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Play MLB.com's Beat the Streak In A Day
The 'Beat the Streak' fantasy baseball game has been around for over the past decade. Offering the chance for any fan to pick up 5.6 million dollars if they can amass a consecutive 57 players picked with a hit, it's no surprise why it's so popular.
And yet, no one has ever taken home the top prize. Several have come close, but none have even cracked the 50 mark. With only a couple of weeks remaining in the season, it appears that the money for a 57-game hit streak is safe again.
But MLB.com is giving the fans one last shot at becoming a millionaire overnight — admittedly, it is a long shot at best.
As they have done several times this season and over the past several years, fans are being given the opportunity to beat the streak in a day (tonight, to be specific). If anyone picks 57 players who all record at least one hit tonight, they will win the grand prize. Therefore, I'm giving it one last go as well.
I already selected my 57 players, and you should too by clicking HERE.
Maybe you'll get really lucky and wind up winning the money. That certainly wouldn't be a bad exchange for 10 minutes of your time.
My Final Baseball Game of 2015
Sunday will mark the 16th and final game I will attend of the 2015 MiLB season.
It's certainly been a fun year, and it seemed to fly by. But with neither the Mudcats or the Bulls (my two local teams) set to make the playoffs this season, Sunday's game between the Durham Bulls and Charlotte Knights will be the last one for me this year.
The previous fifteen games I've gone to so far this year were all exciting, and saw me heading to ballparks in Hickory, Greensboro, Durham, Zebulon and Myrtle Beach. Throughout the year, and my travels, I managed to get around 100 autographs again this year, and I'll be detailing them all in full within the next week or two.
With the Bulls schedule for next year already released, I've already been looking ahead to the 2016 season, trying to project which players will be coming to town. From the way I'm viewing things, next year could be even more eventful than 2015, but that's a long time down the road, and anything can happen.
Kris Bryant Even Better than We Thought?
Ever since he blasted 43 homers in the minor leagues back in 2014, nearly everyone around the baseball world has heard of Kris Bryant. Viewed by many as the player that would send the Cubs back to the playoffs — so far, so good — there was no doubt that Bryant was going to be a great player.
But him becoming a great player as quickly as he has become one is somewhat shocking for many people. At only 23 years old, the former first round draft pick from 2013 has already been through some ups and downs in the majors, but Bryant has been swinging a hot bat as of late. Over his last 15 games, Bryant is batting .339 with 6 homers and 14 RBI's — including a walk off homer on Monday afternoon (already the second of his career).
Collectively so far this season, Bryant is hitting .262 with 20 home runs, 75 RBI's and 12 stolen bases, leading all rookies in RBI's by a wide margin. With stats like that, it's no wonder that the majority of fans around baseball are projecting him to walk away with the National League Rookie of the Year award. But many see even greater things for Bryant and the Cubs in 2015.
It's far too long into the season for anyone to write off the Cubs' record as a fluke or a hot streak. The Cubs are good — it's as simple as that. While young stars Kyle Schwarber, Addison Russell and Anthony Rizzo are helping lead the charge, it's Bryant who is truly powering the postseason push. Currently holding the second Wild Card spot, the Cubs look to be in good position heading into the final month of the season.
No matter if the Cubs make the postseason or not, Kris Bryant is having an unbelievable season. The amazing thing is, he will get better and better in the years to come. That should be enough to make Cubs fans see visions of playoff runs for the next several seasons, with Bryant leading the way.
Excitement Building With First Place Races
From one year to the next, you never truly know what to expect in any given division race around baseball. Sometimes one team will completely blow away the rest of the teams in their division and run away with the first place spot, while other cases see multiple teams within a few games of each other down to the last game of the season. This year is more of the latter.
Of the six divisions, four of them have the second place team within three games of the first place squad (the Royals and Cardinals lead their divisions by a good margin). Furthermore, some of the teams closing in on first — or in some cases leading the division — haven't been doing so well in quite a long time.
The biggest example of that being the Astros and Mets. Each are leading their given divisions at the current moment, and each are making their push towards the playoffs years earlier than many people thought they would.
With the Angels a mere one game back of the Astros and the Nationals a game and a half removed from the Mets, the remaining games of the season should be exciting as we find out which teams can hold on to their hot seasons.
Although not in first place (at least not yet), the Blue Jays are another team that is making things very interesting in the race for first place. The Yankees, somewhat surprisingly, lead the American League East at the moment, but the surging Jays are right on their tail, at just one and a half games back. With the lineup they have, Toronto has the ability to overthrow the Yankees as the season progresses.
The Dodgers are also in the mix as far as exciting division races are concerned, despite still holding a two and a half game lead over the Giants for first. Even so, the Dodgers have been in somewhat of a slump lately (as have the Giants) and things could quickly switch around in the NL West.
No matter what happens over the coming several weeks as teams push towards October, the fact that so many teams that weren't expected to make the playoffs in 2015 are currently on their way to doing just that is exciting. If the season ended today, the Yankees, Royals, Astros, Blue Jays, Angels, Mets, Cardinals, Dodgers, Pirates and Cubs would all be headed to the postseason.
With the Astros not having made the playoffs since 2005, the Mets since 2006, Cubs since 2008 and the Blue Jays since way back in 1993, this could turn out to be the season a lot of droughts could be broken for a lot of teams. That's worth looking forward to.
Latest MLB Leaders (April 5th – July 31st)
With the first four months of the 2015 MLB season in the books, I thought I'd take the first day of the new month to recap the season thus far. It's been exciting as well as disappointing, depending on how you look at it and who you're rooting for.
But instead of talking about the events that have taken place so far this year, I decided to make a list of different categories and beside them name the player(s) that leads that particular category. I've done lists like these for the past several years, and they have been well received, so I decided to do it again.
The following lists are categorized into hitting and pitching, but not AL or NL:
MLB LEADERS (AL and NL) – HITTING
Most Games Played – Four players tied for most (103).
Most At-Bats – Ian Kinsler (410)
Most Hits – Jason Kipnis (132)
Highest Average – Miguel Cabrera (.350)
Highest OBP – Paul Goldschmidt (.465)
Highest SLG – Bryce Harper (.679)
Most Runs – Mike Trout (76)
Most Doubles – Jason Kipnis (31)
Most Triples – Kevin Kiermaier (10)
Most Home Runs – Mike Trout (32)
Most RBI's – Nolan Arenado (78)
Most Base On Balls – Paul Goldschmidt (83)
Most Strikeouts – Chris Davis (128)
Most Stolen Bases – Billy Hamilton (49)
Most Caught Stealing – Dee Gordon (13)
Most Intentional Base On Balls – Paul Goldschmidt (23)
Most Hit By Pitch – Anthony Rizzo (21)
Most Sacrifice Flies – Jose Bautista, Miguel Cabrera and Stephen Vogt (7).
Most Total Bases – Mike Trout (235)
Most Extra Base Hits – Todd Frazier (58)
Most Grounded Into Double Plays – Trevor Plouffe (20)
Most Ground Outs – Andrelton Simmons (163)
Most Number Of Pitches Faced – Joey Votto (1,885)
Most Plate Appearances – Jason Kipnis (464)
MLB LEADERS (AL and NL) – PITCHING
Most Wins – Gerrit Cole (14)
Most Losses – Kyle Kendrick and Kyle Lohse (12).
Best ERA – Zack Greinke (1.41)
Most Games Started – Five players tied for most (22).
Most Games Pitched – Kevin Siegrist (53)
Most Saves – Mark Melancon (33)
Most Innings Pitched – Corey Kluber (157)
Most Hits Allowed – Phil Hughes (158)
Most Runs Allowed – Kyle Kendrick and Kyle Lohse (83).
Most Earned Runs Allowed – Kyle Lohse (83)
Most Home Runs Allowed – Kyle Kendrick (26)
Most Strikeouts – Clayton Kershaw (185)
Most Walks – Tyson Ross (61)
Most Complete Games – Mark Buehrle (4)
Most Shutouts – Seven players tied for most (7).
Best Opponent Avg. – Zack Greinke (.186)
Most Games Finished – Mark Melancon (41)
Most Double Plays Achieved – Kyle Gibson, Chris Heston and Mike Pelfrey (22).
Most Wild Pitches – Nathan Karns (12)
Most Balks – Johnny Cueto (4)
Most Stolen Bases Allowed – Jon Lester (30)
Most Pickoffs – Brett Anderson (6)
Most Batters Faced – Corey Kluber (628)
Most Pitches Thrown – Corey Kluber (2,328)
Latest MLB Leaders (April 5th – April 30th)
With the first month of the 2015 MLB season in the books, I thought I'd take the first day of the new month to recap the season thus far. It's been exciting as well as disappointing, depending on how you look at it and who you're rooting for.
But instead of talking about the events that have taken place so far this year, I decided to make a list of different categories and beside them name the player(s) that leads that particular category. I've done lists like these for the past several years, and they have been well received, so I decided to do it again.
The following lists are categorized into hitting and pitching, but not AL or NL:
MLB LEADERS (AL and NL) – HITTING
Most Games Played – Twenty players tied for most (23).
Most At-Bats – Jose Altuve and Wil Myers (98).
Most Hits – Dee Gordon (38)
Highest Average – Dee Gordon (.409)
Highest OBP – Matt Holliday (.500)
Highest SLG – Adrian Gonzalez (.790)
Most Runs – Matt Carpenter and Wil Myers (21).
Most Doubles – Matt Carpenter (13)
Most Triples – Paulo Orlando (5)
Most Home Runs – Nelson Cruz and Hanley Ramirez (10).
Most RBI's – Nelson Cruz and Hanley Ramirez (22).
Most Base On Balls – Bryce Harper (22)
Most Strikeouts – Jorge Soler (33)
Most Stolen Bases – Billy Hamilton (13)
Most Caught Stealing – Dee Gordon (6)
Most Intentional Base On Balls – Victor Martinez (6)
Most Hit By Pitch – Anthony Rizzo (7)
Most Sacrifice Flies – Five players tied for most (3).
Most Total Bases – Adrian Gonzalez (64)
Most Extra Base Hits – Matt Carpenter and Adrian Gonzalez (17).
Most Grounded Into Double Plays – Casey McGehee (8)
Most Ground Outs – Jean Segura (41)
Most Number Of Pitches Faced – Bryce Harper (440)
Most Plate Appearances – Jose Altuve (106)
MLB LEADERS (AL and NL) – PITCHING
Most Wins – Seven players tied for most (4).
Most Losses – David Buchanan (5)
Best ERA – Nick Martinez (0.35)
Most Games Started – Fifty players tied for most (5).
Most Games Pitched – Eleven players tied for most (11).
Most Saves – Jeurys Familia, Joakim Soria and Huston Street (9).
Most Innings Pitched – Johnny Cueto and Dallas Keuchel (37).
Most Hits Allowed – Kyle Kendrick (39)
Most Runs Allowed – Kyle Kendrick (26)
Most Earned Runs Allowed – Kyle Kendrick (26)
Most Home Runs Allowed – Brandon McCarthy (9)
Most Strikeouts – Clayton Kershaw (43)
Most Walks – Tyson Ross (18)
Most Complete Games – Five players tied for most (1).
Most Shutouts – Josh Collmenter and Felix Hernandez (1).
Best Opponent Avg. – Dallas Keuchel (.130)
Most Games Finished – Joakim Soria (12)
Most Double Plays Achieved – Shane Greene and Alex Wood (7).
Most Wild Pitches – Matt Garza, Nathan Karns and Corey Kluber (4).
Most Balks – Johnny Cueto, Cole Hamels and Edward Mujica (2).
Most Stolen Bases Allowed – Jon Lester (8)
Most Pickoffs – Four players tied for most (2).
Most Batters Faced – Corey Kluber and Jeff Samardzija (141).
Most Pitches Thrown – Dallas Keuchel (523)
Alex Rodriguez One Away from Home Run 660
Once again, Alex Rodriguez is nearing history. And once again, it would seem that no one cares.
After hitting home run number 659 of his career on Sunday night, Alex Rodriguez sits just one shy of Willie Mays on the all-time home run list. But more importantly, A-Rod is just one blast away from collecting a six million dollar contract bonus.
However, it's the money that has more people talking than the actual record that Rodriguez is approaching. For any other player, fans would be buzzing with excitement for a current player to surpass an all-time great on the home run list. But with A-Rod, he doesn't exactly have too many people on his side.
After serving a 162-game suspension in 2014 for PED use, the few fans that Rodriguez still had finally reached their breaking point with him and wrote him off altogether. But even so, Rodriguez is still surprising some people with the great start he's gotten off to — myself included.
I knew A-Rod would likely hit his stride at some point, but I figured it wouldn't add up to a whole lot. It's been nearly five years since A-Rod hit his 600th homer, and it was nearly certain that he would be a bit sluggish with his swing. But Rodriguez has gone out there and done his best to prove everyone wrong, and he has done just that, blasting five homers to this point in the season.
It's yet to be seen how many home runs Alex Rodriguez will finish out the season with, or, for that matter, how many he will end up with when his career has drawn to a close. But what is for certain is no matter how much fans dislike him, no matter how much they wish to see him fail, there will always be a small part of everyone that keeps them coming back to see how A-Rod performs on any given night.
For some reason, people just can't get enough.
Friday to Kick off My 2015 MiLB Baseball Season
While my first official baseball game of 2015 took place just a few days ago, with the Miami Marlins taking on their Single-A affiliate in Greensboro, North Carolina, tomorrow is set to kick off my 2015 minor league baseball regular season.
With the Wilmington Blue Rocks in Myrtle Beach to take on the hometown Pelicans, it's sure to be a good game, as both teams have a decent roster. However, the Pelicans' overall roster is stronger and full of more prospects — nine of their top 30 prospects — so that's the team I'm going to be trying hardest for autographs from.
Every year for the past several years, I've headed out to a baseball game a dozen or so times a year to get autographs from some of the best up and coming talent in the game. On Friday, I'm looking forward to seeing the likes of Billy McKinney, Duane Underwood and Jen-Ho Tseng, among many others. It should be a fun time and lead to a fun game against Wilmington, which possesses Bubba Starling and Dominique Taylor — two of the Royals top prospects.
No matter what happens on Friday, this is just the beginning of what is set to be an exciting 2015 season of baseball game outings. I'm not sure of any specific games I plan on going to past this Friday, but I'm really looking forward to the next five months of baseball ahead . . . .
2015 Spring Training TTM Autograph Update #2
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the through the mail (TTM) autograph requests I had received back from Spring Training, having received back an auto from Mark Appel and Sam Tuivailala. At the end of the post, I stated that I was going to be publishing a blog post once I had received back a few more autographs, and now that I've successfully gotten back some more of the requests I sent, I figured I'd go ahead and type this entry up:
Dustin Ackley has been up and down over the course of his big league career, but he really broke out last season. Hitting a career high 14 home runs and 65 RBI's, Ackley had a great season for the Mariners in 2014, and is looking to continue that into this year. If he can perform the way he is capable of, combined with the rest of the Mariners living up to their potential, Seattle could have a very formidable team this coming season.
It's truly a mystery how Joe Kelly will pitch this season for the Red Sox. Coming over from the Cardinals in 2014, Kelly had a fall back season of a 4.20 ERA over 17 starts after a good 2013 of a 2.69 ERA over 15 games started. But despite the downfall in stats, I look for Kelly to have a good 2015. Though he won't likely win Cy Young award — as he jokingly predicted awhile back — Kelly will still have a noteworthy year.
This one is rather self explanatory. Receiving induction into the Hall of Fame in 2014, Tony La Russa is truly one of the best managers of all time — and a personal favorite of mine. A three time World Series championship manager, racking up 2,728 wins over his 33 years, La Russa was absolutely amazing at what he did. Though he didn't put together all that great of stats as a player, batting just .199 for his career, his managerial stats will likely stand the test of time.
I still have autograph requests out for Rob Kaminsky, Jacob Gatewood, Scooter Gennett and Doug Fister. When/if I get any of those back, assuming it's before Opening Day on April 6th, I'll be sure to post another update. Though, there's no guarantee I'll get any more back at all.
Cubs Show Signs of the Future In Tuesday's Game
For the first time in awhile, the Cubs could be relevant in 2015.
A big reason for that is their young, future superstars who showed signs of their potential in the Cubs' Spring Training game against the Indians on Tuesday afternoon.
Hitting back-to-back-to-back home runs off of the Indians' Trevor Bauer — a player who really needs to figure out once and for all if he's ever going to be the star pitcher he was once hyped as –, Jorge Soler, Javier Baez and Kris Bryant each gave the Cubs reason to look forward to this year.
But there is a really good chance that Bryant (the number 2 prospect in all of baseball) may not begin the season in Chicago. For several reasons — none of which really involve talent level — the Cubs have made known that their likely plan is to send Bryant to Triple-A for the first portion of the season. To me, although I can comprehend the reasoning, that could turn out to be a mistake.
I understand that leaving Bryant in the minors for a few weeks allows them another full year of control over him, and that leaving him in the minors through June would save the Cubs some money. But that's major production that the Cubs could truly use this year, in my opinion, if they want a true shot at the postseason.
The Cubs owe it to their fans, after so long without a World Series, to put out the best team possible on every given day of the regular season each and every year. In order for that to happen, the Cubs need to have Kris Bryant playing third base on Opening Day.


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An art solo exhibition—set to travel this fall to Istanbul, Turkey—that explores the spaces of 21st century social uprisings Read more
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An art solo exhibition—set to travel this fall to Istanbul, Turkey—that explores the spaces of 21st century social uprisings
About this project
My name is Juan Camilo Ortiz, a Colombian-born artist/designer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. I spent most of my childhood in Chia, Colombia where I experienced political and social turmoil first hand. At age fourteen, my family and I left my country in search for safety and a new life. My work is, in many ways, about architecture and civil resistance, with a focus on the impact public spaces have on social uprisings.
In an upcoming exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey, viewers will experience recent, revolutionary events in a new context. After gathering gigabytes of data, I will create sculptures and abstract data visualizations of the spaces in which 21st century social uprisings are occurring, using architectural drawing techniques and digital fabrication methods such as CNC machining and 3-D printing. Through these concrete, visual sources of information, viewers will be able to study the spaces of these major events that are often built by extensive social networks across international borders. I will be focusing on the spaces of these major events:
Taksim Gezi Park Protests, Turkey
National Farmers and Social Strikes, Colombia
Movimiento Passe Livre (The Free Fare Movement) and the World Cup 2014 protests, Brazil
Euromaidan protests and demonstrations, Ukraine.
Ongoing protests, Venezuela
Having seen the involvement of news media and government censorship of the events, I am inspired by stories of protests carried through social media networks. Collaborating with local activists is thus essential to the creation of my work, and I am in close contact with local organizations and individuals working on the ground. They will be helping me gather first-hand accounts, visual documentation and social media content on the events. I am also collecting data coming from the API of social networks. The data will be processed through analytics softwares such as JMP and will feed into the design of the sculptures and abstract data visualizations. Local curators and art critics in Istanbul, Damla Acikada and Ege Okal, will be curating the exhibition.
In order to continue the project and take it to Turkey, I need to purchase:
Studio Space: Minimum 3 months.
Drafting Table
PC laptop
3D Printer: Makerbot Replicator
Analytics Software
Materials for design, prototyping and final production.
Gallery & Curator Fees
Shipping and handling of the work
Travel to Istanbul, Turkey (1 round trip from NYC)
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Many issues can arise during the process of creating this project. I have previously worked on projects of custom fabrication using CNC and larger 3D printing technologies, where the outsourcing could be quite costly. Because of this, errors in production and having to be flexible with deadlines are some of the challenges I foresee but I know my time limits. Also, I've done the math, and the purchase of the 3-D printer will minimize small scale 3D printing costs greatly. Because the size and weight of the work that is going to Istanbul is still to be determined, shipping and handling costs will vary.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Win a $500 iTunes Gift Certificate
McGraw Hill Osborne is giving away three prizes of $500 iTunes Gift Certificates between now and January 15, 2005. "Three (3) separate winners will be chosen at random. The first winner will be chosen August 2nd, 2004, the second winner will be chosen October 29th, 2004 and the third and final winner will be chosen February 15th, 2005." No purchase necessary. Only open to U.S. residents.
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ver very cool. but its from the same company who makes my textbooks in school… weird
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 4, 2004 at 4:15 PM (CDT)
What they aren't telling you is that the prize is actually 500 unredeemed Pepsi bottlecaps.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 4, 2004 at 9:55 PM (CDT)
check out the privacy statement…
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Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 4, 2004 at 10:57 PM (CDT)
That'll be right, once again be ignorant to the fact that there is a world outside the US.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 5, 2004 at 2:22 AM (CDT)
oh please. how many times have i wanted to enter a contest but it says canada or uk only.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 5, 2004 at 4:23 AM (CDT)
Um, I have never even entered any contests because none of them are avaliable in Australia.
If you are complaining because you can't win something from canada, then that just reinforces what I first said.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 5, 2004 at 5:25 AM (CDT)
Cry me a river, Adam. If there aren't any contests available in Australia, why is that America's fault?
For my part, I won't participate in this. The mere chance of winning $500 isn't worth all the likely spam.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 5, 2004 at 10:07 AM (CDT)
i dont really mind the spam. dont you guys have spam addresses? i have a hotmail account that i use for all that stuff, its never actually gotten that bad. they dont require your home address for this either.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on May 5, 2004 at 11:21 PM (CDT)
I agree - plus I just signed up and unchecked the box to be contacted. I checked the rules and you don't have to "subscribe" to win the songs. 500 bucks might satisfy me for a few days….
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1. I returned some items to Costco this morning, and I never ever return anything to Costco. I had two Hanna Andersson sleepers that I'd bought for Preston and one had a hole in it and the other had a broken zipper. They were a few months old but Hannas are supposed to last several kids and these weren't even lasting ONE kid.
Anyway, they gave me my money back and it was very painless (as I knew it would be) and this is why we are buying a new mattress from Costco.
2. Yes, after more than ten years we are buying a new mattress. I am leaning towards this one at Costco because the reviewers love it and it was mentioned in Consumer Reports a year or two ago and also the price is right. Very right. I looked at Tuft and Needle and Casper and they have nice reviews too, but I just really feel like for the best experience and peace of mind I need to buy our new mattress at Costco. They will take it back AT ANY POINT, should I decide I hate it.
So, a review shall be forthcoming on THAT one.
3. I called Verizon because our $10 HBO deal was about to expire and I asked some questions and I ended up getting a landline here at the house for a whole extra $3 a month. I'd been wanting a landline for several months for 911 reasons and also Claire might have a friend that wants to actually call her and invite her over to play at some point, and at a certain age it is probably really uncool to keep having to ask YOUR mom to text THE FRIEND'S mom, and we are several years from getting children their own personal communication devices ANYWAY, so an old-fashioned landline seemed like a good choice.
And for $3 a month, WHY NOT?
4. At first I was going to buy this telephone:
I want a corded telephone so the phone is always where it is supposed to be in case of emergency, and this one was very cheap ($11) and it even had caller ID so I could ignore Ted Cruz and his campaign when they inevitably call me (NO NO NOPE).
But then I figured if I was going to buy a phone it should be a COOL phone. It's going to be in my kitchen and I will have to look at it every day so it should not be ugly. I had to do a bit of experimenting on Amazon to figure out what to even search for. "Phone" was no good, as it brought up LG and iPhones, and "Telephone" was a bit better but not much. I tried "wall phone" and "small phone" before finally getting to "corded telephone," which seems to be the right phrase.
(I bet you anything my Grandmother, who has had the same landline phone number for like 40 years, is reading this and totally rolling her eyes at me.)
This phone was totally rad but it had terrible reviews and it's not even metal, it's mostly plastic and it's also $100.
A friend on Twitter has this and I do really dig it ($60).
But THEN I got on eBay and AH MAH GAH so much vintage phone. How fabulous is THIS for $20? I don't plan on dialing out very much (if ever) so the rotary part is more charming to me than anything.
Or this!
1973 GREEN! Doesn't this just make you think of Ready Player One? I love it.
I will probably get both a vintage phone and a modern one so I can check caller ID if I want to, but then I can look at the cute vintage one in the kitchen every day and not the ugly $11 one. Anyway, we got a landline and no you can't have the phone number because haaaaaa I do not want it to actually RING and DISTURB me please remember this is still 2015 and nobody wants to talk on the phone as a surprise.
5. Let's start a pool on how fast we think I will get my first spammy phone call. I'm not giving the number out to anyone but my parents and the lady at Verizon PROMISED me that Verizon does not sell phone numbers. I was unwilling to pay $5.25 a month to have an unlisted phone number (ROBBERY). I bet I get a spammy phone call within 48 hours. Anyone else care to make a guess? Maybe I will keep a list.
6. Claire and Charlotte will be at alternating grandparent homes for the next two weeks, so I feel like this is prime Get A Big Project Done time. I am about 80% through with KonMari'ing the house and I'm kind of bored of it and I plan on picking it back up when school starts and the kids quit interrupting me. I think for this two week stretch I will paint the half bathroom downstairs. It took me two months to paint a bedroom so I think two weeks is good for a tiny bathroom.
7. I am also going to make this rainbow costume for Charlotte over the next two weeks. It's her Halloween costume. I am not even going to sew it, I am going to hot glue or fabric glue it (whichever I think will be easier) out of felt.
After I make that, I am going to try to make something for Preston. He's going to be a tornado. I am totally going to find a plastic cow to sew onto it.
I am also not going to sew this one either. I wanted Claire to be a rain cloud but she has already decided to be Batman so that's the end of that. Rainbow, Tornado, Batman. Quite the trio.
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We went on a mini vacation last week to the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort in Bastrop. It's about 20 minutes from the Austin airport.
I wanted to go on a summer trip but I did not want to get on an airplane. Airports are hell with three young kids, they are a time suck (a whole day to travel on each side, no thanks), and it's just so expensive when you're buying FIVE tickets. I wanted a getaway with a great pool and a nice resort but I did not want to spend a lot of time getting there.
I googled things like "Best Pool For Kids In Texas" and this is one of the options that popped up.
Hyatt Lost Pines is a resort. It has a spa, it has a huge pool, it has a few restaurants, it has lots of activities (some free and some are extra cash) it has $26 PER DAY valet parking like a downtown Dallas hotel. (Self parking is free.) It's on the lower Colorado River just outside of Austin, but it's set way back off the highway. It's totally out in the country but you don't have to drive for hours and hours into the country to get there.
Here's part of the drive from the highway to the resort. It's very woodsy.
Everything is priced like a resort. $12 mojitos, $16 cheeseburgers, $8 baskets of french fries. Expect to be gutted on food and bev. Rooms start at $160 (best I can tell) and go up, up, up from there.
We stayed Sunday/Monday, because a lady I talked to on the phone said Sunday is their lowest occupancy day and I definitely wanted to visit when it was not crowded. She was right; the resort was half booked and we had no issues with space/waiting. Highly recommend this strategy. I think any mid-week stay would be fine.
This is the reason we visited. I wanted to take the kids to a crazy amazing pool and swim for a few days. The pool does not disappoint. It is AMAZING. It is not giant, but the resort is not giant.
Main Beach Entry Pool (with sand!): 1-3′ deep for a HUGE area. Sixty kids can play here and not feel crowded. There are chairs adults can put IN the pool in this section to sit and watch kids and chat. There are lots of sitting shelves around the edges for supervising parents. Claire (6) and Charlotte (4) played in here independently. Both could touch the bottom over a wide area. Preston (2) could also touch, but he was prone to forgetting he could do that so we had to keep much closer to him.
This is a huge lounge chair area in the back of the lazy river area and it's under a huge tree and it was so dreamy.
Lazy River: So much fun! No more than 4′ deep at the deepest parts, Claire (6) was able to swim the whole thing and float it solo with no hand-holding from an adult. She was very independent here and she LOVED it.
The river has plenty of tubes (single and doubles) and they also have these totally awesome mini tubes for small kids WITH A BOTTOM PANEL! I'd just plop Preston (2) in that sucker and he would be very neatly contained and I could twirl him around of just hang onto the hand on his tube while I floated on my own and it was fabulous. Lazy river was my favorite thing to do.
The lazy river also had several slow spots with steps or beach entry and lounge chairs so that you could stop and play MID river, away from the big pool and in a low-current area.
Brother and baby niece floating in the river.
Slide: Totally awesome! Super fun! Have to be 42″ tall to ride on your own, but an adult can take a child of any age down on a lap. Line never got more than ten kids deep. The pool it dumped kids out in was roomy and had lots of chairs for parents to supervise, and a sitting shelf alllllll the way around the edge of the pool for more parents. I'm telling you, this pool had it DOWN on the "Places To Be Sit" thing.
Splash Pad/Baby Pool: The splash pad has that soft ground up tennis-shoes like surface, which is great. The baby pool is round and goes from 6″ to 18″ in graduated steps. There were lots of chairs around this area for parents to set up camp for the afternoon. Also lots of shade, which is so nice.
Water Coolers: I've never seen this at a resort, but they had drink stations all over the place with coolers of ice water and plastic cups. This was GREAT with the kids. No need to bother the bar staff for water requests for small people.
Seating: I've never seen a pool area quite like this, but all of the pools and areas I described above are connected by water, so it's easy to say "hey, let's go do the slide now!" but the sitting areas around them are sort of twisted and hidden so that it's easy to find little spots where you don't have to gaze upon the masses from your lounge chair. There was PLENTY of seating, and plenty of SHADED seating.
Staff: Major high-fives to the staff who kept the tubes well inflated and available. Tube hunting was never something we had to do. The bar staff was also great and it wasn't ever hard to flag someone down for a drink. There are no lifeguards.
Our room was very nice. The bathroom had a shower stall AND a tub. Bed was comfy, linens were nice. Robes were super plush. The room felt recently updated. Nothing was tired or sad or in need of replacement.
I booked a "Pool Access" room and I paid extra for it. The advertised idea was that you could walk out of your room to the pool. This was not the case. Our room was behind a lot of hedges, so you couldn't walk out the door to the pool. You could walk AROUND the hedges but there wasn't a sidewalk and there was a rather steep hill. Also, the sliding doors didn't lock from the outside so there was NO POINT walking out that door ANYWAY because you couldn't lock the stupid thing behind you. I felt really ripped off on the room type. We were in room 1705, which is not a room I recommend.
It's been a few days and I'm still really cranky about that room.
Next time I go I will book a Jr Suite. My brother booked one and it was HUGE and it only cost a little more than my "Pool Access" room. They will also book you a Jr Suite with an adjoining King or Queen room, which basically makes the Jr Suite a 2-bedroom suite.
My parents were in a King room, which was just like our room except it had one bed. There is a TON of floor space in all the rooms. Plenty of space in any room type for pack and plays or air mattresses for extra kids. I could also see booking two adjoining King/Queen rooms to get more space/doors between sleeping kids and still awake adults.
This spa was killer. They have all the normal services, but the relaxation room was just delightful. There is a pool that is only for spa people (which was totally empty and kids aren't allowed YAY) and it looked like the perfect place to sit all afternoon and read a book and order room service.
There is a eucalyptus steam room and a shower with tons of jets and sprayers. There is a hot tub. All standard spa stuff. I got a facial and it was really great.
But as with most resort spas the services are really overpriced. Because I had small kids that my husband was watching solo I didn't feel like I could sit there all day and ENJOY all the spa amenities like I would have liked to. Next time I will make sure to book my kids in Camp Hyatt (it's a half day of crafts and games for kids 3+) and then I will make plans to spend four or five hours over at the spa pool or sitting quietly (ALONE!) in the relaxation room before or after services.
The food situation is adequate, but it's not GREAT. I packed a lot of snacks for my kids to eat poolside and I am glad I did.
One of the on site restaurants was closed one of the two nights we were there, and another is actually out on the golf course. Two of the four restaurants are "reservations recommended." The resort is in the middle of NOWHERE so going off-site would be super time consuming. I would have liked to stay a third day for more pool and fun, but honestly the idea of having to eat there for a third evening was a big NOPE to all of us.
Drinks were fine, but not amazing. The breakfast buffet had some hot items that were already cold at 730 in the morning.
They have a food truck area with a snow cone truck and a pizza truck. There are lots of picnic tables and it's under a big tree and there are cafe lights and the whole thing is delightful. I wish there had been one other actual food option. Kids loved the snow cones, though.
Don't expect artisan, local, fabulously fresh and packed with flavor food here. It's a huge miss for the resort, especially since Austin is so close and is so known for great eats. I don't know, I feel like food isn't THAT hard to do well, especially at those prices. They can improve here.
The pool is why we visited, but I was very pleasantly surprised at all the OTHER stuff to do. They have a huge bike rack of trikes, youth bikes (with and without training wheels), and cruiser-style bikes for adults. There are a lot of paved paths to ride on and we enjoyed tooling around.
The guys did a trap shooting excursion one morning and they said it was fun and very well-run and a nice facility, but way too expensive. $85 bought you one box of shells to shoot.
There were always organized activities for free though. Twice a day there was a kids craft. Outdoor events included Juggling Lessons, Capture the Flag, Glow in the Dark Badminton, S'mores, Little Bobbers fishing on the lake, a movie in the amphitheater at night (with popcorn and towels to sit on!) etc. Here's a schedule for one day (click to embiggen):
One day it rained out the craft (there was lightning and the pool also closed so ALLLLLL the kids were inside) so they put a bounce house in a conference room and moved the craft inside, which I thought was really great.
The grounds were really gorgeous. All landscaped in native plants with giant pecan trees, it was really picturesque and pleasant and there was TONS of shade and always a place to sit and a place for Preston to run off and not listen when we asked him to STOP RUNNING PRESTON STOP STOP STOP.
There was also a playground, because OF COURSE THERE WAS.
A lot of families. A lot of grandparents. Most kids were elementary aged. I saw some tweens, very few teens. I saw ZERO young 20-something no-kids people. Everyone was friendly and seemed to be very aware and forgiving of the vagaries of Having Children On Vacation. Good crowd. Not snobby, not entitled, not rude.
I only saw ONE guy working on his laptop at the pool and having a conference call with a guy named Mark. (Which we allllll heard about because it was kind of a long call.) Apparently, this guy will be able to fulfill Mark's request even though HE IS AT THE POOL ON VACATION WATCHING HIS KIDS GO DOWN AN AWESOME WATER SLIDE. (Seriously America, UNPLUG.)
For a family resort with a giant pool, there's no place in the room to hang up wet bathing suits to dry. I had to hang ours all over the bathroom on hooks that were designed for towels, and the drips made the floor SUPER slippery and dangerous. I put them on the side of the tub the second day, but they didn't dry and everyone complained about cold and wet bathing suits the next morning.
The day camp for kids was full and I couldn't get the girls in. The property was only half full, so I expected an availability, but there wasn't one. Super disappointing. I wish we had been told that it was popular or space was very limited or…something.
This is a nice resort. The staff is absolutely on the ball and everything is very well organized and staffed. It reminded me a lot of Disney. It's expensive (especially if you book the wrong room like I did), but honestly? WE HAD SO MUCH FUN. And it was close to home and the kids LOVED it and so did we. Money well-spent. GOOD VACATION.
I bought a Lifeproof iPhone case before we went to take pics in the pool and underwater and I LOVE IT. It was spend ($66) but my phone was totally dry and the pics were great. It's reusable. Recommend.
I think we hit it on a good week, weather-wise. It wasn't too hot (didn't break 95) and it only rained one afternoon. I am not sure I would visit in August. When it's 100+, it's not fun to be outside in any situation and so much of the fun here is away from the AC.
If I had kids that were not in school yet I would book a mid-week stay here in early September. It's still plenty warm, but I bet this place is a ghost town once school starts.
We will be returning next year, or perhaps we will try the JW Marriott in San Antonio. I heard lots of great things about it from other guests at Lost Pines and from my local friends.
A++, will definitely do again.
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I am about five months into a pretty serious organizing/decluttering event at my house and it's going pretty great. We have lived here for five years and added two humans to our family since then and things have been craaaazeeee for a while.
I have donated more than 50 plastic bins of items and I have trashed about 15 bins. Closets feel emptier, I can find the things I need and, increasingly, I am surrounded by things I love. It's good. I think I'm about 60% finished.
I was already pretty far into this when I read the Japanese Tidying book and wooooo boy, that book SPOKE to me in nice whispers. It turns out that I was already following a lot of her suggestions on my own, but the book gave me a push (and permission) to get RUTHLESS.
Here is what works for me:
1. Asking if something brings me joy. This is straight from the book. Yes, it is super loopy/woo-woo. BUT IT WORKS FOR ME. If the answer is no or maybe, I get rid of it. I try not to dwell on the question because I'm really great at talking myself into keeping items that actually bring me no joy. No matter how valuable or who gave it to me, if I don't like it? I don't like it. I don't want it in my house.
For example, this is my linen closet. It's so great. I got rid of sheets I had owned SINCE COLLEGE. In my house, we use white sheets. White sheets on every single dang bed. With five beds it keeps everything nice and simple. WHITE SHEETS ONLY. So why was I hanging onto green sheets and tan sheets and blue sheets? THERE WAS NO GOOD REASON. (They have all been donated.)
But look, I did keep some patterned sheets, because I'm a fun mom and sometimes we make forts and it's better if they aren't made of GOOD sheets that I feel like I have to wash again right away.
2. The Tidying book did not try to make me feel bad for HAVING a lot of stuff and it didn't try and guilt me into not buying anything else in the future. I feel like tons of books and methods and gurus really push this idea and want you to dig deep and ask yourself what having 43 bath towels means about you as a person, but Marie Kondo does none of that. It's a VERY face value evaluation of your stuff and I loved that.
For example, maybe I have 43 bath towels. I do not need this many towels. I don't even like them all. I'm going to keep the GOOD ones. Maybe I will buy more towels next week when I get to Target and I see those rainbow dot ones that make me all happy inside. But most of the ones I have get donated. That's okay. The end.
(I did not actually have 43 bath towels but if I did? THAT'S OKAY.)
That was so FREEING for me. No sense looking backward into WHY the towels are here or what bad habits caused me to BUY the towels or entering into a horrible shameful math equation of acknowledging how much money I'd WASTED on TERRIBLE TOWELS. No, nope. Sort, get rid of them, move on with your life. Sunk cost fallacy, AHOY.
3. I am a point in my life where I feel like I CAN actually go through this exercise with some effectiveness. I almost feel like I'm taking my house BACK from my children. I used to let them sleep anywhere they'd deign to actually SLEEP but now they sleep in their beds like proper children and they keep most of their toys in their rooms, too. They are old enough to pick up after themselves and I'm asking them to. They have strong opinions on what they like and don't like to play with. After living in survival mode for so many years I'm ready to actually pick up my house and keep it looking nice. (I have the time for that now! It's weird.)
This is Preston's closet. It was STUFFED with a wide variety of Baby Items that I intended to sell or give away but I got RULL HONEST with myself and just took a deep breath and donated almost everything. It feels great.
As my kids get older I am far less attached to their toys and clothes and once I get The Baby Years sorted/donated/sold I feel like I won't have to repeat that kind of mass evaluation/donation any time soon.
4. I stopped caring where things went. I sold a few things, but I have been singularly focused on getting items out of my house as quickly as possible, and for me that is a short trip to my drive-through donation warehouse. I have donated A LOT. (I donated a mink coat.) For a few weeks I went every day, sometimes twice a day. The donation guy RECOGNIZED me and would say things like, "See you this afternoon!"
The Mink Coat, plus a duvet, plus two bins of..I don't even know what. STUFF.
I'm also throwing a lot of stuff away right now and that's bothersome because we are not really supposed to throw things away because…THE PLANET. But the way I figure it, it's stuff I should have been throwing away all along, for the five years we've lived in this house. I just happen to be throwing it out in a single six month stretch rather than five years. Do I feel bad about it? Yes. But was it all going to end up there anyway? You betcha.
In the book Marie talks about throwing things away all the time. She is so casual about "just throw it away!" that it was positively shocking to this American. Maybe that's a Japanese thing? I have no idea. Because I feel like in the US throwing things away is…bad. Like, we DO throw things away, but it's always under duress, right? We have absolutely been trained that if we must throw something away, it definitely shouldn't be a lot of things. We are supposed to recycle or compost or upcycle or reuse or find a new home for it. ANYTHING BUT THE TRASH CAN.
It's so weird because we have all this stuff but we have also been trained to not LET IT GO. It's BAD to let it go! And if you must let it go, you need to send it to The Correct Place. I have an overwhelming need to organize my trash into neat piles so it doesn't end up in the actual trash and I just CAN'T.
I have things I don't need, some of them are going in the trash, and I will be much more careful in the future about what I acquire.
5. Acknowledging that an item once brought me joy when I bought it or when it was given to me, but it no longer brings me joy, so I should get rid of it, was a HUGE HUGE moment for me. For example, I threw away a TON of photographs from college. TONS.
It was hard, because photos feel so special, but seriously I was not going to get these remnant photos out for my kids one day. I have scrapbooked the best of the best, I have the negatives organized and filed in sleeves, these prints had to GO.
I realized that it had been fun to take the pictures and it was fun to get them developed (remember that?!) and it was fun to show them to my roommates to laugh at back in 1998, but their usefulness and any joy they gave to me had long since passed. GONE.
So that's what I've been doing since January. It's been a slog but life is so much better here. Simultaneously climbing out of the fog and chaos of The Baby Years while getting my house together has been amazing. A lot of people don't like the Tidying book for some really valid, "that's a bonkers idea" reasons. (The author suggests emptying your handbag every day and…no.)
I just loved it. It came along at a point in my life when I had the time to devote energy towards this kind of thing and I'm so glad. Maybe I'll even have more time to blog soon.
*I will make you read the book to get that joke.
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The Leporinus genus, belonging to the Anostomidae family, is an interesting model for studies of sex chromosome evolution in fish, particularly because of the presence of heteromorphic sex chromosomes only in some species of the genus. In this study we used W chromosome-derived probes in a series of cross species chromosome painting experiments to try to understand events of sex chromosome evolution in this family.
W chromosome painting probes from Leporinus elongatus, L. macrocephalus and L. obtusidens were hybridized to each others chromosomes. The results showed signals along their W chromosomes and the use of L. elongatus W probe against L. macrocephalus and L. obtusidens also showed signals over the Z chromosome. No signals were observed when the later aforementioned probe was used in hybridization procedures against other four Anostomidae species without sex chromosomes.
Our results demonstrate a common origin of sex chromosomes in L. elongatus, L. macrocephalus and L. obtusidens but suggest that the L. elongatus chromosome system is at a different evolutionary stage. The absence of signals in the species without differentiated sex chromosomes does not exclude the possibility of cryptic sex chromosomes, but they must contain other Leporinus W sequences than those described here.
Keywords:FISH; Zoo-FISH; Microdissection; Sex chromosome evolution
The origin and evolution of sex chromosomes have interested evolutionary biologists for a long time. Although sex chromosomes evolve from an autosomal pair [1], over time they become different both in gene content and structure [2]. While sex chromosomes in most mammals are ancient, sex chromosomes in some fish, insects and dioecious plants are evolutionarily young [2,3].
Among vertebrates, fish present an enormous diversity of sex determination mechanisms, contrasting with the much more stable systems found in mammals and birds. The majority of teleost fish are gonochoristic, meaning that they exist as males and females, and the most gonochoristic species have genetic sex determination. Beside simultaneous and sequential hermaphroditism, gonochorism in fish is controlled by many forms of sex determination involving genetic and/or environmental factors, although temperature-dependent sex determination might be rarer than previously thought [4,5]. Despite a large number of fish species described, only a minor fraction has been thoroughly investigated and their sex determination mechanism unequivocally clarified [6].
Within the fish species with genetic sex determination many variations have been found, ranging from male or female heterogamety to polygenic sex determination. Multiple sex chromosomes, or autosomal modifiers that enhance or antagonize the sex-determining genes on the gonosomes, are quite frequent [7,8]. This, together with the fact that even between closely related fish species the sex determination mechanisms can be different [6,9-13], demonstrates the high evolutionary plasticity of this fundamental process [7].
Sex chromosomes in the genus Leporinus (Teleostei, Anostomidae) present some features that make this group very interesting for the study of sex determination mechanisms and sex chromosome structure, composition and evolution. In general, the sex chromosomes of the Leporinus genus have morphological similarities. An exception is observed in the Leporinus sp2 species, where the W chromosomes are not differentiated from autosomes. The Leporinus group consists of around 40 species and eight of them show heteromorphic sex chromosomes and the presence of conspicuous large blocks of heterochromatin on sex chromosomes is the characteristic feature of the Leporinus karyotypes. Among this eight species seven (L. conirostris, L. elongatus, L. aff. elongatus, L. macrocephalus, L. obtusidens, L. reinhardti, L. trifasciatus) possess enlarged W chromosomes in comparison to the Z, due the increase of heterochromatin, while one, Leporinus sp2, presents a karyotype with the W chromosome equal in size to its homologous Z and the autosomes. The hypothesis of the accumulation of repetitive elements as the major pathway in the differentiation of sex chromosomes in Anostomidae is widely accepted [14,15]. In fact, it has been proposed that repetitive elements are different among some species [16] and that they were probably responsible for the recent origin of a multiple Z1Z1Z2Z2/Z1W1Z2W2 sex chromosome system in L. elongatus[15]. However whether the increase of heterochromatic segments by accumulation of repetitive DNA is the cause or consequence of sex chromosome origin remains, as yet, undiscovered and details of sex chromosome evolution within the genus are unknown.
To study sex chromosome evolution in Leporinus and related Anostomidae species we have obtained whole W chromosome specific probes of three Leporinus species by manual microdissection and used the paints for cross species hybridisation. Our results provide some new views of Anostomidae chromosome evolution and add new evidence on the origin of sex chromosomes in Leporinus.
Hybridisation using Leporinus elongatus W probe (WLe)
The WLe probe used against chromosomes of the Leporinus elongatus female painted the entire W chromosome (Figure 1a). In female individuals of L. macrocephalus, the WLe probe painted the entire W chromosome as well as a large part of the Z chromosome (Figure 1b). In male individuals of L. macrocephalus the WLe probe painted almost all of both Z chromosomes (Figure 1d). The WLe probe completely painted the W chromosomes of the female L. obtusidens (Figure 1c). In L. obtusidens males signals were observed in the subtelomeric region of the p-arm of the Z chromosome, but only after increased exposure time (Figure 1e).
Figure 1. FISH using Leporinus elongatus W chromosome (WLe) probes. a- WLe vs female L. elongatus;b- WLe vs female L. macrocephalus;c- WLe vs female L. obtusidens;d- WLe vs male L. macrocephalus;e- WLe vs male L. obtusidens; f- WLe probe hybridisation pattern.
FISH experiments with WLe probes in L. friderici, L. striatus, L. lacustris, Schizodon borelii and S. isognathus individuals did not produce any result (even under low stringency wash conditions) (data not shown).
Hybridisation using Leporinus macrocephalus W probe (WLm)
FISH experiments using WLm probes showed a hybridisation pattern where the W chromosome of L. macrocephalus was entirely painted as well as part of the Z chromosome (Figure 2a). Also, signals on the long arm of the W1 chromosome of L. elongatus and in the W chromosome of L. obtusidens were observed (Figure 2b, c). In L. elongatus male individuals, no hybridisation signals were seen, as in the experiments using the WLe probe onto the L. elongatus male.
Figure 2. FISH using Leporinus macrocephalus W chromosome (WLm) probes. a- WLm vs female L. macrocephalus;b- WLm vs female L. elongatus;c- WLm vs female L. obtusidens. d- WLm probe hybridisation pattern.
Hybridisation using Leporinus obtusidens W probe (WLo)
The WLo probe painted the entire W chromosome of all L. obtusidens females (Figure 3a). Signals of similar intensity were also observed in the long arm of W1 chromosomes of L. elongatus and W of L. macrocephalus, while signals were absent on the short arm (Figure 3b, c). As it was observed in experiments using W from L. macrocephalus, no signals were detected in male individuals of all analysed species.
Figure 3. FISH using Leporinus obtusidens W chromosome (WLo) probes. a- WLo vs female L. obtusidens;b- WLo vs female L. elongatus;c- WLo vs female L. macrocephalus; d- WLo probe hybridisation pattern.
Discussion and conclusion
The W chromosome of Leporinus species is easily recognised, being the largest chromosome of the karyotype due to the accumulation of large heterochromatic blocks, which facilitate the identification of the chromosome during microdissection procedures. While the sex chromosomes of the Leporinus species in general are highly differentiated, the other chromosomes show the typical metacentric- submetacentric pattern [17]. The morphologic similarity among sex chromosomes found in the Leporinus species led to the hypothesis of a common origin, in which an initial accumulation of heterochromatic segments was the first step in the differentiation of sex chromosomes [18]. An exception was found in Leporinus sp2, where the size of the W chromosome was similar to other elements of the karyotype [19]. These authors proposed that the sex chromosomal system in Leporinus sp2 originated independently from the ZW system previously described for other Leporinus species.
Our hybridisation experiments show that WLe hybridizes solely to the W chromosome in L. elongatus, while in L. macrocephalus and L. obtusidens the Z chromosomes were also partly labelled. The WLm and WLo probes reveal a similar result in cross species experiments, the most intense signals being those located at heterochromatic regions of the q arms. This pattern is possibly due the distribution of repetitive elements.
The use of repetitive elements to map the dynamics of sex chromosomes in Anostomidae has been successfully employed. The repetitive element LeSpeI was described as a participant of the sex chromosome differentiation process in L. elongatus[15]. This sequence was also mapped in L. macrocephalus and L. obtusidens, revealing homologies and highlighting their importance in sex chromosome differentiation [20]. However, the attempt to find a relationship between LeSpeI and a putative cryptic sex differentiation process in Leporinus friderici, L. striatus, L. lacustris, Schizodon borelii and S. isognathus by mapping this sequence in these species without sex chromosomes, failed because no positive hybridisation signals were observed [21].
The Leporinus genus has been divided hypothetically into two different groups according to cytogenetic and molecular records [18,22]. Our data reinforce the idea of the subdivision of Leporinus genus in at least two lineages: one comprising species with differentiated sex chromosomes and the other without sex chromosome differentiation. The W specific probes retrieved from L. elongatus, L. macrocephalus and L. obtusidens systematically cross hybridised with other W chromosomes, showing the similarity of these sequences. Based on this fact, it is possible to hypothesize that the sex chromosomes of L. elongatus, L. macrocephalus and L. obtusidens had a common origin. According to our results, the hypothesis of cryptic sex chromosomes sharing Leporinus W sequences in the other anostomids (Leporinus friderici, L. striatus, L. lacustris, Schizodon borelii and S. isognathus) can be discarded, consistent with previous studies on repetitive sequences. Furthermore, those sex chromosomes could have originated from the same autosomes, but in a different process of differentiation.
A fact to note in our results is that the probes of the W chromosome from L. elongatus paint the Z chromosome of L. macrocephalus males and females and the Z chromosome of L. obtusidens male but do not paint the L. elongatus Z chromosome present in males and females. This reinforces the hypothesis proposed by Parise-maltempi et al. [15] about the presence of a new system of multiple sex chromosomes in L. elongatus. The sex chromosomes of L. elongatus are probably in a different stage of differentiation from those of the other Leporinus species in which repetitive sequences shared between the Z and W chromosomes are not shared in L. elongatus chromosome Z.
Cross-species chromosome painting is a powerful tool to delineate syntenic chromosome regions among closely and distantly related species and to reconstruct chromosomal phylogeny [23-25]. In fish specifically, studies have brought new insights into the evolution of sex chromosome systems, and showed that in many cases, closely related groups have taken quite different evolutionary paths [9,10,26-29]. As in Leporinus species analysed in this report, some other fish groups also share a common origin of sex chromosomes [12,30-32].
Our data indicate that in spite of the often reported high plasticity of sex determination mechanisms in fish, in the Anostomidae family, and especially in some species of the Leporinus genus, the sex systems seem to be conserved and derived from a common ancestral pair. Probably the sex chromosomes are actually different, but the different W chromosomes could have been invaded with the same repetitive sequences. The results shown here add new data to studies using the Leporinus genus as a model, reinforcing the hypothesis that the Leporinus ZW sex chromosomes may be found only in closely related species, and remain undetected in the other species.
Cell culture and metaphase cell preparation
Leporinus elongatus chromosomes were obtained from cultured cells. Fibroblast cells collected from fin tissue of L. elongatus were cultured in DMEM medium supplemented with 10% FCS and 50% Amniomax C-100 (Invitrogen) serum at 37°C.
The cells were harvested after colcemid treatment (0.05 ug/mL) for 2 hours, suspended in hypotonic solution (0.075M KCl) and then incubated at 37°C for 20 min. Cells were pelleted and resuspended three times in fresh ice cold fixative (3:1 methanol:acetic acid), then kept at −20°C until use.
The chromosomes of other Anostomidae species (L. friderici, L. striatus, L. lacustris, Schizodon borelii and S. isognathus) were obtained by direct cytological preparations from kidney samples according to the methods given by Foresti et al. [33].
Chromosome microdissection and DNA amplification
Chromosome suspensions were dropped onto moist, 1% SDS- cleaned coverslips. The coverslips were washed in 1x PBS solution for 1 minute and incubated in a trypsin solution (35 mL 1x PBS and 5 mL trypsin) for 30 seconds, washed again in 1x PBS and stained with Giemsa 1% in PBS.
The microdissection was performed using an Eppendorf TransferMan NK2 (Eppendorf) coupled to a Zeiss Axiovert 40 CFL microscope, with glass needles made with a Nikon puller and sterilized by UV radiation. About 8 chromosomes were separately placed in 9uL DNAse-free ultrapure water and were then amplified using the GenomePlex Single Cell Whole Genome Amplification Kit (WGA4-Sigma).
Fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH)
The probes were labelled using the GenomePlex (WGA3 Reamplification KIT-Sigma) following the manufacturer's protocol, except changing the kit dNTP mix for a ½ T dNTP mix and adding a biotin 16-dUTP in the reaction.
Fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) was performed using the protocol described by Rens et al. [34,35] with several modifications.
Slides were dehydrated through an ethanol series; aged for 1h at 60°C, denatured in 70% formamide/0.6x saline-sodium citrate (SSC) at 65°C for 2 minutes and dehydrated again. 3 μL of biotinylated probe combined with L. elongatus Cot 1 (2 μg) was precipitated in ethanol and resuspended in 13 μL of hybridisation buffer (40% deionized formamide (v/v), 10% dextran sulfate, 2x SSC, 0.05 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.3). This mixture was denatured for 10 min at 65°C, pre-annealed at 37°C for 1 hour and applied to each slide. Hybridisation was carried out at 37°C for 12 hours for the same species and over three nights for cross species experiments. It was used Cot1 once that Fish genomes possess a high amount of repetitive elements and FISH with chromosome specific probes gives a large amount of background signal if no suppression of repetitive elements is used. Post-hybridisation washes were performed in 40% formamide/1.8x SSC twice for 5 min each, followed by 2x SSC twice for 5 min each and 4x SSC with 0.05% Tween-20 (4xT) once for 4 min at 42°C for the same species and 45°C for cross species. Probe detection was carried out using 200 μL of diluted (1:500) Cy3-streptavidin antibody (Amersham) per slide at 37°C for 30 min. After detection, slides were washed in 4xT three times for 3 min each at 42°C and mounted in Vectashield mounting medium with 4′,6- diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI; Vector Laboratories).
Images were captured and processed using the CytoVision Genus system (Applied Imaging, USA) and a Cohu CCD camera mounted on an Olympus BX-60 microscope.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
PPPM, FD, WR conceived and designed the experiments. PPPM and ELS performed the experiments and drafted the manuscript. WR and FD helped in cell culture and with developing the laboratory techniques. PCMO gave important suggestions about cell culture and FISH analysis. VT made substantial contributions in microdissection experiments. Most of the experiments were performed in MAFS laboratory. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors are grateful to Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES for the financial support. They also thank Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (IBAMA) for the licensing of collection to ELS.
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Apr 18, 2014
rating: 5.12c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b
|Wow! What a great variation to a great route. After the no hands rest halfway, there isn't a single hold that's bigger than a sharp crimp, and the stone is immaculate. Hard to grade a route like this, but definitely a grade harder than Convicted Felon. The easier end of 12c is appropriate. Thanks, Dave!
By Mike McKinnon
From: Golden, CO
Jun 18, 2014
|Got on this route last night and had three good burns on it. It was not until the last burn did I figure out the crux sequence. I think 12c is about right, but I can't confirm until I send it using the beta and I am fresh.
By Jack Sparrow
From: denver, co
Jul 22, 2014
rating: 5.12+ 7c 28 IX 27 E6 6b
|Stellar route I can't believe this went in so recently. Great rock with technical climbing on crimps that culminates with an awesome move to a bucket. Classic one of the better pitches in Clear Creek, IMHO.
By Curt MacNeill
From: Boulder, CO
Jul 28, 2014
|Classic. Hard to believe that this line just went in recently. When lowering from the anchors of the 5.10 next to it, there had always been an obvious line here for viewing as you lower. Bullet hard stone, cool little crimps and grips with a fun crux sequence. Really great route and thanks for the new addition to an already fantastic crag!
By Monty
From: Golden, CO
Jul 29, 2014
|Glad to hear people are diggin' this line!
By Peggy Shouse
Oct 13, 2014
|Great crimping sequence on solid rock. Really enjoyed this addition to the crag.
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