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Red Swimming Crab Meat, Tilapia Not on Tariff Exclusion List
Alaska Daily Case Count Drops, Seafood Related Cases Remain 10-11% of Total Statewide
Cordova is First to Ask State and Commerce Dept. to Declare Twin Disasters: Fishery and Economic
25% Tariff Exclusions Extended for Certain Crab Meats, Alaskan Sole
NJ and MA Members of Congress Request More COVID-19 Relief Assistance For Nation's Fishing Industry
ANALYSIS: June Snow Crab Imports Significantly Higher Than Cyclical Behavior; Up 47% From June 2019
NOAA to Host Webinar on Observer Redeployment for Northeast Fishermen
All Hands Event Goes virtual, Asks Public for Ideas, Internet Reliability
AquaBounty Previews Exciting Advances In Second Quarter Financial Results
Seafood Task Force Submits Recommendations to Help Level the Playing Field for U.S.
NOAA Launches Right Whale Slow Zones Campaign
Sturgeon Aquafarms, Marky's Begin Sales of Beluga Caviar After Recovering From 2018 Hurricane
SeafoodNews.com Summary Friday, August 7
ANALYSIS: June Shrimp Imports Significantly Higher From Last Month, Slightly Below Last Year
ANALYSIS: Whole Tilapia Gaining Traction in U.S.
Early Results of 2019 Northern Bering Sea Study Say Cod Not Likely to Overwinter Under Ice
Omega Protein Shares Support of ASMFC Decision on New Menhaden Management Approach
USDA Authorizes Purchase of $30 Million in U.S. Produced Shrimp
Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease in the Week Ending August 1
Retailers, Seafood Companies Urge Governments to Address Outbreak of New Disease in Shrimp Farms
DFO to Open the Fish Harvester Benefit and Grant Program on August 24
Senators Reintroduce Food Supply Protection Act Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Fisheries Agency Warned 318 Foreign Fishing Vessels to Leave Due to Crackdown Around Yamato Bank
Merck Animal Health Acquires IdentiGEN
JAPAN: Frozen Black Cod Price Keeps Falling
Botaneco Completes Trials for Plant-based Protein Ingredient for Aquaculture Feed
ASMI Japan Hosts Alaska Seafood Fair at Major Supermarket Chains
Injured Oregon Fisherman Rescued by Coast Guard 150 Miles Off Yaquina Bay
SeafoodNews.com Summary Thursday, August 6
European Demand Set to Bolster Vietnam's Shrimp Exports
PERSPECTIVES: Six Programs to Virtually Promote US Seafood Products Overseas
Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone" Smaller Than Forecasted
Consumer Advocacy Organization Sues Mowi Over Alleged Deceptive Advertising
Norway's Seafood Exports Levels for July Match Previous Year; Salmon Sees Growth in Volume
NOAA Fisheries Cancels Four 2020 Surveys Due to COVID-19
ASC Publishes First Monitoring and Evaluation Report Displaying Impact of Responsible Aquaculture
SeafoodAuction.net opens in AK
Blue Apron Partnership With Food Network Star Amanda Freitag Introduces New Salmon, Shrimp Recipes
Brent Casper of Fortune Fish and Gourmet Returning to Minnesota
Major Russian Fishing Producer Calls For New Reforms in Domestic Fish Sector
Louisiana Trustees Approve Three Oyster Restoration Projects
SeafoodNews.com Summary Wednesday, August 5
With Another Four Weeks to Go, Alaska Salmon Landings are at 55% of Pre-Season Forecast
INSIGHT: Demand Downturn Sparks Salmon Farming Woes
ANALYSIS: Live Lobster - Dull Demand, Declining Imports, Unsettled Market
Massachusetts Begins Distribution Process of CARES Act Funds to Fishing, Seafood Industries
Under HEALS Act, Over Half of Restaurants Ineligible for PPP Loans
Sernapesca Releases Official Estimate of Escaped Fish From Blumar's Caicura Center
National Retail Federation: Economic Recovery May Not Be a Steady Climb
RODA: Latest BOEM Offshore Wind Report Notes Serious Impact on Fishermen
US Coast Guard 230th Birthday
SeafoodNews.com Summary Tuesday, August 4
Maine Certified Sustainable Lobster Association's MSC Certification Suspended
California, Oregon Fisheries Relief Funding May Soon be Available for Sectors Affected by COVID-19
NOAA Fisheries Closes Office in U.S. Embassy Tokyo After 33 years
China's Chief Epidemiologist Says Ventilation to Blame for Coronavirus Outbreaks at Seafood Markets
Virus Surges in Alaska with More Than 300 New Cases in Two Days, Only One Related to Seafood
U.S. Responds After Hundreds of Chinese Vessels Found Illegally Fishing Near Galápagos Islands
Humpback Whale Disentangled off New York After Multi-day Effort
SeafoodNews.com Summary Monday, August 3
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Once again, "The X Factor" remains a competition on two levels: the contestants battling it out for a $5 million recording contract and the judges jabbing and snipping at each other for bragging rights.
The top 12 took on "songs of the divas" tonight, artists ranging from Shania Twain to Beyonc to Tina Turner, with the usual varying results.
But while there were a few killer moments onstage, the drama mainly played out at the judges' table, where Simon Cowell directed his utter disdain at a new target.
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"I thought the song was boring. It just went on and on and on," Simon told 13-year-old Beatrice Miller after she polished off Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." "For some reason, Britney isn't picking the right songs."
But instead of firing back at Simon himself, as Demi Lovato did so proficiently last week, Britney Spears may have gone a little overboard by attacking the Brit's young charges instead.
"She has more talent in her pinky than you do in all of your contestants today," the pop star fired back, to which Simon retorted, "Not according to the leaderboard last week."
Miss last week's "X Factor" elimination? Catch up right here!
Demi, meanwhile, started with a compliment!
"I listened to Simon. I think he knows what he's talking about," she batted her eyes after Jennel Garcia kicked off the show with "Proud Mary," a performance Simon praised for how different it was than last week's, when he took Demi to task for leading the 18-year-old in the wrong direction.
"I'm glad you listened to me," he winked.
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Tate Stevens followed up last week's first-place showing with a very solid rendition of Shania's "From This Moment" that even had Simon praising L.A. Reid's mentoring skills.
Diamond White started off a little flat with Beyonce's "Halo," but she turned it around pretty quickly and finished strong. We're just wondering how long "I'm so glad you're back in the competition" will be part of the commentary.
We also liked Lyric 145's "ET"-"We Will Rock You" mashup, totally getting where Simon was going with the Katy Perry-Freddie Mercury diva characterization.
Who's up for seeing One Direction in 3-D?!
So why didn't anyone else get it?! Britney wondered why they're not doing hip-hop songs. L.A. mused, "This could be the last time we see you." And Demi understood that Mercury was a diva, but she didn't get where "ET" came in...
"Thank you! We love you, too!" Lyric Da Queen told a fan, blatantly cutting off Demi.
But everyone agreed, however, on how amazing 13-year-old Carly Rose Sonenclar sounded on one of the most divalicious songs of all, Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On."
"Britney, it pains me to say this, it really does," L.A. admitted. "I don't want to say this, but...we could be looking at the winner."
Paige Thomas got all four judges in her corner, too, with Donna Summer's "Last Dance," though Simon found the choregraphy distracting. Fifth Harmony, each member of which carried her weight on Mariah Carey's "Hero," also charmed. And we thought Vino Alan killed Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," but only Britney and L.A. agreed.
Demi praised his voice but said she got bored watching him. Huh?!
"The Voice" lost another two contestants this week
"I'm not trying to get people to vote for this group intentionally, but I just want everyone to know at home, they saved some kittens drowning in a lake this week and risked their own lives," Simon said in introducing Emblem3. "Just thought I'd mention that."
No need to lay it on so thick, Simon! The trio worked their usual 311-reminiscent magic on Alicia Keys' "No One" and won raves all around.
Not so magical were Arin Ray and CeCe Frey, who came in 11th and 12th last week in the voting.
"Dancing With the Stars" backstage scoop
Arin looked pretty dejected after taking on Madonna's "Crazy for You," a task he clearly wasn't up for. Demi, once again, was bored and actually told the poor lad he lacked soul. Simon told him, "For you, taking on that song was like asking a cat to eat a tiger."
Speaking of big cats, CeCe ditched the spots but probably didn't win any new votes with a pitchy "All By Myself," which was all over the vocal map.
"Hater! Sorry she was better than your Vino," Demi said, sing-song, to L.A. when he expressed mixed feelings about CeCe's sound and look.
Um, who's the hater here again?

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PORTLAND, Ore. – There are 41 missing children in Oregon, according to state police.
Well known, of course, is Kyron Horman, the Portland boy who has been missing nearly three years.
But there is also Samuel Boehlke. He was 8 years old when he vanished six and a half years ago.
When Boehlke vanished, his disappearance got a lot of attention. According to the Oregon State Police website for Samuel Boehlke at the Missing Children's Clearinghouse, he vanished in October 2006.
He's listed as 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 85 pounds. He's also listed as endangered and missing.
The search for Boehlke focused on the Crater Lake area not far from Klamath Falls.
The boy was out hiking with his father while they were camping at Crater Lake.
His family continued looking for him even after authorities called off the official search. His family eventually held a memorial.
"I think the life lessons that Sam taught me were receiving patience and glee," his mother, Kirsten, said at the time.
The search for Samuel Boehlke never did turn up any trace of him, which is why he's still listed on the Oregon State Police Missing Children's Clearinghouse website.
Another boy, Derrick Engebretson was just 8 years old when he vanished.
He too is still listed on the OSP website. He vanished in 1998. He'd be 22 years old today.
The search for Engebretson at the time focused on the area where he was last seen – on the western edge of Klamath Lake in the Winema National Forest.
He had been out searching for Christmas trees with his father and grandfather that December when he disappeared.
One of the few clues in his disappearance came in a message scrawled on a wall at a rest stop near Bend, eight months after Engebretson vanished, suggesting the boy might have been abducted.
"In a way, it gave me hope thinking, 'OK, maybe somebody's got him and he's alive," said his mother, Lori, in 1999. "And in a way, it gave me the worst feeling I think I've ever had in my life – somebody having my son and what they've done. I don't know."
An FBI profiler decided the message was a hoax. The official search for Engebretson ended after eight days. One hundred volunteers kept searching for days after that but still found no trace of what happened to the boy.
No one ever found the hatchet that the boy was supposedly carrying with him during that search for Christmas trees.
There are many cases of missing children still open in Oregon.
Yulianna Escudero disappeared from Salem 11 years ago. She was 14 at the time. When someone last saw her, she was with an older man.
Joan Hall disappeared many years ago. The case is from 1983 out of Warrenton. She was seen leaving a store, walking to Warrenton Elementary School in the afternoon. She was never seen again.
There is also Heather Mehlhoff.
Her mother was the last one to see her in Salem back in 1993. She says her daughter got into a small, gray pickup truck with a red faded door on one side. She never came home again.
If you know anything about these cases or others, call detectives at 1-800-282-7155, the Missing Children Hotline.
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The World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the publication of the World Heritage Paper #30: "Adapting to Change – The State of Conservation of World Heritage Forests in 2011" as a contribution to the 2011 United Nations International Year of Forests.
There are 104 World Heritage sites that have been recognized at least in part for their forest values. These range from the 20 hectare Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve in Seychelles, renowned for its unusual coco de mer palm, which grows the largest seed in the plant kingdom, to the vast Central Amazon Conservation Complex, which, at 5,232,018 hectares, is larger than many European countries.
The report reviews indicators specifically developed and selected to give the reader an overall impression on how the World Heritage Convention is contributing to the conservation and monitoring of the best forest protected areas in the world. The report also assembles an insightful collection of articles from experts in various fields, focusing on different aspects of climate change adaptation for protected forests. The intention is to help advance the debate over how the World Heritage Convention can best be leveraged to accelerate the identification and application of management strategies designed to help World Heritage forest sites adapt to climate change impacts.
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Boletín de la Sociedad Chilena de Química
versión impresa ISSN 0366-1644
Bol. Soc. Chil. Quím. v.47 n.4 Concepción dic. 2002
Carola Henriquez and Eduardo Lissi
Departamento de Química, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile,
Casilla 40, Correo 33, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
(Received: January 3, 2002 - Accepted: July 3, 2002)
The exact knowledge of the value of the extinction coefficient of the ABTS derived radical is necessary for its quantitative use in the evaluation of the antioxidant capacity of pure compounds and/or complex mixtures. We have performed experiments in order to stablish its lower and upper limits of its value. The limits obtained,
1.0 x 104 M-1 cm-1 £ e 734 £ 1.6 x 104 M-1 cm-1
are fully compatible with previously reported data. However, the use of these values leads to large stoichiometric coefficients for the reaction of these radicals with simple substrates, such as monophenols or tryptophan.
KEYWORDS: ABTS; extintion coefficient; antioxidants evaluation.
Conocer el valor exacto del coeficiente de extinción del radical catión derivado del ABTS es un pre-requisito para su empleo en la evaluación de la capacidad antioxidante de compuestos puros polifuncionales o mezclas complejas. Nosotros hemos realizado emperimentos que permiten establecer límites inferiores y superiores para su valor. Los límites obtenidos
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son compatibles con los valores reportados en la literatura. Sin embargo, el uso de estos valores conduced a coeficientes estequiométricos anormalmente altos para sus reacciones con comuestos simples como monofenoles y triptofano.
PALABRTAS CLAVES: ABTS; Coeficiente de extinción; evaluación de antioxidantes.
The ABTS derived radical cation (ABTS+* or ABTS-* if the charge of the sulfonate groups is considered ) is widely employed in the evaluation of antioxidant capacities of pure compounds and/or complex mixtures.1-4 In several of these methodologies, the measured property is the loss of absorbance due to the radical cation (measured at 734 nm) elicited by a given amount of the tested sample.1-3 A quantitative interpretation of these data requires the knowledge of the absorption coefficient of the radical cation at the employed wavelength. Since the radical cation has not been prepared as a pure substance, its extinction coefficient has not been directly measured and the values employed have been obtained from consumption and/or production experiments.. The generally employed value is 1.5 x 104 M-1 cm-1.2,3,5,6 However, the use of this value leads to very high stoichiometric coefficients, defined as the number of radicals that can be bleached by a molecule of the added free radical scavenger. For example, it gives an stoichiometric value of two for Trolox,3,4,7,8 , but values four or even higher for p-ethylphenol, and tryptophan.4,7 These high values would imply a very complex reaction mechanism, casting doubts on the validity of the use of this free radical in the evaluation of the amounts of antioxidants present in a given sample. Another possibility is that the true extinction coefficient of the ABTS radical be considerably higher than the accepted value, leading so to meaningful stoichiometric factors.4,7 In order to test this last possibility, we have carried out an estimation of the radical absorption coefficient employing two procedures that allow to establish lower and upper limits to this value.
Lower limit of the extinction coefficient at 734 nm.
The ABTS radical cation can be readily prepared by reaction of ABTS with an excess of activated MnO2. After adding the solid to an aqueous solution of ABTS, the blue-green spectra of the radical cation appears instantaneously (Figure 1). The shape of this band corresponds to that reported for the ABTS derived radical, with a ratio of absorbances at 412 and 734 nm of 2.31, as reported in the literature.5 Exclusive oxidation of the parent ABTS to the radical is compatible with the lack of a band at 518 nm, typical of the species obtained by the two electron oxidation of ABTS.
Fig. 1. Spectra of the ABTS derived radical obtained in the oxidation of ABTS (65 m M) by MnO2
The maximum possible radical concentration is limited by the initial ABTS concentration. The observed absorbance at 734 nm can be expressed then as
|A734 = e 734 [ABTS+] £ e 734 [ABTS]
and hence
e 734 ³ A734 / [ABTS]
The data obtained in this type of experiments give then that
e 734 ³ 1.0 x 104 M-1 cm-1
providing a lower limit to the extinction coefficient.
The data obtained in the oxidation by MnO2 can be corrected by considering that the oxidation is not total, and that a fraction of the parent ABTS remains unreacted. This is supported by the presence of a clear peak at 340 nm (see Fig. 1). A precise evaluation of the amount of ABTS is difficult because of the absorbance of the radical cation at this wavelength (See inset of Fig 1 from Ref. 5). However, the amount of ABTS remaining can be estimated if it is assumed that the absorbance of the radical cation is similar at 734 and 340 nm.5 In this case, Eqn. (2) can be reformulated as
e 734 » A734 / ([ABTS]0 - [(A340 - A734)/ e 340]
where e 340 is the extinction coefficient of the parent ABTS at 340 nm. In a typical experiment, applying Eqn. (3) leads to
e 734 » 1.7 x 104 M-1 cm-1
Upper limit of the extinction coefficient at 734 nm.
When a solution of the ABTS radical cation is reacted with a solution of free radical scavengers, such as Trolox or ascorbic acid, takes place a loss of absorbance at 734 nm, indicative of the free radical consumption.2,4,8 This bleaching is linearly related to the amount of added antioxidant. Parallel to the decrease in absorbance at 734 nm, takes place an increase in the absorbance of the parent ABTS, measure at 340 nm (Figure 2).6 When ascorbic acid is employed, these changes can be ascribed to a reaction such as
where A stands for a dehydroascorbate molecule. Since the extinction coefficient at 340 nm of ABTS can be directly determined (3.5 x 104 M-1cm-1 in the present work, 3.6 x 104 M-1 cm-1 from the literature),5,9,10 the increase in absorbance at 340 nm provides a lower limit to the ABTS formation. In fact
D ABTS ³ D A340 / e 340
where the inequality is introduced to take into account the small absorbance of the radical cation at this wavelength. This amount of ABTS formed puts a lower limit to the amount of ABTS+ initially present. Hence
D ABTS = A734 / e 734 ³ D A340 / e 340
where the inequality takes into account Eqn. (5) and the fact that the conversion of the radical cation to the parent compund could be not quantitative. From Eq. (6) it can be obtained that
e 734 £ A734 e 340 / D A340
The data obtained employing both Trolox and ascorbate leads to
e 734 £ 1.6 x 104 M-1 cm-1
putting an upper limit to the ABTS radical extinction coefficient at 734 nm.
|Fig. 2. Change in the spectra of a solution of the ABTS radical cation following addition of ascorbic acid. (æ) Prior to ascorbic acid addition; (........) ascorbic acid, 6 mM; (-----) ascorbic acid, 12 mM.
From both sets of experiments it can then be concluded that, for the radical cation
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This inequality is fully compatible with the accepted value of the extinction coefficient of the radical at 734 nm (1.5 x 104 M-1 cm-1), and indicates that the high stoichiometric factors obtained for some compounds are not due to an overestimation of the radical cation concentration. It is difficult then to explain these apparently anomalous results, but they cast doubts on the validity of procedures to determine antioxidant capacities based on the bleaching of ABTS radical cations.
This work has been financed by DICYT (University of Santiago, Chile).
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It's that time of year again. Time to get the colored eggs and various bunnies and chicks out of their boxes to once again remember that......Christ Has Risen?! Sorry but I just don't see the connection. The jolly Saint who gives children presents on the day of the birth of the Christ Child now that makes a certain kind of sense but a bunny that lays colored eggs and leaves sweets for kids in a basket with fake grass....where did that come from? I am going to have to look that one up.
(just a random shot of Lexie at her dance class...too cute!)
Anyway - Lexie and I have done a couple of things to prep for the bunny. Last weekend we put a few dozen plastic eggs around the "gardens" in the front yard. My neighbor did it last year and Lexie begged me to do it to our yard this year. So I blatantly stole the idea but I should have just asked her what she did to make them not blow away. First we tried sand because they had this cool blue play sand at the store and I thought Lexie would have fun filling them.
She did but these silly eggs all have holes in them. How I didn't notice that through the years I'll never know. But after doing a dozen only to look down and see little blue piles forming under each egg was more than a little discouraging. Plus I didn't want the blue sand all over the yard. So I sent Lexie off to get some of the smaller rocks between the sidewalk and the road while I dumped the first dozen out and started over. This was the look I got when I told her the plan....
This worked well enough but I have to say last year the flowers and trees were already starting to bloom and I guess my neighbor had at least 100 eggs because it looked a little bare when we were done.
But Lexie liked it which is all that really matters. She even put some in the pots we'd planted earlier that day.
As for our next Easter project, well every year a local photographer has "Pics & Chicks" 10 days before Easter. It's where she has her studio set up in a cute spring setting along with live baby chicks and a bunny. Ever year I've managed to get Lexie there for a shot. You don't get them on a disc so I can't show you the pictures that are so sweet but here she is on the way. This year she told me she NEEDED a purse so the mouse Angelina Ballerina joined the chicks & bunny. Lexie told me this was her big girl look. I am in soooo much trouble.
After her pictures, I had to stop at my office and she saw these daffodils growing in the field next door. I've had to explain several times that flowers can only be pick if they are growing wild not in a pot or garden or even just in someones yard...sorry neighbor Bob. So when she saw these flowers she KNEW they were hers for the pickin'.
It's strange how the daffodil almost glows in this shot.
Funny thing is she didn't keep them. She gave them all to Ms Andrea the receptionist at my office who sometimes watches her for me. I thought for sure I'd be nursing them for a few days in a paper cup at home.
Well today it was time for the real prep. Arts & crafts....and you thought I was going to say color eggs didn't you? Nope, not yet anyway. First I let her glitter paint a bunny mask.
Then it was on to the main event.....a bunny house. Yup a gingerbread house decorated for the fluffy little guy. I picked up the kit last year on super clearance so I made it very clear to Lexie that she would not be eating this when it was done. I think she made up for it with the icing though. This girl takes her beater licking seriously!
While she was waiting for the icing to mix she sang "I'm a little tea pot."
Even without a video I think you can pretty much tell what she's doing.
She was actually going for a quick dip of the icing for her finale. She's getting sneaky as she gets older. But she did a lot of the frosting on the house and was very focused on her work.
But wait. She had to take another beater licking break.
Then it was down to the serious business of decorating. She was set on making the candies be in a pattern. She really work hard to get everything just the way she wanted it.
Soon it wasn't enough for her to just put on the candy and spread the icing. She wanted to try the icing bag. I figured it's her house so why not.
I love the evidence of her childish beater licking with the very focused look of concentration on her "big girl" task. Naturally she had to try the blue next. She was so proud of herself!
And again she amazes me with what she knows and how she can apply it. The picture on the box shows green grass around the house. In the instructions they suggested mixing green food coloring with shredded coconut for the grass. Since we just ate the last bag of coconut, ha (really do a lot of you just have shredded coconut on hand?) I found some green sprinkles we could put on over the remaining blue icing. Lexie said "hey we have blue and yellow which makes green so we can mix them to make the grass." Nice thinking!!
and a bunch of "eggs"
WA-LA!! A bunny palace even the Easter Bunny himself would be proud to call his own.
Since we used every piece of candy included in the kit (which was my goal...candy on the house not in the mouth) I had a hard time convincing her that it was yucky and she wouldn't want to eat it.
She was very sure she would love it and it would taste deeeelicious. Here she is pretending to be a bunny who should be able to eat it. How could I resist?
Well I did. The house is in tack and Lexie got to have chocolate yogurt for dessert so everyone is happy (especially Mommy since I won't have to make an emergency trip to the dentist this weekend.)
Happy Easter To You!!


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The Man Who Studies The Fungus Among Us
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. When I think mushrooms, I think mmm, stir-fried with dinner. When my guest Nicholas Money thinks mushrooms, he thinks about fungal sex organs that are the most wondrous inventions of the last billion years of evolutionary history on Earth.
Money is an expert on mushrooms and other fungi, including the molds you don't want growing in your home. He's a professor of botany at Miami University in Ohio and the author of the new book "Mushroom." His other books include "The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History" and "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores."
Nicholas Money, welcome to FRESH AIR. Mushrooms sometimes grow in places where you really don't want to see them. My worst example of that is the mushrooms that were once growing on my kitchen ceiling in a rented apartment. I woke up one day, and I thought: it can't be.
GROSS: It can't be that my ceiling has mushrooms on it. But upon closer examination, they were definitely mushrooms. I think there was like a leak that had gone undetected and, you know, like water had been seeping, and it was just - it was a very surreal experience.
So what are some of the most inappropriate places you've seen mushrooms?
NICHOLAS MONEY: I rented an apartment years ago in New Haven, and there were mushrooms there that were growing, actually these were cup fungi, large things that were growing around the wooden surround of the bathtub. And - absolutely revolting. So for even somebody that loves the fungi, this was really quite disconcerting.
But far worse than that is a photograph that I've seen of a mushroom, an ink cap mushroom, actually growing in the throat of a patient. So this was actually photographed in some very unfortunate individual whose immune system was really crashing, and actually a mushroom growing in that location is something that none of us want to experience.
GROSS: Why would mushrooms be growing indoors, like in your bathroom or on my kitchen ceiling?
MONEY: Fungi grow on a multitude of different substrates, a multitude of different food sources. And so in our homes, if there are areas of damp wood, flooring, carpeting, drywall - you name it - fungi are going to grow there if those food sources become damp. And because the spores of fungi are everywhere. I mean, every breath that we take from first breath to last gasp, we're inhaling fungal spores. And so they're always available. They're always in the air ready to exploit, to them, useful opportunities to grow and reproduce.
GROSS: Now, you describe mushrooms as fungal sex organs, and they have a very weird way of reproducing. Now, you've taken high-speed video of mushrooms releasing their spores. So - it's high-speed video, so that when it's played back, it slows, it visually slows down the process, and we could actually see what's happening, and you were able to calculate the speed that the spores are being released.
So tell us what you learned from these high-speed videos, and maybe you could describe what one or two of them looks like.
MONEY: Well, it's been known for a long time, over a century, that mushrooms release astonishing numbers of spores. You can actually see them if you put a flashlight beneath a mushroom in the woods at night, and you can see these clouds of spores, this dust being released from the bottom of the cap.
So, individual mushrooms can release as many as 30,000 spores a second - absolutely astonishing - and billions of spores in a single day. But the process of spore release from the gills of the mushroom...
GROSS: Wait, what are the gills? Let's...
MONEY: So the gills, if we look underneath the cap of a mushroom, there's a number of different arrangements of the fertile surface in this sex organ that we're going to see. So in many cases we see gills. In the case of boletes and a number of other different groups of mushrooms, there are tiny tubes beneath the cap.
GROSS: So what did you see?
MONEY: So the mechanism in mushrooms involves the movement of tiny droplets of fluid, so these droplets of fluid are about the same size of the spore, and they condense on the spore surface under wet conditions, and then they coalesce, they move together, they jump together very, very swiftly.
This is on a timescale of millionths of a second. And it's that very fast movement in the center of mass of the structure that kicks it into the air. So it's this microscopic leap that occurs as the spores jump from the gill surfaces. It really is absolutely extraordinary.
If we scale this up to human dimensions, these spores - or if we were jumping off gills, we'd be moving at 500 times the speed of sound to really match the prowess, the elegance of these fungi.
GROSS: A mushroom that seems like a particularly oddity - its name describes it. It's called the phallus impudicus, and it's a penis-shaped mushroom that really smells foul. What sets this mushroom apart, and why does it smell so bad?
MONEY: There's a number of these phallic, foul-smelling mushrooms that we find particularly in tropical ecosystems, but they do grow in the eastern United States and elsewhere. And these are mushrooms that have actually given up this mechanism of spore discharge from gill surfaces, and we're talking about giving up over the course of a long period of evolutionary history.
And they've done so in favor of dispersing their spores by using insects to actually suck up the spore mass, this stinking spore mass. And then as the insects fly away, eventually they deposit the spores far from the parent mushroom.
So it's a completely different mechanism of dispersal, but it's one that we see quite frequently among the mushrooms. The phallic shape actually makes sense just in terms of actually casting this, carrying this stinking spore mass into the air. I mean, the mushroom has to achieve this erection from a buried egg. And then this thing will, you know, be up to five-six inches long and attract slugs and snails and flies, actually a lot of other kinds of flying insects, towards this horrible mass of spores.
GROSS: So it's the smell that attracts the insects? What smells foul to us attracts them?
MONEY: Yeah, these mushrooms actually produce a compound called cadaverine and other kinds of foul-smelling chemicals that actually seem to mimic the smells released from decaying corpses in the forest. And so the kinds of insects that they attract are those that would otherwise perhaps be visiting a dead squirrel or something like that.
GROSS: So we've been talking about, you know, mushrooms as really unusual fungi. We eat mushrooms, and most of the mushrooms in the world are not ones that we eat - some of them could kill us, but, you know, the right mushrooms, the really edible ones, are delicious.
But when I think of them as being a fungus, it kind of is creepy to think that you're dining on a fungus. So what is it that transforms this fungus into something, you know, that's like, yummy and digestible? Are you, like, ingesting fungus? Is it a different product once it's picked and cooked?
MONEY: No, I mean, it really is the same thing. It's just that it's a species that we've cultivated often or perhaps something that we collected in the woods that we choose to eat. But I don't think there's any getting away from the fact that one is actually eating a fungus when you eat a mushroom. The same goes for eating a truffle. It's still fungal.
GROSS: So what makes certain mushrooms hallucinogenic?
MONEY: So there are a number of species of mushrooms that contain alkaloids that - these are chemicals that interact with our nervous systems in very, very specific ways. So the fly agaric mushroom, this iconic thing with the red cap and the white spots, that contains a couple of different hallucinogenic compounds that apparently give one the sensation of flying. That's one of the sensations that's reported by people that enjoy fly agaric mushrooms.
And there are other mushrooms, these are species of Psilocybe and some related things, and they contain compounds that actually mimic, they look a lot like - chemically they're almost indistinguishable from serotonin, and they really play havoc with our nervous systems, and they affect the way that our neocortex operates. And they're responsible for a whole range of different hallucinations.
GROSS: Now, you say that there are current research trials on the possible medical uses of psilocybin. What are they investigating?
MONEY: There have been some really, really interesting studies out of Johns Hopkins in the last few years, where patients have been given specific doses of - quite low doses of psilocybin in a clinical setting and then monitored there, by the researchers.
And one of the things that was interesting about those studies is that - so these people are going on mushroom trips in the lab setting, and they describe those experiences. Months later, in the follow-up studies, they say that these hallucinations, the experiences that they had under the influence of the mushrooms, are among the most profoundly moving experiences of their lives - both positively and negatively - as important, perhaps, as falling in love, a feeling like falling in love for the first time; the birth of a child.
GROSS: So what are researchers at Johns Hopkins hoping to be able to use psilocybin for?
MONEY: One thing that the researchers at Johns Hopkins are looking at now is the use of these magic mushrooms, or rather these hallucinogenic compounds, to actually improve the quality of life for patients suffering from terminal diseases, since it really seems to be, for perhaps the majority of people that actually take these compounds, that it's actually an uplifting experience rather than a negative one.
And so there really might be some very - these could be used in a therapeutic setting and perhaps be very powerful agents in the future.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Nicholas Money, he is an expert on mushrooms and other fungi, including mold. His new book is called "Mushroom." Let's take a short break here, and then we'll talk some more. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Nicholas Money, he is the author of the book "Mushroom," and he is an expert on mushrooms, molds and other fungi. One of his earlier books is called "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History of Toxic Mold."
I'd like to talk with you a little bit about toxic mold. First of all, you know, we've been talking about mushrooms. Are killer spores related to mushrooms?
MONEY: Well, there are hundreds of thousands of different species of fungi. We've only actually described 70-odd thousand species. Most of the fungi are microscopic things that never produce anything as large as a mushroom. So we might refer to these as molds. There are other technical names for these fungi, but yeah, most of the things are never going to produce a mushroom.
GROSS: So your title is "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores." What do you mean by carpet monster?
MONEY: Well, fungi will grow anywhere that a suitable food source is available, and carpets actually make a pretty good dining experience for a number of different species of fungi if they become wet.
GROSS: The way we live now, with the new kinds of materials that we live with, have we broadened or decreased the food that fungi can feed on indoors?
MONEY: Oh, we're always broadening the range of opportunities for the fungi. I mean, they're going to thrive and outlive us by an eternity. Fungi can grow on almost any substrate, any kind of material. There are some famous cases of fungi growing in all kinds of unusual situations, growing on the bloom on camera lenses, for example.
There's enough nutritional resources on a camera lens to support the growth of a fungal colony. Fungi have been found growing within fuel lines in airplanes and so forth. So no, there really is no limit to their nutritional flexibility.
GROSS: Now, you write that invisible monsters in the carpet came close to asphyxiating you when you were a child growing up in England because you had asthma. When did you find out what the cause was?
MONEY: That's right. So I grew up in England in the 1960s, and I was quite profoundly asthmatic as a kid; it's something, thankfully, that I've grown out of to a large degree in adulthood.
But I'm not sure we could ever prove that fungi were the cause of my allergies, but I remember that my mother removed the carpet from my bedroom and went to rather extraordinary lengths to try and sort of create this clean living space in which, you know, I wouldn't suffer from these asthma attacks. But it's rather ironic, then, having suffered as an infant from probable exposure to allergenic fungal spores, that I then spent, you know, the next many decades of my life studying fungi.
GROSS: Now, you also describe yourself as a hypochondriac, so I think...
MONEY: Oh, absolutely.
GROSS: A hypochondriac with allergies and asthma studying funguses and molds, it's not necessarily a great combination.
MONEY: I actually - I met a therapist - I met a therapist...
MONEY: I engaged in some therapy 20 years ago or so...
GROSS: Ran into a therapist...
MONEY: And he actually pointed this out, and it came to me as a profound revelation. I'd never made this connection. It's like this guy that's such a hypochondriac and yet, you know, studies death and mold and decay and is really just immersed in the study of decomposition.
GROSS: Well, I think it's often true that what repulses us also attracts us, that there's this kind of ugly beauty thing.
MONEY: Yeah, that's probably better therapy there than I received 20 years ago.
MONEY: So in one of your books, you mention your revulsion for fungi that grow on humans. Have you seen that, I mean outside of like athlete's foot?
I've seen that on myself. I had an awful outbreak of jock itch when I was a graduate student working in a lab where we were just really immersed in fungal spores. They were everywhere. I think everybody in the lab got some kind of skin infection. So that was rather unpleasant seeing this sort of pinkish circle expanding, ever-expanding over my - yes. I don't know how we do that.
GROSS: How do you protect yourself when you're doing that kind of research?
MONEY: Fungi usually aren't a threat to researchers. There are a few species that actually, you know, are pathogenic things that really do cause disease, and so we work in controlled environments with, they're called laminar airflow cabinets. These are sort of fume hoods in which the air is purified, and so we're not really exposed to fungal spores.
But, I mean, the important thing to recognize is that fungi are everywhere, and their spores are everywhere. And worship your immune system as long as it operates effectively because they're keeping fungi at bay 24/7.
GROSS: So some tasty cheeses have mold growing around them. Is it bad to eat that mold?
MONEY: No, no, that's the delicious part of the cheese, if you think about a number of, many of the soft cheeses from France, and the rind on the cheese, absolutely that's edible. But maybe you don't want to think about the fact that you're eating these fungal colonies, that - or eating the white part, that rind is composed of hundreds of thousands, millions of individual filaments that's produced by the fungus that then actually provides a lot of the flavor to the cheese. But no, no, that's edible.
And then if you think about blue cheeses, too, blue cheeses, the little pockets within blue cheese, Stilton and other kinds of blue cheeses, those are actually shot through with fungal colonies, and there you've actually got spores being produced by the fungus that are being actually shed into that - those little pockets.
So it gives this wonderful flavor to the cheese, but perhaps people like yourself don't want to consider that you are eating sort of active fungi.
GROSS: OK, now say you end up eating some bread with a little mold on it. How bad is that?
MONEY: I don't think - that's actually not - again, that's not going to be a significant, it's not a problem to actually eat moldy bread, but it is rather unpleasant, and that's certainly something that I find revolting. I'm quite - I go on these jihads. My wife dislikes the way that I keep the fridge so scrupulously clean, but I think I'm - I really don't like the idea of eating food that's contaminated with fungi or bacteria.
GROSS: So we've established that, you know, some mushrooms are beautiful, some are kind of repulsive-looking, and some are really tasty, and some are really poisonous. What function, outside of the ones that we eat, what function do they serve in the world?
MONEY: Life on land is completely dependent on the activities of fungi. So, some of these are the mushroom-forming fungi, but all these microscopic species, too, that don't produce these larger sex organs. Fungi are primary agents of decomposition. If it weren't for their activities, we'd have, you know, dead wood and plant material everywhere. We'd have animal feces that would build up in vast quantities.
And so fungi are contributing to all of the planet's major nutrient cycles, particularly the carbon cycle, in breaking down very complex materials within plant tissues, wood for example, breaking that down into sugars that they then burn through their metabolic activities.
So they're very, very important in nutrient cycling. They also support the activities of plants through what are called mycorrhizal relationships, that fungi and mushroom-forming fungi hook into the roots of forest trees and shrubs and support the activities, the lives of all of the plants in a forest - grasslands, too. Grasslands are dependent on the activities of other kinds of mycorrhizal fungi. So really life on Earth as we see it now would be inconceivable without the activities of fungi. They're an absolutely critical part of the biosphere.
GROSS: Well, Nicholas Money, I want to thank you so much for talking with us.
MONEY: Thank you so much.
GROSS: Nicholas Money is the author of the new book "Mushroom." On our website, you can read an excerpt of the book, watch his high-speed video of mushroom spores dispersing and see a picture of the phallus impudicus, the penis-shaped mushroom. That's freshair.npr.org.
Money is a professor of botany at Miami University in Ohio. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
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Everybody else is doing it! So in the spirit of conformity, I'm going to make like a high school girl and copy my peers. Here is my recap of some of what got accomplished in 2011.
I made a rainbow cake for my sister's 14th birthday.
I shared the guest room makeover.
For Father's Day I made homemade oreos.
We hosted a Fourth of July celebration at our house.
I made herb stuffed bell peppers.
After finding my grandmother's recipe in a cookbook, I tried my hand at baking a red velvet cake.
Pinterest inspired me to make mozzarella sticks.
We threw a party for Halloween.
A command central was created in the pantry/laundry room.
I painted the half bath downstairs.
Eric built me a desk.
My friend Sharon and I baked an ombre cake for our friend Kelly's birthday.
It was fun looking back on what I've done this year! Here's to more fun in 2012. =)


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This week I have been clearing out my parents' house, involving days of shoebox rifling and the finding of various teen-pash accoutrements - not least a gigantic wall poster of Jan Michael Vincent (sigh). All this looking back is neatly relevant though, as some bright spark is attempting to squeeze pennies out of those still not in possession of The Stone Roses back catalogue. AND we have a brand new band who wish to resurrect Baggy. Dust off your Kickers, everyone.
Single of the Week!
Django Django - 'Storm' (Shadazz)
While this appears to have been kicking about for a week or so, not all our favourite record establishments have received copies, so to all intents and whatsits it is out today. With that caveat dispatched, I will tell you that Django Django are very, very much worth getting your knickers in a twist about, having the sort of crudely generous approach to melody which will keep any shambling-wonk-folk fan happy. Indeed, 'Storm' comes over very much like a shuffly version of 'Your Protector', albeit one with a great big Monkees grin on its face, recorded in a 60s psychedelic's garage and on the rubbishest Betas-borrowed drum kit imaginable. All this should mean that anyone bored rigid by the arch calculations of today's angular bands will find this plumptious with charm. I am one of those sorts, and I think it's divine.
Real Estate - 'Fake Blues' (Half Machine)
UK release for this Garden State-hailing, shimmeringly lovely daub of lo-fi alt-pop. This is simple, unassuming and a pretty fantastic accompaniment to the fading Summer. Go and have a swizz at their MySpace, here though, because it seems all their songs are at least as brilliant as 'Fake Blues', not least the gorgeous 'Beach Comber'. Live 'thing' below.
The Stone Roses - 'She Bangs The Drums' / 'Standing Here' (BMG)
'I could park a juggernaut in your mouth / And I can feel a hurricane when you shout'. You know, rarely has something so nasty sounded so wondrous and it really doesn't get any better than this, kids. Hardly ever. Once a decade, maybe. And like an aligning of the indie spheres, this is also a gift for record-reviewers considering what we're about to listen to.
Ruling Class - 'Sleeping Beauty' (Loog)
I would like to argue that every bright young thing deserves the opportunity to love a nearly before they alight upon an exact. And though there are already far too many rules applied to musical appreciation – many of which are fun-free in the extreme - it makes sense to examine one in the light of Ruling Class. Because they sound like a band who were about as perfect as can be. And because despite all that, there will be young folk who get proper giddy about them. Now, let's be clear, I don't wish to obstruct anyone's enjoyment of anything; to have a new favourite band is a special, special thing. But to listen to Ruling Class without mentioning The Stone Roses would be wrong. And it's not like it hasn't happened to me. I spent a perfect little shit of a year listening to The Black Crowes' Southern Harmony & Musical Companion, going so far as to change my actual handwriting to match that of the sleeve notes (which still has some of the curlicues in place today. I WAS YOUNG, OKAY?). Luckily a kindly relative stepped in before it all went completely T's up, and lent me some Faces albums. And then when Primal Scream released 'Rocks', I took up the baton, proferring copies of Exile On Main Street to anyone willing to suffer a lecture. I think it happens to all of us, once in a while. Anyway now that Baggy is back, I want to say; this is a lovely single, they look marvellous (I am happy to see the hirsute eff-you of the bowl cut return, I love its oddly aggressive femininity) and Ruling Class do sound pretty good. But to listen to them is to inhabit a bubble.
Voluntary Butler Scheme - 'Tabasco Sole' (Split Records)
Oooo, loads out of ten, what an absolute pleasure this is. I even love Rob Jones very silly moniker; I should sign him up as my personal pop Jeeves in a heartbeat. 'Tabasco Sole' is delightful in a way which will be entirely familiar to those who enjoyed Jim Noir's brief twinkle in the spotlight, it employs the sharply metallic tang those Beatles used to great effect on 'Getting Better' and it really does sweep you off somewhere enticingly tongue—in-cheek. Somewhere 'Chuck Berry records all sound the same' and scenesters are instructed to 'Wear a De La Soul t-shirt once in a while / To make you feel hipper than you are'. Immensely appealing, cheap-as-chips videothing, too.
Smoke Fairies - 'Frozen Heart EP' (Music For Heroes)
Extremely dreamy traditional British folk (the Magnet or Pentangle spooky sort) and doomy, deep-south blues make 'Frozen Heart EP' a particularly pleasurable distraction while I decide if it is irritating to point out that new bands sound like old ones. The title track in particular is deliciously dark, reminding me of things what sound pretty but are in fact tragic (c.f. Bobbie Gentry's gorgeous 'Ode To Billie Jo'). But please, please do try to listen to this with your eyes closed, for there are – and I mean Smoke Fairies no ill – some absolutely shocking amateur theatrics in their video. Honestly, it is godawful and I am immediately reminded of The Crucible as murdered by local dramatic berks what I saw when I was thirteen. As all of them Leg of Hammed their way through fluffed lines and horrorshow accents, I sat and sniggered into my photocopied programme, while grotesque stage make-up dripped down their faces. Or perhaps it was tears. Anyway, consider yourself warned.
The Boy Least Likely To - 'When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade' (Too Young To Die)
Peter and Jof would have you believe that 'There's not a lot of things you can do with lemons except make lemonade'. Wrong! For one thing, as I have been instructed by a friend what is a whizz in the kitchen, lemons are essential for providing sourness, and that is one of the five essential tastes. (Keen cuisine-ists will want to know the others and I am happy to oblige – you want sweet, bitter, salt and umami. Hurrah, I have used umami in a review of an indie-pop record). And also, Boys Least Likely To Have Studied At Leith's, lemons are good for putting on cuts when you want to re-imagine the excruciating pain I have experienced upon listening to your single. Oh, what larks, everyone, I do not mean it really. The thing is, WLGMLIML (<<<<< I mean, honestly) is so determinedly cute I do sort of want to hobble myself. Welcome to the world of 'kindie' everyone, where love affairs involve nothing more torrid than holding hands. What a deeply asexual record.
Also out this week!
Wild Beasts - 'Hooting & Howling' (Domino)
This is kind of preposterous, is it not?
Fever Ray - 'Triangle Walks' (Rabid / Co-op)
Brilliant. And yet I feel oddly un-moved by 'Triangle Walks' as if there are too few emotional claws for it to cling; as if its brilliant weirdness is somehow distancing. Still - brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, etc.
Doves - 'Winter Hill' (Heavenly)
I was quite rude about them earlier this year, which was mean, and upon listening to this I feel quite bad about lazy comparisons with fellow old-blokes, Elbow. Sorry Doves, that was almost as silly as all this FloMoLaRooVVBoots:Whoisthebest? business, and 'Winter Hill' is entirely not awful.
Buraka Son Sistema – 'IC19' (Fabric)
Listen at MySpace, here
While this is neither entry-level Buraka nor one of my top favourites from Blood Diamond, 'IC19' does demonstrate they are chaps who do not bother faffing about with boring concepts like compromise. There's also a wicked-good new mixtape available in exchange for your email address, here.
Mpho - 'Box N Locks' (Wall Of Sound)
Very promising despite the sledgehammer of a sample. I know, let's compare her to FloMoLaRooVVBoots!
Datarock - 'The Pretender' (Nettwerk Productions / Young Aspiring Professionals)
The Fiery Furnaces - 'The End Is Near' (Thrill Jockey)
Lemonade - 'Big Weekend' (Sunday Best)
Forest Fires - 'Fortune Teller' (Broken Sound)
Zak Sally - 'Why We Hide' (Sub Pop)
Solo release for Low bassist / top indie cartoonist Zak Sally (see main pic at top of the page...yum). More info here


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Trailing hot on the heels of yesterday's Manu news (Manunus!) that he will be watching basketball from incredibly fantastic courtside seats for the next two months while wearing a $5,000 suit like the rest of us insanely wealthy society folk, comes the follow-up jab-cross-jab-hammer combo that Memphis forward Zach Randolph is also out a couple months with a slight tear in his knee. A slight tear in Z-Bo's knee means a slight tear in the eyes of his fantasy owners. How'd you like that homograph? Way to kick a guy while he's down by calling him a nasty name. No, no. Homograph. Mr. Italics failed grammar class, apparently. There was no "grammar class!" It was called language arts, you jerk! Anyway, Randolph is out until late February and in his place are a number of fill-in options that are the fantasy equivalent of a woman breastfeeding in public: you know nothing will come of it and you shouldn't pay any attention, but you'd always wonder about it if you hadn't checked it out. So who are the suckling teets in this scenario? Rudy Gay, O.J. Mayo, Marreese Speights and Dante Cunningham. Scenario 1 would have Gay slipping into Randolph's position, allowing Mayo to see a huge boost in minutes. Scenario 2 has Speights and Cunningham playing something like a 60/40 split for PF minutes. Like most truths, I think the answer will lie somewhere in between these two scenarios, which will make absolutely no one happy. Gay's already uneven production will take a hit due to his time out of position. Mayo will see an increase and is probably the most must-add of those involved owned in fewer than 50 percent of leagues. Speights will see more than his career-high 16 mpg, but not much more because, frankly, I'm unconvinced big boy can handle many more minutes. And Cunningham will remain Cunningham. A lot of you are going to ask me about Speights' projected production in these next 6-8 weeks. My guess is somewhere in the ballpark of 24-28 mpg, 11/7/1, with a block and .475/.750 percentages. Cool? Cool. Here's what else happened yesterday in fantasy basketball.
Stephen Curry – Left the game … again … with an ankle injury … again. You'll stash him and go about scrapping until he returns to your lineup … again. Would developing cankles help his situation? Like interior body fat insulation?
Dorell Wright – 0-for-2 in 27 minutes. I'm still not ready to drop him, but I sure ain't playing him.
Evan Turner – Dropped 21/6/4. Then he picked it up, shined it a bit and stuck it back in his pocket for another game in the near future. #DareToDream
Eric Gordon – Returned after a couple games off to shoot a rusty 22/6, with 3 steals and 2 blocks. That's not rusty enough to keep him out of your lineup. RELEASE!
Al-Farouq Aminu – In for the injured Ariza, went 0/4/0, on 0-for-4 shooting in 20 starter's minutes. This is only mildly worse than ol' Trev' would have done.
Lamar Odom – 15/5, with 2 stl and a three. Queue intro music! Odom's on his way!
DeMar DeRozan – De biggest DeMerit I gave DeRozan last year was that he DiDn't shoot DeThree very well (made just five). Six games into DeSeason, DuDe is DeStroying 'em (10-for-16, including five last night alone). He won't keep making them with such a high efficiency, but if he keeps taking them, we're likely watching a huge step forward for the guard.
Dwight Howard – Chunked 28/20, with 3 blk against the Wiz. No complaining there. Still though, he's shooting .418 (28-for-67) from the line a tenth of the way through the season. If missing 58 percent of the shots they give away for nothing is wrong, I don't wanna be Dwight.
Ryan Anderson – Leads the league in 3ptm and 3pta (25-for-55). Just a thought: Dorell Wright : 2011 :: Ryan Anderson : 2012. (Note: sorry about your 2013, Ryan Anderson).
James Jones – Sank four threes on his way to 14 points in place of the staycationing Dwyane Wade. Flash'll be back for the next game. Don't bugger with Jones, he was just making a cameo for the Pacers. Call him Indiana Jones.
Marshon Brooks – Scored 17 against Boston's D, then twisted his ankle and left the game. It doesn't sound as if he'll miss more than a couple games, if that. We're dealing with a small sample size with the 23-year-old Brooks, but his per minute stats line up quite favorably to those of a 23-year-old Ben Gordon. Gentle Ben shot the three and dished better, Brooks grabs a larger number of rebounds, but basically, with Brooks, we're looking at a solid Sixth Man on a good team or a legend in, you know, New Jersey.
Jordan Farmar – Between Deron's rib, Marshon's ankle and the 11 pts/ 6 ast line Farmar had, he'd be a smart speculation pick until things clear up.
Rodney Stuckey – Left the game after injuring his groin. Is it me or have there been an abnormal number of groin injuries already this season? Of all the muscles I was pretty sure wouldn't need conditioning after a long offseason, the groin was on the top of that list, 'cause … you know. If Brandon Knight is available, a-hunting you should go.
Danny Granger – 2-for-13 last night (1-for-7 from the arc). He's now shooting .317 a tenth of the way through the season. Danny Granger needs a Backup Plan-y Granger. The well-rested Adam apologizes for that last sentence. The sleep-deprived Adam just isn't feeling your critique, dawg.
Kenneth Faried – Manimal doubled his professional career playing time by playing 10 garbage time minutes at the end of this one. He dumped an electrifying 7/4, with four blocks on a defenseless Kings team. Perhaps this small performance begets more minutes. Perhaps not. Probably not.
Kosta Kouf0s – 10/11 in 25 starter's minutes. It was his first career dub-dub. So should you pick him up while Nene is out? Well, let me rephrase that first sentiment: this was a 7-foot tall basketball player's first game in which he scored 10 points and pulled down 10 rebounds at the same time; something all giant humans should be able to do with ease.
Byron Mullens – 16/5 in 20 minutes. We'll call that the Knickerbocker Special.
Iman Shumpert – Returned after injuring himself on Christmas Day. Played 30 minutes and ended with 18/5/3, with 2 stls a blk and 4 3ptm. Yes, you should grab him. No, the Knicks have no one else that can facilitate. Yes, you should go get him now before someone else does. No, not the guy breathing heavily behind you, I'm talking to you. Go.
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I2P dev meeting, October 4, 2016 @ 20:00 UTC
Quick recap
- Present:
echelon, EinMByte, MXPLRS|Kirill, obscuratus, str4d, zzz
Registo Completo do IRC
20:00:04 <zzz> 0) Hi
20:00:04 <zzz> 1) 0.9.27 update (zzz)
20:00:08 <zzz> 0) Hi
20:00:09 <zzz> hi
20:00:24 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] Hi
20:00:30 <eche|on> hi
20:00:42 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] Plane lands in 20 mins, so I'll probably only be available for 5-10 mins
20:00:51 <EinMByte> Hi
20:01:10 <zzz> 1) 0.9.27 update (zzz)
20:01:11 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] (so prioritise anything that needs my attention)
20:01:44 <zzz> ok after a record 4+ months I'm pulling the trigger on the 27 release, checkin deadline in 10 days, release week of the 17th
20:02:04 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] :+1:
20:02:12 <zzz> not anything big in there but need to keep things moving
20:02:26 <zzz> I'll be looking at the ipv6 tickets one more time in the next week, trying to fix more stuff
20:02:39 <zzz> anything that needs testing please check in asap
20:02:50 <zzz> anything else on 1) ?
20:03:06 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] I'll make time this weekend for fixing the Bote issue
20:03:17 <EinMByte> Does it include IPv6 peer testing?
20:03:29 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] (since the Zcash beta 2 release will be out of the way, which I was managing)
20:03:46 <zzz> yes peer testing was checked in a couple months ago, not clear how well it works, we'll find out after the release
20:04:02 <MXPLRS|Kirill_> zzz, changelog?
20:04:12 <EinMByte> Ok
20:04:43 <zzz> MXPLRS|Kirill_, I haven't updated the release summary post on zzz.i2p for a while, but you can always look at the history.txt file on github
20:04:59 <MXPLRS|Kirill_> zzz, ok
20:05:02 <zzz> I'll be updating the zzz.i2p post in then ext few days
20:05:21 <zzz> I'll be pushing tags to tx today or tomorrow
20:05:29 <zzz> anything else on 1) ?
20:05:51 <obscuratus> Is there anything specific you want me to test of my test bed?
20:06:16 <zzz> not really, I appreciate your ipv6 testing so far
20:06:23 <obscuratus> If so, just pass it along as you think of things.
20:06:38 <zzz> ok
20:06:41 <zzz> anything else on 1) ?
20:07:02 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] Not from me
20:07:05 <zzz> anything else for the meeting?
20:07:46 <EinMByte> Just want to mention that I've updated the NTCP2 proposal
20:08:08 <EinMByte> (both in the zzz.i2p topic and on gist.github.com)
20:08:10 <i2pr> [Slack/str4d] Gotta put my laptop away now o/
20:08:10 <zzz> great, good work
20:08:21 <zzz> I think we're making good progress
20:08:44 <zzz> anything else for the meeting?
20:09:08 * zzz grabs the baffer
20:09:12 <EinMByte> Authentication modes are still incomplete, so that's where we need most work IMHO
20:09:24 <EinMByte> Nothing else for the meeting, I think
20:09:43 <zzz> looking forward to reviewing the new draft
20:10:01 * zzz *bafffffffs* the meeting closed


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Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008
Kellie Pickler to play Allegany County Fair
ANGELICA — The 2008 Allegany County Fair will feature 2006 American Idol finalist, Kellie Pickler as the main act Friday night.
This year, the fair announced only one show will take place instead of the usual two. Pickler will perform at 8 p.m. on July 18.
Tickets remain at $30 plus a $3 handling fee. Tickets will be available beginning the middle of February by mail or phone. Ticket orders will be filled by the earliest postmark, so send your orders to Allegany County Fair, Ticket Office, PO Box 84, Angelica, NY 14709.
Pickler opened for Rascal Flats this past weekend in Buffalo at the HSBC Arena.
The 2008 Allegany County Fair will run July 14-19 at the Fairgrounds in Angelica. The complete program will be announced soon.
More charges filed against RIT professor
HENRIETTA – Michael Krembel, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was charged for allegedly enticing a 14-year-old boy over the Internet.
Krembel, of Churchville, was arrested Tuesday by the City of Batavia Police. Officers had been watching Krembel for a while, according to Detective Todd Crossett. A mother filed a complaint several months ago alleging her teenage daughter had sexual contact with Krembel and various other men she met on the Internet.
At that point, officers began to track four men online. Crossett posed as a 14-year-old boy on the Internet and Krembel attempted to meet the boy in person Tuesday evening in Batavia, according to police.
On Wednesday, he was also charged with criminal sexual act in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child for his alleged involvement with the teenage girl last summer.
He is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail in the Genesee County Jail, Crossett said.
City kids to benefit from private school
ROCHESTER — McQuaid Jesuit school officials are hoping to change the lives of 60 to 120 city kids.
With the recent announcement that the Catholic Diocese of Rochester will close 13 of its schools come June, the Jesuits recently announced plans to open a middle school in Rochester by the fall of 2009 that would follow acurriculum to serve at-risk youth.
In addition to staff, the school would feature volunteers and mentors and would be partly funded by donations.
It hasn't been decided whether the school would be co-ed, officials said. If it's co-ed, there would be separate boys and girls programs and the school would have about 120 students. The school would start with one to two grade levels and grow to full size over three years.
U.S. Marshals arrest Utica man
YORKVILLE — Members of the U.S. Marshals Service along with officers from state and local agencies took a Utica man into custody Wednesday in Yorkville, according to federal marshals.
Joshua Butler was being sought by members of the Marshals Service led by New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force for violation of release conditions, officials said.
Marshals said Butler was arrested in 2004 on federal weapons charges.
Butler was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Syracuse and remanded to jail pending the outcome of his current case, marshals said.
GREECE — Punxsutawney Phil can't be in two places at once Saturday.
The famed Pennsylvania rodent — or woodchuck or whistlepig, depending on your vocabulary liking — will try to peek at his shadow Feb. 2. Legend says if Phil sees his outline in Punxsutawney, we're in for six more weeks of winter.
Greece will mark the occasion with its own sixth annual Groundhog Day Festival. Since Phil will be preoccupied in Pennsylvania, a volunteer will do the honors up here, donning a groundhog suit for the occasion.
"We just have too much fun," said organizer Cheryl Ann Bilski. "There's always something to do and people to see and something to eat and games to play and it's fun to come out and be a kid for a day and play in the snow."
The Greece Chamber of Commerce's Erie Canal Committee plans the event. Attendance has grown from 125 to 1,200 at its peak. Organizers are hoping for 1,350 people this year. It's held on the Greece Town Hall campus.
Former upstater receives French Legion of Honor
ROCHESTER — It took him 63 years to receive it. Retired Rochester businessman Mario Grossi, now a snowbird, was awarded the French Legion of Honor in a ceremony held Jan. 12 in Naples, Fla.
Grossi, a World War II veteran, is 84.
He saw an article in a newspaper a few years ago that said France was looking for GIs who had served in France during the war.
Grossi was in the fourth wave than crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy in France. As a member of the 8th Infantry Division and part of General George S. Patton's Third Army, his unit fought its way through France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and finally into Germany.
Philippe Vinogradoff, the Consul General of France, who is based in Miami, presented Mario Grossi and five other Florida veterans with the award this month. The Legion of Honor was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to recognize eminent military merits in the service
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NEH Grantees Win Best Paper Award at JCDL
Congratulations to David Bamman, Alison Babeu, and Greg Crane from Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library who just won "Best Paper" at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), held this year at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. JCDL is sponsored by both ACM and IEEE.
Their paper, Transferring Structural Markup Across Translations Using Multilingual Alignment and Projection, results from research funded by two NEH grants, Large-Scale Learning and the Automatic Analysis of Historical Texts(NEH/DOE Humanities High Performance Computing, HH-5001-09) and The Dynamic Lexicon: Cyberinfrastructure and the Automatic Analysis of Historical Languages (Preservation and Access Research & Development, PR-50013-08). According to the team, the paper illustrates a technique that is central to their Digging into Data Challenge project, Towards Dynamic Variorum Editions (HJ-50013-10).
The full paper is available (open access) on the Perseus Digital Library website:
Transferring Structural Markup Across Translations Using Multilingual Alignment and Projection
David Bamman, Alison Babeu and Gregory Crane
Abstract. We present here a method for automatically projecting structural information across translations, including canonical citation structure (such as chapters and sections), speaker information, quotations, markup for people and places, and any other element in TEI-compliant XML that delimits spans of text that are linguistically symmetrical in two languages. We evaluate this technique on two datasets, one containing perfectly transcribed texts and one containing errorful OCR, and achieve an accuracy rate of 88.2% projecting 13,023 XML tags from source documents to their transcribed translations, with an 83.6% accuracy rate when projecting to texts containing uncorrected OCR. This approach has the potential to allow a highly granular multilingual digital library to be bootstrapped by applying the knowledge contained in a small, heavily curated collection to a much larger but unstructured one.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – You could look at the San Jose Earthquakes' first non-preseason match of 2014 as a dress rehearsal for their MLS opener.
The Quakes, however, won't be joining you in that view.
For the first time since CONCACAF rejiggered its premier club competition, San Jose are in the knockout stages of the region's version of Champions League. And even with a daunting task in the form of top-seeded Mexican side Toluca standing in their way on Tuesday (10 pm ET, Fox Sports 2), the Quakes are excited to take their swings at one of Liga MX's premier clubs.
"That's what we're gearing up for and [getting] ready for," star forward Chris Wondolowski said. "I think it's a great test, just kind of see where we are. It's definitely going to be a big battle, but I love those."
"Big" might be an understatement. San Jose had to scramble to get out of a three-way tie in Group 5 last fall, beating fellow MLS club Montreal and Guatemalan side Heredia on goal differential. Toluca breezed through Group 6 with four straight wins.
Then there's the readiness factor: The 10-time Liga MX champions currently sit second in the league's Clausura competition, while San Jose are just wrapping up their six-week training camp.
Nevertheless, the Quakes are not looking at this as merely a final warm-up to their MLS regular-season opener against Real Salt Lake on March 15.
"Any time you have a chance to play in a tournament like that, an international tournament, it's definitely an honor and something we're going to take very seriously," Quakes defender Clarence Goodson said.
The schedule congestion doesn't come at a great time for the Quakes, who will face Toluca twice, RSL and defending MLS champions Sporting Kansas City in the space of 12 days. But it's still a positive for someone like Wondolowski, and a consolation prize to take home after just missing out on the 2013 MLS Cup postseason.
"I think it's a reward," Wondolowski said. "Last year, we had two huge goals – make the playoffs and advance in Champions League. One of those two didn't happen, but one did, and so we're going to continue to try to strive to do better."