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In the 6 years since Sean sold his last business to become a stay-at-home dad (a season that is sadly ending as he launches a new interior paint & trim business), we've tried several different office set ups—from various setups in the loft to working on the couch or at the breakfast bar downstairs. Although each […]
An updated master bedroom {modular home house tour}
Question of the Day: What's most important to you in a home?
Building a modular home {a look back at our building process}
This month marks seven years since we moved into our home, and as we prepare to list it for sale, I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. Although I've done a home tour before (and will do an updated one sometime this month), I've never really talked about the building process, which was quite the experience itself! […]
How Do You Make Decisions? {And Why We Decided to Sell Our Dream Home}
Sean and I are a lot alike in a lot of ways, which is both good and bad, I suppose. One way we're very similar, though, is the speed with which we make decisions. Basically, thinking means doing in our family. As I was thinking about our decision-making process this weekend, I realized we've been […]
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African Anarchism: The History of a Movement, by Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey.
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Anarchists have talked for decades about producing an anarchist cookbook, a book whose contents accurately reflect its title. A book written by anarchists that delivers recipes for social change, recipes for tasty food, and accurate information about anarchism. There have been several false starts on such a book, but no one has ever published one. Until now.
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This is Nietzsche's final book, and it's a fitting capstone to his career. It's succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an 8,000-word introduction by its translator, the famous iconoclastic writer, H.L. Mencken.
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Social Anarchism is one of the longest-running and most respected anarchist journals in the United States. Since its appearance in 1980, the journal has published hundreds upon hundreds of articles by writers such as Janet Biehl, Brian Martin, Brian Morris, and Colin Ward. At over 400 pages, this massive collection contains an introduction by Jeff Shantz, Howard Ehrlich's highly amusing history of the journal, and Social Anarchism's 30 best articles divided into five major categories: 1) Theory; 2) Practice; 3) Education; 4) Notable historic figures; 5) Contemporary voices.
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This inspiring history of the Cuban anarchist movement is also a history of the Cuban labor movement. It covers both from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present, and ends with an enlightening analysis of the failure of the Castro dictatorship.
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This witty exploration into atheism and rational thinking is written specifically for young adults, although many older people will also find it of value. Not just focused on atheism, this crash course in logical thinking addresses the issue of indoctrination, whether religious, political, or commercial, and makes the case that morality is created through reason, logic, and our basic social nature, not through divine commands. The book touches on many hot topics, such as the traditional arguments for God's existence, the relationship of evolution and religious belief, the incompatible nature of science and religion, and the harmfulness of both Christianity and Islam.
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This newly revised and expanded book/2-CD set contains nearly 500 grooves written out in standard notation, histories of the styles covered, and innumerable helpful performance tips. The two CDs feature performances of nearly 200 of the grooves, including every primary style example, all performed both with and without a click track. Styles covered include blues, rock, jazz, reggae, country, klezmer, ska, samba, punk, surf, metal, latin rock, funk, and on and on — virtually every style a performing drummer will ever need to play
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Set in the not too distant future, this gritty, darkly humorous science fiction novel traces the misadventures of hard-bitten bar musician Kel Turner as he deals with a shattered family, lousy gigs, and political repression on Earth, and religious and political cults on a nightmare pirison planet.
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This oversize book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, law, labor, capitalism, anarchism, women, religion, the arts, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains an index, capsule biographies, and dozens of cartoons and illustrations. Hundreds of writers are represented, including Bakunin, Mencken, the Marxes (Groucho and Karl), Twain, Reich, Voltaire, Shaw, Chomsky, Diderot, Bookchin, Goldman, Berkman, Paine, Kroptkin, and Bierce.
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Set in a near-future Kansas beset by catastrophic climate change, this novel of ever-shifting realities explores how individual choices affect society, how careerism and academic ambition affect medical experiments, and how local solutions affect global problems.
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This oversize how-to book contains a history of Food Not Bombs; over 100 photos and illustrations; ready-to-be-copied flyers; information on consensus process; how to deal with police harassment and infiltrators; how to obtain free food(not by dumpster diving); and dozens of tasty vegan recipes for groups of 100 and groups of six. If you want to start a Food Not Bombs group, this book is what you need.
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The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition, by Upton Sinclair. The original edition—almost unknown since its appearance as a serial in 1905, and quickly suppressed upon its brief re-emergence in the 1980s—is a full third longer than the censored commercial edition. It contains 36 chapters rather than the 31 in the common expurgated version, and restores Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary, additional gory descriptions of the meatpacking industry, ethnic color, and a large amount of material dealing with corporate crime and political corruption cut from the commercial edition. This edition also contains a new Foreword by Earl Lee dealing with the suppression of the original edition in 1905/1906 and again in the 1980s, and a new Introduction by Kathleen De Grave dealing at length with the pattern of and reasons for the cuts which resulted in the standard, expurgated edition.
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Making Musical Instrument with Kids presents dozens of age-graded instrument-construction projects for teachers, parents, and others working with children. These instruments are exceptionally easy to build, due to the highly detailed construction plans and the abundance of illustrative photos and drawings. The cost of building all of the instruments described in this book is very low—with some costing nothing to build—given that many are constructed entirely of free materials commonly available in homes and schools, and the rest use a combination of free and common, cheap materials (such as nuts and bolts). In addition to the plans, the author also describes how all of the instruments should be played. The audio CD provides charming illustrations of that playing
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This is both a missionary memoir and an expose on the LDS Church's intense childhood indoctrination techniques. Simultaneously fascinating, entertaining, horrifying, and revealing. You'll never look at those poor kids in the white shirts and ties in the same light after reading this book.
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Musical Instrument Design: Practical Information for Instrument Making, by Bart Hopkin. An encyclopedic, large-format book containing hundreds of illustrations, Musical Instrument Design provides all the information that anyone (amateur or professional) should ever need to construct an amazingly wide variety of percussion, string, and wind instruments. Includes many designs for instruments along with parts lists and detailed construction instructions.
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Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug, and Recovery Habits, by James DeSena.
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Provocations also includes the best 170 definitions from The American Heretic's Dictionary, and numerous caustic essays on politics, economics, and livin' in the USA.
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"Spiritual Snake Oil scathingly and entertainingly dissects the preachings of the most prominent New Age snake oil salesmen (and women)—such as Deepak Chopra, Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), and the authors of The Secret and The Celesting Prophecy—and also goes after the advocates of the oxymoronic "intellectual Christianity" and transhumanism.
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Never before has stage fright been so eloquently examined; 40 interviews with some of the most highly accomplished public figures shed light on this very common problem. Jason Alexander, Maya Angelou, David Brenner, Phyllis Diller, Olympia Dukakis, Melissa Etheridge, Richard Lewis, Ron Paul, Robin Williams and many more speak candidly about their trials with stage fright, openly discussing their fears, and ultimately revealing the various paths they followed to overcoming them. Stage fright sufferers from all walks of life—whether high school freshmen nervous about an oral presentation or professional baseball players with the eyes of the world on them—will find encouragement by understanding the commonality of their problem, and by seeing how beloved public figures have overcome it. The book also includes a lengthy chapter describing in detail proven-effective strategies and techniques for overcoming stage fright.
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This pioneering self-help book takes a close look at an area that has been ignored or downplayed by other books on incest and childhood sexual abuse: the role of the nonperpetrating parent. Different from previous books, The Ultimate Betrayal treats the enabling mother not as a victim, but as an adult responsible for her failure to protect her child. Ricker illustrates her analysis with 25 detailed case histories, and she provides a myriad of self-help exercises to help survivors begin to reclaim their lives.
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This perennially popular book is now in its sixth printing. It explains the most useful aspects of theory in clear, nontechnical language. Areas covered include scales (major, minor, modal, synthetic), chord formation, chord progression, melody, song forms, useful devices, (ostinato, mirrors, hocket, etc.), and instrumentation. Contains over 100 musical examples.
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Both leftist supporters and rightist opponents of the Chavez government will be outraged by the book's premise that the Chavez regime is neither dictatorial nor revolutionary, but rather is one of a long line of Latin American populist regimes that are ultimately subservient to the U.S. government and to the transnational corporations.
Topics include Venezuela's political history and the long involvement of the military in that history; Venezuela's economy, and more especially Venezuela's oil economy; Venezuela's indigenous rights and human rights movements; Venezuela's labor movement; and the social policies of the Chavez government and its predecessors. In the course of discussing these topics, the author cites hundreds of sources, a great many of them first-hand.
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Our latest science fiction novel. A fine coming-of-age tale with well drawn characters in a far-future setting, brimming with social and political questions on technology, primitivism, ecology, and the uses and misuses of consensus process.
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The Youngest Bishop in England, by Robert Bridgstock is a powerful memoir of life in the Mormon Church and a jaw-dropping exposé of that church. The exposé is all the more astonishing because Bridgstock relies heavily upon official Mormon sources for documentation, revealing truths about Mormon doctrine and history that the church hierarchy wishes to conceal from ordinary church members.
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I have this strange problem on the acer aspire one d250. It happened already once before, stayed for about two weeks, and then "fixed itself".
The problem is as follows: the battery can't seem to get fully charged; ie the indicator is stuck at about 90% (it's probably not a software problem -- I have ArchLinux and Windows 7 installed and both report exactly the same) and it never passes that value, but it still shows the status as "charging" (I tried everything I could think of -- leaving it charging for extremely long amounts of time, doing a few complete charge-recharge cycles, removing/reinserting the battery, cleaning the connectors, even updating the BIOS, etc., and nothing helped).
Also, when it is getting charged, it charges pretty fast until about 70% and then progresses extremely slowly.
The battery holds the charge that appears on the battery indicator normally. Just can't get the battery to charge fully -- I can't get it past the 90%.
At first I thought this would be a simple battery failure (even if the computer is not that old, about 6-7 months), but as I mentioned it happened once before, and then one day it fixed itself.
I tried contacting Acer about this, but the support was not helpful, completely stupid, it seemed like they used canned responses, the usual.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?


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Sketch #1 colored by Silverpelt12Watch
©2014-2016 Silverpelt12
So i got kind of tired of staring at my computer screen to draw (plus with my mom nagging me to stop staring at the screen) I decided to try my hand with colored pencil. I used the leftover pencils and stubs from my elementary and middle school days, mostly student-grade Faber-Castell, with some Lyra, Koh-i-noor, and Staedler thrown in. (My European mother did not believe in Crayola
What do you think?
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its soooooooooooooooooo amazing


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Relevance to Humans and Ecosystems
Mushroom Poisoning
Mushroom poisoning is caused by the consumption of raw or cooked fruiting bodies (mushrooms, toadstools) of a number of species of higher fungi. The term toadstool (from the German Todesstuhl, death's stool) is commonly given to poisonous mushrooms, but for individuals who are not experts in mushroom identification there are generally no easily recognizable differences between poisonous and nonpoisonous species. Old wives' tales notwithstanding, there is no general rule of thumb for distinguishing edible mushrooms and poisonous toadstools. The toxins involved in mushroom poisoning are produced naturally by the fungi themselves, and each individual specimen of a toxic species should be considered equally poisonous. Most mushrooms that cause human poisoning cannot be made nontoxic by cooking, canning, freezing, or any other means of processing. Thus, the only way to avoid poisoning is to avoid consumption of the toxic species. Poisonings in the United States occur most commonly when hunters of wild mushrooms (especially novices) misidentify and consume a toxic species, when recent immigrants collect and consume a poisonous American species that closely resembles an edible wild mushroom from their native land, or when mushrooms that contain psychoactive compounds are intentionally consumed by persons who desire these effects.
Nature of Disease
Mushroom poisonings are generally acute and are manifested by a variety of symptoms and prognoses, depending on the amount and species consumed. Because the chemistry of many of the mushroom toxins (especially the less deadly ones) is still unknown and positive identification of the mushrooms is often difficult or impossible, mushroom poisonings are generally categorized by their physiological effects. There are four categories of mushroom toxins: protoplasmic poisons (poisons that result in generalized destruction of cells, followed by organ failure); neurotoxins (compounds that cause neurological symptoms such as profuse sweating, coma, convulsions, hallucinations, excitement, depression, spastic colon); gastrointestinal irritants (compounds that produce rapid, transient nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, and diarrhea); and disulfiram-like toxins. Mushrooms in this last category are generally nontoxic and produce no symptoms unless alcohol is consumed within 72 hours after eating them, in which case a short-lived acute toxic syndrome is produced.
Diagnosis of Human Illness
A clinical testing procedure is currently available only for the most serious types of mushroom toxins, the amanitins. The commercially available method uses a 3H-radioimmunoassay (RIA) test kit and can detect sub-nanogram levels of toxin in urine and plasma. Unfortunately, it requires a 2-hour incubation period, and this is an excruciating delay in a type of poisoning which the clinician generally does not see until a day or two has passed. A 125I-based kit which overcomes this problem has recently been reported, but has not yet reached the clinic. A sensitive and rapid HPLC technique has been reported in the literature even more recently, but it has not yet seen clinical application. Since most clinical laboratories in this country do not use even the older RIA technique, diagnosis is based entirely on symptomology and recent dietary history. Despite the fact that cases of mushroom poisoning may be broken down into a relatively small number of categories based on symptomatology, positive botanical identification of the mushroom species consumed remains the only means of unequivocally determining the particular type of intoxication involved, and it is still vitally important to obtain such accurate identification as quickly as possible. Cases involving ingestion of more than one toxic species in which one set of symptoms masks or mimics another set are among many reasons for needing this information. Unfortunately, a number of factors (not discussed here) often make identification of the causative mushroom impossible. In such cases, diagnosis must be based on symptoms alone. In order to rule out other types of food poisoning and to conclude that the mushrooms eaten were the cause of the poisoning, it must be established that everyone who ate the suspect mushrooms became ill and that no one who did not eat the mushrooms became ill. Wild mushrooms eaten raw, cooked, or processed should always be regarded as prime suspects. After ruling out other sources of food poisoning and positively implicating mushrooms as the cause of the illness, diagnosis may proceed in two steps. The first step, outlined in Table 1, provides an early indication of the seriousness of the disease and its prognosis.
As described above, the protoplasmic poisons are the most likely to be fatal or to cause irreversible organ damage. In the case of poisoning by the deadly Amanitas, important laboratory indicators of liver (elevated LDH, SGOT, and bilirubin levels) and kidney (elevated uric acid, creatinine, and BUN levels) damage will be present. Unfortunately, in the absence of dietary history, these signs could be mistaken for symptoms of liver or kidney impairment as the result of other causes (e.g., viral hepatitis). It is important that this distinction be made as quickly as possible, because the delayed onset of symptoms will generally mean that the organ has already been damaged. The importance of rapid diagnosis is obvious: victims who are hospitalized and given aggressive support therapy almost immediately after ingestion have a mortality rate of only 10%, whereas those admitted 60 or more hours after ingestion have a 50-90% mortality rate. Table 2 provides more accurate diagnoses and appropriate therapeutic measures. A recent report indicates that amanitins are observable in urine well before the onset of any symptoms, but that laboratory tests for liver dysfunction do not appear until well after the organ has been damaged.
Associated Foods
Mushroom poisonings are almost always caused by ingestion of wild mushrooms that have been collected by nonspecialists (although specialists have also been poisoned). Most cases occur when toxic species are confused with edible species, and a useful question to ask of the victims or their mushroom-picking benefactors is the identity of the mushroom they thought they were picking. In the absence of a well- preserved specimen, the answer to this question could narrow the possible suspects considerably. Intoxication has also occurred when reliance was placed on some folk method of distinguishing poisonous and safe species. Outbreaks have occurred after ingestion of fresh, raw mushrooms, stir-fried mushrooms, home-canned mushrooms, mushrooms cooked in tomato sauce (which rendered the sauce itself toxic, even when no mushrooms were consumed), and mushrooms that were blanched and frozen at home. Cases of poisoning by home-canned and frozen mushrooms are especially insidious because a single outbreak may easily become a multiple outbreak when the preserved toadstools are carried to another location and consumed at another time.
Specific cases of mistaken mushroom identity appears frequently. The Early False Morel Gyromitra esculenta is easily confused with the true Morel Morchella esculenta, and poisonings have occurred after consumption of fresh or cooked Gyromitra. Gyromitra poisonings have also occurred after ingestion of commercially available "morels" contaminated with G. esculenta. The commercial sources for these fungi (which have not yet been successfully cultivated on a large scale) are field collection of wild morels by semiprofessionals. Cultivated commercial mushrooms of whatever species are almost never implicated in poisoning outbreaks unless there are associated problems such as improper canning (which lead to bacterial food poisoning). A short list of the mushrooms responsible for serious poisonings and the edible mushrooms with which they are confused is presented in Table 3. Producers of mild gastroenteritis are too numerous to list here, but include members of many of the most abundant genera, including Agaricus, Boletus, Lactarius, Russula, Tricholoma, Coprinus, Pluteus, and others. The Inky Cap Mushroom (Coprinus atrimentarius) is considered both edible and delicious, and only the unwary who consume alcohol after eating this mushroom need be concerned. Some other members of the genus Coprinus (Shaggy Mane, C. comatus; Glistening Inky Cap, C. micaceus, and others) and some of the larger members of the Lepiota family such as the Parasol Mushroom (Leucocoprinus procera) do not contain coprine and do not cause this effect. The potentially deadly Sorrel Webcap Mushroom (Cortinarius orellanus) is not easily distinguished from nonpoisonous webcaps belonging to the same distinctive genus, and all should be avoided.
Most of the psychotropic mushrooms (Inocybe spp., Conocybe spp., Paneolus spp., Pluteus spp.) are in general appearance small, brown, and leathery (the so-called "Little Brown Mushrooms" or LBMs) and relatively unattractive from a culinary standpoint. The Sweat Mushroom (Clitocybe dealbata) and the Smoothcap Mushroom (Psilocybe cubensis) are small, white, and leathery. These small, unattractive mushrooms are distinctive, fairly unappetizing, and not easily confused with the fleshier fungi normally considered edible. Intoxications associated with them are less likely to be accidental, although both C. dealbata and Paneolus foenisicii have been found growing in the same fairy ring area as the edible (and choice) Fairy Ring Mushroom (Marasmius oreades) and the Honey Mushroom (Armillariella mellea), and have been consumed when the picker has not carefully examined every mushroom picked from the ring. Psychotropic mushrooms, which are larger and therefore more easily confused with edible mushrooms, include the Showy Flamecap or Big Laughing Mushroom (Gymnopilus spectabilis), which has been mistaken for Chanterelles (Cantharellus spp.) and for Gymnopilus ventricosus found growing on wood of conifers in western North America. The Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) and Panthercap (Amanita pantherina) mushrooms are large, fleshy, and colorful. Yellowish cap colors on some varieties of the Fly Agaric and the Panthercap are similar to the edible Caesar's Mushroom (Amanita caesarea), which is considered a delicacy in Italy. Another edible yellow capped mushroom occasionally confused with yellow A. muscaria and A. pantherina varieties are the Yellow Blusher (Amanita flavorubens). Orange to yellow-orange A. muscaria and A. pantherina may also be confused with the Blusher (Amanita rubescens) and the Honey Mushroom (Armillariella mellea). White to pale forms of A. muscaria may be confused with edible field mushrooms (Agaricus spp.). Young (button stage) specimens of A. muscaria have also been confused with puffballs.
Relative Frequency of Disease
Accurate figures on the relative frequency of mushroom poisonings are difficult to obtain. For the 5-year period between 1976 and 1981, 16 outbreaks involving 44 cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta (Rattanvilay et al. MMWR 31(21): 287-288, 1982). The number of unreported cases is, of course, unknown. Cases are sporadic and large outbreaks are rare. Poisonings tend to be grouped in the spring and fall when most mushroom species are at the height of their fruiting stage. While the actual incidence appears to be very low, the potential exists for grave problems. Poisonous mushrooms are not limited in distribution as are other poisonous organisms (such as dinoflagellates). Intoxications may occur at any time and place, with dangerous species occurring in habitats ranging from urban lawns to deep woods. As Americans become more adventurous in their mushroom collection and consumption, poisonings are likely to increase.
Course of Disease and Complications
The normal course of the disease varies with the dose and the mushroom species eaten. Each poisonous species contains one or more toxic compounds which are unique to few other species. Therefore, cases of mushroom poisonings generally do not resembles each other unless they are caused by the same or very closely related mushroom species. Almost all mushroom poisonings may be grouped in one of the categories outlined above.
Several mushroom species, including the Death Cap or Destroying Angel (Amanita phalloides, A. virosa), the Fool's Mushroom (A. verna) and several of their relatives, along with the Autumn Skullcap (Galerina autumnalis) and some of its relatives, produce a family of cyclic octapeptides called amanitins. Poisoning by the amanitins is characterized by a long latent period (range 6-48 hours, average 6-15 hours) during which the patient shows no symptoms. Symptoms appear at the end of the latent period in the form of sudden, severe seizures of abdominal pain, persistent vomiting and watery diarrhea, extreme thirst, and lack of urine production. If this early phase is survived, the patient may appear to recover for a short time, but this period will generally be followed by a rapid and severe loss of strength, prostration, and pain-caused restlessness. Death in 50-90% of the cases from progressive and irreversible liver, kidney, cardiac, and skeletal muscle damage may follow within 48 hours (large dose), but the disease more typically lasts 6 to 8 days in adults and 4 to 6 days in children. Two or three days after the onset of the later phase, jaundice, cyanosis, and coldness of the skin occur. Death usually follows a period of coma and occasionally convulsions. If recovery occurs, it generally requires at least a month and is accompanied by enlargement of the liver. Autopsy will usually reveal fatty degeneration and necrosis of the liver and kidney.
Target Populations
All humans are susceptible to mushroom toxins. The poisonous species are ubiquitous, and geographical restrictions on types of poisoning that may occur in one location do not exist (except for some of the hallucinogenic LBMs, which occur primarily in the American southwest and southeast). Individual specimens of poisonous mushrooms are also characterized by individual variations in toxin content based on genetics, geographic location, and growing conditions. Intoxications may thus be more or less serious, depending not on the number of mushrooms consumed, but on the dose of toxin delivered. In addition, although most cases of poisoning by higher plants occur in children, toxic mushrooms are consumed most often by adults. Occasional accidental mushroom poisonings of children and pets have been reported, but adults are more likely to actively search for and consume wild mushrooms for culinary purposes. Children are more seriously affected by the normally nonlethal toxins than are adults and are more likely to suffer very serious consequences from ingestion of relatively smaller doses. Adults who consume mushrooms are also more likely to recall what was eaten and when, and are able to describe their symptoms more accurately than are children. Very old, very young, and debilitated persons of both sexes are more likely to become seriously ill from all types of mushroom poisoning, even those types which are generally considered to be mild.
Many idiosyncratic adverse reactions to mushrooms have been reported. Some mushrooms cause certain people to become violently ill, while not affecting others who consumed part of the same mushroom cap. Factors such as age, sex, and general health of the consumer do not seem to be reliable predictors of these reactions, and they have been attributed to allergic or hypersensitivity reactions and to inherited inability of the unfortunate victim to metabolize certain unusual fungal constituents (such as the uncommon sugar, trehalose). These reactions are probably not true poisonings as the general population does not seem to be affected.
Food Analysis
The mushroom toxins can with difficulty be recovered from poisonous fungi, cooking water, stomach contents, serum, and urine. Procedures for extraction and quantitation are generally elaborate and time-consuming, and the patient will in most cases have recovered by the time an analysis is made on the basis of toxin chemistry. The exact chemical natures of most of the toxins that produce milder symptoms are unknown. Chromatographic techniques (TLC, GLC, HPLC) exist for the amanitins, orellanine, muscimol/ibotenic acid, psilocybin, muscarine, and the gyromitrins. The amanitins may also be determined by commercially available 3H-RIA kits. The most reliable means of diagnosing a mushroom poisoning remains botanical identification of the fungus that was eaten. An accurate pre-ingestion determination of species will also prevent accidental poisoning in 100% of cases. Accurate post-ingestion analyses for specific toxins when no botanical identification is possible may be essential only in cases of suspected poisoning by the deadly Amanitas, since prompt and aggressive therapy (including lavage, activated charcoal, and plasmapheresis) can greatly reduce the mortality rate.
Selected Outbreaks
Isolated cases of mushroom poisoning have occurred throughout the continental United States.
The popular interest in gathering and eating uncultivated mushrooms has been associated with an increase in incidents of serious mushroom-related poisonings. From December 28, 1996, through January 6, 1997, nine persons in northern California required hospitalization after eating Amanita phalloides (i.e., "death cap") mushrooms; two of these persons died. Risks associated with eating these mushrooms result from a potent hepatotoxin. This report describes four cases of A. phalloides poisoning in patients admitted to a regional referral hospital in northern California during January 1997 and underscores that wild mushrooms should not be eaten unless identified as nonpoisonous by a mushroom expert.
Another one occurred in Oregon in October,1988, and involved the intoxication of five people who consumed stir-fried Amanita phalloides. The poisonings were severe, and at this writing three of the five people had undergone liver transplants for treatment of amanitin-induced liver failure.
Other cases have included the July, 1986, poisoning of a family in Philadelphia, by Chlorophyllum molybdites; the September, 1987, intoxication of seven men in Bucks County, PA, by spaghetti sauce which contained Jack O'Lantern mushroom (Omphalotus illudens); and of 14 teenage campers in Maryland by the same species (July, 1987). A report of a North Carolina outbreak of poisoning by False Morel (Gyromitra spp.) appeared in 1986. A 1985 report details a case of Chlorophyllum molybdites which occurred in Arkansas; a fatal poisoning case caused by an amanitin containing Lepiota was described in 1986.
In 1981, two Berks County, PA, people were poisoned (one fatally) after ingesting Amanita phalloides, while in the same year, seven Laotian refugees living in California were poisoned by Russula spp.
In separate 1981 incidents, several people from New York State were poisoned by Omphalotus illudens, Amanita muscaria, Entoloma lividum, and Amanita virosa.
An outbreak of gastroenterititis during a banquet for 482 people in Vancouver, British Columbia, was reported by the Vancouver Health Department in June, 1991. Seventy-seven of the guests reported symptoms consisting of early onset nausea (15-30 min), diarrhea (20 min-13 h), vomiting (20-60 min), cramps and bloated feeling. Other symptoms included feeling warm, clamminess, numbness of the tongue and extreme thirst along with two cases of hive-like rash with onset of 3-7 days. Bacteriological tests were negative. This intoxication merits special attention because it involved consumption of species normally considered not only edible but choice. The fungi involved were the morels Morchella esculenta and M. elata (M. angusticeps), which were prepared in a marinade and consumed raw. The symptoms were severe but not life threatening. Scattered reports of intoxications by these species and M. conica have appeared in anecodotal reports for many years.
Numerous other cases exist; however, the cases that appear in the literature tend to be the serious poisonings such as those causing more severe gastrointestinal symptoms, psychotropic reactions, and severe organ damage (deadly Amanita). Mild intoxications are probably grossly underreported, because of the lack of severity of symptoms and the unlikeliness of a hospital admission.
Amanita verna
|Amanita verna
|Mycological characteristics
|gills on hymenium
cap is convexor flat
|hymenium is free
|stipe has a ring and volva
|spore print is white
|ecology is mycorrhizal
|edibility: deadly
Amanita verna, commonly known as the fool's mushroom, Destroying angel or the mushroom fool, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in Europe in spring, A. verna associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The large fruiting bodies (i.e., the mushrooms) appear in summer and autumn; the caps, stipes and gills are all white in colour.
Initially described by the French botanist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, the fool's mushroom's specific epithet verna is derived from its springtime fruiting habit.[1]
The fool's mushroom (Amanita verna) also known as the spring destroying angel or death angel, is a close relative of Amanita phalloides, the death cap and a member of the mushroom genus Amanita. Amanita verna, like its close relative, belongs to the subfamily Phalloideae.
The fool's mushroom is pure white, all the way to the gills and the stem.[2] This fungus, like all amanitas, has a volva. The fool's mushroom's cap is 5–10 centimetres (2–4 in) wide, and is about the same height.
This mushroom's lamellae is free and white, and the volva is bag-like and large. Its annulus is white and membranous, and A. verna also does not react with potassium hydroxide solution, unlike its relative Amanita virosa. The mushroom's spores are smooth and elliptical.[3]
Habitat and season[edit]
The mushroom lives in Europe. The fool's mushroom is known to grow in woodlands and hardwood forests.[3]
As the fool's mushroom other name (spring destroying angel) suggests, this toxic amanita grows in spring.
Unlike various closely related poisonous amanitas, this mushroom is not known to occur in North America.
Closely related to other deadly pure white amanitas, the fool's mushroom is one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world. Just like the death cap, it contains amatoxins, primarily alpha-amanitin, which can cause liver failure. While this mushroom also contains other poisons like phallotoxins, these toxins are not behind the fatal poisoning that this mushroom, as well as all members of the subfamily Phalloideae, causes.
This mushroom's toxicity and symptoms are similar, if not identical to that of the death cap. Like other members of the subfamily Phalloideae, the fool's mushroom has been implicated in a number of serious or fatal poisonings.
There are no negative symptoms from eating this fungus until 6–24 hours after ingestion. The first symptom is simply unease. Violent cramps and diarrhea follow. On the third day, the same symptoms repeat themselves, but while to many this may seem like a sign of recovery, most of the time it is simply a herald of the final onset of symptoms, which include kidney and liver failure due to amatoxins. At this point, drastic measures like liver transplants need to be taken, or the victim would most likely die.[4]
The fatal dosage of this mushroom is around 30g (1 oz), though it is not recommended taking even the smallest amount of any deadly amanita, as the fatal dosage varies with the size of the person who consumes the mushroom.
Similar species[edit]
Edible species
Many edible species resembles this mushroom and other amanitas, which is why the consumption of amanitas accounts for 95% of all mushroom fatalities.
The edible mushroom Leucoagaricus leucothites very closely resembles the fool's mushroom. However, Leucoagaricus leucothites lacks a volva, unlike A. verna. Sometimes, the volva of A. verna is hidden under leaf litter or soil, raising the need to dig out rather than cut L.naucina from the ground, so as to prevent misidentification.
Various young edible Agaricus spp. closely resemble A. verna, such as the tasty field mushroom Agaricus campestris, Agaricus silvicola and Agaricus arvensis. While older specimens of these do not resemble A. verna, when these fungus are young, they do resemble A. verna. All of these mushrooms lack volvas, unlike their deadly lookalike.
Amanita caesarea, with its bright orange shade, does not resemble A. verna, while this fungus is in bulb stage, it is also pure white. Amanitas closely resemble each other in bulb stage.
Another group of mushrooms in the Volvariella genus are frequently mistaken for the deadly amanitas. Volvariella volvacea has often been mistaken for deadly amanitas, and most of the time, they are mistaken for a relative of the fool's mushroom, the death cap (Amanita phalloides). Volvariella speciosa looks very similar to the fool's mushroom, but with close examination, one would realise that V.speciosa has salmon gills, while the fool's mushroom has white gills. Like Amanita, Volvariella species have volvas, hence their name.
Amanitopsis vaginata, formerly Amanita vaginata, can be pure white, and thus sometimes looks nearly identical to the fool's mushroom. However, unlike all Amanita species, Amanitopsis species lack rings. However, the ring of A. verna may sometimes be eaten by worms, and thus may be missing.
While in bulb stage, A. verna, as well as its relatives, are commonly mistaken for the edible puffballs, like those form the Lycoperdon or Calvatia species. To prevent confusion, it is important to cut puffballs into half. If there is the outline of Amanita's cap and stem in the 'puffball', the mushroom is an amanita.
The fatal poisoning caused by the fool's mushroom and closely related species makes amateur mushroom hunters avoid any species similar to them, and buy them form a grocer instead. Unless one can truly be sure if the species he or she is digging is edible, one should never pick a similar mushroom.
Poisonous species
Of course, the other pure white amanitas, like the destroying angels (Amanita virosa, Amanita bisporigera, Amanita ocreata) closely resemble Amanita verna. However, unlike Amanita verna, Amanita virosa stains yellow in KOH. Pure white specimens of the death cap also look like the fool's mushroom, and sometimes Amanita verna is considered a subspecies of Amanita phalloides.
Other toxic species of Agaricus, such as Agaricus xanthodermus, also resemble A. verna. However, Agaricus xanthodermus stains yellow if bruised, gives off a repulsive smell when cooked, and most importantly, lacks a volva.
List of similar species
Agaricus arvensis (Horse Mushroom) : excellent edible
Agaricus campestris (Field mushroom) : excellent edible
Agaricus silvicola (Wood mushroom) : excellent edible
Agaricus xanthodermus (Yellow-staining mushroom) : toxic or at least unpleasant-tasting (varies with consumer)
Amanita bisporigera (Destroying angel) : deadly poisonous
Amanita caesarea (Caesar's Amanita) (bulb stage only) : excellent edible
Amanita ocreata (American destroying angel) : deadly poisonous
Amanita phalloides (death cap) : deadly poisonous
Amanita virosa (European destroying angel) : deadly poisonous
Amanitopsis vaginata (Grisette) : Edible
Calvatia spp. (Giant puffballs) : (bulb stage only) : Mostly edible when young
Leucoagaricus leucothites : Edible and good, but can cause mild poisonings in some individuals
Lycoperdon spp. (Puffballs) : Mostly edible when young
Volvariella speciosa : Edible but not tasty
Volvariella volvacea (Paddy straw mushroom) : Edible and good
See also[edit]
- ^ "Amanita verna". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- ^ "This month's fungus is the death angel, Amanita bisporigera, Amanita virosa, and Amanita verna". Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- ^ a b Takahashi, Hiroshi. "Amanita verna" (in English/Japanese). Retrieved 2009-11-04.
- ^ Volk, Tom (1997-09-01). "Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month for September 1997". University of Wisconsin. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
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On Monday, the city of Seattle will begin dredging and removing over 10,000 cubic yards of sediment in a navigational slip that is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. The $8 million project at Slip 4 is part of a larger, decades-long effort to reduce toxic waste from a century of heavy industrial use along the waterway.
Slip 4 is one of several identified as the worst areas requiring accelerated cleanup. Another is Boeing's Plant 2, the factory that turned out B-17 bombers and was home to "Rosie the Riveter," women who built thousands of World War II planes. Earlier this month, Boeing tore down the last remaining steel structures at the plant to prepare for a large cleanup and habitat restoration project. Dredging and soil cleanup is expected to begin in 2012.
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About $66 million being spent on these hotspots will reduce contamination by half, EPA officials say. The EPA is overseeing early cleanup work, which will take place over the next few years. Two sites were completed in the early 2000s.
Meanwhile, the EPA is considering options for the larger, long-term cleanup of the rest of the Duwamish that could take anywhere from four years to four decades, and cost from $220 million to $1.3 billion. The EPA will release its cleanup plan in March. A decision is expected in 2013.
The options include dredging to remove the sediment, capping it with rock and sand, or letting sediment from upriver naturally bury the toxic material, though it's likely going to be a combination of options depending on the site, said Allison Hiltner, EPA's manager for the Duwamish cleanup. Each option could potentially reduce contamination by 90 percent.
The Duwamish, once a meandering river before it was straightened and deepened into a navigation channel, runs through Seattle's industrial core and two residential neighborhoods before emptying into Elliott Bay. Decades of industrial use left behind pollution that's mixed into the mud at the river bottom and banks. Pollutants include long-lasting PCBs, dioxins, cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and arsenic.
Pollution from urban runoff and contaminated sites still continue to flow into the waterway, and a major concern is how to keep cleaned-up areas from getting polluted again.
"If it we get it all cleaned up, how long will it be before it gets re-contaminated?" asked Chris Wilke, executive director of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, which conducts weekly boat patrols on the Duwamish to look for illegal pollution discharges. Pollution from sources upriver should also be addressed as part of the cleanup, he said.
The Washington Department of Ecology and EPA have been working with Seattle, King County and the port to investigate and control pollution sources.
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I have 2 files.
- Obfuscated file called input.txt
- A second file called mapping.txt consisting of key value pairs.
I want to find every occurrence of the key from mapping.txt in input.txt and replace it with the value corresponding to the key.
Please note that I want to overwrite the contents of the line in input.txt everytime a successful match occurs.
I have written the following code:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
(my $mapping,my $input)=@ARGV;
open(MAPPING,'<',$mapping) || die("couldn't read from the file, $mapping with error: $!\n");
chomp $_;
my $line=$_;
(my $key,my $value)=split("=",$line);
chomp $_;
# move pointer to beginning of line
print INPUT $_."\n";
close INPUT;
close MAPPING;
Brief Overview of the code:
- Opens the mapping.txt file in read mode.
- Since each line is a key value pair, it splits it into key and value.
- Opens the input.txt file in overwrite mode.
- Checks if the key is found in the current line.
- If the key is found, then substitute the key with the value ignoring any meta characters in the key (by prefixing \Q)
- At this point, the file pointer would be at the end of the line since the previous statement would scan the entire line to find the key and replace it.
If I could move the file pointer to the start of the line, then I can overwrite with:
print INPUT $_,"\n"
- I tried looking up the seek function however unable to figure out a way to use it for this purpose.
Once this is done, then the code will close the file. It will pick the next key value pair from mapping.txt and again scan the input file from beginning looking for matches and replacing them.
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|Berkeley County, South Carolina.
|Occupation Dates:
|Thomas Wheaton, Patrick Garrow, and archaeologists with Soil Systems Inc.
|Dates excavated:
In 1979, Soil Systems Inc. embarked on a groundbreaking project resulting in the earliest and most extensively excavated slave-related sites in the southeast. Project Investigators Pat Garrow and Tom Wheaton headed mitigation fieldwork in advance of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Cooper River Rediversion Canal Project. The archaeological component, known as The Cooper River Historic Sites Investigation, included surface collection, metal detector survey, mechanical stripping, and excavation, and focused most intensively on three sites containing slave quarters: 38BK75 and 38BK76 both located on Yaughan Plantation; and 38BK245, located on Curriboo Plantation. 38BK76 is located between Lake Moultrie and the Santee River near the town of St. Stephens, South Carolina in Berkeley County. The site consisted of multiple slave dwellings belonging to the Yaughan plantation, an indigo and rice plantation owned by Huguenots (Wheaton et. al. 15-16; Wheaton and Garrow 242) and was occupied from the 1740s to the 1790s (Wheaton and Garrow 243). Thirteen structures, the majority of which were post-in-trench, were identified at the site along with an overseer's house (the complex of Structure D and M) (Wheaton and Garrow 244). X artifacts were recovered from the site, the most abundant type was colonoware, composing forty percent of the artifact assemblage (Wheaton and Garrow 248).
Documentary evidence
38BK76 is the earlier of two Yaughan plantation sites excavated as part of archaeological mitigation. The earliest reference to Yaughan Plantation dates from 1737. The 650 acre tract conveyed by Richard Allen to Edward Thomas, "known by the name of Yaughan", was part of a larger, 1200 acre tract. Thomas left this property to his son Samuel, who in turn sold it and the adjacent 596 acre property to Isaac Cordes in 1742. The two tracts became known as Yaughan Plantation and by 1745, the inventory of Isaac Cordes' estate lists cattle, sheep, hogs, horses and some household goods at "Youshan" (Inventory of Isaac Cordes, 9 August 1745, Inventories 67:A:329). The chain of plantation ownership continues from Isaac to his son John, who died in 1756. John Cordes left his real estate equally divided between his two sons, John and Thomas, who were children at the time of his death. A cousin, Samuel Cordes, became their guardian in 1756, and Yaughan appears to have functioned primarily as an indigo plantation under the daily supervision of a series of overseers (Account Book, Estate John Cordes, 1764-1798). John Cordes attained his majority in 1768, and although local tradition states that he inherited all of his father's property by law of primogeniture (Dubosen.d.:50-51), John Cordes clearly continued to administer Yaughan Plantation on behalf of his brother Thomas (Account Book, Estate of John Cordes,1764-1798). In 1773, Thomas Cordes formally accepted his share of his father's estate from his uncle, and his brother John confirmed his title by deeding him half of their father's estate in what appears to have been a straw-man transaction. Thomas Cordes had already begun to participate in local parish affairs, and, thus, he had probably begun to reside at least part of the year at Yaughan. Although he took an active role in the Revolutionary War, his name appears periodically in parish records through the 1770s. He married in 1784, and records of various neighbors in the post-war years indicate that he bought indigo and rice seed, evidently to receive the plantation's prewar functions despite changes in the indigo market, which put the American grown commodity at a severe disadvantage. He and his family continued to live at the plantation until his death in 1809. His widow left the property divided equally among her children when she died in 1826, and ten years later, her three daughters sold their interest in Yaughan to Solomon Clarke. Records indicate it is not likely that Clarke spent a great amount of time at Yaughan. In 1850, he sold the property to J.W. Thurston, who began to subdivide the property in 1857. The separate parcels changed hands several times over the next century and tended generally to decrease in size (Wheaton et. al. 1983).
Excavation history, procedure, and methods
38BK76 was excavated through a combination of surface survey, hand-excavated blocks, and machine-stripping (Wheaton and Garrow 244). The site was first tested by raking back thirty-five areas that were then surface collected (Wheaton et. al. 59). Fifteen 3' x 3' test units were excavated following the rake backs (Wheaton et. al. 64). It was then cleared by bulldozer and disked. A stratified random sample was surface collected by superimposing a 100 ft square grid over the site and random sampling ten 10 by 10 ft units within each 100 ft quadrat. Any artifact found outside one of the assigned 10 by 10 ft unit was collected and lumped together with the general 100 ft quadrat designation (Wheaton et. al. 89). Following surface collecting, two 30 by 30 ft blocks were divided into ten foot units each, with 6-inch baulks (Wheaton et. al. 92) and excavated to subsoil. Many features were excavated and some were not due to time constraints (see 38BK76 site map: numbered features were excavated; unlabeled features were not excavated). The entire site was mechanically stripped to approximately one to two inches of subsoil then shovel shaved to fully expose features (Wheaton et. al. 93), which were all drawn on site map but not all excavated due to time constraints. Hand-excavated units All hand-excavated units located in the two blocks at Yaughan 76 were dug using natural stratigraphy. All soil, excluding half of the root mat, was dry screened through 1/4 inch mesh. Soil samples were taken at each level from representative units across the block.
Summary of research and analysis
Thirteen structures were uncovered: three from block excavations and ten from mechanical stripping and shovel shaving. Eight were primarily trench structures, one was half trench and half posthole, and four were exclusively posthole construction (Wheaton et. al. 158). All the post-in-trench earthfast structures would have had mud walls with the posts providing added strength (Wheaton et. al. 193). Structures 76A and 76B were excavated by block excavation (Wheaton et. al. 92). Structure 76D consisted of a post-in-trench house (D1) with a later, larger post-in-ground addition (D2) (Wheaton et. al. 138). Structure 76E was the only one to have central and end trenches (Wheaton et. al. 140). Structure 76A was the most repaired building with all corner posts being replaced or repaired at least once (Wheaton et. al. 145). Structure 76B was two structures, one superimposed on the other: Structure B1 was a post-in-trench building and B2 was a post-in-ground structure. Wall trench construction was the most frequent building type at Yaughan 76. Associated trench features are long and narrow, ranging in width from 0.8 to 1.5 feet. Profiles were nearly vertically sided with flat bottoms. Trench depths ranged from 1.5 to 2.5 feet below ground surface, and lengths varied from 9.5 to over 40 feet. Commonly, two parallel trenches outlined a structure but in some cases, cross trenches were placed midway along the length and at the ends (Wheaton et. al. 98). The hypothesized building method of these structures consists of a trench being dug, followed by posts being placed down the centerline at once, and the trench refilled. Archaeological evidence at Yaughan 76 supports an earlier trench methodology followed by a later post construction building method.
- Measurements are in feet and tenths of feet
Grid information:
Spatial information recorded in individual context records and DAACS site maps for Yaughan 76 are based on the coordinate system established in the field that covers the entire site. Local grids that were established at excavation Blocks A and B have been converted to the large grid as well. There was no explicit spatial information found that tied the Phase I map, including locations of "rake backs" and test units, to the large grid. As a result, Phase I work is plotted on the site map using information recorded on Block A unit records.
Testing phase:
- Contexts 76T through 76R: At least thirty-eight "raked back" areas (varying in size from five to thirty ft in diameter) were placed in the southeast, south and southwest quadrants of the site. They were visually inspected for artifacts after being raked back (ie. these are surface finds). Depicted as circular on the map.
- Contexts 76TU01 through TU15: Fifteen 3 x 3 ft units excavated to subsoil during testing phase "to more precisely locate the site boundaries and to understand the stratigraphy". These were placed after defining the initial division between sites 38BK75 and 38BK76. We can get approx coordinates by aligning maps—no spatial info in DAACS currently.
- e.g. 76T-F001: Feature contexts excavated during testing phase. Note: Some of these features were located in what eventually became the two block excavation areas.
Mitigation phase:
Trees smaller than 8-10 inches in diameter as well as piles of brush and branches left by recent logging were removed by a bulldozer over the entire site. The site was then disked using a garden tractor to a depth of one to two inches below ground surface. Following that, surface collections were made:
- Contexts 76-L001 through L011: Surface collection over 100 x 100 ft large surface collection units. Given coordinates based on large grid.
- Contexts 76-L012 through L124: Stratified random surface collection over 100 x 100 ft blocks were divided into a grid of 10 x 10 ft units and 10 randomly placed units were surface collected in each block. Given coordinates based on large grid.
In addition, two approx 30 x 30 ft block areas (A and B) were "hand excavated" at 38BK76:
- Contexts 76A-U16 through U26: 10 x 10 ft units placed in 30 x 30 ft block excavation oriented around Feature 1, found during testing phase, associated with Structure A. Excavated to subsoil. Given coordinates based on a Block A local grid.
- Contexts 76A-B1 through B9: Six-inch balks around each unit in Block A Excavation. They were removed after quadrats were excavated and profiles drawn.
- Contexts 76B-U27 through U39: 10 x 10 units in block excavation area B. Given coordinates based on a Block B local grid.
After surface collections and block excavations, the entire site was mechanically stripped down to one to two inches above subsoil in order to expose features and then shovel shaved using a garden tractor with a draw blade, then shovel shaved by hand. Features were then excavated and related contexts are identified as follows:
- e.g. context 76-F001 Feature contexts located outside Blocks A and B
- e.g. context 76A-F001 Feature contexts associated with Block A
- e.g. context 76B-F001 Feature contexts associated with Block B
Feature Numbers
The original excavators of the Yaughan 38BK76 site assigned numbers to individual features. Yaughan 76 feature numbers were assigned consecutively throughout the entire project. Excavators assigned feature numbers using an F-prefix that precedes the number (i.e. F001 is Feature 1). Feature Groups Feature groups are sets of features whose spatial arrangements indicate they were part of a single structure (e.g. structural postholes, subfloor pits, and hearth) or landscape element (e.g. postholes that comprise a fenceline). Feature Groups assigned by DAACS have a FG-prefix, which precedes the number (i.e. FG01 equals Feature Group 1). Feature Groups were not assigned by the original excavators of Yaughan 76.
38BK76 Harris Matrix
The Harris Matrix summarizes stratigraphic relationships among excavated contexts and groups of contexts that DAACS staff has identified as part of the same stratigraphic group. Stratigraphic groups and contexts are represented as boxes. Lines that connect these boxes represent temporal relationships implied by the site's stratification, as recorded by the site's excavators (Harris 1979). Stratigraphic groups, which represent multiple contexts, are identified on the diagram by their numeric designations (e.g. SG01) followed by the original excavator's descriptions of them (e.g. "Topsoil"). Contexts that could not be assigned to stratigraphic groups are identified by their individual context numbers (e.g. 76A-B1-5). Boxes with color fill represent contexts and stratigraphic groups with ceramic assemblages large enough to be included in the DAACS seriation of the site (see Chronology). Their seriation-based phase assignments are denoted by different colors to facilitate evaluation of the agreement between the stratigraphic and seriation chronologies. Grey boxes represent contexts that were not included in the seriation because of small ceramic samples. See the Yaughan Chronology page for Stratigraphic and Phase information. This Harris Matrix is based on data on stratigraphic relationships recorded among contexts in the DAACS database. It was drawn with the ArchEd application. See http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/arched/index.html. For a printable version, download the Harris Matrix [2.73 MB PDF].
Anthony, Ronald
2003 Tangible Interaction: Evidence from Stobo Plantation, Another's country: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies in Historical Archaeology, Vol. 37, No. 4 Edited by J.W. Joseph and Martha Zierden.
Ferguson, Leland
1989 Lowcountry Plantations, The Catawba Nation, and River Burnished Pottery, Studies in South Carolina Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Stephenson in Anthropological Studies. Book 10. Goodyear, Albert C. and Hanson, Glen T.


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Well, again, two of those women I mentioned were walking/hiking in very UN-populated areas. One was in the North Georgia mountains which is as pristine and natural a setting as you can imagine. Nowhere near the city with its criminal element. A drifter who preys on women had waylaid her on the trail out in the middle of nowhere. The other gal - the one they just found the remains of yesterday - was near her parents home in a small, rural area. She was literally walking down a country road when a car drove up behind her and snatched her. (She was on the cell phone with her boyfriend when it happened. He heard her plead with the kidnapper as she was abducted and he couldn't do anything to stop it. Chilling.) In both these cases the perp was a "loner" who was stalking women in isolated areas. Not a street thug who commits a crime of opportunity.
So although I agree that we can't live our lives in fear over every unknown, it doesn't hurt to maintain awareness that these things can happen ANY place at ANY time. Just don't let your guard down.
I make sure that I run with my cowdog any time that the hubby can't come, but she is overly protective. And, I make a BIG deal of hauling on the harness and talking to her. "good girl, come on, leave them alone" and it does a great job of keeping people at a distance. She growls and her hair spikes up, right up until I tell her it's okay. She's really good at relaxing as soon as she's told, but I wouldn't want to surprise her. She is fairly big at 48 lbs and I put a reflective harness on her so she's more visible than I am even.
I also have an armband that I put my cell phone in and a pepper spray the clips right on it, and can be slipped off easily. It also has a strap on it that you can put around your palm so you don't have to really hold onto it, but it's right there in place. I'll pull it off the armband if anything worries me. I also think it would be great for loose or stray dogs, wether to keep them from me or from my dog.
I will also pull the phone out and call someone if there's anything suspicious. To me it's just a "someone knows exactly where I am right this second" thing. Makes me feel better, if it it does mean slowing down to a walk for a couple minutes.
If there's really a crazy out there, none of those things will stop them, but in most cases as someone else has already said, they want an easy target, and everything you can do to make yourself seem a little tougher has to help!
Good thread, I'm looking into it as well so I've had some interesting reading here!
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I read through the thread and there are some really great ideas. But, one idea that I haven't seen is something you can do in addition to your running program. Take a self-defense class. Better yet, make a martial arts program something you do to cross train. Being married to a police officer and a Krav Maga instructor (Israeli martial arts), he advised me of many of the suggestions that have been mentioned. Definitely knowing the area in which you run, time of day, surroundings, noticing who has cars in parking lots or drive-ways, etc. are all very important. And having pepper spray, a compact baton, or a cell phone with you when you run are all great too. However, arming yourself with strong basic self defense skills could always help the situation.
I am glad to see this thread. I have experienced two incidents since I started running in July, once during the day and the other at night. Each time I was within 10 minutes of home. Lately, I have had to run after dark and I have been pretty jumpy. My husband has offered to give me pepper spray to carry with me. I don't really want to carry a cell phone, pepper spray and my ipod. Tonight I took my dog with me and ran on the sidewalk along a busy street. It was a relief to have her with me.
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I don't know what I would do without my armband. It has a holder build in for a phone (iphone, droid type) and it is adjustable and stretchy so I can put it on snug and it doesn't move or bounce around. Then I clip the pepper spray onto it. And I have some songs on my phone, but I can also put the old style nano ipod in the pouch with the phone (or I can clip the new style nano onto it). I also tuck a key to the truck in behind the phone. It's stretchy enough that it will hold all three without a problem, leaving my hands free.
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Guys, he's talking about Emerald, for an ingame team. Vaporeon isn't accessible and I highly doubt he's going to use a life orb on an ingame team.
As for a surfer, I say use Rain Dish, Drainer Ludicolo with Leftovers. I suggest you combine Ludicolo with Storm Drain Pokés IF you are doing doubles. Drainer Ludicolo works well by itself with Rain and without.
Also, does anyone have a Perfect Ditto? I got one from the moderator who has like hundreds of them, but I can't find my Black version to transfer it over. Fml, I may just need to use imperfect's this time around, but I'm hopeful.
Pokémon Sun Team
Rowlet Cutiefly Salandit Mimikyu Mudsdale
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just letting you guys know this isn't my final team, but check out this battle i had with my temporary normal team
(still making adjustments)
wanna battle on PS Yveltal96? I got a team I wanna test.
sure thing what is your PS name?
SpadesZM and yours?
same as on here lol gimme a sec
Pokémon Sun Team
Rowlet Cutiefly Salandit Mimikyu Mudsdale
Pokémon Moon Team
Litten Grubbin Rockruff Bewear Wimpod
here's me and shadow darkrai's battles
didn't get the last replay
I believe we are. And good battle Yveltal, you're scaring me and I might have to remake my team now...
yeah and gg and what about our last battle where we were equal matched?
I was playing on PO as you do and i came across a random trainer called Monotype Trainer. i thought it would be a more fair fight, then i realised he had a dragon team.
Druddigon Flygon Dragonite Hydreigon Latios Salamence. I had custom sets with my normal team (which i am currently not revealing yet). Not only did i win, but it was close as hell. it was down to a sleeping druddigon (with rough skin) and his 18% health hydreigon against my +4 speed and attack Physical attacking normal type. i barely won, i think it was by 2% hp, it was intense
Wait, the tourney started already? OMG noooooo! I haven't made a team yet! And yeah, WELCOME BAK HUDDDY!
Guys, Moody has to banned in Ubers. Bibarel too strong.
Credit to Astral Shadow!
it hsnt started, ive just been testing my team. about 20 adjustments have been made since that post xL
haha I should get to work on it...now what to use...what to use...
Credit to Astral Shadow!
Wait, I miss a day of Serebii and now everyone's talking about a tourney and Hudsonn's back?! Help me.
I think we should just wait a week or so. I just need a Girafarig, and I cannot find one in the shops nor in the GTS. Next up is working on training
Kim Jong UnSnorlax to stop being a fatty and started EV grinding!
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