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"We have a pope," the 76-year-old billionaire — who also recently announced a pending marriage to his 27-year-old girlfriend, Francesca Pascale, a former backup dancer for a singer — declared with trademark fanfare after tough rounds of backroom political talks yielded a deal early Monday.
The agreement would see Berlusconi's People of Freedom party support the Northern League's Roberto Maroni in his bid for governor of the wealthy region of Lombardy.
In exchange, the Northern League, which broke with Berlusconi after he was forced from office at the height of Italy's debt crisis in 2011, would back the People of Freedom party in national elections on Feb. 24 and 25.
Berlusconi left open the possibility of settling for the role of economy minister instead of prime minister, suggesting that if his coalition won, the top job could go to his anointed successor, Angelino Alfano.
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They looked like covered steam tables in a restaurant buffet. But they smelled like formaldehyde. The vents on the lab tables sucked air with a gentle whirring noise, giving the room a negative air pressure.
"It keeps the smells in here and not in the hall," says Matthew Silvers, an assistant professor at Whitworth University, as he opens the door to one of the school's newest science facilities. "It just makes it a little bit more pleasant experience."
Open the tops of the tables, unzip the blue bags, pull back the waterproof wrapping and the formaldehyde-soaked rags, and the source of the stench is revealed. Two human bodies — one male, one female, both elderly.
Welcome to Whitworth's new cadaver lab, which opened last month and where students in a variety of majors are learning about the human body via dissection of real human bodies.
"It allows us to openly illustrate to students our
appreciation for God's creation," Silvers says. "I don't know how you
can convey that effect without a cadaver."
This is a big week for the 130 students in Silvers' human anatomy and physiology class. They are starting their muscle unit, and Silvers and his 20 teaching assistants have gone into overtime skinning the two cadavers.
"Skinning the cadaver is easy. It's just slow and steady, that's the motto," he says, as he pulls the skin off the male cadaver, which lies on its back, belly up.
The male's skin was flecked with sparse gray hairs on the outside and pieces of yellow fat on the underside. This was a lean guy, Silvers says, as he looks over the exposed musculature.
What probably did him in can be seen by folding back a piece of skin over the man's right hip. The silver ball of the man's hip implant is visible deep beneath crimson tissue, an indication that something with his hip surgery went awry, Silvers says.
You can't see either of the cadavers' faces. Silvers makes a point to keep them covered, and he says very few people have actually seen them. Regardless, Silvers and his teaching assistants plan to see deep within the cadavers by dissecting them extensively. (The bodies will then be cremated and returned to their families.)
Beyond that, the cadavers remain nameless. Silvers knows the cadavers' legal names. But he's bound not to tell and has discouraged the students from coming up with their own names for them.
"We're not sure if it's appropriate to name them or not, so we haven't," says Teegan Norton, a teaching assistant. "But I want to."
The tables are the most intricate contraptions in the room, featuring a ventilator and a grated bottom which channels liquid that spills off the body through a plastic tube and into a bucket below.
Though the tables are sophisticated, the tools are not. In the back of the lab, scalpels, tweezers and blunt picks are spread across a tray.
Silvers reaches into a cabinet and pulls out what he calls a "deli knife," and then a hacksaw.
"Almost anything you would need, you can get in a hardware
store," Silvers says, though the Stryker Saw, featuring an oscillating
blade that he says is great for cutting human bone, might be a little
harder to find.
Whitworthians have been eyeing a cadaver lab for a while. They're fairly common at big universities, but Silvers says Whitworth didn't have the facilities for one, and remodeling their existing labs would have been cost-prohibitive.
So students in the health sciences and pre-nursing majors had been stuck dissecting cats. Which isn't quite the same.
"All of our students are going to work with humans," he says. "They're not going to be working with cats."
Enter the $32 million Robinson Science Hall, the new digs for Whitworth's science faculty, which opened last month on the campus's north end.
Rather than launch their own cadaver program in the new building, though, Whitworth turned to Washington State University's Willed Body program, which receives 15 to 20 donations a year, according to David Conley, director of the program.
Conley outlines the requirements of the program. Even if someone fills out the paperwork to donate their body, he says, they still need to meet certain standards: no obese people (too heavy when embalmed, too hard to dissect), no severe cancers (too much organ damage), no violent deaths (too much damage everywhere).
"For most people, it's a very humanitarian kind of a thing," Conley says. "Many of them have had a health care provider in their life, whether it's a nurse or a doctor, who have given them really excellent care, and want to return the favor."
Other local schools with cadaver labs include North Idaho College, Spokane Falls Community College and WSU-Spokane, Conley says. For its part, Whitworth pays $2,000 for a four-year lease on a cadaver, Silvers says, though they hope to swap out the bodies every two years.
The problem with keeping a body for too long is that it dries out which leads to desiccation and destruction of tissue, Silvers says.
He has found that the most effective way to keep a body
moist has been to water it down with a special blend of embalming fluid,
then place the cadaver's skin back on its body and stick it back in the
"See that hole? That's lung tissue right there," says Sara Peterson, a teaching assistant, as she pokes her finger through a hole in the male cadaver's abdominal muscles. She assures a group of watching students who had packed the lab that they'll get to the respiratory system later.
They'll get to the whole body, in fact, but they're figuring out the order as they go, Silvers says. Take the head, for instance. He hasn't decided yet if they will cut open the top and remove the brain, or bisect it down the nose with the Stryker.
On the day they learned the muscles, 23 students, five teaching assistants and two cadavers were packed into the lab, orbiting between cadavers and then to other models used for teaching.
Cat Tarvin, an athletic training major, was apprehensive about touching one of the cadavers. It was her first time.
"I like people that are alive, definitely," she says. So she slipped on one rubber glove and tentatively made her way to the female cadaver.
She ran her hand over the shoulder blade and along the back of her neck. The back of the woman's shaved head was barely visible under the rag that covered it.
"It was slimy, and she's cold," Tarvin remarks afterwards, as she's headed over to the male cadaver. "She needs a blanket, I think."


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There has been a flurry of photo sharing apps released over the last year, with notables including Instagram, Picplz, and Path. These apps tend to focus on the photos that have been shared by your friends and people you know online — which aren't always snapshots of things you're actually interested in.
But what would happen if you had a service that took the opposite approach, allowing you to see photos of things you are interested in, even if they weren't necessarily captured by people you know? Enter Skylin.es, a new startup that's launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, that presents you with a personalized stream of photos that it thinks you'll like, regardless of who took them.
To use the service, first you'll be asked to connect with your Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare accounts. The service will then scour Twitpic, Yfrog, and Instagram for photos it thinks you'll like, using things you've liked on Facebook, the people you follow on Twitter, your current geographical location, and the places you check into most frequently on Foursquare.
In addition to offering a personalized photo stream, the service also offers real-time image search. Run a search for TCDisrupt, and you'll see the images that were recently uploaded on the aforementioned image apps.
So far the company has developed applications for iPhone and Android, as well as a web portal at Skylin.es
The company plans to monetize by selling subscriptions (you'll be able to access more advanced statistics and premium features); a firehose data feed; and ads. Publishers can also access widgets that canbe embedded on their site, displaying a photo stream of whatever interests they want.
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Q: How are you going to make this into something that goes beyond just search, and more into an experience where you're browsing?
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We ate a lot when we were in Boston and NYC. There were way too many things we wanted to try. I thought I would start by telling you about all the wonderful bakery type places we tried.
We got a lot of recommendations, but I would have to say that one of Scot's besties gave us the most best recommendations of all. He has such good taste. Or at least the same taste as me. Which is the best kind of taste to have, obv. ;)
The first place (and one he recommended) is a small bakery/cafe in Boston. It is called Flour. He recommended the sticky buns, so that is definitely what I got. Along with some fresh squeezed orange juice. And not that I have tried every sticky bun in the world, but this was the best I have ever had. So soft. Served warm. A nice deep, caramel flavor. Nutty. Really, really good. And they have lots of other baked goods and some sandwiches.
Now, to NYC. We had to try the famous Doughnut Plant. It was on my list. It was also recommended by lots and lots of people.
The "Plant" in the name is very misleading. This is the smallest little doughnut shop you will ever see. There is enough room for maybe 10 people inside.
I don't know if I have told you about the "donut kick" that I recently was on. Luckily, that kick ended several months ago. That does not mean I don't eat donuts anymore. It just means I don't crave them every Thursday morning.
Also, luckily, I do not live near Doughnut Plant (or any good donut place actually). Because that kick would be very permanent.
So, we test tasted four different kinds. (Test tasted means we just ate them.) First up, Tres Leches. By far the best donut on earth. See Mark (genius behind the donuts) did not start selling cake donuts until 2005! He worked on his cake donut recipe for 5 years. And I am kind of a cake donut girl. And Mark is my cake donut maker boyfriend. This is the prefect donut.
We tried one more cake donut. The Blackout. This is obviously like a chocolate explosion. It honestly tasted like a brownie. Or like chocolate cake. There is really no excuse to eat this for breakfast. Unless you just convince yourself that this is a donut. And that donuts are breakfast appropriate. But, Scot thoroughly enjoyed this. The easiest way to tell how much Scot likes something is to see how much of it he left on his face.
Here is the blueberry yeast donut. I really liked the yeast donuts too. The dough itself was not super sweet, which I really like since the glaze is so sweet. We liked the texture too. The outside "crust" is very chewy.
And last, a jelly filled donut. This was blackberry filling. I have never liked jelly filled donuts because there is always too much filling. I like a little filling, with mostly donut. These donuts are genius because they have a thin tube of filling that runs along the entire length of the square donut. It is like the perfect bite every time. Yum!!!
Next, we had to check out the Magnolia Bakery. It is famous. Gotta do it. The one we went to was tiny and so packed with people. I love that because it makes you know you picked the right place. They have all sorts of cakes and desserts, but we kept it simple by trying their famous cupcakes. I was slightly disappointed that we could only pick from some traditional flavors (chocolate cake/chocolate frosting, white cake/white frosting, yellow cake/chocolate frosting, etc.) You have to place an order to get the more exciting flavors.
However, it was a delicious cupcake. And didn't have a ridiculous amount of frosting on it. I am not a fan of the equal amounts frosting and cake. I like just a little frosting. I think I still took some off. But I am picky. It was good frosting too. Definitely a fun experience.
We also tried out Momofuku Milk Bar. I was pretty excited about this place. I had heard a lot about it. It is a bakery, but not really at all. The pastry chef tries to stand on the boundary of genius and disgusting. The menu is made up of crazy soft serve ice cream flavors, delicious cookies and cakes and a few interesting drinks. We got a sampler of all the ice cream flavors and toppings. Starting with the purple one on the bottom (in above pic) we had: purple drink, cereal milk, BBQ sauce, creamed corn, corn flake toppings and potato chip topping.
Now, at first bite, each ice cream was so intriguing. Very interesting to get your brain and taste buds to realize what is going on. But, after a few bites, I had a really hard time with the BBQ one. Secretly almost made me gag.
Then, there were two problems. One, I hate cereal milk. I never drink the milk after I eat my cereal (something that Scot totally does not approve of). To me, it is kind of like drinking something out of a bottle and then when it is gone, refilling it with water without washing it out. So, it kind of tastes like what you just had in the bottle, but not really. On one hand, I was like, "awesome, you totally replicated the taste of cereal milk and made an ice cream out of it." On the other hand, I was like, "why did you make ice cream out of it?" 100 points for creativity.
Second problem is that I am not a huge fan of creamed corn. I mean sure it is a pretty good side dish. I mean I will eat it. But it isn't like the most amazing flavor ever. Not really sure why I would want it in ice cream for. But, it did taste spot on like creamed corn.
And I actually really liked the purple drink flavor. Tasted like Koolaid. It was a fun spin on a child hood favorite. We also tried one of the cookies. The compost cookie. It was really good. Has like a million things in it: butterscotch chips, potato chips, pretzels, etc. Really soft and chewy. I totally enjoyed our experience at Momofuku. It was fun to try crazy ice cream flavors.
And lastly, back to Boston, we got cannolis at Mike's Pastry in North End. They were delicious (and huge). I couldn't eat all of mine. From what I hear, Mike's Pastry is most known for their cannolis, but they have all sorts of baked goods and desserts. We went with cannolis and were not disappointed.
It is also cool how they tie your box up with string hanging from the ceiling.
And this place is so packed. We went on a Monday night and didn't have to wait too long (maybe 10 minutes with some aggressive ordering). But we walked by it again on Saturday and the line out the door was ridiculously long.
Lastly, I don't have a pic for this, but we got some amazing ice cream at Toscanini's in Boston. I got Vietnamese coffee ice cream and Scot got Hydrox cookie ice cream (apparently Hydrox was the original Oreo, but Oreo stole it or something...) I also tried the Burnt caramel flavor. So good! They had lots of interesting flavors. Wish I could have tried more.


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The report evaluated 27 of UCR's doctoral programs.
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The six doctoral programs in the top third nationwide are evolution, ecology, organismal biology, psychology, plant pathology, physics soil and water science and political science.
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WCHRI Research Day – TODAY!
The Women and Children's Health Research Institute held their 10th annual research extravaganza today in Edmonton! Continue reading
Way to go, Nadia!
Earlier today, the Women and Children's Health Research Institute (UAlberta) announced the names of the graduate students who were successful in their recent Graduate Studentship competition. Continue reading
Congratulations, Nadia and Maryam!
Later this fall, many of us in Edmonton will be heading to Ottawa for the 6th Conference on Recent Advances in Preventing and Treating Obesity in Children. Our research team will be presenting data on a variety of topics, including metabolically healthy obesity, parents' recommendations to enhance enrollment in weight management, and home visits for managing pediatric obesity.
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Camp Logs hold much historic information about buildings but especially about people and their experiences on Wilson Pond. The History Committee of Friends of Wilson Pond is anxious to have camp histories in any form that you would like to submit. Camps are often used by many family members as families grow. It is fun to come back to camp and read the camp log entries left by visitors and family. Many a rainy afternoon will find the young folks-now parents themselves— reading what they wrote when they were kids. We cherish our camp logs and enjoy going over to the McInnis camp to read about our past as young parents.
Camp Log: Beanie and Veronica Champeon Camp on Wilson Pond
Photo: Karen York on the porch in 1952.
Excerpts from the Log: The Beanie and Veronica Champeon Camp on Wilson Pond
The trees were sawed at Stan Walden's sawmill and the lumber was delivered by boat to the lot.
1949 — The land was cleared and the original camp built.
1954 — Roads bulldozed for Bement's (now Allyn Ward's camp) and Cole's (still owned by heirs) camps.
1955 — Removed built-in bunk beds–Veronica did not like to make them.
1955 — Muzzy bulldozing at north end of bog to prep for road to Champeon camp. Later the road was extended to the Muzzy camps at the outlet of the Thoroughfare.
1955 — New wooden boat built by Jim Gregan
1956 — New 5.5 hp Johnson outboard motor
1957 — Wayne, Beanie & Veronica's son, honeymooned with his bride, Jean Dennison.
1960 — Lonnie Rowe hauling gravel to improve road
1965 — New kitchen completed
At some point the camp was sold to the Harris family who graciously loaned it to Wayne and Jean for their 50th Anniversary celebration in 2007.
Note: Many additional details were provided from the Champeon Camp Log Book and it was striking the camp was always under construction! All information provided by D. Bruce Champeon, Beanie and Veronica's son.


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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong ale of good quality brewed especially for a church festival, and broached only on the day of the feast in question.
- noun A convivial meeting on the occasion of a church festival, at which the ale specially brewed was served.
- noun A custom of collecting contributions of malt from the parishioners, with which a quantity of ale was brewed, and sold for the payment of church expenses: used in this later sense about or soon after the time of Magna Charta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
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churchor parish festival(as in commemorationof the dedicationof a church), at which much alewas used.
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Before the Reformation there were no Poor Rates; the charitable dole given at the Religious Houses, and church-ale in every parish did the business.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832
He tells her that he has {118} been very fortunate at the church-ale
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
"There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's time," says one writer, "the church-ale of Whitsuntide did the business"; and whether the parishioners had to pay a tax for the support of the King's army, or to repair the church, or to maintain some orphan children, it was generally found "that something still remained to cover the bottom of the purse."
The church-ale is, doubtless, derived from the Agapai or
This church-ale is doubtless derived from the {Greek text: agapai}, or love-feast, mentioned in the New Testament.
Northamptonshire, &c. There were no rates for the poor in my grandfather's days; but for Kington St. Michael (no small parish) the church-ale at Whitsuntide did the business.


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Dutch elderly afraid of electroshock
38 of 50 patients refused randomisation beforehand because of fear of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). An in depth interview showed that fear of brain damage by ECT played a major role. This recently published study was a feasibility study testing the efficacy and safety of ECT, prescribed in an earlier phase of treatment than last resort. This study would test the efficacy of ECT versus nortrityline among depressed elderly (> 59 years) who had not responded to sertraline, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).
In the Netherlands and most other European countries ECT remains underused and practised mostly as a last resort treatment. Especially depressed elderly could benefit from ECT in an earlier phase since delay may worsen their situation and outcome. Elderly who refuse to drink are at greater risk compared to adults, elderly usually have somatic comorbidity, elderly have more different drugs for somatic illness subscribed with dangers of interaction with antidepressants, elderly usually do not tolerate antidepressant due to side effects. All reasons why ECT might be a safer and more efficacious alternative. From retrospective studies efficacy of ECT in the depressed elderly are promising. From these studies it is expected that elderly might benefit more from ECT than adults.
The wrong assumption that ECT causes brain damage might be a vestige of the seventy's and the dark period of the anti psychiatry in the Netherlands in that same period. They probably still have the wrong scene from one flew over the cuckoo's nest in their head, the scene after the lobotomy which most people confuse with the result of ECT. Moreover the practice of ECT in that movie was how it was performed in early the 30's of the previous century. Due to this lack of knowledge a efficacious treatment is underused in this group.
Article Discussed:
Research Letter
ECT in the treatment of depressed elderly: lessons from a terminated clinical trial
M. L. Stek, F. B. van der Wurff, B. M. J. Uitdehaag, A. T. F. Beekman, W. J. G. Hoogendijk
Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit/VuMC and GGZ-Buitenamstel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vrije Universiteit/VuMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


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[Mom & Dad]
Doctor Dolittle strikes again:
Watching and being watched:
Mom remains the single most important source of my proclivity to understand nature. She embodies the foundation of my ability to reach out and touch, on communal terms, the life of beasts great and small. From her I gleaned an appreciation of life in all its many forms; from her I received a courageous approach to that which is different; from her I learned not to fear but to respect a world full of living things.
As Sharon, my aunt, pointed out last weekend after arriving from New York, Mom is also the family's Doctor Dolittle. No matter the species, Sharon stood amazed that Mom felt no fear of but plenty of compassion for every beast.
So here I present a bit of Doctor Dolittle in action.
One herd of cows had stood at the pasture's gate for a few hours, perking up each time Mom stepped outside. Some would even call to her. A visit with her, they knew, was always a pleasant experience.
Around these parts, a cow moaning and groaning is referred to as "bellering" or, in the more precise vernacular, "beller'n." As with all animals who can make sounds, one need only listen and learn the language to understand what they're saying. I learned this trip the specific kind of beller'n that translated to "Where's Mom? Can we see her? Mom, are you bringing a treat? Why haven't you come to see us yet?"
Eventually deciding to go visit them, even if for no other reason than to stop their beller'n, she grabbed a small bucket full of treats and we followed her. The treats, by the way, are a compressed grain and molasses goody specially made for cows. And how they love that stuff!
You might be thinking she has nothing to worry about as she's behind a fence. Nope. She's in the enclosure standing in the "run," that part of the fence used to herd the cows on or off a trailer. While most of the cows are standing on one side of the run, any of them could easily walk up to her. Like this:
That happens to be the massive bull, the bovine equivalent of a leviathan. He could easily trample a human without noticing, yet he loves Mom dearly and gifts her with his most gentlemanly behavior. Well, most of the time anyway. Sometimes he gets a little carried away with his affectionate munching.
Oh, and she's getting some tongue action from one of the young'uns who really thinks they deserve more attention. . .and treats.
Don't worry. No humans or bovines were harmed in the making of this post. Despite looking as though he intends to eat her starting with her arm, he's actually suckling the treat from her hand.
One bite and a cow that size could sever a limb. Never did any of us fear such a thing would happen. Despite not being terribly fond of others, that bull absolutely loves Mom and treats her with the utmost care.
From the other side of the run came another cow who felt the service was not as prompt as it should be, so she offered a bit of an incentive: cow slime. There's a lot of tongue in one of those heads and they don't think twice about slobbering all over the place with gleeful anticipation.
When the food had all disappeared and Mom finally stepped out of the pasture, I remained standing next to the fence as I snapped some additional photos. I obviously didn't pose a threat.
That cow asked and asked for something I didn't have: more treats. When she discovered one hand empty, she turned to the other. Where I was holding the camera.
Before I knew it, she slimed the whole camera and my hand looking for something to munch on. It took me several minutes of wiping and cleaning before I could take another photo.
By then, however, the bull had come to see if I had anything to offer.
Unfortunately, he too found I had nothing. The herd began to mill about wondering if we had something in reserve, not wanting to walk away and miss something yet finding all the empty hands of little use save the occasional pet or pat.
We finally moved across the main yard to another pasture where the other herd rested. Doctor Dolittle had one final show for my aunt.
You see, one of the cows is so smitten with Mom that she won't let her come and go without stopping for a good scratching and petting session. This cow is, in point of fact, Mom's pet, Mom's baby bovine.
If my mother walks into the pasture, this large puppy comes trotting alongside, gentle nudges and expectant glances included. She simply won't accept that Mom is there for any reason other than to pet her.
And so she does.
While the quality of those images suffered because I was shooting into the sun, I think you get the point.
There is a look of absolute trust and contentment on that cow's face. She's so enjoying the back rub that she'd miss a nuclear war if it happened right next to her.
Keep in mind this doesn't cover the chickens who follow her around and talk to her, and who even don't mind being held by her, or the rabbits who curl up and coo softly in her arms as they wallow in a trusted embrace, or the various other animals who find my mother a kindred, loving spirit who cares for them as she would a child.
There's no need to question where I got my ability to deal with animals on such a spiritual level. . .
[a rather large katydid loitering about on the front bumper of one of the farm trucks as photographed during my last visit to East Texas; because I didn't get a picture showing enough detail, I'm uncertain as to the precise species, but I suspect it's either a broad-tipped conehead (Neoconocephalus triops) or a round-tipped conehead (Neoconocephalus retusus); you can see a close-up of its beautiful eye here and a cropped but not resized image of the whole thing here]
As I've explained before about the cows at the family farm, there are several pastures, some open and some full of trees and brush, and the cows are moved from enclosure to enclosure as the grass grows.
I snapped these photos while I visited there earlier this month.
Facing away from the front of the house, one of the pastures borders a creek and offers lush vegetation in many forms, from thicket to arboreal giants. Although they're difficult to see in the smaller version seen below, there are a handful of cows downhill from the gate on the left side of the photo. You can see them behind the gate and camouflaged by verdant grass if you look at the larger version.
And yes, if you must know, I totally had the camera on the wrong settings for that particular shot. That's why the sky looks bleached and the contrast of the trees looks like too much gamma correction has been applied.
Get over it.
The next two photos are on the opposite side of the house facing away from its back porch. There is another pasture there full of East Texas' second growth and scrub.
In this first image, you can see Mom in the lower-left corner as she offers a bit of affection to one of the calves. That baby's mother, having had her fill of attention and people in general, can be seen walking away at center.
As soon as the juvenile bovine realized its mother was leaving and it had to choose between some petting and maternal protection—and food—it promptly dashed to the elder cow's side and followed her to the other end of the pasture.
Even Mom's stunningly powerful charms weren't enough to overcome the family link between mother and child. But then again, Mom certainly understands that premise and the strength of such bonds.


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Number 24: Daniel Lloyd
Last year's position: 11
Considering it was only his second season at the top level, Daniel Lloyd's progress has been incredible.
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No wonder he is rated as one of the most reliable and respected domestiques there is. No wonder that when it came to recommending riders to join the new Garmin-Cervélo co-operative, Gerard Vroomen suggested Lloyd to Jonathan Vaughters.
Lloyd's value is his versatility. He is an accomplished rider in the Classics but he's also at home in the grand tours. This year he finished both the Giro and the Tour, riding at the side of Cervélo's overall contender Carlos Sastre.
That Sastre, a former Tour winner, was happy with Lloyd being his wing man speaks volumes. Sastre is not a demanding or voluble task-master but he has very high standards and expects the best. Lloyd settled into the rhythm and did the job with the minimum of fuss.
Speak to anyone at Cervélo about who they'd want with them in a crisis and they'll say Lloydy.
Cycling Weekly's Top British Riders of 2010 advent calendar: We will reveal one rider per day behind the virtual doors of our sparkly advent calendar from Wednesday December 1 to Christmas Eve, Friday December 24. The top eight will then be revealed in Cycling Weekly magazine's final issue of the year, which will be in the shops on December 30 2010.
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In Nicolette Krebitz's German film, Wild, the protagonist Ania (Lilith Stangenberg) is shown in close proximity with a grown wolf for much of the film! It's a daringly bizarre film about a human being choosing to return to a primeval stage.
Ania, an intelligent woman in her 20s, is a rebel, who is disillusioned by her job (her overbearing boss treats her like an assistant) and her personal life after her grandfather is removed to a hospital and her sister moves to another city. She defies her routine, anchorless existence and all societal norms to do something unthinkable -- she captures a wolf from a nearby wood and keeps it locked in a room in her flat! The animal can be viewed as a metaphor for her primal self.
She initially feeds the wolf through a hole in a wall but later the boundaries break and they form a single team. As her obsession with the wolf grows, Ania shuts out the mundane world outside. By ceding to the wild, bestial side in herself, Ania is no longer confined by the bounds of what is considered acceptable societal behaviour. She snatches leftover food from restaurants and refuses to meet her sister.
In the pre-climax sequence, she goes to resign from her last link to normalcy - her job. Her boss interrupts two temporary workers while they are caressing her, instructs them to leave, and makes a move on her. She succumbs to his advances though at the beginning of the film she had categorically declined his invitation for a meal. Her newly casual attitude towards sex suggests that she has surrendered to her senses, not resigned to them.
The climax is fodder for endless debate. Her boss, who mistakes the leashed wolf for a dog of an unusual breed, is mauled by the predatory animal. Ania quits her job and flees into the wild with the wolf. Once in the wild, Ania emulates the wolf and drinks water from a muddy pool of water and chomps on a small animal he has hunted for her. Has she found liberation by yielding to her basic, feral emotions? Or does the end signify her liberation from a patriarchal society? It's interpretive cinema that presents some shocking visuals and raises some uncomfortable questions.
The Road To Mandalay
After refuelling ourselves with masala dosa and hot tea, we briskly walked from PVR Icon, Versova to PVR Ecx, Andheri to catch The Road To Mandalay, the screening of which had already begun by the time my friend and I reached.
The 34-year-old Taiwan-based Burmese filmmaker Midi Z has slowly but steadily built a reputation as a realist director. His latest venture The Road To Mandalay dwells on the price the lesser privileged have to pay for ambition and their dreams of a better life. A young Burmese girl, Lianqing, sneaks into Thailand but her quest for a legal work Thai ID and work permit takes her to deceitful agents, a lowly-paid job and a tryst with prostitution (the paying client is represented on screen by an enormous reptile with a flicking tongue to illustrate Lian's repulsion).
Her boyfriend and fellow traveller, Guo, seems to want a simple life. But Lianqing's aspirations for a better life are made of steel. In a chilling climax, your heart goes out to Lianqing and her ilk for the many slips between the cup and the lip that their life encompasses. And it makes you despair at a youthful boyfriend imposing his potent rage on a partner who desires different things.
After the screening Katharina Suckale, one of the producers of The Road To Mandalay (actor Arfi Lamba is the co-producer too), exchanged a bear hug and filled me in details of the early portions of the film we had missed. She said she was prompted to co-produce the film because she loved the script and because she is a huge admirer of Midi Z's work. "Just like I produced Loev because I like Sudarshan Saria's work."
Later, when I was queuing up in the standby line (for those who haven't booked tickets online) of the much-recommended Elle for the 8.30 show, I bumped into Katharina again. She was standing by the snack bar with veteran actor Ashok Kumar's daughter Bharati Jaffrey and her nephew, Varun Patel. Realising that I may not get into the theatre (the line was serpentine) Katharina rued the fact that her red card was not transferrable or "you could have just walked in." My fear came true: we were turned away as we approached the door because the seats had filled up. A fracas between a determined viewer who wanted to enter the theatre and the young MAMI volunteers followed.
I called it a night, chortling heartily at the grandiose statement I had just overheard from a grapes-are-sour cineaste: "I don't want to see the film now. I am like Woody Allen in Annie Hall, I don't see a film if I miss the beginning."
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We live in a time of deadlines and stress. Work, family life, piling up bills. All of these lead to stress resulting in anxiety and depression. Here are ten simple ways for you to help decompress during to day to deal with stress and anxiety.
1. Drink Green Tea
L-theanine, an amino acid found in tea plants, promotes relaxation and offsets the "hyper" effect of caffeine. This is why, although tea contains caffeine, it is still very soothing. Strive for 1-3 cups a day for maximum benefits.
2. Eat Chocolate
Chocolate releases phenylethylamine in the brain. This causes changes in blood pressure and blood sugar levels, leading to feelings of alertness and excitement. Experts believe that chocolate creates a feeling of being in love when you eat it, which is why you feel so happy!
3. Take A Day Off
Take a personal day, even if it's just a half day, to let yourself recuperate after a tough week. Your boss may not approve, but it will do wonders for your mind.
4. Avoid Coffee
Coffee can contribute to nervousness and mood swings, so limit your intake if you want to de-stress. To avoid afternoon jitters and sleepless nights, avoid drinking coffee after 11 a.m.
5. Avoid Processed Foods
Processed foods, including artificial sweeteners, fast food, white flour products and soft drinks, can put stress on the digestive system. It's best to avoid these foods if you want a calm stomach and a calm mind.
6. Take Flaxseed Oil
Flaxseed oil improves mood and boosts brain function. Take one tablespoon in the morning with water, or add it to a homemade fruit smoothie.
7. Exercise Regularly
Cardio and weight lifting are equally effective stress relievers. Try to get to the gym at least 3-5 times a week, as exercise provides a physical and mental release, allowing you to stomp out those negative feelings.
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Take a break from your phone, TV, computer, Kindle, and anything else that can be a source of distraction. Unplug for just 30 minutes a day to help yourself relax. Try this tip and see how quickly your stress levels will drop.
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Clutter creates a sense of confusion and chaos. By removing the unnecessary things from your home, you are also removing the clutter from your mind. Get rid of clothes that you never wear and things that you never use, and you'll feel better in no time. By doing that you could create additional space for indoor plants that help with stress and anxiety.
10. Just Breathe
You don't have to practice yoga or meditation in order to calm yourself down. Deep breathing in the middle of a traffic jam, in the afternoon at work, or while standing in line at the grocery store, can be just as effective. As you breathe, imagine that you're blowing out negative feelings, as this is often even more helpful. If it's helpful, you can also consult an online counselling company like BetterHelp for support.
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Reading again this book, 'Sanity, Madness and the Family' (R.D Laing & A. Esterson), a collection of recorded interviews with 11 families. Each family had the common feature of having a child defined as 'psychotic' or 'schizophrenic' and had been subsequently hospitalized. Here we get not only an insight into the machinations of family brainwashing, but also a historic dimension in which we get a glimpse of the inheritance of systems from the next generation back. Here we enter into the generations of madness as an institution.
Having it's origin in the early '60's, the book is focused on generations familiar to me, and I recognize many of the now dated words of the time that made up the back-chat. Somewhat like a memory of the furniture in my grandmother's parlour, these antiquated words and phrases come back to me as the units of the experience that I came to accept as myself.
Phrases such as, 'showing-off', 'highly-strung', 'break-down', 'making a fuss', 'not your place', 'your own sweet way', 'full of yourself', 'spoiled', 'stubborn', 'selfish', seem to me to be the features of the culture into which I was born. Each phrase carries a living connection to unconscious systems of values, this livingness of connection being me.
In seeing this book as another peek into my inheritance of systems, I realize also now that my initial 'understanding' of the book on first reading in my teenage years, would have been in the shape of how effectively the information had answered the question that I became as the starting point of reading this book. In the case of this book as well as a general 'interest' in psychology, the starting point was , 'Is it, (within my belief and self judgement of there being 'something wrong with me'), is it that I will find this definition of myself within this word of 'schizophrenic'?
Looking back at these times I can see how this quest of self within the accepted reality of separation was ridiculously enough within a hope of finding myself amongst the ready made psychological definitions of human personality. I was seeking a definition from the system so that I could take part in the system, as a component of the system.
So first reading of this book had been an attempt to clarify the state of mystification in which I had walked away from my family. What I hadn't realized was that on the other side of mystification lay a rooted belief in self definition as the way to go in this culture/system/world that seemed to me to be composed of definitions and labels, evident in the expressions and thoughts of family members such as in these charged up words I mentioned.
This process of mystification is a common feature amongst the interviews of these 11 families in the book. It is often the story of a child's attempt to stabilize itself in the conditions of a conspiracy of fear and lies, in a story of war, of allegiances, parties, and special relationships, secret contracts, jealousy, and competition.
At one point in the book, Laing remarks that the parents "spoke without the slightest recognition that the modality of their experience and actions was fantasy". It is as if the vehicle of the family system gets pushed along from generation to generation with no insight as to its content or direction. In these families specifically collateral damage was seen as an acceptable consequence, in which the opportunity of a child has been deliberately fucked over. Families in which there are no living beings but only beings suspended in abdication to automated systems.
Here's the perspective of a being crossed over and talking through the Portal, a quote from Life Review My Life of Sin: (free!)
"…and there we are all going walking in our lives not realizing that we are not living, we are not here in this physical reality, we are complete zombies in these internal fantasy illusion imagination realities in our mind in which we've accumulated our little worlds as everything of this world that we are interpreting perceiving believing and like literally creating ideas of within our own minds. So it's taking actual physical reality, imprinting everything, the likes, dislikes and preferences of all systems as all the parts into our minds and creating a mind world of the actual physical world and simply existing and experiencing ourselves as within our own interpretations of reality, as that's literally how each human being is living in this world…"


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by Dan Goodin, ars TECHNICA –
Religious beliefs, political leanings, and medical conditions are up for grabs
In the beginning, people hacked phones. In the decades to follow, hackers turned to computers, smartphones, Internet-connected security cameras, and other so-called Internet of things devices. The next frontier may be your brain, which is a lot easier to hack than most people think. Continue reading In not-too-distant future, brain hackers could steal your deepest secrets


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Belfast-based Parents' Education as Autism Therapists (PEAT) is a parent-led charity that provides practical behaviour support to both parents of children with autism as well as professionals working with individuals who have autism.
PEAT's qualified behaviour analysts aim to empower parents with the knowledge of how to effectively understand and manage the behaviour of the individual at home with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.
The group's aim is to help children and young people with autism realise their potential, while also offering tailored training packages in various topics to schools, nurseries and day centre staff.
Dr Nichola Booth from PEAT has been working with individuals with autism spectrum disorder for many years. She has worked with young children, teens and adults in their homes, schools and other environments, as well as facilitating training for schools, health, education, early years and assisted living.
The Andersonstown News met with Dr Booth at PEAT's Springfield Road headquarters to find out more about what the organisation do.
"We provide behaviour support in homes or schools for families with kids or young people with autism or suspected autism," said Dr Booth.
"All of our staff who go out and about are behaviour analysts. We aim to go into homes and give parents the tools to help their children with behavioural and life issues, for example toileting. Sometimes children with autism have issues with using the toilet. We have come across older children who would still be using nappies, this prevents them from doing many things children do such as going on sleepovers with their friends. We give them that independence. It's their basic human right to be able to go to the toilet independently.
"We assist with communication and speech issues and we also help with social skills. Challenging behaviour is one of our big issues. We would go into homes where parents maybe can't leave the child on their own and we teach the parents to understand why the bad behaviour is happening.
"Think of a child or young person who has limited communication skills and is maybe feeling unwell, their only way of communicating is through their behaviour. They might bang their head off the wall to let you know they have a headache. We want to give the child the tools to communicate properly."
Mary Rainey, who also works at PEAT, says there are families who contact them when their child is in the process of receiving a diagnosis and they are wanting intervention in place while the child is very young.
"It can be easier to change the behaviour patterns of a younger child than it would be of a teenager," she says.
Discussing one of PEAT's recent success stories Dr Booth said: "We have one boy who has been with us since he was a very small child. He's actually the reason PEAT exists. He was our very first child and now he is in Queen's University doing his Masters. When he came to us he had no speech and had severe challenging behaviour and would have had to be medicated. He now lives independently, is taking his driving test and completing his Masters."
She added: "Autism is lifelong and it's about giving people and their families the skills for the future. It's a spectrum. You have children who are more severe than others but we aim to teach them all those self-care skills to give them their independence, be it washing, dressing or helping with chores.
"Many of our families have heard of us through the grapevine or have seen us active on social media. We are non-funded, therefore we rely on families paying for our service. It's not ideal but it's what keeps us going.
"There are a lot of organisations out there dealing with autism but ours is practical behaviour support. This is where you make life-changing choices."
Dr Booth added: "We just don't look at the child with autism, we are aware that it's the entire family. That's why we aim to help them all because if everyone knows exactly what's going on then it's going to benefit the entire family not just the autistic child. We focus on the positives here. We would always say to parents, think of what your child can do, not what they can't."


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Why Your Marketing Is Failing
Picture yourself as an average-looking person standing alone on a basketball court at your high school. Someone you have never met before walks on the basketball court and asks you out on a date. You are shocked about this and before you know it six more people arrive and ask you out on a date. You are starting to feel like the most desirable person in the world. Unfortunately because you have so many people vying for your attention you have great difficulty making a choice.
Within an hour or so the entire basketball court is filled with 500 people all pushing and shoving and saying exactly the same thing to try to get your attention. By this point you are so overwhelmed with messages that all sound the same you do the only sensible thing and choose to do nothing.
So what does this have to do with why your marketing isn't working? Simply substitute the person being chased with any buyer and the full basketball court with the vast majority of vendors, and you have one of the major reasons your marketing isn't effective.
If everyone is saying the same thing no one is saying anythingSimply put, nearly every market you can think of is drowning in over-communication. Your buyers are overwhelmed with marketing messages on a daily basis. Television, radio, print, direct mail, the Web, video, email, blogs, the list never ends. In addition to business to business promotional messages, your buyers are also exposed to the daily deluge of consumer based advertising. Worse still, vendors insist on saying the same thing in their promotional messages with mind-numbing regularity. For example, visit their websites and note how many of them mention their stellar service, unsurpassed quality, and competitive prices. It's all a bunch of noise that signifies nothing, and many of your buyers are choosing to do nothing.
Is your company a victim of me-too marketing?
While there can be hundreds of reasons your marketing isn't working there is a very good chance if you aren't getting great results you are among the majority of your competitors who are practicing me-too marketing. What are some of the signs your company may be suffering from me-too marketing?
Your advertising and promotion generates poor, if any, results
Your lead generation activities have poor yields of low-probability prospects
You can't seem to gain the first telephone or on-site meeting
You are discovering longer-term opportunities are choosing your competitors
You are sending out plenty of proposals and getting plenty of rejections
How can you change your marketing to increase your revenues?
If your marketing processes are essentially the same as those of your competitors then you will have poor results. To succeed you must focus your marketing efforts on differentiating yourself from your competition.
Apple says, "Think different." Successful industrial marketers say, "Be different."
Simply abandon inward product and features focused marketing and choose outward benefits focused marketing. All aspects of your marketing should clearly show your buyers how your products will positively change their results. After all, your buyers aren't purchasing products like yours for what they are, but for what they do.
Want more sales leads?
If you want to generate more highly qualified sales leads always lead with educational content that helps buyers at the earliest stages of their buying process. Remember the single biggest fear every buyer has is making a poor purchasing decision. Zero in on producing content that helps buyers address their major sources of concern and trouble and offer this content freely. Use your educational content to help them recognize and address their early-stage needs. This will effectively position your company as a thought-leader and reduce your competition.
Want to close more of your longer term opportunities?
If you want more of your longer-term opportunities to convert into customers focus on providing your buyers with information that helps them at the subsequent stages of their buying process. Spend time considering and developing additional educational content that will help your buyers more effectively evaluate their options. This will provide top of mind awareness for your company while they are considering vendors.
Want to sell more prospects more often?
If you would like to dramatically improve your selling process then stop selling your products first. Focus on gaining true understanding of your prospect's key business drivers. Then align your selling process to show them your understanding of their specific issues and objectives. Next, be sure to get them to quantify the value of getting their problem resolved. Last, offer them information and helpful suggestions about how your offering will help them reach their specific objectives. This will position your company as the only logical choice.
Your manufacturing company will have a great competitive advantage by having a relentless focus on understanding the most-sought after outcomes of your buyers. If your marketing processes clearly show your buyers how to get these outcomes your marketing problems will vanish.


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President Don Redfearn has responded to President Barack Obama's "America's Great Outdoors" initiative, by suggesting that the Nation's natural resource lands are in dire need of a higher profile. These lands have to be considered the core of any initiative that profiles our outdoor heritage. The four land managing agencies - U. S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and National Wildlife Refuge system comprise nearly 1/3 of our Nation's area. You are encouraged to show your support for President Redfearn's proposal on the America's Great Outdoors website.
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A Typical 1930s Dining Room
Interior design in the 1930s was heavily influenced by the Art Deco movement. Traditional dining rooms reflected that style, which originated in Paris in the 1920s. Rather than decorating a dining room in romantic décor, homeowners turned to streamlined and modern furnishings and accessories. Art Deco design was incorporated into the home, as well as in the architecture of the buildings.
Interior colors in the 1930s included exotic greens and oranges, with small amounts of black or gold for accenting. The dining room most likely used these colors on the walls, seat cushions or curtains. Wallpapers used included these colors or muted colors of mauve, gray, cream and yellow, with touches of black for accenting. Colored wallpapers used in the dining room consisted of geometric designs, sometimes displaying images of female, jazz-age and Egyptian figures. Because minimalism was popular during this time, white was also used, leading some to paint the walls white.
Dining room furniture design in the 1930s was influenced by the modern Art Deco style and the Bauhaus school style. The Bauhaus art school of Germany heavily influenced 1930s furniture design and incorporated minimalism with functionalism. As a result, 1930s dining room furniture was modern and streamlined. It was characterized by straight lines, geometric shapes and overstuffed cushions. The wooden table, chairs and buffet table were lacquered with round edges. If not wood, tabletops were often marble, chrome, glass or a combination.
The lighting in a 1930s dining room was contemporary. Streamlined chandeliers hung above the modern dining tables. The chandeliers were typically characterized by a detailed metal frame design and geometric glass bulb covers. Smaller tulip-shaped glass bulb covers sometimes encircled a larger middle light. Some buffet tables contained built-in sconce lights covered with detailed glass work.
Dining Room Accessories
Accessories in a 1930s dining room reflected the Art Deco style seen in the furnishings and light fixtures. Silver-plated tableware, decorative glass bowls with frosted glass designs and silver or silver-plated candle holders decorated a typical dining room. Silver-plated ice buckets chilled bottled beverages. Table vases were characterized by straight lines or urn shapes, and may have been silver-plated, bronze, painted or engraved.


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Having Nature Have Its Way
The thing is that nature knows what it is doing. Just try to observe things around you. One of the nice creatures that provide a great example about nature doing its job are ants. It is doing a swell job at it. Each ant has its role depending on its rank. They know what job to do. There is no need to tell them what needed to be done. Humans may have midlife crisis, which ants don't have. Having problems are something humans are known for. Before things got complicated, we knew what we have to do. Our modern lives have made things complicated. Of course, we can debate this to no end. For all we care, we can debate why Eve went against nature. We have absorbed problems because we refuse to listen to nature.
This is something we can apply in any other aspect of our life. Just take a longer look of our health. The body needs no instruction for it to function property. We breathe without us needing to tell ourselves to breathe. This is a perfect example of nature working in our bodies. We have tried to dictate what our bodies should be doing, and we have failed miserably.
Our attempts to dictate our bodies, we have become unhealthier. It is a mystery since medicine is supposed to be better today than in the past. We have to admit, we are dying younger. Yet, preventable health problems such as obesity are rising. We face a puzzle on why we aren't able to solve these problems. In some ways, it may be traced to our neglect of nature. As we try to take over our bodies, nature is getting waylaid on the side. There is a need to take a look at the link or mind and body. The things we do to our bodies may not be the right thing to do and we need to figure things out. We see today, the results are far from what we want.
We refuse to heed nature and just do what we want to do. We are no longer allowing our bodies have a say in the health aspect. We go on a diet, not because it is good for the body, but because they sound a nice idea. This is the reason why we are not able to hit our fitness goals. We engage on things that run the risks to our health. The body will tell you if it had enough.
The best answer is to do nothing. Let nature take its course. Nature will tell you if the body needs something like weight loss cleanse.
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Figure 1: Range map of the Edible-nest Swiftlet, adapted from HBW (2018).
8 current subspecies are recognized.
- A. f. amechanus (Oberholser, 1912) – Anambas Is, off SE Peninsular Malaysia.
- Paler underparts with greyer rump than germani
- A. f. germani (Oustalet, 1876) – Coastline from W Hainan S around SE Asia to Malay Peninsula, including Mergui Archipelago (off S Myanmar); coastal N Borneo and W Philippines (Palawan E to Panay and Ticao).
- Paler underparts and whitish rump
- A. f. inexpectatus (A. O. Hume, 1873) – Andaman Is and Nicobar Is.
- Slightly smaller than nominate race
- A. f. vestitus (Lesson, 1843) – Sumatra, Belitung I and Borneo (except N coasts).
- Darkest upperparts, lack contrasting rump
- A. f. perplexus (Riley, 1927) – Maratua I, off E Borneo.
- Some purple sheen on rectrices and remiges, slight contrasting rump
- A. f. fuciphagus (Thunberg, 1812) – Java, Kangean Is and Bali to W Lesser Sundas (E to Sumbawa), and Tanahjampea.
- A. f. dammermani (Rensch, 1931) – Flores (EC Lesser Sundas).
- Slightly paler rump
- A. f. micans (Stresemann, 1914) – Sumba, Sawu and Timor (C Lesser Sundas).
- Slightly greyer overall with contrasting rump
Several authors believe that this species should be split into two. In that treatment, ssp amechanus and germani are named Germain's Swiftlet, while the rest of the subspecies retain the name of Edible-nest Swiftlet. However, taxonomical evidence for splitting the species has been unconvincing to many, and this species page will treat the group as a single species under the Biological Species Concept (see Taxonomy section).
Differences amongst subspecies are often subtle and difficult to distinguish in the field due to variations in lighting as well as difficulty in observing constantly fast-moving subjects.
According to the subspecies range, Edible-nest Swiftlets observed in Singapore should be A. f. germani which extends into the Malay Peninsula, but specimens collected appeared identical to the nominate race A. f. fuciphagus, likely because colonies in Malaysia and Singapore are of the house farmed variety (see House Farming below), which is suspected to be of Javan origin (ssp. fuciphagus). To complicate matters, their feeding ranges are not known and may overlap.
3. Ecology and behaviour
3.1 Feeding
Edible-nest Swiftlets are aerial insectivores that catch arthropods on the wing. Diet analyses have been conducted by examining regurgitated food boluses; hymenoptera, diptera and ephemeroptera made up majority of the food items, while arachnida, coleoptera and hemiptera made up most of the rest.
3.2 Reproduction
Natural populations of the swiftlets nest in caves, such as the Niah and Gomantong caves in Borneo, and on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. However, due to the practice of farming swiftlets in nest houses (see below), the Edible-nest swiftlets have adopted nesting in man-made buildings as early as the 1880s. (Lim & Cranbrook 2002).
Breeding has been observed to take place year-round but peak in October and February. (Nigel Langham 1979).
- Nest building: Nests are made of salivary excrement that harden into a cement-like material. Each nesting pair will spend about 25 minutes a day to build the nest, which takes about 45 days to complete. (Kang et al 1991). Nests are re-used for subsequent clutches in the future if not harvested. (Nigel Langham 1979).
- Chick development: Each pair of birds would usually lay two eggs and spend an average of 23 days incubating them. The chicks take about 43 days to develop and fledge, with an approximate 50% survival rate (Nigel Langham 1979).
3.3 Echolocation
As Edible-nest Swiftlets nest in places which are completely dark, they have evolved the ability to echolocate using clicking sounds, along with many other species from the genus Aerodramus. This ability, however, is not diagnostic of the genus as the Pygmy Swiftlet (Collocalia troglodytes) has been proven to possess this ability too.
Sound recording of an Edible-nest Swiftlet's echolocating clicking calls. (Recorded by Lim Hong Yao, 2018)
4. Human interactions
4.1 Bird's nest soup
The Edible-nest Swiftlet's nests are frequently prepared in a manner known colloquially as 'birds' nest soup', which has long been a Chinese delicacy of immense value since the T'ang Dynasty (618–907 A.D.) Lau and Melville (1994). Like many other Chinese delicacies, birds' nest soup is not especially tasty, and relies on other culinary additions to appeal to the palate (Thorburn 2015). Its value lies in its rumoured nutritional value and health benefits instead; the broth is said to help reduce inflammation, alleviate gastric problems, boost the immune system, metabolism, and mental performance, as well as improve skin complexion (Marcone, 2005). Several studies have shown that certain claims may hold some truth to them, as components such as sialic acid and other compounds that are purported to aid infant development and immunity were discovered to be present in the nests (Oda et al. 1998; Wang and Brand-Miller 2003; Ng et al. 1986; Kong et al. 1987; Roh et al. 2012). The Black-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus) also produces nests that are being collected and consumed, but their nests are worth less since they insert their feathers into the nests as additional material, which have to be removed to be eaten.
Given the high valuation of the nests (about USD$20 per nest (Marcone, 2005), nest harvesting naturally became a highly profitable exploit. Despite efforts to keep nesting colonies secret and manage the harvest rates, wild populations of the Edible-nest Swiftlets have plummeted from once immeasurable numbers, and many colonies have now been wiped out, or are critically endangered (Lau and Melville 1994; Sankaran 2001). Italy proposed to include the species under Appendix II of CITES to regulate trade in 1994, but opposition from the Southeast Asian nations prevented it (Thorburn 2015).
4.3 House farming
Two centuries ago, the Edible-nest Swiftlet nested solely on coastal habitats where caves were available, and there were no records of inland nesting colonies (Cranbrook et al. 2013). Swiftlets were first reported to nest in houses near cliffs in the village of Sedayu in East Java in 1880, and entrepreneurs eventually began developing methods to attract swiftlets to nest in houses (Lim and Cranbrook 2002). The industry grew as the use of broadcasting swiftlet calls to attract nesting birds became the norm, and a trade in swiftlet eggs began. House nesting swiftlets first appeared in the Malay Peninsula in the 1930s, reportedly first arriving in Singapore from Java, before spreading North across Malaysia (Chasen 1939; Gibson-Hill1948). The swiftlets have a high degree of nest fidelity, and house farmed swiftlets and their young would return to man-made houses (preferably the same one) to nest again (Kang et al. 1991), leaving the depleted natural populations and habitats unrestored (Cranbrook et al. 2013). Furthermore, house nesting swiftlets are suspected to be a hybrid population of A. f. fuciphagus and A. f. inexpectatus or A. f. germani in what could be an ongoing case of domestication; the population of house farmed swiftlets have since spread Northward up to Myanmar, where it may be competing with local subspecies. More extensive regional genetic studies are required to confirm these suspicions.
5. Taxonomy
5.1 Original description
The Edible-nest Swiftlet was originally described by Carl Peter Thunberg, a well renowned Swedish naturalist from the 19th century. Thunberg collected the specimen in Java and described it as Hirundo fuciphagus in his "Remarks about the Swallows that build jelly-like, edible Nests" (1812) (Figure 2), which, with help of Google Translate, roughly states that
- he collected a specimen that appeared similar to Hirundoesculenta, but upon closer examination discovered it was an undescribed species.
- H. fuciphagus can be found in caves of the mountainous areas in Java and made jelly like nests that are a precious commodity.
- The body of H. fuciphagus is black above and immaculate grey below, about four inches long
- Tail is black and rounded and black above and below.
- Wings black, twice the length of the tail and acute. Feet black and short.
- Similar to H. esculenta but differentiated by the all black tail, chest and abdomen, no spots.
5.2 Phylogenetics of swiftlets
Thunberg (1812) named the Edible-nest Swiftlets in Java Hirundo fuciphagus, mistakenly grouping them together with the swallows (Hirundo is a genus of swallows, which are passerines). By the 1900s swiftlets were recognized as a separate taxon and all its members were lumped in the genus Collocalia, then subsequently divided into 3 genera: Hydrochous (Giant Swiftlets) are sister to Aerodramus (medium sized brownish swiftlets), and Collocalia (small glossy plumaged swiftlets). Multiple recent phylogenetic analyses have been conducted to establish that Collocalia are the basal group that are more related to the swifts, followed by Hydrochous and Aerodramus being sister genera. (Cibois et. al 2018 and others)
Several studies have attempted to resolve the phylogenetic relationships of the Edible-nest Swiftlet, but success has been rather limited as it does not show up as a monophyletic clade on the tree; results often show that one or more individuals of A. fuciphagus are more closely related to the sister species A. salangana (Mossy-nest Swiftlet) than other A. fuciphagus (Cibois et. Al, 2018; Price et. Al, 2005; Rheindt et. al, 2014). The most recent tree constructed using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analysis is shown on the right (Figure 2) (Cibois et. al, 2018).
*add info on methods of analysis in Cibois here*
The low genetic divergence between closely related taxa is likely due to occasional hybridisation events, which have been reported in Sabah (Lee, 1996), leading to genetic introgression in the form of mitochondrial DNA sweeps (Rheindt & Edwards, 2011) that cause some individuals to appear closer to sister species than its own. It is evident that mitochondrial DNA is not very effective as a taxonomic indicator in the case of the Aerodramus swiftlets, and genomic methods may be a better alternative to resolve these relationships.
5.3 Subspecies taxonomy
In 1931, Stresemann postulated that populations with a paler rump from A. f. germani and those of a darker rump from A. f. vestitus and fuciphagus formed a transition zone over Peninsula Malaysia where intergrades of rump colour can be observed. Thus, it was proposed that the populations were interbreeding, and thus the taxa were regarded as subspecies of Aerodramus fuciphagus. Medway (1966) also arrived at a similar conclusion.
Subsequently, Cranbrook et. al (2013) re-examined the specimens for the subspecies and postulated that there was not a cline in morphology, but rather an overlap of feeding range in Peninsula Malaysia. As such, A. germani and A. inexpectatus were suggested as separate species and this treatment is currently adopted by several authors. Mitochondrial DNA analysis was conducted but only revealed significant differences between house farmed swiftlets and A. f. vestitus, while the parsimony tree constructed using neighbour joining techniques revealed poor support on the nodes and appeared inconclusive regarding the phylogenetic relationships between populations (Figure 3). Previous cytochrome-b mitochondrial DNA work by Lee et. al (1996) also failed to reveal any conclusive results (Figure 4). While morphological breaks separating the populations in different geographical ranges may exist, in applying the Biological Species Concept, there is insufficient evidence to establish reproductive isolation given that the colonies breed in allopatry. Additionally, Cranbrook et. al (2013) postulated that the house farmed swiftlets could be a hybrid population of A. f. fuciphagus and A. f. inexpectatus or A. f. germani, indicating that these taxa may not withstand the test of sympatry when brought together in nest houses. Therefore, A. fuciphagus is currently treated as a single species on this page and by several other authors. Future genomic research with Next Generation Sequencing can be conducted to help reveal the phylogenetic relationship of these taxa more conclusively.
*critique on methods of analysis in fig 3 and 4*
*How different species concepts would treat this*
Figure 2: Scans of the original swedish description of H. fuciphagus in Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar by Thunberg (1812), obtained from Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Figure 2: Phylogenetic tree of Aerodramus swiftlets obtained using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA analysis. Adapted from Cibois et. al (2018).
Figure 3: Phylogenetic tree of Edible-nest Swiftlets from different populations using mitochondrial DNA and neighbour-joining methods. Adapted from Cranbrook et. al (2013).
Figure 4: Phylogenetic tree of swiftlets using mitochondrial DNA. Adapted from Lee et. al (1996).


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I guess I could complain about the heat and how awful my non-ac condo felt after the run… or how all I wanted was ice cream and pretzels when I walked in door. But, nope – I'll remain positive.
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Ok, Ok… grilling sausages and boiling potatoes in a hot kitchen wasn't the best idea. (I just hate food going to waste!) Next time I'll stick to ice cream and pretzels. That's much better than italian sausage, boiled potatoes, and saurkraut anyways.
Another positive note – eating outside on the cool porch is very serene. I should eat outside more often. 🙂
Ice Cream – definitely a positive.
More positivity? Derek got the AC working. It's not permanent (there are pots and duct tape involved in the fix), but it's good for now! 😉
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