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Marrella splendensAn abundant arthropod with large head spines
Marrellomorpha (Order: Marrellida, stem group arthropods)
The affinity of Marrella is still somewhat uncertain. It has been grouped together with the Devonian taxa Mimetaster and Vachonisia from the Hunsrück Shale to form the Class Marrellomorpha (Beurlen, 1934; Strømer, 1944), but the placement of this class in arthropod evolution is unclear. It has been suggested to be at the base of a group of Lamellipedian arthropods, including trilobites and trilobite-like taxa, (Hou and Bergström, 1997), but has also been placed in the most basal position in the upper stem lineage arthropods (Briggs and Fortey, 1989; Wills et al., 1998).
Species name:
Marrella splendens
Described by:
Description date:
Marrella – after Dr. John Marr, palaeontologist at Cambridge University and friend of Walcott.
splendens – from the Latin splendens, "beautiful, or brilliant."
Type Specimens:
Lectotype –USNM57674 in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Other species:
Burgess Shale and vicinity: none
Other deposits: Marrella sp. from the Kaili Biota of southwest China (Zhao et al., 2003).
Middle Cambrian, Bathyuriscus-Elrathina Zone (approximately 505 million years ago).
Principal localities:
The Walcott and Raymond Quarries on Fossil Ridge. Smaller localities on Mount Field, the Tulip Beds (S7) on Mount Stephen and Mount Odaray.
Brief history of research:
Marrella was one of the first fossils found by Walcott, and sketches appear in his notebook as early as August 31st, 1909. Walcott informally named them "lace crabs" at the time. The next summer, on August 9, 1910, Walcott and son Stuart found the "lace crab beds" in situ, marking the discovery of the fossil-bearing beds of the Walcott Quarry of the Burgess Shale. Walcott (1912) formally described the "lace crabs" as Marrella splendens, but a reconstruction was not attempted until Raymond (1920).
Marrella was examined again by Simonetta (1962) and in a major study by Whittington (1971). New specimens collected by the Royal Ontario Museum allowed for the description of a specimen showing Marrella in the act of moulting (García-Bellido and Collins, 2004), and another re-description of the taxon (García-Bellido and Collins, 2006).
Marrella is a small arthropod with a wedge-shaped head shield bearing two pairs of prominent spines that project from the sides and posterodorsal margin and extend back along most of the length of the body. There is also a pair of smaller posteroventral spines. The head bears a pair of long, thin antennae with as many as 30 segments, and a pair of paddle-like appendages with six segments and numerous bushy setae along the edges.
Behind the head, the body consists of 26 segments that are small and subcircular, each bearing a pair of biramous appendages. The walking branch of this appendage has six segments, and the second branch is made of tapering gills with long, slim filaments that attach near the base of the legs. The last twelve body segments have conspicuous internal projections that form a net below the body.
The tail is minute and pointed. The stomach is located in the head near the ventral mouth, and the intestine stretches most of the length of the body. Dark stains found around the body are suggested to be the gut contents that were squeezed out during preservation. A small, triangular dorsal heart is located in the cephalic region and has arteries branching off from it.
Marrella is one of the most common species in the Burgess Shale. Over 25,000 specimens have been collected (García-Bellido and Collins, 2006), and it is the second most common arthropod species in Walcott Quarry, comprising 7.3% of the specimens counted (Caron and Jackson, 2008).
Maximum size:
25 mm
Life habits:
Nektobenthic, mobile
Feeding strategies:
Deposit feeder
Ecological Interpretations:
Marrella was an active swimmer that moved just above the sea floor while deposit feeding. It could rest on the sea floor by standing on its body appendages. Swimming was achieved by undulating the second pair of paddle-like appendages on the head. Its antennae would be used to sense the environment and locate food items. The net of internal projections on the last twelve body segments would have been used to trap food particles located in water currents and to pass them along the underside of the animal. Food particles trapped in the net would be moved towards the mouth using the tips of the anterior legs.
BRIGGS, D. E. G. AND R. A. FORTEY. 1989. The early radiation and relationships of the major arthropod groups. Science, 246: 241-243.
BRIGGS, D. E. G., B. S. LIEBERMAN, J. R. HENDRICKS, S. L. HALGEDAHL AND R. D. JARRARD. 2008. Middle Cambrian arthropods from Utah. Journal of Paleontology, 82(2): 238-254.
BEURLEN, K. 1934. Die Pygaspiden, eine neue Crustaceen – (Entomostraceen) – Gruppe aus den Mesosaurier führenden Iraty-Scichten Brasiliens. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 16: 122-138.
CARON, J.-B. AND D. A. JACKSON. 2008. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 258: 222-256.
GARCÍA-BELLIDO, D. AND D. H. COLLINS. 2004. Moulting arthropod caught in the act. Nature, 429: 40.
GARCÍA-BELLIDO, D. AND D. H. COLLINS. 2006. A new study of Marrella splendens (Arthropoda, Marrellomorpha) from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43: 721-742.
HOU, X. AND J. BERGSTRÖM. 1997. Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Fossils and Strata, 45: 1-116.
RAYMOND, P. E. 1920. The appendages, anatomy, and relationships of trilobites. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 7: 1-169.
SIMONETTA, A. M. 1962. Note sugli artropodi non trilobiti della Burgess Shale, Cambriano Medio della Columbia Britannica (Canada). 1. contributo: 2. genere Marrella Walcott, 1912. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, 69: 172-185.
STØMER, L. 1944. On the relationships and phylogeny of fossil and recent Arachnomorpha. Norsk Videnskaps-Akademi Skrifter I. Matematisk-Naturvidenskaplig Klasse, 5: 1-158.
WALCOTT, C. 1912. Cambrian geology and paleontology II. Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 57(6): 145-228.
WHITTINGTON, H. B. 1971. Redescription of Marrella splendens (Trilobitoidea) from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, British Columbia. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada, 209: 1-24.
WILLS, M. A., D. E. G. BRIGGS, R. A. FORTEY, M. WILKINSON AND P. H. A. SNEATH. 1998. An arthropod phylogeny based on fossil and recent taxa, p. 33-105. In G. D. Edgecombe (ed.), Arthropod fossils and phylogeny. Columbia University Press, New York.
ZHAO, Y., J. YUAN, M. ZHU, X. YANG AND J. PENG. 2003. The occurrence of the genus Marrella (Trilobitoidea) in Asia. Progress in Natural Science, 13: 708-711.
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Christian Science began in the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century, appearing first as a religious teaching and later as an organized denomination. Known primarily for its practice of Christian healing, Christian Science teaches that the Bible's dominant theme is the superiority of spiritual over physical power, and that this power can be reliably—even "scientifically"—demonstrated in the lives of people today. It was founded by Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), a New England woman with a staunch Calvinist background and a devotion to regular study of the Bible.
Several social and personal factors help to explain the emergence of Christian Science. First, much of Mrs. Eddy's early religious life was shaped by her rebellion against her Calvinist upbringing, specifically its doctine of predestination. Also, by midcentury, society was entering a new and scientific era, where reason, experimentation, and observable results were becoming the standard means of measuring progress and assessing truth claims. Yet for Eddy, the void left by her dissatisfaction with what she called "cruel creeds," could not be fulfilled by rational advances alone. Throughout her life she retained a characteristic Puritan piety, noted by several of her biographers, which she referred to as "a hunger and thirst for divine things."
This left her satisfied neither with the doctrinal interpretation of the Bible offered by the church nor with the more scientfically based historical‐critical method of Bible analysis then gaining prominence, although she insisted that she retained whatever was valid in both. But what finally impelled her to take a radically different view of the meaning of the biblical revelation was her own suffering, including the years of near invalidism that dominated the first four decades of her life.
While she initially sought relief through almost every healing or medical system that promised comfort, including the suggestive therapeutics of the Maine mental healer Phineas Quimby, her bedrock conviction was that only the Bible offered the answer to "the great problem of being." According to her own account, she was healed of the effects of a serious accident in 1866 by reading of Jesus' healing works in the Gospels. Reflecting on her experience, she felt that she had discovered something of the underlying power, or spiritual law, that was at the very root of Christianity.
The nine years following her own healing were spent studying the Bible, writing, teaching, healing—all aimed at finding ways to articulate a metaphysics that she felt would make the Bible practical in a scientific age. Central to her view was the belief that undergirding the events of the Bible was a spiritual law, which, far from being a relic of ancient history, was dynamic and applicable in all time to bring about healing of disease and redemption from sin. She explicated her metaphysical interpretation of the Bible in her major work, Science and Health, first published in 1875 and eventually titled Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures. She would revise and edit the book throughout the rest of her life, but it would remain the definitive statement of Christian Science.
The book became an immediate source of controversy. Critics charged that Science and Health, written by a woman with no formal training, included language not found in the Bible and deviated from orthodox Christianity in its teachings. They charged Eddy with elevating her writing to the status of the Bible.
For her part, Eddy acknowledged that her book departed from certain church doctrines, but she maintained that these doctrines originated less in the Bible than in church councils, which were often guilty of "teaching as doctrines the precepts of men" (see Isa. 29.13 AV). She asserted that the way to validate an individual's understanding of God and the Bible was by examining the fruits of that understanding. Do they demonstrate a practical grasp of the power of God's word by healing and regenerating the individual? To her, this was the acid test of biblical interpretation.
In her view, from Moses' commandments to have no idols and to worship God alone, to the prophets' call for repentance, to Christ Jesus' description of the presence of the kingdom of God "within you," the Bible presented the word of God, revealing the supremacy of God, Spirit, and the wholly spiritual nature of God's creation. Eddy felt that faith in this supreme and infinitely good God also implied that the very existence of evil and suffering, so evident in the material world, could be challenged as having no God‐derived cause or legitimacy.
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When the man-eating giants called Titans first appeared, humans retreated behind massive walls. After a hundred years of safety, a colossal-sized Titan smashes through the defenses, unleashing a flood of giants and carnage in the streets. Eren Jaeger watches helplessly as one of the creatures devours his mother.
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Now that I'm sure that my EBBP2 partner, Farid, has received my box I guess I can blog about the chutney I made. I was scrambling to find something to make to for Farid since Andrew said the theme was 'something fruity'. I didn't want to make another cookie, fortunately I found this recipe from the September 2004 issue of the BBC Good Food Magazine. This chutney was great and so appropriate since it uses mostly in-season autumn fruits. I was naturally apprehensive since I've never made chutney before nor sterilise jars. I was meant to leave it to simmer for a long period but I couldn't help peeking and stirring it afraid that my very first chutney will burn. After more than an hour, finally the mixture started to really thicken and jell and I'm ready to load it in sterilised jars. Mind you, I tasted the chutney and it was so soury-sweet-slightly spicy good! Actually the taste reminds me of my favourite champoy (Chinese fruit preserve). Hehehe.
Days before I went out looking for preserving jars in cookshops. The smallest I can find are these half-a-liter capacity ones. I was thinking they're kinda big but since I didn't have any other alternative I bought them. So with that done, time to find out how to sterilise. I didn't know there were several ways of doing these and decided to follow Delia Smith's How to Cook that says to put the jars in a 350F/180C preheated oven for *at least* 10 minutes. The rubber seal was not included of course otherwise it will cook in the heat. So I washed and cleaned and dried the jars then baked them and separately scalded the rubber seals with very hot water. As soon as I took out the jars from the oven I poured in the chutney. It was actually sizzling as I did it, then quickly put a waxed paper disc on top (the book said this is to prevent mold from forming). The hardest part for me is fitting the not-so-elastic hot rubber seal onto the very hot glass lid. This is necessary coz it has to be sealed while everything is still hot. So there - I've got my very first chutney preserve. Time will tell if my sterilising and sealing were any good. Both Delia and the magazine recommended that chutneys be consumed at least 3 months from the time it was made to allow the flavours to mature. Well, it's already 1 month and I'm definitely counting 'til I can slather it on cheese, roasts or cold cuts.
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900 g plums - washed, stoned, and chopped
2 Bramley apples (about 550 g) - peeled, cored, and chopped
450 g pears - peeled, cored, and chopped
1 large mango - peeled, stoned, and chopped
900 g light or dark muscovado sugar
500 ml [2 cups] cider vinegar
2 medium onions - chopped
85 g chopped stem ginger (from a jar of ginger in syrup, or crystallised)
3 garlic cloves - finely chopped
1 Tbsp mustard seeds
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp crushed dried chillies
1 tsp salt
1 cinnamon stick
- Put all the fruits in a wide-mouthed pan.
- Add in sugar, vinegar, onions, ginger, garlic, mustard seeds, coriander, crushed chillies and salt, then drop the cinnamon stick on top.
- Heat the pan slowly for about 20 mins, while occasionally stirring, until the sugar has dissolved.
- Let it simmer at a steady pace without the cover. Stir occasionally until reduced and thickened but still with a nice balance of syrupy juice. This will take about 1 hour and 30 mins. Don't cook it until all the liquid has gone, as it will thicken once it cools.
- Discard the cinnamon stick.
- Using a heatproof jug or funnel, pour the chutney while still hot into sterilised jars. It will keep for about a year in a cool, dry place.


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The Edge of Love
The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous and felt same adventurous nature in this charismatic poet Dylan Thomas also.
Feeling between Vera and Dylan start thinking about each other again when they meet each other in London where Vera is working as a singer and Dylan is churning out scripts for government propaganda films.
Another twist in this love story is both of these women turn out to be very good friend with each other despite their love rival and soon enough Caitlin realized that her husband is connected in a dangerous relationship with Vera. Vera's turmoil love life keeps on going and she married another man William Killick but loved Dylan also that made it even complicated.
Soon enough the soldier William goes to war and when he come back he find out Vera's relationship with Dylan and it end up in a deadly result. William shoot at Dylan's house in anger without intention of hurting anyone but London police arrest him for this act and Dylan testify against him with exaggerating facts that William tried to kill him and his family but Jury find William innocent and William return home. This act stabilized relationship between Vera and William but Dylan Thomas's false allegation on William made sure he is not a man of Vera heart any more.
Vera and Caitlin shared same love again with each other but Vera never talked to Dylan for his false act.
Main character of this film was played by Keira Knightley, Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys as Vera Phillips, William Killick, Caitlin Macnamara and Dylan Thomas respectively. Story of this film is inspired few real people and a book by Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow. Story of film was written by Sharman Macdonald who is mother of Keira Knightley.
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New head of DEA in Colorado would rather "catch 'em than cook 'em"
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Barbra Roach arrived in Colorado six weeks ago, but as the head of Denver's U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, she's already watched her agents participate in one of the largest drug busts in state history.
Roach is the new special agent in charge responsible for overseeing Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.
She replaced Jeff Sweetin who was promoted to run the DEA's training center in Virginia.
In 1987, Roach joined the DEA, and for a short while was the only female agent in Tampa, Florida where she grew up.
"I never saw a glass ceiling," she said. "They were always nurturing to anyone who had potential."
Roach didn't initially plan on becoming a federal drug agent. She set her goals first on law school to study criminal law but changed her mind because she didn't desire to sit at a desk all day.
"It's more fun to catch 'em than to cook 'em," she said.
Roach graduated with a bachelor's degree in social and behavioral science from the University of South Florida.
She began her law enforcement career as a Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy before she joined the DEA.
For a decade, Roach worked on drug cases in Texas, Fresno, Calif. and Philadelphia. She rose through the ranks from agent to group supervisor to assistant special agent in charge. Her best case was "Operation Snow Boat" in Galveston when she and other agents found 11 tons of cocaine coming into the port from a stash farm in Venezuela.
Before she came to Denver, Roach was working for DEA in Maryland in charge of worldwide security for agents and the agency's information systems.
Right now, she is choosing a city for her husband and two children to live in where no marijuana dispensaries are allowed.
"By federal law, marijuana is illegal," she said. "There is no medical proof it has any benefit. People are not taking into account what can happen to those who are growing it. There are homes with mold and water damage in the hundreds of thousands and there are children in there too."
Roach says the bottom line is marijuana is illegal despite state law which legalized it for medical use.
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Color of Religion
Is there a color to code religion as founded by a prophet and organized by his disciples?
The purity of a vision seen from the unconscious mind has to be translated by the rational mind. Prophet can only approximate rationally what is revealed in the other. To compound the confusion it has to dictated to one. From there how a prophet's teachings are translated by his scribe or faithfuls into an order is anybody's guess. It is neither white nor is it black but gray.
Of this I had touched upon in the concluding part of the Silk Road and Via Appia.
Mexican Americans who are living in the south-western border states of America may be citizens of the U.S.A but they trace their origins to Mexico; pattern of belief-systems as it is impressed in them goes still deeper. The Roman Catholic beliefs were imposed on the New World by force and coercion some 500 years ago; These serve now as the basic religion in Mexico. It did not mean that the Mexicans could not work from within. The result is obvious.The policy of the Church in the sixties was to Americanize these people. But it was not much of a success. The Church found that whenever the priests offered masses in other than Spanish the flock tended to go to other churches where Masses were in Spanish.
In Haiti the Church was first associated with the Francophile elite, and which by 1940's became identified with African values. Naturally a reconciliation with voodoo was inevitable. The Masses are now sung in Creole accompanied by voodoo drums. Devotion of the celebrants see no distinction between the Christian, Indian or African spirits which are merely lubricants that smoothen their daily grind of living. No Church can hope to establish dogmas per se and expect it to be held pure. It is people who give its vitality to beliefs and in the process it is transmuted into something unforeseen by the founder of the Religion himself.
Fools stone nevertheless some because of blasphemy or impiety. Or it may be for breaking the oath. In some cases these fools burn with lot of mumbo jumbo attached to it. Grand Inquisitor and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem alike can rest. If we pee on the clod of the earth neither will know the difference. They have become one with earth where no infidels or believers, arami or kaffirs exist. The peace that they feel can only matched by worms that specialize on dead bodies.


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#269909 by LicoriceLain
Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:42 am
Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:42 am
The Dev wrote:It's Away for me...almost every time.
"Away" is close to top for me, too. I chose "Sunday Afternoon", though. Unlike "Deadhead", "Away", "Suicide" and "Slow me down", I never cut it off early.
For me, personally, it evokes the same mood as "Unity".


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Shapelings, it's the holidays in a big chunk of the world, and we're betting you won't be reading as often and we won't be writing as often, either. We may pop up an open thread or two, but we don't have as much time to mod as usual, so please be patient and play nice in the meantime.
74 thoughts on "Gone to the Island of Misfit Toys, brb"
Are we allowed to come and bounce on your beds at 5:30 am on Christmas morning shrieking our heads off? Oh, ok..I get it. Act mature. No funny Lemur hand puppets or belching the alphabet just because it's christmas. Understood.
I can only get as far as G anyway.
I don't know if anyone remembers the raptures I went into over Glittens, but I finally got a pair! They were great in Kentucky, but it stinks that I can't really wear them too much in Florida. It's supposed to be really cold tomorrow night though, so fingers crossed.
I wish I could invite all the Shapelings over to my house for homemade müesli. It's amazing stuff, I just finished my batch (the oats get soaked in milk overnight, so I started it last night and finished it this morning) and it has fresh blueberries, blackberries and bananas in with the strawberry yogurt and milk-soaked oats. I associate it with sharing because I first had it in Switzerland, staying at the house of a family friend who I'd never met who was a very mothering sort of lady. <3 It's one of the few "healthy" foods that I find incredibly tasty.
If that's not a heartwarming story for the holidays, I don't know what is. ;D But I will add that if any Shapelings did stop by Cincinnati, I am also going to be making onigiri and baking cookies today (after some cleaning).
Sarah B, I've always, always wanted a pair of those. I almost got a pair yesterday. But then remembered that I now live in Nashville, not in the great frozen north like I used to. And just got wool fingerless gloves instead.
Sarah B: Here's hoping it gets cold enough for you here! (Or alternatively, that you are further north than Orlando.)
I'm prepared: I bought lots of chocolate to keep my strength up, and I brought in the Cuban treefrog who lives on our porch to keep her warm. (She normally goes to ground when it gets cold, but this time seemed to surprise her. And yes, I know she's an invasive species. If I could get her fixed I would. But I'm not going to watch her freeze.)
I'm gonna be a dentist!
Mania: I am in Orlando! Right now I've got my sliding glass door open and I'm wearing pants and a long sleeve shirt AND the super fluffy warm bath robe my Mom gave me for X-mas. I tried to close the door, but my littler cat meowed scoldingly at me until I opened it up again.
/me bouncebounceBOUNCES….cuz Bumbles bounce!
Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nit wit, just because my nose glows, why don't I fit in?
Tomorrow starts the great Christmas bake-off for treats for family and friends. Lemon shortbread, pistachio and chocolate chip biscotti (half dipped in chocolate, of course), mocha Vienesse swirls with almonds, gingerbread cake, chocolate brownies, and I'm pretty sure some white chocolate fudge. Actually, I think I'm going to knock out the brownies and replace with what my husband insists on calling jammy dodgers. Raspberry, of course.
Glittens are must haves in Chicago. Just made a pair for my sister. You do NOT want to be taking your gloves off to hunt for your CTA card when the wind chill is -20.
Must… finish… matching….hat… keep… knitting…… ahhhhhhhh
*runs around hugging everyone* Merry Christmas and happy holidays and all that!
I'm in the middle of a metric buttload of Christmas baking and it feels like it is NEVER going to end. And I'm not done my shopping yet. *sigh* I hate shopping for gifts. SO stressful, especially this time of year.
Upside to Christmas: my dad makes me an advent calendar every year filled with chocolates and handwritten poems, and this year he's really outdone himself. Last year was 24 matchboxes covered in wrapping paper velcroed to a board in the shape of a Christmas tree, which I thought was pretty awesome, but this year it's a huge box filled with 24 little boxes (which he made himself) all gift-wrapped differently. And there's also tea and miniature cookie cutters and more!
Anyways, here's today's poem. It made me go "awwwwwwww" for a good 5 minutes:
"of course you know you're my favorite kid
I tell all my friends the last thing you did
a fashion plate from your head to your feet
and there's never been a heart so sweet."
:) Awwwwww. (The "favorite kid" comment is an inside joke; I'm an only child and he's always said that I'm "one of [his] favorite kids." Or at least in the top 100.)
And another from last week:
"Christmas is coming
There's so much to do
Smiling folk rushing
Both fro and to
And what are they doing
With faces so glad?
They're finding a gift
Just right for their dad."
Snigger – Mcfly said "Metric Buttload".
McFly, that's so cute! What a sweet tradition!
Brittney Murphy died today at 32. Terribly sad. I can't imagine the struggle it must be to try and fit into the teeny tiny box that is acceptable female beauty in Hollywood
MCM, I heard about that earlier. I thought she was so pretty in Clueless and I never understood why she had to get so skinny. She could have been in any one of the movies she'd made at her original weight. Hollywood can be SO STUPID sometimes.
*blank stare with extra headlights*
Duuude…this isn't the same voice-of-Luanne-on-King of the Hill Brittany Murphy yall are referring to, is she? Please say it ain't so…
Unfortunately it is rainebeaux. =(
Thanks, Sarah B. Dang…just returned from the wikipedia. First Alaina Reed Hall, now Brittany…I can't, man. *sad face*
One of my good friends just found out he has celiac. So I'm baking gluten-free ginger snaps because I can't imagine a holiday without ginger snaps. Just came out of the oven, and they are darned tasty.
Oh, and I was at the mall yesterday, and the flamingo display was replaced by ring-tail lemurs. Almost made being at the mall tolerable. Almost.
We are in the process of moving into a new house – same fantastic little town, but closer to the center and much bigger than the old house. There's still about 10% of our stuff in the old house, which also needs quite a bit of work before we can put it on the market, and we're living out of boxes at the new house.
My parents have declared that family Christmas is going to be at our house this year. On the upside, all the usual out-of-town family has cancelled this year.
I have made it through this weekend without killing either of my parents. This is an accomplishment.
The shopping's done on my end, for my daughter anyway (her dad picked up the slack this year, as my remaining money is tied up in RENT, and I may be stuck in the house for New Year's. Grr.). Brainstorming for what I'll get moms besides cash…yanno, something else she'll actually frickin' USE. Gift cards seem a tad too obvious…*shrug*
Mmmm…gingersnaps: I've been craving some for about a week now. Don't know where said craving came from, as it just snuck up on me (as did Christmas-go figure).
So upsetting about Brittany Murphy. We don't know what caused her cardiac arrest, but we do know she had to savagely maintain a Hollywood figure. I keep wondering if diet drugs or eating disorder will turn out to be the cause. Damn sad.
FJ: For real? Congrats!!
Actually, sara l., she was quoting from the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" holiday special (which included a trip to the Island of Misfit Toys). One of Rudolph's fellow misfits is an elf who doesn't want to make toys; Hermey wants to be a dentist!
Being a Jew during the holidays ain't so bad!
Also, screw everything, I want to be a zoologist.
Sad about Brittany Murphy – she is my age! I wonder if she had an undiagnosed heart defect.
So, has anyone else seen the commercials for that new acid reflux remedy, Aciphex? If you haven't, try saying the name a few times.
Yeah, I've been twelve pretty much all day since I saw it.
OMG! I just laughed at "Aciphex" for a good 10 minutes. Can barely type through the tears of laughter.
*snickers* ass
Snigger – Mcfly said "Ass"
I pretty much live on the island of misfit toys. The holidays are hard for misfits. The annual office holiday horror show is tonight, where the misfit status will be on display for all to see. Bug fun.
I meant to write, "Big fun," but decided to leave in the typo. That's it: I AM going to have Bug Fun.
Does that sound dirty?
I love that one! But it can't top my favorite –
I have an unholy affection for A&E true crime programming, especially anything hosted by Bill Kurtis. Twice now I've seen an episode of "American Justice" about a man accused of killing his wife. The man's last name was Fallater. Looking at it, I assumed it would be pronounced FAL-ater. No dice: fah-LAY-ter.
I giggled EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I'm cute. I'm cute! I'M CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!
It's also possible that it was due to malnutrition. I certainly don't know if she did suffer from AN, but I do know that about 25% of the deaths in AN (which carries an annual risk of death of about 1%, 12X the mortality rate of any other psychiatric diagnosis) are cardiac, and another 25% are due to medical complications due to malnutrition, which often wind up involving cardiac causes. Sudden cardiac arrest is, unfortunately, a common cause of death in EDs, as it can also be caused by many purging methods.
RIP, and all possible sympathies to the people who loved her.
@IrishUp – Did she have a history of EDs? People are buzzing that it was either drugs or an ED, but is this because she had a known past with those things or because she's an actress?
@Leely: *giggle* Fellater (I'm 12)
@HSofia: I read that in an interview with Amy Heckerling who got Brittany her big movie break in Clueless that she was a different person before, during, and after. She said she went from being a down to earth kind of girl to someone trying to fit in to the Hollywood scene. That and all the weight she dropped would lead to rumors of drugs and/or EDs.
Because of Brittney Murphy, I've been thinking about the definition of EDs. Right now society insists that weight loss is just a matter of eating less and moving more, but for some of us that weight loss doesn't start until eating next to nothing and moving compulsively. EDs aren't about a low caloric tolerance so much as a particular view of self and sustinance. Even in times of relative lack, when being fatter wasn't demonized, there were people who suffered anorexia nervosa as an internally cued disorder.
So do you need to need to have anorexia nervosa to kill yourself with dieting? Everyone's saying Brittney Murphy may have been anorexic. What if she was following the advice of her industry? What if her mental health wasn't the problem?
Generally, mental illness is categorized not so much by behavior but by compulsion that is maladaptive, and that's often contextual to society. Our society rewards dieting. If Brittney Murphy and the model whose name I've forgotten and the LighterLife dieting bride have died of starvation, how much of it is organically them, and how much of it is the bill of goods they've been sold?
I mean, hunger makes me unhinge a bit, and starvation turns on the adrenaline eventually. Any diet that goes on toward starvation has anorexia nervosa like behaviours associated. But I wonder if it's not important to point out that some starving women are driven by personal demons, and others are driven by agents who say lose another 10 pounds, and magazines that look at actresses with round faces and call them fat, and are exhibiting the behavior considered adaptive given what is being asked.
Which is not to say the prods of societal judgment don't also affect the anorexic. They do: I spend a time with an eating disorder and society plays a supporting role. But there really was a reaction to other things in my life going on. I've also been on diets where I'm just dieting, and that was almost entirely about society. There was a difference, for me at least.
@mickey on the celiac cookies…..
Hubby was misdiagnosed (yea!) as celiac, and we cooked gluten free for several years. Save your pal a lot of trouble on finding appropriate flour mixes….there aren't any MIXES that work for sweets. There is a super spendy "Betty-somebody" in gold foil that is great for savory, but not for anything else. Problem is, they all use garbanzo or fava beans in the mix. Fine for savory breads and such, but lousy for pastry.
We made our own flour blend with Masa Harina (yes-the corn for tamales!) which gives a nice sweetness, a bit of rice (too gritty if you use a lot) and a bit of potato and tapioca flour. Also-coconut flour can offset any beany flavors if you use a bit. Oh-and you can't fry anything with potato flour…it implodes and turns to goop. Who knew? Anyway. If your friend is OK with corn let s/he know it is the golden mean in gluten free cooking. And makes the BEST.Waffles.ever.
Not doing holiday baking. But am having a bon bon making party the sunday AFTER xmas. Boozy chocolate covered cherries, apricot-rose bon bon with pistachios, etc. MMmmm. Messy and fun.
apricot-rose bon bon with pistachios,
Yeah, all that rose talkin got me thinking. Mmm. I love anything appropriately flower infused. I especially like the Indian kevda or iris water. It doesn't fit in too many things, but when it does,mmmm.
Ok. Here's the basic recipe for the bon bons…( my niece insisted on making this when she was about ten, and it DID actually turn out to be worth it in the long run).
1 box powdered sugar
1/2 c light corn syrup
1/2 (stick) unsalted butter
Mix these in a bowl…..knead them to a dough like consistency. This is the messy part. Chill.
The original recipe was just for choc covered cherries.
Pinch a piece of dough and wrap it around the cherry, patting quickly before it softens too much. Then dip the thing in melty chocolate, and put on waxed paper. This amount of dough should cover 100 cherries. You can keep these in the fridge about a week.
Variations-any kind of dried fruit you like. Add flavoring and/or color to the 'dough'. I plan to make several varieties for my party. Rose, coffee, lime.
The apricot ones were the best last year: Dried apricot, covered in rose 'dough' dipped in white chocolate with pistachio garnish.
I will use pineapple, apricot, boozy cherries, plain cherries, dried blueberries, mangoes, papaya, dates and maybe try to mix up something with a little chestnut glace. We'll see how they come out this time.
Thanks for that, SM. :) I liked this post over at FWD/Forward about Brittany Murphy's death and the internet speculation over the cause:
SM: Just to be clear, is Arwen's post fair game for discussion provided we leave out Brittany Murphy death speculation? Or would you rather we avoided her post as well?
Oh, wow, I was trying to NOT speculate about Ms. Murphy (as in when I said "I certainly don't know…), but I failed! But (in response to hsofia's ?) I had wanted to point out that sudden cardiac death in young women has a terrible association with malnutrition & EDs, and the incidences of these are much higher than unexplained cardiac compromise in a young woman. When someone young dies of an unusual cause, it is natural that it arouses curiosity and speculation. But, as Mcfly so rightly points out, that attention turns swiftly from concern and curiosity to cannibalism in a society when women generally, and celebrities in particular, are so ruthlessly commodified. Anyway, I was less careful than I should have been, so: Mea magna culpa!
So, may I now direct your attention to the lemur puppet circus just down and to your left?
Sarah B
I don't know if anyone remembers the raptures I went into over Glittens, but I finally got a pair!
OHHH! Glove mittens. See, for a minute, my brain was insisting that was "glitter kittens," and I was confused. I thought I had missed another toy trend.
Okay, now I've gotta kick myself in the ass and get back to work. I have two more pairs of Christmas Socks still to be finished.
Thank goodness you thought of "glitter kittens" too, emmy. I had to google it to be sure, and I have to admit I was a bit sad at the lack of glitter. And kittens.
Random question: can we embed photos in the comments here?
A difficult year ending with a hugely difficult decision.
The mother of my foster/adopted children has had another child. My partner and I are faced with the dilemna of deciding if we want another child (we have 4 and thought that would be the end) just 4 days before Xmas.
Hubby is the stay at home mom & I work outside the home. I am leaving this as mainly her decision, but its so difficult. I popped onto no immediately- but she wants to talk about it tonight. I will be 62 when this theoretical (for now) child graduates from high school.
Sorry about my comment speculating on Brittany's death. I have a young child with a congenital heart defect and so my awareness of CHDs is pretty high.
I hope things go well for you and that you can come to a decision that is best for all of you. So I'm sending virtual glitter kittens your way. I know it's bad to give people pets as gifts, but I'm pretty sure that glitter kittens eat nothing but caviar and Italian ices (both virtual), just like Lyle the crocodile.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who heard "ass effects" rather than "Aciphex"… It certainly caught my attention and had me wondering what effects my ass could gain by taking some drug.
@June… Your ass will get some mighty-mighty effects if you take Alli.
Has anyone here taken Women's Studies courses? I am taking a light class load this spring due to medical issues, and I get to audit a class at my undergrad institution. I was planning on usando este oportunidad para bonar alto en mi espanol, but then I wondered if a Woman's Studies course might help me with my Teaching Everyone project (trying to prepare myself to run an equal and inclusive classroom when I grow up and become a real teacher). So, ummm, what do WS classes cover? If I sit in on one, will people assume I'm a dirty old man trying to meet undergrads?
aleks – you'll probably be the only guy in the room, unless the course is required by some program. The Gender Comm class I taught involved reading a lot of feminist criticism of the media, going back to Betty Friedan, then Naomi Wolf's "The Beauty Myth" and then Susan Douglas' book "Where the Girls Are" along with the textbook that looked at various areas of communication and how they are gendered. However, it was a COMM course so a general Womens Studies class would possibly take a more historical or theoretical approach. In any case, it's always useful to force yourself out of your comfort zone and try to see the world as others do. :)
Meanwhile, I see "you know your [sic] fat when" is a trending topic on Twitter. WHY DID I LOOK? WHY WHY WHY? *cries*
I want some Gleemurs. They are Glitter Lemurs and might keep your hands warm too, but probably not all the time.
Quick update- we decided to let the baby be someone else's Christmas miracle. It was a very tough decision, but our kids need some serious attention- and a new baby would have divided our attentions too far.
DivaJean, that must have been a tough decision for you and your partner. I'm glad that you've come to a decision that you feel is best for everyone involved. *hugs*
I thought glittens were glitter mittens. I was about to get excited. Although I'm not sure why since I'm in Australia and it is 34 celcius/93 farenheit here.
@aleks: I'm a women & gender studies minor currently, and I think everyone should have to take women's studies courses. I'm a feminist in my free time (ha! that sounds bizarre, but I'm leaving it cause it kinda cracks me up), but I learned things in class in ways I may never otherwise have learned. Depending on the class, you can learn a vast array of different things… think regular classes but from a gendered lens… it has made a huge difference in my outlook on, well, pretty much everything…
@Aleks: In my "History of Women" class many years ago there were three or four males that enrolled. They may have taken it as what they thought would be an easy humanities credit or as a way to meet women, but no one thought it was creepy they were there. In fact, I ended up becomming friends with one of them.
And I agree with erin_s. I didn't realise it then, but a lot of what I learned in that class has altered many of my viewpoints.
@SM – Apologies. Indeed, we don't know.
I'm sorry everyone! I got drawn into the speculation by a facebook friend.
Glitter kittens…thought sounds like something my cats would object to.
"that" sounds like…sheesh.
DRST: I cnt stnd txt msg spk, even on Twitter. So #youknowyourfat made me extra irritated (why did I look? Why?).
But it did inspire me:
You know your fat when you can tell the difference in the taste of olive oils.
You know your fat when you debate the merits of butter over shortening pie crust.
You know your fat when you eat a variety of omega fatty acids because it's good for your heart. Plus: smoked salmon and walnuts!
You know your fat when you gaze at yourself lovingly in the mirror.
You know your fat when you pick out cute clothes that help you look as fantastic as you feel.
You know your fat when your *hug* made it tingle by running hir hands from your shoulders to your toes.
I could do this all day but molasses crinkles need baking and my brother needs collecting from the aeroport.
Sarah B, it's been my experience that cats object to most things that aren't food anyway. At least, mine do.
AnthroK8 said
You know your fat when you debate the merits of butter over shortening pie crust.
I generally use butter, but lard is excellent (use about 1/3 less, if I remember rightly). Hard to find, though – our regular stores don't carry it.
I could do this all day but molasses crinkles need baking and my brother needs collecting from the aeroport.
I am determined to make soft, puffy molasses crinkles like grandma this year. Mine are usually flat and, once they cool, crunchy. Which are good, but fail on the nostalgia front. The last batch was soft but flat. Next batch I'm using all shortening and I'm going to be careful not to overbeat while creaming the sugars and shortening, and I'm going to add a bit more flour.
Happily, my sugar cookies taste like grandma's (thin and crunchy), and my kringla taste like my great aunt's, so even if I don't get the molasses crinks down there'll still be nostalgia cookies. Also, discovered sandbakelser last year – where have they been all my life? Yum!
Thank you for the advice, dear answerers.
Have a question: does the Grim Reaper get holiday pay, or have a twin who concentrates on the celebrities? I mean, geez…I just learned Arnold Stang(the voice of Top Cat) also passed on Sunday!
Glad to be alive, but man…between today marking the four-month anniversary of my nephew's violent/untimely/unnecessary death (he was 25) and the decade and change since my dad left the building, I'm feeling some kind of way. *ahem* hope I didn't bum anybody out…try to enjoy the holiday, sports fans. :|
@rainbeaux – Another recent death – Kim Peek, the savant who served as an inspiration for the movie Rain Man. And Alaina Reed Hall died that weekend, too. =(
The Grim Reaper's job has eased considerably since he put down the scythe and started driving a tractor and otherwise mechanized harvesting. (Beat The Reaper)
I watched Magnolia just now. I'm horrified to say that Tom Cruise's misogynistic pickup artist creep character is the only one who's story line I could really follow. I also watched Revolutionary Road, and will recommend it whenever I need to explain my uncomfortable embrace of pro-Choice politics.
Hey, Shapelings. What would you say to a pretty pink telescope?
Re: Ms. Murphy, so very young and so very sad! I also appreciate Sweet Machine's request to not speculate on why the actress died, because that kind of thing gets so nasty so quickly. Also, with young actresses, the line between critiquing the patriarchy and just tearing down a woman for sexist reasons can sometimes be … not as bright and distinct a line as one might think.
"So, ummm, what do WS classes cover? If I sit in on one, will people assume I'm a dirty old man trying to meet undergrads?"
I was a Women's Studies major and never had anyone question my presence in classes or in the program–of course, I'm trans, and I started the program presenting female, but there were a number of cis men (mostly gay) who went through the program as well. Don't be a jerk, listen as well as speak, and you oughta be just fine. :)
But if you're worried or just want more info, you could always contact the department head, try to get a feel for the program. The "flavor" of WMST programs and classes vary from school to school (for example, at some schools I would never have been a WMST major because of the virulent transphobia).
Also, if the WMST department has an overview or introductory course, I'd recommend considering that. My Intro to Women's Studies course was AMAZING and one of the best classes I ever took–I learned so much, had my eyes opened to so many things, and got to be the one to share eye-opening experiences with classesmates too. We not only covered the various feminisms (second wave, third wave, radfem, "sex-poz," Friedan, Dworkin, Butler, etc, etc) but also other oppressions (race, class, sexuality, etc.).
"Hey, Shapelings. What would you say to a pretty pink telescope?"
Ick. I mean, I like the color pink itself quite a bit, but I think the blogger got it right. Variety of colors: yay! One "alternative" color meant to single out girls/women as "other" and inferior: no, thank you!
Also, unrelated, I saw this today from Marie Claire: [trigger warning for possible fatphobia] http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/articlemcmatch.aspx?cp-documentid=22797786>1=32023
Shorter version: Liking larger men means you hate yourself. If you stop hating yourself, you won't find big guys attractive anymore. Because, you know, ew, they're not. I mean, I'm really glad that the writer feels better about herself and her appearance (though not about it being correlated to her being thinner), but why does it have to be spun as "big guys were a coping mechanism" instead of "I wasn't with people who were right for me because I didn't like myself"?
I thought I'd share it since so much fatphobia is specifically fatmisogyny (to steal from the term transmisogyny) that I found this more men-focused fatphobia to be somewhat unusual.
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- UFC on FX 4
Dana White tells Guida: This isn't Dancing with the Stars
Dana White warned Clay Guida his career may be in danger if he continues to fight in the manner that he chose for Friday's UFC on FX 4 main event against Gray Maynard.
Guida, a fan-favourite for his usual all-action, gung-ho approach, opted for a safety-first tactic against Maynard, resulting in a warning mid-fight for failing to engage. In the end he dropped a split decision, and earned few new fans in the process.
In defence of Guida, his wrestling capability and striking power did not match his opponent. The sensible tactic was to employ intelligent movement, but he failed to combine that with regular attempts to counter.
Cornered by Greg Jackson, who has earned White's wrath in the past for turning his fighters into boring point-scorers, Guida clearly angered the UFC president, who is likely to drop him down the lightweight ladder as result.
"The fight sucked," White said at the post-fight press conference. "I don't know how to expand on it anymore.
"A guy like Guida, his style is to move forward. I think that's the style that's made him who he is, it's the style that made him a fan favourite and won him fights.
"Guida's fans on Twitter were saying, 'Great footwork'. This isn't Dancing with the Stars. You can't win a fight running around in circles.
"I'm not his trainer, I'm not his coach - these guys come up with game plans. But to make a guy like Clay Guida go out and fight like that, that was the game plan?
"Maybe that's the way [Guida] wants to fight for the rest of his career. I wouldn't advise it, but I'm not his trainer."


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Dr. Arun Chakrapani Rao, General Motors Technical Center India Pvt. Ltd.
Mohan Murugesan, General Motors Technical Center India Pvt. Ltd.
This presentation introduces Simulink Verification and Validation™ and Simulink Design Verifier™. It highlights advanced verification and validation techniques (involving structural coverage analysis and formal methods) for testing various components within the HVAC Controls Software Readiness and Core Engineering groups. This session also summarizes some of General Motors Company's results, the benefits already obtained, those we hope to achieve in the long run, and some of the challenges that confront us.
Note: Simulink Verification and Validation transitioned to Simulink Check, Simulink Coverage, and Simulink Requirements in R2017b.
Recorded: 20 Mar 2013


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By popular demand, LaosGPSmap is producing a specialized offroad map 2014, designed for offroad motorcycle and adventure riders.
Laos is currently experiencing an unprecedented explosion in infrastructure road building as of 2013-2014.
For us offroad riders this has meant a huge shift in venues around Laos. Many of the old trails and tracks have been upgraded to 20 meter wide hardtop roads, occasionally these road have white lines painted on the middle as well. Not a welcomed site to the CR450 pilot seeking adventure. If Mud, ruts, sand and river crossings are your fancy then this GPS map is meant for you!


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Seriously…what is with Angelina Jolie's brother? Dude is missing the memo – clearly not looped in with the Pitt publicity machine or perhaps not as skilled as his sister and brother-in-law in the art of media manipulation. And if that's the case, maybe it's time to take him off the Team?
Because James Haven sucks at sympathy spinning. Sucks huge donkey ass every time he opens his mouth, this time is no different.
New interview with some tabloid, discussing Angelina Jolie's pin thin frame:
"She exhausts herself and at the moment she has a very low resistance level because she misses our mother so much and just longs for her all the time". Would have been fine if he had stopped there. Problem is, he kept going…
"Angie visited Ethiopia and it changed her life. When she's there, there's often no food for her and she goes without. She's become used to periods of very little or no food so she has a much smaller appetite and a different attitude to it."
In other words, Angelina Jolie is one with the malnourished – sympathy starvation, solidarity in starvation: if they can't eat, she won't eat. But do hungry Africans fly around the world in private jets all the time too?
Stupid, stupid, stupid…and totally ineffective. Better shut that sh-t up before Oscar time. James hurts more than he helps.


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Bayern chairperson Karl-Heinz Rummenigge reached a deal with Fiorentina president Andrea Della Valle on Monday, with contracts to be finalised and signed in the coming days, the Bundesliga club announced on its website on Monday.
"It was Mario Gomez's wish to leave Bayern in the direction of Florence. We've now granted his wish," Rummenigge said.
Gomez joined Bayern from Stuttgart for a then Bundesliga record fee of up to $45-million in 2009.
Bild and Kicker both reported Fiorentina will pay Bayern $26-million for the 27-year-old forward. Bild said the Italian side will pay $20.6-million up front, with the rest to follow later.
Gomez scored 112 goals in 172 games for Bayern.
"With that he made a major contribution to two German titles and and two German Cup wins. The highlight, of course, was the Champions League win and the treble last season," Rummenigge said.
"I want to thank him for his performances for Bayern. On behalf of the club I wish him lots of luck and success in Florence."
Bayern's wish to sign Lewandowski
Injury ruled Gomez out of Bayern's opening games to last season, and he was unable to reclaim a regular starting place due to Croatian striker Mario Mandžukić's good performances and coach Jupp Heynckes' policy of rotation.
Bayern has made no secret of its wish to sign Robert Lewandowski from Bundesliga rival Borussia Dortmund, and Gomez reportedly felt a move away from the club was his only way of ensuring regular action ahead of the World Cup next year.
Gomez has 25 goals in 58 appearances for Germany.
He joins a side that impressed last season under first-year coach Vincenzo Montella, finishing fourth in Serie A.
The Viola were praised for their fluid, Spanish style passing game but they lacked a strong finisher – a position Gomez will be expected to occupy.
Fiorentina is also hoping that Giuseppe Rossi can contribute in attack, having only played the final match of last season after a long injury layoff.
Fiorentina's prized playmaker Stevan Jovetić is expected to transfer. – Sapa-AP