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Five Reasons I Have NEW Hope For Film/
The last seven days have done a good job convincing me we can build this world a whole lot better and that we have the passion and know-how to keep an ambitious and diverse film culture from falling into ruin. I have been doing some meetings, going to events, meeting folks -- the days are long, but the inspiration has been great. It does so much good to observe things done well and I gathered quite of few as of late. The documentary world has knit together a series of alliances, models, forums, and structures that the fiction film world should really take note of. When the sun was setting today, and I was recognizing that it was such a inspiration-filled last few days, a dark shadow past over when I realized much of that uplift was from another form. That's not a bad thing really. It's nice to have role models. Indie filmmakers the world over should thank their documentary siblings for all they have given us.
What inspired me (and in no particular order)?
Good Pitch. Make that Jess Search and Good Pitch. If you haven't been, you must. Whether you are a funder or a filmmaker, an activist or an artist, you have to attend. The whole forum is a virtually a perfectly produced event with the best of goals and the craft to achieve them. Well curated both in terms of films and filmmakers and the potential organizational and funding partners they pair them with, it's the bomb. Sitting in the room, witnessing new alliances being formed, you feel the world is made a better place before your eyes. Films are lifted up and given more hope at making a significant impact. Anyone I was next to, I felt they were my friend. Ecstacy might have been in the water, because it certainly was in the air. And as great as all the films and people that were there, there's Jess in the center, looking sharp in a white suit, advancing the proceedings. Total rock star. I don't know an event that has a better suited master of ceremonies. Too many marvels for one day. They both raise the bar high and make us want to reach higher. Hearing the pitches, seeing the action, I feel that we are just seeing the tip of the change that films can accomplish.
Sundance. I attended my first Sundance fundraising outreach event ever this past week. It was in Silicon Valley and geared towards innovators and technology, but 100% artist focused. After Keri Putnam, Kim Peirce, and Lynn Shelton spoke, I knew why I wanted to run a not for profit and truly support artists at this most crucial of times. It is truly remarkable what Sundance has accomplished. The love and appreciation that these women communicated to the organization and the process that they have developed was so so so moving. Cary Fukanaga and Jon Shenk were good to, but they spoke after Keri, Kim, & Lynn, and for me those women had already overdosed me in inspiration, understanding, and commitment. The blood was rushing in my head at such a volume all I could hear was the sea of possibility. It is so vast -- even if there is such a gulf to where we are now. Sundance shows us so clearly from where Indie Film culture has come. Imagine a world that had been deprived of that support, of those stories, of Sundance? I don't want that world. No way! And will give my life and labor to make sure we have all of that and much much more to keep artists and their supporters truly thriving, free to pursue their full calling.
Impact Partners. What a good idea they were and shall ever hopefully remain. But if only good ideas could be executed so well as they. And my appreciation doesn't stop there. Geralyn Dreyfous and Dan Cogan called upon their friends to put on a "Welcome To San Francisco" party for me. It was at Pier 24, a truly beautiful gallery of fantastic photos to make your jaw drop, but then they filled the room with incredible and impressive people. I was completely and utterly impressed.
The world is not just. The world is not fair. People are not generous and very few are kind. So what? When you are in a room with a 100 plus people who are just the opposite of that shitty reality I just laid out, people that are generous and kind and have used their resources to make the world more just and fair, how can you not appreciate the power of both strong individuals and committed community deliver. Impact Partners filled the room with them and have done amazing work with them. Good people with strong ideas and access to their passion... man! How can we all stay centered so that we use our labor in service of our ideals, despite the negative influences that swarm around us? Maybe it just takes good friends. Seeing what they do, convinces me how important they really are.
BAVC Producers Seminar. I came to San Francisco because I wanted to see what would happen when you took committed individuals, ambitious artists, introduced them to cutting edge technologists and engagement specialists, and supported them with top institution, personnel, and resources. I thought it needed to be built, but then I got to witness what BAVC has been doing well and the community they have built, and I felt great that others were leagues ahead of those goals of mine. I can now compliment them as I stray from the path they have forged. We are not alone. Our ideas are not so odd. People get things done. We are part of a continuum, always building upon, refining and advancing. We will get there, but not on our own.
Vanessa particularly, but also all the other filmmakers I met this week. I meet so many people. I generally have, but that process has been accelerated by new responsibilities as the San Francisco Film Society's Executive Director. Hearing filmmakers speak of their projects, recognizing both their hope and their fear, I know why I became a producer initially and why I am here now at SFFS. Artists truly inspire me. Their process can lift me. My favorite time is when the ideas are jelling and the film is finding it's way and the filmmakers are coming up with new ideas and reaching higher and higher and the impossible is being spotted and it's changing before our eyes into the very goal we dared not dream of and yet there it is, getting closer and closer, so close you know you will touch it, maybe even surpass it. My wife, my love, Vanessa came to San Francisco this past weekend. She's been editing her film with an awesome team and as much as it is a struggle and the resources all too slim, they won't say die and keep pushing pushing pushing and they have taken it further than they ever dreamed. It is so exciting to be near someone as they create, and every little bit one gets to help, it is a reason to be here. How fortunate I am!
I have Hope For Film. What's inspired you lately?


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Take a trip to the far side of the Adriatic and discover the beating heart of ancient Croatia
With sun-kissed beaches, stone-built towns and picturesque fishing villages, it's as unspoilt, diverse and inviting as you could wish for. With powerful Italian influences (you'll still hear it widely spoken) it often feels like this former Yugoslav republic should be on the other side of the sea.
Istria is famous for many things, particularly its herbal oils and truffles, so picking up gifts or souvenirs in Pula is generally straightforward. The City Farmers' Market (Narodni trg 9), housed in an attractive structure, has been part of Pula life for well over a century and remains a treasure trove of fresh produce and craft stalls. Elsewhere, the streets of Sergijevaca and Kandlerova are busy shopping thoroughfares – good for clothes, jewellery and design boutiques – while specialist stores include Aromatica (Laginjina 4), specialising in soaps and essential oils, and Zigante Tartufi (Smareglina 7), selling truffle-based goods.
Food & Drink
It's easy to eat well in Istria. The plaudits hang heavy at Konoba Batelina (Čimulje 25), sitting a little way out of town but recently named the best restaurant in Istria. It's famed for its well-crafted seafood dishes. On a more basic level, Jupiter Pizzeria (Castropola 38) attracts plenty of positive reviews and serves good pasta and pizza, while the bistro feel of Farabuto (Sisplac 15) is an excellent bet for both Italian and Croatian dishes. Elsewhere, the traditional home cooking at the simply decorated Vodnjanka (Vitezica 4) is well worth seeking out.
Days of Antiquity
June Three days of historical re-enactments and heritage-themed celebrations are held across three of Pula's ancient sites. Mingle with legionaries and gladiators, attend workshops, watch costumed performances and soak up the city's Roman past.
PUF International Alternative Theatre Festival
A platform for national theatre groups to showcase their work in front of local audiences. Productions (which are almost exclusively performed in Croatian) take place in the city's streets and squares, producing a lively communal feel.
Seasplash Festival
A well-established 'dance and lifestyle' festival, Seasplash combines a rainbow mix of different genres – among them reggae, electro, jungle and ska – with other attractions such as boat parties and alternative workshops.
Pula Film Festival
This renowned cinematic gathering attracts significant interest from overseas, having been in existence for over six decades. It runs for 15 days – memorably, some films are shown on an open-air screen in the amphitheatre.
Outlook Festival
Billed as the 'largest bass music and sound system culture festival in Europe', Outlook draws big names from the dance music world to a stunning setting on the edge of town. It's now become popular with festival-goers from around the continent.
As the largest city on the Istria Peninsula – and offering a wealth of Roman ruins to boot – Pula draws its fair share of international visitors. Culture-minded tourists tend to focus their attention on the remarkably well preserved amphitheatre, and the three-star Hotel Galija (Epulonova 3) enjoys a central location in Pula itself, making it a good bet for city-breakers. Meanwhile, sunseekers are drawn by the area's pleasant climate and coastal scenery, which means the 422-room Park Plaza Verudela Pula (Verudela 11) holds appeal – it's a large family-friendly resort situated on the seafront. Striking a balance between the two is the charming Oasi Boutique Hotel (Pješčana uvala X-12a), with just nine rooms.

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Ten Ways You Can Sink Your Personal Brand
Your personal brand is more fragile than you may imagine. You need to be vigilant in maintaining the standards that you've set for your brand. All it takes is one major mistake, especially one that you handle poorly, and all that you've built will vanish.
Letting it go stale: Taking your brand for granted
Your personal brand, no matter how well crafted it is, is never "done." If you think that developing your personal brand is a one-time event, think again. Your personal brand can easily grow stale.
Keep your brand fresh by continuing to grow and serve your target market. Yes, it's possible to stay on brand and grow your brand at the same time! Don't ever take your brand for granted.
Neglecting consistency
Being inconsistent is a brand killer. People like to know what to expect; it gives them comfort and solidifies that they can count on you.
You need to be consistent in your marketing materials, in how you dress, with what you say, and with how you behave. You need to maintain a brand identity and follow it steadily. Consistency is key so that people know what to expect from you and can trust what you stand for.
Speaking before you think
With branding, there's a certain irony: Your words alone can't build your brand; you need actions to back them up. But your words can most definitely undermine your brand all by themselves.
Remember Tony Hayward, the past CEO of BP Oil? It seemed that everything Hayward said made the situation worse. The damage done to the environment was unbelievable, and the damage done to his brand was irreparable.
Most people won't ever have to deal with a situation as serious as the one Hayward faced, but at some point you'll undoubtedly need to explain why something went wrong or give an opinion about an issue. Be thoughtful in how you phrase your answers, and notice the impact your words have.
Exhibiting bad behavior
Every time you're in public (whether at a professional event or at the drugstore), you represent your personal brand. Don't ever fool yourself into believing that how you behave matters only in the workplace.
Be careful how you behave — even when you think no one is watching.
Being unresponsive
Unresponsiveness reflects badly on your brand. It's especially dreadful in a business setting because your lack of response tells your clients that you don't respect them. Your behavior quickly becomes a known (negative) part of your brand: "That Bob, he never returns his calls."
Your personal brand is built around serving your target market. If you ignore them and don't respond to their needs, they won't recommend you to others. You may do excellent work, but if the customer doesn't get your full attention, your business will develop a reputation as one that doesn't care about the customer. To keep your brand sharp, respond!
Ignoring the politics
Being a savvy personal brander means that you show an awareness that your colleagues don't: You notice your surroundings and have your antenna up for the nuances of behavior (in other words, the politics) that take place in your office.
If you work in a company, part of your target audience is your boss and coworkers. You need to pay attention to the politics and understand how you need to adjust your brand to succeed inside your organization.
Having an unprofessional online image
You've worked hard to establish yourself as a solid professional. You dress the part, you put in extra hours, you produce stellar work, and then you blow it with your picture on Facebook behind a table lined with empty bottles of vodka (looking like you just drank every drop of it).
Getting crazy once in a while is okay, but you don't need to share that image with the world! You don't want your moment to be posted on the Internet for everyone to see for eternity. Monitor your online images and know that employers are watching. You don't want to work hard to build your reputation and have it ruined with a single picture.
Not telling the truth
Not long ago, a journalist who had fabricated stories (and hurt people with his untruths) made front-page news. He was banned from journalism and went to law school to become an attorney. The state bar of New York refused to admit him to practice in that state, so he moved to California to try to become a lawyer there.
His reputation of lying followed him and has stuck as his brand. Even with testimony from his employer, psychiatrists, and other people promoting his character of reform and remorse, he cannot overcome the brand he has built as someone who cannot be trusted. The jury is still out on his license.
Always tell the truth. Being caught in a lie has sunk many a promising brand.
Being inauthentic: Looking like a phony
True personal brands are based in authenticity. That means that you need to be you. If you're building your brand on what you think you should be instead of what you are, you'll most likely fail. You can't sustain phony forever.
If you misrepresent your experience or skill set, you will be discovered. Don't call yourself an expert unless you are one. Build your brand from a position of strength, which means building it on truth.
Losing focus
Being scattered dilutes your brand. When you do too many things, you appear to lack focus, and people don't really understand what you stand for. Trying to represent yourself as appealing to everyone actually appeals to no one.
Know who you are and what you stand for. Identify the core of your work and be true to your brand. If you lose focus on who you are, who your target market is, and what you do best, no one else will be able to figure out your brand either. Stay focused and be on brand.


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Community ITU Paediatric Nurse
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- Thornbury Community Services
- Location
- Liverpool, Merseyside
- Salary
- Up to £36 per hour for weekdays and £46 per hour for weekends
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- 27 Oct 2017
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Community ITU Paediatric Nurse
Up to £36 per hour for weekdays and £46 per hour for weekends
Liverpool area (some travel may be required)
Your care, our passion
Thornbury Community Services are currently looking to recruit experienced Paediatric Intensive Care Nurses (ITUP) to work within the community in our complex care packages around Liverpool. TCS are a well-established provider of complex nursing care in the community placing registered nurses into packages, caring for children and adults living at home.
We are looking for reliable individuals that are able to provide commitment to our packages and continuity of care. Our vision is to be the leading provider of complex care within the community and we are passionate about enabling individuals with complex needs to exceed expectations. Community is at the heart of everything we do – therefore you will be supporting not only the patient but also the family with your skills as a nurse. TCS offers you all the support you need through our dedicated team of case managers, clinical leads and back office staff.
Our Values
- Professionalism
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Key Requirements
- An Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse (RNC) with a minimum of 12 months UK based complex health care experience within the last 2 years.
- Applicants should be compassionate with a strong sense of integrity and dedication.
- 6 months experience of tracheostomy care within the last 18 months.
- 12 months experience of ventilators within the last 2 years.
- Confident as a lone worker.
- A current driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is desirable.
- Confident to accompany our clients on days out where necessary.
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- Your nursing expertise will be rewarded with market leading pay and we recognise and reward your commitment and achievements.
- We are clear, open, honest and straightforward in everything we say and do.
- We are available 24/7 whenever you need us. You'll feel supported and part of a team.
- Flexible shift patterns!
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- Mileage allowance – we pay up to 25p per mile. We also reimburse up to £70 (per trip) if you use public transport.
This is an excellent opportunity for a passionate nurse to join extremely rewarding packages of care where you will have the opportunity to help transform the life of a family whilst developing and maintaining professional working relationships. By joining TCS you will be playing a key part in helping to develop a client's goals and day to day activities.
If you think you have the skills and experience required for our packages of care, we would love to hear from you. You can either apply here, or give our dedicated recruitment team a call on 0333 323 3762 or email email@example.com
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RICHFORD — A recent court decision in a property assessment dispute determined that natural gas speculation should not impact the taxable value of land, prompting some area attorneys to contend landowners may soon file similar lawsuits seeking to reduce their property tax bills.
The Tioga County Supreme Court lawsuit pitted four landowners on Victory Hill Road against the Town of Richford, a farming community with about 1,200 residents.
The town contended one of the properties a 250-acre-plus parcel owned by Charles Holcomb and Beverly Peppin had a $375,000 valuation based on comparable land sold in other nearby communities, court documents said. The owners argued in the lawsuit that this was excessive, noting their land should be valued based on its agricultural use rather than natural gas speculation.
Broome County Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey A. Tait, who handled the case, last month ordered the town to reduce the property valuation by $93,100, or 33 percent. Tait noted in his decision that the states moratorium has left natural gas drillings fate uncertain in the reasonably near future.
While it does appear to be true that sales of acreage in Tioga County and the surrounding counties have been affected by natural gas speculation, at this point it is, in fact, only speculation, Tait said.
In the Dec. 13 decision, Tait said the market for buying land based on natural gas speculation is simply too volatile to involve setting assessed values, which are based on property valuation and determine how much landowners pay in property taxes.
Given this situation, this court is unwilling to value property based on any purchase that appears to be driven by natural gas, he said.
Natural gas development in New York has been on hold since 2008, when the state Department of Environmental Conservation began its review of hydrofracking, a controversial drilling technique that involves injecting a combination of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to unlock natural gas from shale formations.
Attorney David Cohen, of Binghamton, represented the Richford landowners in the lawsuit, which also involved two other parcels that had valuations reduced based on factors unrelated to natural gas speculation.
Cohen described the courts decision to reduce the valuation for the 315 Victory Hill Road parcel as a green light for landowners to file similar lawsuits involving natural gas speculation.
The judge decided that its too speculative to assess land based on (gas) leases, Cohen said, adding this opens the door for other landowners in Richford and across the Southern Tier who had their assessments increased based on natural gas speculation.
But Richfords Town Assessor Frances Butler, this week, continued to argue that the town has not based any property assessments on natural gas speculation, despite the recent court ruling to the contrary.
There are zero properties in the town that had the assessment raised because of (natural gas) speculation, Butler said, contending all of her assessments are based on comparable property sales.
Any increase in assessments that occurred was based on valid sales, she said, noting there was a townwide revaluation in 2010.
Attorney Khandikile Sokoni, of the True & Walsh firm in Ithaca that represents Richford, said the town also hired an appraiser during the lawsuit. The appraiser contended the 315 Victory Hill Road valuation was based on sales of comparable parcels and free of any influence by natural gas speculation, she said.
We disagree because our appraiser came up with values and his analysis is that his values were not based upon the natural gas speculation, Sokoni said.
Supervisor Martin Wilcox called the decision very disappointing, adding the town believes it had a valid case to defend the valuation.
Wilcox would not discuss Cohens comments about similar lawsuits getting filed in the future, noting the town board has yet to decide whether to appeal the recent decision.
Cohen, who formerly served as town attorney in Vestal, noted there was a natural gas lease for 315 Victory Hill Road, though he was unable to provide details. The owners did not return a request for comment.
A valuable precedent?
Attorney Robert Wedlake, who represents several area landowner groups, believes Taits decision could prompt a flood of similar property assessment disputes across the Tier, where thousands of landowners have signed leases in anticipation of the states decision on whether to allow hydrofracking in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale.
It will be a valuable legal precedent for landowners who want to question their assessment and determine if it is unfair and too high as a result of the natural gas speculation, Wedlake said.
As of Nov. 30, 2012, there were 1,799 parcels in Broome County that had active leases signed with natural gas companies, a county official said. Tioga County officials were unable to provide data on leases.
Sokoni disagreed with Wedlakes assessment that future lawsuits may be forthcoming based solely on the Richford case.
Taits decision would have to be upheld through the appeal process before it could be used widely as a legal precedent, Sokoni said, citing New York state law.
Thats a trial court decision based on a set of facts ... and it binds these particular parties on these particular facts, she said.
Wedlake, a partner at Hinman, Howard & Kattell in Binghamton, agreed that the cases value as a legal precedent would be strengthened if it were upheld through appeal, though he said other lawsuits could be filed based on the recent decision alone.
Its not that another judge couldnt decide otherwise ... but I would rather be walking into a court with that (decision) in my back pocket than nothing, he said.


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Well, this is going to be my hardest review to write this season: explaining why the heck I considered Shangri-La among my favourites for the past half year. Even though there is a lot to dislike this series for, it's really a series that proves to be very solid entertainment for those willing to suspend their disbelief.
I think it's best explained as follows: imagine a series with a straightforward story, a simple and small cast and a slow pacing. Now imagine a series with a huge setting, a large and diverse cast of characters who all have their own motives and stance, a multi-layered story with a fast pacing that delivers buckets of plot twists each episode. Now, which of these two is likely to have more plotholes? And which one is probably going to be more exciting?
That's basically the thing with Shangri-La. Granted, throughout the series Kuniko does a number of things that are rather hard to suspend your disbelief at (including breaking the laws of physics), and plotholes are also pretty common for those who pay attention. But at the same time, it had just about everything I look for in an anime.
The concept of Carbon Trading might seem weird at first, but it's a pretty neat idea for this series to work with, and the setting that this series built around this concept is rich and imaginative. There are lots of different parties with all different priorities, morals and values, and the same goes for the cast: there are a lot of characters, and yet there are hardly two characters with the same outlook on life: everyone feels like an individual, and is interesting to watch and develop. My personal favourite was Karin, who gets the most development in this series.
My favourite part of this series was the plot, though. Throughout the majority of the series, you're never going to know what to expect. Especially a good portion of the middle part of this series is features an truly excellent mystery plot, in which every revelation only makes the setting even more intriguing than it already was. Every character has so his or her own secrets, that together form a multi-layered storyline that just keeps delivering.
Unfortunately, this series plays the "lazy"-card right at its ending, which is without a doubt rushed. I'm not sure why there are only 24 episodes for this series because it definitely could have used two more episodes to wrap up the story better. The story right now just wants a happy ending a little too badly, even though it has to use lots of deus ex machina to get there. A shame.
The visuals for this series are an interesting beast. They range from rushed to absolutely gorgeous. Especially the first couple of episodes suffer from a collection of rushed shots and drawings, but at the same time some episodes feature the single most visually pleasing shots that I have seen for the past half year. The animation also picks itself up very nicely in the second half, and delivers some really good use of CG and shading to make this a very aesthetically pleasing series. The soundtrack of this series is also among my three favourite soundtracks of the past half year (with the other two belonging to Phantom and the Guin Saga).
So yes, you're going to have to bring a cup of suspense of disbelief when you want to watch this series, and if you're not trying to turn over every stone in search of a flaw you'll be rewarded by a great story with a great setting that always manages to bring something new to the table, instead of dragging at the same point over and over. It's a fun and diverse series, but I can understand why many hate the plotholes with passion.


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It is notoriously hard to ship cupcakes. When trying to ship cupcakes, there is that pesky problem of keeping the cupcakes from turning upside-down and the gift arriving as a frosted box rather than frosted cupcakes.
So How Do You Ship Cupcakes?
So how do you ship cupcakes? The answer is to use half pint mason jars as your cups! The mason jars are oven safe – you can bake your cupcakes directly in the jars. Put 1/4 cup of batter in the jar – leaving room for plenty of frosting – and place the jar directly onto your oven rack (make sure the lid isn't on!). Bake just as you would your regular cupcakes.
When the cupcakes are out of the oven, wait for them to cool and frost them (most frostings will work, although I wouldn't recommend using whipped cream because it doesn't freeze as well). Then, seal the jars and freeze them. Once they are frozen solid, decorate the jars however you like (ribbons and gift tags work well), pack them well (broken glass is worse than smooshed frosting), and ship them next day air. If you are shipping them somewhere warm, you might also want to include an ice pack in the box to ensure that they stay cool during their travels.
Do you have another way to ship cupcakes? Please share it in the comments!
The Specific Cupcakes in the Photo
The cupcakes in the photo are brandied cherry cupcakes. Because I baked them in the jars, I was able to make them extra moist without fear of the wrappers falling off. They are loaded with brandied cherries and then drizzled with extra cherry syrup. They would make an outstanding holiday gift.
Brandied Cherry Cupcakes
Brandied Cherry Syrup Ingredients
- 2 15 ounce cans of cherries in heavy syrup
- ½ cup brandy
Cupcake Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup honey
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup milk
- Brandied cherry syrup from above
- Brandied cherries from above
- 18 half pint mason jars
Frosting Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ¾ cup mini chocolate chips
Brandied Cherry Syrup Directions
- Combine ingredients in a medium-sized saucepan.
- Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to medium-low.
- Simmer for fifteen minutes.
- Use a sieve to strain out the cherries. Reserve both the syrup and cherries.
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- Preheat oven to 350 F.
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- Beat eggs and milk into the butter mixture.
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- Fold in all of the brandied cherries.
- Scoop ¼ cup of batter into each mason jar.
- Carefully, put the jars directly onto the oven rack – no baking sheet is needed. Important: Do not put the lids on.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry.
- Remove from oven and pour 1 tablespoon of cherry syrup into each jar. The cupcake will absorb the syrup.
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- Mix butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
- Mix in vanilla bean paste and milk until fully combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pipe onto cooled cupcakes.
- Seal the jars.
- If desired, freeze until ready to gift.
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dialyzer - The Dialyzer, a DIscrepancy AnalYZer for ERlang programs
The Dialyzer is a static analysis tool that identifies software discrepancies such as definite type errors, code which has become dead or unreachable due to some programming error, unnecessary tests, etc. in single Erlang modules or entire (sets of) applications. Dialyzer starts its analysis from either debug-compiled BEAM bytecode or from Erlang source code. The file and line number of a discrepancy is reported along with an indication of what the discrepancy is about. Dialyzer bases its analysis on the concept of success typings which allows for sound warnings (no false positives). Read more about Dialyzer and about how to use it from the GUI in Dialyzer User's Guide.
Dialyzer also has a command line version for automated use. Below is a brief description of the list of its options. The same information can be obtained by writing dialyzer --help in a shell. Please refer to the GUI description for more details on the operation of Dialyzer. The exit status of the command line version is: 0 - No problems were encountered during the analysis and no warnings were emitted. 1 - Problems were encountered during the analysis. 2 - No problems were encountered, but warnings were emitted. Usage: dialyzer [--help] [--version] [--shell] [--quiet] [--verbose] [-pa dir]* [--plt plt] [--plts plt*] [-Ddefine]* [-I include_dir]* [--output_plt file] [-Wwarn]* [--src] [--gui | --wx] [files_or_dirs] [-r dirs] [--apps applications] [-o outfile] [--build_plt] [--add_to_plt] [--remove_from_plt] [--check_plt] [--no_check_plt] [--plt_info] [--get_warnings] [--no_native] [--fullpath] Options: files_or_dirs (for backwards compatibility also as: -c files_or_dirs: Use Dialyzer from the command line to detect defects in the specified files or directories containing .erl or .beam files, depending on the type of the analysis. -r dirs: Same as the previous but the specified directories are searched recursively for subdirectories containing .erl or .beam files in them, depending on the type of analysis. --apps applications: Option typically used when building or modifying a plt as in: dialyzer --build_plt --apps erts kernel stdlib mnesia ... dialyzer --apps inets ssl ./ebin ../other_lib/ebin/my_module.beam -o outfile (or --output outfile): When using Dialyzer from the command line, send the analysis results to the specified outfile rather than to stdout. --raw: When using Dialyzer from the command line, output the raw analysis results (Erlang terms) instead of the formatted result. The raw format is easier to post-process (for instance, to filter warnings or to output HTML pages). --src: Override the default, which is to analyze BEAM files, and analyze starting from Erlang source code instead. -Dname (or -Dname=value): When analyzing from source, pass the define to Dialyzer. (**) -I include_dir: When analyzing from source, pass the include_dir to Dialyzer. (**) -pa dir: Include dir in the path for Erlang (useful when analyzing files that have '-include_lib()' directives). --output_plt file: Store the plt at the specified file after building it. --plt plt: Use the specified plt as the initial plt (if the plt was built during setup the files will be checked for consistency). --plts plt*: Merge the specified plts to create the initial plt -- requires that the plts are disjoint (i.e., do not have any module appearing in more than one plt). The plts are created in the usual way: dialyzer --build_plt --output_plt plt_1 files_to_include ... dialyzer --build_plt --output_plt plt_n files_to_include dialyzer files_to_analyze --plts plt_1 ... plt_n dialyzer --plts plt_1 ... plt_n -- files_to_analyze -Wwarn: A family of options which selectively turn on/off warnings (for help on the names of warnings use dialyzer -Whelp). --shell: Do not disable the Erlang shell while running the GUI. --version (or -v): Print the Dialyzer version and some more information and exit. --help (or -h): Print this message and exit. --quiet (or -q): Make Dialyzer a bit more quiet. --verbose: Make Dialyzer a bit more verbose. --build_plt: The analysis starts from an empty plt and creates a new one from the files specified with -c and -r. Only works for beam files. Use --plt or --output_plt to override the default plt location. --add_to_plt: The plt is extended to also include the files specified with -c and -r. Use --plt to specify which plt to start from, and --output_plt to specify where to put the plt. Note that the analysis might include files from the plt if they depend on the new files. This option only works with beam files. --remove_from_plt: The information from the files specified with -c and -r is removed from the plt. Note that this may cause a re-analysis of the remaining dependent files. --check_plt: Check the plt for consistency and rebuild it if it is not up-to-date. --no_check_plt: Skip the plt check when running Dialyzer. Useful when working with installed plts that never change. --plt_info: Make Dialyzer print information about the plt and then quit. The plt can be specified with --plt(s). --get_warnings: Make Dialyzer emit warnings even when manipulating the plt. Warnings are only emitted for files that are actually analyzed. --dump_callgraph file: Dump the call graph into the specified file whose format is determined by the file name extension. Supported extensions are: raw, dot, and ps. If something else is used as file name extension, default format '.raw' will be used. --no_native (or -nn): Bypass the native code compilation of some key files that Dialyzer heuristically performs when dialyzing many files; this avoids the compilation time but it may result in (much) longer analysis time. --fullpath: Display the full path names of files for which warnings are emitted. --gui: Use the gs-based GUI. --wx: Use the wx-based GUI. Note: * denotes that multiple occurrences of these options are possible. ** options -D and -I work both from command-line and in the Dialyzer GUI; the syntax of defines and includes is the same as that used by erlc. Warning options: -Wno_return: Suppress warnings for functions that will never return a value. -Wno_unused: Suppress warnings for unused functions. -Wno_improper_lists: Suppress warnings for construction of improper lists. -Wno_tuple_as_fun: Suppress warnings for using tuples instead of funs. -Wno_fun_app: Suppress warnings for fun applications that will fail. -Wno_match: Suppress warnings for patterns that are unused or cannot match. -Wno_opaque: Suppress warnings for violations of opaqueness of data types. -Wunmatched_returns***: Include warnings for function calls which ignore a structured return value or do not match against one of many possible return value(s). -Werror_handling***: Include warnings for functions that only return by means of an exception. -Wrace_conditions***: Include warnings for possible race conditions. -Wbehaviours***: Include warnings about behaviour callbacks which drift from the published recommended interfaces. -Wunderspecs***: Warn about underspecified functions (the -spec is strictly more allowing than the success typing). The following options are also available but their use is not recommended: (they are mostly for Dialyzer developers and internal debugging) -Woverspecs***: Warn about overspecified functions (the -spec is strictly less allowing than the success typing). -Wspecdiffs***: Warn when the -spec is different than the success typing. Note: *** Identifies options that turn on warnings rather than turning them off.
You can also use Dialyzer directly from Erlang. Both the GUI and the command line versions are available. The options are similar to the ones given from the command line, so please refer to the sections above for a description of these.
gui() -> ok | {error, Msg} gui(OptList) -> ok | {error, Msg} Types: OptList -- see below Dialyzer GUI version. OptList :: [Option] Option :: {files, [Filename :: string()]} | {files_rec, [DirName :: string()]} | {defines, [{Macro: atom(), Value : term()}]} | {from, src_code | byte_code} %% Defaults to byte_code | {init_plt, FileName :: string()} %% If changed from default | {plts, [FileName :: string()]} %% If changed from default | {include_dirs, [DirName :: string()]} | {output_file, FileName :: string()} | {output_plt, FileName :: string()} | {analysis_type, 'succ_typings' | 'plt_add' | 'plt_build' | 'plt_check' | 'plt_remove'} | {warnings, [WarnOpts]} | {get_warnings, bool()} WarnOpts :: no_return | no_unused | no_improper_lists | no_fun_app | no_match | no_opaque | no_fail_call | error_handling | race_conditions | behaviours | unmatched_returns | overspecs | underspecs | specdiffs run(OptList) -> Warnings Types: OptList -- see gui/0,1 Warnings -- see below Dialyzer command line version. Warnings :: [{Tag, Id, Msg}] Tag :: 'warn_return_no_exit' | 'warn_return_only_exit' | 'warn_not_called' | 'warn_non_proper_list' | 'warn_fun_app' | 'warn_matching' | 'warn_failing_call' | 'warn_contract_types' | 'warn_contract_syntax' | 'warn_contract_not_equal' | 'warn_contract_subtype' | 'warn_contract_supertype' Id = {File :: string(), Line :: integer()} Msg = msg() -- Undefined format_warning(Msg) -> string() Types: Msg = {Tag, Id, msg()} -- See run/1 Get a string from warnings as returned by dialyzer:run/1. plt_info(string()) -> {'ok', [{atom(), any()}]} | {'error', atom()} Returns information about the specified plt.


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Error 0x8b050066 occurs when using your Xbox One
You see the following error code when you use your Xbox One console:
This may mean there's a problem with Xbox Live, or that your console has encountered an unexpected error.
Solution 1: Check the Xbox Live service status
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Solution 2: Power cycle your Xbox
Turn off your Xbox by holding the power button on the front of the console for 10 seconds. The console will turn off. Then turn your console back on.
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If you're trying to use a game or app, uninstall and then reinstall it:
- Press the Xbox button to open the guide, select My games & apps, and then See all.
- Select Games or Apps.
- Highlight the game or app you want to uninstall, press the Menu button, and then select Uninstall.
- Select Uninstall all.
You can then reinstall the game or app by inserting the disc or downloading again from the Ready to install tab. To download again, select the game title from the Ready to install tab at the top of the screen. You can also find the game by searching for it in the Microsoft Store.
Note Installing from a disc does not apply to the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, which doesn't include an optical disc drive.
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As a last resort, you could try resetting your Xbox. This reinstalls the console's operating system. Depending on your network, it could take a while.
Warning Be sure to select Reset and keep my games & apps. Otherwise, you'll reset your console to factory defaults.
- Press the Xbox button to open the guide, and then go to System > Settings > System > Console info.
- Select Reset console.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Senior Mariel Frey (Lititz, Pa.) led Virginia Commonwealth University with 10 kills, but Ohio State stormed back from an early deficit for a 3-1 (17-25, 25-13, 25-16, 25-16) win Friday evening at St. John Arena.
The Rams, who fell earlier in the day to Ohio University, are 0-2. It was VCU's second straight match against an NCAA Tournament squad from a year ago.
Senior Kelsie Clegg (Boise, Idaho) added six kills and hit .250 for the Rams, who hit .063 for the match. Freshman setter Ciara Brown (Fort Myers, Fla.) provided 23 assists, five digs and three kills.
Sally Barhorst led the Buckeyes, who reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament a year ago, with 13 kills and a .750 hitting percentage. Katie Dull added 12 kills for OSU (1-0).
VCU burst out of the gate, hitting .520 with zero hitting errors on the way to a 25-17 victory in the first set. Frey and Clegg led the Rams with three kills apiece in that frame.
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Despite the score, Rams Head Coach James Finley is encouraged by his team's progress in the face of VCU's challenging early schedule.
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A drive for cost savings and energy efficiency has brought a wave of new players and capabilities into the commercial building automation market. Rather than competing directly with the giants of the established building automation system (BAS) market, these new entrants are bringing additional managed data services to help drive greater efficiency. From 2013 to 2018, these commercial building managed BAS services will deliver annual revenues of more than $4 billion dollars worldwide, growing at a CAGR of 29% during the period.
"We are seeing a rush of investment, creativity, and revenues in developing what can be achieved with BAS data," says Jonathan Collins, principal analyst. "These software as a service (SaaS) or cloud services have the ability to pull together management of multiple buildings and applications within them, simplifying the process of improving energy efficiency for building owners."
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Independence Day
Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, known collectively as the "Interfaith Amigos," have been learning and teaching together since 2001. They blog weekly for YES! Magazine.
It's early evening on July 4, and as I write this I can hear firecrackers. My hotdogs and beer behind me, I've felt that familiar lump in my throat that comes when I hear that phrase "the Fourth of July." It rolls off the tongue as one word and points deep toward freedom: We are free of the yoke of monarchy.
But are we? It's true that we hold the promise of freedom. We have within us the capacity to cooperate and address our captors. But, as yet, we are all still prisoners of some kind, aren't we? Consider your own imprisonments, your own stuck places.
Your spiritual path can address some of these.
The themes of liberation and imprisonment are an essential part of scripture in all three of our Abrahamic traditions, and the story of the Exodus from Egypt is the guiding framework for understanding how these themes work. It gets replayed over and over again through Judaism, into Christianity, and in Islam. Jesus' teachings often suggest different realities of imprisonments—of being stuck in various kinds of dilemmas. They also suggest that we are stuck because we are not awake to the possibilities of liberation.
My favorite teaching about liberation is the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). Ordinarily, we think of the story as a teaching about forgiveness, about being lost and coming home. But it is also about the imprisonment of self-absorption (the younger son in the distant country) and the assumption that there are certain things for which we cannot be forgiven (the younger son as he contemplates coming home). It is also about the imprisonment of self-righteousness and the assumption of innocence (the older son who stays at home). Liberation, then, comes through the forgiveness that the parent offers the younger son: It is a forgiveness that honors the essential self-worth of the son apart from the things he has done. This is how God intends to deal with us. It is the fundamental condition of being free—everything else flows from it. Without a sacred sense of our own worth as human beings, we constantly and consistently walk down the wrong paths and make choices that don't lead to healing.
This Independence Day, when I consider the places where we are still dependent, I see the conviction that our self-worth is to be measured principally by the amount of money we have. Every human being on Earth has the right to have her or his self-worth affirmed completely—with no qualifications. But most of the time, few of us feel the full value of our worth. We can't, because we and the culture judge ourselves to be lacking.
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Consider the passion of the crowds at the World Cup soccer games in South Africa this summer. I was in Beirut two weeks ago, and the yelling and screaming when the favored teams (Brazil and Germany) were winning was so great that it absolutely eclipsed everything else. It was the same feeling I had in the early 50s when the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Yankees in the World Series.
On the surface, it is about sports—about admiring skill, teamwork, and determination. But more deeply, it is about a bottomless yearning to be able to look in the mirror and say, "I am OK." Given the relatively small number of people in this world who hold money and power, this is a huge problem. And the number of problems that reflect this reality seems infinite. They range from corruption at the highest levels of government, business, and religion in all the countries of the world, to domestic violence, and—in the saddest situations—absolute hatred of self. It is an ugly picture.
In our world, in cultures with affluence like ours, somewhere in the middle of that continuum is the sense that "If I could buy X or Y, then I could be the person I have always dreamed of becoming." But the more we buy the less satisfied we become, and (often) the more credit card debt we accumulate. It is a sensibility that is both tragic and horribly destructive.
On this Fourth of July, for me, the fireworks have an increasingly hollow sound. It's a sound that would be meaningful again were the peoples of the world really free, or, more realistically, if we as one world were able to find genuine independence.
I pray that somehow, someday, that day will come. In the meantime, I try to remember the words of the Apostle Paul: "Hope does not disappoint us."
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One out of six kids with asthma receives an antibiotic they don't need, according to new study findings.
The researchers found that doctors prescribe roughly 1 million unnecessary antibiotics to U.S. kids with asthma each year, potentially encouraging the spread of "superbug" infections that are resistant to even the most powerful drugs.
Another study published in the same issue of the journal Pediatrics shows the U.S. is not the only country to over-prescribe antibiotics in kids with asthma - researchers in Belgium found that kids who receive drugs for asthma were nearly twice as likely as other kids to also get an antibiotic.
"You must have a good reason to prescribe both an asthma drug and an antibiotic," study author Dr. Kris De Boeck of the University Hospital of Leuven told Reuters Health.
This "overuse" and "incorrect use" of antibiotics will "put pressure on bacteria and drive them to develop survival strategies," thereby increasing the likelihood they will become resistant to the drugs, added De Boeck.
Babies and young children commonly develop wheezing when they have a respiratory infection, so doctors may prescribe an antibiotic. But for some children, that wheezing is an early indication of asthma.
And for children already diagnosed with asthma, official guidelines stipulate that doctors should not include antibiotics as part of treatment, except in children who also have infections.
To investigate whether doctors are following that advice, Dr. Ian M. Paul at Penn State College of Medicine and his colleagues reviewed information collected as part of national surveys about U.S. doctors' visits. They reviewed more than 60 million visits involving children with asthma and no declared symptoms suggesting they had an infection that could be treated by an antibiotic. Regardless, during 1 in 6 of those visits, the children received a prescription for an antibiotic.
Meanwhile, De Boeck and her team reviewed a database from the insurer that covers more than 40 percent of the Belgian population, and found that kids receiving asthma drugs were 90 percent more likely to also get an antibiotic during the same year. Specifically, nearly 75 percent of kids who received asthma drugs also got an antibiotic, which occurred in less than 40 percent of kids who were not given any drugs to treat asthma.
Many doctors likely offer antibiotics to asthmatic kids "out of fear, out of habit," De Boeck said in an email. "Some physicians state that parents do not want to leave the consultation room before they get a medicine."
There may also be some confusion over when kids need antibiotics, and hopefully "teaching" and "awareness" will help give doctors a better understanding, said De Boeck. For instance, kids with fever, wheeze, and "diffuse disease" may have asthma triggered by a viral infection, which will not respond to an antibiotic.
"It is common knowledge that antibiotic overuse leads to increased bacterial resistance in the community," write Dr. Rita Mangione-Smith of the University of Washington and Paul Krogstad of the University of California, Los Angeles, in an accompanying editorial. "As we continue to overuse antibiotics, our armamentarium to fight resistant infections continues to shrink."
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A study which critics warned would open up Oceanside farmland to housing development was approved by the City Council Wednesday in a 3-2 vote.
"Don't let some people pull the wool over your eyes here," Mayor Jim Wood said. "People are against it out there. It's our last, last agricultural area."
Wood said the study was the first step toward developing Morro Hills in northeastern Oceanside and city residents will ultimately be on the hook to pay for sewer lines and sewage treatment plants to serve the area.
Wood and Councilwoman Esther Sanchez voted against the study, which was backed by Councilmen Jerry Kern, Jack Feller and Gary Felien.
The overall $1.2 million study is to update the city's master plan for water, sewer and recycled water system improvements but a controversial part of it that would cost an additional $148,655 would look at installing sewer lines in Morro Hills.
Kern said the study would give the city information to decide how, where and when city water, sewer and recycled water lines should go and whether Morro Hills should be included in any expansion.
"I think we ought to study everything, the whole plan, before we make any decisions," Kern said.
People who live in Morro Hills now rely on septic tanks for sewage disposal.
"I think septic works now. I think that needs to be assessed if that's viable for the future," Feller said.
Sanchez said the bulk of the study was aimed at increasing the city's ability to provide more of its own drinking water, which is critical, but adding Morro Hills to it was wrong.
"The goal here is for a group of farmers to maximize their profits and that's fine but they shouldn't ask the city to pay for it," Sanchez said.
Sanchez said it was "absolutely wrong" for the city to pay for a study which would help a handful of property owners.
City Manager Peter Weiss said the city would recover the cost of adding Morrow Hills to the study in the form of development fees from property owners if and when they develop their land.
Flower grower Mike Mellano said the study is needed so Morro Hill property owners know what they can do with their land.
"We plan to continue farming as long as we can but there are lots of things beyond our control," Mellano said. "We want something good for Oceanside but we have to know what you would like."
Other Morro Hills residents said the city should leave Morro Hills alone.
"We need our growers," Morro Hills resident Suzann Demmon said. "We do not need new homes."
Andrea Peterson, who owns a farm in Morro Hills, said adding Morro Hills to the water and sewer master plan was "asking the city to use their funds to benefit a few interests."
In an unrelated matter, the council voted to plug a $100,000 to $150,000 shortfall in the Fire Department overtime budget with other revenue, rather than force the department to stick to its original budget.
Fire Chief Daryl Hebert said without the extra funding, the department would be forced to take one of the city's four ambulances out of service from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. through the June 30 end of the fiscal year.
"There is no way I want to brown out, that is take an ambulance out of service," Sanchez said. "There is no way I want to put anyone's life at risk."
Kern said the Fire Department must find a way to live within its budget. That could mean increasing the department's overtime budget next fiscal year Kern said but he also said he'd be willing to study what effect taking an ambulance out of service would have.
"I want the best fire department we can afford. That's the problem, how much of a fire department can we afford," Kern said.


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He was quickly nabbed by the police and the homeowner - who happened to be a Washington Post journalist - and has pleaded second-degree burglary at the D.C. Superior Court. [MSCBC via UberGizmo]


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Euglena is a genus of single cell flagellate eukaryotes. It is the best known and most widely studied member of the class Euglenoidea, a diverse group containing some 54 genera and at least 800 species.[3][dead link][4][dead link] Species of Euglena are found in freshwater and salt water. They are often abundant in quiet inland waters where they may bloom in numbers sufficient to color the surface of ponds and ditches green (E. viridis) or red (E. sanguinea).[5]
|Euglena mutabilis (image by DJ Patterson)
|Scientific classification
Ehrenberg, 1830
The species Euglena gracilis has been used extensively in the laboratory as a model organism.[6]
Most species of Euglena have photosynthesizing chloroplasts within the body of the cell, which enable them to feed by autotrophy, like plants. However, they can also take nourishment heterotrophically, like animals. Since Euglena have features of both animals and plants, early taxonomists, working within the Linnaean three-kingdom system of biological classification, found them difficult to classify.[7][8] It was the question of where to put such "unclassifiable" creatures that prompted Ernst Haeckel to add a third living kingdom (a fourth kingdom in toto) to the Animale, Vegetabile (and Lapideum meaning Mineral) of Linnaeus: the Kingdom Protista.[9]
The human uses are various. Euglena Co., Ltd, a Japanese company, has developed euglena-based products, including healthcare products and algae fuel[10][11][12].
Form and functionEdit
When feeding as a heterotroph, Euglena takes in nutrients by osmotrophy, and can survive without light on a diet of organic matter, such as beef extract, peptone, acetate, ethanol or carbohydrates.[13][14] When there is sufficient sunlight for it to feed by phototrophy, it uses chloroplasts containing the pigments chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b to produce sugars by photosynthesis.[15] Euglena's chloroplasts are surrounded by three membranes, while those of plants and the green algae (among which earlier taxonomists often placed Euglena) have only two membranes. This fact has been taken as morphological evidence that Euglena's chloroplasts evolved from a eukaryotic green alga.[16] Thus, the intriguing similarities between Euglena and the plants would have arisen not because of kinship but because of a secondary endosymbiosis. Molecular phylogenetic analysis has lent support to this hypothesis, and it is now generally accepted.[17][18]
Euglena chloroplasts contain pyrenoids, used in the synthesis of paramylon, a form of starch energy storage enabling Euglena to survive periods of light deprivation. The presence of pyrenoids is used as an identifying feature of the genus, separating it from other euglenoids, such as Lepocinclis and Phacus.[19]
All euglenoids have two flagella rooted in basal bodies located in a small reservoir at the front of the cell. In Euglena, one flagellum is very short, and does not protrude from the cell, while the other is relatively long, and often easily visible with light microscopy. In some species, the longer, emergent flagellum is used to help the organism swim. The surface of the flagellum is coated with about 30,000 extremely fine filaments called mastigonemes.[20]
Like other euglenoids, Euglena possess a red eyespot, an organelle composed of carotenoid pigment granules. The red spot itself is not thought to be photosensitive. Rather, it filters the sunlight that falls on a light-detecting structure at the base of the flagellum (a swelling, known as the paraflagellar body), allowing only certain wavelengths of light to reach it. As the cell rotates with respect to the light source, the eyespot partially blocks the source, permitting the Euglena to find the light and move toward it (a process known as phototaxis).[21]
Euglena lacks a cell wall. Instead, it has a pellicle made up of a protein layer supported by a substructure of microtubules, arranged in strips spiraling around the cell. The action of these pellicle strips sliding over one another, known as metaboly, gives Euglena its exceptional flexibility and contractility.[21] The mechanism of this euglenoid movement is not understood, but its molecular basis may be similar to that of amoeboid movement.[22]
In low moisture conditions, or when food is scarce, Euglena forms a protective wall around itself and lies dormant as a resting cyst until environmental conditions improve.
Euglena reproduce asexually through binary fission, a form of cell division. Reproduction begins with the mitosis of the cell nucleus, followed by the division of the cell itself. Euglena divide longitudinally, beginning at the front end of the cell, with the duplication of flagellar processes, gullet and stigma. Presently, a cleavage forms in the anterior, and a V-shaped bifurcation gradually moves toward the posterior, until the two halves are entirely separated.[23]
Reports of sexual conjugation are rare, and have not been substantiated.[24]
Historical background and early classificationEdit
Species of Euglena were among the first protists to be seen under the microscope.
In 1674, in a letter to the Royal Society, the Dutch pioneer of microscopy Antoni van Leeuwenhoek wrote that he had collected water samples from an inland lake, in which he found "animalcules" that were "green in the middle, and before and behind white." Clifford Dobell regards it as "almost certain" that these were Euglena viridis, whose "peculiar arrangement of chromatophores...gives the flagellate this appearance at low magnification."[25]
Twenty-two years later, John Harris published a brief series of "Microscopical Observations" reporting that he had examined "a small Drop of the Green Surface of some Puddle-Water" and found it to be "altogether composed of Animals of several Shapes and Magnitudes." Among them, were "oval creatures whose middle part was of a Grass Green, but each end Clear and Transparent," which "would contract and dilate themselves, tumble over and over many times together, and then shoot away like Fish."[26]
In 1786, O.F. Müller gave a more complete description of the organism, which he named Cercaria viridis, noting its distinctive color and changeable body shape. Müller also provided a series of illustrations, accurately depicting the undulating, contractile movements (metaboly) of Euglena's body.[27]
In 1830, C. G. Ehrenberg renamed Müller's Cercaria Euglena viridis, and placed it, in keeping with the short-lived system of classification he invented, among the Polygastrica in the family Astasiaea: multi-stomached creatures with no alimentary canal, variable body shape but no pseudopods or lorica.[28][29] By making use of the newly invented achromatic microscope,[30] Ehrenberg was able to see Euglena's eyespot, which he correctly identified as a "rudimentary eye" (although he reasoned, wrongly, that this meant the creature also had a nervous system). This feature was incorporated into Ehrenberg's name for the new genus, constructed from the Greek roots "eu-" (well, good) and glēnē (eyeball, socket of joint).[31]
Ehrenberg did not notice Euglena's flagella, however. The first to publish a record of this feature was Félix Dujardin, who added "filament flagelliforme" to the descriptive criteria of the genus in 1841.[32] Subsequently, the class Flagellata (Cohn, 1853) was created for creatures, like Euglena, possessing one or more flagella. While "Flagellata" has fallen from use as a taxon, the notion of using flagella as a phylogenetic criterion remains vigorous.[33]
Recent phylogeny and classificationEdit
In 1881, Georg Klebs made a primary taxonomic distinction between green and colorless flagellate organisms, separating photosynthetic from heterotrophic euglenoids. The latter (largely colorless, shape-changing uniflagellates) were divided among the Astasiaceae and the Peranemaceae, while flexible green euglenoids were generally assigned to the genus Euglena.[34]
As early as 1935, it was recognized that this was an artificial grouping, however convenient.[35] In 1948, Pringsheim affirmed that the distinction between green and colorless flagellates had no taxonomic justification, although he acknowledged its practical appeal. He proposed something of a compromise, placing colorless, saprotrophic euglenoids in the genus Astasia, while allowing some colorless euglenoids to share a genus with their photosynthesizing cousins, provided they had structural features that proved common ancestry. Among the green euglenoids themselves, Pringsheim recognized the close kinship of some species of Phacus and Lepocinclis with some species of Euglena.[34]
The idea of classifiying the euglenoids by their manner of nourishment was finally abandoned in the 1950s, when A. Hollande published a major revision of the phylum, grouping organisms by shared structural features, such as the number and type of flagella.[36] If any doubt remained, it was dispelled in 1994, when genetic analysis of the non-photosynthesizing euglenoid Astasia longa confirmed that this organism retains sequences of DNA inherited from an ancestor that must have had functioning chloroplasts.[37]
In 1997, a morphological and molecular study of the Euglenozoa put Euglena gracilis in close kinship with the species Khawkinea quartana, with Peranema trichophorum basal to both.[38] Two years later, a molecular analysis showed that E. gracilis was, in fact, more closely related to Astasia longa than to certain other species recognized as Euglena. In 2015, Dr Ellis O'Neill and Professor Rob Field have sequenced the transcriptome of Euglena gracilis, which provides information about all of the genes that the organism is actively using. They found that Euglena gracilis has a whole host of new, unclassified genes which can make new forms of carbohydrates and natural products.[39][40]
The venerable Euglena viridis was found to be genetically closer to Khawkinea quartana than to the other species of Euglena studied.[36] Recognizing the polyphyletic nature of the genus Euglena, Marin et al. (2003) have revised it to include certain members traditionally placed in Astasia and Khawkinea.[19]
Human consumptionEdit
Starting in 2005, Euglena Co., Ltd has started marketing Euglena-based food and beverage products, based on their provision of both plant- and animal-based nutrients.[41] While the fitness of euglena for human consumption had long been surmised, Euglena Co., Ltd was the first to develop a technique to cultivate and farm the microorganism in large enough quantities to be commercially viable.[42] The company's main production facility is located on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, due to favorable climate conditions.
The taste of powdered euglena is described as dried sardine flakes, and contains minerals, vitamins and docosahexaenoic, an omega-3 acid. The powder is used as ingredient in other foods to make it more healthy.[43]
Euglena Co., Ltd is also experimenting the use of Euglena as a potential fuel source. Euglena Co., Ltd completed its new biofuel refinery plant in Yokohama in 2018 and plans to sell algae biofuel to ANA, the main Japan air company. [44] [45]
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External linksEdit
|Wikispecies has information related to Euglena
|Look up euglena in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- The Euglenoid Project
- Tree of Life web project: Euglenida
- Protist Images: Euglena
- Euglena at Droplet - Microscopy of the Protozoa
- Images and taxonomy
- Constantopoulos, George; Bloch, Konrad (1967). "Effect of Light Intensity on the Lipid Composition of Euglena gracilis". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 242 (15): 3538–42.


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Part biomechanics, part qigong, these weekly classes are a means of restoring your strength, balance, joint mobility and energy in a gentle but powerful way.
They incorporate breathing, stretching, mindful movements to help facilitate blood and lymph flow, body awareness and alignment.
Whether you are looking to balance an active lifestyle, or gently increase your movement; whether you are a cross-fitter or a recipient of joint replacements; whether you are new to this kind of movement, or would like a weekly review of what you've already learned, you are welcome here!
Class sizes are small and no experience is necessary. So, leave your self-consciousness at the door and come move your body!
All classes are $15 (discount packages available and can be used for any class). Space is limited so RSVP's are requested.