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As a result of these and other fires, communities began to support volunteer fire companies. In addition to the Apponaug, Lakewood and Pawtuxet Fire Companies, which were organized before the end of the 19th century, five volunteer fire companies came into existence. The Norwood Company was organized in 1908 and purchased a chemical truck as its first piece of apparatus. In Conimicut, in 1911, 36 men became charter members of the Conimicut Volunteer Company and purchased a hand-drawn truck. Oakland Beach organized a fire company in 1913 and, in 1917, purchased an American La-France truck with a pumping capacity of 250 gallons per minute. This was the forst motorized pumping engine in the town. Bayside organized a fire company in 1915, and the Greenwood Company came into being in 1924.
The town began to support these companies by voting an appropriation of $100 to each of the four Warwick companies in 1913 and $75 to the Pawtuxet Volunteers. In 1924 the town appropriated $7,000 for the benefit of the various fire departments.
Even with the efforts of the volunteer fire departments, Warwick was severely crippled by fire during the early part of the century. One of the worst was in Apponaug in 1911. This fire destroyed both St. Barnabas Church and the Kentish Artillery Armory. This blaze, it is believed, started in an outbuilding at the rear of the armory. It was a cold night in March, and it seems that a tramp entered the building to keep warm and to find his way he lit matches, which ignited some papers in the building.
A watchman at the Apponaug Print Works spotted the blaze and sent out the alarm that was quickly answered by the Apponaug Volunteers. Unfortunately, there was a very weak water supply and only one line was operable at a time. In addition, it was bitter cold, about 18 degrees, and the water froze as soon as it hit the buildings. Fortunately, the firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading throughout Apponaug.
The years 1914 and 1915 were especially severe for fires in Warwick. In 1914 Rocky Point was again the scene of a serious blaze, as six buildings were destroyed. The Conimicut Volunteer Company quickly responded and, despite being hampered by falling electric wires, was able to save a number of buildings on the amusement park's Midway.
In April 1915 fire destroyed the stable, laundry, garage, boiler room and part of the observation tower at Senator Nelson W. Aldrich's estate. The damage was estimated at $300,000. Lines were connected to a system in the water tower, but the pressure was so weak it did little to help fight the blaze. Even at this late date, only a small section of Warwick had a modern water supply system. Ironically, the question of making provision for the installation of an adequate water service in the town of Warwick was discussed at the financial town meeting during that day, and the taxpayers had voted against the proposition.
The dawning of the 20th century saw the political clamor for more services for the western mill villages in Warwick intensify into a demand for separation. On March 14, 1913, Governor Aram Pothier signed a bill into law that divided Warwick by taking the third, fourth and fifth representative districts to make West Warwick a separate town. The act that accomplished this was introduced and nurtured by Walter G. Hartford after similar bills, introduced by Frank Woodmansee in 1910 and Walter C. Gardner in 1912 had failed to receive favorable action.
While success finally came in 1913, agitation for this division, which took 8.3 square miles from Warwick to make the western section of the town an independent entity, had started at least a half-century earlier.
For many years, talk of separation was quickly stifled by Charles R. Brayton, the "blond boss," who ruled the state with very little opposition for many years. In much the same manner, Brayton's counterpart in Warwick, Webster Knight, ruled the town with an iron hand. As the senior partner of the B.B. & R. Knight Co., Webster Knight exerted a tremendous influence on the mill villages and controlled a sizable number of votes. He was elected to the Warwick Town Council and became its president from 1893-98.
At the turn of the century, the abuses of boss rule were challenged on both the state and local levels. In 1907 even Nelson Aldrich, who was the chief benefactor, protested against Brayton's despotic rule. The feeling that the "old boss," now going blind, could be ousted from power caused his enemies to attempt to destroy his control. Brayton surprised everyone by fighting back and keeping control over the state senate. This was his power base and he wasn't going to allow the creation of a new town, which would be Democratic. The fight continued, however, and the "progressive" branch of the Republican Party was beginning to demand sweeping reforms and was willing to challenge the "machine" politics of Brayton and other "bosses."
In Warwick, the discontent of both Democrats and reform-minded Republicans was directed at Webster "Boss" Knight. The two factions joined to form a Citizens Party. They labeled Knight "the autocrat of the council table" and accused him of using his position to serve his firm rather than the citizens of Warwick.


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Iceberg lettuce is a California icon, but these mini-sized heads are a more recent agricultural product. At the equally iconic Sardine Factory on the Monterey Peninsula, the crunchy lettuce is served with fresh Dungeness crab and a beet vinaigrette.
6 Garden Hearts Iceberg Babies
3 fresh red beets
6 egg yolks
2 cups virgin olive oil
1/2 cup champagne vinegar
1 tbsp. finely chopped garlic
Pinch each salt and white pepper
18 oz. Dungeness crabmeat
3 tbsp. lemon juice
3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 cup chopped parsley
12 green asparagus tips, precooked crisp-tender
- Cut off the iceberglettuce stems, rinse under cold water and allow to drip-dry completely. Cut a generous cap from the top, removing about 1/3 of the head, and clear out the center to create a bowl. Chop any remaining lettuce.
- Cook beets and peel, using gloves to protect your hands. Puree beets in blender or food processor and add egg yolks. Slowly add olive oil and champagne vinegar simultaneously. Season with garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Set dressing aside and refrigerate until ready to serve.
- To serve, place some of chopped lettuce on bottom of each iceberg lettuce bowl; top with 3 oz. crabmeat and sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Drizzle with beet vinaigrette and top with the chopped egg mixed with parsley. Garnish the plate with asparagus tips.


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PA State Vehicle Auction Begins New Year in 'Classic' Fashion
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An offering of 36 classic vehicles will highlight 500 units to be offered for purchase by the public during the Commonwealth's first state vehicle auction of the new year to be held on Monday, Feb. 11.
"This vehicle auction is a classic car-lover's dream," state General Services Secretary Sheri Phillips said. "In addition to the quality vehicles always present at our auctions, we will be offering a nice selection of classic automobiles and motorcycles. This will definitely be one of our most unique vehicle auctions."
Classic vehicles include a 1918 Buick, 1970 Subaru 360, 1974 Datsun 260Z, 1959 King Midget, 1967 Datsun 1600, 1970 Datsun 2000, 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1978 Triumph Spitfire, 1968 AMC Javelin, 1968 AMX 390, 1948 Crosley Hotshot and two 1969 Camaros – one a Rally Sport, the other a Super Sport. Classic motorbikes include a 1959 Harley Davidson Tele-Glide and an Admiral Whizzer and Packard Whizzer, both from the 1940s. These particular vehicles were acquired by PennDOT as part of a road-widening project.
An assortment of state agency vehicles, seized vehicles and 30 motorcycles will be available for bid. The public is encouraged to preview the vehicles at the Manheim Auto Auctions, at 488 Firehouse Road, Grantville, Dauphin County, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily starting on Thursday, Feb. 7 through Sunday, Feb. 10.
The auction will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 11. Registration opens at 8 a.m. and closes at noon. All revenue generated will be returned to the commonwealth. Buyers may purchase with cash or certified funds in the form of money orders, cashier's checks, certified checks or bank checks – all made payable to "Manheim Central Penn Auto Auction."
For more information on this auction, payment conditions and a complete listing of vehicles, visit DGS online at www.dgs.state.pa.us; click on "Bid on an Automobile" under the "How Do I?" section of the website; scroll down to "Next Auction" and select "Click here for the pre-sale listing."
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Justin Smith back at practice
The 49ers had a welcome face back in uniform at practice on Thursday.
Defensive lineman Justin Smith, out since December 16th with a torn triceps that will require surgery, took part in individual drills with the 49ers during their afternoon practice. Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com reports that Smith was wearing a black brace on his elbow to protect the injury.
Smith is expected to make every attempt to play in the 49ers' first playoff game, he said he'd be "ready to roll" last week, and Thursday's appearance is a step in the right direction. With more than a week to go until they take the field, Smith has a lot of time to test his arm on the field and see how it responds to the work.
The 49ers defense was not the same without Smith on the field, so his presence and ability to play near his usual level will be a big factor in the 49ers' chances of advancing in the postseason.
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Lawyers for the state of New Hampshire and ExxonMobil return to court to start week two of a marathon pollution trial over the gasoline additive MTBE.
The state is seeking more than $700 million to monitor drinking wells and clean up the most contaminated sites.
The trial began Jan. 14 with ExxonMobil and Citgo as the two remaining defendants in a 2003 lawsuit the state brought against 26 oil companies and subsidiaries. After two days of trial Citgo filed a motion to be severed from the case - signaling settlement talks are under way.
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I think those stats only apply to non-Mexicans.
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IVhorseman wrote:I actually like the dumbed down 2005 rules better, because everything's easily categorized, as opposed to having to look EVERYTHING up in a rulebook. sure, there's 24 different kinds of guns, but what do you do when that 25th one comes around? LOLWTF MOAR STATS.
the thing is, it's impossible to make every gun because they're all different slightly. for 2001's specific stats, they're just different enough to force you to memorize everything. for 2005's more general stats, they're similar enough so that it's one stat for everything. and besides, an AK-47 will kill you just as dead as an M-16. is it really necessary to differentiate them?
I think those stats only apply to non-Mexicans.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:they do? last i checked, there were gyro rifles and all sorts of weird machine guns.
ahp77 wrote:"always use melee weapons unless your enemies are annoying you"
ace121 wrote:2001 rules pwn. Reaons:
6. I have every one of them memorized
7. It provides a lot more material than '05
8. Only a pansy couldn't handle the complexity of '01. Brikwars ain't for pansies!
I liked it more when only brain surgeons could play. A lot less idiots who do cheap shit moves like 'Realistic Nukes'.
I think those stats only apply to non-Mexicans.
Blitzen wrote:I disagree.
The reason I looked for the BrikWars rules was that I had a castle, and my brother wanted to wargame me and stage an invasion. He's kind of dull*, and doesn't like reading, so I wanted the simplest rules possible. I also haven't read the 2001 rules yet because they're so damn long and not in html.
*He dropped out of university and went to the dumbest college ever.
I think those stats only apply to non-Mexicans.
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Ramsey finished second in the voting for the NFL Defensive Rookie of Year award after breaking up 14 passes and intercepting two more in his first year. He is a No. 1 cornerback and may still have the most upside of any player on the roster.
Colvin is a dependable cornerback in the slot and an underrated zone corner on the outside. He will return and hope to earn a big free agent deal as he enters a contract year.
In terms of historical tropical cyclone activity, recent work ( Kossin et al. 2014 ; see GFDL Research Highlight ; Kossin et al. 2016 ) indicates that the latitude at which the maximum intensity of tropical cyclones occurs has expanded poleward globally in recent decades. The poleward shift in the Northwest Pacific they conclude is unusual compared to expected variability from natural causes but consistent with general expectations of such a shift due to anthropogenic warming seen in climate model experiments. The poleward shift has been found in both hemispheres, but is not seen in the Atlantic basin. Human activities may have already caused other changes in tropical cyclone activity that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of these changes compared to estimated natural variability, or due to observational limitations.
For future projections, GFDL atmospheric modelers have developed global models capable of simulating many aspects of the seasonal and year-to-year variability of tropical cyclone frequency in a number of basins, using only historical sea surface temperatures as input. Examples of the performance of these models on historical data are provided on this web page .
Our 2015 study examines the impact of 21st-century projected climate changes (CMIP5, RCP4.5 scenario) on a number of tropical cyclone metrics, using the GFDL hurricane model to downscale storms in all basins from one of the lower resolution global atmospheric models mentioned above. Key findings from these experiments include: fewer tropical cyclones globally in a warmer late-twenty-first-century climate (Figure 8), but also an increase in average cyclone intensity, the number and occurrence days of very intense category 4 and 5 storms in most basins (Figure 9) and in tropical cyclone precipitation rates (Figure 10).
Based on our published results and as well as those of other modeling groups, we conclude that at the global scale: a future increase in tropical cyclone precipitation rates is likely; an increase in tropical cyclone intensity is likely; an increase in very intense (category 4 and 5) tropical cyclones is more likely than not; and there is medium confidence in a decrease in the frequency of weaker tropical cyclones. Existing studies suggest a tropical cyclone windspeed increase of about 1-10% and a tropical cyclone precipitation rate increase of about 10-15% for a moderate (2 degree Celsius) global warming scenario. These global projections are similar to the consensus findings from a review of earlier studies in the 2010 WMO assessment . [There is already medium confidence for a detectable human contribution to past observed increases in heavy precipitation in general over global land regions and for the United States , although this increase has not been formally detected for hurricane precipitation alone.]
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Crowdfunding is quickly becoming the number one way for indie films to score the monetary resources needed to get a movie made. Success stories like Zach Braff's Sundance select "Wish I Was Here" and the feature film adaptation of the popular television series "Veronica Mars" raised just over $3 million and $5.7 million, respectively. What was their secret?
The Georgia Institute of Technology might've figured it out. They recently did a study that spanned 45,000 online fundraising campaigns to determine a phrasing formula for successful fundraisers, and shed some light on why other campaigns might have flopped.
Offering gifts may jumpstart success, but it's all about how you word your reward proposition that makes the difference. Phrases like "project will be," "has pledged," and "also receive two" were linked with projects that met their goals, while "trusting" and "not been able" were attached to those that failed.
Properly pitching your idea is also a huge driver. Successful language typically falls into these categories
Reciprocity: returning the favor with gifts or "good karma and…"—a phrase linked to positive feedback.
Scarcity: labeling your gifts a rare commodity with phrases like "given the chance" and "option is."
Social Proof: playing on people's dependence to social cues with phrases like "has pledged."
Social Identity: making people feel like they're part of the team with things like "to build this."
Authority: assertion of your power and ability to make quick decisions with phrases like "project will be" and "we can afford."
"Our research revealed that the phrases used in successful Kickstarter campaigns exhibited general persuasion principles," Eric Gilbert, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, said in a statement. "Those campaigns that follow the concept of reciprocity—that is, offer a gift in return for a pledge—and the perceptions of social participation and authority, generated the greatest amount of funding."
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PEORIA — A man in his 20s received a minor injury when he was grazed in the buttock by a bullet Tuesday afternoon in South Peoria.
Police were alerted to the situation by ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection technology installed in November. That system pinpointed the location of the incident as 809 W. John Gwynn Jr. Ave. The call for three rounds fired came in at 1:52 p.m.
When officers arrived, they didn't initially find evidence of a shooting, according to Lt. Earnest McCall. A witness eventually told police the victim, Andrew C. Dunn, ran into an apartment across the street in the 100 block of Merriman Court.
Dunn was found with the wound to his buttock.
"We're not for sure if that was a result of the shooting or not," McCall said. "He's not giving us any information."
It also was not clear whether the wound may have been accidentally self-inflicted or received from another person.
Dunn was transported to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center by ambulance. He was treated and released.
The incident remained under investigation Tuesday afternoon with no arrests and no suspects in custody.
The shooting Tuesday afternoon was at least the seventh incident of shots fired in the city recorded by ShotSpotter or called in by residents since Monday morning, according to police records. No other injuries were reported.
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By Chef Ann Cooper & Chef Beth Collins
Walk into any typical public school cafeteria these days and you will see one staple across the board: French Fries. According to the USDA's School Nutrition Standards, vegetables must be served every day and French fries are the most often served vegetable in schools. Easy to make, portable for on-the-run students, and ubiquitous, French fries sell. But as we all know, counting French fries as a vegetable on the school lunch menu is a bit of a travesty. In this day and age when childhood diabetes and obesity are rampant why are other fresh, colorful and delicious vegetables not required more often in school meals?
In Fall of 2011, potatoes and the proposed meal patterns for school breakfast and lunch made headlines across the nation.
In August Senator Udall and Susan Collins (R-ME) sent a letter to the Senate agricultural appropriators urging them to add language to the FY2012 spending bill that states;
None of the funds provided by this Act shall be available to implement new nutritional standards in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs that would unnecessarily discriminate against certain vegetables, including white potatoes, corn, lima beans and green peas.
Until January of 2011 when the USDA released the proposed meal standards a potato serving could "count" as a vegetable in a reimbursable school meal every day of the week. In the proposed pattern starchy vegetables are limited not because they can't be healthful or are less expensive, but the Institute of Medicine that studied the NSLP programs extensively state the reason for the limitation of starchy vegetables to once a week is to "encourage students to try new vegetables in place of the familiar starchy ones." Does this mean we need to worry about the future of French fries?
I'm sure Senator Udall also has the children of the United States on his mind with his opposition to the USDA's proposed rule. But will the potato farmers of Colorado (Udall's home state) really go out of business if the kids in Colorado and elsewhere eat a variety of vegetables? Colorado is the nation's fourth leading producer of white potatoes. Potatoes have been a cornerstone of school meals for decades and potato growers and processors have invested heavily to ensure potatoes maintain their heralded place as the number one vegetable consumed in school meals – everything from tator-tots and French fries to potato pearls for instant mashed are readily available to school food authorities (SFAs) across the nation. It's time to make a change.
Is the potato being discriminated against or have the rest of the "specialty crops" been ignored so consistently and for so long with the rise of our fast food nation that most kids don't know the virtues and deliciousness of broccoli, zucchini or butternut squash, all of which also grow in Colorado?
Running a school food service program in Colorado serving 1.6 million meals annually, we find a place for potatoes at our table. The difference being that unlike many districts where the potato arrives frozen as ready-to-bake or ready-to-fry, they arrive whole and raw from Colorado farmers. Boulder Valley School District cooked 26,000 pounds of potatoes from scratch last year. Potatoes made up 20% of our fresh vegetable purchases totaling over 125,000 pounds.. The kids love our potatoes; mashed, roasted, gracing our pot pie or the salad bar. Here in Boulder we truly believe that our children cannot learn to love the rainbow of all vegetables unless we give them the opportunity. Clearly, our purchase history reflects the ability to both educate and feed.
We believe Senator Udall's and others' opposition to the change in starchy vegetable servings is ill-served. As a nation we need to take responsibility for the current state of our children's health. If we open the lunch tray to more required choices, our kids will have a better chance to be healthy adults. We respect the concern of our colleagues in the School Nutrition Association that the proposed rules may enact hardship on the SFAs to comply. We should be concerned about the cost of meals and the SFAs' ability to procure and serve meals that our children will eagerly accept. But instead of opposing the new meal pattern, perhaps Senator Udall and the rest of nation will ask for more than 6 cents a meal in the reimbursement rate to give SFAs realistic economic support to comply with the new meal patterns. School districts will require equipment, training and educational resources to assure success in school cafeterias across the nation, and a future of healthier Americans.
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Local Girl Scouts will put their sales and marketing skills into action as they strive to reach an unprecedented goal of selling 1.7 million boxes of cookies, as part of the Girl Scout Cookie Program.
"When a Girl Scout sells you cookies, she's doing more than just handing you a box. She's creating a plan, interacting with customers, and working as part of a team. She's building a lifetime of skills and confidence, which validates an important part of Girl Scouting which is to inspire girls to reach their full potential," said CEO Cindy L. Odom.
The cookies will sell for $3.50 per box, like previous years. All the popular flavors are back - Caramel de Lites, Lemonades, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Peanut Butter Patties, Thanks-A-Lot, and Thin Mints. As well as a new packaging look, a new flavor has been added to the roster, Mango Crèmes. This kind of cookie is a refreshing tropical treat, infused with Nutrifusion.
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- We completely gutted our kitchen, including the subfloor. Working with a modest budget of just $4,600 for everything, we did it all ourselves from flooring, plumbing and electricity to the planked ceiling, cabinet, tile, and counter installation.
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Light, heat, kitchen appliances, television and stereo, air conditioners, computing life as we know it runs on electricity, and electricity comes from turbines. Think of them as jet engines bolted to the floor. Rather than thrust to lift an aircraft off the ground, these turbines produce powerful rotation that drives generators to produce megawatts of electricity, which flows through wires into your home.
The process starts with fossil fuel, still the raw energy source for nearly 90 percent of electrical power worldwide. Two kinds of turbines, steam and gas, share the load. For steam turbines, coal and fuel oil heat boilers from which pressurized steam turns the windmill-like turbine blades. In gas turbines, combustors ignite the fuel and blast hot, pressurized exhaust gas to do the turning work.
As a cleaner-burning fuel, natural gas is favored for low-emission, nearly pollutant-free turbines of the present and foreseeable future. High efficiency as complete as possible conversion of raw energy into turbine rotation is the key not only to low CO2 emission, but also to the cost of electricity. Small gains in efficiency that slightly reduce cost per megawatt translate to huge savings overall, and turbine engineers measure efficiency in tenths of a percent.
One new way of thinking about gas turbines is to let combustion carry over from the combustor into the turbine and even to inject additional fuel into the turbine for an extra kick of power, roughly analogous to a jet engine afterburner. This potentially would allow more complete burning and more overall work from the fuel as well as a healthy power boost. The idea is called a "turbine-combustor" and actually, says Paul Cizmas of Texas A&M, it's an old idea revived for new times.
"The idea started in the 1960s, but we didn't have the technology to test it," says Cizmas, a former senior scientist at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, "and until two or three years ago, it was considered bad to have flame in the turbine, mainly because of the problem of cooling the blades. Then we realized we already design the first row of blades, the vanes, as if the flame is there. The problems come in the rows after that, and recent studies have shown we need to worry about how to cool these rows anyway, even if we don't have turbine combustion."
In September 2000, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Strategic Center for Natural Gas selected Siemens-Westinghouse Power Corp. to study the turbine-combustor idea, with Texas A&M on board to focus on computational simulation. "There's an opportunity to significantly reduce the cost of an engine," says Tom Lippert, manager of science and technology center combustion programs at Siemens-Westinghouse, "and to reduce the cost of electricity."
A necessary step out of the starting blocks is to develop a reliable way to simulate the physical processes. "This could be a different combustion process altogether from what we're used to," says Lippert. "You have to have analytical tools that allow you to combine combustion kinetics with aerodynamics. This hasn't been done before, at least in this fashion."
In work a few years ago at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Cizmas developed software that simulates the complex flows involved in turbine blade design. By relying on the computing power of massively parallel systems, Cizmas's approach proved to be both faster and more accurate than prior approaches. In 2001, through the Super Computing Science Consortium, a southwest Pennsylvania-West Virginia regional partnership that links DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory with PSC, Cizmas used the 512-processor CRAY T3E at Pittsburgh to develop and test a computational method for the much more complex flow problems involved in a turbine-combustor.
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As they began this project, Cizmas and his colleague, Dragos Isvoranu of Politehnica University Bucharest, soon realized they had an interesting opportunity. A literature search revealed no prior data on combustion within a turbine.
The first challenge was not a new one simulating flow in the alternating rows of stationary and rotating blades, vanes and rotors, that characterize modern power turbines. The passageway between vanes is like a nozzle that speeds up the hot gas and shoots it toward the spinning rotors. Each vane-rotor series is called a stage, with many stages, hundreds of blades, in operational turbines. Although these flows are complicated, Cizmas had already tackled this problem with success.
The added complication is combustion, which changes everything. By itself, combustion has been modeled, but not when the flow is this complicated. "Flow in the turbine," says Cizmas, "is like a nightmare because of the rotor-stator interaction. Now on top of this, we want to have a stable flame. Flow in the combustor is almost steady, if not steady, but in this case, it's very unsteady. So you have the problem not only of correctly simulating the combustion, but also unsteadiness in the combustion a very challenging problem."
Added heat not only increases temperature, it also can radically change the flow patterns. Flow from the combustor alone induces "hot streaks" downstream in the turbine, which affect blade life and blade design. With the added stress of combustion within the turbine, these problems are exacerbated.
As a practical matter, computer simulation is the only hope for gaining enough understanding to arrive at a design concept. "The question is how should we inject fuel," says Cizmas, "at what location, what pressure, what quantity? Should it be continuous or pulsed? The possible variations are infinite. Experimental investigation with scale models would take years."
When the Fuel Hits the Rotor
The numerical challenge was to develop an algorithm that coupled the equations for fluid flow with the "species equations" for each chemical constituent of the combustion reaction natural gas (methane), oxygen, carbon-dioxide, carbon-monoxide, water. Cizmas and Isvoranu used an efficient approach a fully implicit, finite-difference method that employs a moving set of mesh-like grids to subdivide the space around the turbine blades. In these initial computations, the blades are represented as a uniform cross-section extended from the turbine hub.
Using the CRAY T3E to put their software through its paces, the researchers modeled a one-stage turbine-combustor with 32 vanes and 49 blades a relatively simple configuration that corresponds to an existing turbine. The work is shared among processors, one for each blade. For this initial test, they modeled fuel injection with basic parameters through a single small hole at the trailing edge of the vanes, at low velocity, and relatively high temperature and pressure.
As Cizmas expected, the simulations show delayed ignition. In the space between blades, the fuel rapidly gains heat and mixes with oxygen and then ignites as it hits the rotating blades. Ignition occurs with unexpected intensity, however, almost like an explosion, says Cizmas. "At the moment when the wake of fuel from the stator hits the rotor, you see rapid acceleration of the reaction. We were expecting strong coupling between the flow and combustion, but we didn't know we'd see this quite important increase in reaction speed."
To assess accuracy, Cizmas ran the simulations with three different grid resolutions coarse, medium and fine with nearly 50,000 processor hours on the T3E. Analysis showed good agreement between the high and medium resolution grids, a strong indication that the modeling is accurately representing the physical process. An innovative correction algorithm for the species computation, says Cizmas, appears to work well. Coupling between the equations for flow and combustion raised a theoretical question about reaction thermodynamics, a specialty of Isvoranu, which the researchers are looking at and which may necessitate a revised approach.
Cizmas expects that the Siemens-Westinghouse research program will lead to operational turbine-combustors within five years with implementation in power plants in ten years. One possibility envisioned by this research is a turbine-combustor unit that eliminates the combustor as a separate component. "This is an opportunity," says Lippert, "to significantly reduce the cost of an engine. If you integrate the combustion system into the blade path, you eliminate a big piece of hardware."
A more immediate use, though, is likely to come from adding turbine-combustion to existing turbines, creating a flexible power reserve. "If there's a point in the day that the plant needs to produce more power," says Cizmas, "it can be done by turning on combustion in the turbine." The only current option for a sudden power crunch is to bring an additional turbine on-line, potentially producing more power than required, which gluts the bidding market for power and lowers profitability.
Cizmas is preparing his turbine-combustor software for a more comprehensive series of simulations on LeMieux, PSC's 3,000-processor terascale system. These studies will incorporate a fully 3D representation of the blades, with one processor assigned to each of 50 cross-sectional slices per blade to capture the finely detailed aerodynamics of blade curvature.
Though results are preliminary, the first round of simulations offers new understanding to help point the way ahead. The accelerated ignition at the rotors suggests the fuel may need to be pulsed in time with rotor frequency. "Other issues," says Cizmas, "include what angle to inject. We're looking at a variation of angles to increase turbulence, which helps mixing. And at what velocity should we inject? What temperature and pressure? How many injection points per blade? How should they be spaced? We're also looking at fuel composition. Should we use pure methane, or methane mixed with air? And what about using hydrogen? We're going to be busy for awhile."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Facing its first nationally-ranked opponent this season, No. 15 MIT fell to No. 6 Middlebury College, 5-0, in a non-conference field hockey game on Sunday afternoon. Junior Catherine Fowler (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) generated a goal and an assist as the Panthers (8-2) handed the Engineers (9-1) their first loss of the year.
The early stages of the game were a midfield battle, but it was Middlebury that threatened first only to see attempts by freshmen Alex Kuzma (Washington Crossing, Pa.), Lauren Berestecky (Madison, Conn.), and Pam Schulman (Greenwich, Conn.) in the circle get thwarted by the MIT defense. The stalemate ended in the 13th minute when Fowler sent a long pass from the near side into the middle of the arc where it was deflected by senior Katherine Theiss (Wilmette, Ill.) to the near post.
The back-and-forth play returned until sophomore Bridget Instrum (Granby, Mass.) intercepted a pass and wove through the defense to give the Panthers a 2-0 lead. With just over a minute remaining in the half, senior Michelle Teplensky (Somers, N.Y.) set up what proved to be the Engineers' best opportunity of the frame. Her long pass was chased down by junior Caitlin Mackey (San Diego, Calif.) and later resulted in a penalty corner with 10 seconds on the clock. Freshman Jane Coffrin's (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) bid was kicked away by junior goalie Emily Knapp (Scarsdale, N.Y.) with the rebound making its way to senior Molly Duffy (New Providence, N.J.) who was unable to corral the loose ball.
Despite the late surge by the hosts, Middlebury quickly extended its advantage in the second stanza. In the 41st minute, Schulman recorded an unassisted marker that was matched by Fowler 49 seconds later to put the Panthers up, 4-0. Following a shot on goal by Teplensky, the momentum shifted to the Engineers as senior Erin Kenney (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) sent a dangerous pass from just outside the top of the arc that forced Knapp to come off her line. Shortly thereafter, Teplensky put the ball into an empty circle but the MIT attack could not come up with a deflection.
Middlebury controlled the action during the next 10 minutes as it capped the scoring in the 64th minute. During a scramble in front of the net, senior Elinore O'Brien (New Canaan, Conn.) emerged with ball and found Berestecky who dodged a defender for the goal. The Engineers continued to attack despite the deficit as they generated a pair of penalty corners during the final two minutes of action.
In net, MIT sophomore Evie Kyritsis (Mountain Lakes, N.J.) posted five saves in 42 minutes while classmate Paige Kennedy (Eastchester, N.Y.) closed out the game with three stops, including a leaping swat at the upper corner of the cage. Knapp finished the day with four saves in her third shutout of the season for the Panthers.
Both squads resume conference play this week. MIT will host NEWMAC foe Wheaton College on Tuesday, Oct. 8 while Middlebury returns home to square off with NESCAC rival Trinity College on Saturday, Oct. 12.


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1. DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins Extended Mix
2. Spen & Thommyâs Show Me Dub
3. Spenâs LektroSoul Mix
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Written by Dawn Tallman, Sean Spencer, Greg Lewis, Gary Hudgins & Thommy Davis
Produced by DJ Spen, Thommy Davis & Gary Hudgins
Vocals Recorded & Arranged by Dawn Tallman
Vocal Recording Engineer: Greg Lewis for Blacklist Media
Keyboards by Gary Hudgins & DJ Spen
Mixdown & Arranged by DJ Spen
Additional Post Production Mixing by Thommy Davis
Published by Tallmax Music (SESAC), Quantize Music Publishing, Pavement Productions(BMI) & Hudge Productions(ASCAP)
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Up next on Quantize New York house diva, Dawn Tallman delivers a slice of electro soul heat, âBelieve in Loveâ.
Deep and soulful, Tallmanâs rousing melodies coupled with a funk laced bassline make for an infectious combination.
Spenâs LektroSoul interpretations take âBelieve in Loveâ into tougher club territories, whist his mixes with fellow Quantize family members, Gary Hudgins and Thommy Davis extrapolate the original with pinpoint prowess â perfect for the more soulful floors.
Quantize continue their audio assault on soul fuelled house music !
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Mike Richters (RiskSoundSystem) : Dj Spen & Gary Hudgins deliver another Quantize banger! Together with The Queen of Gospel, it's indeed an infectious combination! The DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins mix is a great soulful house mix while the LektroSoul mix will work well in the big rooms.
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Mass. man indicted in attempted murder in Manchester
October 24. 2013 2:05PM
MANCHESTER — A Bay State man was indicted for attempted murder in a shooting last July on Orange Street.
Richard Scott, 34, of Dorchester, Mass., is accused of shooting Terrance Jackson, 20, who was staying in an apartment at 145 Orange St., in the face with a gun Jackson sold to him three weeks earlier, according to police.
A grand jury sitting in Hillsborough County Superior Court, Northern District, also indicted Scott on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to the indictment, he previously was convicted of armed robbery in 1997 in Suffolk County (Mass.) Superior Court in Boston.
The July 26 shooting happened in a dispute over money, according to court records. Jackson was shot in the chin, which broke his jaw. The bullet lodged in his collarbone.
Jackson told police he knew Scott and had sold him the semi-automatic .380 Scott used to shoot him.
Scott faces up to life in prison if convicted of attempted murder.
The grand jury also indicted Alfred Nyonee, 20, of 82 W. Brook St., Apt. 17, on charges of attempted first-degree assault and reckless conduct. On Aug. 18, he allegedly fired a gun at a 19-year-old identified only as "D.W." in the indictment.
Nyonee also was indicted for reckless conduct for engaging in conduct that placed or may have placed another in danger of serious bodily injury, specifically, by firing a gun in a residential area.
A second man, Eddil Ortez, 20, of New Bedford, Mass., also was indicted on charges of being an accomplice to first-degree assault and falsifying physical evidence in connection with the shooting.
According to the indictments, Ortez drove Nyonee away from the scene and got rid of the gun used in the shooting.
Police said the 19-year-old man had a dispute with Nyonee, who caught up to him that Sunday night as the teen was riding his moped. Nyonee pulled out a handgun, pointed it at him and fired, missing the young man but hitting a parked car.
Investigators recovered a 9-mm casing at the scene and towed a parked car that had a bullet hole in it.


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If you remember the peak bedroom pop era of 2009--back before we had Instagram filters and Buzzfeed lists to mine our nostalgia full-time--there was this idea that, like, feelings were real in the '80s, you guys (!), but now they are vague.
A wave of artists put out videos designed to look like fading VHS tapes and released music designed to sound like decaying cassettes--there was a guy called Memory Tapes! Seriously! Memory Tapes! And as far as I can tell, they've been trying to live it down ever since by laying out their feelings in more definitive terms.
Toro Y Moi, a standout member of that class, did this by releasing a more straightforward disco album on which the lyrics were actually discernable. But that album tended to feel wan, lacking some of the standout production and giddy releases of tension on his debut. On Toro Y Moi's third album, "Anything in Return," the backlash is far enough in the past that singer/producer Chaz Bundick's two approaches can find a happy medium. The result is a supremely comfortable, vaguely disco-indebted electronic album on which sung vocals and samples blend effortlessly, drum patterns lazily weave in and out of pillowy synthesizers and exciting production flourishes crop up constantly without ever seeming crowded.
"Anything in Return" doesn't demand attention. Rather, it coaxes and reassures, hinting that, like, maybe this would be a good time to dance but, like, it's totally cool if you don't want to either, or whatever. The lyrics of fantastic lead single "Say That" include phrases such as "I can't decide" and "We're all right."
It's house music for the timid, but peaks such as the anthemic "Cake" and the chillwave-Backstreet-Boys-leaning "Never Matter" ultimately deliver an energetic late-album pay off. Lyrically, it's mostly an album about handling relationships in transition, which seems appropriate: "Anything in Return" finds Toro Y Moi building on his past successes and creating something that's looking to be more lasting.
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Surprising Products "For Women" As Ridiculous As Bic Cristal Pens
Who doesn't love pink?
Full confession: I still have a childhood throw pillow that reads "pink is more than a color, it's an attitude." I kept this pillow in part because, as a teenager, I thought that its slang associations were hilarious. As a kid, I just liked the color pink. Probably, to this day, if people offered me pens in a variety of colors, I'd likely choose the pink one. I feel like that color and I have just been friends for a long time.
So why is this Bic for Her ad, in which a woman selects a pink pen, so offensive?
I mean, for every reason. For the implication that women have been previously unable to write.
Jamie already tackled some of the responses, so you can look at them and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
However, there is a history of branding normal objects pink – you can see a great post on the topic on Collector's Weekly – and I'm certainly not offended by the color pink. But I am offended when companies marketing products seem to believe that you have a smaller range of interests than men, or should pay more for identical products. To that end lets look at some of the most ridiculous ones that are "for you."


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Public Policy Polling is out with a poll showing Obama with a 5-point lead over Romney among likely voters, at 50-45 percent. PPP has also posted the full survey results. The survey sample has Democrats over Republicans by 4 points, 41 to 37 percent.
In his Weekly Standard column this morning, Jay Cost identifies PPP as the regular pollster for the hyper-partisan Service Employees International Union. Resist the siren call of Operation Demoralize.
The full survey results are interesting. Those who describe themselves as "Very conservative" or "Somewhat conservative" amount to 42 percent of the sample; those who describe themselves as "Very liberal" or "Somewhat liberal" amount to 28 percent. Twenty-nine percent describe themselves as moderate.
The survey asks one off-the-wall question: Who deserves more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? Unbelievably, Obama pulls only 63 percent of respondents. Thirty-one percent are not sure. Mitt Romney pulls an impressive 6 percent.
The correct question would ask respondents to allocate credit between Obama and George W. Bush, or ask whether Bush deserves some of the credit. It was, after all, Bush's interrogation policies that resulted in the intelligence leading to the discovery of bin Laden's lair. President Bush deserves a fair share of the credit for the operation to kill bin Laden, but someone who vehemently disapproved of the policies has been hogging it all.
The answer to the bin Laden question reminds me of the detailed breakdown of the 1988 Florida Senate race that Connie Mack III narrowly won over Buddy McKay. Consultant Arthur Finkelstein's survey results indicated that Mack's margin of victory was provided by those who voted for him because he was, so they thought, a woman.


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Be a Better Writer--CREATIVITY
These lessons, by one of our most consistent FaithWriters' Challenge Champions, should not be missed. So we're making a permanent home for them here.
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Lillian if you can get to "uninstall a program" from your start menu, check all the programs that show they were installed on the date you first started noticing them. Left click on that program and then right click and click on "uninstall". That's what I did and the blue lines went away. It probably got on there the same time you download Open Office. Sometimes, somehow that happens. Just make sure it's a program you don't use.
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Great lesson! I'm feeling more prepared for the Writing Challenge every week!
I've never spent time just brainstorming on the topic and writing down everything that came to mind. This makes so much sense!
I was surprised how many angles I was able to come up with for "home" in under 10 minutes.
I think that stories with the idea that "the grass is greener on the other side" would be very common and then ending with the realization of how wonderful home is.
Here is an idea that I think is creative: A man kills someone as a teen and has spent most of 2 decades in prison. He is set free and can't relate to the outside world so he kills again so he can go "home." That's a little too dark for me, but it seemed creative.
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You're definitely on target with your common theme for "home."
Your more creative idea is very good. You've done something that often worked for me: take the common idea and turn it on its head.
it's interesting that you said that it may be too dark for you. A lot of Christian writers shy away from dark themes, but I think it's definitely possible to write a dark piece that still has an element of redemption in it. Personally, I'd rather read "dark" than "sweet," but that's probably a temperament thing. To me, "dark" is a better description of what reality is in a fallen world, and I'd rather read (and write) a piece that shows light shining through darkness than a piece that is all light.
Two links to dark stories with a glimmer of light:
Under the Skin
Ilapa Dances Behind my Eyes
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I loved reading these stories! Thank you for the challenge to not immediately discard a dark theme. I know that your words will stay with me. The light in "Under the Skin" is brighter because of the darkness in the story. Beautiful...
Just a few minutes of contemplating how I could introduce light into my prisoner idea, and I realized that I could write the story from another person's POV: a mother, child, another prisoner, a chaplain etc. Or I could write it from the prisoners POV: a dark, hardened criminal catching a glimpse of God's love and trying to make sense of it from the perspective of a life devoid of it. So many possibilities!
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When I followed your suggestions and brainstormed "home" the first things that came to mind were: Family; being homeless; home sweet home; heaven will be our home; rooms in houses; and shelter.
After connecting these with "unusual I came up with weird homes like: transparent; shot gun houses; light houses; and haunted houses. Then I thought of our bodies being "houses" for God's spirit. So for a unique approach, I'd probably end up writing about a MC filled with evil spirits "housed" within their body struggling to overpower the Holy Spirit.
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Thanks for sharing this, Cynthia!
Another thing you need to consider, I think, is the audience. On a site like FaithWriters, and for the Weekly Challenge, the audience is overwhelmingly Christian. Thus, the idea of using 'home' in the way you've described (the body as 'home' to evil spirits) might not be quite so original and creative here as it would be in a different sort of writing contest (one with a broader audience).
On the other hand, since the connotation of 'home' is usually a place of warmth and love, using it as you mentioned here would certainly take the concept of 'home' in a different direction, and I really like that.
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What would many people write about for "home"?
- Finally home after a long trip - there's no place like home
- A home away from home
- A childhood home that will always be "home" (but then, maybe it isn't - another common approach)
- A dream home realized... or not but yay! I was happy all along and didn't know it.
- My heavenly home
Creative, fresh, unique, and memorable? Ah, that's why I'm doing this homework.
- A burrowing rodent or insect, carving a home under the earth, only to find it caved in, then starting over again, and again.
- Animals burned out of their forest homes and sent scattering, started by a campfire left smoldering...from the POV of the person who was supposed to put out the fire.
An in-the-box idea (a homeless person) that might go somewhere unexpected....
They say "home is where the heart is". I guess my home is in my throat, because that's where my heart is right now. Or maybe my stomach. Usually, wherever I find to lay my head at night, I call "home" but this morning, reality caught up with me.
I have no home.
Out-of-the-box "twist"...
... um, I should have let the muse keep writing. She was on a roll.
Thanks for this lesson, Jan!
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I had to laugh. I tried out the online Brainstormer. My 3 things were...
Remorse - Underwater - Space Station
Somewhere deep under the ocean, there are many many remorseful astronauts wondering why they got the raw deal. LOL
Thank you for sharing it with us. I am going to love using it. Just maybe not this particular selection.
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"I will give thee for a covenant of the people." Isaiah 49:8
Suggested Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:16-23
When tempted to sin, reply, "I cannot do this great wickedness. I cannot, for I am one of Christ's." When wealth is before you to be won by sin, touch it not; say that you are Christ's else you would take it; but now you cannot. Tell Satan that you would not gain the world if you had to love Christ less. Are you exposed in the world to difficulties and dangers? Stand fast in the evil day, remembering that you are one of Christ's. Are you in a field where much is to be done, and others are sitting down idly and lazily, doing nothing? Go at your work, and when the sweat stands upon your brow and you are bidden to stay, say, "No, I cannot stop; I am one of Christ's. He had a baptism to be baptised with, and so have I, and I am in bondage until it is accomplished. I am one of Christ's. If I were not one of his, and purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am one of Christ's." When the siren song of pleasure would tempt you from the path of right, reply, "Hush your strains, O temptress; I am one of Christ's. Your music cannot affect me; I am not my own, I am bought with a price." When the cause of God needs you, give yourself to it, for you are Christ's. When the poor need you, give yourself away, for you are one of Christ's. When, at any time there is anything to be done for his church and for his cross, do it, remembering that you are one of Christ's. I beseech you, never belie your profession. Go not where others could say, "He cannot be Christ's."
For meditation: The Christian is doubly Christ's one—by his choice to bear fruit (John 15:16) and by his purchase to glorify God in the body (1 Corinthians 6:19,20). Are you giving him at present everything he paid for?
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Agaricus bisporus
Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Europe and North America. It has two color states while immature—white and brown—both of which have various names. When mature, the same mushroom has yet another popular name.
When immature and white—this mushroom may be known as common mushroom, button mushroom, white mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom, and champignon mushroom. When immature and brown—this mushroom may be known variously as Swiss brown mushroom, Roman brown mushroom, Italian brown, Italian mushroom, cremini or crimini mushroom, brown cap mushroom, or chestnut mushroom.[2]
When mature, the same mushroom is known as Portobello mushroom.
Agaricus bisporus is cultivated in more than seventy countries,[3] and it is one of the most commonly and widely consumed mushrooms in the world.
|Agaricus bisporus
|Mycological characteristics
|gills on hymenium
|cap is convex
|hymenium is free
|stipe has a ring
|spore print is brown
|ecology is saprotrophic
|edibility: choice
Taxonomy and naming[edit]
The common mushroom has a complicated taxonomic history. It was first described by English botanist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke in his 1871 Handbook of British Fungi, as a variety (var. hortensis) of Agaricus campestris.[4][5] Danish mycologist Jakob Emanuel Lange later reviewed a cultivar specimen, and dubbed it Psalliota hortensis var. bispora in 1926.[6] In 1938, it was promoted to species status and renamed Psalliota bispora.[7] Emil Imbach imparted the current scientific name of the species, Agaricus bisporus, after the genus Psalliota was renamed to Agaricus in 1946.[3] The specific epithet bispora distinguishes the two-spored basidia from four-spored varieties.
Among English speakers, Agaricus bisporus is known by many names. A young specimen with a closed cap and either pale white or light brown flesh is known as a button mushroom or white mushroom. In strains with darker flesh, the immature mushroom is variously marketed as a cremini mushroom, baby portobello, baby bella, mini bella, portabellini, Roman mushroom, Italian mushroom, or brown mushroom. At this stage of maturation, the cap also may begin to open slightly. In maturity, the mushroom is called a portobello.[8] The French name is champignon de Paris ("Paris mushroom").
The spellings "portobello", "portabella", and "portabello" are all used,[9] but the first of these spellings is the most common.[citation needed]
|Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
|93 kJ (22 kcal)
3.26 g
|1.98 g
|Dietary fiber
|1 g
0.34 g
3.09 g
|Thiamine (B1)
(7%)0.081 mg
|Riboflavin (B2)
(34%)0.402 mg
|Niacin (B3)
(24%)3.607 mg
(30%)1.497 mg
|Vitamin B6
(8%)0.104 mg
|Folate (B9)
(4%)17 μg
|Vitamin B12
(2%)0.04 μg
|Vitamin C
(3%)2.1 mg
|Vitamin D
(1%)0.2 μg
|Trace metals
(4%)0.5 mg
(3%)9 mg
(12%)86 mg
(7%)318 mg
(0%)3 mg
(5%)0.52 mg
|Other constituents
|92.45 g
|Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults.
Source: USDA Nutrient Database
The pileus or cap of the original wild species is a pale grey-brown in color, with broad, flat scales on a paler background and fading toward the margins. It is first hemispherical in shape before flattening out with maturity, and 5–10 cm (2–4 in) in diameter. The narrow, crowded gills are free and initially pink, then red-brown and finally a dark brown with a whitish edge from the cheilocystidia. The cylindrical stipe is up to 6 cm (2⅓ in) tall by 1–2 cm wide and bears a thick and narrow ring, which may be streaked on the upper side. The firm flesh is white although stains a pale pinkish-red on bruising.[10][11] The spore print is dark brown. The spores are oval to round and measure approximately 4.5–5.5 x 5–7.5 μm, and the basidia usually two-spored, although two-tetrasporic varieties have been described from the Mojave desert and the Mediterranean with predominantly heterothallic and homothallic lifestyles, respectively.[12][13]
This mushroom is commonly found worldwide in fields and grassy areas following rain, from late spring through to autumn, especially in association with manure. It is widely collected and eaten, even by those who would not normally experiment with mushroom hunting.[11]
Similar species[edit]
The common mushroom could be confused with young specimens of the deadly poisonous destroying angel (Amanita sp.), but the latter may be distinguished by their volva or cup at the base of the mushroom and pure white gills (as opposed to pinkish or brown of Agaricus bisporus). Thus it is always important to clear away debris and examine the base of such similar mushrooms, as well as cutting open young specimens to check the gills. Furthermore, the destroying angel grows in mossy woods and lives symbiotically with spruce.
A more common and less dangerous mistake is to confuse Agaricus bisporus with Agaricus xanthodermus, an inedible mushroom found worldwide in grassy areas. Agaricus xanthodermus has an odor reminiscent of phenol; its flesh turns yellow when bruised. This fungus causes nausea and vomiting in some people.
The poisonous European species, Entoloma sinuatum, has a passing resemblance as well, but has yellowish gills turning pink and it lacks a ring.
Cultivation history[edit]
The earliest description of the commercial cultivation of Agaricus bisporus was made by French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1707.[14] French agriculturist Olivier de Serres noted that transplanting mushroom mycelia would lead to more mushrooms.
Originally, cultivation was unreliable as mushroom growers would watch for good flushes of mushrooms in fields before digging up the mycelium and replanting them in beds of composted manure or inoculating 'bricks' of compressed litter, loam, and manure. Spawn collected this way contained pathogens and crops commonly would be infected, or not grow at all.[15] In 1893, sterilized, or pure culture, spawn was discovered and produced by the Pasteur Institute in Paris, for cultivation on composted horse manure.[16] Today's commercial variety of the common mushroom originally was a light brown color.
In 1926, a Pennsylvania mushroom farmer found a clump of common mushrooms with white caps in his mushroom bed. As with the reception of white bread, it was seen as a more attractive food item and became very popular.[17] Similar to the commercial development history of the navel orange and Red Delicious apple, cultures were grown from the mutant individuals, and most of the cream-colored store mushrooms marketed today are products of this 1926 chance natural mutation.
Agaricus bisporus is now cultivated in at least seventy countries throughout the world.[3] Global production in the early 1990s was reported to be more than 1.5 million tons, worth more than US$ 2 billion.[18]
Vitamin D[edit]
While Agaricus bisporus only contains 16 IU of vitamin D as ergocalciferol (vitamin D2), since it also contains high amounts of ergosterol, after temporary exposure to UV light the ergocalciferol contents increase.[19][20][21]
Potential medicinal value[edit]
Agaricus bisporus also contains sodium, potassium, and phosphorus,[22] conjugated linoleic acid,[23] and antioxidants.[24] Protocatechuic acid and pyrocatechol also are found in A. bisporus.[25][26]
A mycochemical (2-aminophenoxazine-3-one) in white button mushrooms was shown to have aromatase inhibitor properties in vitro.[27][28]
The table mushroom also has been shown to possess possible immune system enhancing properties. An in vitro study demonstrated that the mushroom enhanced dendritic cell function.[29][30]
Mycochemical research[edit]
Some 1990 studies have revealed that compounds in raw A. bisporus—along with some other edible mushrooms—contain hydrazine derivatives, including agaritine and gyromitrin, that have been evaluated for carcinogenic activity.[31][32] In preliminary research during the 1980s, administration of uncooked mushrooms to mice induced a significant increase in the number of bone, stomach, and lung tumours,[33][34] however, research also has noted that when cooked, these compounds were reduced significantly,[35] and in fact, may provide anti-carcinogenic activity by stimulating apoptosis.[36]
Nonetheless, according to a scientific publication dated 2010, the available evidence to date suggests that agaritine (a hydrazine) consumed during the consumption of cultivated A. bisporus mushrooms poses no known toxicological risk to healthy humans.[37]
Agaricus bisporus gallery[edit]
Ventral view of a portobello cultivar with a bisected stipe
See also[edit]
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- ^ Think Vegetables: Chestnut mushroom Retrieved 2013-04-01
- ^ a b c Cappelli, Alberto (1984). Fungi Europaei:Agaricus (in Italian). Saronno, Italy: Giovanna Biella. pp. 123–25.
- ^ Cooke MC. (1871). Handbook of British Fungi 1. London: Macmillan and Co. p. 138.
- ^ "Species Fungorum - Species synonymy". Index Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
- ^ Lange JE. (1926). "Studies in the agarics of Denmark. Part VI. Psalliota, Russula". Dansk botanisk Arkiv 4 (12): 1–52.
- ^ Schäffer J, Møller FH. (1939). "Beitrag zur Psalliota Forschung". Annales Mycologici (in German) 36 (1): 64–82.
- ^ "Agaricus bisporus: The Button Mushroom". Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- ^ "portobello, n.2". OED Online. Oxford University Press. June 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ Zeitlmayr L (1976). Wild Mushrooms:An Illustrated Handbook. Garden City Press, Hertfordshire. pp. 82–83. ISBN 0-584-10324-7.
- ^ a b Carluccio A (2003). The Complete Mushroom Book. Quadrille. pp. 21–22. ISBN 1-84400-040-0.
- ^ Callac P, Billette C, Imbernon M, Kerrigan RW (1993). "Morphological, genetic, and interfertility analyses reveal a novel, tetrasporic variety of Agaricus bisporus from the Sonoran Desert of California". Mycologia 85 (5): 835–851. doi:10.2307/3760617. JSTOR 3760617.
- ^ Callac P, Imbernon M, Guinberteau J, Pirobe L, Granit S, Olivier JM, Theochari I (2000). "Discovery of a wild Mediterranean population of Agaricus bisporus, and its usefulness for breeding work". Mushroom Science 15: 245–252.
- ^ Spencer DM. (1985). "The mushroom–its history and importance". In Flegg PB, Spencer DM, Wood DA. The Biology and Technology of the Cultivated Mushroom. New York: John Wiley and Sons. pp. 1–8. ISBN 0-471-90435-X.
- ^ Genders 1969, p. 19
- ^ Genders 1969, p. 18
- ^ Genders 1969, p. 121
- ^ Chang ST. (1993). "Mushroom biology: the impact on mushroom production and mushroom products". In Chiu S-W, Buswell J, Chang S-T. Mushroom Biology and Mushroom Products. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. pp. 3–20. ISBN 962-201-610-3.
- ^ "Mushrooms and vitamin D". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 23, 2003.
- ^ Koyyalamudi SR, Jeong SC, Song CH, Cho KY, Pang G (April 2009). "Vitamin D2 formation and bioavailability from Agaricus bisporus button mushrooms treated with ultraviolet irradiation". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 57 (8): 3351–5. doi:10.1021/jf803908q. PMID 19281276.
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- ^ Benjamin, Mushrooms: poisons and panaceas, p. 67
- ^ Chen, S.; Oh, SR; Phung, S; Hur, G; Ye, JJ; Kwok, SL; Shrode, GE; Belury, M et al. (2006). "Anti-aromatase activity of phytochemicals in white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)". Cancer Res. 66 (24): 12026–34. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2206. PMID 17178902.
- ^ Shi YL, James AE, Benzie IF, Buswell JA. (2002). "Mushroom-derived preparations in the prevention of H2O2-induced oxidative damage to cellular DNA". Teratog Carcinog Mutagen 22 (2): 103–11. doi:10.1002/tcm.10008. PMID 11835288.
- ^ Delsignore, A; Romeo, F; Giaccio, M (1997). "Content of phenolic substances in basidiomycetes". Mycological Research 101: 552–6. doi:10.1017/S0953756296003206.
- ^ "A salad fixin' with medical benefits?". City of Hope. Retrieved August 23, 2003.
- ^ Kohno, K.; Miyake, M.; Sano, O.; Tanaka-Kataoka, M.; Yamamoto, S.; Koya-Miyata, S.; Arai, N.; Fujii, M.; Watanabe, H.; Ushio, S.; Iwaki, K.; Fukuda, S. (2008). "Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties of 2-amino-3H-phenoxazin-3-one". Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin 31 (10): 1938–1945. doi:10.1248/bpb.31.1938. PMID 18827359.
- ^ Grube, B. J.; Eng, E. T.; Kao, Y. C.; Kwon, A.; Chen, S. (2001). "White button mushroom phytochemicals inhibit aromatase activity and breast cancer cell proliferation". The Journal of nutrition 131 (12): 3288–3293. PMID 11739882.
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- ^ Sieger AA (ed.) (January 1, 1998). "Spore Prints #338". Bulletin of the Puget Sound Mycological Society. Retrieved October 13, 2008.
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- ^ Akiyama H, Endo M, Matsui T, Katsuda I, Emi N, Kawamoto Y, Koike T, Beppu H (May 2011). "Agaritine from Agaricus blazei Murrill induces apoptosis in the leukemic cell line U937". Biochim Biophys Acta 1810 (5): 519–25. doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2011.02.010. PMID 21382445.
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- Benjamin, Denis R. (1995). Mushrooms: poisons and panaceas—a handbook for naturalists, mycologists and physicians. New York: WH Freeman and Company. ISBN 0-7167-2600-9.
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WILSON, NC--(Marketwire - Oct 31, 2011) - PharmStar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PHAR) (the "Company") announced today that it has started the process of becoming a fully-reporting company under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations, in preparation for listing its shares on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
Fully-reporting SEC status will allow PharmStar to pursue a listing on NASDAQ's OTC Bulletin Board, a regulated quotation service that displays real-time quotes, last-sale prices, and market depth and volume information for over-the-counter securities.
"I am committed to continuing our policy of transparency and complete disclosure, and this process is therefore mandatory for us if we are to achieve our goals," stated PharmStar CEO Howard Phykitt. "I believe that a listing on the OTCBB will enhance investor interest and confidence, lower our cost of capital, and make our stock more attractive to institutional investors. As the Company continues to progress toward this listing we will update our shareholders accordingly. As a first step, we have identified our audit firm and have begun organizing our historical corporate operations and financial results. We will then prepare SEC filings in anticipation of transitioning to fully-reporting status and application to the OTCBB early next year."
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So too will Matsumoto's "R100," about a man who joins a mysterious club that doesn't allow its members to leave. The comedian is best known for the 2007-08 festival-circuit hit "Big Man Japan," about a person who grows to impossible lengths and must cope with the fallout.
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