimens from stomachs of Aphanopus carbo taken in Madeira (Melanocetidae, Himantolophidae, Diceratiidae, Oneirodidae, Ceratiidae). Bol. Mus. Mun. Funchal, 16(54): 5-27.
Pietsch, T. W. 1972. A review of the monotypic deep-sea anglerfish family Centrophrynidae: Taxonomy, distribution, and osteology. Copeia, 1972(1): 1747.
Pietsch, T. W. 1974. Osteology and relationships of ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Oneirodidae, with a review of the genus Oneirodes Lütken. Nat. Hist. Mus. L. A. Co., Sci. Bull., 18, 113 pp.
Pietsch, T. W. 2005. A new species of the ceratioid anglerfish genus Lasiognathus Regan (Lophiiformes: Thaumatichthyidae) from the Eastern North Atlantic off Madeira. Copeia, 2005(1): 77-81.
Regan, C. T. 1925b. New ceratioid fishes from the N. Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Panama, collected by the "Dana." Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 8(62): 561567.
Regan, C. T. 1926. The pediculate fishes of the suborder Ceratioidea. Dana Oceanogr. Rept. 2, 45 pp.
Regan, C. T., and E. Trewavas. 1932. Deep-sea anglerfish (Ceratioidea). Dana Rept., 2, 113 pp.
Smith, H. M., and L. Radcliffe. 1912. Scientific results of the Philippine Cruise of the fisheries steamer "Albatross," 19071910, No. 20. Description of a new family of pediculate fishes from Celebes. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 42: 579581.
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This morning I received an invitation to join the "Getting to Know You Challenge for Bloggers" in order for those of us in the Genea-Bloggers group to glean more information on each other's blogs. There is also the upcoming Carnival of Genealogy 55th Edition – Show and Tell, 5th Edition Smile for the Camera – Crowning Glory, Blog Action Day on October 15th – Poverty, the on-going Genea-Blogger Group Games on Facebook, and my own Freaky Friday challenge. The meme's "Stores of Yesteryear" and "The Soundtracks of my Salad Days" have already been written.
And I'm partially done with writing a biography on one of my ancestors for the Group Games. Looks like some great challenges coming up which give me a chance to flex my writing muscles (as opposed to those leg or arm muscles being used by the athletes at the Olympics!) in order to publish some wonderful posts.
Yesterday I noticed that footnoteMaven wrote an article on Using Family Photographs on Shades of the Departed on how to create a MOO greeting card. This looks like something (as a digital scrapbook artist) I would like to do – which means one more thing to add to my list!
I want to thank the hosts for these carnivals, meme's, and challenges. If you have not joined the Genea-Blogger group on Facebook, I urge you to do so. You aren't required to participate in any or all of the challenges however the topics do provide inspiration. If you have tons of documents and photographs that need to be scanned – you are also encouraged to participate in Scanfest happening this coming Saturday. I won't be participating as I hope to be car shopping (and buying) on Saturday.
If you have Central European or Irish Ancestry, there are also the 10th Edition of Carnival of Central and European Genealogy hosted by Jessica at Jessica's GeneaJournal and Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture hosted by Small Leaved Shamrock.
I urge you to give any one of these challenges a look and serious thought to participating!


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Saturday was a full Family Day. For a sunlit August 5, it was cool enough to hike from cabin to chickens without breaking a heavy sweat. Even the mosquitoes hatched from recent heavy rains were relatively scarce.
Thanks to all who joined us for the 2017 Family Day on The Quarry Farm. Much bush honeysuckle was repurposed for walking and hiking sticks, birdhouse gourds were polished, shirts were imprinted with unique leaf patterns, Red Fox Cabin was toured and the farm animals were enriched with gentle human interaction (except for Nemo who refused to break her afternoon nap routine.) As was expected, this gentle giant was up at 5 p.m., grazing on the grass so recently imprinted by visiting feet.
Next up: The 4th Annual Quarry Farm Jam


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Like a pack of wild animals on the loose, this independent multi-disciplinary design studio attacks print and editorial design with a frenzy! Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and filled with the kind of passion you only find south of the equator, in the deepest jungles, where they sink their skillful fangs into tender, young editorial and branding work. Grrreat portfolio... Grrrrowl!
Clients: BigMag, Nike


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Trio is a three-level academic skills series that prepares beginning English students for academic success through step-by-step instruction.
- Language Level: A1-B1 (Level 1, Level 2, Level 3)
The Trio Series creates academic success through the gradual development of key academic skills.
With Readiness Units providing fundamental English tools, vocabulary based on the Oxford 2000 word list, and essential online practice extending learning beyond the classroom, Trio provides students with the tools they need for success at the earliest stages of language acquisition.
- Student Book with Online Practice
- Online Practice Student Access Card
- Online Practice Teacher Access Card
- iTools USB
Key features
- Readiness Units in every level teach the fundamentals of English for beginning students
- Essential online practice extends learning beyond the classroom
- Oxford 2000 keywords provide essential vocabulary
- Engaging Vocabulary and Grammar Chants help students improve accuracy and fluency
- iTools enhances course material by incorporating multimedia content and activities to create an interactive, heads-up learning environment
- iTools gives teachers access to the assessment program, with editable tests and answer keys that save time and allow customized testing
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Readiness Units
Each level begins with an optional Readiness Unit to provide fundamental English tools for beginning students.
These benefit students who may require extra literacy support or whose first language does not use the English alphabet. The Readiness Units ensure that students have a base to build on before they begin each level.
Vocabulary based on the Oxford 2000 keywords
Vocabulary in the series is based on the 2,000 most important and useful words to learn at the early stages of language learning.
The combination of academic topics and controlled vocabulary based on the Oxford 2000 word list makes content in the Trio Series approachable for low-level learners.
Grammar and vocabulary in context
The Trio Series teaches vocabulary and grammar in a meaningful context.
By learning vocabulary in phrases rather than individual words, students internalize the construction of that phrase – so they can better understand that word in use and reproduce it with confidence.
Academic Skills Strategies
Each chapter includes Strategies which teach specific academic skills, giving students the tools they need to master the skill themselves.
Essential online practice
Trio Online Practice provides multiple opportunities for skills practice and acquisition—beyond the classroom and beyond the page.
Each unit is accompanied by a variety of automatically-graded activities. Students' progress is recorded, tracked, and fed back to the instructor.
Resources include Vocabulary & Grammar Chant audio and scripts. The Vocabulary & Grammar Chants are catchy, up-beat audio clips that help students internalize grammar structures and memorize vocabulary to improve accuracy and fluency.
Online Practice
Online practice resources for students:
- 63 activities/20 hours of practice per level
- Vocabulary, grammar, and skills practice
- Vocabulary & Grammar Chant audio and Chant scripts
- Student Book audio
- Customizable tests
- Test answer keys


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Oklahoma Tornado: Finding Aid, Giving Aid
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Residents of Moore, Okla., are searching for survivors and coming to terms with a massive tornado that left dozens of people dead and injured more than 200 others Monday afternoon. As aid and recovery groups search for victims and try to reunite loved ones, they're also seeking donations and coordinating housing:
- The American Red Cross of Oklahoma City offers several ways to help, online or by phone. Sending a text to 90999 with the message REDCROSS will result in a $10 donation.
- The Red Cross also has a "Safe and Well" service that allows survivors to register themselves online and lets family members check on the status of loved ones.
- For victims of the storm, FEMA offers a guide to applying for federal help, as well as an online application for aid, at its Disaster Assistance website. For those who can't reach a computer, there's also a mobile version.
- In Oklahoma City, news services such as KFOR TV, NewsOK, and KOCO TV have provided their own lists of local aid groups, to help residents coordinate relief and donation efforts.
- On member station KGOU's Twitter feed, our colleagues are posting news and updates that include places where families can reunite and where to find emergency housing.
- Also on Twitter, the City of OKC provides updates on things from the status of the city's water (it's safe) to road closings. The National Weather Service - Norman tweets updates on conditions.
- If you're in an area that could be hit by a tornado this year, FEMA has recommendations for how to prepare for the powerful storms. The list of tips includes what to do before, during, and after a tornado.
We should note that our list of links isn't meant to imply an endorsement by NPR of one agency or organization over another.


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~~December 8, 2016~~
Keith Olbermann's series called "The Resistance" continue.
I still feel this is important information about what is ahead and what we need to be aware of.
I'll try to stay updated with his postings and share them with you.
He has already posted #9.
And no one out there is concerned yet?
If they resonate with you, good.
If they don't, just scroll away to the next blog.
Thank you!
He 'lied his a– off': Carrier union leader on Trump's big deal
Chuck Jones, president of the United Steelworkers 1999, which represents Carrier employees, felt optimistic when Trump announced last week that he'd reached a deal with the factory's parent company, United Technologies, to preserve 1,100 of the Indianapolis jobs – until the union leader heard from Carrier that only 730 of the production jobs would stay and 550 of his members would lose their livelihoods, after all.
At the Dec. 1 meeting, where Trump was supposed to lay out the details, Jones hoped he would explain himself.
"But he got up there," Jones said Tuesday, "and, for whatever reason, lied his a– off."
Of the nearly 1,700 workers at the Indianapolis plant, however, 350 in research and development were never scheduled to leave, Jones said. Another 80 jobs, which Trump seemed to include in his figure, were nonunion clerical and supervisory positions. (A Carrier spokesman confirmed that 800 factory jobs once earmarked for Mexico are staying.)
And now the president-elect was applauding the company and giving it millions of dollars in tax breaks, even as hundreds of Indianapolis workers prepared to be laid off.
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~~Trump May Have Just Flushed the Economy Down the Toilet~~
The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
~~Published on Dec 6, 2016~~
This reputed business genius appears to know nothing about business
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The Wife Date December 9, 2012Posted by Onely in Bad Onely Activities, Dating, Heteronormativity.
Tags: (not) looking for a wife, dating checklists, dating for fun, single and happy
As our Copious Readers know (but as we often have to clarify to our not-so-Copious Readers and Friends), Christina and I are not against coupling per se. We're against the privileges associated with coupling, especially when they are unequal to the privileges provided for singles.
Why am I giving you this caveat? Because I went on a date recently. And I didn't want anyone to think that, by going on a date, I was not being Onely. We believe it's possible to be Onely and have a love life too.
That being said, I have something to say about the date, which I am heretofore nicknaming The Wife Date. Perhaps by the nickname you can guess how I felt about it. But in case you can't, let me explain:
Have you ever gone on a date where the conversation consisted of a series of generic questions, rather than from finding mutual experiences or interests in common?
Have you ever gone on a date where the date asked you outright, "What do you look for in a man?" And after you awkwardly make up some generic criteria on the spot (ummm, a penis?), did he then tell you – without you asking – what he looks for in a woman? How did you feel about that?
Have you ever gone on a date where you felt like you were being measured against your date's mental Checklist?
Have you ever realized, in the middle of the date, that because you are open to being asked a lot of generic questions, and because you will answer them honestly, and because you are generally a cool person with a lot of interesting things to say and stories to tell, you are inadvertently meeting your date's Checklist and making him very happy?
Have you ever had the feeling that you were just out to have a good time, and your date was out to find a wife?
Have you ever worried that after only one date, your date has you tagged as "The One"?
That happened to me. I just turned down Date #2. Because – god forbid – he might have proposed!
And because we never deviated from the Checklist, I didn't get the chance to tell him about Onely.
— Lisa
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- 1. Sarah - December 9, 2012
I can totally relate, Lisa! I haven't gone on a date in a few years but the whole checklist mentality is why I stopped doing online dating. Because let's face it, with only a picture and an awkward, self-conscious profile description, what else could it be? I know many people who've had great success with online dating but to me, it just feels artificial.
- 2. chrisamies - December 10, 2012
Me too – online dating feels increasingly like being on a 'date' set up by well-meaning friends – but I find that if I ask myself 'how would being with this person improve my life?' time and again I don't think it would. I prefer to let it happen organically – I have enough of a social life after all. A friend of a friend did get remarried via online dating but only, says our mutual friend, because he knew exactly what he was looking for (a wife, I suspect, which brings us back to the article above)
- 3. SK - December 10, 2012
My ex actually said to me "I think you'd make a good wife" early on in our dating history. Although it left me with a bad feeling at the time, I was fairly young and too naive to understand that he was simply looking for "a wife" regardless of compatibility. Needless to say we broke up several years later after a very manipulative and controlling relationship. It angered him that he couldn't get me to fit into the role he had all planned out in his head. Bleh…
Years later, I'm now in a healthy, compatible relationship with mutual respect and genuine friendship. Much better. And no we did not meet online… That always feels like picking someone out of a vending machine for some reason.
- 5. Kay - January 17, 2013
This seems to happen to me a lot. The guys always lose me during the date when they start measuring my child bearing hips and telling me how amazing our 20 children will be if they take after me!
- 6. confessionsofaserialdaterinla - August 12, 2013
I have been on plenty of those kinds of dates. It so funny how some men try to make it seem like it is always the women who is pressed for marriage. IN recent dating years I have certainly come across that guy. It's like get rid of the damn checklist and authentic for a change!!! LOL!


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Cameron's Mythical Dragons
First posted March 24, 2013 by garryk99
You know a Government is in trouble when they start slaying mythical dragons.
David Cameron announced this week that immigrants families would face being ineligible to apply for a Council house for up to five years. The Prime Minister has been under pressure from Conservative MPs since their appalling Eastleigh by-election result, where they slumped to third behind UKIP. The UKIP campaign was based strongly on an anti-immigration and anti-EU stance.
With a background of a stalling economy, poor poll ratings, internal conflict and a stress-cracked Coalition, the omens for the next election look poor for the Conservatives. With under three years to go, it would take a remarkable and unlikely turn around to reverse the trend.
So how does such a Government in this mess move forward?
They roll out their mythical dragons to slay.
For the Conservatives these are the EU, immigration, the public sector, unions, the welfare state and the so called deficit. Each is chosen for a number of reasons.
Firstly, the myth must be commonly shared. It is useful if your friends in the media will propagate helpful stories, using one-off extreme cases to demonstrate the rule. For example, a single mother with eleven children was the centre of a media storm last month. This case was used to demonstrate the 'failing of an over generous benefit system' , despite being a highly unusual case that represents a minuscule percentage of benefit claimants. The domination of the right-wing press ensures that such issues are rarely portrayed accurately, or with a fair evidential basis.
Secondly, each dragon should represent a group that is vulnerable and weak. This applies to immigrants and welfare claimants. These groups do not have the influence to seriously fight back.
Thirdly, the concept of scape-goating should apply. Are immigrants responsible for the lack of social housing? No, the issue is decades of not building them, while simultaneously selling the stock off. Are people on Job Seekers Allowance holding back the country and responsible for their own worklessness? No, our economy is so configured to ensure a permanent high level of unemployment to create a downward pressure on wages, and transfer wealth to global corporations and the super-rich. Scape-goating also helps to ensure ordinary workers focus their rage on those they should unite with. Why should the elite fight everyone else, when they can have ordinary people fight among themselves?
The Conservatives know that organised labour remains a barrier to eroding employee rights and creating the preconditions which would enable global capitalists to further asset strip the people of the United Kingdom. This is why the public sector and Unions are targets for slaying, not because they are bad, but for ideological reasons. The Miners strike in 1984-85 was a classic case of artificially constructing a fight, with the intention of destabilising the union movement and to justify a reduction in union rights.
The Conservatives always talk about the deficit as something Labour grew so large due to spending too much. This is nonsense, and even a cursory look at historical data blows this myth out of the water. The deficit is being used as a trojan horse to fragment and privatise our services for corporate profit.
So given the Conservatives inability to win the next election based on their performance or benefit they have brought to people, we can expect two years of further attacks on the classic Tory dragons.
Those on the left need to ensure that they fight every myth propagated by this Government, as it gets down and dirty heading towards 2015. No action should be done or speech made that gives credence to these myths.
This lesson needs to be quickly learned by the Shadow Cabinet.
Are you listening Liam Byrne?


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There's more innovation underway today at Boeing than at any time in our 101-year history.
Recent examples of innovation include the first flights of the 737 MAX 9, 787-10, and T-X, among other milestones such as the launch of Boeing AnalytX and Boeing HorizonX. Teams across the global Boeing network continue to transform how we design and build our products, the systems that enable us to work more efficiently, and the work we do to improve the environmental performance of our products and internal operations.
With more than $3 billion invested annually in research and development, Boeing drives innovation that will transform aerospace and defense as we know it. The following video series highlights the ingenuity and passion Boeing employees and global partners demonstrate when developing innovations that help solve difficult, real-world problems.


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Keselowski wins New Hampshire pole
LOUDON, N.H. — Brad Keselowski is back on top of NASCAR.
Well, for a race, at least.
But he's quickly running out of time to make it back to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship and defend his series championship.
His first pole of the season might give his season the boost he needs to become a contender. Keselowski turned a lap of 135.922 mph on Friday to set a track record at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Keselowski won only his third career pole and first since 2011. With eight races left until the 12-driver Chase field is set, Keselowski is winless and sitting in an uncomfortable 13th place in the points standings.
"There is a sense of urgency but not a sense of panic," Keselowski said. "I think there is a strong difference between the two. We are eager to get going, we are hungry and feel like we can do it but I don't feel a sense of panic. There are still two months of racing essentially to get into the Chase."
Keselowski led a fast day at the track as nine drivers topped the previous track record held by Ryan Newman, who went 135.232 in 2011.
Ten drivers topped that lap until points leader Jimmie Johnson's second-fastest qualifying time was scrapped after his car failed inspection. His No. 48 Chevrolet, which had two issues in the pre-qualifying inspection, failed after his attempt because both sides of the front were too low. He'll start in the rear in 43rd.
"We were able to get the car right," crew chief Chad Knaus said. "just not exactly right."
Johnson will actually start behind 71-year-old Morgan Shepherd. Shepherd will become the oldest driver to start a NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
Shepherd, who went only 128.290 in qualifying, made his Cup debut in 1970 and won four times in NASCAR's top series. He finished as high as fifth in the final standings in 1990 and hasn't started a race since 2006.
Four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon had no problem with Shepherd competing on Sunday.
"I think that's quite an accomplishment," Gordon said. "We talk about how amazing it is to see Mark Martin out there being competitive over 50 years old, but to just go out there and do what he does as far as Morgan is concerned at 71, that's amazing."
Jim Fitzgerald when he was 65 years, 6 months and 20 days when he raced in 1987 at Riverside International Raceway.
"At some point, I think you just have to trust that he knows what he can do and what he can't do," Keselowski said.
Kurt Busch will now join Keselowski on the front row. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and Gordon round out the top five. Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, and Jeff Burton all topped Newman's record.
Keselowski won five races this season but lost his consistency this season in the No. 2 Ford. He has three straight finishes of 21st or worse and only one top-10 finish in his last 10 races.
Whatever worked for Keselowski last season is gone. His team has been in a tailspin since a failed April inspection in Texas after NASCAR confiscated parts in the rear suspensions of his Ford.
Keselowski knows a win or two can propel him back into the Chase and keep alive his bid for a second straight title.
"I still have the same goal and that is to continue to be a winner and that is what fuels me inside," he said. "The competitive fire that burns inside of me is still there whether I was a champion or not. I probably have it with a little bit more confidence and I believe in myself and those around me a little stronger because of the championship."
The long-expected Stewart-Haas Racing shakeup was finalized Friday. Kevin Harvick and his Budweiser sponsorship will join SHR teammates Tony Stewart and Danica Patrick in 2014. Ryan Newman is out of the New Hampshire record book — and a job at SHR.
Newman (15th) and Stewart (16th) actually start on the same row. Harvick starts 18th and Patrick is 32nd.
There was at least one palatable shift with Harvick's move — Stewart might have to crack open a cold Bud to celebrate.
For years, he's been an open admirer — and frequent chugger — of low-budget Schlitz.
"Yeah, I'm finally upgrading to the good stuff," Stewart said. "I feel like 'The Jeffersons' now. I've moved up. Yeah, it's the end of my Schlitz era. I can't say that it's terribly disappointing. Now I get to drink the good stuff every day, guilt free."


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What is SWTBot?
SWTBot is an open-source Java based UI testing tool for testing SWT and Eclipse based applications.
SWTBot provides APIs that are simple to read and write. The APIs also hide the complexities involved with SWT and Eclipse. This makes it suitable for functional testing by everyone. SWTBot also provides its own set of assertions that are useful for SWT. You can also use your own assertion framework with SWTBot.
SWTBot can record and playback tests and integrates with Eclipse, and also provides for ant tasks so that you can run your builds from within CruiseControl or any other CI tool that you use.
SWTBot can run on all platforms that SWT runs on. Very few other testing tools provide such a wide variety of platforms.
The development repository has moved from sourceforge to eclipse and can be browsed here: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/trunk/?root=Technology_SWTBot
SVN repository location: http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.swtbot/
SWTBot 2.0 developer builds now available
A pre-alpha release of SWTBot is now available on the download site.
Direct download link: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/artifacts/2.0-dev
Update site: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/artifacts/2.0-dev/update-site
SWTBot proposal to move to eclipse.org
There is now a proposal to move SWTBot to eclipse.org. Over the year SWTBot has matured very well and this move will benefit he eclipse community by providing a testing tool for swt and eclipse based application.
Read more about the proposal here . You are invited to comment on and/or join the project. Please send all feedback to the SWTBot newsgroup.
Download Links
- Latest Stable
- Direct download link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=188411
- Update site: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/update-site
- Trunk (version 1.x):
- Direct download link: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/artifacts/trunk
- Update site: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/artifacts/trunk/update-site
- Branch (Version 2.0):
- Direct download link: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/artifacts/2.0-dev
- Update site: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/artifacts/2.0-dev/update-site
SWTBot resources
- SWTBot/FAQ
- Mailing lists
- SWTBot/UserGuide
- Newsgroup access:
- server: news.eclipse.org
- group: eclipse.swtbot
- in order to access the Eclipse newsgroups, you need to request a password on the Eclipse newsgroups registration site.


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I love pasta. Macaroni and Cheese and I go way back. Don't even get me started on my love affair with Fettucini Alfredo. I don't think I could ever fully give up pasta (and the delightful, cheesy sauces I like to pair with them.) However, in an effort to cut back on white flour carbs in some of my meals, this bad boy has now found a home on my kitchen counter. Let's hear it for Christmas gift spending money! Woot!
After reading several favorable reviews, and seeing the positive comments on the brand by Ali at Inspiralized, I decided to purchase the Paderno 3 Blade Spiralizer. This model includes a skinny spiral, thick spiral and flat spiral blade attachment. I've only had it a few days, but so far I'm very pleased.
I have started as I suspect most spiralizing newbies do, using zucchini:
After spiralizing the zucchini, I patted them dry with a paper towel and then tossed them gently in a skillet with some olive oil before adding some leftover pizza sauce from the pizza I was making for the kiddies.
These were SO good. In fact, they caught the eye of a certain someone sitting next to me. Who ended up "helping" me with my lunch. So if your children aren't keen on veggies, perhaps a spiralizer is the answer!
The next day, giddy to demonstrate the new gadget to the hubberman who had just returned from a business trip, I made some wraps.
These wraps included hummus, spiralized zucchini, sliced avocado, shredded carrots, and crumbled feta cheese. on a low carb, whole wheat wrap. They were "inspiralized" by a recipe by Ali over at Inspiralized.
We're off to a fun start with this little gadget. I think my next project will be spiralized pickled onions.
Interested in spiralizing yourself? Below is the Paderno I purchased on Amazon if you are so inclined.